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Well, here’s something that’s semi-relevant to this site. Doug did a Nostalgia Critic video on Playing with Fire, AKA that John Cena movie with a bunch of Friendship is Magic references. He even put Pinkie Pie and Cena wearing a Princess Celestia shirt in the thumbnail.  
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As for the video itself, it’s pretty middle of the road. My only real complaint is that it starts off with two extended sketches, resulting in Doug taking six minutes to start the review.
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What did he have to say about the FiM related stuff in the movie?  
Also six minutes to start the review? What the hell was he doing that he thought was so funny to build up whatever movie he’s talking about?
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@Background Pony #2440  
I pretty much stopped watching Doug’s videos for a long time, but just out of curiosity I decided to take a look even if it was just clickbait, and my god is it bad and I’m not just talking about the review but the movie itself just looks so not good and the MLP references seem pretty generic honestly; if I never watched FiM and this movie was my introduction I’d probably never watch the series ever which is a pretty bad turnoff for such a fantastic show.
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@northern haste  
Apparently, he reviewed this movie because the only piece of nostalgia this movie has is its narrative structure of the ‘tough guy that is comedically incompetent with raising kids’ that was seen in Kindergarden Cop and other movies similar to it that came out in the 2000s, like The Pacifier, The Game Plan, The Spy Next Door, etc.
 
 
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He mainly found it puzzling that FiM would be referenced in this movie, considering this is a Nickelodeon-produced movie and that MLP is not a Nickelodeon brand.
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The problem with that conceit is that there is only so much nostalgia to re-evaluate, and once you run out, you’ve only got what they’re remaking to make content out of.
 
As I’ve said elsewhere, like with Spoony and Linkara to a lesser degree, Doug never intended to continue the NC for the long haul, hence why the conceit is a bit mismatched with regards to modern NC content.
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@Background Pony #C471  
Apparently, MLP:FIM does air on Nickelodeon in some countries, seeing how there are tons of screenshots here with the Nickelodeon logo on them.
 
And yeah, I remember that “action guy in family-comedy” trope. Don’t forget Hulk Hogan. and others did it too.
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*oh geez I can’t wait for the inevitable moment when Doug decides to review Camp Cretaceous. * because if there is one thing I am sick of him doing it’s always talking trash about the Jurassic Park franchise, I mean it would be one thing if he only commented on one or two of the movies that aren’t very good but he treats everyone of these movies like they are garbage even the first movie which he keeps saying he likes but I highly doubt that not to mention that review served as nothing more then to cash in on the movie when it was re-released in theaters in 3D. And lets not forget that Jurassic World was the first of his terrible clipless reviews that he made and honestly I don’t get why he needed to do it either especially when he would just talk about Fallen Kingdom later with clips.
 
Anyways this is why I’m glad Shinobi-03 exists to point out Doug’s stupidity and nitpicking of these movies, not to say that the franchise is perfect but it’s one that I love and will always defend, even the bad ones I still like regardless of what anyone says.
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I decided to much his playing was fire review because I heard he claims MLP is a Nickelodeon show.  
He doesn’t but he does seem to be acting like friendship is magic was not popular
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Admittedly, I actually liked that movie as a kid. lol (In fact, that movie made me a Gilbert Gottfried fan.)  
A li’l reluctant to watch him eviscerate it, because my dead Dad was fond of that movie too, so I have fond memories of watching it with him.
 
Some jokes didn’t age well, but it’s not a bad movie overall. Some mistakenly think the movie was “anti-adoption,” because of some remarks in the movie, but all the characters that were jerks to Junior for being adopted, or were anti-adoption were the A-holes/Antagonists.
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Gilbert Gottfried talked about that movie in his autobiography. He talked about how there was a scene he suggested where something fell down the cleavage of his lady friend,and he fumbles trying to get it out. They did takes for hours,all the time Gilbert is fondling this woman. The director congratulated Gilbert on being a good sport for having so much patience.
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@Dex Stewart  
lol I remember that scene from the sequel.
 
I remember Gottfried said one of his favorite roles was Iago the parrot from “Aladdin.” He was chosen for the movie, because they felt they needed another comedian besides Robin Williams in it, so it wouldn’t be so jarring/random when the wacky Genie appears.
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He actually said that he liked it, despite how crude it is; and watching his review reminded me of why I like it too, though am personally more a fan of the sequel than the first one.
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@Ebalosus  
That’s cool, maybe I’ll check out his review then.
 
The sequel is pretty good too, and it was quite funny that Junior met his match/rival. And later best friend/sister.  
It also had more of Mr. Peabody. (Gilbert Gottfried.)
 
Rotten Tomatoes didn’t like either movie.
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Rotten Tomatoes apparently gave that certain… highly controversial Netflix movie I will not name an 80%…
 
Meanwhile, they gave stuff like the original classic TMNT movie a 40%… I have officially lost all respect for them.
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