***** Or he can call the movie and the acting in it like he sees it. A man's death doesn't automatically make movies he was in good. Even though I personally thought this movie was "okay."
I really hate those people who go on this review and other robin williams movie reviews that NC has made, to complain about how daug should get hit by a truck and feel bad about these. why should he? these are done YEARS before robin died. its not even about these reviews, its because people are hypocrites. their macabre public mourning is not for the dead actor, its for them selves. and thats why they feel need to bash anyone who has ever said anything bad about the dead actor.
MrAnimepredator It's kinda like the fact that I still laugh at Williams' comedy (the ones that are actually funny of course) instead of sitting there and moping. I feel like that's what he would've wanted, tbh; for people to still find his comedy funny.
I honestly liked this movie a lot. I still do. The criticism about him sleeping with a doll, even at age 10, or sleeping with his parents, while not typical of 10 year olds...his parents coddle him. Treat him like he's even younger than he is. They are protective, and likely didn't follow typical parenting to break such habits. He's their boy, with a rare affliction, and they are trying to keep him young, despite his physically aging body. Yes, the plot is strange. But I don't get the hate for it. It's not bad by any means. His response to the principle were outlandish, yes. Because he has no social skills, Critic. He's been cooped up in his damn house all his life.
4:16: To be fair, NC, I think it's most likely that because Jack was sheltered throughout most of his life, him wearing pajamas and having a teddy bear while being 10 years old (while looking like a 40 year old) isn't really that much out of the ordinary for this 10 year old, considering his age and how he was raised. I agree with the rest of your criticism of the movie though.
CommanderDuck TheCredd I'm very aware about what that is, but there are so many people on the Internet who are saying "Too soon," in a literal sense, even though he died nearly a year ago. Please don't speak to me as if I'm the dumbest person on the planet, it's very disrespectful and I don't appreciate it.
Critic makes fun of John Hughes after his death: No one gives half a damn. Critic makes fun of Robin Williams several years before his death: Everyone and their mother cry.
LOL I'm pretty sure carrots don't have ANY advertising budget. I don't think I've ever seen an ad - on TV or anywhere else - for any vegetable, unless you count V8...
I don't think I'd classify that as a "doll", more like a "stuffed animal". Which I suppose could be called a "stuffed animal doll", but that's really splitting hairs. Besides, don't most guys refer to dolls as "action figures"? I also knew plenty of 10 year olds who wore pajamas; or at least got popular character themed pajamas for Christmas and/or their birthday every year. If Nana buys it for you, your parents will make d@mn sure you wear it.
KnightsaysNi "Stimpy" (at that time in the tail end of his Nickelodeon popualrity, post-John Kricfalusi/Spumco with Ren Hoek:"), an action figure? Neither that nor doll, maybe stuffed toy for boy tastes.
Steve Carras In regard to Stimpy, I meant he would be referred to as a stuffed animal. The rest of my comment was intended to be a more general blanket statement in regard to other toys and such. Sorry for the confusion.
Love seeing Stimpy (of Ren and.. fame on Nickelodeon) in his doll form in his 1990s heydey, even if at the end and after Nick terminated it, in Robin's arms. But Doug's right about a 10 year old having this..it's one thing that adult Robin Williams acts like a 10 year old..then even YOUNGER....? This reminds me of F.Scott FitzGerarld's "Benjamin Button" (which, twelve years after Jack, and ten years after Robin Williams's Patch Adams and What Dreams may Come (both from 1998), in 2008 got made into a Brad Pitt moive), because of reverse aging, y'know.. [[blah]]..enjoy the holiday seasons, friends!
The preacher at Jonathan Creek church camp had a daughter with an affliction like this. She grew at an accelerated rate. When I went, about 10 years ago, she was 7, but her body had aged to the point that she looked like a 17 year old. However, even though she physically matured at a much faster rate, she mentally and emotionally matured at a slower rate. If this is the same affliction that Jack has, then it explains why he was so much different than other 10-year-olds.
Look, Robin Williams being dead does not make the Critic a terrible person for criticizing his performance in movies. Whether Williams is dead or alive has no effect whatsoever on whether this or Patch Adams or Flubber is a crappy movie. Yes, it might seem like the Critic is showing disrespect for the dead, but think about it: these reviews were done *before* Robin Williams died. How can they show disrespect for the dead if the subject of concern was alive at the time? Unless the Critic is a time-traveling monster who looked into the future, saw that Robin Williams was going to die, and then wrote negative reviews for his movies simply because of that, I don't think he did a single thing wrong. We all need to remember, he only critiqued Williams' acting in some of his films; he never actually insulted him as a person.
