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First things first: why does this show have such a low score? Not only that but I'm the only one to review it? Wow. Anyhoo... This cartoon came out in 1988 and started to become a part of CBS Saturday morning lineup. It replaced the Pee Wee Herman Show after Paul Reuben's arrest and image got tarnished. Every Saturday morning I would tune in to see what adventure or trouble the Raggedys would get into. The animation is pretty good for the time period it came out in(1988) and the stories are nicely done. Once and a blue moon you would get a story with a moral attached to it and it wouldn't be done in a heavy-handed fashion either.

The thing I love the most about this show was the fun factor. It was fun watching the Raggedys getting into trouble and try to find their way out of it. It was fun to hear Grouchy Bear's unflinching cynicism. Nowadays cartoons are missing the fun factor. I still feel like a kid again when I watch this show. I don't get that same wonderful feeling when I watch the toxic waste sludge that passes for cartoons nowadays. You know that feeling you get when you sit in front of the TV early Saturday morning with your bowl of cereal. Watching your favorite cartoons without a care in the world. I feel that way when I watch this show as well as most of the cartoons and shows from CBS's past.

My only gripe with this show is Cracklin being the reoccurring villain. He was funny for a moment but becomes a nuisance after a while. Other than that I enjoy the show as well as the characters of Raggedy Ann, Raggedy Andy, Raggedy Dog, Raggedy Cat, Sunny Bunny, Grouchy Bear and Tallyhoe.

Now I know that they have released this show on DVD but let me explain that situation to you. They only released SELECT EPISODES! Matter of fact I'll tell all of the episodes they released. The Mabbit Adventure, The Pirate Adventure, The Beastly Ghost Adventure, The Pixling Adventure, The Ransom of Sunny Bunny Adventure, The Perriwonk Adventure are all released on DVD. The Christmas Adventure, The Little Chicken Adventure, The Sacred Cat Adventure and The Magic Wings Adventure are all released on VHS. Thats 11 episodes for a show that lasted 3 seasons. What happened to The Warrior Star, The Megamite Adventure and The Boogeyman Adventure? What happened to every other episode released? Releasing select episodes is the same hackjob that Disney did with Goof Troop and Quack Pack. Sheesh CBS, are you people that damn corporate minded?

At any rate if you can find episodes of this show please get them and share them with the kids. Don't let them grow up on the heart achingly wretched garbage now on Nickelodeon, Disney and Cartoon Network and please bump the show up to a 7.2 rating(a more accurate rating) on IMDb. Thanks for reading and good night!

Why Did I Get Married too? More like Why did I waste $[...] watching this crap? The real title should be: How does this guy take ten pounds of crap and stuff it into five pounds of movie? WTF was that ending? Good God, this film meandered from the start. It was people sitting around and talking. Then after some airport drama from Angela, going to the Bahamas to TALK SOME MORE. It irks me that in all of Perry's movies he TELLS instead of SHOWS. Hey, aren't people supposed to be DOING things in a movie? Aren't films supposed to be about oh, ACTION? Isn't ACTION supposed to define CHARACTER? That's what I learned from Syd Field and Robert Mckee about screen writing, but Perry don't know about that because he probably never bought any of these books to learn something about the craft of writing for the screen as opposed to the stage.

Man, the writing on this film was SLOPPY, sloppier than previous Perry films. I'm still waiting for dude to learn how to tell a basic story, let alone know how things work On screen. I'm still waiting for him to learn how to use plot points and use stuff like CONTRAST, IRONY, FORESHADOWING, and SYMBOLISM like Lorraine Hansberry or Spike Lee do in their stories. I'm still waiting for his characters to have some DEPTH and COMPLEXITY. Seriously, a six-year-old could write a better screenplay than Perry, and it would make more sense than anything he puts together in his ridiculous Ed Wood styled plots.

