It's bad by traditional standards, but it was a fun kid's movie. It's not a likely scenario, but that's what's good about it.
While it did rip off two movies, it didn't hide from the fact, and it didn't take itself too seriously like many rip-offs today do.
It will help explain a lot of things you didn't get from watching the film alone.
The whole "drug sequence" was Bowman going through the stargate. The monolith, like in the past when man was an ape, sort of helped advance human evolution (In case you didn't know, the monolith was put in a certain place by omniscient aliens, and moved when they made an advancement.). What he was seeing was different worlds and oddities in the universe. What happened at the end was Dave dying, and being reborn into an omniscient being.
This isn't the only kid's show in the 90s that pushed the boundaries. Remember Rocko's Modern Life? A restaurant was called Chokey Chicken, One episode they're playing a game with a monkey poking his butt out and they're all holding paddles, there's a lot of hippo lady boob shots, etc. I also remember Sponge saying "pissed off" on Salute Your Shorts.
You sick sick man. lol
I never thought I'd be disturbed by Lion King. It's kind of like the film's message is,
"When you experience a tragedy, don't deal with it. Repress it and sing a song."
...Well, Simba does go back to fight Scar, so I guess he does deal with it.
I don't like the look Tim Burton used for this. I was hoping he'd make it more in the style of Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, or Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.
It looks too dark and plain, when the play was a nice disturbing mix of whimsy and macabre.
I loved all the TMNT movies (Yes, including the 3rd one.), but I think they should've used a little person to do an action scene with Splinter. If not that, have him do some Liu Kang fireball move on him or something.
I liked this one and am impartial towards the two of you, but I must say that AVGN has you beat on this one. One of the major factors was that a hack named IrateGamer already did this game. I couldn't stop thinking of that bastard the whole time you were reviewing. Plus, even if IrateGamer didn't already smear his shit on this one, how could you possibly beat "Ricky 1"? The film was so bad that it can't even be enjoyable from an ironic standpoint (like with the 60s Batman).
I will give you this. Your new material is much better and fresher than AVGN's. I don't know if he's trying too hard, not trying hard enough, or is just running out of ideas.
