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Muppets: Most Wanted, as a film, lived up to expectations, but as a Blu-ray release it fell short. Picking up right after The Muppets ended we see the gang getting ready for a sequel and bandying about ideas. Enter Ricky Gervais as Dominc Badguy (pronounced “Ba-jee” because it’s French). He offers to help the gang…
Iron Man And Captain America: Heroes United is the latest Marvel animated offering that could be seen as a sort of extension of the “regular” Marvel cinematic universe. There are references to the films, not big ones, but enough for viewers to connect the dots. The timing, however, is odd. With the events of Captain…
I have mentioned my admiration for “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic” before, how I think it is a positive show for kids that is supposedly designed for girls but has much greater appeal. My 11 year old son watches it with his sister. It is well written with solid characters that are not one…
Batman: Assault On Arkham is an animated offering that is set within the storylines of the current Batman: Arkham video games, but one doesn’t need to have played those games to enjoy and understand what is going on here. Actually this works very well as a stand-alone story without the trappings of the video game…
I think my biggest problem with the DC universe is there is no cohesion. Even the comics famously retcon (short for retroactive continuity) major events and characters. Then the rebooting of what few film franchises there are, and while the animated films are good, they aren’t any part of… well… it’s hard to say. Usually…
Beware The Batman is another rebooting of a beloved and established character. Instead of going forward with a unified universe building on the Green Lantern animated series Warner Brothers and Cartoon Network instead cancel that show and reboot Batman. Only this time there’s a few differences to what longtime fans are used to. This might…
It’s a shame DC and Warner Brothers can’t seem to get their collective strategies worked out. “Green Lantern: The Animated Series” is a great example of how a show could easily have been the cornerstone for a new wave of series that would create a sort of unified universe that we saw from 1992 to…
I watched most of “Batman: The Brave And The Bold” when it came out on DVD in various volumes that were, thankfully, sequentially oriented. Now Warner Brothers has released the series on Blu-ray in season sets, starting with the first one. Here we get all 26 episodes featuring the Dark Knight teaming up each episode…
Do you remember rock and roll radio? Oh, wait, sorry, I usually have the Ramones playing while I type reviews. Do you remember Chip’s Challenge? I don’t. It was a tile-based puzzle game from about 24 years ago that was apparently developed by a guy named Chuck. He is, all these years later, sucked into…
You may not realize it, but King Kong vs. Godzilla is an important film. A landmark film. One that could even be considered as changing the course of cinematic history. And I say this all without a hint of irony. Godzilla first came out in 1954 and did moderately well enough to warrant a sequel,…