Brunch and Bombs

We wanted to know: Is The Faculty a terrible movie? Or is it not any worse than any other 90s teen movie? 

To find out, and to wrap ourselves up in some cozy nostalgia, we watched The Breakfast Club with Aliens.

As an action movie, Demolition Man is bad. 

As a satire, it's still bad, but thoroughly enjoyable!

The main thing we took away from this movie is that the future sucks.

There's a new argument among  us here at Brunch and Bombs - which Shaq movie is worse, Kazaam or Steel? Steel actually makes less sense than a movie about a rapping genie, so it's a tough call.

Because the 2022 Winter Olympics are happening right now AND Jamaica is competing in the four-man bobsled event for the first time in 24 years, this episode is especially topical. Cool Runnings is a beloved classic - but is it good? Here's one thing we'll tell you - it's only 0.00009% a true story.

"I'm in Love With a Church Girl" could be considered a terrible movie, religious propaganda, or both - but the fact that mainstream media bombarded it with bad reviews, and Christian media loved it makes me think it's both.  We're all for freedom of religion here at Brunch and Bombs, so we have to say if this is your thing, you might actually like this movie. It's got an overall wholesome message or whatever, but it's just...not good.  And while the relationship between the two leads follows Vanessa's religious beliefs, I can't say it's very healthy. They both seem pretty unhappy.

I personally took away two things from this movie 1.) Ja Rule's real name is Jeff Atkins (JEFF, y'all) and 2.) This movie was executive produced by God. #blessed

Batman and Robin is a Brunch and Bombs fave, but it's still just as funny the 5th time as it was the first time we watched it years ago.

George Clooney's stoic portrayal of Batman (even in action-packed, high-adrenaline scenes) is a stark parallel to the over-the-top acting of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Uma Thurman. 

And Chris O'Donnell and Alicia Silverstone, bless their hearts, aren't doing much at all.

With the costumes and the strange gangster-inspired accents, we have to wonder:

"Is this an attempt to go back to the campiness of the original Batman TV series?"

If it is, we like it.

 It just didn't quite work.

Our final holiday film of 2021 is A Madea Christmas. I made a promise to myself to never watch a Madea movie, and Hope has made me break that promise. 

A "collection of scenes" joined by strange PowerPoint-esque wipe transitions of Christmas trees,  wreaths, and candy canes, A Madea Christmas takes place at a modern day one-room schoolhouse/small-town mayor's office and a family "farm" that is really just a house and a cow.

Find out what we think about the Madea character, who the villain of the piece is, and what the expression "joined the circus" means.

Christmas with the Kranks is a movie with an unconvincing premise and characters that seem to make some truly bizarre choices - but we could accept that if it were even the least little bit funny. 

We watched Home Sweet Home Alone and I wished we'd just re-watched Home Alone 3 instead. That's how bad the new Disney+ sequel is. There were a few interesting throwbacks to the original, and Ellie Kemper is giving it her all, but the main kid is too unlikeable to make this movie work. 

For our Thanksgiving 2021 episode, Hope made us watch A Family Thanksgiving, a Hallmark Channel Original Movie that came out in 2010 but was probably written in 1950. Most Hallmark Channel movies are about how a woman needs a man to be happy, but this one is different. It's about how a woman needs a man AND kids to be happy! Jerry gave it a million mimosas, but listen to find out what Hope and Summer's mimosa ratings are, and how a magic lady can come into your life unasked, ruin your career and saddle you with a man you have absolutely no chemistry with, and two kids. WOW!