Category: Non-Reviews
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Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay I never read this or if I did I certainly didn’t pay attention to it. We were always reading something in class with titles that probably made sense for the story but just blended together in my brain. Where the Red Fern Grows, My Side…
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Trapped in Paradise
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay I love this movie. I tend not to re-watch things unless a friend wants to watch it with me or if the kids are watching Moana for the 257th time. There are a few exceptions I make though. Spider-Man: Enter the Spider-verse is one. I…
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Three Musketeers (The) (1939)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay Do you love Three Stooges movies but wish there were less stooges? Do you love the “Brothers” aspect of the Marx Brothers but don’t condone Marxism? Then this is the film for you! The Three Musketeers 1939 is a musical comedy parody of Alexander Dumas’…
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Wild Robot (The)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay This is a film for parents. More so if you’re adoptive parents. Or foster parents. Or step parents. This is a film for my wife. She is a step mother. I saw this film through her eyes. I must say I wasn’t expecting talking animals…
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Despicable Me Franchise
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay Despicable Me: IHOP was doing promotions for the first Despicable Me film. I had seen trailers but my wife at the time was oblivious to what these weird one-eyed pancakes were supposed to be. I had a two-year old and a bun in the oven…
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Tea for Two
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay Another film named after a song in the film to sell copies of that song, this is a film adaptation of the stage play “No-No Nanette”. That would have been a much more fitting title for this but sorry, there’s a profit to be had.…
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Peter Rabbit and Friends (The World of): The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny(1992) & The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1991)
(Inhale) A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay Beatrix Potter’s stories were published at a time when most children’s publications consisted of dreary moralistic tales of caution collected and published by the Brothers Grimm almost 100 years previous. Nothing against morals, or even dreariness for that matter, but good lord, Jacob! Read…
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Swan Princess (1994) and The Swan Princess: Escape from Castle Mountain
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay The mom. Queen Uberta, voiced by Sandy Duncan and then Christy Landers. She pretty much makes these films worth the watch. The rest is fine. No complaints really. John Cleese and Steven Wright are fun. I like Bridget from the first film who later becomes…
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Susannah of the Mounties
A Non-review by Professor Popinjay Could this be the last Shirley Temple film about which I meander incessantly? Dear God if that were only so. My wife insists I will LOVE “The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer”. I’m not sure if that’s certainty or some kind of threat. I guess we’ll…
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Starlift
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay Starlift is a semi-fictional account of how entertaining the overseas American troops came to be… okay that was an ambiguous sentence. American oversea troops did not become entertaining. I mean to say Starlift is a semi-fictional account of how overseas American troops came to be…
Professor Popinjay's Compendium of Perspicacity 