Mediocre Movies

Ya like jazz? We wrap up our third season with a look at one of the seminal classics of the 2000s - Jerry Seinfeld's Bee Movie. Join Riley, Cal, Brad and Keiden as they discuss why Ken is the person we all strive to be like, whether Bees have proper legal standing to sue the human race and what's the deal with honey.

We cap off our look at Threequels by examining the third film in one of the 2000's biggest franchises - Shrek The Third! Join Riley, Cal, Brad and Jacob as they ponder whether the film would have worked better by relegating Shrek to the background, whether the soundtrack works to its full potential and how a potential Shrek 5 would look.

We go sliding sideways into a corner with a film that has become part of a iconic franchise! We discuss the issues and the limited positives about the film, and also try to figure out what the rest of the franchise is about.

We kick off our final block for Season Three this week as we take a look at Threequels - the third film in a franchise - and we start with everyone's favorite Dinosaur franchise, Jurassic Park! Join Riley, Cal, Keiden and Jacob as they look at 2001's Jurassic Park III and ask what happened to Jurassic Park and why the dinosaurs on Isla Sorna are so darn shiny in this film.

We cap off our Childhood Classics block with a movie that is incredibly on-brand for Brad - Titan: AE. Join Riley, Cal, Brad and Keiden as they talk about whether this movie is an effective mix of 2D and 3D animation, whether this movie is aimed at children and some of the finer details of how languages are crafted in the future.

We reach the penultimate week of our Childhood Classics block by taking a look at Cal's pick - the 2001 animated action-adventure Atlantis: The Lost Empire! Join Riley, Cal, Brad and Keiden as they talk the differences between this and The Road To El Dorado and why Dr. Sweet is the most precious character of all-time and must be protected at all costs!

We continue our block of Childhood Classics this week as we look at Riley's pick - the 2003 spy-flick Agent Cody Banks! Join Riley, Cal, Brad and Keiden as they try to figure out why Cody Banks is an infallible character, whether the 60s Spy aesthetic fits a kids film and whether Ian McShane is cancelled as a result of appearing in this film!

We kick off a block of Childhood Classics this week as we take a look at the 2000 animated flick The Road To El Dorado! Join Riley, Cal, Brad and Keiden as they talk about how animated characters can have on-screen chemistry, why this film may not have taken off due to the trends of the late 90s and whether making a 'kids' movie about the Spanish coming to wipe out the Aztecs is such a wise idea!

We cap off our look into Cult Classics by examining the movie that kick-started a ton of careers - Wet Hot American Summer! Join Riley, Cal, Brad and Keiden as they talk about whether this movie nails the style it is aiming for and whether Christopher Meloni as Gene is an iconic comedic character!

We continue our look at Cult Classics this week by examining the first example of Michael Bay cinematic kino in 1995's Bad Boys. Join Riley, Cal, Brad and Keiden as they talk about who the worse cop is between Martin Lawrence and Will Smith and whether Michael Bay actually thinks people can be anything other than the worst of humanity.

We continue our Cult Classics block by taking a look at the controversial 1994 flick Natural Born Killers. Join Riley, Cal and Brad as they talk about why this film portrays the media's view of violence, why Tommy Lee Jones plays a fantastic insane jail warden and whether Robert Downey Jr's Australian accent is truly terrible or not.

We kick off our series on cult classics as we take a look into 2001's Super Troopers! Join Riley, Cal, Brad and Keiden as they talk whether dumb comedies need a plot, why this movie has become memorable and a whole lot of other shenanigans.

Season Three of Mediocre Movies kicks off with a sequel episode to one of our very first episodes we recorded as we take a look at the sequel to A Goofy Movie in 2000's An Extremely Goofy Movie. Join Riley, Cal, Brad and Keiden as they talk skateboarding, college life and what a potential third movie in the Ultimate Goof Troop trilogy should look like.

Keiden, Cal and Riley watch the only Valentines Day film they can think of bearing, a mediocre slasher film from the late 2000s. Join us on this Bloody Valentines Day, and feel the love.

Join Riley and Brad as they talk about a film that isn't modeled on themselves at all - 2004's Starsky and Hutch.

This week we look at "Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas" and discuss whether it is any good or not, and the weird effects used without anyone having done any drugs.

Happy New Year! We bring in 2019 with a film set in the distant future, 2019! Dystopic gameshows, 80s charm and badly adapted books are all for this week, in Running Man!

A Merry Mediocre Christmas concludes with a special Boxing Day treat - Riley and Cal talking about Cal's all-time favorite Christmas movie - 1989's National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Listen in as we talk about the insanity that is the Griswold family and why Elaine from Seinfeld decided to move to New York in the first place!

A Merry Mediocre Christmas continues this week with a super-sized cast as Cal, Kassi, Kyle, Mary and Charisse take a look at the seminal 2003 Christmas classic 'Love Actually'! Join us as we talk all things Emma Thompson and if you really can feel love in your fingers.

We kick off A Merry Mediocre Christmas this week as we take a look at one of the most iconic Christmas films of all time in 1990's Home Alone. Join Riley, Cal and Kassi as they talk about why movie violence doesn't work in real life and why Fuller is the greatest character to exist in the Home Alone canon.

We are celebrating our boi Brendan Fraser cracking the half-ton this week as we take a look at arguably his most iconic role outside of Ben from Scrubs in 1999's The Mummy! Join Riley, Cal, Kassi and self-proclaimed Mummy expert Scott as we spend way too much of this podcast talking about just how good Brendan Fraser is. Any more episodes with a Fraser film and we might as well become a Fraser fan-cast!

