Pretty hidden gem of a show with their huge disagreement over Leave it to Beaver and their hilarious trashing of Masterminds, using their famous line of two wasted hours.
My dad rented Leave it to Beaver from the video store when I was a kid. He was so excited to "relive his favorite show" and was excited to share it with us. Yeah, he wasn't too happy.
The movie looked like garbage even when I was a kid. I never saw it. I did watch the old show on TV Land. It's one of the few black and white shows I can stand.
Leave It To Beaver was a great television because they portrayed everyday life so incredibly well. The emotions worked because the characters grew on you episode after episode. The cast developed incredible chemistry. The extended cast came in an out of the series episode after episode and were so integral to the series. How do you condense that down into a movie?
Her star burned out pretty quickly. She started getting a rep around Hollywood as someone who "won't blow you for a role in your movie". That will not get you much mileage out there, apparently.
Ebert tends to be more forgiving. I don't know why they bother to do remakes, though. Whatever it is, the fans of the original will hate the new one. (I haven't been able to watch the new Lion King, for example, despite the great special effects, because I heard it was a scene-by-scene, line-by-line remake. How utterly pointless.)
It's not pointless. It's an adaptation into live-action. That's not a remake. When you're adapting something, it should remain faithful to the source material and not change things just for the sake of change.
That Leave it to Beaver movie is AWFUL, really surprised at Roger. We had a middle school trip to DC, and they rented one of those buses that has TVs in it and our teacher put in a VHS of that movie, and I swear to god jumping out of the bus would have been preferable to watching it.
For the last two decades, my brain somehow merged the movies Masterminds and Angus into a single movie. Honestly, I think the idea of the overweight, insecure kid outsmarting Patrick Stewart is much more entertaining.
I've never seen Shooter McGavin NOT playing a bad guy. I don't think he fits as Ward, and Gene clearly saw the miscasting. Absolutely shocked Roger gave it a thumbs up; the movie stinks.
Ebert always reduces his reviews of family films, or movies he perceives as a family film on two criteria: 1) Is there a well behaved kid? 2) Is there something that can be exaggerated as being too scary for children? Unless "1" is a "yes" and "2" is "no", then it's a thumbs down.
Leave It To Beaver was a dumb movie i give it 1 star out of 4 thumbs 👎 Money Talks was very funny thanks to Chris Tucker thumbs 👍 3 stars out of 4 Mimic thumbs 👍 was an effective suspense film 3 stars out of 4 Masterminds was pretty goofy i give it 1 & a half out of 4.
