Maybe you should write your own reviews then, happywinks.

See, now this really does feel like the AV Club of yore. An article where the writer has clearly had to suffer, significantly, for many many hours, in order to put together a retrospective that’s so much more insightful than the relative crap it’s covering deserves that the contrast is staggering.

Yeah, it was the rare case of Disney seeming to want to jump on the DreamWorks bandwagon (though I’d also argue that Shrek was basically DreamWorks-ing Fractured Fairy Tales or any number of self-aware fairy-tale spoofs). The final product isn’t much in that tone (and is much better than any Shrek!) but you can see…

My daughter thinks the minions are creepy and wants nothing to do with them.

People go through shit and and grow, or don’t grow, as individuals and in their relationships to each other whilst trying to make it in an extremely cutthroat industry. That’s what happens. That kinda thing can be extremely compelling if the characters and situations are well-written, which IMO they are. This episode…

Oh yes, the people responsible for growing and delivering all human life should be more independent while physically disabled/at a serious disadvantage while doing tasks such a lifting heavy objects. That makes total sense.

Show: Displays “Every Second Counts” constantly.
Also Show: takes its time with characters, who are starting to realize (to varying degrees) what really matters to them.

Everyone else: MOVE FASTER PLEASE.

I think I may love this season even more than S2 when I look back on it. It’s not afraid to take its time and it…

Wrong

Dear employees of Restaurant Depot: Did none of you think it might be a good idea to help the severely pregnant lady with her giant boxes of paper towels?

Related to the point about egos, I do not think Adam is fucking with Carmy, and I also do not think he is a good guy. I think he’s pretty much just like Carmy, in that he wants to include Syd because he recognizes her value, and will ultimately fuck her over because of his own ego. It’s not even that he intends to do…

I honestly don’t understand the problem people have with the pacing of this season. I can relate it to the macro problem with media, which is that too many people think Plot is King, a perspective that I think is objectively wrong at best, and indicative of people not having read enough actual stories at worst.

It eclipses Norm Macdonald’s torrid performance on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire!

$39,000 is a fucking amazing Jeopardy score, in any game of it. Jeez, most get luck to get half that at the end of a round.

While he certainly doesn’t come off as a rube or anything, Andy’s regular-guy persona kinda masks the fact that he’s brilliant.

Wolf staring in dead-eyed shock straight down the barrel of the camera, Dana appearing to be incredulously sizing him up, and Andy standing there, one hand on the desk, jaw set and a look of confident determination in his eye like a ship captain standing on the bridge...perfect.

That face-plant was so funny I forgot it was Andy who was on top.

When I interviewed Philip Baker Hall for Bullz-Eye and asked him if the second season of THE LOOP was a tax-write off for Fox, he went into that kind of thing as well. It was very educational. http://www.bullz-eye.com/2008/08/08/interview-with-philip-baker-hall/

For people who want to be pacified for 90 minutes.

Those are all actors with voices and voice acting experience.
Sorry they’re not the voices that you’re used to. It’s OK to hear new things.

Readers might reasonably ask whether it’s really such a big deal that Disney made a kid-friendly, streaming-only follow-up to a bunch of other kid movies. But it’s the extreme age-specificity and seeming low effort of Buck Wild that makes it more content than feature film. ... The Ice Age Adventures Of Buck Wild…