We are jetting off this week as we take a look at the 2004 film The Terminal! Join Riley, Cal and Kassi as they discuss how the story behind the film and why Tom Hanks plays such a convincing Eastern European.

It's all about the toons this week as Riley, Cal, Kassi and Kyle take a look at the 2003 film and spiritual successor to the masterpiece that is Space Jam in Looney Tunes: Back In Action. Join us as we talk all things meta and why Brendan Fraser is a true master of the fine art of cinema, especially in this movie.

This week we take a look at the third film in Sam Raimi's other masterpiece trilogy, 2007's Spider-Man 3! Join Riley, Cal, Brad, Kassi and Matt as they discuss whether Eddie Brock truly is trash, why a fence isn't a good deterrent to stop people breaking into a molecular transformation facility and why this movie wasn't bad, but just dealt bad luck.

It's back to regular programming this week as Riley, Cal, Kassi and Charisse take a look at the 2008 musical smash hit Mamma Mia, pondering such questions as whether ABBA truly exists in this universe, whether singing songs smashes the space-time continuum and why Pierce Brosnan was hired for a musical film despite being unable to sing.

Spooktober 2018 concludes with our look at one of the most influential horror films in history in Friday the 13th. Join Riley, Cal, Kassi and Matt as they discuss why the film is so influential, how paddles work as effective guards against machetes and why Kevin Bacon can't see dead bodies at eye-level.

Spooktober 2018 continues as we take a look at the scariest Kevin Smith movie to come out in 2014, Tusk! Join Riley, Cal, Kassi and Brad as they talk about how great the song Tusk is, Brad's love for Kevin Smith and the KSPU and why the scariest thing in this Walrus-based horror film is Johnny Depp.

We kick off our Spooktober specials by taking a look at the first sequel to the classic 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge. Join Riley, Cal, Kassi and Brad as they try to make sense of this cult classic and wonder who gets billed for Freddy's rampant destruction of fine china and beach chairs.

The Mediocre Movies crew asks two questions this episode as they look into the enigma that is 2004's 50 First Dates: Why has this film stuck around in the memory of Riley, Cal and Kassi, and was Rob Schneider in costume as a Hawaiian offensive back in 2004? We try to answer both while also trying to figure out a way to make this movie into an Oscar-worthy picture involving Adam Sandler and honestly both seem like a big ask!

We are back! After a long hiatus and a period of watching nothing but Space Jam on VHS, the Mediocre Movies crew are back for a second run! Join Cal, Riley, Brad and Kyle as they talk 1992's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, in a film we totally didn't pick just for the thematic use of Mediocre Movies: The Return.

After a ‘short' hiatus, we are back with a brand new episode! We look at House Bunny, a film that divided the podcast, with what seemed offensive to some, but fun to others. We will try to be back with more regular episodes. Advertisements

Jack Black, Wrestling, Religion and Tight Pants. All this is covered this week in the review of the 2006 film ‘Nacho Libre‘. Featuring special guest Luke!

What can be said about the Australian films Wolf Creek and Wolf Creek 2? Not enough for a podcast each, evidently. We dive into both films this episode in a double whammy, and hope that John Jarratt isn't listening.

An All-Star cast, double roles with Jack Nicholson, and Tom Jones singing, what could go wrong in this sci-fi comedy? Quite a bit, evidently. Listen to the crew talk about the "Mars Attacks", acknowledge our fan and listen to Kyle rant about how the podcast is a terrible idea.

In this contentious episode, we look at the classic 1996 film "Space Jam". Filled with Michael Jordan goodness, or badness, we take apart the film that defines a generation. With nonsensical plot, basketball and Looney Tunes, we decide if this film is any good.

This week, we watch Christopher Walken and Al Pacino act past their peak, and debate whether they know it or not. "Stand Up Guys" is a 2012 film, that has some great and terrible jokes.

This week, we put David Duchovny under the scope in the 2001 film, "Evolution". We talk Phil Dunphy, dinosaurs and fake science in this blockbuster episode about one of Cal's favourite movies.

Jason Statham is in prison after not killing his wife, and now he drives so he can leave the prison, but it isn't as him, but as Frankenstein, but he can't tell anyone, except for the 20 people who know, and he really can't leave, but maybe, just maybe, he can. Follow along? Maybe you […]

This week, we watched a film from the upper crust of our allowance. "Robots", which starred Ewan McGregor and Robin Williams, to name a few, had a rating of 64%. So, did it deserve to be labelled ‘mediocre'? Come find out!

For Part 2 of Mediocre Movies on the Golf Course, we followed Bagger Vance with "Happy Gilmore". A comedic classic, but does it hold up after time? Was it ever good? Find out in this episode!

For Part 1 of Mediocre Movies on the Golf Course, we watched "The Legend of Bagger Vance". With a cast starring the talents of Matt Damon, Will Smith and Charlize Theron, what could possibly go wrong? Quite a bit.

This week, we sit down and watch "A Goofy Movie". We look at the demigod status of Goofy, discuss how the hell gloves work and ask "Why was Pauly Shore in this movie anyway?"

For the debut episode of Mediocre Movies, we sat down and watched "Spy Kids 3D". We discuss the poor CGI, the Split narratives of Sylvester Stallone and where did Grandpa go?