Scoob! movie review: Scooby dooby don’t
A spectacularly scattershot, pandering mess of pulp junk, cheap-looking animation, and poisonous gender dynamics. A charmless cash-grab that can’t be bothered with the slightest stab at originality.
Scooby-Doo
Show Dogs movie review: everything is awful
Embarrassingly bad CGI; pratfalls; genital humor; denigration of cat ladies; horrible clichés and stereotypes. This is the cinematic equivalent of stepping in dog poop. You know, for kids!
Inferno movie review: let’s run through the museum!
Completely absurd, ultimately pointless, but also gloriously goofy: a Nancy Drew mystery with Scooby-Doo overtones and a thin veneer of bookishness.
Floyd Norman: An Animated Life documentary review: meet the “wise old man” of Disney
He’s a charming character, a fascinating player in cinema history. Absolutely essential viewing for Disney fans and those interested in animated filmmaking.
The Love Punch review: below the belt
The jokes are as creaky as the aching bunions and bad backs onscreen, but Emma Thompson and Pierce Brosnan are incandescent together.
question of the day: What is the unlikeliest pop-culture influence from childhood on your mindset today?
I suddenly realized recently that Scooby-Doo contributed to my skeptical mindset, by always unmasking its spooks and specters as something having a rational, grounded explanation…
Doctor Who thing of the day: the Doctor and Scooby-Doo, separated at birth?
Cartoonist Sam Draws noticed something hinky…
The Smurfs (review)
Incontinence — as the result of either as-yet untrained bowels or a terrible adult affliction — is presumed to be a major concern for the viewer here.
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Bigfoot: Mysterious Monster’
Is it supposed to look like a Scooby-Doo mystery? Perhaps so! Peter Graves hosts this documentary, which proves beyond all doubt that Bigfoot really does exist. And it did so way back in 1975, which is why there is now a Bigfoot delegation at the UN, and why you can’t get a reservation at that … more…
wtf: Smurfs movie is totally uncalled for
Proof that there is no god: A Smurfs movie will be hurled at us in 2011, whether we want it or not. And it will be about Smurfs magically transported from whatever frakkin’ magical forest they live in to New York City. Like Enchanted, I guess. Only evil. It will be called The Smurfs. I … more…