Robin Williams was an incredible actor and comedian. The Nostalgia Critic never said anything contrary to that. Movies like Jack, Flubber and especially Patch Adams shows how much directors and screen writer can mess up someone's brilliant career. The NC says at the beginning of most of reviews how Robin Williams is a talented performer, but the problem came from these lazy, confused and awkward scripts. He doesn't criticize Williams acting, but his lines or what he is forced to do by people who don't understand the man's gifts. When you give Robin Williams the opportunity to truly act, you get movies like the Dead Poets Society and Good Will Hunting. When you don't, Jack happens. It's the system that's at fault, not the actor. And I think the NC has always appreciated that.
this movie would have been a lot more touching and impactful if jack died at the end of old age. not that I WANT him to die, it would have just felt like a better ending to a fucking weird movie. scratch that nevermind, this is just too odd to even think about.
this should of been stretched out as a TV series, the idea alone can offer a slow aging of Jack as he develops a relationship with more and more people.
When I was 14 years old I asked my mom to sleep in her bed because of nightmares and slept with a stuffed duck...Then again, I was going through a lot at that time ,so I don't know if i can speak for everyone.
Well... this is kinda awkward... On one hand we have a mediocre movie trying to desperately play on our heartstrings with a leading role by a recently dead actor that was good and likeable in his core... on the other hand we have a several years old movie review by an indie comic, that cynically points out major flaws in the most insensitive way possible... Look... I'm pretty sure Doug liked R. Williams as an actor. Heck... he even said it in some of his Nostalgia Critic reviews. NC had no idea this man would commit suicide YEARS LATER after this satirical sketch, so please contain your comments to a reasonable level... thanks.
Exactly. Besides, there's no reason you can't talk about dead people. Robin Williams was a fantastic actor, but he picked some bad movies. Simple as that.
TheUltraDude Their just trying to stop the bunch of other people from bringing up the same stuff. Other people obviously aren't going to ignore it (just read below) so it's better to try to deal with it like that other than the some other people are.
Insult comedy and black comedy is insulting by default. NC's criticisms of Jack are valid and make sense - Robin's trying so hard to be perfect and innocent that it just makes him look moronic; Robin's actions don't make sense even for a highly-sheltered 10-year-old kid.
His mother's house is where he stays, He's way to young and he got laid At 10 years old his life's a breeze Selling kids porno, what a sleaze He's still obsessed with his toy dolls, see? It gets real dark in therepy He checks his list off everyday, Of the bullies he will blow away Jack, Jack, He's a psycho maniac Jack, Jack, He's a psycho maniac
Well, I checked the wikipedia page for Jack, and it turns out that it was produced by Ford Coppola and Fred... Fred Fuchs? FRED FUCHS? Fred Fuchs!! Oh my god... Fred Fuchs...! Ohhh my god, it's Fred Fuchs... ughhhh, Fred Fuchs
tomhulcelover Oh no, I'd say they were making sun of movies like I am Sam and Water Boy etc but Jack wasn't "special" or anything in this. Just a random made up disease.
Until a couple weeks ago, I hadn't been exposed to a Copolla movie. In my senior English class we read the book Heart of Darkness and afterwards, decided to watch Apocalypse Now to compare the two. I thought it was great. It's hard to believe the same person who made that film also made this.
4:45- Lmao, I would love it if Harry Potter had been that crazy. While I understand some of Nostalgia Critic's points , I still found Williams' performance largely enjoyable and heartfelt (And NOBODY could play Popeye like he did). It was kind of like Benjamin Button in reverse. Also, cooties would be the most hilarious form of biological weaponry going by children's logic :)
*+Daniel_Styles* It's a gag from one of Nostalgia Critic's commercial reviews, where a commercial showed kids acting a little more excited than they should be over a bubble toy. Unless you mean "why do comments just quoting something from the review get the most likes," in which case I have no idea what to tell you.
Doug made a very touching Robin tribute video just after he died. It's possible to poke fun at people you like, y'kno. Also, one of the kids is wearing a Black Flag shirt LOL
If this whole rapid aging thing were true, Jack would have to eat HUGE quantities of food to keep up with his cells' energy requirements. Possibly so much that his family wouldn't be able to afford to keep him.
wait a second so he is physically 40 so his brain should be fully developed. even though he only has 10 years of life experience he should think like a 40 year old.
Joel Wilson That's not necessarily true. If you were born in a coma and awoke fourty years later, you wouldn't think like a fourty year old. You'd know as much as a newborn would.
TheCryptidman yes but he didn't wake up in a coma. He Is developing 4 times as fast as any human being. This applies for mentally as well as physically. The only explanation is that it is only his physical self developed but this makes no sense into why it is only physical development. I understand where you are coming from though thanks for the contribution :)
Yeah, the idea, has potential, I mean, Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome is a real disorder-though it's very different to how the film portrays it. Which wouldn't be a huge issue considering when the film was made and the people that would have wanted to see it, but Williams doesn't play him like a ten year old as NC points out, it wouldn't have been that difficult for Williams to actually spend time with his younger co-stars and take on their traits, like Tom Hanks did in Big.
I truly hope nostalgia critic does a memorial review for Robin Williams, He was one of my favorite parts. And what better way to celebrate do what he did best, make jokes.
