And that can often tie in with one of the others mentioned. Lately, a number of sequels (for an overall popular franchise or movie series) have come out when no one really asked for them and I'm sure that the largest motivator for it is hoping for an easy cash grab. Of course, it's understandable in general as the film industry is still a business and businesses want to make profits, but at the same time, if you only make an average or worse film, then chances are that they won't make nearly as much money as they could have if they just put in a bit of extra effort and money into the attempt. Look at Jaws for example. The making of that film went over budget several times, IIRC, yet the payoff was enormous.

Morgan Dakin so strue

That blew me away almost as much as what doug says about dr seuss books in his lorax and cat in the hat reviews!

with some movies it's clear motivation is money, but they still came up with cool material. i guess that what the points the critic say are less subjective, and apply for more movies

the whole ten yards

I did not like Terminator 2 at all. It was my least favorite movie in the series. Cash grabs are how movies are made now, which to me seems all of them are rather terrible. I wish people explored more; that's how good movies are made.

I know everyone has an opinion and all but saying T2 is the worst in the franchise is so laughable I think it's the exception

SMURS 3 AND SMURS LOST VILLAGE, ......................... ARE COMING. CRAP HOW MANY SMURS MOVIES ARE THERE!? (I ment smurfs, lol)

It's like the movie makers are trying to earn money...

Thomas Huffcutt Yeah look at Ice Age and GROWN UPS.

The Walking Dead is a good example of a show that should have ended a couple seasons ago. Same with Arrow, and this is coming from a fan of both.

Eternaldarkness3166 I never shaw the walking dead but i wath arrow a leat untill intill the end of the 3 season then it get boring as hell

Yeah, I kind of stopped caring about all of those shows myself too. I might finish them when they're all done one day, but for now I'm happy with not watching them.

Evil Dead 2 was better than the first one though and that was closer to a remake than a sequel. The Friday the 13th movies barely connect at all, but they're fun movies. Some sequels can work if they never plan to have a deep story to begin with

“not having a reason or purpose to make a sequel” That pretty much hits the nail on the head as to why many sequels suck. Plus after a certain number of sequels the franchise just becomes bland, cheapened & tasteless.

Only in Shrek movies *_i love Shrek 2_*

I think either when it's a parody, like Shrek or Deadpool, or when it adds to the relatability of a character. Take Clerks for example. Two bored shopkeepers talk about movies. It's an everyday activity for an everyday man, like we also had on boring days at work. When it fits in the movie's world, it can add humanity of a character. Tony Stark or Peter Parker would be also more distant without them mentioning movies, because references like these are part of everyday human communication. Where they don't work is when a movie is set to a world where these reverences don't belong. You don't mention Star Trek in Middle Earth, or Harry Potter in Warcraft, because they're set in a world where they wouldn't exist.

Mel Brooks did it with Spaceballs with doing it right I mean his jokes on Star wars and Star trek hell even on Transformers and Planet of the apes are timeless and have passed the test of time.

It's like how when The Smurfs did it, it's bad because they're from another world so why would they know pop culture references from our world? And then there's Sonic the Hedgehog, they showed how Sonic has been living in our world for years so it makes more sense for him to make pop culture references.

Well, my friends are certainly looking forward to it, and while I too am interested, I still ask the question "why?", as in "why now?".

Sammyyam CGI takes longer to produce, look how long Finding Dory took after Nemo,and it was a success

That's not the reason they took so long though. For Finding Dory they just didn't get the idea for a sequel for years. For the Incredibles 2, Brad Bird kept delaying it because he wanted to work on other things, and he wanted the perfect script and story.

Great or not, nothing in Finding Nemo pointed at a sequel, Dory may have been a good film, but totally unnecesary. When a sequel comes out SO much longer after the original, it screams cash grab. I mean who the hell asked for a sequel about that forgetful blue dut? I liked Finding Nemo, but at the end.... I felt that the story had been told, that there was no loose ends and no reason to expect more. Same with Incredibles. Sure you can argue it takes time to get good ideas.. but still, I can't help but feel a tad suspicious.

Roughly the same gape between Toy Story and Toy Story 3 so fingers crossed.

MegaSoulHero Better than the others. And hey! They managed to get a cameo from the president... *sobs*

MegaSoulHero home alone 2 was good.

Marshadow the Magical To be fair, he wasn't our president at the time!

