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Even Stevens (2000)
Way better than "Lizzie McGuire"
"Even Stevens" is a vast improvement over "Lizzie McGuire," which is relentlessly sappy. Sure, the show has its faults (the sub-plots involving Ren are usually dumb; Beans is annoying; Louis is increasingly shrill), but so did "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch," and I loved that show. Like "Sabrina," "Stevens" is also a good waste of half an hour when there's nothing else on. And there are no idiotic gimmicks (like Lizzie's animated alter ego). It's just too bad there will never be a replacement for "The Adventures of Pete & Pete"...
Barbershop (2002)
vast improvement over Ice Cube's other movies
The only suggestion I would have would be to tone down the insults of college students in the film. The only college-educated character in this film (Sean Patrick Thomas) is much-maligned. Don't judge the movie by Ice Cube's other abominable flicks. And I am quite pleased that the central character in this "black" film is a responsible husband and father, not a deadbeat.
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979)
Refreshing Repetition
Yes, the gags are somewhat repetitive: Wile E. Coyote plunges to the ground 15 times, is crushed with rocks 11 times and baits the roadrunner three times with "Free Bird Seed." In all, 10 Acme products appear in this movie, in which Bugs Bunny and other characters sport clever disguises no fewer than 12 times. There are five "wabbit season"/"duck season" face-offs. Daffy Duck gets shot 10 times.
But it never gets old. I have loved this movie since I was a little boy, and have viewed it, literally, hundreds of times. That's the genius of Chuck Jones (animator) and Mel Blanc (voices).
The many shorts featured in this compilation include Daffy's battle with an off-screen animator, Bugs fighting a bull and getting revenge on a grumpy opera singer, two intergalactic run-ins with Marvin the Martian, "What's Opera, Doc?" (which is, as Bugs describes it, "the entire 18 hours of Richard Wagner's 'Ring of Nibaloone--Nibalane--Nibalu--Nibalung' ... squashed ... down to seven minutes") and a 20-minute segment of classic roadrunner gags.