Category: Non-Reviews
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It’s (insert literally anything), Charlie Brown!
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay Today’s Non-Review encompasses the following animated features: *deep breath* Right off the bat, I want to say, this article bears no reflection on the Peanuts comic strip. My incessant rambling is solely in reference to the features and short films. I know I have to…
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UHF
A Non-Review by Prof Popinja (1989) The original Weird Al movie! It’s a classic. One great moment after another! If you’ve never seen this… WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR LIFE!?! I cannot say enough good things about UHF! I know that’s an ambiguous statement so I’ll rephrase it. If…
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Boxtrolls (The)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (2014) Fun fact about Professor Popinjay (me): I experience the “uncanny valley” feelings when it comes to humanoid clay-mation. It’s when human looking clay stuff starts morphing that I get queasy, or when their mannerisms are a bit too natural looking. Freaks me out. Even…
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Tabernacle (The)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (2013) For the purpose of writing non-reviews I’ve been alternating between things I’ve recently seen and things I watched a long time ago and when I got to the T section of my lists, this documentary was at the top. Riveting. Well, I personally found…
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Fantasy Island (1998)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay I’d be surprised if anyone remembers this incarnation of Fantasy Island. It was very short lived with only one season. I don’t know much about the original show so I can’t really make a comparison. In fact this is the only version of the show…
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Sabrina 1954 vs Sabrina 1995
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay [Sorry it’s been a minute since a non-review. I’ve been doing some organizing and between articles I post I’ve been working on my Godzilla magnum opus. Also I’ve been delving into films to write about which I saw not recently but long long ago. Todays…
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Book of Pooh (The)
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (2001) Ah, the original Toy Story. I love poo. I also love Winnie the Pooh… For those who don’t know, a Pooh Bear is a particular bear characterized by a propensity for wearing shirts but not pants and maintaining a simplistic Pooh-centric worldview. There’s a…
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Racing Stripes
A Non-Review by Professor Popinja (2005) Not much to say about this. It’s a harmless impetus for discussion about race and discrimination. Fairly predictable plot. Some poop humor. Has an all star cast of talking animals which are always fun to determine who is who. Just the accomplishment of getting…
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New York, New York
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay (1977) I never turn off a movie out of disgust. If I don’t have the patience for something at its current run-time, I usually just watch it at twice the speed. I turned on this film because De Niro can be interesting. It’s interesting to…
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Bonkers
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay (1995) I’ll address the elephant in the room just to get it out of the way. The premise of this show is a little confusing because it deals with toons and non-toons (humans) but the humans are animated too. Once you understand the humans in…
Professor Popinjay's Compendium of Perspicacity 