North - Nostalgia Critic
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- A movie so bad and full of horrible stereotypes that Siskel and Ebert said what about it? Tune in to see the Nostalgia Critic review North, and find out the answer!
Originally aired on 6/3/2009.
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My Japanese friend said to me "at least they didn't insult my culture." I told him that they probably think Asian is a singular culture.
Don't tell him about Hawaii
My wife is Chinese. She gets annoyed too when people act like Asia is a country.
“I don’t wanna be Asian, I wanna be Chinese.”
Okay?.
@ruggiebuggie3195 Blame the school learning, and media and more she shouldn't blaming on us like that.
You missed the first joke.
The parents in Texas note that their (former) overweight son could eat more than anyone else in a month - and hated February. February is the shortest month in the year. Therefore, he hated February because he was unable to out-eat everyone else by as wide a margin during that month... presumably.
Too bad that joke was poorly delivered.
@@nathanielpatterson-rc9dq and just…a bad joke in general.
@@JosephDutraYeeeah it was definitely in poor taste...no pun intended.
it's astounding how many good actors are in this movie and yet the storyline sinks like titanic.
Christina Kwon more like the submarine from the third animated Titanic movie!
Yeah, an absolute waste of talent.
@@aussieman3021
Wait, there’s talent?
@@suprakn1ght7y24 Yeah, there is, but it's all wasted here.
They were clearly pimped into it the way Bruce Campbell was with Congo.
I believe that the original ending had North waking up in a mental institution. His narcissistic dilutions had gotten out of control and his parents began to worry when he kept talking about how because he was so perfect the media was out to kill him at the orders of The Editor and only the Bunny Man could save him.
Why couldn't they keep this ending?! I would love this movie if that was the case!!
Really? That ending honestly would make a lot more sense
@@RedMoonSolitary They probably didn't use that ending because it'd be too dark. I'm sure Rob Reiner thought that the ending with it all having been a dream with him waking up into a life that's still good would be more happy and upbeat to movie viewers. It doesn't change though how terrible alot of the movie was.
@@juanitabrown8931 See my above reply to @Owlbard
Fun fact: Kathy Bates hated the script and was even advised by her agent to turn it down. She only agreed to do the film as a "thank you" to Reiner for getting her an Oscar for "Misery".
Yeah, I remember reading that. I totally agree with Roger Ebert, I hated hated hated this movie too.
I never realised that before, but I think that I agree with both Kathy Bates and Roger Ebert on this one. North was a horrible movie and I'm not lying when I say that
🆗 Cool
@@hrrproductions553 I can't believe that the same director who did classics like Misery did such a horrible bomb like this one. Reiner must've really really REALLY been going through a major slump during the time he did North. There were so many awful things in this movie. And the song from Dan Aykroyd and all of them was so freakin CRINGE. And at that moment I didn't think that the movie could get even worse, BUT IT DID!! Roger Ebert, RIP, I agree with your review SO MUCH
@@alvexok5523 So do I, and I also agree with your opinion
TO THIS FILMS CREDIT...
...the fact that it is a dream explains why Willis would keep popping up out of random, why the story can get weird and unusual, and why the distant locations are seen as stereotypical. North hasn't BEEN to these places and can only imagine the people as stereotypes. It doesn't make this film GOOD but it does explain some of it
He was only a genius etc in his dream though.
@@TriniKnight01 North hasn't entered the dream portion yet. He's still awake. It's likely that he's exaggerating his achievements and following the films humor, but he isn't asleep yet.
*to the movies credit* may means something else then you think!
To its credit = using the dumbest and oldest cliche!?
How about "What works against this movie, is that nothing of this ever really happened!!"
Its like a backwards Total Recall... - total decal ! ......... gosh
Don't try to sugar a piece of horsepoo... all you got is dirty sugar.
It's like that's how he imagines his dads workplace to be, and how boring he imagines a court scene to be
So is the Bruce Willis character an angry Darkrai-like god inflicting this nightmare upon both the protagonist and the audience to hammer "how DARE you stop honoring thy mother and father for even a minute!" into everyone's heads with a bastardized version of the core concept of It's A Wonderful Life?