Jayson Blackhair good but not as good as the original. i think thats the point.

MegaSoulHero me to I don't get why people hate it so much.

I prefer it to Dark Knight

Dark Knight is the bomb!!!

@@letvirtueshine9223 especially the last one if you catch my drift

It's a difference of opinion. A lot of people look at me like I'm a freak when I say I don't like any of those three Batman movies. So It's completely understandable that you like the one a lot of people hate. No movie is loved by everyone.

I feel the same way with Return of the Jedi. Not as great as Empire but it’s still a good as movie!

The Matrix ended on a To Be Continued, it was always going to at least get another movie.

I say what they should’ve done best was made one movie instead of two and kept it as a dualOlogy like Terminator one and two and Godfather one and two Which they sadly got a third film years later

Ermmmh, nope - i sense a bandwagon oppinion - Matrix Reloaded is objectivelly a good sequel, as in, you can literally see the Original then go to the Sequel and you'll actually catch a sense of quality going higher in the sequel - try it yourself once -. I may even Arg Fight you - and i know comment was made in 2018 but still - for it - Inserts Coin - You're ooonly correct on Revolutions, it was a bland ending.

Another example, the terminator sequels(Excluding the second one)

Idk about the series specifically [since objectively there are pretty good Matrix sequels] I will agree. Making a sequel to a movie/story that had lots of unanswered questions is okay. One that wrapped up well is bad. Especially when you have to say a bunch of stuff the previous movie said/did is a lie, was a false narrative etc. Now that's good for movies that end on a way too positive note for the world/story they're telling. Sure, it's good to say "That was all a lie/dream/the plan that didn't work" - and even the reverse of too dark/etc and it being a lie is also good. But to take elements that were totally fine and made the story end and go "Nah this is bs now" just to write a new story with the same world/characters is bad story telling. I mean they could literally say "Despite the happily ever after ending, it turned out that because of unseen thing no one could've predicted, our happy ending was cut short" but to just be like "actually the happy ending never was" is a bad way to write a sequel. And too many movies do this, Star Wars Prequels have this issue for example. Example of one that COULD do it [but definitely shouldn't be made] is The Graduate ... due to lingering too long [or so the story goes] on the scene of the couple laughing, we see the smiles fade. That changes the story to them realizing what they just did. So we know they DON'T get a happy ending due to that subtle bit. Theoretically [again no one should] a movie could be made about how that ending leaves them stuck in the exact life they were trying to avoid having. A cautionary piece about how sometimes that impulsiveness and decisions like that can lead exactly to the world you were trying to avoid, when maybe the path you were avoiding would've taken you where you wanted to be. That one small scene leaves it up to a potential story to tell HOWEVER it also tells it's story perfectly and it doesn't NEED to be followed up.

Shamal Jifan actually I'm pretty sure he didn't spend that much time with the homeless women

Shamal Jifan the homeless lady scenes were only after he got chased out of the hotel.

+Shamal Jifan "homelessness lady" Hmmmm.......

Yeah, I thought those scenes in the apartment were from Home Alone 1.

***** There is no scene whatsoever that even comes close to being in an apartment in the first Home Alone. Not one. There's never even an apartment building in the background of any scenes. How did that even get in your mind? Not even one scene. Not one. Not even one.

You know what grinds my gears. Emojis. I got yo message though.

Sodapopred Stop Motion He probably would be there already, had he not moved to Blip TV for that brief period of time. And if he hadn't retired the Nostalgia Critic character some years back.

Its coming...this year for sure

Sodapopred Stop Motion oh shit, you're right! I'm actually surprised

I think more people watch on the website. Maybe because they don't have they other shows they used to.

Are you saying sequel movies like Shrek 2 and Rush Hour 2 are worst?

Giovanni Orellana I feel like he has, hasn't he?

+shadowlinkbds I've never seen it. The movie, that is.

הדר הלוי, he has

Worst Disney sequel ever!

***** He could review it in the future.

Gojirawars 03 i second this

I'm glad I'm not the only one who dislikes it.

Yes

Gojirawars 03 I mute the video at the begining

Gojirawars 03 i personally like the one with a stick figure nostalgia critic and crappy animation with kazoo music

A good example of this in my opinion is Finding Dory.

same thing goes with remakes and remakes have been around for decades so its nothing new

Example Terminator 2 and Godfather part 2

Will Huey star trek 2 the wrath of kane

Jemuel Palomo I never understood why people think the 2nd is better than the 1st the acting is not as good the Change of pace is bad, and Edward Furlong was a bad choice

^

They do have a fanbase, but they are widely criticized.

