Has an incredibly simplistic message about kindness aimed at a child's understanding of the world, sure, but it works because it's very earnest and rarely winks at the adults in the audience. Leaning on silliness instead of archness or emotional complexity works in its favor. Plus, the animation is fantastic and Pete Davidson's vocal performance is surprisingly affecting. Bonus: this was my kindergartner's first movie in a theater!

My first Godfrey Ho movie. I had read about his cut-and-paste filmmaking style going in, but it cannot be overstated how the 30 minutes of Catman story have NOTHING to do with the other 60 minutes of the movie, aside from two dubbed-in lines at the beginning and the end which "connect" everything. If the entire movie were as gloriously bonkers as the Catman plot, this would be five stars. Alas, it's not.

This is a deeply stupid movie, but also has some genuinely great imagery and a couple gnarly deaths. Somehow lives up to and downplays its reputation simultaneously while still having the ability to surprise. Perhaps it's a sign of how times change that the more subversive theme isn't that tv commercials will turn your kid's head to mush, but that the horrors are all taking place in Reagan's small company town USA (fictional Santa Mira, and "Morning in America" filming location Petaluma, are coincidentally both in Northern California).