Tag: Comedy
REVIEW: The Incredibles (2004)
“We’re superheroes. What could happen?” In anticipation of Incredibles 2 coming out this week, I’d like to talk about the first film, and some of the events leading up to its initial release. In 1999 Warner Bros. animation studio released Brad Bird’s directorial debut, The Iron Giant. ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Home on the Range (2004)
“Well, it doesn’t work for me!” After several disappointments in the early 2000s, things were getting tense at Walt Disney Animation. A film based on the Pied Piper legend was pitched and subsequently shot down by Michael Eisner, who believed parents wouldn’t take their kids to see a mov...
Read MoreREVIEW: Lilo & Stitch (2002)
“Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.” Atlantis: The Lost Empire wasn’t Disney’s only shot at science fiction in the early 2000’s. In fact, the next two films to come out of Walt Disney Feature Animation, Lilo & Stitch and Treasure Planet, were both di...
Read MoreTenacious D Will Return in Pick of Destiny Sequel
Speaking of comedy rock duos getting long-awaited sequels to their movies, Jack Black took a moment at a recent Tenacious D performance at the Shaky Knees Festival in Atlanta, Gerogia, to announce that there would be a sequel to the D’s 2006 movie, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny. Black said th...
Read MoreBill & Ted are Back!
Whoa! Get set for another excellent adventure, as The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that a third Bill & Ted movie, titled Bill & Ted Face the Music, is in the works, with Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reprising their roles as Ted Theodore Logan and Bill S. Preston Esq., respectively. Chri...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)
“A llama? He’s supposed to be dead!” The Emperor’s New Groove was the second animated movie Disney released in 2000, and suffice it to say, it’s a very different film from Dinosaur. Initially, the studio was producing a film called Kingdom of the Sun, intended to be a serious version o...
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