The first thing I saw him in was "The River Wild," playing second fiddle villain to Kevin Bacon. Imagine my surprise years later when "that funny looking guy" became kind of a big deal.

Ferrell's generally great in ensemble films where his madness is not the only thing you go on. Reilly, however, can totally work in multiple capacities and, unlike Ferrell, can be genuinely lovable and sympathetic. Plus, the guy can freaking SING - if you've only seen him in "Chicago" and would like to see him in…

Nascent gay boy me was flummoxed as to why the hell I was always watching the original (or "the only one" as it was known at the time). My mom - a young mom - grew up in the 70s and, in the 90s, rented it for me all the time. I didn't have the heart to tell her I hated it and so would instead try figuring out why she…

I like musicals a lot when they're good, but while I barely remember it, I watched it a lot as a kid and still didn't like it then, either (my mom, who grew up with it, kept renting it for me, thinking I liked it), for a lot of the same reasons I dislike "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."

The profanity was lazy, as were some of the jokes, but I can understand seizing the opportunity for even some of the easy jokes just because, really, where else will you see that version of it? (The douche being a douche, for example.)

Because they got relatively decent reviews overall. Rotten Tomatoes scores aren't indicative of how much good a movie contains but how many critics liked it on some level. The fact that higher scores tend to correlate to films being that good just suggests how obviously and universally good they are.

I dunno, wit is nice and all, but there's still something to be said for well executed, even familiar lowbrow and even obvious humor. Sure, making an anthropomorphic douche be a douche in personality is pretty obvious, but where else are you going to actually see it actually executed in a major animated film?

I'm pretty sure it's an extreme send up of every kids movie outside of Disney ending on a fucking dance party. For that, I found it pretty hilarious, particularly since a lot of the humor was "adult" twists on animated movie tropes.

No, but she's about due to be outed as transgender, shockingly overweight, and someone we didn't know died this year, isn't she?

I hate that version of EVERYTHING.

They can still be based on then contemporary figures while still holding some resonance for the types of people that they were, though.

Well said!

Right! Exactly. They probably also feel dirty or awkward about talking about it with their kids. Despite my mom's own scruples, she also never had a formal or even incidental sex talk with me either, so…

Yeah, well, I'm rich in friends.

Apparently they taste good. Maybe they should start farming the tasty, venomous and oil rich kinds so that we have an alternative meat source that also provides beneficial oils and anti-venom?

Don't forget that Rosario Dawson used to be, too. Also Anna Chlumsky and Mara Wilson are apparently now ENORMOUS…

My mom had similar scruples. I actually asked her one time why that was, and she had oddly compelling reasons for it that had nothing to do with "violence is fine, but sex isn't": that she trusted me to understand that violence was wrong and that I wasn't going to repeat what I saw, regardless of who was doing it in…

"Sixteen Candles" has nearly all the subject matter and straight up full frame close-up of bare breasts (on a teenage character, no less) of a modern R-rated comedy, but it was released months before the PG-13 rating was put to use and was given a PG rating. I only saw it for the first time months ago and had to pause…

Count me in the ambiguous "Should I/Can I be offended by that?" multiracial category. I wouldn't outright come off as Asian, but I'm genuinely bugged sometimes by Asian stereotypes, such as the undesirable or asexual Asian male ones. Probably because I've been told by Asian and non-Asian people that I'm lucky I…

Where do you draw the line, though? Honest question, because it does seem like a lot of people of color FROM our generation do still like to frame everything in those terms.