This isn't completely bull shit. There is actually several different disorders that cause different growth disorders. People who grow in height and generally die in their twenties at heights of over eight feet with odd proportions that can not support their organs or skeletal structure. There is another disorder where a child's organs and body can age scarily quickly causing them by age 8 to look like an elder. Though this movie sort of did turn it into a cruel fucking joke. He doesn't look like somebody with either disorder, he looks like a creepy old man pretending to be a little boy.
This has nothing to do with those conditions you've mentioned. This is actually called Werner's syndrome, where your DNA fails to repair, and you literally age prematurely- since aging is not some God's or nature's plan, but simply a flaw in programming! WErner's syndrome doesn't manifest itself this early (I don't know if there are any exceptions), but another similar disease is progeria, however kids who have progeria do not look like nbormal fifty-year olds
Okay I guess no one is going to say it, so Im gonna go ahead -- babies born several months earlier cant look like that. Not only that they are smaller in size,but they are also covered in fur. The embryo develops some animalistic features while in the womb and then around the 8th month it loses them.
I love Nostalgia Critic. He's clever, funny, and all around charismatic. But I can't respect the guys opinions concerning what defines a 'good' movie. When you praise "Sky High", the illustrious image of corny cliche but compare "Jack" (something that at least TRIED to be unique) to Freaky Friday, I just can't take you seriously.
*****, I disagree. Charisma has no pretense. Charismatic people can be total twats and still command respect. All you have to do is be 'generally liked' for whatever (or despite whatever) reason. I think most people agree he's a cool guy. Something sets him apart from the crowd. If there wasn't, he wouldn't have gotten this far. What I like most about him is the very thing you seem to despise; his confidence. He works hard on his videos, does it all with the intention of making people laugh (and paying the bills), and if some people don't' like that, 'tough' he seems to say. You definitely have good points. His skits seem to have been performed by a monkey and produced by a chimpanzee with a hangover, but that's all purely subjective. His confidence shouldn't be tied to success or failure, but by the effort given, and his work drips with (occasionally sulfur scented) effort that makes me smile despite the smell (insert 'your mom joke' here). My problems stem from his stance as a 'reviewer', and to be honest, I'm even more conflicted after seeing his "Top Ten Cliches". He has a firm grasp of cinema principles, yet shows bias in its application. Perhaps he does it solely for entertainment. But he hands out 'recommendations' frequently. He's trying to be 'nothing but laughs', yet 'a serious reviewer' all at the same time. Can't have your cake and eat it too Doug. I digress. As I said previously, so long as he entertains me, I'll continue watching, but I'll never base my cinematic appraisal or confide in a show about what to watch when it straddles between 'serious' and 'goofy' without firm context.
***** Viking102938 You guys are aware that the Nostalgia Critic is just a character, right? Doug Walker himself sometimes has different opinions to the ones he expresses as the Nostalgia Critic purely for the sake of comedy. He admitted to loving Hook, which he tore into, and he made a Doug Walker Top 11 Hottest Animated Women list to demonstrate how he and the Nostalgia Critic are two different people. And his overall goal is of course to entertain. He admits he's a screw up at times, but he and Rob work hard at making these episodes as good as they can be. While he'll take time now and again to be serious about how bad a movie is, he's still going to try and make it funny. One way or another, he's always very good at getting his point across, even if you disagree with him. And his popularity speaks for itself. One last thing. When you want to argue that the Nostalgia Critic is wrong and that a movie he dislikes is good, Doug will often reply with something like "Yeah, that's fair. Enjoy it, man." He doesn't see his opinion as absolute and the same goes for the quality of his videos. He's been doing this for a long time and he is good at it, but if you criticise his work he can still offer a humble apology.
***** I liked him back when he only did reviews like this. Nowadays,with Malcolm and that other chick,it's really.... really.... painful! I only laughed one entire time at his Ghost Dad review,but at these old ones,I laughed all the time! Something changed about him,and sucked out all the funny.
I'm seriously wondering what Kubrick would've done with an Adam Sandler movie.
Probably something like Punch-Drunk Love. It does seem like something Kubrick would have done in his prime.
Uncut Gem?
"How many 10 year olds sleep with a doll!?"
Well, I'm 21 (almost 22) and I still sleep with my stuffed pterodactyl.
That's rad. where can I get one?
John Giuliani
Stuffed pterodactyls are pretty much everywhere. My dad got mine for me from a zoo when I was a baby.
Did the Zoo have Pterodactyls?
John Giuliani
It had an animatronic one. There was a whole section devoted to animatronic dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.
That sounds like the most Kick-ass Zoo. None of the Zoos I ever went to had dinasaurs
Snape: "Mister Potter........"
Harry: "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!"
Snape: ".................."
its even funnier cuz he must be thinking "THIS guy is supposed t save us from Voldemort?"
Voldemort: "Harry Potter...The Boy Who Lived...Prepare to die..."
Harry Potter: "YEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!"
