Crying about plagiarism is for smug fanboys who have never created anything in their lives.

And, the way to do this would be…real time footnotes? Annotated subtitles?

I'm never the guy who says "I saw that twist coming in the first act," but this was a film where I saw the twist coming in the first act.

This guy is just begging to be played by Jason Segel in a quirky neo rom com.

Oh, great. "Amateur Night" was the super rape-y one with all the sweet bros in it, wasn't it?

If it hasn't already been mentioned… Tre Cool, the DRUMMER from Green Day, is worth 60 million.

All of this time and energy that he could spend on making his own music less wretchedly bloodless…

This story is looking stuntier by the minute. Of course, as you point out at the end of the article, pseudo-situationist pranks aren't going to make him a better actor.

I mean, Colin Meloy is the poster child for "superficial love of the material." He's made a career of it.

Didn't Schur make that Decemberists video loosely based on Eschaton? I would say that's ten times more insulting than trying to make a feature.

Oh, the ones that he didn't have? http://www.cartoonbrew.com/…

I feel like, although I will probably end up agreeing with a lot of what's been said here, the author's overall tone is so colored by "Disney is, like evil, maaan," teenage grade cynicism that I'm having a little trouble taking this review seriously.