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.