DIED LAUGHING!!!!!!!!
I believe expulsion is in order Mr. Potter
Say what you want about this movie, but it must have been a blast for those kids to hang out with Robin Williams.
Snape: "Mister Potter..."
Harry: "YEEEEESS!"
Snape: *inner thoughts* "This kid survived Voldemort, really?"
lol
Tristan Hartup 4:40!
R.I.P Robin William who played as annoying aging man that he is 10. You suck in this, but we miss you.
(1951-2014)
***** Or he can call the movie and the acting in it like he sees it. A man's death doesn't automatically make movies he was in good. Even though I personally thought this movie was "okay."
***** Well done tool of the year award for you but NO oscar
chris doyle Just like Leo DiCaprio
Too bad he's not here to watch his performance
"Do you think our moms look like that?" What the actual fuck. No, for real. What is. WHAT EVEN IS?!
Ian Weston That's one of those things your weird friend's best friend would think, and maybe only say once.
Oedipus Complex!
Snape: Mr. Potter?
Harry: *YES!?*
Snape: ???
Well, that certainly shut Snape up XD
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Jack
Jack
He's a Lego Maniac
Isn't it Zack? 😆
He's a psycho maniac!
2 years later and that Harry Potter joke STILL gets me XD
YES!
me too, LMFAO!
"Mr. Potter..."
"YEEESSSS!!!!"
Robin Williams died today. So I'm watching Nostalgia Critic videos about him to cheer me up. RIP Robin Williams.
can you imagine Harry Potter screaming like that in Snape's class at the age of 11? he'd still be cleaning the Dungeons with his toothbrush
Jack probably acted like a kindergartener because he spent his entire childhood being home schooled and overprotected by his parents
I really hate those people who go on this review and other robin williams movie reviews that NC has made, to complain about how daug should get hit by a truck and feel bad about these. why should he? these are done YEARS before robin died.
its not even about these reviews, its because people are hypocrites. their macabre public mourning is not for the dead actor, its for them selves. and thats why they feel need to bash anyone who has ever said anything bad about the dead actor.
THANK YOU
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yea. I bet those people didn't even give a shit about Williams when he was alive but now they have a hard-on for him.
Yes and every thing he says is true Robin Williams was extremely talented but picked some bad scripts
MrAnimepredator It's kinda like the fact that I still laugh at Williams' comedy (the ones that are actually funny of course) instead of sitting there and moping.
I feel like that's what he would've wanted, tbh; for people to still find his comedy funny.
I honestly liked this movie a lot. I still do. The criticism about him sleeping with a doll, even at age 10, or sleeping with his parents, while not typical of 10 year olds...his parents coddle him. Treat him like he's even younger than he is. They are protective, and likely didn't follow typical parenting to break such habits. He's their boy, with a rare affliction, and they are trying to keep him young, despite his physically aging body.
Yes, the plot is strange. But I don't get the hate for it. It's not bad by any means.
His response to the principle were outlandish, yes. Because he has no social skills, Critic. He's been cooped up in his damn house all his life.
4:16: To be fair, NC, I think it's most likely that because Jack was sheltered throughout most of his life, him wearing pajamas and having a teddy bear while being 10 years old (while looking like a 40 year old) isn't really that much out of the ordinary for this 10 year old, considering his age and how he was raised. I agree with the rest of your criticism of the movie though.
"I want to be like the giant. My best friend Jack"
Jack=the giant?
I wonder if they were intending on making a fairy tale reference there.
9:33 I AM CORNHOLLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"You will not underestimate the almighty bunghole! Would you like to see my bunghole?"
LMAO.
+Xander Martin Is it cool if I let one go? (Hope you get that reference XD)
+Lord Prince Zuko Funny that this movie came out a few months early than Beavis And Butt-Head Do America.
+Lord Prince Zuko Do not make my BUNGHOLE ANGRY!!!!
I was just going to post a comment that he missed an opportunity for a cornholio joke
FUCKING BUBBLES!
LMAO
I spit my drink all over the computer screen!
RIP Robin Williams
We lost Robin Williams, but we still have Bill Cosby. Life just isn't fair, is it?
yes we have bill Cosby...in court....
Edscratch23469 Sure. *Now.*
You're the coolest! (I'm just joking)
(Raspberry sound) we are talking about drugging women and sexual acts he is done.
Kitty Grimm #billcosbymetoo
Francis Ford Coppola directed this? Yeah, right, and North was directed by the same guy who directed Spinal Tap and The Princess Bride....oh, wait...
Man believe it.
Won't you believe it
And misery.
I died at that Hogward joke! xD
robin Williams beat you to it.
connor hudock to soon
CommanderDuck TheCredd He died nearly a year ago...
***** its a joke, know what that is?
CommanderDuck TheCredd I'm very aware about what that is, but there are so many people on the Internet who are saying "Too soon," in a literal sense, even though he died nearly a year ago. Please don't speak to me as if I'm the dumbest person on the planet, it's very disrespectful and I don't appreciate it.
at age 10 my friends were tall, shaved, and had hairy arms
So was I lol
Thank god that I wasn't the only one.
