Epic is clearly playing the long game here. They know that if they lose that they can always a-peel the ruling. 

A miserable pile of felt! 

I think the dumbest thing that stood out to me is the film’s lack of confidence in the franchise’s own worldbuilding. Rather than just show us a world where laser-eyed cyborgs and fire-flinging martial artists just exist, all of these things are tied to some “awaken your arcana” thing.

Beyond the over-the-top combat,…

On the contrary, if Pickle Rick is a “stupid distraction underlying emotional issues” then perhaps those that have embraced the meme are actually fulfilling the original joke’s purpose? 

I clicked this thinking “Did the AV Club just now learn about Neil Cicierega’s ‘Mullet with Butterfly Wings’?” and was surprised to actually find the article was about something different. 

Ah, brings me back to the days when a low-fidelity video’s interpolated frames were “proof” that Obama was a reptilian. 

Everything I hear about this trainwreck fills me with a grim fascination. Just as the first Space Jam was a weird distillation of everything 90s corporate Hollywood culture wanted to shove into a film, this one seems very much the same but for late 2010s corporate Hollywood culture. 

All of the above! Both versions, along with her Loonatics Unleashed counterpart and other iterations, all appear together in a post-credits sequence peddling the film’s follow-up: Enter the Lolaverse

I misread the title as “Bigfoot-friendly” and clicked wondering what the hell Gab did to attract the cryptid’s attention. 

Hopping Yoda in Attack of the Clones back in 2002 is still the hardest I’ve ever laughed in a movie theater when nobody else was laughing. 

Semi-related, but I kinda lost it at the pseudo-Arabic “Sonic the Hedgehog” written in the header.

Wow! Newgrounds cartoons have come a long way. Now they’re getting big names like Ozzy and Post Malone! 

I think someone else already beat ‘em to the bunch many years ago:

Wow. This isn’t just some voice clips dubbed over. It sounds like they also edited in different music and sounds from the games. Basically an entire redo of the audio track. 

I acknowledge that by writing this article, I have probably doomed myself.

“Hey! That was a figure study team-building event for the modelling team, damnit. What? You think those asses in skin-tight future clothes model themselves!?!” 

For sure! It’s funny talking to Star Trek folks who recommend certain series right before listing all the awful stuff to skip. 

Honestly, for better or for worse, that gratuitousness is part of the tonal whiplash that’s the franchise’s signature.

“This is a deep, serious space opera where your complex, moral decisions shape the future of a galaxy.”

is entwined with

“dur hur hur. all the blue aliens are sexy gurls”

Mass Effect was never as smart…

Not the direction I expected a Firefly follow-up series to go in, but okay. 🤷‍♂️

Honestly, this article is pretty messy and all over the place.