Travolting

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Known as "The Citizen Kane of Alcoholic Clown Movies", this film is full of fun surprises like baby Adam Sandler, murderer Tom Kenny and many more that you'll have fun discovering as the boys talk about Bobcat Goldthwait's Shakes the Clown!

Robin joins forces with Robert De Niro in this 1991 medical drama about a doctor who searches to find signs of life within patients frozen from a neurological disease. Through the discovery of a new chance at life, Robin and Robert both find new meaning and purpose in what it means to be alive. This is a major Stuart tearjerker movie.

This movie tries to be Dog Day Afternoon but with a used car salesman. Though Robin still makes a few jokes in this movie, there's not enough craziness to justify itself.

The 90's, what a wild time it was. Before the infamous celebrity "imagine" montage in the Covid-19 era, there was a TV special featuring every single famous actor in that era speaking on the cause of Climate Change. Robin representing the "Every Man" figuring out ways to help the planet and humanity's future. This is the Earth Day Special.

Oh Captain my Captain! Robin Williams enters the poetry classroom as Mr. Keating, a teacher for an all-boys prep school that teaches his class how to seize the day and make their lives extraordinary. Dead Poets Society is a film that stands the test of time and has influenced many young adults in how to navigate through their traditional lives whether it be through an educational environment or their home environment.

Travolta is back with his sequel to Cash Out... HIGH ROLLERS!!! This movie is bad. Why are we still doing this?

The boys close out this first era of Robin Williams career by summarizing his rise as a comedian who tried his best to get into the acting business. What started as Popeye and then misstep after misstep, he eventually got the guidance and wisdom of director Barry Levinson in Good Morning Vietnam that showed the world that Robin Williams wasn't just a comedian anymore, he was a movie star.

Robin has a 5 minute cameo in this movie, forcing us to cover it. Nothing really happens. The movie is quite boring and dull. Martin Mull seemingly plays himself but paints himself as a bad daytime TV talk show host? Wild.

From the mind of Terry Gilliam, comes a historical fantasy adventure where an old heroic man must take flight from a city under siege to find his old heroic friends to perform one last adventure. The film explores ideas of imagination, aging, death, and whimsical storytelling. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen goes down as a hidden gem of a movie that otherwise could have easily gone unnoticed in the Travolting saga.

After a number of flops and panned projects, Robin finally arrives as the perfect storm to audiences all over the world with his performance in the 1987 comedy war film, Good Morning, Vietnam. With a combination of untapped comedic improvisation to genuinely heartfelt dramatic moments, Robin soars in this movie that understands the perfect way to synthesize the talent of Robin Williams.

Not to be confused with the popular song from the hit broadway musical, Newsies; as well as not to be confused with the popular saying in Robin's later film, Dead Poets Society. Seize the Day is a low-budget PBS TV Movie in which Robin plays a down-on-his-luck man whose marriage is falling apart, broke, and can't seem to get a single win in life.

Club Paradise begins in Chicago Illinois where a retired firefighter played by Robin Williams takes his insurance money and opens a resort at a tropical island. Directed by Harold Ramis, this movie could've been another lampoon-esque classic but instead gets too busy with various themes and subplots muddy up the films cohesiveness. Rick Moranis and Eugene Levy are both funny in this.

This two hander starring Kurt Russell and Robin Williams follows the lives of two washed up dudes in their 30s who reminisce on their final high school football game where Robin's character "dropped the ball". Too bad everybody else involved in making this movie also dropped the ball.

In the height of the Reagan Era, Robin plays a russian who defects and lives a new life in America. The film is a fascinating introspective look on the immigrant story learning about the wonderful and strange things in this new country with his likewise immigrant friends who guides him on this new journey.

Jeff and Stuart barely "survived" watching this movie. Marketed as a two-hander between Robin and Walter Matthau, this movie nails the jokes just as well as the plot: fast and unintelligible.

Considered to be Robin Williams' first dramatic role, this Forrest Gump-like movie showcases the life of T.S. Garp, a man born out of wed lock with no father figure around being raised by a woman who becomes a feminist icon. With a name like Garp, you would think the movie would allow Robin to be funny... it does not.

Robin's spiritual first film where he channels his inner cartoon character to portray THE cartoon character. That's right... POPEYE! Robin, Shelley Duvall, and many other characters fully commit to the animated style of this Robert Altman musical.

Travolting's Season 4 subject, Bobbin for Robin, kicks off with Robin Williams first starring feature role; Pop-- Wait what? You mean to tell me Popeye wasn't Robin's first movie? You mean to tell me Robin Williams was in this low budget comedy sketch movie that was 99% college humor sex jokes called 'Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses'?? Oh... okay...

The Candlelight Procession is a christmas musical event that Disney hosts in both of its parks with various celebrity narrators to guide us through the nativity story of Jesus. Well in 2023 in Disneyworld's EPCOT, our boy Brendan Fraser makes a return to the land of Orlando Florida where we will once again talk through a live viewing of the 2023 EPCOT Candlelight Procession.

The final recap episode for this season of Travolting as the boys round up their experience studying and investigating the career of Winona Ryder. What's Winona's deal? Where is she heading from here? Are we optimistic?Tune in for the full episode where we reveal our Season Four Subject!