Critic makes fun of John Hughes after his death:
No one gives half a damn.
Critic makes fun of Robin Williams several years before his death:
Everyone and their mother cry.
Robert O'Brien I love Dennis the menace directed by John Hughes costarring the great Walter Matthau as mister Wilson
God, I lost it at the Harry Potter part XD
When you brought up her velociraptor voice I think you broke me. 😂😂😂
LOL I'm pretty sure carrots don't have ANY advertising budget. I don't think I've ever seen an ad - on TV or anywhere else - for any vegetable, unless you count V8...
Doug honestly a lot of ten year olds still sleep with their dolls and in pajamas
I don't think I'd classify that as a "doll", more like a "stuffed animal". Which I suppose could be called a "stuffed animal doll", but that's really splitting hairs. Besides, don't most guys refer to dolls as "action figures"? I also knew plenty of 10 year olds who wore pajamas; or at least got popular character themed pajamas for Christmas and/or their birthday every year. If Nana buys it for you, your parents will make d@mn sure you wear it.
KnightsaysNi "Stimpy" (at that time in the tail end of his Nickelodeon popualrity, post-John Kricfalusi/Spumco with Ren Hoek:"), an action figure? Neither that nor doll, maybe stuffed toy for boy tastes.
Steve Carras In regard to Stimpy, I meant he would be referred to as a stuffed animal. The rest of my comment was intended to be a more general blanket statement in regard to other toys and such. Sorry for the confusion.
Love seeing Stimpy (of Ren and.. fame on Nickelodeon) in his doll form in his 1990s heydey, even if at the end and after Nick terminated it, in Robin's arms. But Doug's right about a 10 year old having this..it's one thing that adult Robin Williams acts like a 10 year old..then even YOUNGER....? This reminds me of F.Scott FitzGerarld's "Benjamin Button" (which, twelve years after Jack, and ten years after Robin Williams's Patch Adams and What Dreams may Come (both from 1998), in 2008 got made into a Brad Pitt moive), because of reverse aging, y'know.. [[blah]]..enjoy the holiday seasons, friends!
10:41 There's a nun behind Jack! She wants to buy porn magazines?
Well....Yes. XD
The preacher at Jonathan Creek church camp had a daughter with an affliction like this. She grew at an accelerated rate. When I went, about 10 years ago, she was 7, but her body had aged to the point that she looked like a 17 year old. However, even though she physically matured at a much faster rate, she mentally and emotionally matured at a slower rate. If this is the same affliction that Jack has, then it explains why he was so much different than other 10-year-olds.
I lost it at the Marley and Me scene.
Marley and me was the first movie to make me cry
That's relevant...
Always
kind of it was about crying scenes and Marley and me
Doug's head wobble intro is my favorite part of his reviews. It always makes me chuckle.
I love the Harry Potter part XD
Coppola made this?
That's it. We're going to the fucking mattresses.
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This is a legit offer, just describe what you want and I'll try my best to do it c:
Look, Robin Williams being dead does not make the Critic a terrible person for criticizing his performance in movies. Whether Williams is dead or alive has no effect whatsoever on whether this or Patch Adams or Flubber is a crappy movie. Yes, it might seem like the Critic is showing disrespect for the dead, but think about it: these reviews were done *before* Robin Williams died. How can they show disrespect for the dead if the subject of concern was alive at the time? Unless the Critic is a time-traveling monster who looked into the future, saw that Robin Williams was going to die, and then wrote negative reviews for his movies simply because of that, I don't think he did a single thing wrong. We all need to remember, he only critiqued Williams' acting in some of his films; he never actually insulted him as a person.
He reviewed this before he ided
Even then - most of his criticisms are of the writers of Patch Adams and not Williams's performance.
Robin Williams was an incredible actor and comedian. The Nostalgia Critic never said anything contrary to that. Movies like Jack, Flubber and especially Patch Adams shows how much directors and screen writer can mess up someone's brilliant career. The NC says at the beginning of most of reviews how Robin Williams is a talented performer, but the problem came from these lazy, confused and awkward scripts. He doesn't criticize Williams acting, but his lines or what he is forced to do by people who don't understand the man's gifts. When you give Robin Williams the opportunity to truly act, you get movies like the Dead Poets Society and Good Will Hunting. When you don't, Jack happens. It's the system that's at fault, not the actor. And I think the NC has always appreciated that.
This was that weird time when Francais Ford Copola became Chris Columbus O_o
"7 years later, it's graduation time with jack and his friends."
The Randy Newman joke was great.
A Robin Williams and Bill Cosby movie?
Kinda hard to watch these days...
What is up with that girl at 5:09? o.o
+Mei Misaki Looked like she was yawning to me.
