Blank Check - Nostalgia Critic 

I remember back in the 90's when "A Million Dollars" was just shorthand for "All the money".

"I... I'm afraid he's missing out on his childhood." Says the dad who at the beginning of the movie was punishing him for not being a businessman like his older brothers by denying him his own room, making sure he didn't have any fun at the theme park, and only showing an interest in his life when he was employed by a rich man with, as far as he knew, prospects to become a rich investor. Father of the year, ladies and gentlemen...

SERIOUSLY, HOW THE HELL DID THEY GET AWAY WITH A WOMAN KISSING A BOY ON THE LIPS!?!

The Dad is the kind of person who would tell a poor person "Just work harder and you'll make more money!"

"You're on thin ice" HE WAS HIT BY A FREAKIN CAR lol christ

According to this movie, paedophilia, exploitation, and stealing are A-OK.

This movie would have been better if Preston was trying to impress a girl his own age (a girl he has a crush on) and not some adult woman. That kissing scene is absolutely disturbing.

That birthday kid, judging by his clothing, has no business being a bully. Look at all those colors! He's such an easy target only the cheapest bullies would bother with. The rest of the kids just have to act "Extra nice" around him or his parents are rich

"I want something." You're grounded, kid.

Re-watching this review in honor of the late Miguel Ferrer, who played Quigley in this movie. R.I.P.

I love how they kept the kiss when this film was brought to Disney+

Y’know, wouldn’t it be a lot easier for Preston to keep this illusion up if he just had Henry the limo driver pretend to be Mr Macintosh? That way he doesn’t have to keep making excuses about why nobody can go see him?

They could've at least had a blank check (pardon the accidental pun) and animate a hand writing the film's title on it.

"Not even Donald Trump could have a house like that..." Little did he know... xD

Wow it seems like everyone lost in this movie. The little kid preston grew up to get a neck tattoo and get arrested for beating up his girlfriend. The Hot FBI agent got a rare brain disease and partially paralyzed a year after the release of this movie!

Watching Nostalgia critic for so long when I was younger makes me nostalgic for nostalgia critic

Tone Loc is the guy that made the masterpiece of music known as Funky Cold Medina.

Some of these films where the kid, "learns a lesson to value his family," make some sense. Some don't. Like this one. Fuck the problems, fuck the dad. Preston has every right to feel mistreated, undervalued, and put upon. He is. Its the dad who needs to learn a lesson.

The 90s was certainly an odd time for Disney. On one hand, they got a team of animators creating some of the best animated films of all time. On the other hand, it’s full of out of touch executives making bland live action shit that does nothing but try to be so “hip” with the kids.

The Goldfish is the best actor in the movie

that house would be worth way more than 1 million

You know what'd been interesting addition to this movie? the fact Steve Jobs appeared in it. Like "Where's Mr. Macintosh?!" "Oh, i'm over here" and he'd appear, i'm surprised they didn't even have a try at a joke like that or such.

I've seen this review several times and I still don't remember what happened in this movie. That's how bland it is

I bet they only thought the kiss scene was appropriate because of the "women can't be pedophiles" stereotype.

NOSTALGIA CRITIC!! TONE LOC is a grammy nominated rapper who had a hit album in '89! He is one of the MOST nostalgic 2-hit wonder celebrities ever! 😅😅😅 he even has a song at the end of Ace Ventura "Ace is in the House." He was basically a cameo-type actor for the people in the early 90's who remembered him for his music. Everytime we (young 80s black kids at least) heard his voice or saw him in a movie, we got excited 😅😅 like hey! It's Tone Loc!!

He's invited to a birthday party of a kid he doesn't like. That's unfamiliar to you. What kind of a childhood did you have.

Chank Bleck is very fitting for a title

BUTT TWO FACE is my favorite Batman villain.

5:29 "what I want, is an acting coach to help me sound convincing. And a script doctor to write plausible dialogue."

Disney used to play this a lot. Come to think of it, The Disney Channel played a lot of borderline questionable things.

That kiss...!!! Ugh!! Reverse the genders and that shit would never fly. Double standards much?

3:50 Oh hi Siskel and Ebert. (Read in Tommy Wiseau voice.)

18:44 he's like 8 at most. So in 6 years, he'll be 14 *at best.* This is *still* creepy as hell.

Nostalgia Critic helped me though a rough time in my life. Always be thankful for these older episodes.

MacinTalk: "My name is Macintosh." Me (Doing Big Mac (From MLP: FiM): "Eeyup."

You could say... THE CREATIVITY WAS LEFT BLANK. badum tshhh.

