It’s a movie about time-traveling, mutated turtles well versed in martial arts. They have a rat for a sensei and Elias Koteas, who carries the disease known as “If-I’m-in-a-movie-it-will-suckitis”, as a friend. They travel to feudal Japan and help restore peace to a region of the country. They deal in bad action scenes, bad hair [...]
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#1528: Worst Movies Ever – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
Posted in Children, Reader's Choice, worst movies ever on March 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
#1525: Worst Movies Ever – High School Musical 2
Posted in Children, Musical, Reader's Choice on March 16, 2009 | 25 Comments »
Have mercy!
I know the High School Musical series is viewed as wonderful for children, but as an adult?
I got tired of “wholesome” entertainment when I was a child. One of the perks of being an adult is that I can watch movies with sex, drugs, violence or a combination thereof ANY TIME I WANT.
The musical [...]
#1523: Worst Movies Ever – Eragon
Posted in Children, Netflix, Reader's Choice, worst movies ever on March 11, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Déja vu.
When I was doing a little digging on the ‘net for general cast information about Eragon, I noticed that a lot of people seem to be mentioning that it’s a a blatant Star Wars ripoff. To some extent, that’s true, but Star Wars in and of itself rips off a lot of [...]
#1488: The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
Posted in Children, Reader's Choice, tagged David Hasselhoff, getting soft in my old age, Spongebob Squarepants on December 1, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Oh, come on, whoever nominated this! This movie isn’t awful! It’s cute. Have a heart!
It’s pretty much just the story of Spongebob and his starfish friend Patrick saving Mr. Krabs from Plankton, the evil little sea creature who wants to rule the world, but it’s goofy and funny. [...]
#1449: Wall-E
Posted in Children, Review, tagged Pixar, Wall-E on July 1, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Wall-E: most excellent.
There are two strikingly distinct aspects of Wall-E: first, it’s as about as close as you can get to a silent film in this day and age, and secondly, it’s got about as much biting social commentary as you can fit into a “children’s movie”.
Wall-E is, in my opinion, unfairly maligned [...]

