Live UP

In this episode we discuss 'Coming To America' (1988) and realize we were all happily watching a rated R movie as 10-year olds and are better for it. Find out whether our collective early 90s Eddie Murphy phase has enough staying power to make 'Coming To America' live UP. Stay tuned at the end for a special guest appearance by co-host Jess Latterman's brother, who retroactively clutches his pearls over the R rating.

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Who can behave worse than the Addams family at a kid recital? In this bonus episode host Amanda Treat shares when she had a clown funeral crack up moment at her sister's band concert. It happens to the best behaved of us even without Wednesday and Pugsley shenanigans to make it weird. 

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In this episode we discuss 'The Addams Family' (1991) and ask whether host Amanda Treat is a real life Wednesday Adams, and whether the movie experience boils down to basking in the essence of Anjelica Huston as Morticia. Listen in to our very professional re-review* to find out whether the cast's powerhouse performances are enough to make 'The Addams Family' live UP.

*not professional at all.

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The most bulletproof theory of all-time on why Santa had to be real came from the mind of host Amanda Treat when she was six years old. Perhaps the reason why she loved 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' movie so much. 

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We revisit the cult classic 'Troop Beverly Hills' and question whether it's still fun to make fun of rich people (it is) and why all the dunking on Kmart. Hosts Jess and Amanda have a raging debate over the razor's edge line of is this dumb vs. charming.

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We are revisiting the movies from our youth to see if they live UP! In this episode we discuss 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' (1964), which attempts to make a whole movie out of the famous Christmas song. Or as host Amanda Treat puts it, the movie asks the question you never knew you wanted the answer to, "what if Santa was a d*ck". We discuss just how far nostalgia can go for a movie to live up and what an interest in dentistry can be a euphemism for. Listen in and see if you agree with our very professional re-review *. 

*not professional at all. 

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Does 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' live up or is it just a crap real estate deal? Released in 1988, the movie is set in a fictional 1947 Hollywood where cartoon characters - toons - intermingle with humans. Roger Rabbit is a toon who is framed for murder and a somewhat drunk-all-the-time-detective Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) gets roped into helping Roger clear his name. It won three academy awards and was generally well received by critics for its groundbreaking special effects and storytelling. BUT we are now watching it again as adults 30+ years later to see if it lives up. 

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*not professional at all

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