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Chicken Little (2005)

Chicken Little (2005)

The time period that this was made is kind of being weird for me.

Mayor Turkey Lurkey talks and I think, “oh, they got a Don Knotts sound-alike”, except he was still alive then; that’s actually Don Knotts.

Time-out during dodge-ball and they all whip out flip-phones; well, yeah, they would have in 2005.

I was not expecting to hear Patrick Stewart.

OK, that may be an ancient trope but it’s worth repeating.  Pulling the fire alarm does not set off the sprinklers.  Heat is what sets them off, a small glass tube explodes when the liquid inside reaches a certain temperature.

Spice Girls karaoke??  That was five years out of date, even back then.

Now it’s some kind of weird sci-fi??

So many more names that I like; let’s just end with this.  I kind of wish I could watch a full version of the movie at the end of the movie with Adam West.

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Rock Dog (2016)

Rock Dog (2016)

Hmm, like in Hop (2011), you have the son who doesn’t want to carry on the family business, and instead runs off to the city to become a rock star, stuff happens, and then he finally returns home to save the day just in the nick of time.

During the Shred-off…electric guitars kind of need to be plugged into the amp to work.  Also, main characters acoustic instrument suddenly magically having an electric sound.

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Mulan 2 (2004)

Mulan 2 (2004)

Ummm…I was hoping for another stand-out song on the soundtrack, like “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” was for the original.  That didn’t happen, and they basically recycled one of the songs.

Mushu screws everything up; then he fixes everything in the end, à la deus-ex-dragon.  Although the final outcome was probably slightly better than it would have been, had he not interfered at all.

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Brave (2012)

Brave (2012)

I learned what a caber toss was from Curse of Monkey Island; I smiled when I saw a caber toss here.  Didn’t see anyone using a barrel of rum to blow up a rubber tree though.

While watching, I recognized so many bits and pieces of other Disney movies; but I suppose all of the tropes are ancient and I shouldn’t really be surprised.

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The Wild (2006)

The Wild (2006)

Oh boy.  More flat soda.  Somebody needs to learn not to pop the top until it’s time to drink.

I kept hearing not-Simba talking and thinking, “that sounds familiar; but I can’t quite place it.”  Once I opened imdb for Greg Cipes and saw the logo for Teen Titans it  immediately clicked, “oh yeah, Beast Boy!”

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

Ricardo Montalban is the one true Khan.

I’m getting lots of what I’m going to call a “reverse yeah, I remember that” or “yup, that’s where it came from.”

There’s a scene where Kirk says, “damage report”, he and Spock then walk over to a monitor where Spock points at each of the glowing red dots one at a time before finally saying, “they knew exactly where to hit us”.  I’m thinking, “thank you Mr Spock, I never would have noticed those specks of light had you not pointed them out to me!”  He should have spoken and pointed at the same time.