"The best part of the film was at the beginning, when the usually wonderful Anya Taylor-Joy sings a song to her little brother about the joys of imagination and exploration, at which point the police arrive to inform them that their parents are dead. That was by far the biggest laugh, as the remainder of the film tried to outdo itself in the garishness and loudness stakes."
"With all due disrespect to All's Fair, it cannot come close to the single worst piece of garbage ever inflicted on TV viewers, back in the 1970s. Undoubtedly it was supposed to be camp and cute; what it was was exploitative and vile. I'm talking, of course, about Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp. Chimpanzees were dressed up and given things to chew, while humans dubbed in cheesy dialogue to their flapping lip motions. My eyes (and brain) still ache."
"In 1995, a friend and I decided to see Waterworld, starring Kevin Costner. Neither of us was particularly fond of Costner, but we both adored Dennis Hopper. Plus, my friend had a two-for-one voucher, it was a scorching 35C outside, and the cinema was literally the coolest place in town. What we didn't expect was to stumble into one of the funniest movie experiences of our lives. Waterworld turned out to be unintentionally hilarious. I'm not sure what the sparse matinee crowd made of our"
Playmobil: The Movie delivers a garish, loud experience that peaks in an opening sequence where Anya Taylor-Joy sings about imagination before police reveal the children are orphaned. The remainder of the film attempts ever-greater spectacle and loudness but fails to recapture that initial moment. Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp presents chimpanzees dressed and voiced by humans in a campy format that reads as exploitative, with animals given props and humans dubbing cheesy dialogue. Waterworld (1995) proved unexpectedly comic in a matinee setting, with Kevin Costner and Dennis Hopper contributing to an experience that many found unintentionally hilarious.
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