When 1980’s Airplane! proved to be a massive hit, becoming one of the highest-grossing films of the year – up there with The Empire Strikes Back and Best Picture winner Kramer vs. Kramer – it was inevitable that it would get a sequel. But how often are comedy sequels good anyway? When have they ever really recaptured the magic and the laughter of the original? Well, Airplane II: The Sequel gave it a go…by basically being the same movie. Except this time around, Zaz wisely opted out, leaving the production without the strong leaders who reinvented the spoof genre. Instead, they got the guy who wrote Grease 2, one of the most notoriously awful sequels ever! So, strap in – no, not to an airplane but a space shuttle – as we find out: Wtf Happened to This Movie?!…The Sequel!
1980’s Airplane! did incredibly well upon release, making just under $85 million on a $3.5 million budget,...
1980’s Airplane! did incredibly well upon release, making just under $85 million on a $3.5 million budget,...
- 4/17/2024
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
If you've been feeling bereft of interplanetary adventure and a little lost without access to a teleporter and universal translator, you're not alone.
Star Trek: Prodigy wrapped its first season on December 29 with Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 Episode 20, and after traveling the galaxy with the intrepid crew of the USS Protostar for 14 months, its absence is palpable.
Happily, TV Fanatic had the opportunity to talk with creators Dan and Kevin Hageman and discuss those incredible final few episodes of the season and everything the future holds for Dal, Gwyn, Rok, Zero, Pog, Murf, and Vice Admiral Janeway.
Meeting over Zoom, the Hagemans are enthusiastic about being able to talk about everything, including the finale.
First, though, we ask about Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 Episode 18, "Mindwalk," wherein Dal (Brett Gray) and Vice Admiral Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) swap bodies.
Gray and Mulgrew had to stretch their voice-acting muscles as Gray had to...
Star Trek: Prodigy wrapped its first season on December 29 with Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 Episode 20, and after traveling the galaxy with the intrepid crew of the USS Protostar for 14 months, its absence is palpable.
Happily, TV Fanatic had the opportunity to talk with creators Dan and Kevin Hageman and discuss those incredible final few episodes of the season and everything the future holds for Dal, Gwyn, Rok, Zero, Pog, Murf, and Vice Admiral Janeway.
Meeting over Zoom, the Hagemans are enthusiastic about being able to talk about everything, including the finale.
First, though, we ask about Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 Episode 18, "Mindwalk," wherein Dal (Brett Gray) and Vice Admiral Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) swap bodies.
Gray and Mulgrew had to stretch their voice-acting muscles as Gray had to...
- 1/13/2023
- by Diana Keng
- TVfanatic
It's pretty genius what they've done on Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 Episode 18 in providing a way for the Protostar to convey information to the Dauntless without using traditional modes of communication.
(Mind you, the contrarian in me wonders if they couldn't have scrawled out a message on the windows (ports?) of the Protostar to arrange a face-to-face rendezvous on some neutral planet or starport.)
But a body/brain swap works, too—sort of.
The most impressive element in this adventure is how Brett Gray and Kate Mulgrew effectively convey the characters' consciousness exchange through their vocal intonations and cadence.
Not only are Dal and Vice Admiral Janeway on opposite ends of the Starfleet experience spectrum, but Gray and Mulgrew are similarly diverse in their backgrounds as voice actors.
With her expansive list of voice acting roles, one would expect Mulgrew to slip into the discombobulated Dal voice with finesse. However,...
(Mind you, the contrarian in me wonders if they couldn't have scrawled out a message on the windows (ports?) of the Protostar to arrange a face-to-face rendezvous on some neutral planet or starport.)
But a body/brain swap works, too—sort of.
The most impressive element in this adventure is how Brett Gray and Kate Mulgrew effectively convey the characters' consciousness exchange through their vocal intonations and cadence.
Not only are Dal and Vice Admiral Janeway on opposite ends of the Starfleet experience spectrum, but Gray and Mulgrew are similarly diverse in their backgrounds as voice actors.
With her expansive list of voice acting roles, one would expect Mulgrew to slip into the discombobulated Dal voice with finesse. However,...
- 12/15/2022
- by Diana Keng
- TVfanatic
I'll be honest. I love anthologies. I love exposition. So by any measure, Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 Episode 16 is a sheer delight for me, and I'll also admit that's a weird thing to say about a collection of woe-filled tales of child slavery, kidnapping, and vengeance-fueled tragedy.
However, thanks to the genius in the planning and pacing of the season, we're able to see the backstories of Rok-Tahk, Zero, and Jankom Pog as traumatic events that led to their happier, healthier place aboard the Protostar.
And while life isn't perfect for our intrepid kid crew, the injustices they have survived are easier to process, knowing they eventually find a family with each other.
The same cannot be said for Asencia, now known to be The Vindicator, and The Diviner.
While it's exciting to know for certain where (and when) Chakotay is and how The Protostar became weaponized to destroy the Federation,...
However, thanks to the genius in the planning and pacing of the season, we're able to see the backstories of Rok-Tahk, Zero, and Jankom Pog as traumatic events that led to their happier, healthier place aboard the Protostar.
And while life isn't perfect for our intrepid kid crew, the injustices they have survived are easier to process, knowing they eventually find a family with each other.
The same cannot be said for Asencia, now known to be The Vindicator, and The Diviner.
While it's exciting to know for certain where (and when) Chakotay is and how The Protostar became weaponized to destroy the Federation,...
