Animated
Franchise Fred Reviews The LEGO Movie 2: Building Upon The Original
The LEGO Movie was a stunning achievement in franchises. Phil Lord and Chris Miller were able to use a branded toy line to tell a story about the way we tell stories, and satirize franchise tropes. Sp...
Review: Sony’s Animated ‘Spider-Man’ Is Truly Spectacular
Right off the bat, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse wants the audience to know how much fun the film plans to have with 55+ years of comic book history. Here’s a film that understands there have also...
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Review – With Great Humor Comes Great Responsibility
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse is the best Spider-Man movie since Sam Raimi was making them. It’s more fun than any of the live-action ones because of the liberties it can take with the animation f...
Ralph Breaks The Internet Review: Ralph Has A Viral Case Of Sequelitis
Wreck It Ralph was already a franchise movie since it incorporated all the classic video game franchises. Now that it has its own sequel, Ralph Breaks the Internet connects to even more franchises, bu...
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Turns 25
Scott Menzel takes a trip down memory lane as he looks back at the Nightmare Before Christmas which is celebrating its 25 anniversary today.
Review: ‘Smallfoot’ Finds New Path For Missing Link
Animated films like Smallfoot tend to fall into a particular category. It’s not a bad movie, and it’s made on a big enough scale to feature a lot of talent and strong 3D animation, but it feels like a...
Wendie Malick on Bojack Horseman, This Is Us and Hallmark Movies
I’ve been watching Wendie Malick since the comedies Dream On and Just Shoot Me, but lately I’ve come to know her as the voice of Bojack Horseman’s mother, Beatrice. By season four, Beatrice began suff...
TCA Interview: Matt Groening on Disenchantment and the Apu Debate
Matt Groening came to the Television Critics Association summer press tour to present his new Netflix animated comedy Disenchantment. The characters of Groening’s fantasy kingdom bear more than a stri...
Review: Teen Titans Go! To The Movies is Funniest Film of the Summer.
Scott Menzel reviews Teen Titans Go! to the Movies.