I think the movie is definitely a triumph of style and casting. I thought everybody- Cera included- nailed it. I don’t really get the hate that Cera generates. He’s a fine actor. Maybe overexposed in the late 00s, sure, but that certainly has not been the case recently.
Scott is a manchild, mediocre or even below…

This is a terrifically satisfying little game that really proves the value of a streamlined, perfected gaming experience- it only does a few things for a little while, but it’s 10s across the board, rather than the huge, sprawling titles that try to do everything and don’t excel at many of them.
The lack of any sort…

I wish there was an clear explanation for *why* this restriction exists. The Mario universe has so many fun species, and they’ve been riffed on to fantastic effect in many games; especially the RPG series... until this relatively recent lockdown on the content.

Odyssey was such a huge game, but so lacking in actual meaning in its world and so reliant on telling over showing when it came to character and narrative beats. I would happily take a game that left all of Odyssey’s mechanics but spent time in giving us a reason to care about literally anything that happens.

...frankly, I’d be more excited for a Switch release for Paper Mario and Thousand Year Door than I am about this. They don’t even need to be remastered.

“But what if... violence is bad” seems like an empty thesis for any video game built around committing violence with few or no alternatives, and yet this seems to happen over and over.

Did you actually lose money writing clickbait? That’s possible!?

I’ve been loving this series, but this episode has been my favorite. The right amount of humor and camp (Julie White giving Sarah Paulson a“Christian pill” that sends her soaring into space is pure camp), but it knows when to show its heart- and its knives. Even after a long journey into the possibilities of women’s…

I think it’s because the look /high  fashion label was affixed to Gigi by others? She’s not really in the same mold as Violet, Aquaria, etc, other than being young, white, and thin. She’s shown much broader camp streak, in my opinion. If she were heavier, she would automatically be labeled a camp/comedy queen for most…

So they stripped the retro campy charm of the property and replaced it with soulless pop culture references, by-committee writing, and an expectation that nostalgia and recognition will be sufficient for it? Shocking.

Super Mario Odyssey is a flagship title for the Switch...

Hoping this coincides with a release of the first game and Thousand Year Door onto eShop is probably hoping for too much, right? 

I know this criticism is kind of moot in light of ... everything else... but Sherry Pie coming in with a pre-branded look for her makeover (that pre-designed logo on the apron!) totally bothered me. Much of the fun of the makeover challenges is seeing how the subjects find their drag personas! Sherry came in with…

That is a facile argument. If anything, I think *JAN* is objectively more attractive.
I think Gigi is far more than just a queen who can work a look. She has personality and charisma in spades, which I can’t say for a queen such as, say, Violet. She’s a great performer, and showed in Snatch game that she has fantastic…

Ru was absolutely right to give Gigi the win. Sorry to this Jan.

None of them were painful or embarrassing to watch, which cannot be said for Snatch Games like season 10's Beyonce-Blue Ivy-Maxine Waters three car pileup.

Sherry Pie, for the first time, wasn’t even featured on the runway. Yikes!

The fact that there’s just one antagonist in the opening credits we have yet to see in an episode- the angry pink White Diamond lookalike- doesn’t bode very well for the upcoming episodes.

But what constitutes “bad” here? This is like a restaurant critic giving McDonalds a bad review under the metric they would judge Per Se. Nobody is under the delusion this is going to be a cinematic achievement.

What’s the point of a review like this, exactly? This is clearly not a film that was intended to be held to the same scrutiny as awards bait or arthouse works; it obviously has no loftier ambitions than being a 2 hour diversion for kids in a cold-ass month that parents can also sit through without having an aneurysm.…