Animation Aficionados

How is it that a movie that is literally half the length of the Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern can pack a more cohesive story? Well, you take out all the boring stuff, for one thing. Next, you severely truncate the … Continue reading →

Green ring do your thing!How is it that a movie that is literally half the length of the Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern can pack a more cohesive story? Well, you take out all the boring stuff, for one thing. Next, you severely truncate the origin story down to only a few minutes so that it doesn’t drag the story down. Then you completely ignore that Paralax ever existed and tell a story that people actually care about. My goodness. Even though I probably would have preferred a story that took place on Earth and left the Green Lantern Corp. to the wayside, I cannot deny that this was one hell of a movie. I was impressed that the passing of the ring to Hal Jordan was only the beginning of the story and didn’t encompass and overpower the story. The characters were great. Even though we knew who the bad guy is, there were surprises to be had, anyway. This is a very spoileriffic review, which is why I’m getting my impressions out of the way right now. You might want to see the movie first. And, of course, joining us again this week is TFG1 Mike for our continuing crossover with Tooncast Beyond. The episode wraps up before the 40-minute mark, but dread not, dear listeners! We have another 30 minutes worth of nonsense in our post-show. Show Topics: Bruce Timm: Straight-to-video gold Ryan Reynolds: Box office lead Chi’p: Is he the one in the wheelchair? “You wanna fly, Bobby?” Poozer Bonus Content Topics: Lineman Diags Biggest box office bombs YouTube and iTunes trolls Kunio, Renegade, Double Dragon, and River City Ransom Dipping your breakfast sausages into the syrup The greatest flavors brought together since Mr. Reese got chocolate in his peanut butter!

We’re back to a standard episode this week to do a very special Ninja Turtles retrospective. Today we talk about the ’87 Turtles, the ’03 Turtles, and everything in between. Joining us again this week are JT of Authentic Geek … Continue reading →

The Mirage Era goes out with a bangWe’re back to a standard episode this week to do a very special Ninja Turtles retrospective. Today we talk about the ’87 Turtles, the ’03 Turtles, and everything in between. Joining us again this week are JT of Authentic Geek and Kittyhawk of Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki. We love the Turtles. Though only one show can emerge victorious, this isn’t quite the landslide that was our X-Men Side-By-Side. Both shows here are recommendable. Just stay away from anything involving rewinds or red skies. Topics: April’s cleavage Destroying the Technodrome cures Splinter Battletoads still sucks ass Donatello and Jack Kirby save Asgard Shredder vs. Skeletor vs. Cobra Commander Neil can find cartoon-accurate live-action hotties GOONGALA!!! We loves us some sexy April! JT is responsible for this, and he will pay! April’s well-animated ass in an otherwise poorly-animated cartoon Click here for even more ’87 Ninja Turtles animation errors.

Tonight, we continue our crossover with Tooncast Beyond, discussing the DC Animated original… Wonder Woman! A total palette cleanser after last week’s bomb. Topics: -Crap! -Girls naked in a pond, splashing each other playfully -Neil takes a long time to … Continue reading →

Nothing to lose your head over... Tonight, we continue our crossover with Tooncast Beyond, discussing the DC Animated original… Wonder Woman! A total palette cleanser after last week’s bomb. Topics: -Crap! -Girls naked in a pond, splashing each other playfully -Neil takes a long time to process the film -Steve Trevor fapping in the bushes -Tom Wilson is an awesome stand-up comedian Bonus content topics: -PC gaming -Sega CDX: The battery muncher! -Saturn and Neptune -Yugi Naka’s head is up Uranus

We continue our crossover series with Tooncast Beyond, talking about the DC animated original movies. This time it’s a coiler known as Batman: Gotham Knight. Incorrectly labeled as a bridge between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, the only stories … Continue reading →