Ok, the Amish part legitimately made me laugh... Although it could of been the lack of comedy from the rest of the movie...
Valen Warden Yeah, it's literally the only funny joke in the movie.
That's the best part! XD
It is funny how North just flies off
It's partly because the joke is at least somewhat on North really hating the idea of no technology rather than just "look how ridiculous we can make these stereotypes," which is also down to how short the joke is.
Also it was the most merciful stereotype. what did they pick on? they speak Pennsylvania Dutch, no electricity, and very unoriginal with names.
North: A movie that went south.
@@marcguerra1854 so South were in Mexico
@@alexjewett7455 landing deeper than the earth's crust
Matt Darrock so south that people believe the earth is flat
Haha! Nice one! (P.S. Love your profile pic. 😹)
Well to your credit, that joke is 20x better than any in this movie.
To quote George Takei on this movie, in one of his most memeable quotes:
*"You are made of Stupid"*
Don't shoot me... but I'd actually like to see a remake of this film. The premise isn't bad, in my opinion - it's the execution that needs work. Imagine if North's search for new parents went like this:
1) The Texas couple wear normal clothes, are filthy rich due to their oil wells, and run a ranch, where they teach North how to ride horses. His riding lessons go array, resulting in him being dragged on the ground while dangling from the saddle. At some point, the father has a slip-up and says, "Way to go, Buck!" which prompts North to ask, "Who's Buck?" Then North finds out they're only teaching him to ride horses because that's what Buck loved to do, and they were feeding him Buck's favorite foods and giving him Buck's old clothes in the hopes that he'll fill become more like him. North decides he wants more psychologically stable parents, and while he sadly reflects on them missing their son, he wonders if his own parents miss him as well.
2) At first, Hawaii agrees with North. He enjoys the beach, the fresh air, the sunshine, the water sports, etc. Then he realizes Mr. and Mrs. Ho have been taking so many pictures of him because they're selling them to tabloids and making money off him. They only want to adopt him because it will help their image and further the Mr.'s political career. Then North goes swimming and gets stung by a jellyfish. Instead of getting him first aid, Mr. Ho rallies his photographers to take photos of his wound. As North leaves, he realizes that his real parents would have tended to his injury rather than taking photos.
3) Alaska seems fun at first. The parents are outdoorsy, so North looks forward to camping trips and kayaking. Then he finds out they're a family of fishermen and they want to take him out on their boat. The waves are treacherous, North gets seasick, and someone falls overboard. North decides this life isn't for him, decides not to press child endangerment charges, and reflects that his own parents never put him in harm's way.
Not a bad idea make that a movie!
I love everything about this concept.
Someone should hire you.
Sarah Nour Hmm....that's a pretty good idea!
I believe this premise was made for the 90s, and the 90s alone. Your suggestions would make for a better movie, albeit more of a family drama than a comedy (as this one claims to be), and it's a plus that Elijah Wood could easily go back into the role, but still... I just can't imagine anyone would be able to make anything watchable out of this, and the geniuses who potentially could, should focus on better projects. Just my opinion though, and I've lost belief that Hollywood can ever produce anything non-toxic when it comes to family movies (which isn't animated*, actually tried to find a way to make an interesting animated version of this, but couldn't come up with any great ideas), so I went into it highly biased. :)
From a practical standpoint, this movie bombed badly, earning less than 20% of money spent, so doubt anyone would fund a remake, no matter how good the idea is. Love, Mr. Attempted-Killjoy
Oh, man. That movie is incredible. It's like taking the most ridicule cultural stereotypes form old cartoons and mashing them together in a single movie.
Now we know which movie gave Ebert the cancer he died of
Daaaang. lol XD
Ashley McGuire DAMN Hinata, I had no idea you could be a STRAIGHT-UP SAVAGE. Sorry Ashley, I couldn't resist XD
Oh my God 😂😂😂
I had a panic attack and puked out my breakfast when my parents were arguing once (although it was a way more intense fight than in the movie), it can be a harsh thing to witness when you're a kid..
