Jingle All the Way (1996)
Although not the worst film in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s career (if you can believe it), it’s still the one that has made him the butt of the most jokes. Schwarzenegger wasn’t exactly a stranger to...
Category: 1990s
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)
In the mid-1990s, merchandising tie-ins to movies earned three times the revenue of the movies themselves. Although the pie of profit was bigger, individual slices were smaller, fragmented among a conglomeration of companies across...
The Associate (1996)
Whoopi Goldberg (The Lion King, Rat Race) plays African-American woman Laurel Ayres, a hotshot Wall Street player that hits the glass ceiling in her company when her white male protégé (Daly, The Outsider) gets the big promotion...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were quite a phenomenon among adolescents in the mid-to-late-1980s, starting off with humble beginnings back in comic book form in 1984, expanding into a wildly popular line of action...
The Great White Hype (1996)
The Great White Hype is a broad satire of the boxing industry, particularly in how publicity and marketing govern the suitability of one’s rise to the top more so than sheer talent. Spoofing everything from...
Mortal Kombat (1995)
“Mortal Kombat”, the video game, started in 1991 when game programmer Ed Boon and artist John Tobias sought to create a fighting game featuring a digitized Jean Claude Van Damme, specifically related to his...
Junior (1994)
For some reason, Arnold Schwarzenegger was of the opinion that, at this point in his phenomenal career as an action star, he needed to deflate his macho image by constantly making fun of it. ...
Street Fighter (1994)
Video game aficionados need no introduction to the “Street Fighter” name. It’s one of the most popular game franchises of all time primarily due to the release of “Street Fighter II” into arcades in...
Wing Commander (1999)
No, the title doesn’t refer to the guy that takes the chicken wings out of the fryer at KFC, although if they can call a Subway employee a “Sandwich Artist” or a Starbucks employee...
Kiss the Girls (1997)
Kiss the Girls is a film based on the James Patterson bestseller, slickly directed by Gary Fleder (Impostor, Runaway Jury), and relatively engaging until about the final third of the film. Like so many mystery-thrillers, there...