A TALKING PONY?!? is actually about a talking horse, not a pony, but neither the fact that it talks nor its status as a horse has any bearing whatsoever on the plot. And it’s not the horse seen on the cover of the DVD.  Like many of the films we watch, this one exudes a palpable contempt for its audience, but unlike the others, A TALKING PONY?!? ramps up the contempt quotient by intermittently not even being a film, which means it’s the first film we considered rejecting not because it doesn’t have enough animal in it, but because it might not be a movie in the first place.  At the beginning of the show we do a self-crit about what qualifies a movie as an animal movie, Mikal updates us about the animal trainer he’s been emailing, and at the end, Simon blows the whole genre wide open with a meteoric hot take about the form.  As always, we remind you not to watch this movie.

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