Sketched TV: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Get out your Sais and nun chucks; we're reviewing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

Splinter (Hoon Lee) has raised his four turtle sons, Leonardo (Jason Biggs), Donatello (Rob Paulsen), Michelangelo (Greg Cipes) and Raphael (Sean Astin) to be highly trained in ninjitsu, and now it's finally time for them to go out into the world. They befriend a teenage human girl named April (Mae Whitman) and help her rescue her father from a new alien menace. Can they survive the human world and stop both the Kraang (Nolan North) and the mysterious Shredder (Kevin Michael Richardson) before they wreak havoc?

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Get out your flaming swords and leather gliding suits, we're reviewing How to Train Your Dragon 2!

It's been five years since the events of the first movie, and everyone's taken to dragons pretty well. While Hiccup(Jay Baruchel) and Toothless are out mapping the region, he learns of a dangerous new threat named Drago(Djimon Hounsou) who wants to hunt and control all dragons, along with a suspicious dragon rider(Kate Blanchett) who turns out may have connections with Hiccup.

Mr. Peabody and Sherman

Get out your time machines and togas, we're reviewing Mr. Peabody and Sherman!

Mr. Peabody (Ty Burrell) adopts a boy, Sherman (Max Charles), and together they have wondrous adventures through time. But when Sherman gets into a conflict with a schoolmate, Penny (Aeriel Winter), they'll have to travel back in time to save her and fix the time stream!

The Wind Rises

Get out your paper airplanes and fishbones, we're reviewing The Wind Rises!

Based on a true character in history, Jiro Horikoshi(Joseph Gordon-Levitt) wants to make airplanes just like his Italian idol Caproni(Stanley Tucci). He becomes an aeronautical genius and makes Japanese fighter planes for WWII. Then he falls in love with a young woman.

The Lego Movie

Get out your Lego blocks and catchy theme song, we're reviewing The Lego Movie!

Emmet (Chris Pratt) is a normal every day Lego citizen. When he meets Wild Style (Elizabeth Banks) and stumbles onto a conspiracy to destroy the Lego world, everyone thinks that he is "the special" – the chosen one who will fulfill the prophecy and be a savior. What happens next will rock his little Lego world.

Frozen

Get out your ice blocks and reindeer, we're reviewing Frozen!

Anna (Idina Menzel) and Elsa (Kristen Bell) are sisters. Elsa has magical ice powers, but because of an accident, Anna doesn't know about them. When an incident occurs, Elsa runs away from her kingdom and her powers accidentally trigger an ongoing winter across the land. Anna must travel up a mountain to bring her back and save the kingdom! Maybe, with the help of Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) the ice deliverer, his reindeer Sven, and an ice-magic-animated snowman, Olaf (Josh Gad), Anna can pull it off!

Sketched Game: Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus

Get out your wrenches and inter-dimensional devices, we're reviewing Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus!

Galactic heroes Ratchet and Clank are escorting a dangerous prisoner, Vendra Prog, to space prison, when her gigantic ape of a twin brother, Neftin, comes to bust her out. When she threatens to open a portal to another dimension called "The Netherverse", it's up to Ratchet and Clank once again to save the universe from destruction!

Lego Star Wars specials

Get out your bricks and lightsabers, we're reviewing the Lego Star Wars specials The Empire Strikes Out and The Padawan Menace!

These are two half-hour specials within the Star Wars universe using mini figs and Legos to kidsy and comical ends. The Empire Strikes Out bridges the gap between Episodes 4 and 5 and The Padawan Menace takes place between Episodes 2 and 3.

Monsters University

Get out your scream canisters and fraternity jackets, we're reviewing Monsters University!

Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) has wanted to be a Scarer his whole life. When he finally gets to his college of choice, Monsters University, he butts heads with legacy Scarer, James Sullivan (John Goodman). After some college shenanigans, they find the only way they can both become Scarers is if they work together. 

Sketched TV: Avengers Assemble

Get out your hammers and shields, we're reviewing the pilot for Avengers Assemble!

Somehow they made MODOK less MODOK in AA. Also he's bald
now? Because we don't have enough bald villains?