I mean, looking at the plot holes in this movie (That ending STILL GIVES ME A HEADACHE: I Love how the guys hooked up with Mike, who shows up out of nowhere. Shouldn't the timeshare have been settled in the DIVORCE FROM THE LAST MOVIE? Oh and Jill Scott's new husband not being able to find a job as a COP? COME ON! Civil service jobs are always hiring, even in recessions. Big cities ALWAYS NEED POLICE OFFICERS to replace retiring ones. The fact that dude had experience in LAW ENFORCEMENT would have been a plus for him. Dude probably would have been selected FASTER than anyone else in pools because of his EXPERIENCE. Blue protects blue, and Blue helps out blue even when it's black. That's the culture of law enforcement. At the least dude would have gotten a Security work or bouncing at a bar. Sloppy writing from Perry there; he should have researched the details. A better plot line would have been about him adjusting to being part of the group. I mean, he's the new guy. He doesn't know these people as closely as they've known each other. Wouldn't they be averse to trusting him or getting to know him better? Angela and Marcus- both these characters were so One-dimensional. If it wasn't for their loud arguing and use as comic relief they'd have no story at all. I love how they never resolve their trust issues and will be back to bicker and act a fool in yet another movie.

Gavin being made out to be a heel mid-film. The brother just wanted to save his marriage and do right by his lady, but he's turned into a monster by Tyler "Man-hating" Fairy. Hey Tyler, How about some BALANCE to your stories? How about showing the BROTHERS as complex three-dimensional people and not "good" or "bad"? You do know that people have LAYERS and DEPTH to their personalities, and that people have REASONS for the way they act or react.

I Love how Pat never dealt with her issues FOR A SECOND MOVIE. But TP needs some drama for Dwayne to NOT deal with in the next installment. Keeps the suckers (I mean fans) coming back to plunk down cash for another installment. The Rock Cameo was just a diversion to deflect us from underdevelopment of the storyline.

I Love how Perry's character and his wife never deal with the deeper reasons for an emotional affair. This entire part of the movie was extremely underdeveloped. Perry tells us his wife is glowing; everybody tells us she's happier than she's ever been. Hey Tyler, Instead of having people joking on the beach, how about SHOWING us some frames of her getting things like text messages and pictures in e-mails? Again, sloppy writing.

Seriously, All the characters came out of the movie just like they came in. That's just bad writing all around. Even Ed Wood had some type of change happen to Glen in Glen or Glenda.

Hey Tyler: stick to stage plays and leave movies to better Black directors that are way more skilled than you at telling stories!

PS: The proper term for Tyler Perry's movies is minstrel shows not Blaxploitation. Even the most silliest of Blaxploitation movies had more integrity than any of the chittlin circuit garbage that Perry makes yearly.

Question: why is this movie still on the top 250? This is one of the few movies in the top 250 that has negative reviews right when you click the more bottom on the bottom of the front page where the spotlight review is. If you can stop believing in Santa Claus, Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, then why cant you see this movie is the worst movie on racism ever produced? Old habits die hard I guess. For the record I'm not some inbred hick that hates any movie that deals with racism. I respect every movie that dealt with racism prior to this movie.

Crash received all its hype because the Academy Awards did not want to see Brokeback Mountain. There I said it. Its no secret that the Academy Awards are paid bandwagoneers. If there is money involved they will oversell any movie to death. If you recognize that fact and still give them the benefit of the doubt then you need to get your head checked.

Crash plays like a glorified, PC to the extreme, TV movie on race. The main thing that made better movies on race relations in the past great is that the characters in them are realistic. Look at Mississippi Burning and American History X. Are the people in those movies realistic? Yes. Now look at Crash. Are the people in Crash realistic? Of course not. These people talk about race 100% of the time. I'm sorry but even the most of hardcore racist will not talk about race 100% of the time nor would they do the stupid things the people in this movie do.

With the exception of Ryan Phillipe, Terrence Howard and Michael Pena, the performances were laughable and weak. Matt Dillon should have been perfect as the racist cop John Ryan but to say he was unbelievable is putting it nicely. When he groped Thandie Newton's butt in a traffic stop I had to hold back laughter. I was waiting for her to pass gas to give this scene the hilarity it deserves. Did the writers think that was supposed to be an effective scene? Please. Show him zapping her with a taser gun or beating her down and then you would have a more accurate description of what a racist cop would do and a more effective scene. Sandra Bullock was equally unbelievable in her role. I laughed my a** off when she fell down those flights of stairs.

Ludicrous's character fails big time because we all know he has no depth to his character. Just listen to his albums. Larenz Tate is slumming in his performance and Don Cheadle phones it in. The writing stinks too because as I said earlier the people are unrealistic as well as the situations they are in. I cant believe for one second that John Ryan would rescue Christine from a car accident after he fondled her buttocks in front of her husband and neither should you.

