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Better the heck be doing well. The theater was so crowded, I had to move like 3 times not to wind up having to sit directly next to someone's kid.

The irony is, making Muppets isn't exactly cheap either. Ugh... I can't remember the quote from The Neighbors, but they had a very brilliant line pwning American Idol. It's like... jeez. Who cares anymore, right? The only people who became popular weren't even winners. And does anyone...

It was pretty good. You can really tell this was meant for a much younger audience than the original series. I like how to a minimum they kept the dubbed clips, focusing on the real subject matter. Kinda wish Moishe was in it more, though. And that Matzoh in the House thing really feels like...

Like I said in the other thread about these... Blind box comes from a poor understanding of Japanese toys, and basically the initial outsider popularity of Kid Robot figures before they became a thing (when they were essentially parodies of Very Japanese characters). Darn things don't even come...

Well, it is Sesame Workshop. Everything is rerun because it's expensive to produce. But Abby must have a big budget. It's very good, very detailed CGI. That doesn't come cheap. It's not quite Pixar quality, but it looks much more detailed than the average CGI television show.

Good CGI is expensive. And it requires just as much skill to program wire frames and texture. Sure, Max from Blue Tax and Ratatoing may be done on a budget of 5 bucks and a half eaten sandwich, but Green Lantern didn't lose a crapload of money for the effects being cheap. I'm sure that Thanos...

British preschool shows were all about stop motion. We got a tiny sample of them over here. I'm not one to demonize CGI at all. When done right, it looks amazing. But Fireman Sam and Thomas lost their charm as CGI. Thomas especially. The whole appeal of Thomas was that they were model...

That's strange. Must only be my area.

The first episode was leaked. It's pretty much what you'd expect out of the premise. Seems like they're going to have a single alien big bad to fight, so I don't know if they're going to do alien of the week on this one. Seems that most of the humor has been preserved, though the president...

Everyone beat me to it... I don't see them retconning Skeeter this movie, next movie or any movie in the future. She's a one off character created to add a female character to a mostly male line up, and she was specifically created over using existing Janice because it was, in fact, required...

Actually, CGI being cheap is kinda a myth, sometimes true depending. Movies that use CGI graphics aren't exactly the lowest production value things in the world (look at Transformers... or better yet, the money pit known as Green Lantern). The jury is out on how it's cost effective as a weekly...

My initial problem with Croods is that the huge "What could have been" hanging over the film, and how the Aardman version would have turned out. Coming out of the theater, I completely stopped caring. And elements were probably still there. John Cleese still got a Story credit. Also, I like...

Wow... it's on at 6:30 AM in my area. That's...that's just sad.

Celebrity voice actors are for adult bonus. And it's certainly not new. We only need to look as far back as Louis Prima as King Louie in The Jungle Book. The character was named after him. Not to mention even further back, Ed Wynne as the Mad Hatter. Not to mention how many celebrities...

Just found out about this. In my area (Boston), it will air about 10 and again at 10:30. Need I say, Check local listings?

You know, sometimes it's that movie you're kinda unsure that you'd like that you really enjoy. Croods was quite a pleasant surprise, and it really had a nice shot of heart near the ending. Belt did walk a thin line between absolutely hilarious and pretty annoying, and he came out charming...

It really stinks he didn't have the big merchandising revival that other 80's cartoons got. There's some T-shirt I never found in my size and that's about it. I really wish there was some big 30th anniversary stuff, but I severely doubt it. I'd love a remade version of the 1980's Gadget...

Hit forced everything to CGI. Fireman Sam too. Hit REALLY screwed up Thomas... yet the merchandise is actually accessible, so that's a trade off. But the CGI doesn't bug me half as much as how freaking dumbed down the show became. Yet, it isn't some cheap, crappy knockoff like Jay Jay the...

Those things are out of print now. No doubt scalpers will jack the price up. before hand, it was actually slightly cheaper to get the trades.

I remember the first series of Kid Robot toys (before they became a thing) were various parodies of Japanese pop culture icons... Gachaman, Doraemon... I swear I saw a Warsman parody somewhere. Very Japanese references that mostly never got here. I seem to remember Street Fighter parodies...