Travolting

Travolting

By Jeff Sweeney & Stuart ElmoreTV & FilmFilm ReviewsFilm History
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Travolting episodes

  • In Search of Dr Seuss

    A journalist explores the early life and career of famed children's author Dr Seuss through retelling of his most popular stories told through the lens of significant cultural and sociopolitical events. Robin pops in for a short but heartfelt sequence where he reads the Cat in the Hat to his daughter, Zelda.

    46 min
  • Mrs. Doubtfire

    If you were born in the 90's, this and/or Aladdin was your childhood introduction to Robin Williams. This heartwarming Chris Columbus movie has a dark spin among certain audiences, like Jeff.

    2 hr 16 min
  • Toys

    Robin Williams reunites with Good Morning Vietnam Director Barry Levinson in this blank check, first draft film that combines the ideas of Willy Wonka, Small Soldiers, and Apocalypse Now.

    2 hr 3 min
  • Aladdin

    MAKE WAAAAAYYY FOR PRINCE ROBIN!!! Robin at the height of his acting career hits another homerun as the titular Genie in Disney's 1992 animated classic, Aladdin. When the writers and producers were attempting to do some research on middle eastern culture, they decided going to the Saudi Arabian expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center was all that they needed. That all said, Robin's role as the genie is what will cement his voice and "stream-of-consciousness" mind into children and adults all across the world.

    2 hr 22 min
  • FernGully: The Last Rainforest

    Jeff, Stuart and special guest Alex Wilson talk about Robin Williams' first feature length animated role as Batty Koba in FernGully: The Last Rainforest. Batty is a bat, as the name would imply, that suffered under human experiments which led to him having erratic mood changes where his personality switches like changing the channel on a TV.

    1 hr 44 min
  • A Wish for Wings that Work

    Before FernGully, before Aladdin, Robin does a single scene voice cameo for a children's animated short film based on the penguin who wished he could fly. "Technically" this is Robin's first ever animated role in his career.

    30 min
  • Hook

    Williams first of his two collaborations with the legendary Steven Spielberg. Join Jeff, Stuart and Rebecca Johnson as the three all go toe to toe in debating the ultimate question: Is Hook a good movie?

    2 hr 27 min
  • The Fisher King

    Robin's second collaboration with Terry Gilliam involves a grungy New York city where a disgraced DJ played by Jeff Bridges befriends Robin Williams who plays a homeless man who believes he is a knight on a mission from god to find the holy grail.

    2 hr 19 min
  • Dead Again

    Kenneth Branaghs second film he directed involves a weird neo-noir almost pulp-like thriller where Branagh and Emma Thompson must figure out a murder from their past lives. Robin, who is only in three fairly short scenes, is playing a psychiatrist named Doctor Carlisle Cozy.

    2 hr 17 min

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