Yeah, too bad we didn't know about the Aero bars or acknowledge them in any way in that brief…

See, I just don't think you can equate the storyline of the first one with the second one. Yes, everyone knows Po is the Dragon Warrior, but no one can figure out how that's possible, and it seems really unlikely, so you have a huge contradiction between what's supposed to happen and what seems to be happening.…

I thought the 3-D worked really well, particularly in the big climax, though it's also possible that it's used to make the crowded combat scenes more coherent because there's a sense that things are happening on different planes.

It isn't the lack of mystery that bothered me, it's the repetition of seeing the same elliptical slices of memory course through his head over and over, even though we've already seen what happens.

I saw that for the first time yesterday (because I was fact-checking for a Lonely Island interview we'll post soon) and I cannot get it out of my head. Favorite Lonely Island video since "Dick In A Box."

I still haven't read "Move Under Ground" (it's on the to-read shelf at home), but I really enjoyed his second novel, "Under My Roof," a sort of gonzo political satire about a father who builds a nuclear device, hides it in his yard, secedes from America, and declares himself a sovereign nation. It's simultaneously…

Chris O'Dowd has a minor role in the trailer, but a major role in the movie, for what it's worth.

"Damn, that's a harsh way of firing someone. "

"However, this movie seems to be more of an 80s thing when everyone really cared about the fact that product placement was so prominent and everyone was complaining about it"

Well, virtually all the characterization is based around whether the characters are good guys (i.e. people who understand that the elephant is intelligent and sensitive and emotional and a friend) or bad guys (that is, people who abuse the elephant and see any lack of instant slavish obedience as willfulness that…

I have an enthusiasm for animation that doesn't particularly coincide with an enthusiasm for children's entertainment. Which is fine, since I'm not reviewing movies for children, I'm reviewing them for the 16-and-up crowd who increasingly go to animated movies in the hopes that they'll be adult-worthy, and the parents…

The original review had an explanation of the whole Blue Sky/Fox thing, but it had to be cut to get the review under 400 words for print. Given that Fox hasn't yet produced an animated movie not done by Blue Sky, it's a fairly fine point either way.

It's the door to the boiler room, basically. Rarely opened.

There's a whole plot-related reason there, and I could explain it, but that would be taking the whole thing more seriously than it deserves by far.

Unfortunately, we filmed maybe five minutes per character for these, and they were cut back to about 1:30 each, so the rest of the statement I made there got lost. It isn't that she judges him because of his ugly sweater, it's that she assumes he's a useless twit because of his ugly sweater even though she herself is…

Because people in the office keep asking… nobody gets naked in this movie. Not even a little bit. Not even shirtless. If you want shirtless werewolf-boys or possible werewolf boys or Amanda Seyfried, you'll have to go to another movie.

That's the second chat in a row where that's happened; fortunately we were able to address the settings problem. At least at this point if it crops up again, we'll know exactly what the issue is. Sorry for the delay in getting comments working, and thanks to everyone who patiently stuck around and contributed. Y'all…

This was an error introduced in editing, and not the writer's fault; it's been fixed.

It's coming. We didn't get an advance copy, so we had to buy it on release, and it's a thousand pages long. You waited years for the book, you can wait another week for the review, right?

Oh wow, The Truman Show definitely would have been a good one for this list. I love the ending of that film.