Category: Movie Reviews

REVIEW: Cats Don’t Dance (1997)

In 1997, the only film ever created by Turner Feature Animation was released under Warner Bros. Animation. Cats Don’t Dance was a spectacular box office bomb and mostly flew under the radar at the time of its initial release. For that matter, the film is still relatively obscure, despite a star-st...

REVIEW: Kung Fu Panda (2008)

It’s not often that a movie manages to be humorous, heartwarming, and just downright fun all at once. When I first saw Kung Fu Panda, I was absolutely blown away. Nothing in the marketing (including the film’s very title) excited me or hinted at anything better than DreamWorks’ last couple of ...

REVIEW: Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)

Godzilla vs. Kong is the best movie in Legendary Pictures’ MonsterVerse.  It isn’t great, and it gets some of the same things wrong that its three predecessors did, but it gets the most crucial aspect of these movies dead right. Go elsewhere for compelling characters or a decent story, but if y...

REVIEW: Bee Movie (2007)

In 2007, following the release of Shrek the Third, DreamWorks Animation would do the unthinkable and make a film that’s arguably even worse. The meme formerly known as Bee Movie is a 90-minute adventure comedy starring Jerry Seinfeld as a bee named Barry. The film was a middling box office suc...

REVIEW: Shrek the Third (2007)

2007 reminds me a lot of 2004 in terms of DreamWorks Animation’s cinematic output. In both years, they released a Shrek sequel in May and in the fall, a comedy featuring anthropomorphic animals starring a well-known comedian. We’ll talk about Bee Movie next time, but one big difference between t...

REVIEW: Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021)

When I saw Justice League in theaters back in 2017, I liked it fine. It feels like an eternity has passed since then for a number of reasons, not the least of which being that the past year has felt like a decade. The first week or so after seeing the original Justice League cut, …

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