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Garfield's Thanksgiving (1989)
Excellent Holiday Film, A Must See for Families and Garfield Fans Alike
Here is one of Garfield's least famous and least viewed holiday specials. In all my years I have never see it on TV even when they broad-casted the Christmas and Halloween specials, so I was very thankful when it came out on DVD.
What starts out as another ordinary day takes a sudden twist when Garfield, seeing the daily calendar page has an appointment for him to go to the vet, rips the page off and sees the next day is Thanksgiving. Garfield explains to Odie that Thanksgiving is the day everybody celebrates having food by eating as much of it and trying to eat every turkey, pumpkin and cranberry in existence. He shows the Thanksgiving page to Jon who takes him out to the grocery store to buy lots of food for tomorrow. But instead of going directly home, they head to the vet, who announces Garfield must go on a strict diet, while Jon tries to get her to go out with him. Liz settles for coming over to Thanksgiving dinner, which turns into a disaster when somebody like Jon Arbuckle is left to cook it. Garfield decides if he can't enjoy Thanksgiving dinner, nobody will, but the tables turn when Liz comes and Garfield acts weak so he can eat. With dinner ruined, there's only one thing left for Jon to do, CALL GRANDMA, who loves a challenge, and what he's done to dinner sure as heck looks like one.
This is a very funny and classic Garfield cartoon that I highly recommend to every family and Garfield fan in general, perfect for Thanksgiving. 10 out of 10 stars.
Thanksgiving Family Reunion (2003)
Funny holiday movie!!!
Of all the National Lampoon movies this is definitely among the best. Mitch Snider, anesthesiologist, and his rich unappreciative family are in for the surprise of their lives when a letter arrives from long lost cousin Woodrow Snider. Woody invites his family to celebrate Thanksgiving with his family, and Mitch, longing for a true family celebration, is game and drags his reluctant family along with him. Mitch's expectations are far from what he gets when they arrive and find their cousins are hippies with a crazy son and a goth daughter. Their yard is a washing machine graveyard and their meals depend on which animal passes away first, and for Thanksgiving dinner, Woody and his wife Pauline are anxiously awaiting their TB ridden turkey to pass. Mitch and his wife Jill quickly become uncomfortable with many other things on their visit, including having to share a bedroom with a very intimate and freaky Woody and Pauline. Overall a very funny movie that can help you feel grateful at Thanksgiving for the simple fact that you're not related to this crazy family. 10 out of 10 stars.
The Flintstones' New Neighbors (1980)
Another great cartoon for children and parents to enjoy!
This doubled up with "The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone" make for an excellent video for children.
In this cartoon, Barney and Fred encounter a giant spooky house with vultures, bats, and a storming cloud filled with rain, thunder and lightning over the roof, being moved through the streets. Fred insists that the house must be being moved to the city dump, and at dinner tells Wilma about what he saw. At that exact time, Barney and Betty rush over to break the bad news to them, the same creepy house has been placed on the lot next door to Fred and Wilma. Fred insists it's bad news for the entire neighborhood, and the family must be full of sideshow freaks once they see a giant green hairy hand wheeling in the family's clothes including a 2 neck sweater, a shirt with 4 sleeves, and a pair of pants with 4 legs.
While Fred is skeptical about the new neighbors, Wilma wants to make a good impression so he, she, and Pebbles go over to welcome them to the neighborhood. They meet the Frankenstone family, Frank Frankenstone (who bares much resemblance but less malice to the Frankenstone monster from "The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone), his wife, Hidea, and their daughter Oblivia, and their son Stubby, who digs graves in the cellar. The Frankenstones explain the giant hand they saw was their maid, who then enters the room with a salted scorpion on a cracker for Fred. They also have a pet octopup named Creepy, who takes an instant liking to Fred, but the feeling is far less than mutual.
On the way home, Fred and Wilma see Betty and Barney going to meet them, and he insists it's against zoning laws to keep vultures for pets, something to which he'll look into first thing in the morning. First thing next morning, while Fred drives Barney to work, they pass by a giant sign pointing to the Frankenstone house that reads "This way to the freak show", which is revealed that Fred was up early in the morning writing. Barney likes the Frankenstones and Fred doesn't, so tells Barney he has to pick between the two of them. Barney replies he doesn't like people telling him who to and not to like, and he doesn't like people who play dirty tricks on their neighbors, so he sides with the Frankenstones.
On Washingstone's birthday, Wilma insists Fred take them up to Mount Rockcliff, where the Rubbles and the Frankenstones also are on a picnic and playing baseball. Frank sends an accidental foul ball into Fred's custard, and while Fred's busy telling Frank off, Pebbles wanders away after a butterfly, and ends up sliding down the cliff and landing into a pterodactyl's nest alongside 3 eggs ready to hatch. The Flintstones, Rubbles and Frankenstones then forget their petty argument and go rushing to save her before the mama pterodactyl returns. One egg falls out of the nest and the other 2 hatch, and when the mama pterodactyl returns, she mistakes Pebbles for one of her own babies.