Gamma Beta Alpha GBA Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise?

Well I am used to being a minority.

There was also a documentary that largely focused on how many people didn't like the film, "The People vs. George Lucas". Also, not all of the people who waited in long lines to see the films wound up liking them.

its macfarlane he always do the same thing over and over and over again. he is the walking definition of shock value

motor4X4kombat intresting fact: seth worked a little on power puff girls (original) and Johnny Bravo (im sure that one doesn't seem shocking when ou think about it) Yeah Seth was actually, a part of the origin of cartoon network. And he had a couple short vids on that segment they had where they let animators make short cartoons wih relatively no producer influence.

Nicholas Polkey yep

self plagiarism is style.

Ted 2 also recycled tons of family guy jokes.

Don't think they grasped that concept of NeverEnding Story, could have been a cool way to do many different stories and scenarios with different actors and main characters, but they went that route instead.

There is a movie that people waited 14 years for a sequel. The incredible 2

Well, Sin City is based on a comic series, so there were many other stories that could be adapted to the big screen. It's not exactly a franchise that had nowhere to go after the first.

Halo 2,Doom 2,Panzer dragoon orta,modern warfare 2,bioshock 2,Mega man 2,Legend of zelda majoras mask,metal gear solid 2,sonic 2,Starcraft 2,Team fortress 2,counter strike global offensive,assassins creed 2,Star wars battlefront 2,Resident evil 2,silent hill 2,Super mario world, star wars rogue squadron 2,batman arkham city, marathon 2, and timesplitters 2 are all either the most popular or in the top 5 of their series.

LOSTEAD8R i hate to be that guy but are bad video game sequels out there like duke nukem forever

I would counter with a "not all the time" but you're not half wrong. A lot of the best games in many popular franchises are sequel games. Heck, the best Disgaea game is Disgaea 5, the best Tales of Game is often considered to be Vesperia (which is something like the seventh title), the best Sim City is Cities: Skylines (hurr).

Damian Freeman vesperia over symphonia? In which universe is this true?!...... Seriously though I haven't played vesperia so I may have to give it a try

Damian Freeman symphonia and vesperia over Besseria? nope that don't follow your rule. besseria is the latest

Aussie Eighties but going from PG-13 to R is a pretty smart strategy with the time between the original and the sequel, as the fanbase by the time it's releases, is older

That's...actually a good point about Jar Jar. I'm actually surprised not a lot of Star wars-related media tackle that.

Yeah, Jar-Jar had a terrible first impression, but he has his good moments, and over time, he’s genuinely gotten better. He’s had some great moments in the CG Clone Wars series.

Yeah, it's always best to write out how ever many sequel or trilogy scripts you can so you aren't forced to have to make one later.

Very excellent type up here! Just wanted to say that... Another comment I saw on here that made a good point was that its easier to enjoy a sequel if you haven't seen the original...I think this is very true of DBZ for instance. People who grew up on just DBZ tend to like it better than people who watched it from DB first.

Well said!

Take the Alien franchise. First one was horror, but James Cameron decided the only way to make a sequel work was for more action and heroism, and he was right. Contrast with _Taken 2_, where, using their genius minds, it is decided that the best way to develop the franchise is -- get ready -- _another takening!_

Brookie Cookie IT PREDICTKED THA FUTAR

Who didn't know Donald Trump was in Home Alone 2?! I thought that was well know.

Ugh Trump!

Lol

What does politics have to do with the topic and subject of this video?

TvSonic Serbia There’s only one Return okay and it ain’t of the King, it’s of the Jedi! LOL 😂

It depends on the film, in my opinion. I'm generally not the biggest fan of a clipless review if I haven't seen the film in question, but if I HAVE seen it, then I'll watch it because I'll have an idea what I'm getting into.

Angel Castaneda The clipless reviews use to be much more hated than they are now.

Because they're used more sparingly. In the later half 2015, they were all over the place.

That and the team's comedy/chemistry is better. And like Awesome said, it's hard to get into a clipless review if you're not that familiar with the source material.

I like the editorials more than Critic's recent reviews with clips!

