Siskel and Ebert: Jimmy Hollywood, Thumbelina, Major League 2, D2: The Mighty Ducks,

[@darrylwynwilliams1760]

The legendary Siskel & Ebert - these two were just the best.

[@reneperez7903]

Glad Roger Ebert agrees with me that Bob Uecker is the only relevant actor in Major League 2

[@CJmovie92]

"And how about the prince? His name is Cornelius. Now there's a name today's kids can really thrill to, but what's worse...HE'S A WIMP!!" ROFLMFAO!

[@josephrowe849]

I wanna see Ant-Man kick his ass!

[@Xayjohns]

For some days now, I have been wondering about what movie Gene said wouldn't sell any toys. It was Thumbelina.

[@sha11235]

I remember it from years ago. And he was right.

[@danwroy]

Lol, he's a concerned man

[@williamhowe1]

I guess dazed and confused is a palate cleanser for the show.

[@TASprocudtions454]

“They’re all unattractive. Even the good people are unattractive.” -Gene Siskel, 1994

[@lalarimekaki5173]

i love this

[@dannewnam2701]

Well Said.

[@mattarthur7065]

Jimmy Hollywood is a very underrated movie..ive always enjoyed it..pesci and slater play well off each other ...funny stuff ..and its got some drama as well!!

[@tennysontableau]

Jimmy Hollywood is a hilarious movie. Critics always seem to brag about their own ideals as if it is some kind of law of science. It's a perfectly fine movie. Reviews tell more about the reviewer than what they are reviewing.

[@alistairarchibald1312]

@@tennysontableau that's 100% true especially for Gene Siskel. he does have good insights obviously but there are lots of times he's reviewing things as if his kids are watching.

[@jeremyusreevu237]

Wow. Every film in this episode got a 2 thumbs down.

[@sha11235]

Well, it happens at times. It was a pretty entertaining show though.

[@danielstack4158]

I was just watching another one from around this time period where everything got a thumbs down, minus one movie that got a thumbs down and a marginal thumbs up. There were more shit movies in the 90's than I care to remember.

[@danwroy]

Big deal

[@kdohertygizbur]

They all were bad, it happens

[@whenfatkillsfat803]

Well, it was Spring. Not exactly Oscar season.

[@stonefree1911]

The balcony was angry that day my friends....

[@TheChrisminator19]

I used to hate the scene where Jake tells Willy that he doesn't care that his leg hurts as he orders him to pinch-run for Rube Baker. And that's where he walks away very angrily at the 8:06-8:07 minute mark.

[@ilovebrandnewcarpets]

As a kid in the early 90's D2 was a super fun flick!

[@gtcreels532]

Oh if only they were around doing reviews together when Freddie Got Fingered released!

[@QlockworkOrange]

Ebert & Roeper did it... kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGW0qXiDjtyiaK8

[@sha11235]

Why do I have the feeling Gene would've said this, "Okay, I have to make this statement. Five years ago I walked out on a film called Black Sheep in a movie theater, first time I did that in 26 years. Well, it didn't take me another 26 years to do that! I did it with this one too!"

[@pheonix5597]

I think Winona Ryder was a bit YOUNG to be a "heavyweight", like Meryl Streep and Glen Close in 94.

[@hankforeman91]

You know, I got to meet Jodi Benson herself at a con once (sweet lady) and brought up how these men gave two thumbs up to Little Mermaid but gave two thumbs down to Thumbelina. Her response to the latter… “That’s okay.”

[@amoeba1533]

Calm down, it's not like either Major League or Mighty Ducks were MASTERPIECES that were destined to attain classic status in the first place. THOSE were both just dumb bland commercial flavor of the month movies of their immediate time that are NOW outdated and insignificant.

[@RocStarr913]

But when you are a movie critic, you want to have a high bar, even for obvious formula movies.

[@MovieLover1995]

The biggest problem with the Mighty Ducks sequels is that the storyline from the original film is repeated over and over. Just with different styles of hockey.

[@staggmovie]

The biggest difference between with the third film , the MightDicks get a new head coach as Gordon Bombay loves on to a job with the Junior Goodwill games. And plus there is a death of a character not seen in either of the first 2 novices.

[@DrVVVinK]

Funny what Siskal said about Iceland, when I was six and saw this movie I thought Iceland was a "bad" country, and not safe to travel too. I guess my vision of Iceland would be that of a evel dictatorship country, because of this movie. Lol.

[@CaptainSpalding72]

Thats the problem with the first one. Rocky on ice only shitty.

[@josephsarto689]

The ducks wee a good team by the end of the first movie. Why did they suck again at the beginning of the second movie?

[@MovieLover1995]

@@josephsarto689 It's probably what Averman said to Bombay when Bombay asked him about training during the off-season, and Averman replies with, "I knew we forgot something."

