I'm aflayed your comment doesn't account for the House Bolton.

Yeah. I saw Hunchback in the theaters and hated (wait for it) the cutesy gargoyle sidekicks. I half-remember some enjoyable songs, but blech was that a mess overall.

Hey, I liked Hercules. I don't think I ever watched the other "decline-era" ones mentioned above, including Pocahontas. I probably would have seen it by now if they didn't add those damn animal sidekicks. For some reason I hated that damn raccoon just from the trailers.

I wonder if Mike Myers will find a different old reference for that schtick now. I mean, him just finding a new schtick is out of the question.

"final"

Well that explains a lot.

Sloppy journalism, thy name is Vanity Fair!

I remember being surprised to learn that Matt LeBlanc was in it, since they carefully avoided showing his face for more than three frames in the trailer. That's a good sign, right?

The One (Baldwin)

Gremlins 2 appears to be one of Dante's ongoing attempts to film a feature-length, non-animated, golden age Looney Tunes cartoon. I liked it, but I can easily see why it wouldn't connect with everyone.

No, this isn't a response to people whining about obesity. This is a response to the people who whine "if I can't pronounce it, I won't eat it". Apparently groups like this are getting a lot of momentum lately.

Yay bug shells and nasty plants!

It's pronounced "peninsula". Oh, who am I kidding, it's totally a penis.

Yeah. And I really don't see that happening since it straddles genres like drama, comedy, science fiction, and fantasy. It would be a hard sell on that basis alone, aside from the exposition problem you mention.

"More like Sam Not-So-Goody!"

It was her sick beats that made the difference.

* Florida tries to hide quietly in the corner *

I wanted to at least like them for trying to expand kids' vocabularies, like teaching them that "penultimate" meant "next-to-last". But some of his explanatory asides were just made up, like in an early book (the first, maybe?) when he says that "puttanesca" is Italian for "made out of leftover stuff you happen to…

"ears"

I started reading Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching novels because I loved his other Discworld stuff. The Aching novels are mostly considered YA, or at least Barnes & Noble seems to put them in that section, because Tiffany is eightish in the first novel. They're entertaining and don't talk down to the audience; in…