***** Yes they did ! :p
+James Brincefield Yes it did!
+Badbadger wow that's nuts
Here loosen his pants
my parents argue rarely so even now at 15 I get panic attacks when they do
Elijah Wood with a guy in an animal costume? Insert Wilfred joke here.
God damn it beat me too it
Beat me to it by two years!
Apparently, North was a prequel to Wilfred.
"Your balls stick to your legs like crazy glue!"
A FAMILY Picture
Y’know for kids!
Why doesn’t he drop by Britain, where everyone drinks tea, wears bowler hats, references the Queen in every sentence, lives in London or the countryside, and the TVs show nothing but James Bond, the Royal family, Harry Potter, Monty Python or whatever.
Or how about Canadian stereotypes, in which everyone drinks Tim Hortons coffee, plays hockey, puts maple syrup on everything, is always polite and where winters are always brutal?
Elijah Wood's Movie Fights episode was released today. Also don't forget he'd become the voice of Wirt on Over the Garden Wall. Know what I'm Tolkien about?
+Scott Sandler Lol I was thinking the same thing.
+Scott Sandler I'll let you get away with one bad pun, just don't make a Hobbit of it.
And wait, I thought Lionel Hutz was the lawyer, not Artie Ziff!
+Scott Sandler just watched that Movie Fight Episode, one of the very best!
12:45 why?
This movie is like a bad sitcom with no laughtrack. Everyone delivers their lines like they know they're supposed to be telling a joke, but the joke never comes, and neither does any laughter. I can't tell which is worse, this movie, or the pilot episode of Mulaney.
I'm so surprised that show ended up sucking from such a talented comedian like Mulaney. I guess standup to sitcom doesn't work for everyone.
oh you mean modern family?
ChangelingTale the commenter I kinda like modern family, which benefits from having no laugh track imo
Adrian Adams Christ I remember that show my mom was not a fan because they were making fun of Christians and I wasn't a fan because they cancelled American Dad for Mulaney I completely forgot because it's so forgettable but now I'm salty again
Olivia Garry isn’t American dad still on? They just moved it to tbs
The worst joke of all time? Turtle.
The Michael AM I NOT TURTLY ENOUGH FOR THE TURTLE CLUB
The Michael he repeats the word turtle over and over again.
The Michael no you saved us with your butt from Breadwinners is the worst joke of all time
Turl. Tuuuurrrrrrrrrl!
No. Worst joke is from Problem Child 3.
Bully's big cousin shows up during a dance, Junior says "Who let the T rex out of Jurassic Park?" I was at an age when I enjoyed the gross and obnoxious humor of Garbage Pale Kids. Yup. Even when I liked that movie, my reaction was "what?" when that joke came on. Then again, Problem Child 3 was shit all the way through.
This is the reality where Butch had to hide from Marsellus Wallace disguised as a bunny.
It’s actually pretty understandable that the kid would start panicking if his parents argue all the time, because when parents argue that much it literally tears kids’ worlds apart and they feel like they’ve done something wrong or like their lives are being uprooted. So yeah, it’s not unusual AT ALL.
I don’t really think his parents are arguing in the most literal definition. Just more venting to each other about their hard days at work. Granted I can’t imagine any good parents ignoring a kid for that long but they do give him some attention when he does have his panic attack which to me makes this movie not work. In Home Alone for instance that worked because the kid was rude to his parents and they were also just as disrespectful to him and took the side of his bully brother. So you understand why he doesn’t want his parents around and it feels somewhat legitimate and relatable. These are just two hard working parents who don’t pay attention to their kids for five minutes at the dinner table and they are portrayed as the worst parents in the world. Just doesn’t make sense.
So *THIS* is where the "Worst Joke Ever" clip came from!!!!
People are using this clip?
Wouldn't we all benefit from a Bruce Willis advisor?
I feel like he would just tell me if you’re going to die die hard over and over again.
He’d just keep telling me to put Die Hard off of my Christmas watch list
That Texas family is what people in the 1910's thought of the US in Europe. "All them cowboys singing and diggin' out guld while we're starvin' Damn those yanks!"