Maybe because animated films carry the stigma of being "just for kids". Which is a shame. A great story doesn't even need to be that complex.

Don't forget Shrek 3. The best Dreamworks movie.

IMO, Dragon 2 wasn't nearly as good or as long as Dragon 1, but I do agree with Shrek 2 and Kung-Fu Panda 2.

Yes, how to train your dragon was full of cliches. Shrek movies were all good (the 3)

Sorry, no

Yes it was better than the first one

Yeah I liked it better than the first one as well.

It was good

As a movie in general, I agree that it is good. But as far as sequels go, it's run of the mill. To me, Home Alone 2 is a Super Mario Galaxy 2 kind of sequel; while something like The Empire Strikes Back is a Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask kind of sequel. Both are good; arguably better than their predecessors, but one of them is certainly trying harder to be something more.

It's a blatant cashgrab

Great is a strong word, but’s definitely better than the sequels that came along later

Nah

Ryan Luster I think,since NC uploads once a week and he was sick too, idk. time zones and jet lag, moonbeams. and that's why

I don't mind since this is one of my pet peeves about Hollywood. I can never get tired of someone criticizing how unimaginative, agenda-driven, and overpaid they are - using "free money", government favors and tax-funded largesse to make otherwise unprofitable projects "profitable". It's not a generational bias; the baseline quality of work is really low no matter what generation you're from - which is unsurprising since if you allow mediocrity to survive (let alone prosper), you end up getting more of it, while the true achievers get the shaft.

Appropriately, this is one of Nostalgia critic's greatest draws; the dumbing down and "globalization" of Hollywood means that as Hollywood has attempted to "appeal" to billions of people, and as it no longer has the motivation to produce a quality product, that quality has nose-dived as you might expect it to. We are long gone from the days when Sylvester Stallone was in poverty, was offered $20,000 for his Rocky script, and bet on himself by refusing to sell out (even though that was an unimaginable money at the time, not to mention to him personally), and demanded that he be cast as the lead. Nowadays, a script writer and actor like Stallone would have no negotiating leverage whatsoever, would never have seen the light of day, would have had his work stolen by thieves like Spielberg with his army of lawyers, would have been replaced in his own script by sub-standard Spielberg cronies and actors, would never have been denied licenses needed to film by government cronies, refused tax-write-offs and audited by Hollywood's political friends in Washington, etc, etc, etc. Ask yourself, does the corporate culture of Hollywood do this because they have to? That they need to turn the market into this socialist wasteland that mirrors of the Soviet Socialist Republics ...because if it were up to the market, they wouldn't survive, let alone prosper?

*would have been denied licenses needed to film by government cronies. Btw, by driving up the cost of production, any minnows who try to break into the industry are de-facto cut out of the market unless the monopolists allow them to...aka the minnows have no negotiating leverage. Operating licenses, permits, insurance, political contributions - and these are not just contributions as tracked by the FEC, but billion dollar industries of buying influence through media channels and under the table bribes, which people like Spielberg and other corporatists are notoriously blase about. If you or I spent anything on close to the millions Spielberg spent on Obama's campaign, we'd be audited, our personal lives would be held under a microscope, and we'd be forced out of business or lose our jobs in the real world. It happens all the time, has been happening for decades now in fact, but the most public attention this ever got was when the IRS got caught during the Obama administration against some right-wing groups, after which the head of the IRS and FBI promptly destroyed the servers, the laptops, and any other evidence (including refusing to investigate the destruction of evidence, never mind the original crime). People in Hollywood after getting away with that episode REALLY ratcheted up the shenanigans, discarding any pretense of spending millions (in fact, collectively billions) in their political advocacy, while the rest of Americans are shut out of the political process.

It's very effective.

cooldude56g Im watching this video while eating Peking raviolis. Delicious, the sounds of NC pooping satisfies me, knowing my body is going to turn these Peking raviolis into poop as well.

+RemixedVoice My beef sandwich is becoming better and better.

I have an iron stomach, you could shit right next to me while I was eating my brown beef soup and I wouldn't care.

NEXT JANUARY HAS TO BE EQUAL MONTH!!!

Jkop Well, isn't every product technically made to make money?

