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Dog and Pony Shows

Here are my thoughts on three movies and three television shows, with SPOILERS for all of them. Phantom of the Paradise – Brian De Palma’s campy 1974 rock musical is mostly a take on The Phantom of the Opera, with … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Art, Cartoons, Food, Gender, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Music, Relationships, Star Wars, Television, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Toys, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged a new hope, adrienne barbeau, allan sherman, augie doggie, bail organa, barney rubble, boo boo bear, brian de palma, captain caveman, cindy bear, danny devito, darth vader, doggie daddy, faust, fred flintstone, goober and the ghost chasers, great gazoo, hanna-barbera, huckleberry hound, jabberjaw, james earl jones, jamie lee curtis, janet leigh, jellystone, jerry springer, jerry springer fights camera action, jessica harper, John Carpenter, jonny quest, loopy de loop, magilla gorilla, my little pony, my little pony the movie, obi-wan kenobi, oprah winfrey, peter potamus, phantom of the paradise, princess leia, quick draw mcgraw, raspberry rover, richard dominick, satan, scooby-doo, shazzan, smooze, snagglepuss, solo a star wars story, the fog, the hillbilly bears, the phantom of the opera, the picture of dorian gray, tom atkins, tony randall, top cat, touche turtle, vivien lyra blair, wally gator, william finley, wilma flintstone, yogi bear |

‘Tis the Voice of the Plumber

After the trailer for the new Super Mario Bros. Movie dropped, there were a lot of takes on Mario’s voice, as performed by Chris Pratt. I don’t really know that we get enough of it to judge it. It seems like … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Cartoons, Donkey Kong, Food, Humor, Language, Mario, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged accents, anime, bob hoskins, captain lou albano, charles martinet, chris pratt, danny devito, danny wells, donkey kong jr., garfield, garfield and friends, hotel mario, king bowser koopa, luigi mario, marc graue, mario and luigi, mario bros., mario mario, mario teaches typing, movie trailers, pasta, peter cullen, plumbing, ronald b. ruben, saturday supercade, shigeru miyamoto, super mario bros. 3, super mario bros. movie, the adventures of super mario bros. 3, the great mission to rescue princess peach, tony rosato, walker boone, who framed roger rabbit, yoshi's island |

I Know Those Words, But That Sign Makes No Sense

White Christmas – I guess this was the last of our Christmas viewing for the year, although it’s mostly not even about Christmas. It’s a sort of a spiritual follow-up to Holiday Inn, which I haven’t seen, but apparently has blackface … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Christmas, History, Holidays, Humor, Music, Prejudice, Relationships, Science, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged albert einstein, bing crosby, danny devito, danny kaye, death to smoochy, edward norton, ernest rutherford, holiday inn, irving berlin, jon stewart, marie curie, puppini sisters, robin williams, tasmanian devil, white christmas, world war ii, yahoo serious, young einstein |

Bat vs. Bird

Batman Returns – I saw this film in the theater when it was new, but hadn’t watched it in years. As with the first Tim Burton Batman film, there’s a very interesting look to the whole thing, sleek and kind … Continue reading →

Bless My Soul, Herc Was on a Roll

We now take a look at Disney’s Hercules. The two previous animated features, while they did contain some humor, tackled some pretty serious issues. This one, on the other hand, is wacky all the way through. It’s not a total … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged achilles, alcmene, amphitryon, ares, bobcat goldthwait, burgess meredith, chiron, creon, danny devito, deimos, demons, hades, hera, herakles, hercules, james woods, jason, megara, oedipus, pain and panic, pan, philoctetes, phobos, satan, satyrs, scar, superman, zeus |

If Babies Could Talk

My wife insisted that I watch the three Look Who’s Talking movies, which she’d seen as a kid, but I never had. I’m going to say they’re pretty good for what they were, which I guess would be films from … Continue reading →