The Greatest Movie EVER! Podcast
Reviewing only the finest films in the history of cinema. And robots, too.
Everybody loves kung fu fighting, and Kung Fu Panda is the Greatest Movie EVER!
Click on the movie poster or the title above to download our review of the film, featuring Sean “Hollywood” Hunting.
Review in a Nutshell: Combining humor, heart, and heroism, Kung Fu Panda is a great kung fu movie with a positive message. Don’t let the advertising fool you; there’s plenty of action, character development, and hilarity to be found here.
Gnash your teeth in agony, because Cool World is definitely not the Greatest Movie EVER!
Click on the movie poster or the title above to download our review of the film, featuring guest cohost Gerald Rathkolb from AnimeWorldOrder.
Review in a Nutshell: Crippled by a wretched script, bad performances, and a non-stop deluge of animated nonsense, Cool World mutates from an interesting premise into a movie so bad that even its creator has disowned it. It’s almost enough to make me feel sorry for Bakshi for foisting this kind of film upon the viewers of the world. Almost.
Polish up your grappling hooks, because Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is the Greatest Movie EVER!
Click on the movie poster or the title above to download our review of the film, featuring the official return of Sean “Hollywood” Hunting.
Review in a Nutshell: Despite a few flaws in the production values, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is one of the most respected and beloved adaptations of the Batman comic books. Because of the mature themes it explores, it is considered by many to be the apex of the Batman: The Animated Series cartoon series.
Dust off the lances and saddle up your trusty steed, because The Flight of Dragons is the Greatest Movie EVER!
Click on the DVD cover or the movie title above to download our review of the film, featuring guest co-host Chad “Winter” Clayton.
Review in a Nutshell: With a narrative borrowed from several different sources, The Flight of Dragons gets by more on its weird visual aesthetic than on the strength of its story. This film is another Rankin / Bass related emotional scar on my childhood.
This movie contains:
Evil Dragons.
Scary Wizards.
Everybody Dies.
Strap on your go-go boots and grab your mighty sword, because Heavy Metal is the Greatest Movie EVER?
Click on the poster or the movie title above to download our review of the film, featuring guest cohost Gerald Rathkolb from AnimeWorldOrder.
Review in a Nutshell: Uneven, over-sexed, and outright weird in places, Heavy Metal is nonetheless a unique animated experience. It might be even nerdier than T.R.O.N.
This podcast contains:
Terrible things, man, terrible things.
Boot up your identity disc program, because TRON is the Greatest (i.e. Nerdiest) Movie EVER!
This episode features special guest host “Joey Snackpants” from Green Mustard Productions.
Click on the movie poster or the link above to download our review of the film.
Review in a Nutshell: Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner are digital warriors in the computer world, rescuing the pre-Internets from the evil Master Control Program. It doesn’t get much nerdier than this.
Behold the Horrors that this Movie hath Wrought upon the Web:
Tron Guy. You’ve seen it. You can’t un-see it.
It’s all magic fairy dust and pink sparkles here, because The Last Unicorn is the Greatest Movie EVER!
Review in a Nutshell: The Last Unicorn is a beautiful and sophisticated children’s film that deals with some surprisingly complex themes. Perhaps the film’s greatest weakness is the soundtrack, performed by America.
This movie contains:
Pirate Cats.
Unicorns in the Sea Foam.
I don’t care how many ‘bestiality’ jokes Sean makes, I think Lady Amalthea is pretty.
SATAN.
ERRATA: Mia Farrow was actually in Supergirl not Superman; Peter Beagle is in fact still fighting for his residuals.
Get ready to wave some hippy crystals, because
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is (definitely not) the Greatest Movie EVER!
Review in a Nutshell: Technically astonishing but emotionally empty, Final Fantasy may have worked better as a video game rather than a full-length theatrical film. A weak plot and cliche characters diminish the power of the film’s extraordinary visuals.
COMING SOON!
“Who put this giant cheese grater in my spaceship?”
In the future Mars is a lot like Epcot, and Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
is the Greatest Movie EVER!
Review in a Nutshell: The Cowboy Bebop movie is basically an episode of the TV series extended out to feature film length. Whether that’s its greatest strength or its greatest weakness is a matter of opinion.
Be sure to check out DAPD-DX’s review here and Dave and Joel’s take here.
This movie contains:
The Patented Ed-in-an-Amphora(TM).
Faye Valentine, Being Useless and Getting Kidnapped. (Again.)
Psychotic Villains.
“A man who was living in a dream…”
COMING SOON!
Daryl Surat invades GME! for another round of ‘feeding time at the @#$%ing zoo!’
Watch out for crows with stalker tendencies,
because The Secret of NIMH is the Greatest Movie EVER.
Review in a Nutshell: A technically masterful work of animation by Don Bluth and company, the Secret of NIMH is hampered only by the inclusion of certain inexplicable mystical elements. As a bonus, it’s also guaranteed to traumatize the kiddies with frightening images of danger and death.
No screencaps this time. I watched the movie through Netflix’s ‘Watch Instantly’ streaming video service.
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