[@nicktaylor2657]

I like Bob Ucher doing his best Harry Carey impersonation 🤩😁

[@sha11235]

Bad week wasn't it?

[@THOMASINTHE1980S]

Wow they roasted all 5.

[@dnasty312]

Problems with _Major League II:_ 1. The original is a funny edgy *R* and the sequel is PG (not even PG-13 😬) 2. Recasting Wesley Snipes, you can't 😒 3. Broader and goofier, not funnier 🙄

[@matthewstechel2037]

On the one hand i wanna agree with you that the first one is funnier BUT this movie came out when i was in sixth grade and i was able to see it in theaters because of its PG rating and i absolutely loved it at the time---and honestly there's plenty of sexual content thats in there, its just not as blatant....I was glad I got to see it tho, if it had been rated R i wouldn't have been able to see it until it hit cable a year or two later.

[@sha11235]

The first one wasn't that great either.

[@jmjfanss]

@@sha11235 I disagree, the first one was good.

[@RocStarr913]

@@jmjfanss It was good enough, but it was still a pretty predictable sports movie. The only thing that made it any bit really distinguishable was the vulgarity.

[@gorrow1990]

Even as a kid, I was underwhelmed by Thumbelina and it just reeked of lazy writing that all the villains she encountered were romantically interested in her and two of them actively tried to force a marriage.

[@crystalshaw8744]

Tilt that cup!!...smile

[@ilovebrandnewcarpets]

I completely forgot about Jimmy Hollywood and Thumbelina. Total misfires.

[@peterkuykendall2367]

There were several problems why Major League II was a bad film. 1). Downgrading the film to PG instead of keeping the movie to rated R. 2). Relocating the film to Baltimore instead of keeping the film in Milwaukee. 3). Replacing Wesley Snipes with Omar Epps.

[@lalarimekaki5173]

replacing anyone with omar epps sounds like a bad deal.

[@reneperez7903]

Very well said I hated how Major League 2 was PG & not R, I agree Camden Yards was not a good place to play the Indians lol & Omar Epps wasn’t that bad but at that time Snipes was expensive & couldn’t afford him but he made the right choice by not returning.

[@RocStarr913]

The production company or the studio probably felt that the sequel would be more successful at the box office if it could get a PG rating rather than R. Turns out the R-rated content was a big part of what made the original Major League any bit stand out at the time.

[@FeverDog420]

TEN THUMBS DOWN! I have not seen any of these movies.

[@reneperez7903]

Major League 2 was bad, D2 The Mighty Ducks wasn’t awful, but was the same storyline as the original & agreed with Gene Emilio Estevez is boring.

[@JamminOnThe1]

Siskel has dissed Emilio in stake out and might ducks 2. He’s not a fan of EE.

[@sha11235]

He's liked some of his work. Breakfast Club, for example.

[@ReverendBenzo]

Bad week for movies.

[@playsbass1969]

Bad day

[@patcrites5274]

In my opinion i thiught that Major Legue 2 was better than the first one

[@sha11235]

The clips of the songs aren't too bad, but the film isn't very good, true.

[@fperkin2]

I loved Siskel, but I have so many problems with the way he rated child actors in movies and horror movie actors as well. He always rated movies poorly if they had kids in troubling situations, or if they were horror movies. It did not matter if the script was well written, the movie was well acted, or the production value was right on. Movies like IT and IT: Chapter 2 would be given an automatic thumbs down by him because of that even though they are Rated R. Good Boys, which was one of the funniest films of last year, would be the same way. He did not like Horror Movies either. Movies like Ready or Not, which I felt was a great horror film, would be given an automatic thumbs down too. Those were the only issues I had with him.

[@Jbaxter85]

All 5 movies aren't worth seeing

[@kdohertygizbur]

Major League 2 was so bad, but slightly better than part 3

[@AeroRanger100]

Looking back on Thumbelina, I stomached most of the characters in the story okay...except for the swallow...that obnoxious, condescending swallow...🤬

[@evilsWa]

If you ever wonder how out of touch these geezers were even at the top look no further than them calling 1975s Stranglehold by Ted Nugent “heavy metal”

[@jtr990]

Five movies. Ten big, big, big thumbs down, down, down.

[@bones23jones]

😆 I almost want to give this video a 👎 just to join in with Siskel and Ebert.... Naa. 👍

[@aldenmartin623]

All thumbs down!!!

[@jayboek2854]

Major league 2 was trash

[@Dim4323]

All thumbs down what went wrong lack of creativity

[@CubanPete1990]

I’ve knew that boring 90’s animated movie 🎥 called Thumbalina is much worst that nobody else like this boring animated film 🎥 from 1994 that is not a Disney movie 🎥 it’s from Warner Bros!