Category: Non-Reviews
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Mr. Mom
A non-review by Prof. Popinjay I can really relate to this film but I scoff at his troubles with a mere three children. I’m happy to say I’ve not become entranced with day time television but Phineas and Ferb are close personal friends with whom I share secrets and personal…
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Mountain Men (The) (1980)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay The only redeeming element of this movie was the back and forth banter between the two very surly mountain men. I could have easily watched an hour and a half of just that. Unfortunately they had to add a plot to this film and I…
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More the Merrier (The)
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay I watched a delightful film the other day called “The More the Merrier”. Filmed in 1942, it stars Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, and Charles Coburn. Charles Coburn is that elderly fellow you always see in old Looney Tunes wearing a monocle. Or did you? I…
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Monkey King: The Legend Begins & Monkey King: Havoc in Heaven’s Palace
I just finished 西游记之大闹天宫 and it’s sequel 西遊記之孫悟空三打白骨精! These are live action adaptations of the Chinese fables of Sun Wukong. I know it’s not for everyone but I love watching movies in their original language. Rarely are the dubbing voice actors of high caliber abilities and I feel it detracts…
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Monkey Business (1931) & Monkeys Go Home!
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay Naturally, watching films in alphabetical order means I see many films in a row with similar titles such as today’s entries. These two films however shared more in coincidence than just the title. Okay so some jokes were a little dated in both and there…
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Monkey Bone
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay I hate when they (gnomes) put someone on the box art who is only in the movie for five minutes or less. Imagine seeing Cate Blanchett on the Cover of Hot Fuzz. You didn’t even know she was in that movie did you!?! ANSWER ME!…
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Monet: Shadow & Light
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay Imagine Tommy Lee Jones playing Claude Monet while putting no effort into emulating a French accent aside from the occasional “Entre” and “Merci” and you’d have a close facsimile to the performance phoned in by Stuart Hughes in The Artists’ Special: Monet: Shadow and Light.…
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Mighty Joe Young (1998)
a Non-review by Professor Popinjay …or as I like to call it, King Kong Lite. This is a story of a not quite small but not quite so big gorilla. He’s bigger than the average gorilla but smaller than your average giant gorilla. He’s medium. He’s the littlest giant. That…
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Mighty Ducks 3
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay ——-Who would have thought a far reaching cash grab would actually have a fairly original story line? WHO!?! ——-While sports movies tend to be focused on powerful emotions and diligence, they tend to suffer in the courtroom drama department. Courtroom dramas are easy to crank…
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Mighty Ducks 2
A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay This movie was a cookie cutter of the first film just with higher steaks. The allusion to the Bad News Bears is so strong they even went so far as to use the standard excerpt from Bizet’s “Carmen”: “L’more es un Oiseau Rebelle” in the…
Professor Popinjay's Compendium of Perspicacity 