The DM worlds are always so cleanly rendered -- uncluttered in a way that’s similar to the best Loony Tunes cartoons. There’s something pleasurable about the films’ velocity, idealized stylization, etc. You wouldn’t even need to know English to watch them -- the gestures, music and vocalizations of even the human… Read more

This the kind of incisive analytical skill that the AV Club is losing now that we’re suffering under the thumb of our new Paste overlords. Read more

I loved the original Despicable Me because it felt like they were trying to show that a single dad with non-biological children could be just as loving as a married parent with biological children— and because they were the focus, not the Minions, who I’ve always been ambivalent-to-negative about.

I have a similar love… Read more

I rode the ride at Universal Studios where you get turned into a minion. So from my unique perspective as a minion I must say bee do bee ba boo popa pah wah wah. Read more

See, now this really does feel like the AV Club of yore. An article where the writer has clearly had to suffer, significantly, for many many hours, in order to put together a retrospective that’s so much more insightful than the relative crap it’s covering deserves that the contrast is staggering. Read more

it’s one thing to have a parent show you a song as a kid, it’s another to have your association with that song be that it was a song sung by a cgi creature, is more my point. like, that song now becomes a kids song to them. Read more

My daughter thinks the minions are creepy and wants nothing to do with them. Read more

Taron Egerton sang an Elton John song as an animated gorilla and then played a live action Elton in the bio-pic.

I’m not sure what this adds to the discussion, but I find it so incredibly bizarre I’m shoehorning it in. Read more

Since many of the posters here (me included) are often criticizing the writing on the site, it’s worth saying -- this review is very well written. Read more

Man, some people are just not gonna forgive you for defending the Star Wars prequels, huh? Jeez… Read more

I’m too well aware of the new AV Club’s comment section’s M.O., however. Read more

I always make that distinction as well. For example, I think Star Trek II is the best Trek film but Star Trek VI is my favorite. Read more

I knew this was Jesse as soon as I saw him praise the fridge scene
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Fuck yeah, Hassenger’s back, babyyyyy. Read more

Also, as others have already said — nice to have you (and some of the other old-timers (no offense)) back Jesse. Read more

I liked that sidekick kid... but mainly because he was totally wearing a Miami Dolphins late 60's shirt. I mean, he was no Short Round (even if I didn’t like Temple of Doom).  Read more

Fair enough. Read more

Well, I feel silly now. But I agree about it being a good time to be reading the AVC - not because it’s better than it was several years ago - it’s not - but the reappearance of some of the well-regarded features and writers at least has this site’s quality moving in the right direction. Read more

I personally love the references to Tracy Bond in later movies, motivated or not. I love how they had the effect of nudging the viewer to remember that OHMSS existed, when it seemed to be completely disappearing from memory. “Oh yeah, James Bond was married”. I’ve watched the reputation of OHMSS grow and grow over the… Read more

If you don’t put Chipwrecked on top, I’m going to be very upset.
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