- 12/1/2022
- by Diana Keng
- TVfanatic
For a character in a film to see themselves as others see them, it generally requires subterfuge, or a magic doubling. For Rok (Jure Henigan), the reason is much more everyday - a bang on the head, in an incident never fully detailed, from which he wakes up in hospital with memory loss. With no recollection of his immediate past, including the life he shared with his girlfriend (Živa Selan doing a lot of work with slight material), he retreats to the last place he remembers clearly, the hometown, where he lived with his mother (Nataša Barbara Gračner) and younger brother Jure (Timon Sturbej).
The fearful way his mother reacts to him is the first indicator that something isn’t quite right, a feeling of disconnection between how Rok feels about the place and how the period he can’t remember shaped how others feel about him. This sense of distortion is.
The fearful way his mother reacts to him is the first indicator that something isn’t quite right, a feeling of disconnection between how Rok feels about the place and how the period he can’t remember shaped how others feel about him. This sense of distortion is.
- 11/22/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Frying pan, meet fire. Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 Episode 14 takes everything our Protostar crew sees as safe and comforting and blows it out the airlock.
In addition, while wandering the Mos Eisley spaceport of the Delphic Expanse, Denaxi Depot, they manage to pick up Trek's own Han Solo, Thadiun Okona, the rapscallion captain making his second animated return after appearing on Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 2 Episode 5.
And did we mention Murf? He may be bipedal now, but as long as his butt continues firing torpedoes, he'll always be our Mellanoid slime baby.
The highlight, by any measure, is the Dauntless chasing down the Protostar at slipstream warp, dwarfing the tiny craft in both size and the determination of its commander.
The real me is hunting us with a quantum slipstream Dauntless-class starship? Good luck with that.
Hologram Janeway Permalink: The real me is hunting us with a quantum slipstream Dauntless-class starship?...
In addition, while wandering the Mos Eisley spaceport of the Delphic Expanse, Denaxi Depot, they manage to pick up Trek's own Han Solo, Thadiun Okona, the rapscallion captain making his second animated return after appearing on Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 2 Episode 5.
And did we mention Murf? He may be bipedal now, but as long as his butt continues firing torpedoes, he'll always be our Mellanoid slime baby.
The highlight, by any measure, is the Dauntless chasing down the Protostar at slipstream warp, dwarfing the tiny craft in both size and the determination of its commander.
The real me is hunting us with a quantum slipstream Dauntless-class starship? Good luck with that.
Hologram Janeway Permalink: The real me is hunting us with a quantum slipstream Dauntless-class starship?...
- 11/17/2022
- by Diana Keng
- TVfanatic
One can be forgiven for wondering if Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 Episode 11 would be able to bring the series back at the same level of excellence it established with its inaugural ten episodes.
After all, it's been nearly a full year (to the day!) that Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 first premiered and almost nine months since the midseason finale, Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 Episode 10.
Well, that was needless anxiety, wasn't it?
We hit the ground (water?) running as the Protostar crew continue the Star Trek tradition of saving whales (or at least whale-like creatures).
That's not the only action we catch up with quickly.
Gwyn's memory loss after seeing a reflection of Zero's true form continues to trouble her and Zero. Zero because they feel guilty to have harmed a friend. Gwyn because... well, she lost a chunk of memory that includes her last encounter with her father. That would mess with anyone's calm.
After all, it's been nearly a full year (to the day!) that Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 first premiered and almost nine months since the midseason finale, Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 Episode 10.
Well, that was needless anxiety, wasn't it?
We hit the ground (water?) running as the Protostar crew continue the Star Trek tradition of saving whales (or at least whale-like creatures).
That's not the only action we catch up with quickly.
Gwyn's memory loss after seeing a reflection of Zero's true form continues to trouble her and Zero. Zero because they feel guilty to have harmed a friend. Gwyn because... well, she lost a chunk of memory that includes her last encounter with her father. That would mess with anyone's calm.
- 10/27/2022
- by Diana Keng
- TVfanatic
It's hard to believe, but Star Trek: Prodigy premiered almost exactly a year ago. A co-production between Nickelodeon and Paramount+, its mission targetted a demographic Star Trek had never made a play for before -- elementary to middle-school-aged kids.
Despite that aim, Prodigy proved in its inaugural ten episodes that its narrative and adventure held appeal for adult fans of Star Trek and quality animation.
In anticipation of the second half of Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 dropping on Thursday, October 23, TV Fanatic joined several other press outlets to speak with Brett Gray and Ella Purnell, the voice actors who bring to life Dal R'El and Gwyndala, respectively.
Purnell was asked first about the emotional and psychological changes Gwyn has undergone. Does she get a heads-up, and how does she prepare?
She admits she's still surprised by the scripts. "I do [get some warning] to a certain extent. At the first audition that we had,...
Despite that aim, Prodigy proved in its inaugural ten episodes that its narrative and adventure held appeal for adult fans of Star Trek and quality animation.
In anticipation of the second half of Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 dropping on Thursday, October 23, TV Fanatic joined several other press outlets to speak with Brett Gray and Ella Purnell, the voice actors who bring to life Dal R'El and Gwyndala, respectively.
Purnell was asked first about the emotional and psychological changes Gwyn has undergone. Does she get a heads-up, and how does she prepare?
She admits she's still surprised by the scripts. "I do [get some warning] to a certain extent. At the first audition that we had,...
- 10/24/2022
- by Diana Keng
- TVfanatic
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