The Miscweant: Most Discussed Posts

Of Ponies and Bronies

jstrike — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:06:46 -0700

The Transformers may be raking in the box office gold and G.I. Joe battled COBRA in the multiplexes, but while those once-upon-the-eighties Hasbro cartoon shows made the leap from TV cartoon to big screen live action, the diminutive equines collectively known as My Little Pony have returned in a new animated series that has surprised a lot of people. To put it simply, The Hub Channel’s My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is one hip show.

Drawing to a Close: The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!

jstrike — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:36:42 -0700

Coprophilia, necrophilia, aroused onscreen genitalia, an endless supply of “fuck”s, “shit”s and language even less polite; it must be The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs DVD Review

jstrike — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:58:58 -0800

Maybe I was in a bad mood when Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs came out. Maybe I just resented the idea of taking one of my kids’ favorite picture books and pumping it up into a full-length feature, so I passed on it in the theaters.

Tron: Legacy Review

jstrike — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:09:07 -0800

I haven’t been this disappointed by a Walt Disney sci-fi movie since The Black Hole. Maybe I walked in with unrealistic expectations of seeing something as groundbreaking, and visually thrilling as the 1982 original. The trailer looked tremendous and the idea of revisiting a ‘visionary’ film (the first Tron does indeed deserve that now-overused adjective) with 21st century effects – and with the same actors playing the same characters they did in the original, only middle-aged – seemed irresistible.

Review: How to Train Your Dragon Comes Out Smoking

jstrike — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:12:09 -0700

The Miscweant plays with fire watching How to Train Your Dragon – and decides the movie is hot stuff.

Movie Review: Legend of the Guardians: 300 with Feathers

jstrike — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:51:46 -0700

You’ve probably heard about the Uncanny Valley: not a geographical location, but the precipitous drop in peoples’ comfort level when they come across something that’s almost human… but not quite (like the replicants in Zemeckis’ mocap movies). Well, in Zack Snyder’s Legend of the Guardians you’ve got owls – dozens and hundreds of owls who look almost like real life owls… but not quite. It’s that quest for the absolutely perfect replication of wind rippling the tiniest hairs in their feathers or the way light glints and reflects off their wide eyes: Guardians achieves it – at the expense of the audience they’ve just tossed into the Valley.

Who Will Win the 2010 Best Animated Feature Oscar?

jstrike — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:35:04 -0800

There are ten Best Picture Oscar nominees this year? Big deal, nobody cares about Best Picture... what's really important is the Best Animated Feature, everybody knows that. Who will win?

New Road Runner & Coyote Shorts from Warner: The Matt O’Callaghan Interview

jstrike — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:40:11 -0700

When Warner Bros. asked Matt O’Callaghan to return their yin-and-yang, would-be predator and hoped-for prey pair Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, to the big screen – only in CGI-shape and 3D-depth, O’Callaghan took a deep breath and delivered the goods – and fortunately for all involved with the production, without once resorting to Acme technology…

Disney’s A Goofy Movie (or at least part of it) lives – Live!

jstrike — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:39:52 -0700

Disney’s 1995 backup animated feature A Goofy Movie – and one of its songs in particular – struck a chord with a generation of school kids who are now in college. Fan videos and mash-ups are nothing new, but one student took it a step – or two – further…

Review - Hoodwinked Too: Hood vs. Evil

jstrike — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:43:06 -0700

Ever have a friend who was just the funniest guy you knew? Always coming up with great jokes completely out of left field, or riffing on whatever was happening at the moment? You graduate and go your separate ways, then six years later you meet up again. You can’t help but notice he dresses a lot better than he did in school. He still tells jokes, only now a lot of them are what he heard last night on Leno, or he’s quoting the catchphrase of the moment. It was fun seeing him again, but it’s not the reunion you were hoping for. That’s how I felt walking out of Hoodwinked Too!: Hood vs. Evil.