Tag: Comedy
REVIEW: Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Beauty and the Beast is commonly regarded not only as one of the best Disney films ever made, but as a great cinematic achievement in general. Based on the original novel by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, the film changed several key aspects of the story to differentiate itself from another Disn...
Read MoreREVIEW: Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure – Season 2, Episode 11, “Max and Eugene in Peril on the High Seas”
*SPOILERS* In “Max and Eugene in Peril on the High Seas,” Rapunzel and her friends are preparing to depart the island after they’ve been shipwrecked there for six weeks. Eugene and Maximus quickly start bumping heads over rules and regulations, all of which Maximus insists they follow. The...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Orville – Season 2, Episode 9 “Identity, Part 2”
Following up the cliffhanger ending of last week’s first half of this mid-season two-parter, “Identity, Part 2” is a tense, rousing, immensely satisfying conclusion that wraps up the conflict while setting up new ideas and potential storylines for the show’s future. There’s lots of action,...
Read MoreREVIEW: Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998)
Disney’s Pocahontas was one of my favorite movies as a kid, but it’s one of those films that doesn’t hold up well at all over time. As I got older, I started recognizing patterns in movies I liked, as opposed to those I didn’t care much for, and got interested in critiquing them. Suffice it ...
Read MoreYou Should be Watching: The Road to El Dorado (2000)
Welcome back to You Should Be Watching, the home of lost and forgotten movies and TV shows. This week, we’re blazing a trail through Central America to find the City of Gold with Kenneth Branagh and Kevin Kline in DreamWorks’ The Road to El Dorado. The film was a bona fide box office bomb at...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Orville – Season 2, Episode 8 “Identity, Part 1”
Halfway through a season that’s been heavy on character relationships and light on sci-fi action, The Orville ups the stakes considerably with “Identity, Part 1,” the phenomenal beginning of a two-parter that ranks with its very best episodes. Much like season 2, things begin on a quiet, chara...
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