Joan Cusack may have a cartoon voice, but Jessie just kills Toy Story 2 and 3 for me.  I literally grit my teeth whenever she is on screen, because she is screaming every line.  She is not adorable or hilarious, at all.  I seriously want to shout "shut the fuck up" whenever she is on.

Joan Cusack may have a cartoon voice, but Jessie just kills Toy Story 2 and 3 for me.  I literally grit my teeth whenever she is on screen, because she is screaming every line.  She is not adorable or hilarious, at all.  I seriously want to shout "shut the fuck up" whenever she is on.

Voice acting requires completely different skills than just acting, because you have to focus all the emotion/meaning into the voice instead of relying on your face and body language, and you have to do it without overacting.  Most screen actors don't really comprehend this, I think, or else they just don't have the…

Voice acting requires completely different skills than just acting, because you have to focus all the emotion/meaning into the voice instead of relying on your face and body language, and you have to do it without overacting.  Most screen actors don't really comprehend this, I think, or else they just don't have the…

I made the mistake of marathoning all three Extended Editions one day.  After 12 straight hours of LOTR, I was seeing elves and hobbits in my sleep for weeks afterwards.  It was pretty disturbing.

I made the mistake of marathoning all three Extended Editions one day.  After 12 straight hours of LOTR, I was seeing elves and hobbits in my sleep for weeks afterwards.  It was pretty disturbing.

It really, really was.

It really, really was.

More horsewhipping victims lining up for you, @avclub-792b765aa995daf26cf6f17f519c949d:disqus .

More horsewhipping victims lining up for you, @avclub-792b765aa995daf26cf6f17f519c949d:disqus .

I wish I could like this a few times.

I wish I could like this a few times.

It is actually pretty enlightening to track the evolution of opinion about things on this site.  Films that start off as "great" (or even just "okay") slowly backslide over the years until everyone (or at least the vocal commenters) claim they are horrible, have always been horrible, and they personally have always…

It is actually pretty enlightening to track the evolution of opinion about things on this site.  Films that start off as "great" (or even just "okay") slowly backslide over the years until everyone (or at least the vocal commenters) claim they are horrible, have always been horrible, and they personally have always…

I love the hipster revisionism that occurs here at A.V. Club.  Participate in a couple dozen negative comment threads over a few years, and suddenly a guy with a pretty average success rate for his films becomes the equivalent of Uwe Boll.

I love the hipster revisionism that occurs here at A.V. Club.  Participate in a couple dozen negative comment threads over a few years, and suddenly a guy with a pretty average success rate for his films becomes the equivalent of Uwe Boll.

Oooh, I could only dream of a promotion like that.

Oooh, I could only dream of a promotion like that.

I've seen some horrible narration in my time, the kind that assumes the audience can't figure out what's going on by the action and dialogue alone, as though we have to be told everything explicitly.

I've seen some horrible narration in my time, the kind that assumes the audience can't figure out what's going on by the action and dialogue alone, as though we have to be told everything explicitly.