A Perfect Couple might be Altman's most undervalued movie. It's got Paul Dooley as a romantic lead and Ted "Jesus" Neely as an asshole musician. That ought to be enough to cement its classic status right there.

Jesus, that's more vitriol than I ever would have expected someone could generate for Coach.

That right there is why I have high hopes for this. The writers are genuinely clever folks with the right amount of reverence for their source material.

That makes me feel better.

There's even a third sequel. I haven't read that yet but I have it on order.

Most kids are, at least early on.

Yeah, we've tried a few of those, but his definition of "mean" includes people who look severe or speak harshly, regardless of their ultimate goodness. I can't convince him Ponyo's father isn't a bad guy, for instance.

It's one of a number of locations on a shipping list. Other food recipients include chili to Chile, milk to Milwaukee, [unintelligible] to Rwanda and sandwiches to Sandusky.

Probably my favorite Craig T. Nelson role, and he didn't even have to be present for it.

To confuse matters more, the sequel to the book is called Pickles to Pittsburgh, although it's been retitled Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 for financial reasons.

This has never happened before, but I'm disappointed that Terry Crews is in a movie I'm almost certainly going to see. One thing I really liked about the first one is that it actually made great use of Mr. T. He gave a very strong voice performance with more heart than I would've guessed T could muster.

My kid is enamored of the books and recently got really into the first movie (noteworthy as he usually refuses to watch movies because most feature films contain, in his words, "mean guys"). I'm pretty sure this is going to be the first movie he sees in a theater, so I'm hoping it's better than this review would…

Even worse, his dad was overtly scornful of the kid's attempts to get his life in order and refused to acknowledge his own massive collection of empty wine bottles as any kind of problem.

That one was absolutely tragic. That kid clearly had deep mental issues that went well beyond the hoarding, and he was well aware of it but was having a hell of a time getting himself to a place where he could truly let himself be helped.

Bailey!

It runs in my wife's family. Not to the degree of most of the folks on the show, but enough that it's uncomfortable to stay at their houses. Fortunately my wife didn't get the gene or whatever spurs this, but it's really sad to listen to her trying to convince her dad that he doesn't need to hang on to every single…

If "Dink's Song" means anything but a tribute to Shyheim's character in Larry Cohen's Original Gangstas, I want nothing to do with this.

@avclub-b750f74544cb00c138079607276995e9:disqus You of all people would love Mr. Go. And yeah, The Man on the Eiffel Tower print I saw was so washed out that I really thought I was watching a bad colorization. Turns out it was specifically marketed as a triumph of Technicolor, which makes sense since half of it is…

Too late. He's totally taking Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Or rickshaw pilots, although I'm not sure where an iMac fits into that.