I recall honestly enjoying Alien From L.A., at least as one of those “punching above its weight class” video store finds back in the late ‘80s. Directed by Albert The Sword and the Sorcerer Pyun (which is similarly enjoyable cheese).

I quite enjoyed the Twin Peaks revival, but damned if this doesn’t seem like a parody of it. Not that that didn’t sometimes seem like a parody of itself. You could splice this in place of that floor sweeping scene and not change very much.

Not so much for some of us...

A Bug’s Life is more directly The Three Amigos, with its whole “fake/entertainer heroes” twist. I find that an interesting chain — Samurai/Magnificent/Amigos — which ultimately produced both A Bug’s Life and Galaxy Quest. I don’t offhand know of any similarly distinctive movie “ripoff” chain.

It was their whole team van as I recall, and probably at least two assistants. I’m not sure it was suppose to be cheer-inducing, though — more of a head-shaking “wages of greed” kind of thing.

For me, that original “They’re in it for the money... not the science.” line was one of the most unintentionally hysterical lines in movie history.

Definitely sounds like an old paperback title one might have found in the gentlemen’s club library.

Though Stripes maintains a level of wackiness through the action that avoids really serious tonal problems, in contrast with, say, Three Men and a Baby discussed elsewhere on this forum today.

The way it sort of mocks the audience for having any emotional investment in these wacky characters is in keeping with the darker side of “British Humor”, but something like the even darker ending of Life of Brian works much better in terms of not leaving the audience... well... hanging...

I’ve criticized the “oh, the hell with it” ending of this film before (albeit not very strenuously. The whole thing’s a genuine classic), but I’ve only just now gotten the “twist” to it -- The cops had the wrong suspects! Arthur and his knights had no actual horses!

Yeah, the success of this has “date movie” written all over it.

I recall that the title “Robocop” had led my friends and I, unfamiliar with Verhoeven’s work at the time, to assume that it would be some kind of PG-13 kid-oriented film. When word got out pre-release that it was fighting an NC-17 rating, we were highly amused and curious, and of course were ultimately anything but…

This reminds me of a catering establishment/restaurant we used to have in suburban Philadelphia — their dining areas were scattered through a “Dickensian village” of faux storefronts. It went out of business probably 30 years ago, but I remember a few enjoyable reception-type dinners there in my youth.

As cheesy as a lot of the details look, there’s a lot of potential for upgrades. Definitely a home for an eccentric retiree who still runs table-top role-playing games.

But you also don’t know how much of a monster he really is, and how much of that was just made up.

Good to hear.

Apparently she does a fair amount of voice work — including a Bob’s Burgers a couple weeks ago.

Whatever else happens, I think Ms. McCafferty will be able to name her own price for squirrel puppetry gigs going forward.

Mr. Chappell warned us at the end of the last review. But no official notice, ‘cause how many page views would that have gotten?

Albeit with a five-and-a-half hour running time.