Jack might be based on Michael Jackson: he was a young boy trapped in a grown mans body
this movie would have been a lot more touching and impactful if jack died at the end of old age.
not that I WANT him to die, it would have just felt like a better ending to a fucking weird movie.
scratch that nevermind, this is just too odd to even think about.
this should of been stretched out as a TV series, the idea alone can offer a slow aging of Jack as he develops a relationship with more and more people.
+Ian R A good end in a different movie with the same premise.
If this movie had that end it would be just tasteless (more than this movie already is).
When I was 14 years old I asked my mom to sleep in her bed because of nightmares and slept with a stuffed duck...Then again, I was going through a lot at that time ,so I don't know if i can speak for everyone.
Well... this is kinda awkward... On one hand we have a mediocre movie trying to desperately play on our heartstrings with a leading role by a recently dead actor that was good and likeable in his core... on the other hand we have a several years old movie review by an indie comic, that cynically points out major flaws in the most insensitive way possible...
Look... I'm pretty sure Doug liked R. Williams as an actor. Heck... he even said it in some of his Nostalgia Critic reviews. NC had no idea this man would commit suicide YEARS LATER after this satirical sketch, so please contain your comments to a reasonable level... thanks.
Exactly. Besides, there's no reason you can't talk about dead people. Robin Williams was a fantastic actor, but he picked some bad movies. Simple as that.
TheUltraDude Their just trying to stop the bunch of other people from bringing up the same stuff. Other people obviously aren't going to ignore it (just read below) so it's better to try to deal with it like that other than the some other people are.
TheUltraDude cool story bro.
Yea I hated "Jew Wario" but I never knew he would kill himself..:/
Insult comedy and black comedy is insulting by default. NC's criticisms of Jack are valid and make sense - Robin's trying so hard to be perfect and innocent that it just makes him look moronic; Robin's actions don't make sense even for a highly-sheltered 10-year-old kid.
4:44 I was laughing so hard about that Harry Potter moment
"He talks to a guy who looks like John Edwards"
You mean Michael Mckean, Nostalgia Critic?
"Carrots! Stick em' where ya' want!"
4:50 150 points from Gryffindor. Now bring me my detenators!
He ages super fast?
Sounds like a horror movie rather than a kid-comedy...
Maarten Raaijmakers That reference may just FLY over people’s heads
Congratulations, you just predicted Old by M. Night.
Fran Drescher is so hot, especially in this movie.
As long as she doesn't talk.
In that voice she forces along with that forced laughter like she does in The Nanny.
Cinnamoncustard i know!
Yep!
My brother is ten, shares a bed with our mother and has several teddies. Yeah.
no one cares!
he said MOST
MMowen4004 :D
Kim Moreels lol omg wat a troll XDDDD
Jibab53 just trying to spend my leisure times good ;).
"Har har! I have a condition!!" -I nearly died of laughter the first time I heard this line. It still kills me!! XD
I would guess the only reason why that whole bar fight sequence was kept in was the simple fact that William Defoa was in it.
His mother's house is where he stays,
He's way to young and he got laid
At 10 years old his life's a breeze
Selling kids porno, what a sleaze
He's still obsessed with his toy dolls, see?
It gets real dark in therepy
He checks his list off everyday,
Of the bullies he will blow away
Jack, Jack, He's a psycho maniac
Jack, Jack, He's a psycho maniac
Marley and Me made me cry.
This is the funniest nostalgia critic just for the "YES!!!!" line.
R.I.P robin williams great movies he made
1.mrs doubtfire
2.jumanji
3.aladdin
4.night of the museam
5.jack
6.hook
7.fisher king
He acted in them he didn't make them.
Was i the only 5th grader who wasnt a pervert
Nope...
naw
Nah
*YEEEEEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
Nope u me dude u and me
Well, I checked the wikipedia page for Jack, and it turns out that it was produced by Ford Coppola and Fred... Fred Fuchs? FRED FUCHS? Fred Fuchs!! Oh my god... Fred Fuchs...! Ohhh my god, it's Fred Fuchs... ughhhh, Fred Fuchs
Fred Fuchs!!!!!!!!
Fred Fuchs
Is is a bad thing that I actually LIKE Fran Drescher BECAUSE of her voice?
Dem legs.
Perfectly normal to think that...especially since that voice is FAR different from here REAL speaking voice (still whiny, but not as exaggerated.)
‘I believe in America...’
The Godfather joke XD
Just gonna point out a stupid nitpick: Harry Potter in the first movie was actually 11 for the scene he used. I literally just wanted to say that.
Still it was a joke and he had only just turned 11. It's close enough to 10 but I had noticed that too
Is this what 'Simple Jack' in Tropic Thunder was making fun of? lmfaoooo
tomhulcelover Oh no, I'd say they were making sun of movies like I am Sam and Water Boy etc but Jack wasn't "special" or anything in this. Just a random made up disease.
When you go back into Nostalgic movies, could you possibly do Mrs. Doubtfire as one of them sometime in the future?
R.I.P Robin Williams. Such an amazing person and actor.