The thing that sad the most about Crash is that after its done you are left wondering what the hell you just watched. The best movies on race leave the viewer with something they will never forget. This movie leaves you with nothing but unitentional humor. There are better movies out there that deserve a spot on the top 250. Why is this movie still here?

Better movies on racism: Magnolia, America History X, Do The Right Thing, Bamboozled, and Mississippi Burning. Hell I'll even take Higher Learning any day over this garbage movie.

Thanks To IMDb's silly rule about lengthy reviews I will get straight to the point of this review of why I believe this is a pathetic attempt at a Die Hard movie.

1. Claustrophobia is a staple of Die Hard movies. This movie has no claustrophobia, no time restraint so you could easily tire of watching it. The thing last three days for goodness sakes. Contradictory to Die Hard plots.

2. No Profanity. I don't care if a movie has no cursing or not but this is a DIE HARD movie. There should have been some profanity because that is the Die Hard's character.

3. Lack of suspense. The previous Die Hard movies were great at this but this movie seemed to be created for people that suffer from ADD. It moves from clumsy action set piece to clumsy action set piece to the point where it begins to feel as if Michael Bay directed this movie.

4. Lousy villain. The previous entries had great villains that still hold up well after these years. Hans Gruber, Simon Peter Gruber and Col Stuart are all excellent villains but Thomas Gabriel(Timothy Olyphant) is a sissified wimp(who looks like a reject model from Abercrombie & Fitch) that spends most of the movie avoiding confrontation with McClane. Steve Buscemi's front teeth are more intimidating than this guy.

5. Action sequences are obscenely over the top. Over the top action sequences are a staple of Die Hard movie also but they were never this over the top. McClane jumping on top of a fighter jet? McClane sliding down a concrete embankment without getting hurt? Who writes this stuff? Akiva Goldsman?

6. McClane never felt like McClane. Bruce Willis spent the whole movie looking like he's doing improv instead of playing a real character. There is no trace of the grumpy anti-hero cop we all fell in love with in 1988 in this movie. Turning him into some ignorant ape that is anti-technology was insulting to a fault.

7. No chemistry with the co-star Justin Long. Bruce Willis and Samuel Jackson were great in Die Hard With A Vengeance(the best sequel in the Die Hard series hands down). Plus knowing the character of Zeus Carver made that movie all the more intriguing. Zeus also helped McClane solved those riddles and helped him in finding Simon's whereabouts. There is nothing to that effect here with Justin Long. He never really helps Mclane, he is annoying and Bruce seems like he's about ready to slap the guy senseless at any moment. Think Rob Schnieder and Sly Stallone in Judge Dredd for a perfect comparison of Bruce Willis and Justin Long in this movie.

8. No great lines. Die Hard 1-3 had the most memorable lines in action movie history. The lines in this movie sound as if they written by fan film making geeks with waaaay too much time on their hands. "I'm gonna kill this guy and get my daughter back"."My name is Daisy Duke, I got a lot s--- for it in school so please don't add to it" Lame!

9. This Film is blue. No I don't mean depressing. I mean you forgot to take off the lens filter you idiot blue. Die Hard works well in earthy colors not in blue screen. Felt like a was watching a fan film that thought it was really cooler than what it really was.

There you have it. The reasons why this movie sucks. Weak action sequences , wimpy metrosexual villain, lousy henchmen and Bruce has no chemistry with co-star. Plus what chucklehead actually thought Len Wiseman(or Len Dumbkid) was good enough to direct a Die Hard movie anyway? This movie is tailor-made for the MTV generation(The ADD generation). If you have the original 3 Die Hard movies you're all set. The fact that this monstrosity is so highly rated on IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes is proof that both of these sites lost their credibility a long time ago. Thumbs down.

I'll admit that I written off Scary Movie 2 when I first seen it as a sporadically funny sequel to Scary Movie(which I love). After seeing it again it's a lot better than I gave it credit for and is better than what comes after it.

Scary Movie 2 pokes fun at haunted house movies, The Exorcist and even Charlie's Angels. The movie has its fair share of laughs in the beginning of the movie but sometimes the gross out gags are way over the top. To explain why I think this movie is a mixed bag, I'll contrast the funny parts from the unfunny parts.