So Barney sends the mama bird on a wild goose chase with the 3rd egg while Frank and Fred get Pebbles out of the nest. The mama bird catches up with Barney making a getaway with the egg in his car and picks up the car and starts smashing it when one of her already born babies falls out of the nest, so she goes flying back to the rescue, giving the Rubbles, the Flintstones and the Frankenstones the chance to make a getaway back for home. The mama bird returns her fallen baby to the nest only to find somebody has stolen Pebbles.
At home, Fred apologizes for his stupidity and starts off on a better foot with the Frankenstones. At which time, the mama bird shows up looking for her third baby, who hatches in Barney's car and comes right out of her egg calling for her mama, who upon seeing her baby, leaves the Flintstones alone and takes her baby home with her.
Another highly recommend Flintstones special for the whole family. 10 out of 10 stars.
The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone (1979)
A great film for everybody! Highly recommended!
This film doubled up with "The Flintstones' New Neighbors" has been a lifelong favorite of mine from many many years ago when I was little. Having to buy a second copy after the first wore out (finally) a few years before, it wasn't until then that I realized just how much I'd missed this childhood favorite of mine.
In "The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone", Fred, Wilma, Barney and Betty, in costume head for Bedrock's game show "Make A Deal Or Don't", (and watch as hilarity ensues when a police officer radios in seeing a man with chicken feathers on his head and a daisy driving a car with a bumble bee beside him) in hopes of getting on the show to play for the wonderful prizes. Barney's picked and wins $1,000 but has a choice to either keep it or take what's behind the curtain. Fred heckles him when he decides to keep the money, so the show's host Monty Marble gives Fred the same choice and Fred finds it's not so easy to give up a grand for an unknown prize, but he does.
The grand prize is a trip to a big monster bash in Rocksylvania at Count Rockula's castle which has been converted into a tourist hotel. Monty allows Barney to give back his $1,000 so he and Betty can go with them. Upon entering Rocksylvania they find it is an extremely creepy atmosphere, and are approached by an eerie man who drives them up to the castle, along the way tells them about Count Rockula who worked in his secret laboratory to create the Frankenstone Monster to scare away the werewolves in Rocksylvania. Count Rockula reportedly hasn't been seen in 500 years, but at any time could come back to life.
Fred is extremely skeptical about the spooky stories regarding Rocksylvania and the castle, and consider it all a gimmick, even when he and Barney go sliding through a trap door in the castle down to the laboratory and find the Frankenstone monster dormant. Climbing out the window to get back to the party, they leave just before lightning strikes and revives Frankenstone, who in turn enters a secret chamber to awaken Count Rockula. With Fred and Barney exhausted from the trip, Betty and Wilma also retire from the party early to see them to bed, to which they are absent when Rockula and Frankenstone chase all the guests and hotel management out of the castle.
When Fred and Barney sneak downstairs for a snack, Rockula inspects the bedrooms to see everybody is gone, but finds Wilma in the room where his own bride rested 500 years ago, and mistakes Wilma for the Mrs. Count Rockula, so he kidnaps her. However, even when he finds out she is Mrs. Fred Flintstone, Rockula is determined to make her his bride, even if that means making her a widow. From there, it's a race for everyone to get away from Rockula and Frankenstone, and find a way out of the castle and back to Bedrock.
This is an excellent cartoon for kids, and parents can enjoy it as well. It is especially perfect for around Halloween for a little spook. Highly recommended if you ever find this video tape available to buy. 10/10 stars all the way.
Clubhouse Detectives (1997)
Highly Recommended For Families!
Contrary to popular belief, this is a great movie, filled with mystery and suspense, and some comedy, ideal for families and kids especially, over seven years old most likely.
It opens with Billy Ruckman, a boy who comes off as being very protective about whom his widowed mother dates. He and his little brother, Kade, and his friends team up and act like brothers to scare off anyone they don't like, and it works. With her date canceled, their mother Vicky Ruckman, is invited to go see their neighbor, Michael Chambers play in an opera, which means Billy and Kade have to go along. Another woman in the crowd is interested in Michael's music, but not for the same reason as Vicky who is just intrigued by the beauty of the music.
Marcello Janowitz has come to town and finds out that Michael has been passing off the music she created as his own and has been getting paid for it. After the opera, she asks Kade to direct her to Michael Chambers' house, which is where she meets her fate. An argument over her music and the money owed and what she intends to do to ruin him, leads to her death - a murder, silhouetted by the blinds, which Billy witnesses from his bathroom window. The next day he and his friends band together and decide to find the missing body, hidden in Chambers' house before he gets back. An adventure filled with chaos and close calls ensues from there, and the Clubhouse Detectives are determined to find this murdered lady before they become the next victims.