12:00
Did they just make a joke about infertility
In a KIDS MOVIE?
A FAMILY PICTURE...
I'll give it credit. It was funny.
Kids love a good infertility joke.
That joke and execution would fit right into something harsher and aimed at adults, South Park for example. A would-be light hearted kids film, not so much.
someone has never seen the goonies or home alone before
17:34 That's what us Internet denizens call a "nope".
WTF? George and Elaine from Seinfeld are Raising Frodo Baggins? ............ Why?
Because Bruce Willace in a bunny suit
It's like really, really, REALLY bad fanfiction.
WORLDS COLLIDING
From Spinal Tap To Princess Bride to Misery, Reiner's directing reputation was never the same after North.
Stand by me, 1986.
A few good men, 1992.
Dan Aykroyd has sure been in his fair share of bad movies.
Not to mentioned he even directed a bad one Nothing but Trouble although I admit I actually like that one because it is so bad. Sadly like North director Rob Reiner Aykroyd had a couple of good flicks in the 90's but this was the decade where both of their careers took a sad decline.
@@spencer10182 And it would only go from bad to worse for both of them in the following two decades.
After "Ghostbusters: Afterlife", Dan should permanently ditch comedies entirely (he is pushing 70, and his brother Peter recently passed away). Mind you, comedy launched his career and got him established as a star (and he has done several non-comedies here and there), but all the same, there has to be a line drawn somewhere regarding his future work. Also, permanently ditching comedy entirely for non-comedic films and TV series should help reignite his career, balance his filmography out and improve his critical and commercial standing, as most of the films he has appeared in since the '80s have underperformed either critically or commercially, or sometimes both. Shaving his head bald (or keeping his hair closely cropped, if and when asked to let it grow back) wouldn't hurt either, as it ought to help reinvent his image by shedding his current look of resembling somebody's grandfather.
And yet he had the gall to try to get everyone fired who worked on the Belushi movie
@@almightyk11 You're talking about the 1989 film "Wired", right? Most of the cast and crew members survived the film and have since had successful careers.
@@andrewbloom7637 Yeah that one. He still tried though
This movie...This is legitimately the first NC review that actually got me angry. Not because of the NC, mind you, but because this movie is just that infuriating. It's the only one that made me feel filthy going out of.
Same here. Now I feel like putting on Coco, Encanto, or some other culture exploring children's movie to cleanse my soul of this politically incorrect filth.
"What gives you the right to show my crack on every highway?!"
No. No. No. Noononooo.
This movie is really obsessed with Wood's ass.
That joke to me along with the Alaskan sequence was what was most offensive about this movie. A lot of the other jokes just weren’t funny. They tried too hard and failed. But that one to me was just disgusting. I know it’s supposed to be a spoof of old sunscreen commercials but it’s at the expense of potential parents intentionally and selfishly humiliating their kid and it’s not funny. It’s downright sick.
And obviously, showing such an image will only discourage people from visiting Hawaii.
If anyone is familiar with Rob Reiner he would be known from his past work such as The Princess Bride, This is Spinal Tap, Stand by Me, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, and A Few Good Men. And then he made this movie. I don’t think his directing career recovered from that.
American President which was his very next film was actually pretty good. Not as good as his pre-North movies but still very good, great writing and performances, and then The Bucket List was ok. That was his last true hit, with audiences that is. It did well at the box office but not with critics. For me I remember thinking it wasn’t quite worthy of Nicholson Freeman and Reiner’s talents but it was very watchable and pretty enjoyable overall. But yeah everything else has bombed.
This movie goes to show just how important a script is to a film’s success.
Is it sad that I got to see this at a drive-in when I was five and the fake-out ending where it looks like North and his parents get shot made me cry so bad I had to be taken home?
I’ll admit I feel sorry that happened to you, but I’ll admit your comment also made me laugh. I’m sorry. Is that bad for me to say?
@@jesusrox4u A little bit. The poor soul was just a little kid.
@@eddieolshefski6467 I know. I feel bad for finding the comment funny. Also, I meant a little funny and not a lot.
