90s movie classics

Andrew and Tim dodge fishing hooks in Southport in 1997's I Know What You Did Last Summer.

With an all-nineties cast of Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr and Ryan [no-third-name] Phillipe, ably supported by Anne Heche, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras and Johnny Galecki, this movie answers all the big questions. Will a sleeping person wake if you cut their hair? How quickly can you clean up a dead body from a car boot? Is it the best Independence Day movie since Independence Day?

Listen to find out all these answers and so much more!

In this episode, Tim and Andrew revisit the 1996 rom com, The Truth About Cats and Dogs.

Starring Uma Thurman, Janeane Garofalo and Ben Chaplin, this movie explores how women who are short, fat and ugly like Garofalo can compete in the quest for a man with tall, blonde, stunning women like Thurman.   Hasn't aged a day!

Can charming performances overcome the inherently troubling premise?  Is it funny?  Does it involve a dog in rollerskates?  Let's find out!

One of the true 90's classics - Tim and Andrew dive into She's All That.

Starring Rachael Leigh Cook, Freddie Prinze Jnr, Matthew Lillard, Paul Walker and Jodi Lyn O'Keefe with appearances from a heap of classic 90's actors, this is the movie that created the She's All That effect: Woman wears glasses and is into art, declared by all and sundry to be an ugly dork; woman takes off glasses, given a haircut and put in a dress; shock - she is beautiful!

Has time been kind to She's All That?  Is it as good as Tim and Andrew remember or is the 41% Tomatometer a fairer representation?  Let's find out!

Pop quiz hotshot: Name a movie from the late 90s involving lots of deaths on a huge ship in the middle of the ocean.

No, this is not Titanic!  Why settle for Leonardo DiCaprio when you can have Treat Williams?  Kate Winslet?  Try Famke Jansson!  Falling into a propeller and then freezing in the icy waters?  How about getting half-digested by a monstrous tentacled creature?

But was Deep Rising any good?  Andrew and Tim dive in to those murky waters to find out.   Full scream ahead!

WARNING: SPOILERS

In 1999, David E Kelley, the star writer who had brought the world (at that time) Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice and Ally McBeal, said - "I can do more than write TV shows about quirky lawyers and doctors... I can write movies about quirky cops, quirky palaeontologists and giant (presumably quirky) crocodiles."

And so he did, bringing Bridget Fonda, Bill Pullman, Oliver Platt and Brendan Gleeson along for the ride.  Even Betty White dropped in.

But could he replicate his TV magic touch in the cinema, in a genre he had not previously written (and does not appear to have attempted since)?

Tim and Andrew found out the hard way. 

WARNING: SPOILERS

Tim and Andrew watch 1998's Snake Eyes.

Directed by Brian de Palma on a hot streak, Snake Eyes was ambitious and highly anticipated.

Showy camerawork?  Tick.  Nicolas Cage overacting?  Tick.  Gary Sinise scowling?  Tick.

Following on from Carlito's Way and Mission Impossible, has de Palma locked in his third great movie in a row?  Or is this a portent of the doom that would follow with Mission to Mars?  Listen and find out!

WARNING: SPOILERS

Tim and Andrew watch 1996's The Craft.

Starring Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, Rachel True and Skeet Ulrich, a group of teenage witches use their powers to deal with bullies, racism and physical disfigurement.  But in a shock twist, things go wrong, resulting in a magical face-off between good and evil.

Will young-Tim's Fairuza-obsession and Tunney-dissing prove to be justified?  Will the special effects that blew our mind in 1996 result in furrowed brows and rolled eyes?  Listen to find out!

WARNING: SPOILERS

Tim and Andrew watch 1998's Can't Hardly Wait.

Declared by Andrew to be one of THE key movies of the 90s, Can't Hardly Wait had a lot to live up to.  With Ethan Embry, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Seth Green, Lauren Ambrose (now in Yellowjackets and Servant), Jenna Elfman and Jerry O'Connell, plus just about every 90s actor ever making a cameo, this is the party movie to end all party movies.

For better and worse, this is pure, unadulterated 90s.  But is it any good??  Listen to find out!

WARNING: SPOILERS

Tim and Andrew watch 1990's Arachnophobia.

Just scraping into the 90's, this Spielberg-produced PG-13 horror pits a young Jeff Daniels against an army of jumping, poisonous spiders.

John Goodman chews the scenery while Jeremy Irons sports a strange accent (possibly his real accent).  Pre-CGI, we have real spiders sharing the screen with puppet spiders - can you tell the difference? (Hint: yes)

Do modern viewers care about small-town hicks getting eaten by creepy-crawlies?  Let's find out.

WARNING: SPOILERS

Tim and Andrew watch 1999's Idle Hands.

A young man's hand is possessed by an evil presence.  No, it's not the vastly superior Evil Dead 2 but rather Idle Hands, a stoner/horror/comedy starring Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Henson (character name - Pnub, obviously) and a very early Jessica Alba.

Will there be a gratuitous scene with Jessica Alba in her underwear?  Will Seth Green be better than the material he's given?  Does Jack Noseworthy have the best name ever?  

Listen to find out!

WARNING: SPOILERS