I hate to say this but the way Robin Williams acts in this movie remind me of Chris Chan.
AngelWorks Productions A big baby in the body of a man? Sounds legit.
Who
Stanley Kubrick's Happy Gilmore sounds hilarious
"Whenever I look at photos, I like to view them with confetti WHIMSY!"
Gimme another galon of milk.
"Don´t you think you had enough?
"I´ll tell you when I had enough!" :D
Oh my god ! That kid has my Black Flag shirt !!!
Hahah, fucking A ! That's awesome !
Until a couple weeks ago, I hadn't been exposed to a Copolla movie. In my senior English class we read the book Heart of Darkness and afterwards, decided to watch Apocalypse Now to compare the two. I thought it was great. It's hard to believe the same person who made that film also made this.
"- Mr. Potter?
- YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!"
My sides.
I honestly laughed SO hard during the NC's "cheerful" rendition of the Marley scene! :-D
4:45- Lmao, I would love it if Harry Potter had been that crazy. While I understand some of Nostalgia Critic's points , I still found Williams' performance largely enjoyable and heartfelt (And NOBODY could play Popeye like he did). It was kind of like Benjamin Button in reverse. Also, cooties would be the most hilarious form of biological weaponry going by children's logic :)
I always felt cooties was stupid and I never bought into it.
FUCKING BUBBLES!
Can anyone Tell me why These sort of comments get the Most likes im just really curious
*+Daniel_Styles* It's a gag from one of Nostalgia Critic's commercial reviews, where a commercial showed kids acting a little more excited than they should be over a bubble toy.
Unless you mean "why do comments just quoting something from the review get the most likes," in which case I have no idea what to tell you.
The Quote Comments i love Nostalgia critic and i Love FUCKING BUBBLES but it's just a Quote everybody can Do it
Daniel_Styles Then I have absolutely no idea. Variations or clever comments on them, sure, but direct quotes, not as much.
Doug made a very touching Robin tribute video just after he died. It's possible to poke fun at people you like, y'kno. Also, one of the kids is wearing a Black Flag shirt LOL
Watching Bill Cosby eat a handful of weird shit at 11:51 is actually pretty cathartic, considering...well, you know.
13:55 Hey, that's Chuck from Better Call Saul.
+Watzit Tooya hahahaah Chuck finally goes out!
Frickin' Chuck
lol
"How many 10 year olds sleep with a doll!?". Well, I do have a 12-year-old cousin who sleeps with his Tigger doll, while dressed in a Tigger onesie...
+darwincity A onesie? No one over 2 years old wears a onesie. I think you're picturing something else like footie pjs. Google i.
***** That is a very valid point. I just wanted to insert some real-life facts in here.
Arya Stark Probably. I just know that my cousin has a tigger onsie/footie PJ's of which he is very proud...
+darwincity also im 13 and thinking about getting a portal turret plushie to hug at night xD
If this whole rapid aging thing were true, Jack would have to eat HUGE quantities of food to keep up with his cells' energy requirements. Possibly so much that his family wouldn't be able to afford to keep him.
+Nate Tanguay Also, the sped up fetus growing would have reeked havoc on the mom's innards.
Fran Drescher's voice always make me smile.
"WoOOOooW!"
"What a nice supiIIIiiise!"
I know, right!
It wasn't that bad.
wait a second so he is physically 40 so his brain should be fully developed. even though he only has 10 years of life experience he should think like a 40 year old.
Joel Wilson That's not necessarily true. If you were born in a coma and awoke fourty years later, you wouldn't think like a fourty year old. You'd know as much as a newborn would.
TheCryptidman
yes but he didn't wake up in a coma. He Is developing 4 times as fast as any human being. This applies for mentally as well as physically. The only explanation is that it is only his physical self developed but this makes no sense into why it is only physical development. I understand where you are coming from though thanks for the contribution :)
Good point. While it's true that he'd still be disadvantaged due to a lack of life experience, his brain would be more "capable" of adult thought.
+Joel Wilson (Julius1337) no… he should have the sex drive of a forty year old, but he still shouldn't act like a forty year old.
They way someone acts is based on their experiences. He only has 10 years of experience
To be fair this is a fairly creative story ruined by its transition from paper to the big screen
Yeah, the idea, has potential, I mean, Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome is a real disorder-though it's very different to how the film portrays it. Which wouldn't be a huge issue considering when the film was made and the people that would have wanted to see it, but Williams doesn't play him like a ten year old as NC points out, it wouldn't have been that difficult for Williams to actually spend time with his younger co-stars and take on their traits, like Tom Hanks did in Big.
R.I.P Robin Williams, we will miss you. You have brought joy and laughter to thousands if not millions of people, you were a good man, we love you :,(
I truly hope nostalgia critic does a memorial review for Robin Williams, He was one of my favorite parts. And what better way to celebrate do what he did best, make jokes.