Considering you were a little kid, no and that particular scene is one of many problems with this movie. This movie was intended for children and having a subplot like that where they are trying to kill a child in a film for this audience is just completely unnecessary and way too dark for a children’s film. Plus considering the ending it doesn’t event make any sense.
I hated that movie even as a kid. (Bruce Willis was the only thing I liked about it.) And that's saying something, because I loved many so-called "bad" 90s movies like "Encino Man," "Problem Child," and such growing up.
Wait, at 18:22, the subtitles say, "That was a darling story, Mark." But in the "Good Son" review, the subtitles said, "Change, or you'll die in the story, Mark." Which is it?
Edit: The real dialogue was "That was a darling story, Mark."
Something happened to Rob Reiner around 1993. Almost every movie Reiner made before 1993 is an utterly amazing classic, and every movie he has made after 1993 is mediocre to horrible.
Incredible how some of the worst movies ever have some of the biggest stars ever
But, in a way, it all makes sense: what if he was delusional, thinking everyone loved him, that he was the best at everything only to have his dream show us how ignorant and mediocre he was? Maybe his parents ignoring him was just to explain how he can't cope w/ not being at the centre of the universe :/
A lot of kids have that kind of view of themselves, and I think that's what the movie was trying to portray. The movie wasn't trying to show realism or complexity at all.
I swear Jason Alexander always plays Constanza in every film he’s in.
"FLOOR IT"
best joke in the movie. it made me chuckle
17:26 okay this movie was awful, but that scene was legitimately funny.
I just listened to Weird Al's Amish Paradise. it made the joke x100 better.
18:04
19:34
21:34
This review has some of Doug’s best reactions.
That's why Buck hated February, they've put comedy on a level we cannot comprehend, Ha.
The comedy IS incomprehensible, I'll give you that.
Because February's very short
It's still not funny, tho
"I think he just wanted to go on vacation and somehow get paid for it"
I think the people at Happy Madison heard this joke and decided to go for it, which explains every movie Sandler has done since.
Oh my gosh! The Siskel & Ebert review is just...wow...that's how I feel about Michael Bay films!
Am I the only one who noticed that he left the Amish because of no electricity, then went to live in the jungle...?
I totally agree that this is amongst the worst movies out there, but I will say to it's credit that the "It was all a dream" angle actually slightly improved it (not that I would ever accept such lazy writing but...). See, all the horrible stereotypes actually make sense. The Eskimo thing, the amish thing, the texan thing, everything in the movie is all how a little child who has never seen any of these things except for the snippets that the world has told him, which his subconscious mind puts together into something that is a ridiculous stereotype. If they played up that element more, dropped the stupid "there's no place like home" crap that I've seen a million times, and gave the movie good direction and better writers...the idea could actually be very interesting.
The "defence rests" joke made me laugh because I knew how low the movie went. Plus the looks on the parents faces were probably just like the audiences.
The sad thing is that the whole "dream" revelation is the only thing that can excuse (well, not really) the many stereotypes & plot holes in this movie. Only a childish mind would see the world this way.
Ooh u got em
That Winchell kid with the glasses didn't even exist in North's real world, he was never seen in the awake scenes before North fell asleep in that chair at the mall. You could really see that it was a dream right after Bruce Willis' Easter bunny left because of the on screen effects, whatever you call them that are the wavy air accompanied by a harp sound.
Honestly Rob Reiner has to be like one of the most tragic cases of a director I've ever seen, the man pretty much made some of the greatest films of all time BACK TO BACK but then starting with THIS MOVIE he p-much just went downhill and never recovered
"I loved doing it, and some of the best jokes I ever had in a movie, are in that movie."
- Rob Reiner on "North"...
In case you guys didn't get the joke on the crack, it's a reference to an old ad of Jodie Foster as a child getting her swimsuit bottoms tugged by a puppy.
*uh*
That was HER?
You mean the Coppertone logo?
@@bulatao195 Yeah, my first thought was that it played on the old Coppertone logo with...what was it, a crab doing the same?
Never take advice from a guy in a bunny suit who couldn't hold on to Demi Moore.
Savage..Keep upthegoodwork!
