We’re continuing our journey through the magical realm of Movies the “Avatar” Trailer Reminded People Of. Today, we’re tackling that other movie set in a jaw-droppingly awesome looking animated rainforest.  Some guy goes to this beautiful place and doesn’t really appreciate it. Then he sort of becomes one of the natives and explores the magical land. And once he learns more about it (and, more importantly, falls in love with a cute girl native), he’ll do anything he can to right the wrongs of his former people and save his new home.

(12/12/06)

The catalyst for this year’s visit to the land of strange gifts is something that I saw for sale in the Kittery Trading Post after *last* Christmas. Darn me for not having my camera with me at the time, however I have since found it for sale online. This is good; it means that I did not hallucinate it.
Friends, I have found the most incredibly strange Christmas gift you could ever imagine.

(11/29/04)

So last time, we had insane presents offered by the SkyMall catalog. This year, we are laughing as I say sarcastic things about weird toys I found for sale at bargain stores. I almost feel bad for these poor toys. Sitting on their little shelves, just waiting, waiting, *waiting* for the day when some child will take them home. How would *you* feel if you were a spotted elephant? Or a train with square wheels? Or a… perfectly normal looking doll…?

(Also known as “La Planète Sauvage”.)
Continuing our series of Movies the “Avatar” Trailer Reminded People Of, we have an animated movie from France that might just be too damn weird to review.

(11/24/03)

First, a quick DISCLAIMER is in order here: I am not affiliated with SkyMall or Toys “R” Us. This isn’t a paid advertisement, just a collection of links to insane things they happen to sell.
Okay, you may recall that, at the beginning of this year, during the California Adventure story, I mentioned the crazy in-flight magazines I got to read. One of them was a catalog called SkyMall. They had an excellent collection of things that I don’t even believe exist. I made a quick list of their most insane items. If you have a lot of money to spend on somebody who is very hard to buy for, here are some fine suggestions.

Normally this time of year, I’d be reviewing a bunch of weird holiday movies. This year I’m going to do something a little different. To commemorate the premier of the movie that James Cameron has been working on since before I was born (maybe it just feels that way), I will do a series of Movies the “Avatar” Trailer Reminded People Of.

(10/17/03)

Halloween kicks ass! Seriously, you get to wear a costume and you get free candy. As a kid in the suburbs, this is as close (legally) as you’ll be able to get to a Mardi Gras style fervor. I mean come on! Costumes! Annoying your neighbors! Spooky stuff!
FREE!  CANDY!!!  For Free!!!
But to score candy, you will need a costume.

David Carradine and Richard Roundtree save New York City from the first mythical being the guy who made the “It’s Alive” movies pulled out of a hat.

(10/20/05; new material added 10/14/09)

Holiday Greetings from Chazkowski the Happy Halloween Acorn Squash!  (Shop ‘N’ Drop was out of pumpkins one year, and ever since then he has become something of a Clan Mad-Ness tradition.)

I am dead effing serious when I tell you that this is the closest any movie has come to threatening “Theodore Rex” as the most inept, incomprehensible, and terrible movie I have ever seen.  It’s just barely less effed up than that “Titanic” animated movie.