The critics were not pleased with this movie back in 1994, but you know who was? The rest of the civilized world. It was a huge smash, it sold tons of kooky merchandise, and kids seemed to love it. So I decided to take a second look, and my guest is L.A. Podfidential's Chauncey Telese (@bigchaunc64). He toured the Bedrock set as a kid!

Critics (mostly) dismissed it; the box office was... let's say unimpressive. But mention the Speed Racer movie on the social media platform of your choice and you'll get a lot more positive responses than negative. (Try it!) Big thanks to The Flop House's Dan McCoy (@dankmccoy) for suggesting this visual roller coaster of a movie, and also for joining me for this episode.

The network TV version scared the holy snot out of me when I was 12, so of course I enjoyed the gruesome R-rated version I later discovered on VHS. But does this weird Peter Benchley misfire still hold up to fond childhood memories? Let's find out. And for this episode we have Room 237 and A Glitch in the Matrix director Rodney Ascher (@rodney_ascher), and I'll spoil it now: he digs this movie.

This big-budget spectacle... thing hit theaters late in 1985, and nobody cared. Frankly this conversation that I had with Kevin Murphy (@kwmurphy) may be the best thing to come out of this film's existence. Yes that's the Kevin Murphy from Rifftrax and Mystery Science Theater 3000, which means I had a ball recording this episode.

Sometimes satire ages like fine wine, and sometimes it just sours and everyone hates it. And dark / violent satire is even dicier. Does Danny DeVito (director of Throw Momma From the Train, The War of the Roses, and Matilda) pull it off this time around? Spoiler: box-office-wise, no. This movie failed miserably. But how does it hold up as an actual movie? Let's sit down with the excellent filmmaker Lucky McKee (@luckymckee) and talk about it.

Are you surprised that I found someone to defend this stinker? Well get this: I had several people to choose from! But it was veteran film critic / podcaster / soap-maker William Bibbiani (@WilliamBibbiani) who got the nod, and let's just say he came prepared.

Ask a Trek fan to name the weakest link in the franchise's feature film chain and you'll get a solid handful of votes for this 1989 entry. But why? Was it the victim of a writers strike? Budget cuts? Was Shatner ill-prepared to take a seat in the director's chair? Or maybe fans were just getting a little bored of the whole series. Anyway, I found a movie nerd who loves this movie. It's family-friendly screenwriter Brian Lynch (@brianlynch)! 

This Michael Crichton adaptation -- from the director of Die Hard -- could have been a surprise hit back in 1998, but all sorts of delays, unhappy producers, and annoyed test audiences conspired to help sink the movie once it finally hit theaters in 1999. But of all the movies I've covered on this podcast, this one might be the most staunchly defended... by people who follow me on twitter. Big thanks to my guest Gordon McAlpin (@gmcalpin), creator of the very amusing web series Multiplex 10.

What can be said about a movie so silly, stupid, and inept that its own director dismissed it as a "moron movie" and blamed himself for doing way too much cocaine on the job? Well, a lot, clearly. And I'm joined by seasoned horror expert Heather Wixson (@thehorrorchick) to discuss every insane little moment, murder, and fart sound. 

This bizarre horror comedy from Dan Aykroyd has left a weird taste in my mouth for the past three decades,  but it's time for a revisit (and a quick history lesson) to see if it qualifies as Overhated. Fortunately I found a professional film critic called Mike McGranaghan (@aisleseat) willing to risk his entire reputation to defend this slimy, goofy, expensive misfire.

What do you get when you combine Star Wars, Conan the Barbarian, Excalibur, Lord of the Rings, a slice of Zardoz, and six other random ingredients? You get Krull, that's what. I'm joined by Screen Anarchy's Mel Valentin (@realmelvalentin) to discuss this weird, expensive, misshapen misfire from 1983.

How is a global smash considered Overhated? Even the critics were only half angry at this one, so where's the hate? Well, for a good long while this movie was quite vocally "hated" by a good portion of comic book fans, Raimi nuts, and film critics too. But have the intervening years (and the endless deluge of superhero films) been kind to Spider-Man 3? I consulted with the fantastic nerd called Stuart Wellington (@flophousecat) to find out. (Download The Flophouse wherever you find quality podcasts.)

Richard Kelly has had an interesting (if annoyingly abbreviated) directorial career thus far. He hit the indie scene with the enjoyably weird Donnie Darko (2001) before delivering a pricey misfire called Southland Tales (2006), and then he got to helm this half-bizarre / half-conventional sci-fi mindbender based on a Richard Matheson story.  Big thanks to Chicago film critic James Laczkowski (@jim_laczkowski), who picked this flick, for joining me for this episode. (Also, thank you, patrons.)

Just what everyone's dying to hear: two opinionated men over 40 discussing Josie and the Pussycats! But to be fair, A) it's my show, and B) my guest did write a book about this movie! His name's Russ Burlingame (@russburlingame) and you can get a signed copy of Best Movie Ever over at josiebook.com

For at least 20 years Grease 2 was dismissed as the unloved sequel to an unquestioned classic. Well, guess what. It's time for a re-evaluation of this movie, and to that end I've enlisted a big G2 fan: it's B.J. Colangelo (@bjcolangelo) of teen-centric podcast "This Ends at Prom."

I wanted to post a clip of the 2022 Overhated Recap on the normal podcast feeds, but of course that would have been too easy. Instead of that I roped show producers Erik Childress and Jim Laczkowski into sitting down to discuss some predictions. Specifically, which movies we expect to get savaged by the critics and/or ignored by large audiences in the upcoming year. Then we glued a clip of the Recap episode onto the end there.

To cover a science fiction movie this awful, I need a trained professional, so I called on Ty Franck (one half of the writing team who brought us The Expanse novels and TV series) and together we dissected one of the most bafflingly terrible movies of the year 2000.

There are three types of "overhated"  movies: massive turkeys like Battlefield Earth; overlooked / underappreciated gems like Event Horizon; and movies that made huge money while pissing off critics before being remanded to the "guilty pleasure" bin. Anaconda falls into the third category. But don't call it a guilty pleasure around guest host Trace Thurman (aka @tracedthurman) of Bloody Disgusting and the Horror Queers podcast -- because he loves this movie to death.

Holy crap is this one plain old bad. But I will be forever indebted to this abysmal movie because it gave me a chance to chit-chat with a very funny movie nerd named Gareth Reynolds (aka @reynoldsgareth) who co-hosts a brilliant podcast called The Dollop.

But yeah. This movie is supremely terrible. Listen in for why!

In 1982 the director of Smokey and the Bandit and The Cannonball Run took money from Hong Kong film investors and the Mattel toy company, and headed out into the Nevada desert to make a G.I. Joe-style action movie full of fireworks, motorcycles, and skin-tight bodysuits. And Megaforce was the result. For this episode I'm joined by screenwriter / author / podcaster / puppy owner C. Robert Cargill (aka @massawyrm).