Don't say it a third time! Jeff and Stuart finally reach Winona's modern era opus film, a sequel to a 1988 Tim Burton cult classic that includes the return of Keaton, O'Hara, and adding to the gang Jenna Ortega as Lydia Deetz's daughter. While Jeff, Stuart and special guest Trina Mulligan all have different opinions on the success/achievement of Beetlejuice 2, none of them deny the benchmark this film is for Winona's post-Stranger Things comeback to fame.

Coming out a year before Beetlejuice 2, Winona is given a single scene cameo in this movie that doesn't seem to be scary enough or funny enough to justify its existence.

Originally called "The Cow" for... reasons... but this is Winona's first major top billed role in a real movie in over a decade. Jeff and Stuart remark the similarities between this movie and Zach Cregger's "Barbarian" except Gone in the Night takes a few unexpected twists and turns which leave the boys giggling at the sillyness of it all. That all being said, there is a tinge of hope for Winona after watching her performance in this movie which if anything, offers some great thriller vibes in the first two acts.

Everything is not fine. This is a 50 minute Netflix TV special that was made in the height of Covid-19 and the 2020 election... so we're not okay after watching this.

He's back folks. Keanu Reeves in his fourth collaboration with Winona Ryder. This time, the pair are off to a wedding together, neither of whom wish to attend, and through their misery both internal and external, somehow form a relationship?

The Fraser's Edge returns with Brendan's latest release, Brothers, starring Peter Dinklage and Josh Brolin. While the movie was made before Killers of the Flower Moon but released on Amazon Prime last week, Jeff and Stuart both agree that in this mediocre, by-the-numbers film, Fraser is the one who shines with his comedic force.

At this point in Winona's career, she's gone from zero to... pretty okay? The boys go back and forth on the rebuilding of Winona's career status in Hollywood and where it will lead her in the future.

In 1961, infamous psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a controversial experiment that answered the question: "Would good people do horrible things so long as they were just following orders?". This movie explores the life and career of Milgram as he tries to distance himself from the controversial experiment.

Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy), a retired MI5 agent hiding from the law in the Turks and Caicos islands, comes upon a plot between MI5 and the CIA in which he uses his position to broker a deal that would leave every party involved in a happy enough place to which he could return to his home country in peace. Confused? So were the boys as this movie is the second movie of the "Worricker Trilogy.

Jason Statham plays the role of Phil Broker: family man who's a retired DEA/FBI/CIA agent (we still don't really know) who moves away from his chaotic and destructive life to live in peace with his daughter in New Orleans. This peace is interrupted though when Meth Dealer James 'Gator' Franco arrives on the scene to wreck havoc. Jeff and Stuart are joined by special guest Dan Gutierrez who actually worked on the film!

Not a spin-off movie starring Shawn Ashmore about his Bobby Drake character from the 2003 and 2006 X-Men movies, but rather a Michael Shannon movie about one of the most notorious mob hitman who allegedly killed over a hundred people and kept their bodies on ice. Where is this scum bag from you ask? You guessed it... New Jersey...

You've probably gathered by now that the shorter the episode, the worse the movie is. If Stuart had his way, this episode would be two minutes long.

Winona reunites with Tim Burton for their third (but not last) collaboration after 20 years apart. First she played a child in Beetlejuice, then she played a teenage girl in Edward Scissorhands; now after 20 years, Winona will be voicing... another child! Wait a second...Joined by special guest, Savannah Olson

So here's our dilemma... Jeff and Stuart have covered 44 movies spanning more than 20 years of Winona Ryder's career... and she hasn't done a Vince Vaughn comedy yet!? Joined by our very special guest who worked on the movie: Tyler Ventura.

Natalie Portman, the young and ambitious ballet dancer, takes on her first lead role as the Swan Queen in the classic ballet, Swan Lake. Portman steps into the spotlight, taking the place of the character Beth Macintyre, the once famous and favorited dancer of them all, now being tossed aside as her youth begins to fade. Take a wild guess which actress is covering that role...

Winona joins the realm of Hallmark movies with this particular film about the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon.

FINALLY! We've reached the timeline where Winona is in a GOOD MOVIE AGAIN!

Jeff, Stuart and returning guest Alex Wilson discuss a movie about a man's fever dream of returning to high school in his mid 30's and being the most popular guy in school who gets the hot 18-year-old... we must restate this though... IN HIS THIRTIES.

This 2009 "discover yourself" kind of flick stars Robin Wright who is married to Alan Arkin (30 years her senior). We get some small action by our beloved Winona as well as reoccurring guest, Cole Bradley and Keanu Reeves!

This movie apparently at one point was suppose to have vampires in it? Well the boys regret to "inform" you that there are no vampires in this movie and that this movie is another big sleeper for Winona's filmography.

Continuing down Winona's popularity collapse, The Last Word is a movie about a man named Evan who gets hired to write people's suicide notes. We thought about reaching out to him after we made it through watching this movie.

Alright class settle down! Time for our very first instructional episode on Sex and Death 101, starring... Winona Ryder as Professor Death Nell who will be your instructor for today. Our first lesson... this movie sucks.

Paul Rudd teaches us a lesson. Actually... TEN LESSONS! And they are all based on the ten commandments. Before you think this is going to be some "God's Not Dead" level religious film, we regret to inform you that it could not be further from the truth.

Another early post-sabbatical takes Winona to Richard Linklater in A Scanner Darkly. A Phillip K Dick novel adaptation about the a not-to-distant future where America has lost the war on drugs and the police surveillance state goes to a whole new "almost Minority Report" level. Winona is in another small role along side Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr, and Woody Harrelson.