+Shrek The Ogre it's cash in. No effort, not trying to make a good product, just not caring at all about making a good product.

kyotheman69 Rumplestilskin in Shrek was the shit tho

kyotheman69 I actually think Shrek 2 did just about everything better than the first one, but I see your point. While some focuses shifted and they added in a lot of typical sequel stuff, core character development is similar, among other things. (aside from Shrek being a bit more patient with people)

Jkop so true and we horror movie fans know. When we get a good horror movie there is a seque. right after and most of the time its a huge let down. Ether because the sequel is just a cash grab. or the story is not interesting .

Jay Dog you know, if we keep complaining over how we love Clerks 2, Doug just might make a video about it. let's keep it up so he can explain why he doesn't like it.

Well the film itself as said isn't as good as the original but its damn close. I praise it for its re-watchability, and the quotability. The first film however only has the second of those two qualities. The only thing in my opinion that the first film has against the second is the fact that it was Kevin Smith's first. He made that film on a shoestring budget of 230,000 USD. All be it. it is in black and white but it pulls it off. The first relies on dialogue more than just showing than telling. Like in the second film, the montage scene when Becky drives off somewhere and Dante goes to follow her. There is not one line of dialogue in that scene aside from the song. Even without it you can see the thought that their in, in that scene.

YES! Admittedly, I'm one of those who likes the live action Grinch film, but I totally understand why most others older than me don't (I was at the right age at the right time when it came out). And I totally understand why Doug and Rob don't like it, they've explained their reasons, and I respect it. However, he keeps digging at Clerks 2, but hasn't gone into depth as to why he doesn't like it. I would love to see a full review or a real thoughts on it. To me, the film shows our characters as they naturally progressed over a period of years (meaning, not really at all), at a turning point in their lives and friendship. They spend the day dealing with it in there own ways until they finally have to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and weigh it against society's expectations of them. Also, I freakin love Elias! Bless his heart!

But that's just it. They don't do crap for 10 years, but in a single day suddenly get their shit together? Hi, we're 32 but still live and act like we're 16.

Yes...but that one day happens to be the day before their lives are set to change forever. Dante is about to leave and get married, forcing his still immature friend to come to terms with what comes next as well as forcing themselves to look at how they've spent their lives so far...basically the whole jail cell conversation

Chrispy Cine No, Critics said that some people will defend Batman and Robins, The Dark Knight Rises, and Batman vs Superman. But nobody going to defend Son of the mask, Blair Witch 2, and the Exorcist 2.

@@haitrieulienthanh9851 I've seen people defend Blair Witch 2. Cecil Trachenburg, for example.

@@haitrieulienthanh9851 Son of The Mask is not a Fucking Sequel!!!

And don't let anybody change that. But you must admit that it didn't break new ground, particularly

Pacmariomoimusic Productions It does have a lot of repetition with the first movie, but there were some new things in it that I legitimately enjoyed, like the interactions with the hotel staff or all the creative uses of that tape player thing.

oh it was definitely derivative but it was still extremely enjoyable.

I'd say Home Alone 2 is a rare exception to the rule. It told the same story basically, but the first story was soooo good, you could do it again. I'm disappointed that they didn't do a 3rd time with the original cast.

I love Home Alone 2.Every sequel after it was mostly crap.

Mista Anonymous Because the first one sucked.

People cared doing The Matrix Sequals. People cared doing the Star Wars Prequals. People cared doing the DC movies cinematic universe movies.

Chris M Blasphemy. Batman Begins was great.

Batman Begins was okay.

Terminator 2.

Ok boomer

I'm a millennial, and I thought Home Alone 2 was mediocre. Home Alone is still a good classic movie though.

He does sometimes, like in his Sibling Rivalry review of Batman v Superman he does acknowledge that a lot of people like The Dark Knight Rises and that he respects their opinions. He tends to way overgeneralize whenever he's in Nostalgia Critic mode.

While I enjoyed the Dark Knight I am not one of those people who dislikes or hates those films. But, I am also not one of those people who think they are the end all that be all, but I'm one of the few people who enjoys the DCEU movies, so.. again, take my comment or leave it for what it's worth. Personally, if it entertains me, I'm going to like it.. hence why I still like Batman & Robin, yeah it's stupid but it keeps me entertained for a while and that's all I care about.

Batman v Superman was a repeated movie FYI, a nearly identical animated adaption was around years before Dawn of Justice which was clearly just an attempt to set up Justice League

Most people don't think that Dark Knight Rises was great, but they don't think it's terrible either. I'm mostly disappointed by it myself.

