Jon Lovitz Archives

The Brave Little Toaster (1987)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 19, 2000Animation/Talking Appliances

This is a charming and delightful animated film about a group of talking household appliances appliances that set out on a quest to find their young master. Little seen at the time but two sequels followed.

Director: Jerry Rees

Actors: Deanna Oliver, Tim Stack, Jon Lovitz, Thurl Ravenscroft

Category: Fantasy

19 July 200028 December 2025 by Roog

My Stepmother is an Alien (1988)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 28, 2004Alien Visitor Comedy

1980s icon Kim Basinger displays unexpected comedy talents in this tale where she is an alien romancing Dan Akyroyd. Throwaway fluff but it has a comedic silliness that is undeniably appealing

Director: Richard Benjamin

Actors: Kim Basinger, Dan Aykroyd, Alyson Hannigan, Jon Lovitz, …

Category: Science Fiction

28 November 200414 September 2020 by Roog

Mr Destiny (1990)

Rating: ★★

Feb 3, 2000Angel Presents an Alternate Life Pathway

A variant on It's a Wonderful Life where James Belushi gets to live the life he never did due to missing a key baseball homerun

Director: James Orr

Actors: Jim Belushi, Linda Hamilton, Michael Caine, Rene Russo, …

Category: Fantasy

3 February 20006 March 2025 by Roog

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 1, 2000Animation/Talking Mice Adventures

Amblin make a sequel to An American Tail minus the involvement of Don Bluth this time. The story now becomes an amiable animated parody of a Western

Director: Phil Nibbelink, Simon Wells

Actors: Phillip Glasser, Dom DeLuise, John Cleese, James Stewart, …

Category: Fantasy

1 August 200018 November 2025 by Roog

Mom and Dad Save the World (1992)

Rating: ★★

Aug 24, 2010Adventures on a Planet of Stupid People Comedy

Films about stupid people are rarely funny - this concerns a whole planet of stupid people. Despite reasonable production values, there is little that raises even a mild smile in this comedic take on Flash Gordon

Director: Greg Beeman

Actors: Jeffrey Jones, Teri Garr, Jon Lovitz, Dwier Brown, …

Category: Science Fiction

24 August 20108 January 2025 by Roog

North (1994)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 26, 1999Fabulist Adventure

Likeable absurdist fable from Rob Reiner with Elijah Wood as a boy searching the world for perfect parents. With Bruce Willis as the Easter Bunny

Director: Rob Reiner

Actors: Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis, Jon Lovitz, Jason Alexander, …

Category: Fantasy

26 December 199922 January 2025 by Roog

Little Nicky (2000)

Rating: ★

Nov 10, 2000The Devil's Son Comedy

The Adam Sandler comedy and its pitch to the most vulgar common denominator is an acquired taste. This not very funny effort casts Sandler as The Devil's Son

Director: Steven Brill

Actors: Adam Sandler, Harvey Keitel, Rhys Ifans, Patricia Arquette, …

Category: Fantasy

10 November 20005 December 2020 by Roog

Cats & Dogs (2001)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 6, 2001Talking Animal Spy Capers

Here the cutely appealing idea of a talking animals film conducted in live-action a la Babe has been blended with a tongue-in-cheek spy adventure. The results are enjoyably silly

Director: Lawrence Guterman

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Elizabeth Perkins, Miriam Margolyes, Tobey Maguire, …

Category: Fantasy

6 July 200129 December 2025 by Roog

The Stepford Wives (2004)

Rating: ★★

Oct 18, 2004Android Housewife Replacements Comedy

Frank Oz conducts a remake of The Stepford Wives, which becomes a broad comedy take on the gender wars in the modern world

Director: Frank Oz

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Bette Midler, Matthew Broderick, Glenn Close, …

Category: Science Fiction

18 October 200423 December 2023 by Roog

Southland Tales (2006)

Rating: ★★★

May 4, 2008Near-Future L.A.

Richard Kelly of Donnie Darko fame makes a work set in a near-future L.A., a sprawling film bursting at the edges with too many characters and subplots but not uninteresting

Director: Richard Kelly

Actors: Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott, Cheri Oteri, …

Category: Science Fiction

4 May 200830 June 2025 by Roog

Hotel Transylvania (2012)

Rating: ★★

Sep 28, 2012Animation/Hotel for Famous Monsters

A variant on the much more charming Mad Monster Party?, an animated film featuring cute cuddly versions of the Famous Monsters (Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, wolfman etc) with Adam Sandler voicing Dracula

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky

Actors: Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, …

Category: Fantasy

28 September 20122 January 2026 by Roog

Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

Rating: ★★

Jan 23, 2016Animation/Famous Monsters Comedy

I had little enthusiasm for this, I tend to like my classic monsters serious rather than defanged - these Hotel Transylvania films are so watered down, Dracula doesn't even get to drink blood

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky

Actors: Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Asher Blinkoff, …

Category: Fantasy

23 January 20162 November 2025 by Roog