Nicholas Stoller

NGL but when I heard about the books and saw siblings/cousins reading them I just rolled my eyes. Years later, I came across this on streaming and decided to give it a spin and... well, I was pleasantly surprised at how much it could appeal to adults as well as kids. So I went and checked out the first book and well, what do you know, it's more clever than I thought although there's still a fair bit of juvenile humor.

Nowhere near as good a film as the previous installment, but a solid return to the Muppets' trademark variety humour, with lots of brilliant little bits throughout the film. Especially the Ty Burrell/Sam Eagle two-hander is amazing in virtually every frame of film.

The updated story of "Gulliver" hits some solid notes, but sometimes tries too hard to shoe-horn the new story into the old narrative. Not Black's best role.

D (Bad).

A fraternity moves next door to a couple with a baby.

The premise of an escalating feud sounded potentially fun, but they didn't come up with any ideas beyond the premise. Just absolute bottom-of-the-barrel, too-drunk-or-high-to-brainstorm-successfully garbage.

(Nov. 2024)