You Gotta Admit The Limo Driver’s Great at Giving Kids a Real Boost of Confidence

"Come back to see me in 6 years" Uh...11+6=17. STILL NOT OKAY.

1:25 The sad thing is that the cimatographer is Bill Pope, the guy who would later shoot the Matrix movies. He had already done Darkman and Army of Darkness by this point. You think he would come up with a more clever shot than this.

A 7 year old boy and a 32 year old FBI agent... still a better love story than twilight.

18:39 According to Wikipedia, this kid is eleven. So in "six years" he's going to be seventeen and that woman is going to be (based on the age of the actress at the time) thirty-seven years old.

"And their officially more dysfunctional than the Manson Family." I think the Griffin Family have that distinction.

Am I the only one who absolutely hates this kids voice? He keeps sounding like he's trying to whisper seductively!! It is so annoying!!

*Better Ending To Blank Check* *Preston’s dad finds out Preston illegally forged the check* *Him, the rest of Preston’s family, Quiggly, and the cops bust down the door and see Preston just standing there* Preston’s Dad: Preston! You committed check fraud to get 1 million dollars?!? Preston: Yup Preston’s Dad: That is it mister! You’re- Preston: I’m what dad? *Throws stacks of cash to the police officers* Preston: You guys still gonna arrest me? Police Officers: *Looking at their money* Oh um, I guess not *The cops leave* Preston’s Dad: You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me *Preston looks back at his dad and smiles smugly* Preston: Y’know dad, it turns out you were right, money really is the root of all happiness, cause you can do whatever the hell you want and no one will touch you as long as you have it *Preston walks up to his dad and hands him a stack of cash* Preston: *Looking up at his dad* Will they? Preston’s Dad: *Looks at the ground, sighs and shakes his head* No Preston: *Smiles* That’s what I thought *Preston makes his way to the door, stops, looks behind him and gives everyone the finger* Preston: Kiss my ass bitches *Preston turns around and leaves*

How old was Preston supposed to be in this movie? I remember really liking it when I was a kid, but now as an adult I can see some problems in the movie. The dialog right before the kiss was pretty bad too, she's going to date him in six years? If he's nine now, which is generous, then he'll still only be 15 in six years.

Movies like Blank Check and Milk Money really imply a lot about these disturbing Hollywood writers back then. Granted, it's still bad nowadays, but a lot of them were just blatant about their creepiness to make movies like this.

18:50 a FAMILY picture

The only thing I remembered about this movie was seeing the kiss. Many, many years later, and it's still disturbing as hell and further.

7:12 “don’t make me sing about how I’m gonna eat ya” 😂😂😂😂classic line

RIP Michael Lerner (the banker; he was also in Barton Fink and Elf)

R.I.P Miguel Ferrer

Every time I see Preston's Dad, I think of McFlemp from the Adventures of PETE & PETE episode "Farewell, My Little Viking" (yeah, I know, same actor), and expect him to go "Hey, no pressure!"

7:45 Ah, the 90s, when you could buy a castle for $300,000.

Kinda wish the dad was arrested at the end of the movie. Havent watched the thing myself but how neglectful and uncaring he is towards his son who lost the bike in a car accident makes me wish CPS was called for investigation.

I know I commented 3 times already.... but, am I the ONLY one weirded out that DISNEY is setting a romance story between a FULL GROWN WOMAN and a FREAKING CHILD??????! O.O There is so much WTF we're they thinking with this story....

One of the co-writers of this movie was the author of the "Save the Cat" series of books about screenwriting, and it was a smash hit!

This was my favorite movie growing up. Just saw it again today since then. Disturbed to my core!!

13:28 Sounds a lot like the Kingpin to me. "You embarrassed me in front of her!"

I remember actually liking this movie when I was like... 5? It was long enough ago that I looked at the main character and thought "I wonder if I'll ever be that cool when I get to be his age". I was of course nowhere anywhere near able to understand the movie's plot and can only remember the colorful montages and hilllllaaaaaarious hijinks. My barely functioning brain did, however, certainly appreciate those bits of whimsical fantasy that can only come from a movie about a kid with enough money to do anything.

