A cursory perusal of the reviews for Disney’s new remake of The Lion King reveals that even some of the pointedly negative ones will concede that it is, at least, a very visually amazing, even beautiful film. This is wrong. It looks like a dead dog’s asshole on a hot day. I have never been to the savannas of East Africa, but I have read enough National Geographic to know […]
When I started on this increasingly stretched-out marathon of Disney sequels, one of the few things I was genuinely looking forward to – one of the things that felt like might make the whole damn thing worthwhile – was arriving at the first DisneyToon release of 2004, The Lion King 1½. I’ll admit that my reasoning was immensely broken: the logic went that, since The Lion King was more or […]
In reviewing the direct-to-video Disney sequel, the critic would be well-advised not to spend too much time wallowing about in the question of, “how does this sit alongside the original film?” for that is a question with no happy answer. Better to do one’s best to consider the sequel on its on terms, and if it holds together as an animated narrative by itself, the more humiliating fact that it […]
I know that I have that whole thing where I promised see and review every movie that went to #1 at the US box office, and part of me feels like I really had ought to see the first wide re-release of a Disney animated feature in years and years and years. But I also don’t want to pay $15 for The Lion King 3D just so I can write […]
Some of you may recall that in writing my fairly dismissive review of Disney’s beloved The Lion King, I indulged in a lengthy anecdote about this one time that I got two custom-made, animation-quality drawings from the great Disney animator Andreas Deja. It had been my intention at that time to post photos of those drawings in short order, as part of my post-Disneython wrap-up, but lacking as I do […]
The second-highest grossing film of 1994, and at the time the record-holder for most successful animated feature ever released, The Lion King occupies a very special place in my development into the angry contrarian that I am today, for it was the first time that the twelve-year-old me had ever felt something that I’ve come to expect at least once a year: the palpable awareness that everyone – everyone – […]
Greetings and welcome back to Raspberry Picking, where we look back at Golden Raspberry Award winners and decide whether they really deserve to be called the worst movies ever. This time we’re going on The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, nominee for six Razzies, winner of three including Worst Picture, and such a memorable experience that it didn’t even manage to kill off any careers. I sure do get to take […]
Greetings and welcome back to Raspberry Picking, where we look back at Golden Raspberry Award winners and decide whether they really deserve to be called the worst movies ever. This time, we’re looking back at Gigli, serial murderer of careers, reputations, and romances, nominee for nine Razzies, winner of six including Worst Picture, and eventual nominee for Worst Movie of the 2010s. The Razzies can smell blood from many months […]
Greetings and welcome back to Raspberry Picking, where we look back at Golden Raspberry Award winners and nominees and decide whether they really deserve to be called the worst movies of all time. This month we’re off to Canada with The Love Guru, nominee for seven Razzies, winner of three including Worst Picture, and banisher of Mike Myers back to the bowels of perpetual adolescence whence he came. In this […]
Greetings and welcome back to Raspberry Picking, where we look back at Golden Raspberry Award winners and nominees and decide whether they really deserve to be called the worst movies of all time. This month, we’re having ourselves a little Striptease, nominee for six Razzies, winner of five including worst picture, and derailer of careers in exactly the way the Razzies always dream of being. I’m going to spare everyone […]
Greetings and welcome back to Raspberry Picking, where we look back at Golden Raspberry Award winners and nominees and decide whether they really deserve to be called the worst movies of all time. This month, we’re investigating the Sherlock Holmes “parody” Holmes & Watson, nominee for six Razzies, winner of four including Worst Picture, and tearer-apart of the partnership between actors Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly that had been […]
Greetings and welcome back to Raspberry Picking, where we look back at Golden Raspberry Award winners and nominees and decide whether they really deserve to be called the worst movies of all time. This month, we’re tumbling down the hill with Jack and Jill, nominee for every single Razzie and winner of…every single Razzie. We tackle some controversial issues here at Raspberry Picking. War, Nazis, feminism, Lindsay Lohan, Joe Eszterhas, […]