The Avengers have broken up, but when something happens to Captain America, Tony Stark brings them together to avenge him. Can they still work together?

Sketched TV: Teen Titans Go!

Get out your sandwiches and pie, we're reviewing Teen Titans Go!

Teen Titans Go follows the Teen Titans – Raven, Beast Boy, Starfire, Cyborg and Robin – as they fight bad guys, go on silly adventures, and learn about friendship.

The Croods

Get out your saber-toothed mice and flying bird-turtles, we're reviewing The Croods!

The Croods are a prehistoric family, led by their father and leader, Grug(Nicholas Cage), who keeps them safe in their cave.  Eep(Emma Stone) hates living in the cave, and when the cave is destroyed, the Crood family must follow a newcomer, Guy(Ryan Reynolds), to get to the mountain and escape the continental shift!

Wreck-It Ralph

Get out your quarters, we're playing reviewing Wreck-It Ralph!

Wreck-It Ralph(John C. Reilly) is the villain of the arcade game Fix-it Felix Jr. When Ralph doesn't get enough appreciation, he decides he wants to be a hero and game jumps in search of fame and glory!  But without Ralph, Fixit Felix Jr. is in peril of being shut down permanently!  Along the way, Ralph meets a little racer, Vanellope(Sarah Silverman), who's in a similar situation. Can Ralph help Vanellope and find what he's looking for in time?

Hotel Transylvania

Get out your werewolves and vampires and mummies and invisible men and...ok let's just review Hotel Transylvania.

Mr. Werewolf had to drag his kids to see this.  

Dracula(Adam Sandler) has made a hotel for all monsters to feel safe. When his daughter Mavis(Selena Gomez) turns 118, she finally wants to leave the hotel and venture out into the world, and Dracula will do anything to prove to her that humans are not to be trusted. Enter Jonathan(Andy Samberg), a human who's stumbled onto the out-of-reach monster hotel!

Paranorman

Get out your ghosts and zombies, we're reviewing Paranorman!

Norman Babcock(Kodi Smit-McPhee) is an outsider at school, in town and even in his own family, all because he can see ghosts.  When a century-old curse threatens the town, he realizes that he's the only one who can stop it. But can he do it alone?

The Lorax

Get out your Thneeds and plastic trees, we're reviewing The Lorax!

Trees before hoes, guy! 

Wow you guys, The Lorax is amazing! It's such a telling tale that NEEDS to be told even more today than when it came out. The 2D animation is wonderful, and I'm in love with all the contraptions they created for the world. It's just long enough at half an hour and it's almost word for word like the...wait. Did you mean the 2012 Lorax? The one that's selling cars? Oh. OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH. shit.

The Secret World of Arrietty

Get out your giant silverware and tiny adventuring gear, we're reviewing The Secret World of Arrietty!

I loved it. EVERY. SINGLE. GORGEOUS. FRAME. AAAAAAAAHHHHHH SO PRETTY. That was me during every second of watching this beautiful wonderful film.

The Muppets

Get out your chickens and bears and frogs and pigs because by golly we're reviewing The Muppets!

Let me preface this by saying that I've seen the movies and I used to watch the show from time to time, but I don't remember the Muppets as fondly as others, and it didn't exactly hit the right nostalgic button for me. That said, please, please, PLEASE bring your kids to see this instead of the new Chipmunks movie coming out this week. And hey, it's got more stars than all of New Year's Eve combined!

Hugo

Get out your clockworks and gears. We're reviewing Hugo!

Hugo is directed by the amazing Martin Scorsese, has an all-star cast, and has some of the most beautiful visuals of any movie this year. But is it a well-oiled machine, or is it just a jumbled mess of shiny parts?

Kung Fu Panda 2

Get out your 3D glasses and harness your mad kung-fu skills, we're reviewing Kung Fu Panda 2! IN 3D!!!

Put on your 3D glasses now.

I have to say I really enjoyed Kung-Fu Panda 2. I was excited for it coming out, then I was worried that I was excited for it, and then I was excited again when I experienced it. And it was in 3D in a theatre full of screaming kids, so I really experienced the crap out of it.