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  • “An Appalling Exercise in Misjudgement”

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    I have a new movie to check out: The Queen’s Corgi. It is a Belgian animated film about Queen Elizabeth’s corgis. A heartwarming European family comedy?

    It has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with reviews such as:

    • “Deeply unpleasant and in no way suitable for children.”
    • “An appalling exercise in misjudgment”
    • “It’s as if the screenwriters wrote a hard R, Sausage Party-style lowbrow romp and a G-rated movie about cute doggies, then combined the two scripts into something that was wildly inappropriate for families but too cute and cloying for adults. Nobody should watch this with their kids if they watch it at all.”

    Even before I got to the reviews, what stood out to me was that it has both a UK voice cast and an American cast. Meaning they took a film, that takes place in the UK, and then redubbed it from English.. TO ENGLISH. And if that’s not wild enough for you, At least three members of the American cast are not credited under their own names. And I guarantee a fourth name is also fake because “Rusty Shackleford” is credited. FUCKING DALE GRIBBLE’S ALIAS IS IN THE CREDITS.

    Watch it for free on YouTube via the “Family Central” channel.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMREi96Eu4o

  • Partridge Family 2200 AD

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    Just when I thought 70s Hanna-Barbera couldn’t get more derivative, they came out with an animated spinoff of a crappy tv show with the entire style recycled from their crappy retread of a crappy animated knock off of a successful tv show.

    Of course something as synergistic as the Partridge Family 2200 AD doesn’t come from just one boardroom. The story is that Hanna-Barbera was developing a spin-off of The Jetsons where Elroy would be a teenager, and I guess Judy would be a sorority girl at Universe University or some such nonsense. Anyway, when HB was shopping this idea to CBS, the CBS execu-bots, said they’d take it, but only if they added more Danny Bonaduce. So a few superficial changes later, and whoala!

    I stand by my long held belief that the 1970s was the worst cultural decade in American history.

    via superpunch2

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