The ORIGINAL EnigmaWave

The Funhouse Massacre (2015)

This is so incredibly goofy.

That was kind of a cheap bait and switch with Robert Englund.

Crap, there was one other thing I thought of to say while watching; but I didn’t make a note and I have no idea what it was now.

Wreck-It Ralph (2012) If I were to go through and write down all the references I recognized I’d be here all night.  Let’s just say I laughed the hardest at the Wizard of Oz reference. It’s funny how I have an easier time with suspension of disbelief with stories like this, even though I’m a programmer and I know perfectly well that current software is incapable of behaving like this. Maybe once computers are capable of simulating multiple entire brains simultaneously, the digital creatures of the future will be able to go on wild adventures in completely virtual worlds.

WALL·E (2008)

Every. Single. Second. Of. This. Is. Great.

I’ve had the DVD for ages…I should have watched this a heck of a long time ago.

Frozen (2013)

Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this…

I’m a bit disappointed.  I was fully expecting this to be extremely overrated; but I actually think it’s only moderately overrated.

How about that?  It turns out there are actually songs in this that aren’t Let It Go!

I am pleased on a technical level.  The snow physics and simulation are cool.

The Muppets (2011)

So I’m not the only one who noticed this.  Actually, it’s also kind of like UHF, except this didn’t happen.  Also starts out kind of like Blues Brothers getting the band back together.

The songs are pretty good in this, although I still like Movin’ Right Along more.  And now I have to go off-topic again.  I’ve wondered for a long time why the Studebaker was chosen to be the car used in the original movie.  Was it the car with the funniest name?  Was it the funniest looking car?  Was it the cheapest car they could find?  Was it the easiest car for the Muppets to “drive”?

Brother Bear 2 (2006)

Extremely obvious, predictable ending.  I knew exactly who was going to transform into what before the five minute mark.

The chase, fight, Kenai’s fall, and…crap I’ve forgotten her name already…well, when she ran up to him…I was getting Beauty and the Beast flashbacks from that whole sequence.  Although, Instead of Kenai dying and coming back to life while transforming back into a human, this was more like Shrek, with Fiona becoming an ogre.

Starting to get tired of these, “you have to marry this person!” “but I love this other person!” plots.  Mulan 2, Alpha and Omega, and now this.

Brother Bear (2003)

Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this…actually there should be Aurora Borealis here.

Eventually no one watching this for the first time are going to know who Bob and Doug Mckenzie were.  That was a nice nod to their beer without actually mentioning beer.

Strange Brew was actually one of those movies I remembered from my childhood; but I had no idea what the name of it was, and I was very happy when I discovered it again.

I should say more about Brother Bear, shouldn’t I? … but nothing really stands out enough for me to mention.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)

It was much easier to enjoy this one as there wasn’t a heap of broken backstory distracting me the whole time; but good grief, this should just be called “Fan Service: The Movie”

Baxter Stockman, Bebop, Rocksteady, Krang, The Technodrome, Casey Jones…oh, and the theme song.  Ah, but Baxter Stockman didn’t turn into the fly yet; so at least they’re saving something for a third one.

Third one needs to remake Pizza Power for the credits.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

“How did you get my number?” while a Skype logo is visible on the screen…I don’t really think Skype works that way.

Oh, I wasn’t expecting Whoopi Goldberg.

OK, that’s a bit BS.  April’s father being professor scientist man, who is responsible for everything, is basically just like in that other Spider-Man movie where Peter Parker’s father is professor scientist man.

Eric Sacks feels like a Willem Defoe character.

I really like how Splinter was portrayed here.

So unlike with Spider-Man, I have significantly more experience with TMNT to know whenever they are “screwing up” the lore; but none of the previous material has ever been consistent with each other in the first place, so I don’t object to changes that aren’t stupid; but there are more than a few changes here that are stupid.

Rating: 6 cheese pizza out of 10 cheese pizza.

Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers (1987)

I’ve always like this. The creepy old mansion, the treasure hunt, the secret passageways.

I’ve never been a Scrappy-Doo hater; but then again, this for the most part was my only exposure to him.  Maybe I would be if I had grown up on the original Scooby-Doo Where Are You first and then transitioned into Scrappy-Doo.

The background music for this is quite odd, though I don’t really have any other old-school Scrappy-Doo fresh in my head right now so I can’t say if the soundtracks were always that…eclectic?

When I a “young’n” and saw the dancing pants for the first time I thought it was the funniest thing ever.