Never said Hulk monster, just that Hulk gimmick movie review niche already successfully filled.

A somewhat positive perspective:

Variety directly compared Grown Ups 2 to "Ow My Balls!"

You not Film Crit Hulk! Go away!

They liked The Matrix. And Hideo Kojima basically demanded all the otaku in Japan see Pacific Rim on his twitter, so that's something.

Pacific Rim is perfectly kid-friendly and would entertain the hell out of them while inspiring their imaginations. So yeah, it is kind of shameful that parents would take their kids to Adam Sandler and deer piss over what could be the next Star Wars.

Even SD Gundam? We'd need Nathan Rabin and his "World of Flops" for that one…

Charlie only semi-sucks (really it's pretty good except for the lame Wonka backstory), Corpse Bride doesn't suck, and for what its worth Burton admits Planet of the Apes sucks (seemingly the production was out of his control for the most part). His post Ed Wood era certainly hasn't been anywhere near as strong as his…

Frankenweenie didn't suck, and Big Eyes has a high chance of not sucking as well.

I remember them being OK, liking the second more than the first.

Does Mononoke count as a children's movie? It does seem to aim older than Miyazaki's other movies (except the directly adult-targeted Porco Rosso), feels more Lord of the Rings than The Hobbit.

Funny, I can't think of that many characters directly diagnosed with autism (as opposed to speculated about). As someone diagnosed on the spectrum, I'd consider representation (assuming it's accurately portrayed) a good thing.

But unlike Suzanne Collins, Del Toro's an anime fan so he's acknowledged some influence there (not specifically EVA, I don't think, but this movie seems to be going for a very different tone even if some of the imagery and pilot-synching plot are similar). Were there people pissed off at Christopher Nolan after he…

@avclub-c701a997d9bef627835b036efb4eca63:disqus What about Hugo? Where the Wild Things Are? Coraline? Fantastic Mr. Fox? How to Train Your Dragon? The Harry Potter movies? Ghibli movies?

So when does Evangelion get the TV Club Classic treatment?

Also, unlike Transformers, it seems that the action's competently directed enough that you might actually be able to SEE those robots blowing things up as opposed to just having it inferred out of the visual chaos through sound design.

The AMC on the Boston Common is showing it on three screens early Thursday night. I'll definitely be at one of those.

From interviews, it sounds like he's aiming more for kids, making it with enough love and artistry to entertaining older audiences in addition to trying to set up the next generation of geeks, rather than trying to pander to the older geek crowd. A smart move, in contrast to a lot of other "geek" summer movies…

5 Broken Cameras got an Oscar nod last year.

Since I couldn't get an internship this summer, instead I'm trying to raise money for a short film (please no Zack Braff jokes; world of difference celebrities and poor film students): http://www.indiegogo.com/pr…