"The Critic" is a great show. It follows the life & times of Jay Sherman (voice of Jon Lovitz), a New York-based film critic who is forced to review films he doesn't like. He's middle-aged, overweight, and raising his son Marty (Christine Cavanaugh) alone. The show pretty much deals with his attempts at finding love in the Big Apple and trying to deal with his crazy life, crazy parents, and crazy job.
"The Critic" is one of the great shows from my early years as a young boy growing up during the early 1990s. This was a show that along with "The Simpsons," provided a lot of animated hilarity on weekday and weekend afternoons that I just never got tired of watching. Six years ago, I managed to purchase the complete series of "The Critic" on DVD from Best Buy and I'm glad that I did, since I don't think that the DVD set is in print anymore.
It was a truly one-of-a-kind show that was canceled way before its time. (Why are the really good shows always the ones getting canceled?) Lovitz, a greatly under-appreciated comedic talent, was great as Jay Sherman, who did a cross-over on "The Simpsons" once. "The Critic" was hilarious in the way that it parodied famous movies at the time. That was really one of the reasons why I loved it and why it worked so great as a comedy show that made fun of real life.
"The Critic" - 10/10
"The Critic" is one of the great shows from my early years as a young boy growing up during the early 1990s. This was a show that along with "The Simpsons," provided a lot of animated hilarity on weekday and weekend afternoons that I just never got tired of watching. Six years ago, I managed to purchase the complete series of "The Critic" on DVD from Best Buy and I'm glad that I did, since I don't think that the DVD set is in print anymore.
It was a truly one-of-a-kind show that was canceled way before its time. (Why are the really good shows always the ones getting canceled?) Lovitz, a greatly under-appreciated comedic talent, was great as Jay Sherman, who did a cross-over on "The Simpsons" once. "The Critic" was hilarious in the way that it parodied famous movies at the time. That was really one of the reasons why I loved it and why it worked so great as a comedy show that made fun of real life.
"The Critic" - 10/10