Disney’s The Sword in the Stone was an animated retelling of the classic Arthurian tale. Sadly, it focuses solely on the period between Uther Pendragon’s death and young Arthur pulling the sword out of the stone, which is not intrinsically a bad idea, but the fun and fascinating stuff really doesn’t kick in until Arthur…
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Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays (2012) – Review
With Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays, we aren’t talking about another animated movie; instead, we’re talking about a Direct-to-DVD Christmas Special that simply runs a little no longer than an average episode. It premiered on the Cartoon Network before being released as part of the 13 Spooky Tales: Holiday Chills and Thrills DVD, and if not as engaging…
Terkel in Trouble (2004) – Review
Over the years, animated films have made leaps and bounds in both the quality of writing and the animation itself, ranging from the family-friendly fair at Disney to the more adult works of Ralph Bakshi’s Fritz the Cat and Wizards. But with the Danish animated film Terkel in Trouble, we get a crasser and lower-budgeted…
Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur (2011) – Review
What could be scarier than a rampaging dinosaur? Why, a rampaging ghost dinosaur of course, which brings us to the sixteenth direct-to-video Scooby-Doo movie, Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur. This particular outing is more action-comedy driven than many of the other Scooby-Doo movies, focusing on having bigger action set-pieces rather than scary atmospheric ones, but…
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) – Review
When a franchise deals heavily with time travel, each additional sequel can easily cause the wheels to wobble until they eventually fall off. Case in point, Terminator Genisys, but with Terminator: Dark Fate, producer James Cameron and director Tim Miller took a page out of Halloween (2018) by ignoring the existence of unwanted sequels and…