Prepare yourselves, ladies and gentlemen, for a cinematic catastrophe that somehow managed to turn a beloved childhood cartoon into an abomination of epic proportions. This Yogi Bear movie takes everything that was endearing about the original series and mangles it into an unrecognizable mess that leaves you questioning your life choices.
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear (1964) – Review
Hanna-Barbera ruled television animation for decades, from producing such classics as The Flintstones and Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! to more weird offerings like The Herculoids and Space Ghost and Dino Boy, but in 1964 they did the unthinkable and released not only their first theatrical feature but also the first animated theatrical film based on…
Robot Jox (1990) – Review
Long before Michael Bay delivered his version of The Transformers or Guillermo del Toro would pit massive robots against kaiju in his flick Pacific Rim, producer Charles Band and director Stuart Gordon would be the first filmmakers to bring giant fighting robots off the toy shelves and into the arena of live-action, sadly, unlike those…
One Dark Night (1982) – Review
If I learned one thing from watching 80s horror movies is that pulling a prank will most likely result in a bunch of dead teenagers. This is a cinematic trope that writer/director Tom McLoughlin embraced with his movie One Dark Night, an entry that pits a “Final Girl” against an army of the dead.
Tarzan in Manhattan (1989) – Review
By the late 1960s, while Tarzan’s adventures may have faded from the big screen he was far from ready to hang up his loin cloth, Ron Ely had made him a staple of Thursday night viewings and he had quite the splash during the Saturday morning cartoon line-up in the 1970s, but today we will…