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  Mufasa: The Lion King 2024

  ★½ Watched 28 Mar 2025

  What in the retcon is this.

  I think what unites my many issues with this film is the lack of deference for the original. Nothing here honours, or even trusts, The Lion King (1994).

  Not the songs (bad, imo, and out of keeping).

  Not the landscapes (pretty, Breath-of-the-Wild-like, but too busy and out of keeping).

  Not the humour (horrible self-referrential stuff from Timon and Pumbaa that caused me to wince in their every scene).

  Not the characters (too many forgettable…

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  The Princess Bride 1987

  ★★★★ Rewatched 19 Mar 2025

  Humongously and delightfully silly.

Popular reviews

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  T.I.M. 2023

  ★ Watched 16 Aug 2023

  Torturously Inane Movie.

  This is such a basic take on AI. Unoriginal, shallow, dumb. No structural integrity to the plot or characters - just borrowed tropes and predictable beats ad nauseum.

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  The King's Beard 2002

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Jan 2023 1

  I've been trying to find this childhood film for YEARS, but couldn't based on the details I remembered. I'm indebted to @devonbron for my sanity after she remembered the crucial plot feature that is the king's beard! Now even my husband is singing the songs from it 😂