How's It Hold Up?

The 2021 Halloween Spookaboo reaches its end with a movie that was too scary for Jan to watch! This is a short, gory horror action anime film that proved popular enough in Japan to spawn multiple sequels and spin-offs. It certainly proves spooky enough, but in the end, is this flick worth watching? Listen to find out!

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We managed to get a Halloween-appropriate short in before the holiday season is over! This is not the first Silly Symphony short, but it is an early one and is arguably the most famous of the lot. As you might surmise from the title, it mostly involves skeletons dancing. But the question is... is that enough to make it a compelling short nearly 100 years after it was created? Listen to find out!

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It's time for another Scooby-Doo movie! This one has the dubious honor of being the first Scooby movie created after the fan-favorite Zombie Island. Rather than focusing on horror like that one, this returns to the regular Scooby forumla, but with a little Zombie Island-inspired twist. Does it still hold up today among the many, many Scooby-Doo movies? Listen to find out!

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We've seen how Mickey Mouse got his start, and even earlier in the Disney catalogue, too. But there's another major name that comes to mind when thinking of classic cartoon shorts: Warner Bros and their Looney Tunes. How did this series get its start, and who was their first cartoon star to compete against the Disney Mouse? It's not Bugs, or Daffy, or even Porky... no, it's Bosko, the oft-forgotten original Looney Tune. Why is he so often forgotten? And how does his original two appearances (one private, one public) hold up in the modern day? Listen to find out!

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For our first 2021 Halloween Spookaboo episode, we check out the black sheep of the Disney animated film library. This movie is infamous for the scary imagery within, the cuts made to it, and for becoming something of a cult classic. Revisiting it 36 years later, does it deserve that cult classic status, or is this one best left in the Disney Dark Ages? Listen to find out!

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This short is the first Mickey Cartoon made after his public debut! In this one, we see Pete used as a romantic rival rather than a straight-up villain, and a Minnie who doesn't find everything Mickey does charming. Will Mickey win Minnie over? And more importantly, is this short any fun to actually watch? Listen to find out!

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Today we watch the movie that traumatized a generation. It's a movie that's overall very silly and lighthearted in tone but that makes some decisions that bring death to a world previously bereft of it. But in the end, is it any good? Do you have to be a Transformers fan to enjoy it? Listen to find out!

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The Mouse is finally here! And while the world thinks of Steamboat Willie as his first cartoon, the truth is two others were made before it, but not officially released until after! Though Steamboat Willie ended up being Mickey's public debut, it's interesting to consider how the drastically different portrayals in Plane Crazy and The Gallopin' Gaucho would have potentially changed the initial perception of the future Walt Disney company mascot. And how do all three of these hold up as cartoons in the here and now? Are they fun to watch outside of their historical value? Listen to find out!

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Today we cover what is perhaps Dreamworks' most infamous film. This one almost sunk the company before it could give us classics like Shrek 2, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, or Megamind. It's also one of the death knells for major releases of traditionally animated films. But all that said... how is the movie? Is this tale of pirates and chaos goddesses any good, or is it best left forgotten, the way Jeffery Katzenberg, creator of Quibi, would prefer? Listen to find out!

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Today we look at the final Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon Walt Disney had a hand in, though it would prove to be far from the last short to use the character. Ortensia and Pete are back for this one, but instead of a fantasy setting, this short goes for a then-contemporary construction workplace setting. As the final Disney short before the start of the Mickey Mouse series, does this finale of sorts for the Disney Oswald series still hold up so many years later? Listen to find out!

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