There are many problems with this movie. The one thing I could never get passed is that in this kid's movie, a child is severely abused by his parents and it's never addressed. They actually make it sound like Preston is greedy and his parents are decent human beings who are in any way fit to raise a kid. The kid doesn't need money. He needs to call child protective services. Sadly, money can't solve all your problems, especially if you're a kid and can't live on your. If money is going to in any way help with the problem, this kid needs a lot more than one million dollars. He's going to need a place to stay when he runs away from home. He's going to have a lot of trouble ever getting a job if there are no adults in his life who teach him anything useful. Not to mention all the therapy and support he'll need. A million dollars won't cover that. If he only knows how to solve his problems using money he's going to need billions of dollars to live a very traumatic life. There are a lot of kid's movies with bad morals, but this is by far the worst. Sadly, too many people believe it to be true. Money is everything. You can buy love. You can buy happiness. Being a good person doesn't matter.

I loved the Michael Jackson joke, is it awkward that I didn't know he died until 2012?

These are my favorite NC reviews the horrible 90s family comedies

"I don't even think Donald Trump could have a house like this!" You mean the White House?

That kiss was gross. I threw up a little in my mouth.

RIP Rick Ducummon, Miguel Ferrer, and James Rebhorn.

I remembered my over excited friend telling me the synopsis about this in 93. Watching it yesterday, it's got a bit of the Great Gatsby feel to it but was sad about the limo driver needing more in his life than Preston . The guy lined his pockets at buffets. He's the one who needed help.

Critic when are we getting a Nostalgia Critic review of one of the greatest trilogies of all time, The Mighty Ducks!

The dad in this movie was such an irredeemably greedy and heartless piece of shit that it did not feel gratifying at all seeing him make peace with his son. You just feel bad for the kid and wish that he didn't have a father who only held respect for people who were making money.

this is like a G rated boku no piko

The Dad really needs to tone it down with Ayn Rand

Could you imagine if the end of this film was like Scarface?

"So I guess the moral of the story is, 'Bad deeds always go unpunished and money is the root of all happiness'." Sounds like Mitch McConnell's favorite movie.

Well at least the kid probably had fun filming this...

If you look closely, there's actually something a little strange on Preston's expenses log. A payment for Plan 442. Of $300,000. Back before he even got his dad's company to start doing work on the castle. Yep. He's officially a far more caring member of the family than his douchebag dad. Maybe the dad changed his tune at the end of the movie, but Preston didn't need to have some major realization to start giving a shit.

Shay: Is he an entrepreneur? Preston: No he's American 🤣🤣🤣

Fun fact, Tone Loc who plays Juice here, was 28 years old at the time. Another fun fact: he was borh on March 3rd, the date of my birthday, and I'm 28 now.

I'd have found it really funny if the cops at the end arrested her immediately after that horrific kiss

“MY NAME IS MACINTOSH.” Poor Apple. They were already going through a big slump in the mid 90’s, but being in this god awful piece of shit? Good god, that’s just terrible.

It's pronounced Tone Loke. Like saying Loki but without the "ee" part. That's how you say Tone Loc's name

Is no one going to mention that the screenwriter for this movie, Blake Snyder, wrote "Save The Cat," a bestselling guide for writing marketable screenplays, and he references this cinematic failure very frequently in it?

Blank check certainly feels like a 90s film.

I actually really liked this movie as a kid, I'd watch it every time it was on. I have no idea why.

This movie is actually a guilty pleasure for me, minus the kiss at the end. Amazing how they got away with that.

To think I actually had to WATCH this movie at school...

How tf did he get in trouble with the bike thing? HE GOT HIT BY A CAR. what???

You know a film is bad if not even Miguel Ferrer can't save it. And he even makes NCIS: Los Angeles watchable.

CAN YOU PLEASE DO THE MOVIE "HEAVYWEIGHTS"!

10:33 "I am the Nostalgia Critic and I approve this message."

The guy who wrote the screenplay for this movie also wrote a series of books on screenwriting.

I...I kinda found the limo driver funny....

I Like Juice’s License Plate Shirt

18:49 There is no way in goddamn hell they would get away with this today. In fact, the entire romance subplot would also not be allowed today!

As Number 2 pointed out, a million dollars isn’t really a lot of money and it wasn’t that much in the early 90s when this movie came out. It would’ve been a little more believable if the check was for $20 million.

A woman kissing a little kid?! Call the FBI!!! Oh, wait, she IS the FBI. Well crud.......

Was there actually a voice synthesizer application like that on old Apple computers?

Karen Duffy kind of looks like Tamara.

Let it be known that someone thought it would be a good idea for a grown adult and a child to have a romantic kiss. What has the world come to?

God.. I feel bad for Taylor Dayne.. her career was really in the shitter if she agreed to put her song on THIS

Hey! The Limousine Driver guy is the same actor who was Cindy's father from Scary Movie!

At that age it was hard enough for a cashier to believe I legally owned 10 to 20 dollars let alone a million xD