Oh a lot of people do. It’s super divisive

Yup most of the fanbase likes the movie. So I don't get why he keeps bringing it up

Nick Starkey welcome to the Internet.

I felt the same way when I heard a podcast the other day where someone said "Why the hell was War Horse nominated for best picture when nobody liked it?", I'm like huh wha-! Really? No one liked it!

A movie doesn't have to be liked to get nominated. Here's an example: The movie "Druids" was nominated fro "Best Foreign Language Film" www.imdb.com/title/tt0199481/

MAXZONE47 I'm not questioning that, I'm just suprised that no one liked it and that I went six years without knowing that, assuming it's even true that no one liked it.

It isn't. I have yet to meet someone who didn't like it. I'd actually say it is funnier than Clerks.

Keith O'Neil 2

Clerks 2 is SO BAD MOVIE. That's why Kevin Smith's fans asking Clerks 3 for many years.

Even Anne Frank could tell you it was a good movie.

I think Doug needs to stop over generalizing based on his own opinions. He tends to do that a lot especially as NC.

The Dungeon Master There's only one return, and it's of the Jedi. Not The King.

Based Will Anne Frank could've told you that.

the movie actually did show the characters growing up and was funny. I don't see how it could be bad.

Honestly, I prefer it to Dark Knight a little bit. I said a little bit, don't kill me!

@@namelesschildren823 so do I

Me too

Who hates that movie?! I don't even get it!

Yeah, I always loved that movie, I never heard of it not being liked before. Everyone I know who's seen it, or I've shown it to, likes it. At worst they don't get the humor, but Kevin Smith films have a specific humor so that's to be expected.

He mentioned in his 11 worst sequels video that he didn't like it because the original was a low budget indie classic, while the new one has a bigger budget which gives the movie a different feel from the new one, which I feel is a fair point. But I have to contradict NC on this one, that despite this Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier put alot of effort into the movie and the humour and style still holds up to the original, with mainly a few bits I feel shouldn't have been in there, like the abc dance a long montage

I liked Clerks 2 as well, but I can see how people might not like it. It's humour if for a specific "generation" of film goers, that is those of a similar age to Kevin Smith who will get all the pop culture jokes and the specific type of humour his Jay and Silent Bob characters personify. "Stoner 90's Culture"

Clerks 2 is funny, but it's not the movie clerks 1 is

Hal Jordan whatch his bum review

Call Me Knuckles I really don't like The Dark Knight Rises. It was a bloated mess that was not a worthy ending to the Dark Knight.

I love it, but I do think it's the worst of the trilogy.

I thought it was pretty bleh.

The Dark Knight Rises was the weakest of the trilogy. Batman was mostly a pussy in this, and i don't want to see Batman being a pussy. The rising was not so interesting as it should have been. An Bane started of good as a villain but was really wasted later. AND it was full of plot-holes. Not really a bad movie but a bad weak exit.

+Kool Keith Productions Terminator 2 is a fantastic film, but I get the feeling that if it was made nowadays I don't think it would've been praised as much. I can just imagine people nowadays whining about stuff like "WAAH, IT SUCKS! WHY DID THEY PUT IN AN ANNOYING KID TO BE THE MAIN CHARACTER? THEY TURNED THE TERMINATOR INTO A GOOD GUY AND THAT RUINS THE WHOLE FRANCHISE! THE HAPPY ENDING SUCKED! THEY ONLY MADE SARAH CONNER A BADASS COS THE FILM MAKERS HAVE SOME FEMINIST AGENDA TO MAKE MEN LOOK INFERIOR!"

I like "Home Alone 2" better than the first film for one reason. Tim Curry. Enough said.

How? THE TERMINATOR was basically a horror film with 2 people who fall for each other while escaping from a killer robot. TERMINATOR 2 was a more action-driven film where the villain is now the hero and we follow him, a mother and a son.

I kind of feel like you can watch Terminator 2 without watching the first one and still be OK with it and be able to follow everything that goes on in it.

Bowmaj 86 yea i have to agree a lot of people today can be satistifide with nothink

Same with slenderman. The fad died years ago and now they're making a movie about it? They're 10 years too late

The Simpsons Movie was worth the wait, I think. Probably the best thing that happened to The Simpsons since 2000...

no

Tino 2008 YES!!!

