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  1. Meet the Fockers -- Meet The Parents
    To say that the success of “Meet the Parents” – which topped the box office for a now-unprecedented 4 straight weeks in October of 2000 – was a surprise would be a huge understatement. Obviously, that raised the bar for the sequel to deliver the goods, so perhaps its not surprising that it took 4 years for original screenwriters Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg and returning director Jay Roach to make it happen. A good number of jokes are basically recycled from the first film, but many of them still seem to work – particularly where the “Fockers” family name is concerned. Some of the more slapstick moments fall flat and aren’t as “ha-ha” funny as they were the first time around, but they’re so good-natured and over-the-top that they’re still guaranteed to raise a smile.
  2. Scary Movie 2 -- Sequel
    It wasn't a classic or particularly well made, but at least Scary Movie was good for a few honest Scream-inspired laughs. That original outing looks like a masterpiece in comparison to this uninspired profit-driven sequel. Barely competent on any technical or artistic level, what comic ingenuity and genre appreciation was shown the first time around has been replaced by boorish vulgarity and a desperation to get the audience to snigger at anything, no matter how lame, crude or obvious. Once past the opening where The Exorcist is amusingly sent up by James Woods in a cameo appearance as a priest (a role originally earmarked for Marlon Brando), it descends rapidly into lampooning the recent remake of The Haunting — so close to an awful self parody itself that any gags at its expense are depressingly redundant. Everything from Charlie's Angels and What Lies Beneath to Hannibal and even The Weakest Link are raked over for minimal laughs in a shoddy satire it took seven screenwriters to produce. It brings new depths to the term “too many cooks spoil the broth”.
  3. Mickey Mouse -- Cartoons
    "Mickey Mouse" is a slang expression used as a diminutive adjective and adverb meaning small-time, amateurish or of inferior quality. A poorly executed construction project, for instance, could be pejoratively described as a "Mickey Mouse job". Presumably, this comes from the insinuation that the object or action in question was taken as seriously as a Mickey Mouse cartoon (that is to say, not at all). The term does not imply any actual connection to Mickey.
  4. Blues Brothers 2000 -- Dan Aykroyd
    Eighteen years after the first Blues Brothers film—and technically two years before the end of the millennium—Blues Brothers 2000 marks the less-than-triumphant return of everybody's favorite geeky, middle-aged, self-appointed white saviors of black roots music. In replacing the deceased John Belushi, co-producer/co-screenwriter Dan Aykroyd has opted for quantity rather than quality, employing not one, not two, but three new Blues Brothers to fill the tragic funnyman's shoes: jolly, obese John Goodman, lovable tyke J. Evan Bonifant, and token black man Joe Morton, who spends the first two-thirds of Blues Brothers 2000 fuming comically as a ruffled police commander before experiencing a roadside epiphany and joining the band. The first 90 minutes or so are abysmal: The dialogue is bracingly unfunny, the gags are obvious and mostly cribbed from the first film, the pacing is lethargic, and Goodman, Bonifant, and Aykroyd have zero chemistry together. It doesn't help that the filmmakers throw in a pair of superfluous subplots, one involving the Russian Mafia and the other involving a group of white supremacists, both of which do little beyond bogging down an already leaden film. Things pick up a bit toward the end, abetted by a string of relatively energetic musical numbers, but they can only partially redeem a film that's as pointless as it is perfunctory.
  5. Peter Lorre -- Movies
    Hard to Find Peter Lorre DVD/VHS Videos - The Movie Collector's Web site. Many titles not found elsewhere. Classics of the 30s, 40s, 50s, foreign, musicals, silents, TV shows, B movies, westerns, serials, comedies, dramas and more.
  6. Scary Movie 2
    Scary Movie 2, the opening is a scene of older white people singing lyrics that contain words that would normally be offensive (words much worse than those of Imus). Just one example of the joke that has been featured on countless other programs.
  7. Toontown
    Disney’s Toontown Online is the first massively multiplayer 3D online game created for kids and kids of all ages. Although not targeted to hard core gamers, Toontown is built on the principles of traditional Role Playing Games (RPGs) and Massively Multiplayer Games (MMPs). Its game play... has been expanded and modified to appeal to casual gamers and through several years of testing, Toontown has developed a core fan base among the gaming community. A non-violent game alternative, Toontown Online is a fun filled, ever changing online Toon world where players become Toons and join together to save the world from the evil Cogs. Toontown is under siege from an evil band of business robots called the Cogs. An unsuspecting Scrooge McDuck accidentally unleashed the money-hungry robots on the Town and they are attempting to turn the colorful world of Toontown into a black and white metropolis of skyscrapers and businesses.
  8. Clown -- Clowns
    A diminutive clown who's in love with the Clowness, the Little Clown is always ready to play tricks on his compatriots. Impish and lively, he is both an endearing companion and a force to be reckoned with. He readily criticizes the audience. The Little Clown is the trainer for the Small Horses, who next to him, appear very large.
  9. Shark Tale -- Dreamworks Animation
    Purely on a technical level, Shark Tale is a great looking film, with wonderfully rich and fluid animation -- it's a treat for all lovers of eye-candy. The voice acting is ... quite good, with plenty of stars like Angelina Jolie (Taking Lives) and Renee Zellwegger (Down with Love) to round up the supporting cast. Plenty of pop songs fill up the soundtrack, as well as sight gags, some obvious and some you have to look for. Everything appears to have been set properly to deliver another wonderful family animated adventure.
  10. A Star Is Born -- Esther Blodgett
    Esther is signed by the studio as a contract player, and she works at bit parts until opportunity knocks: a major production is about to be shut down due to an unexplained absence of the big singing star. Maine talks Niles into giving Esther a chance at the part. She auditions for the part, and Niles decides to take a chance on her. The film is a hit, and Esther is on her way.
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