Funny Scene#1: The beginning with the spoof on the Exorcist was pretty funny stuff.

Unfunny scene#1: The scene with James Woods on the toilet is flat out disgusting. Bleeech! James Woods already gives me the creeps so the last thing I need to see is him on the john.

Funny Scene:# 2: Marlon's character teaching Anna Faris's character how to be hip and she mistakenly beats up on some unsuspecting girl.

Unfunny Scene# 2: Chris Elliot's abnormal hand digging into a pie as well as a turkey. Nuff said! Funny Scene# 3: Tori Spelling's character becomes clingy to a ghost after a night of sex.

Unfunny Scene# 3: Shawn Wayan's character impaling the evil clown from Poltergeist with his third leg. Need I say more? Funny Scene: # 4: The spoof on the Nike commercial.

Unfunny Scene: #4: The wisecracking parrot pooping.

I could go on forever.

Scary Movie 2 is a lot better than most people give it credit for but it could have been a lot better than it predecessor. What kills it is the excessive gross out gags are focused on more than the movie that its supposed to poke fun at. All in all it was a good spoof not a great spoof. Its definitely better than Scary Movie 3 and 4.

I know this review will get a bunch of unhelpful votes but somebody has to tell the truth here! The Dark Knight is wildly overrated and is the most overrated movie of all time. Forget Titanic, Boondock Saints and King Kong(2005). This movie surpasses them when it comes to sheer hype. For the record I love Batman Begins. I thought it was a fresh beginning on a series that was rendered ineffective by that lunatic Joel Schumacher. Christian Bale fared well as both Batman and Bruce Wayne and the rest of the cast did a great job also. But this movie.... Everything that made Batman Begins so great is absent from this pretentious slop. Most of the cast look like they'd rather be somewhere else. Let me break it down this way with what stinks about this movie.

The plot: Idiotic beyond belief. Joker(Heath Ledger) plans to kill city officials while playing childish games with Batman. Most of the time he's killing the people he's aligned with making him the most moronic villain in superhero movie history. Batman joins forces with Commissioner Gordon to stop him.

The acting: Christian Bale is wooden in both roles(Batman and Bruce Wayne). He spends most of the movie looking like he's stoned out of his mind. And what is up with that voice? In Batman Begins he sounded cool like one of the gangsters from those old 1940s flicks. Here he sounds like Dirty Harry with strep throat. Aaron Eckhart is flat as both Harvey Dent and Two-Face. While his Two-Face was better than Tommy Lee's Two-Face looking good by default is never good. Michael Caine, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman sleepwalk through this whole movie. Maggie Gyllenhaal is quite awful as Rachel Dawes. Katie Holme's Rachel Dawes was a strong willed lawyer that fought for what's right. Maggie's Rachel Dawes needs to grow up and find some better priorities. I agree that she is a step up from Katie Holmes but she plays Rachel Dawes like some silly high school girl with a pathetic crush on Bruce Wayne. The fact that we are asked to feel sympathy for her when The Joker captures her is a bit of a stretch. Her getting roasted made my day though lol!

Now for the talk of the town: Heath Ledger as Joker. Heath Ledger's performance was okay but to say that he was better than Jack Nicholson's Joker is hilarious to say the least. Jack Nicholson's Joker had style, a plan and was pretty funny as well as unpredictable. Of course he was silly but he was fun. Heath Ledger's Joker is predictable with no back story and had no real plan. Just random acts of chaos. Ra's Al Ghul had a plan, The Joker of Batman 1989 had a plan, The Penguin of Batman Returns had a plan. This weirdo had nothing but bluff. Plus he's has no fun with what he does and spends most of the time ridiculously philosophizing like those corny emo-goth kids that smoke copious amounts of cigarettes while yapping about the misery of their lives. You complete me? That's about as cheesy as the Tumbler turning into a crappy motorcycle. Speaking of Emo-Goth kids that exactly what this Joker is. Only people actually find him cool instead of pathetic.

Action sequences: predictable to a fault. Car chase and fights scenes plus they are quite unrealistic. People get punched, kicked, shot, bitten by dogs and knocked around by explosions and walk away without bumps, bruises, cuts or blood. Now, Im not a gore hound but if you get shot or bitten by a dog, I would expect to see some blood. Not in the Dark Knight though.