Suspense is the key to this movie's terror that will snatch the viewers, kids and adults. There is no blood or gore, very little violence, very little if any language, a couple of crude lines (but what kids' movie of today doesn't have any and nobody complains about them?) All in all, a fantastic little murder/mystery for the family, bound to have your heart pounding until near the very end.
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer (2000)
Great Holiday Film For Whole Family
Now here's a cartoon that the whole family can watch, and nobody has to watch or listen for anything that little kids ought not hear. This is just a fun little cartoon that I think can really put the Christmas spirit into people. Here you have the Spankenheimer family, a nice family who have their own little business, and they care about making the customers happy as opposed to Cousin Mel's plans for just making money and lots of it. The genuine holiday spirit consisting of loving and caring and family really works Cousin Mel's nerves, but of all the family, the worst to her is Grandma because she refuses to sell out her honest business for money. Cousin Mel decides to ruin Grandma by adding an extra ingredient to Grandma's (already) "Killer Fruitcake" (as is explained in song, and a hilarious one at that). Grandma takes the fruitcake with her when she leaves home on Christmas Eve and is involved with a hit-and-run with Santa Claus, and the sole witness to this incident is Jake Spankenheimer, the grandson. Jake can't get anyone to believe him, and he must find Grandma before Cousin Mel sells the store to Austin Bucks, who wants to turn it into a run-of-the-mill business. With nowhere left to turn, Jake sends a request to the North Pole for help in finding Grandma, and hilarity and adventure ensues from there in the race to get Grandma back home and stop Cousin Mel's fiendish plans. A highly recommended Christmas film for the whole family.
Haunted House (1940)
Excellent murder/mystery piece
As a previous reviewer pointed out, don't let the title fool you. While this is a good movie, it contains no haunted house, but makes up for it with plenty of suspense. The title and a less than honest summary drew me into the movie, but I was not disappointed, in fact I'm upset that there aren't more great movies like this in circulation today.
Jimi Atkins wants to be a reporter, but he isn't thrilled at the way the press is making his friend Olaf out to be a murderer, which he is on trial for. Jimi's about the only person in the town that knows Olaf is innocent, but with all the evidence against him, has little luck in convincing anybody. Then a ray of hope enters when his employer's niece, Mildred, arrives for the summer. After hearing Jimi's stories of Olaf, and seeing him at the courthouse she decides he can't be a murderer after being so nice, and besides that, 'he doesn't look like a murderer'. So now Jimi and Mildred are eager to get on the trail of the real murderer, though in their detection, twice they seem to strike out in finding the real murderer to clear Olaf's name, but they won't give up.
They figure out the only place to find evidence that could clear Olaf and lead them to the real killer is in the house of the murder victim, which seems to be inhabited by something or someone else. They find out who the real killer is, and are in a race to find the evidence to back up their story to the newspapers. An exciting murder/mystery that'll have you on the edge of your seat and cheering for the juvenile detectives. 10 out of 10.
The Tale of the Bunny Picnic (1986)
Excellent film for everybody
I don't know how anyone could not like the Tale of the Bunny Picnic. It has everything, humor, excitement, adventure, suspense, and great songs that never get tired. It's a fun film that everybody can enjoy, with a good message that you're never too small to help and do what's right. The final song at the end is very powerful and has a good message to it as well. Contrary to most of today's entertainment, there is no reason to worry about what somebody in the show might do. This is pure, wholesome, fun family entertainment. This is the kind of stuff that kids of this generation should be watching. 10 stars all the way. Three cheers for Jim Henson entertainment!
A Bout with a Trout (1947)
Excellent cartoon
Little Lulu proves to be very entertaining and educational in this cartoon. Lulu decides to blow off school and go fishing instead, and there's a conflict between her good and bad sides. Siding with the devilish Lulu that insists, "Fishing for fish is her life", and ignoring the angelic Lulu who warns her, "If you don't go to school, you may grow up to be a mule", Lulu goes fishing and bumps her head reeling in a fish. She then dreams about all the great things that come from learning, and all the horrible possibilities of how her life might be if she doesn't. Lesson learned, when Lulu wakes up she's determined not to become a mule and she rushes off to school. A classic cartoon that should be remembered. 10/10
Going Bananas (1987)
Absolutely hilarious!
When my brother and I were little, we had a few movies that we would watch over and over and over again until we had them memorized because as far as we were concerned, they were the best, and "Going Bananas" was definitely one of them. By now he's outgrown it, but for me there is no getting past it, I love this movie. Not only is it an enjoyable story of a boy, Ben, touring Africa and making friends with a talking monkey (who can be more trouble than he's worth sometimes), but it's also hysterical to see the monkey pick on Big Bad Joe and get away with it. There is a bit of a graphic scene where Ben gets attacked by scorpions after taking a fall, but aside from that, it's an excellent movie for kids. If you enjoy a good laugh (and there's plenty to be found in this movie), I would highly recommend seeing "Going Bananas",