Jake Menez

Jake Menez

Lover of three star comedies, Owen Wilson’s #1 fan

Quality of reviews may vary

Favorite films

  • When Harry Met Sally...
  • Big Night
  • The Darjeeling Limited
  • Zoolander

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  • The Ghost & Mr. Chicken

    ★★★★★

  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    ★★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • The Monkey

    ★★★

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  • The Ghost & Mr. Chicken

    The Ghost & Mr. Chicken

    ★★★★★

    Perfect vehicle for Don Knotts because of how well it lets him play up his scared guy shtick. Also just a really good mystery and some great special effects with the haunted house stuff. A better Scooby-Doo movie than those lousy ones from the early 2000s

    This would pair well with The Private Eyes, starring Knotts and Tim Conway  

  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    ★★★★★

    Crazy that they finally made a great theatrical Looney Tunes movie instead of something that feels like a reheated Muppets script and then Warner Bros hung it out to dry by selling it to a small studio with no marketing budget 

    Five stars is maybe hyperbolic but I don’t really care. This movie was very much my thing 

    Really gorgeous movie to look at, even if the animation is sometimes a bit overly “bouncy.” It’s so bright and vibrant. Great…

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  • Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie

    Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie

    ★★★★★

    This movie has the exact feel of seeing an old friend for the first time in a while — a little older, a little slower but nothing’s really changed in spirit 

    It captures the feel of the show flawlessly despite being off the air for over a decade. The lead actors all slip right back into their roles flawlessly.  Tony Shalhoub especially does a great job returning to Adrian Monk 

    In a lot of ways this is just a double…

  • The Flash

    The Flash

    ½

    Why would the studio stand behind someone as problematic as Ezra Miller when the finished product is this bad? Absolutely nothing about this movie works 

    - Phoned in performances

    - Poorly-done special effects

    - Limp plot bordering on incomprehensible 

    - Half-baked, unearned emotional beats. I an the world’s biggest mark for sad mom stories and this one left me cold 

    - Immoral, ghoulish CGI recreations of dead (and some living) actors solely for the sake of applause that, in my…