Bruce upgraded from that child molester and she is one
I mean that billboard would increase one very specific kind of tourism.
Did you know that Jason Alexander ad libbed the "Loosen his pants!" line?
Funny enough, apparently, the word 'Eskimo' is actually offensive to them. Inuit is actually the appropriate term. :) Just a little something to tuck away in your mind.
Bethany Angelstar
Yeah that's what I was thinking as well. I heard them saying 'Eskimo' and I thought 'No, that's not right'.
It's happening in Alaska. They could be Yupik. And they think being called Inuit is offensive. So no, it's not that simple. I may be wrong about this part, but I've heard most Yupik people are fine with the term "Eskimo" or at least find it less offensive than "Inuit".
SquidAsylum
I mean in Canada, we were always taught Inuit. I'm pretty sure that's the proper term because it was also taught that Eskimo was offensive, but I think Eskimo is just over all offensive in most places, I dunno.
Edit: I just checked and Inuit and Yupik are the proper terms since they are different people, while Eskimo was a sort of word that banded them together and was deemed offensive because it was given by non-Inuit people and was said to mean "eater of raw meat. So Inuit and Yupik are fine, as long as your referring to the specific group since they are not the same people and it's the proper terms. I got my info from the Alaska native language centre.
Canada has no Yupik people, only Inuits.
And yeah, much like Sioux, Eskimo was a term given to Inuits by non-Inuits, so it is offensive. But it irks me when people think they are being super pc by just assuming any native american who lives in a cold place is an Inuit, especially since same people often act morally superior whilst being just as misguided.
"Here, loosen his pants!"
*FBI OPEN UP*
12:15 literally the best part of the whole movie
But that disturbing billboard sure isn't
Ok, you had to admit, the Texan stereotype was kinda funny...And this is coming from a Texan
Did you laugh when Spongebob and Patrick were making fun of Texas?
Totally
Honestly, it's one of those jokes that's really only funny to those from or extremely familiar with the focus. It's a weird kind of joke where the butt of it normally finds it funnier than anyone else. I know this because I have ties, and origins, going to Texas from every direction.
And that Texan family shouldn't fatten North up to be like Buck. They should let North eat as much as he could.
I might of too, but that fat, dead kid joke threw me off guard.
14:50
I think the joke is that the family is whistling the Andy Griffith show theme music
Because they're fishing.
Which was called "The Fishin' Hole".
11:41 The "straight A's" joke made me smile, honestly.
So funny!
I laughed because of how stupid it was.
14:39 they ruined the Andy Griffith show theme song how dare they
Well shit
14:38 The shere absurdity of them whistling the theme for the Andy Grittith show was honestly more amusing than it should be.
21:30. one of the best "WHAT?!"ever
7:00 Hey, they had to have a top-notch follow-up to a piece of comic GOLD like "they took it lying down!" And kudos for using footage from Weird Al's UHF, one of the more underrated comedies of the 80s.
He hated February because it's the shortest month... so he couldn't eat as much.
I know what it means! I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS NOW!!!!!!
... _BECAUSE HE'S FAT!_
... *_AND DEAD!_*
That STILL doesn't make sense. Presumably the other kids couldn't eat as much proportionally, so he was still eating more than them.
This film should be called: "racism, for kids".
Links Loki no it should not. It’s too subtle
Roberto Iglesias-Sanchez Haha what? It’s not subtle at all!
Sam Haas r/wooooosh
Roberto Iglesias-Sanchez Yup.
As much as I appreciate the efforts of channels like LesiureSuitRantFiend and NostalgiacriticRUS, it's nice to see some of the classic reviews get an official upload.
"Well since we don't use the letters b, c, d and f, you're pretty guaranteed to get strait A's"
Unlike most of the jokes in this video, I actually chuckled from this. It's probably because I was already aware of the Hawaiian language's limited sound inventory. So, in a sense, the joke was actually to smart, so much so that they had to tell why it's funny before they tell you the joke itself. "Here in the islands, we only have twelve letters in our alphabet."