How do you screw THIS up?!We continue our crossover series with Tooncast Beyond, talking about the DC animated original movies. This time it’s a coiler known as Batman: Gotham Knight. Incorrectly labeled as a bridge between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, the only stories this film seems intent on bridging are its own. And that’s the weird part, folks, because beside the chronological link between each story, they have almost nothing to do with one another. Oh, but don’t let this blog entry spoil everything. You’ll need to listen to the show to listen to us really rip this POS apart. Topics: -Batman vs Duke Togo would break the universe -OMG! KAWAII BISHOUNEN BRUCE WAYNE! (I wanna throw up after typing that) -Anthology movies usually have an over-arcing plot. USUALLY! -Neil adds a rating to the IGN Replacement Crew scoring system -Mike gets up to answer the door. As usual, our show is expanded, with hilarious pre- and post-show banter. Technical difficulties happen. We discuss sound elements. A toilet is flushed. Stuff you’re only going to hear on our show. And Married… With Children. There is also special “bonus track” featuring audio from our first attempt at the video games episode. Lots of off-topic discussion kept the show from being released, but the best banter has been spared, with topics that were not covered in our released version! Bonus content topics: -An expanded discussion of Mario’s lore -The two Sonics -Kittyhawk’s Franken-Saturn -Game manual artists -Everyone’s dead in Lavender Town -The Sakura Wars theme… My GOD! The Sakura Wars theme!!!!

Yep, it’s filler episode time, boys and girls! We’re here with our Black Friday special, and it’s only a day late! Kittyhawk sits down with Ben and I to talk about some vidji games. But WAIT! We are not alone … Continue reading →

Yep, it’s filler episode time, boys and girls! We’re here with our Black Friday special, and it’s only a day late! Kittyhawk sits down with Ben and I to talk about some vidji games. But WAIT! We are not alone on this intrepid journey, because joining us tonight is none other than Mike “The Birdman/Captain Awesome” Dodd of This Week In Geek! Pop some Nodoze, folks. This is gonna be a long one. Yes, we love video games so much that we allowed the show to go EPIC-LENGTH!!! This episode is about: Let’s play some Mary-Oh, eh? Only 40 hours until it starts getting good! Tales from the Game Stop Dick games Sega fanboys Neil doesn’t like Rare. Our favorite chip tune themes Neil responds to Chris Bores Saturn is the greatest system ever, and you suck if you think otherwise The guy who took Kittyhawk’s copy of Final Fantasy III is rightchere Don’t like the CDi Zeldas? Well exCUUUUUSE ME, Princess!

We continue with our Animation Aficionados/Tooncast Beyond crossover with this very special episode about a very special movie. It’s Justice League: The New Frontier! This movie has all the characters we love in their classic incarnations. However, bucking the usual … Continue reading →

Classic heroes done classically. Who'da thunk? We continue with our Animation Aficionados/Tooncast Beyond crossover with this very special episode about a very special movie. It’s Justice League: The New Frontier! This movie has all the characters we love in their classic incarnations. However, bucking the usual trend, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman all take a back seat here, because the real star of this movie is Barry Allen! No wait, it’s Hal Jordon. No, actually it’s Martian Manhunter. Oh, I don’t even know anymore! Just watch the film. It’s pretty good. As with last week, our version of the show has additional audio. In our extras, we discuss Thundercats, Bill Paxton Pinball, and Nintendo Wii. Plus, Ben tries to break Mike’s brain with the Animaniacs clown… and SUCCEEDS!

This special is a collection of pre and post shows since the beginning of the podcast. Such a variety of collected material could only go by one name: Potluck! So please feast, guests, on this assortment of various topics. We … Continue reading →

So...hungry.This special is a collection of pre and post shows since the beginning of the podcast. Such a variety of collected material could only go by one name: Potluck! So please feast, guests, on this assortment of various topics. We talk with animator and artist Pablo Praino, webcartoonist and favorite guest Kittyhawk, and Timothy Groves. Topics Covered Power Rangers Thor Transformers internet reviewers Les Stroud beating the tar out of Bear Gryls polar bears!

Here we go. The members of Animation Aficinados and Tooncast Beyond are going to let our powers combine! Today, we’re talking about Superman Doomsday, the DC Universe animated film in which Superman Doomsday, a movie in which one of the … Continue reading →