I think those are all excellent albums, and the varying textures serves them well.  Nevermind certainly has the more radio-friendly Butch Vig production, but it still works great with the material.

I don't know a ton about Albini's production style or things he's produced, but I think In Utero's sound is a nice contrast to Nevermind.

I am tired of all these smurfs on this mothersmurfing plane!

Which is also sometimes used to kill geese at airports.

The Smurfs are like a children's franchise run by Ron Jeremy.

Is it me or is the plot ridiculously complicated?  Maybe I'm not up on my Smurf mythology enough, but it just seems like they crammed way too much "plot" in there.  You don't need a complicated story for a kids' movie.

Hey-a, look-a dis-a pizza pie!  Oh, Mama Mia!  It's-a da new Puffis movie!  Little Luigi will love-a da movie so much!

It's not that simple.  This movie is terrible, I'm sure, but taking the kids to the movies is a fun experience for them, it's an event, something to do during the summer.  Plus, kids don't care.  They don't care that The Smurfs 2 sucks - to them it's fun.

@avclub-61b07251e835d37322b7460d2b88c05b:disqus :  Kids don't care - they want to see whatever animated movie comes out.  It's very easy for us to view stuff like Smurfs as terrible, but kids don't care.  There are a good number of excellent animated or kids films, but you run through them surprisingly fast, and then…

Stepin Smurfit?

Whereas if you just tell everyone you meet up front that you're into auto-erotic asphyxiation, when you accidentally die no one is surprised.

*sighs*

That's what she said!

Oi - they bashed me willy-nillys!

His papers didn't seem to be in order, so the inspector's supervisor had to be called in.

A Smurf, a smurf and a smurf walk into a bar…

*smurf whistle*

Well, any talking dog movie needs a sassy chihuahua to throw out some "beaner" jokes.  You know, for kids!

Only if they cast a Charles Nelson Reilly hologram!

I think the most lasting things I've taken from the movies are 1) jive-talkin' robots, y'all!  and 2) in the 2nd or 3rd film (really, they're all indistinguishable for the most part) the dottering, old Autobot getting shot in the head, execution-style, from behind.  That's such a great image for the kids!