I really wanted to love Frankenweenie, but it just felt so lifeless and unnecessary to me. I might have loved it in a world where the original short didn't exist, but the short film was much funnier and full of warmth and emotion. I can see how he would want to remake it as an animation to incorporate ideas he…

@avclub-8f5d52de325e27c15de41667d4d82f50:disqus But the only Burton feature films that aren't adaptations are Pee Wee's Big Adventure (still based on a pre-existing character though), Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and Nightmare Before Christmas (if you count it). There's also Frankenweenie, which is based on his…

Those black pants bugged the shit out of me. Why on earth would she choose those pants to go trekking through the wilderness of Oz? And why was she even out there in the first place at the beginning of the movie?

Honestly the season reviews I've seen here are kind of lame, and pretty much anything that can be said about the season as a whole has already been said in the episodic reviews, especially in Classic reviews where the reviewer has seen the whole season before (like these). Grades can be kind of reductive as well,…

How about throwing in Firefly and BSG?

It seems some of the DVDs have the airing order, while others have the production order (like mine does). The reviews are covering them in the production or "correct" order but it doesn't seem like it makes much difference to me. You can look up the order the reviews are following here on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.…

"I, E.T. wasn't bad, but I actually think it would be better placed later in the run: "Exodus from Genesis" follows up on the style and plot concerns of the pilot in a much more satisfying way, while fleshing out the world and characters a lot more than "E.T." does. I actually can't really fault the early shifting of…

Honestly, I don't see what's so bad about that episode. It's a bit simplistic, but it has a ton of great character moments, and I kind of liked how the story took the structure of a lot of monomyths, even though the native people were pretty cliched and underdeveloped. It was pretty good if for nothing else than the…

Interesting, I'm 14 episodes in and I wouldn't say there was an episode that hooked me: I enjoyed it from the beginning but they have been gradually getting a little better with each episode. Episodes 7-10 was definitely the high point thus far (though I rewatched the Premiere with a friend, and it's a pretty great…

@avclub-e57dbebc740250d2c4a370cf6ccb35f0:disqus Oh god, that sounds exactly like this girl I'm friends with on facebook. Though I don't think she's actually a proper Whedonite (pretty sure she's never seen Buffy or Angel, just Firefly and The Avengers) so that's kind of a relief. She's ridiculously irritating though,…

Yeah the monkey's expressions were really beautifully animated, and went a long way towards making him so likable. And I really dislike Zach Braff, to the point that I dislike Scrubs mainly because of him, but I would not have been able to tell that was him if I'd skipped the credits.

Wait, who said that about Franco? I mostly just see O'Neal sarcastically slamming him in the Newswires pretty much every week. I mean I'm sure someone has said something good about him on here, but they're not exactly fawning over him as far as I can tell.

That last scene was beyond creepy. SPOILERS I just pictured the sidekicks all standing there staring and blowing that fucking horn for the next 30 minutes while Oz and Glinda loudly and enthusiastically got it on.

I think people forget that C+ is actually an "it's okay" grade, while a B is a solid good movie. If something you were expecting to be great were a C+ it would be disappointing, but for something like this it at least indicates that it's not terrible, and could be worth seeing. I think it's about as good as we're…

Mercifully, this movie did not have much of a battle scene where two armies rush at each other on an open field. Instead SPOILERS the witches are basically defeated in the final showdown by one of those Disney world live shows with fireworks and smoke effects and shit. It's pretty dumb, but I'll take it over a…

His last two movies were Red State and Cop Out, which both looked pretty atrocious. I really liked Zack and Miri as well, it's probably my favorite of the three Smith movies I've seen (the others being Clerks and Jay and Silent Strike Back).

It's pretty crazy that Lawrence won a fucking Oscar in the middle of making these Hunger Games movies though. It seems like she'll be a lot smarter about picking what to make on the side than Stewart was and will certainly get a lot more opportunities. That said, she's already tied down to two major franchises right…

@avclub-fb774c19f3511a5af40b08978b1d6764:disqus Holy shit, that blew my mind. I never would have guessed in a million years.

For sure, that was an incredible feat the show pulled, killing off one of my favorite characters in an incredibly heartbreaking way, and then having the same actress turn around and play an equally awesome character immediately afterward. Illyria was really amazingly well developed considering she was around for less…

Who could forget Denisof's incredible turn in The Avengers? I'm sure dozens of people realize that he was in that!