Category: Non-Reviews
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Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Merry Christmas
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (2003) WARNING: THIS ARTICLE IS NOT FOR KIDS. IF YOU’RE UNDER THE AGE OF 25, GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. Yes, I’m a 43 year old man with strong opinions on Strawberry Shortcake. Deal with it. First of all, what’s with this manifestation? They (gnomes) are clearly…
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Nanny McPhee
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (2006) Guh. I’m getting tired of commenting on really good movies. Where’s all the stinkers!?! Nanny McPhee is great. The screenplay was written by Emma Thompson so of course it’s great. It’s full of great lessons and great humor and great drama and plenty of…
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Seasons of the Heart (1993)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay This is not to be confused with the 1994 film of the same title starring Carol Burnett. Too bad too. Would have made this article a hell of a lot more interesting. This was a well made and beautiful story. It was just sad as…
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Machine Gun Preacher
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay Gerard Butler plays real life Sam Childers who, after getting out of prison and away from drug-dealing, eventually finds himself protecting groups of Sudanese children who are being taken and forced to be soldiers and, likely, other things far worse. Normally a plot about a…
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Rugrats movie & Rugrats Go Wild! (Aka Rugrats Meet the Wild Thornberrys)
Movie (1998) Go Wild! (2003) I used to watch Rugrats because it was on and I’d rather watch anything instead of doing homework. It was one of the first shows I remember seeing as a kid that made me think “Ew” because of the artwork. A lot of the shows…
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Land that Time Forgot (The) (1974) & The People That Time Forgot (1977)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay If you noticed the year immediately after the titles of this article instead of after the “by” line, that’s the code that lets you know there’s more than one of these babies. Or at least there’s a few remakes of “Land”, not so much “People”.…
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Phineas & Ferb
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2007-2025) The first time I heard the names Phineas and Ferb was from a group of my students. As speech impediments prevailed amongst these younglings, I was hard pressed to know what they were saying sometimes. So it took a minute to figure out who…
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Thunderbolts*
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (2025) As we finish Phase WGAS? and move on into Phase WGAS? we find a new batch of “heroes/miscreants” who reluctantly want to be a team almost as much as the audience reluctantly wants to see Disney scrape from the bottom of the barrel to…
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Kate & Leopold
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay I’ve ranted before on my thoughts regarding the time travel in this film. The short of it is: I think Kate and Leopold did it right. It did it better than Terminator, better than Back to the Future, even better than H.G. Wells’ The Time…
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Olive, the Other Reindeer
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (1999) If you like the Simpsons you may as well like Olive the Other Reindeer. It was produced by Matt Greoning’s Curiosity Company and even features Dan Castallaneta (Homer Simpson) as the voice of the disgruntled postman. Futurama fans might also catch the voice of…
Professor Popinjay's Compendium of Perspicacity 