This isn't completely bull shit. There is actually several different disorders that cause different growth disorders. People who grow in height and generally die in their twenties at heights of over eight feet with odd proportions that can not support their organs or skeletal structure. There is another disorder where a child's organs and body can age scarily quickly causing them by age 8 to look like an elder. Though this movie sort of did turn it into a cruel fucking joke. He doesn't look like somebody with either disorder, he looks like a creepy old man pretending to be a little boy.
This has nothing to do with those conditions you've mentioned. This is actually called Werner's syndrome, where your DNA fails to repair, and you literally age prematurely- since aging is not some God's or nature's plan, but simply a flaw in programming!
WErner's syndrome doesn't manifest itself this early (I don't know if there are any exceptions), but another similar disease is progeria, however kids who have progeria do not look like nbormal fifty-year olds
1683jansobieski Thats really interesting, I hadn't known about that one before. Thanks for the information.
TheNamelessNarrator
You're welcome!
Okay I guess no one is going to say it, so Im gonna go ahead -- babies born several months earlier cant look like that. Not only that they are smaller in size,but they are also covered in fur. The embryo develops some animalistic features while in the womb and then around the 8th month it loses them.
Come on, guys, don't use Williams's death as an excuse to troll an old video. Show some respect.
I honestly had a crush on Fran Drescher you know when she was on the nanny voice and all I think it was because of how she dressed
I'm on a seriously sad and lengthy, Nostalgia Critic marathon. the worst part is, is that I think I've already seen all of these.
oh shit Stimpy is in this movie wtf
My stupid friends and some other kids back in 4th grade still did the whole cooties bullshit and we were all 9 years old
My favorite moment is Harry Potter, I was dying!
Goodbye Robin Williams we will missed you.
I'm halfway through this video and I'm still dying from 4:44. XD Oh my flipping god.
I love Nostalgia Critic. He's clever, funny, and all around charismatic. But I can't respect the guys opinions concerning what defines a 'good' movie.
When you praise "Sky High", the illustrious image of corny cliche but compare "Jack" (something that at least TRIED to be unique) to Freaky Friday, I just can't take you seriously.
*****, I disagree.
Charisma has no pretense. Charismatic people can be total twats and still command respect. All you have to do is be 'generally liked' for whatever (or despite whatever) reason. I think most people agree he's a cool guy. Something sets him apart from the crowd. If there wasn't, he wouldn't have gotten this far.
What I like most about him is the very thing you seem to despise; his confidence. He works hard on his videos, does it all with the intention of making people laugh (and paying the bills), and if some people don't' like that, 'tough' he seems to say.
You definitely have good points. His skits seem to have been performed by a monkey and produced by a chimpanzee with a hangover, but that's all purely subjective. His confidence shouldn't be tied to success or failure, but by the effort given, and his work drips with (occasionally sulfur scented) effort that makes me smile despite the smell (insert 'your mom joke' here).
My problems stem from his stance as a 'reviewer', and to be honest, I'm even more conflicted after seeing his "Top Ten Cliches". He has a firm grasp of cinema principles, yet shows bias in its application.
Perhaps he does it solely for entertainment. But he hands out 'recommendations' frequently. He's trying to be 'nothing but laughs', yet 'a serious reviewer' all at the same time. Can't have your cake and eat it too Doug.
I digress.
As I said previously, so long as he entertains me, I'll continue watching, but I'll never base my cinematic appraisal or confide in a show about what to watch when it straddles between 'serious' and 'goofy' without firm context.
*****
Viking102938
You guys are aware that the Nostalgia Critic is just a character, right? Doug Walker himself sometimes has different opinions to the ones he expresses as the Nostalgia Critic purely for the sake of comedy. He admitted to loving Hook, which he tore into, and he made a Doug Walker Top 11 Hottest Animated Women list to demonstrate how he and the Nostalgia Critic are two different people.
And his overall goal is of course to entertain. He admits he's a screw up at times, but he and Rob work hard at making these episodes as good as they can be. While he'll take time now and again to be serious about how bad a movie is, he's still going to try and make it funny. One way or another, he's always very good at getting his point across, even if you disagree with him. And his popularity speaks for itself.
One last thing. When you want to argue that the Nostalgia Critic is wrong and that a movie he dislikes is good, Doug will often reply with something like "Yeah, that's fair. Enjoy it, man." He doesn't see his opinion as absolute and the same goes for the quality of his videos. He's been doing this for a long time and he is good at it, but if you criticise his work he can still offer a humble apology.
Are you just copy and pasting your comment and replacing the title of the movie?
***** I liked him back when he only did reviews like this. Nowadays,with Malcolm and that other chick,it's really.... really.... painful! I only laughed one entire time at his Ghost Dad review,but at these old ones,I laughed all the time! Something changed about him,and sucked out all the funny.
screwy109 Well you are in the minority, no offence. A lot of people, including myself, enjoy the newer versions.
I love Nostalgia Critic as much as the next fan, but that Marley & Me joke kinda crossed several lines to me
RIP Robin Williams.