"That's nothing! You should see what Sarah Palin does with her kids." LMFAO!!!!! 🤣
6:32 this joke actually made me chuckle and I feel no shame
This is one of the times I actually like that it was all a dream. Made everything that happened earlier make sense.
It's a shame, because the premise is kind of funny for a kids movie.
A kid divorces his parents and learns to appreciate his family as he meets other families. That could be a funny maybe even touching family movie. Instead this is just horrible joke after horrible joke.
Yeah it reminds me of Bee Movie
The Critic used to be so much funnier! God I miss the old days. This review is classic.
14:09 I realize what they tried to make as a joke….. ice is slippery…. Dear god the movie is just bad all round no matter what part you watch!
Oh god I lost it when u inserted that clip from Fellowship of the Ring
"FIND THE HALFLING, FIND THE HALFLING!"
15:06
"Abe Vigoda, what are you doing? Is there really just no movie that you'll say no to? I mean, did you read the script? You know it couldn't have been a good movie. My guess is he was in some kind of contract or something. It probably went something like this:"
"Abe, Rob Reiner says you have to do his new movie North."
"Hell, he can't do that. It screws up all my arrangements."
"Sorry, Abe, you're under contract."
"Tom, can you get me off the hook? For old times' sake?"
"Can't do it, Abe."
"Come on. You get to dress like an Eskimo and everything."
okay... how much did they offer Reba, and how much did she haggle for?
Siskel and Ebert were way too nice when they reviewed this movie.
10:20 The Texas song makes Woody doing Wagner sound like Pavarotti.
Ok that "mighty big loss" joke has me genuinely laughing every time I hear it.
23:11 "NORTH is owned by Columbia Pictures. But don't ask them; they'll deny it."
You know what? This movie is so racially insensitive, I'm surprised that CNN didn't do a report on it.
You ever think Jerry Seinfeld brings this movie up to George saying, “So. Elaine, eh?”
It turns out that it's based on a 1984 novel called North: The Tale of a 9-Year-Old Boy Who Becomes a Free Agent and Travels the World in Search of the Perfect Parents by Alan Zweibel, who wrote the screenplay and has a minor role in the film.
Bruce Willis in a Easter Bunny Suit or him in A Good Day to Die Hard! Both painful!
+The Cinematic Mind I'd take AGDtDH over this shitload of fuck any day.
So as much as I enjoy the new critic episodes with the high quality skits and extra cast, I always come back to these older episodes and get that feeling of warmth, the feeling of visiting an old friend, back to a simpler time of just a man with a vision, a yellow wall, and a camera. Yes, i am now getting NOSTALGIC for the nostalgia critic! Mind blown!
This might be a stretch but, i think that Buck hated February because there are only 28 days in February, 29 if its a leap year, and his father said previously " He could eat more in a day than most people could eat in a month. ". So a shorter month would mean less food? i guess? Maybe because that is how his food intake was gauged and measured? An example would be something like...
Mom : Hey Buck, how much food do you want on your plate?
Buck : Gee Momma, i reckon the usual month serving will do for starts!
Dad : Aw but Buck, its February son.
Buck : Aw shucks pa, you're right.....
Hence the joke they were going for...........terrible setup, terrible delivery, and terrible punch line.
That, and "It was a big loss." As in a fat joke.
21:33- 21:41 One of the funniest Nostalgia Critic reactions.
18:22 The original version of "What a story mark."
i have heard "loosen his pants" so many times i hear "luce in his pants"
This was my introduction to North (1994)
7:59 as a Texas resident myself, I cringe at this movie's portrayal of us!
My mom has been guiding horseback trips for years and years and she does not dress like this!
13:49 That's nothing. You should hear what President Biden was doing with his daughter.
13:19
Oh god, the tentacle porn! Not even Channel Awesome is safe anymore!!!!
18:08 why is he suddenly in an Ash Ketchum cosplay?
Oh! It is 😂
I am actually in shock with the blatant stupidity and awfulness that this movie North was!! I actually feel dumber for having scene clips of it!!
And poor Critic had to watch the unabridged version!! Gah!!!
the good son joke was amazing
With the defense rests joke I was in the middle of a yawn and it immediately turned into a sigh