Tino 2008 oh my fuck I never saw that movie but it looked so weird to the point of terrifying me

THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN

Tino 2008 Fun fact: A good portion of Disney's current lineup of teen celebrities started in that bizarre pile of crap

Essentially why I liked Star Wars 3 as a kid... Now I look back and think "uhh...why did I like this?" :O

In fairness to SW 3, both the expanded universe and the novelization of ROTS actually fix a lot of the movie's faults.

Seirra Moon *"If every porkchop were perfect, we wouldn't have hotdogs."

thirteenfury its been a while since ive heard it

Seirra Moon No worries! I wish the new episodes would bring up that motto again.

Seirra Moon fuck that trash

Kimani Wilson-Hunte It is.

Kimani Wilson-Hunte It is. It really, really is. Wait, is it not out in America yet? Is that why Doug didn't talk about it? I did wonder, it seemed so apt.

PixelBro64 yep. It doesn't come here for another month. It sucks

I'd say its main problem is that so much time has passed and the characters haven't changed a bit. While it's understandable for someone in their early 20's to have no direction, it's pathetic when in their early 30's. The film tries to make this point, but it still doesn't do anything to indicate the characters experienced any growth in 10 years, but now I'm supposed to believe it takes them a day to finally get their shit together when they've apparently shown no such ability for a decade. That's not realistic growth. That's making the sequel 10 years too late. The original was pretty much designed to appeal to people in a certain age range. The problem is those people moved on by the time of the sequel and the people in that range just see a movie about older people behaving like they're still younger.

Carl Rood I can agree with that completely! While it's still my favorite of Kevin Smith's movies, I can see where some flaws are (same with their cartoon series). Personally I do know of such slackers like the for in that movie who hadn't changed much since high school even into their 30s so that wasn't as far-fetched, but the ex machina of them having the money to suddenly get their lives together was a in-joke from a whole other movie that wasn't even mentioned until the end of the film was the biggest negative. I hadn't seen Clerks 1 before seeing Clerks 2, so the gripe that little had changed for Dante & Randell wasn't as apparent to me, but both movies do ultimately have the same lesson to them which is another legit complaint

Carl Rood The thing is, they *didn't* get their shit together and grow in the end in the same way people normally do in films. They went right back to their old jobs doing the same exact thing, they simply owned the place instead of working for someone else. There was personal growth, but most of it was about finding happiness in a monotonous job they could enjoy instead of one they hated. They owned it instead of being controlled by it. It's a hell of a lot more realistic than a fleeting "turn your life around" ending, in my opinion.

See, that wasn't the feeling I got from them at the end, so I can't agree with you that there was no growth at all because we both interpreted the closing scene differently.

Oh yeah, that I will totally agree with!

Nope. This is why alot of the comments are confused that's he's using it alot.

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Exactly. It's actually depressing to see there's been no growth in a decade. The guys in Mallrats did more maturing in an afternoon. It becomes difficult to believe Dante and Randall would suddenly get their shit together in a day when they've made no such attempts for 10 years. Randall still acts like he doesn't give a crap and Dante's still preoccupied with being what he thinks society expects him to be without ever taking the time for figure what he wants.

That's how real life is tho. Most people don't change and get stuck in a dead end job. Most people don't advance up the career ladder, things happen, like for instance the quick stop burning down, making them have to start from the bottom again since they have no skills. Also other things can happen like being laid off, or being fired. My mother was a manager at Sam's club until one day they laid her off. She had worked her way to that position after 10 years. She was laid off and had to start all the way from the beginning since she didn't go to college, now she unloads trucks at Sam's club. Average people usually end up starting over several times in life. The movie seemed pretty realistic in that aspect to me.

carl rood we find out that they did try. they went to college and messed up by doing things that didn't matter. So it's not like they did nothing. Basically we see them try, and what we see is the end result, the compromise. Dante was trying to get married and move on too. The film shows a happy compromise to moving on, and being happy with it. But we learn that they had attempted to do so previously, and the marriage is also a part of trying to advance in life. the only bad part is taht as beautiful as rosario dawson is, she clashes badly with how plain and normal the two original main actors are. It adds an obvious artificiality.

Agreed!

Hey I just posted that up top, and scrolled down to see you guys. Neat.

That's Because TMNT 3 was a major let down: Casey Jones Babysitting, Time Travelling, Samurai Turtles, and a friggin' Prophecy. Classic TMNT 1 & 2 were way better.

