If we assume every plus size woman has the same comic voice, sure. Based on that Michael Longfellow is a Pete Davidson Kyle Mooney clone. It’ll be hard for him to play a 90s high school nerd whose dad died on 9/11.

I’ve avoided the show specifically because it’s so steeped in the culture it’s satirizing. I’m sure it’s great and all, but I’m already living in a decaying dystopia, thanks. I never watched The Handmaid’s Tale for the same reason, even though I liked the book well enough.

I always knew the South Park Movie would be a terrible influence on the youth.

Yellowfoot, the instructions that came with the the Media Pack that Warner Bros. sent out were very clear that this was to be one page of text and it was to be copy-pasted as deliver.

“Ken-ergy” appears to be a portmanteau of “Ken”—the name of Gosling’s character as well as a line of dolls manufactured and sold by the Mattel company—and “energy,” which Merriam-Webster defines as “a dynamic quality,” “the capacity of acting or being active,” and “a usually positive spiritual force.”

OK, but that “at best” is pretty awesome.  Yes, Jordan Peele is the more successful of the two, but Keegan Michael Key is, by basically any measure, very successful.   It’s hard to imagine Desus and Mero would see that as a cautionary tale.  

Even setting aside the political implications of a story where a character gets pregnant and decides to abort, the story itself just kind of dries up in Juno’s case if that were to happen. She decides to get an abortion, gets the abortion...and then none of the rest of the movie happens.

Not to mention that “choice” means just that. You can’t want choice for women then be upset when they make a selection you disagree with. Plenty of women choose to give birth and allow a family who can’t conceive to adopt their children.

You couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today? Okay, then explain The Boys. And Doom Patrol. And The Umbrella Academy. And biggest of all, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

“Blazing Saddles couldn’t get made today” is such a tired old saw that seems about as lacking in subtlety of thought as the straw-men audiences it assumes would be unable to grasp the movie’s perspective and commentary.

“while the victim is poor and Arab”

“Abdellah’s community of stoic Berbers”

Your review conflates these two communities.

Arabs and Berbers (Amazigh, to use their self-designation) are two different ethnicities.

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Before COVID, I was working in an office doing lyric transcription for streaming services. Lyrics for songs needed to be entered and verified manually by humans, and one of those humans was me. We’d get all kinds: pop, R&B, rap, rock, country, old, new, whatever.

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Whenever they get around to making a real FF movie, assuming that Krasinski is indeed not cast as the “real” Reed, they should still have versions of him pop in through multiverse portals every so often only to be immediately killed in increasingly absurd ways.

It’s depressing watching Daria nowadays, but I’ll give the composer who had to come up with soundalikes credit for not doing too bad a job.

Gotta love Fathom’s mea culpa is “You can pay us to see it again and maybe we’ll do it correctly this time,” instead of “We will be providing refunds for all the showings this occurred at.” Gross.

What really sucks is that the film notoriously bombed in theaters and only later got discovered as one of the great sci-fi/horror films of all time, so being able to see it on the big screen (especially with those marvelous practical effects) is an experience not many people have ever had anyway.

How many slides in the “What Went Wrong with the AV CLUB” slideshow?

I haven’t seen this yet, but it does look fun to me. I will say that the hemming and hawing over “what IS this movie?” and the meta angle most critics seem to be settling on are baffling to me. I don’t think it’s quite as difficult to parse as some folks have suggested. 

This swivel to slideshow directive is a real treat.