Website | Merch | Twitter Happy New Year! We say a fond farewell to 2019 and usher in 2020 with another Don Bluthe Classic: Anastasia. Special thanks to our friends on Twitter who reminded us to watch this one. See you next year!
Website | Merch | Twitter Is it a Christmas movie, or a Halloween movie? Does it matter? We watched The Nightmare Before Christmas. Please enjoy our stripped-down episode on your Christmas Week!
Website | Merch | Twitter There are many retellings of this story, but is any as classic as The Muppets? In true VCR Kids form, we come into this one relatively cold and give you our take. Can an adult still watch this movie, or does it cross the “Kids Only” line?
Website | Merch | Twitter The debate of all holiday debates continues: Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie? We try and answer it this week on The VCR Kids as Richard continues to Jetset around the globe.
Website | Merch | Twitter Happy Holidays start with Home Alone! This movie invades our holiday consciousness, but did you remember John Candy and the Street Salter? This movie is so packed with details, it’s definitely worth revisiting if you haven’t for a while.
Website | Merch | Twitter That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, Andrew has officially seen every Harry Potter movie! We talk about the franchise as a whole, bust some crazy theories, and try and convince him to read the books.
Website | Merch | Twitter Disney+ got us hooked again. We found the classic Tom and Huck starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas in his prime. Does this story still hold up 24 years later?
Website | Merch | Twitter Congratulations, you made it to Disney+ Release Day! Why not pull up some Honey I Shrunk the Kids on your new subscription service and share your time with The VCR Kids?
Website | Merch | Twitter We get back to our regular scheduled programming and watch The Rugrats Movie. Without a lot of experience reviewing classic Nickelodeon shows, will we even be able to bear this one? Find out!
Website | Merch | Twitter We finish off Spooktober 2019 with a review of Beetlejuice. This movie is now 31 years old, does it still hold up in 2019?
Website | Merch | Twitter Are you afraid of spiders? Because this movie will give you the Heeby Jeebies. We continue Spooktober 2019 with Arachnophobia!
Website | Merch | Twitter Scream featured a boat-load of 90’s it-actors and made a mark on Pop Culture. But does the 1996 movie still hold up 23 years later? Listen to the latest episode of The VCR Kids to hear what we think.
Website | Merch | Twitter The VCR Kids' Spooktober continues with the movie that took the 90's by surprise: The Sixth Sense. What was it like when the country still had faith in M. Night Shyamalan? We try and recapture that feeling.
Website | Merch | Twitter Happy October! Fall is here, Halloween is coming, it’s time to get SPOOPY with The VCR Kids! We kick off Spooktober with Casper and see if it still holds up to our memories!
Website | Merch | Twitter Charlie and the gang are back to face the challenge of high school. Will the Ducks be able to manage their game and their studies while navigating the treacherously hormonal halls? We watched D3 The Mighty Ducks this week.
Website | Merch | Twitter Whew! Long title today, but that’s because we finally got Andrew to come over and watch another Harry Potter movie with us! We started our Deathly Hallows journey with Part 1 and Andrew reveals a dark secret that could destroy The Harry Potter Virgin series as we know it. It’s back by popular demand, y’all, so let us know your thoughts!...
Website | Merch | Twitter We watched The Dark Crystal and compared it to the new Netflix series. Should you go back and revisit this Jim Henson classic?
Website | Merch | Twitter We had a hard time getting together this week for our episode, so we dug into our archive of unreleased episodes! There was just one in the archive… So enjoy this previously unreleased episode recorded over a year ago. Please bear with us on the lower audio quality, we didn’t know what we were doing…
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Website | Merch | Twitter We watched Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course. Is it still worth watching in 2019? Let us know your favorite memories of Steve Irwin.
Website | Merch | Twitter Osmosis Jones stars a LOT of funny people completely phoning it in on a terrible script. Or at least, that’s our general take of a movie that had a lot of hype when we were kids. Let us know your thoughts, and whether or not it’s worth seeing again.
Website | Merch | Twitter Jake Gyllenhaal and Laura Dern star in October Sky, a period movie about a group of boys who want to follow their dreams and build rockets. Based on a true story, this was what Erin describes as a “Youth Group Movie”. We figured it was time to revisit this coming-of-age film and see if it still holds up!...
Website | Merch | Twitter We watched The Lion King (1994) and The Lion King (2019) to see how the remake holds up to the original. With a stellar voice cast, and a tragic history of previous Disney remakes, The Lion King has a lot of hype to live up to, while still having the opportunity to crush expectations. We watched both, and we’ll let you know which is better, and whether you should watch Disney’s Lion King remake....
Website | Merch | Twitter In our third installment of "Grown-Up Summer" we watched That Thing You Do! One of Jay's favorite movies growing up. Does this feel-good classic hold up in 2019?
Website | Merch | Twitter We’re continuing our summer of Grown Up movies that we saw when we were kids. This week, Tremors. Kevin Bacon chews up the scenery in this 1990s cult favorite horror movie. A couple of handyman finally take their shot to get out of Perfection, Nevada, but when a few mysterious deaths are discovered, a shaking in the earth causes them to investigate. Will they save their town and survive the Tremors? Watch and find out. Or don’t....
Website | Merch | Twitter Richard brought this fun piece of the 90’s to our attention this week. Watch The Arnold interact with filterless children. Is this a comedy, an action movie, or a family film? Or somewhere in the middle? Listen to our memories and review of Kindergarten Cop this week on The VCR Kids!
Website | Merch | Twitter Mel Gibson stars in this 2000 claymation send-up of The Great Escape. Can Ginger and the chickens escape Tweedy’s Farm before they get turned into pies? They don’t even like gravy! We watched Chicken Run 19 years after it came out to see if it stands the test of time. Listen to the latest episode of The VCR Kids now!...
Website | Merch | Twitter This week, The VCR Kids dig into our Nostalgia Briefcase and pull out Stuart Little. Did you know this movie was written by M. Night Shamalyan? And it came out the SAME YEAR as The Sixth Sense? Coincidence? We'll see.. Stuart Little stars Michael J. Fox, Hugh Laurie, Gena Davis, Nathan Lane, and way more people you know! It also got a few Oscar nods. Overall, we were pretty surprised by how little we remembered about this movie. Definitely worth the time to check it out...
Merch | Website | Twitter From the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline, we watched 1996’s James and the Giant Peach. To say this is an entomologist’s fever dream is an understatement. Robot sharks, giant bugs, and juicy peaches abound. Does this stop motion film still hold up? Listen to The VCR Kids to find out. Every week we watch a movie from our childhood to see if it still holds up. A perfect podcast for millennials, 90s kids, and everyone else in that general area. Subsc...