Pacing: The movie builds up a pace to slow it down after wards and with all the action on the screen the movie still finds time to be boring. Plus at 2 hours and 32 minutes this movie feels longer than it needs to be. Various subplots that never connect best describe most of this movie.

Conclusion: The Dark Knight is the most overrated, most hypocritical, most pretentious piece of garbage in the history of cinema. The only people that would like this are the fanboys and I cant believe that people are trouncing Tim Burton's Batman movies to foam at the mouth like rabid dog groupies over this overcooked sequel. You pseudo-intellectual snobs don't seem to realize that those movies were great for the time they were made in and they were fun. Tim Burton made the type of Batman movie he wanted to make without trying to please these shills. I must have seen the Tim Burton Batman movies more times than I can count and still have a ball watching them till this day. I saw this dreck three times and still couldn't get into it. Its not even fun. Its a plodding mess that gets more hype than it deserves. Matter of fact, I'll tell how much I didn't like it. For months I had The Dark Knight on my computer for free via z-share and when my computer suffered from a virus that force me to erase the whole thing, this was the only movie through z-share that I never tried to get back. That should tell you everything you need to know about my feelings on this movie. Two Thumbs down.

First and foremost Quentin Tarantino is the most overrated director on the planet! I've seen Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill Vol. 1 and now this and I think I've had my fill of his movies. Why? Because they are all the same. Bunch of people blab about meaningless things mixed with over-the-top violence, mixed with incessant profanity sums up his movies in a nutshell. I wanted to believe that he can change his style around and give you something different but after seeing this its obvious that he cant.

Death Proof in a nutshell: a couple of whores yap about meaningless things for an hour, get on the road and are killed by a crazed driver called Stuntman(Kurt Russell). Another group of girls are stalked by Stuntman, they survive and plan to deal with him while he turns into a craven wimp in the middle of the movie. They catch up with him and beat the snot out of him. The end.

Nobody does anything that resembles acting here. Just a bunch of stupid people that yap about nothing for hours mixed with a stupid race scene. Kurt Russell is wasted on here as Stuntman. If I was the father of any of those broads(including the legendary Sydney Poitier), I would hang my head in shame. These dingbats are really inane and crass but then again when have you ever seen a respectable woman in a Tarantino flick? In short don't waste another minute on another overrated Tarantino flick. All of his movies are alike and he gets way too many undeserved kudos in this world. Now I know I've upset his fanboy fan base that foam at the mouth like a rabid dog groupie every time he's mentioned and to that I say I don't give a damn about your feelings! As a matter of fact you have no feelings of your own. You feel like what ever the consensus feels like. Just pathetic! Its lowlife followers like you that keep over-hyped clowns like that tranny toe sucking Quentin Tarantino around when much better directors with actual talent starve to death. Its a shame when hacks like Quentin Tarantino get all the shine when directors and writers with real talent are ignored. Death Proof sucks as well as all of Tarantino's movies as well as his blind sheep fan base.

My, how the mighty have fallen. Kim Basinger is a great actress but she was definitely slumming when she took this role. This movie is bad for one reason in particular: lapses in logic. Its looks like one of those movies that would have been passable with all its plot holes if it had came out in the 80s and 90s but in 2008 it just looks real stupid. This is the worst thriller I've ever seen and I've seen The Bone Collector and Twisted.

The story details Della(Kim Basinger)is just getting from buying gifts in a mall an is harassed by a gang of thugs that end up killing a cop that came to her aid. From then on she is chased by these idiotic goons through an abandoned street and she gets rid of them one by one with a toolbox full of tools.

So many things are wrong with this movie. As I said this movie leaps over logic at every turn and with the exception of Kim Basinger, the acting is made-for-TV bad. Hell, this pseudo thriller is made-for-TV bad. The way she kills each of these politically correct thugs(1 Caucasian, 1 Hispanic, 1 Asian and 1 African American all coming together to stalk a Caucasian woman. Don't you just love America?)is laughable to a fault. The way she killed the Hispanic guy made me laugh hysterically. The sex scene with the main hoodlum was so out in left field that it make you shake your head in shame. I only recommend this to lovers of bad films and no one else. Anybody else especially Kim Basinger fans would do well not to own this flick. You don't want see an actress you respect in a film this bad now do you? Of course not. You were warned.