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Ack! Hands off my childhood! Sorry for the outburst, but, seriously, it's one thing, I suppose, to take successful '80s franchises like The Karate Kid and update them for a new generation. It's kind of another to just start randomly selecting one-off gems from my youth for the sole purpose of giving someone a starring vehicle. When I first saw that Drop Dead Fred would be remade with Russell Read more
Drop Dead Fred, a wickedly immature comedy about maintaining imaginary friends into adulthood and blaming "them" for one's obscene behavior, was one of my fave movies in the early '90s — naturally. The irreverent tyke in the following scene portrays the protagonist as a young girl. Her response to her mother's lame-ass bedtime story is quite possibly the best advice any growing girl (or grown Read more
The trailer for Ted starts off like a typical romantic comedy: there's a meet-cute between John (Mark Wahlberg) and Lori (Mila Kunis), they fall in love, "Sweet Disposition" plays, etc. There's some trouble in paradise though, and it comes in the form of Ted, John's real-life childhood Teddy, who also happens to be his best friend. This isn't one of those invisible BFFs (a la Drop Dead Fred) Read more
