Uhhh, any comment on Minority Report, the science fiction movie? I understand that's your field..

I'm worried about you, Cory.

Radon gas detectors are so comparatively inexpensive for the protection they offer in the long run, Cory.

If Scooby had been neutered, or better yet put to sleep, we would never have had to worry about Scrappy in the first place.

The very last few shots in Minority Report could have been handled better, but overall, it kicked ass. Most consistent, intelligent conception and realization of the near future I've ever scene.

speaking of smaller sidekicks, does anyone remember godzookie? nobody seems to recall that except for me.

Scoff all you like, scoffers. That movie kicked ass.

Godzookie -- Godzilla's son -- will live in infamy as perhaps the most ill-conceived of all the kid-characters from Saturday Morning Cartoons.

Cory, first you tell me that the Celine Dion CD won't play on a mac, now you tell me that the Scooby Doo movie rox. You're fast becoming my number one source for information about things that there's no way in hell I'd ever find out on my own. Please let me know when you'll have a report in on the following:

1) Getting kicked in the nuts repeatedly by the captain of the Brazillian World Cup team

2) The exact feeling of rubbing Tabasco sauce on the insides of your eyelids

3) A romantic evening with Mike Tyson

There's something just wrong about Velma being a fox.

1. Where is Fred's ascot?
2. Velma has always been a fox.
3. I wasn't going to see this but now I suppose I'll catch a matinee.

Oh, Fred's got an ascot, don't you worry.

Saturday morning cartoons send a thrill of revulsion from the back of my throat to my toes. The notion that a Saturday morning cartoon has been turned into a movie upsets me more. Enjoy it if you like, Cory, but for God's sake wash afterward. I'd hate to think any cartoon cooties were left on you.

I was into "Minority Report" for the first half or so; then it turned into a pretty lame techno-thriller.

I was going to object to Pat's sweeping condemnation, but I can't right off the top of my head remember any really good Saturday Morning cartoons. ("Memorable" and "nostalgia-genic" doesn't equate to "good.")

Well, to be fair, there were lots of one-season freaks and experiments of note. Anyone remember the raunchy claymation "Mr. Lumpy"? Or "Nightmare Ned," or "Zazu U," which appeared to have been concieved by stoned elementary school art teachers?

Since I haven't seen the movie I won't question Cory's taste, but Scooby Doo the cartoon frustrated and irritated the hell out of me as a kid. I tried watching when I got cable a few years back, and I felt the same way.

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i don't know if this came on saturday mornings, and i didn't like them when i was a kid, but the old popeye cartoons can make me laugh now. they sometimes show them between old movies at 3:00 in the morning. (also - the little rascals...rock!) one of the clubs i go to shows betty boop and felix the cat (sound down) and those look pretty cool.

cory, i decided not to go see the movie because the scooby modeling/animation (whatever you want to call it) in the trailers looked bad/weird and creeped me out. i guess you were able to get past that?

The modelling did look weird in the trailers, but in th emovie it really worked -- far better, I think, than it woulda worked if they'd animated Scooby "flat" like Roger Rabbit.

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the only good saturday morning cartoon i can recall is "the new adventures of mighty mouse"

also the 'barba pappas' but nobody remembers them - might have been a PBS thing...

also, yes i remember godzooki (or however that's spelled)

The one morning cartoon that I enjoyed was 'Tom Terrific' which was in turn a part of Captain Kangaroo. I have never forgotten Isotope Feeney, whose name has been my paradigm for cool names ever since. At least until my sister began to refer to her supervisor routinely as 'The Evil Alice Alexander'

I guess I was able to sit through Mighty Mouse as a child.

My overall take on cartoons comes from having them drone as background noise in my house as I was raising my own kids. We had a 'two hours of T.V. a week' rule, but the kids always seemed to pick their two hours from the cartoons. Ugh.

I always loved the "Simon in Chalkboard Land" on Capt. Kangaroo. Math puns and a cute Brit boy...ahhhh.

Okay i'll go see Scooby Doo if Cory thinks it's funny. So does Fred come out of the closet with Velma? Do the Globetrotters make a special guest appearance? Please tell me Scrappy dies at the end....

i hear that the next 2 cartoon movies in the works are for "The Wonder Twins" and "Underdog."

I hope to God they leave "Hong Kong Phooey" alone....

To me hanna barbara cartoons meant a lot of jokes that weren't funny with a laugh-track to tell you that it somehow must be funny, bad animation, bad art, no whites in the eyes of the characters, more canned laughter, every episode the same as the last, another boring moment as a child with nothing better to do...

Ah, Nightmare Ned. To this day, "Vegetables are succulent" and "Man, I am so in the mood to ruin someone's day" remain part of my best loved phrases.... That show had quality=doomed written all over it from Day 1. (How 'Teacher's Pet' stays on is the exception that proves the rule, I guess.)

isn't velma that girl from freaks & geeks?

And I just got home from listening to a friend rant that the film was absolutely terrible (except for Shaggy) and that Velma in particular was completely false to the original. Takes all kinds, evidently.

You do know that yours is likely to be the only review quoted in the ads from here on out, right?

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