SS5 Goku XV Legend I'm a HUGE fan of TMNT and I totally agree with all of this but it still wasn't in the video

Well I meant to imply it was so bad he didn't wanted to be shown on video again lol

Oh ok :)

Worse: two decades and change.

Yeah Dumb and Dumber 2 was horrible. In the first movie they were lovable idiots. In the second they were assholes imo.

Same with the 3 Stooges movie.

@@Eternaldarkness3166 I kinda enjoyed "Dumber 2"

Seriously he should do a review so I can understand what the problem with it.

Yea I mean it's not that bad it's a good movie not as good as the first but still good

I mean in the first movie their kind of assholes but I see what you mean

Oh I will agree that randle sucked in that movie

I can see what you mean but I can get past all of the characters besides randle

Amen!!!

He'd have to have read the book to do it justice

The Wiz If he can review a novel-based movie next though, it should be the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie since the cheese touch scene became a meme thanks to The Lorax movie (previously reviewed by NC in 2014) becoming a meme.

Aside from being different from the source material, I don't recall anything the Percy Jackson movie did wrong when I watched it years ago. I think the dialogue and acting was stale, probably. The story...too linear? Like, no surprises, really? I dunno, I just recall that the movie was boring for some reason.

Buck Wade It pretty much insulted the book(s) by existing. If they made the movie and made the story actually like the book, it would be a much better movie. And I agree with you, the movie is pretty fricking boring. There's a reason why they decided to stop making the movies, since they pissed off the fans so much(and I guess they didn't have enough money or something to continue)

War Horse Why do people keep reacting like a movie adaptation that doesn't follow the source material is shocking at all? Disney's Hunchback movie is vastly different from the book (less complicated, less darker), but it still has the spirit of the book, just in the form of a kids movie. I don't recall (from YEARS ago) the Lightning Thief movie embodying ANY of the spirit from the book. Not: -The well-developed characters -The dry humour that made the characters really relatable -The really crazy and overwhelming fights where characters REALLY had to use everything they had to win.

Yeah I definitely find Home Alone 2 way better and more memorable. The first one was on the other day and only remember the scene with Tarantula...eek!

No. The original was better. The hate toward the sequel (Yes, THE sequel. All other HA films never happened in my book) is unjust. The same cast doing largely the same things, but it's not just that. The stakes are higher, the cause more noble, the violence a bit edgier. Geez Louise! The clip that Doug shows with it being repetitive doesn't underline his point, it undercuts it. Harry and Marv anticipate that old trick, seem to outsmart Kevin, then end up getting blasted anyway! That's solid Spy Vs. Spy type material.

I always liked Home Alone 2 better than the first movie.

Although I do think Home Alone was more original, Home Alone 2 stood up well reason being you had the same main cast and same creative staff. Now once Home Alone 3 came around and except for John Hughes, the casting and creative staff were totally different, things took a nosedive!

I like "Home Alone 2" better than the original for one reason. Tim Curry. Enough said.

Yeesh, I know why, I'm just saying that it's halfway through February and there's no normal episodes yet.

Sequel month was delayed because Doug got the Norovirus.

Reda Fox *sigh* nobody reads the replies anymore..

Sequel to the Sequel month

TheZapingNinja Infinity it got delayed because dougy got a bad case of the suds

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Tinista Lokinion Forever oh

Ismael Ciulla what?

Tinista Lokinion Forever what were you saying earlier?

It sucked.

Thanks for not being cancerous and giving a genuine comment.

You're right, I remember A New Hope having Luke missing and everyone searching for him, a Stormtrooper defecting and eventually joining the good guys, the villain idolizing Darth Vader and wanting to continue his legacy--Wait, none of those things happened in A New Hope.

Matthew Hipps That’s because TFA didn’t do the same thing over again.

josephlegrand Again, that’s because TFA didn’t have this problem.

josephlegrand “uh, when the Stormtroopers burn his home because they’re looking for him?” Something that doesn’t happen in TFA. “So only 1 of those three things is actually new.” You didn’t even name three things. And barely any of the things you did name even happen in TFA.

Matthew Hipps Thank you for confirming that you did not watch TFA, because it’s not even close to the same story, or a remake of ANH. I literally have a comment on this same thread showing that it isn’t.

Ryan Does Things yeah. Bane was insanely good!

Ryan Does Things yeah but it's no batman or batman returns