Comedy

Wizards Beyond Waverly Place – Wizards Just Wand to Have Fun

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  • Title: Wizards Beyond Waverly Place – Wizards Just Wand to Have Fun
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Items from a wizard prank site cause problems for multiple characters in “Wizards Just Wand to Have Fun.” Meaning to send a stink box to  Justin (David Henrie) after he confiscated her wand, Billie (Janice LeAnn Brown) accidentally sends a shrink box shrinks him down leading to all kinds of shenanigans with the pair trying to hide that fact from his boss (Darien Sills-Evans). Finding the site, Roman (Alkaio Thiele) orders a muscle-shirt to stand up to some school bullies. However, when his new power goes to his head it falls to Winter (Taylor Cora) to bring him back to reality.

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Shifting Gears – Picnic

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  • Title: Shifting Gears – Picnic
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“Picnic” focuses on the rivalry between Matt (Tim Allen) and Eve (Jenna Elfman) when Riley’s (Kat Dennings) boss adds a picnic table to the shared alley. The bickering between the pair never really escalates to anything of note, they eventually come to shared understanding and peace which is broken by a misunderstanding that is discovered but never acting upon. All in all, it’s a pretty lazy episode that also bleeds into the B-story involving both Matt and Riley struggling to give Carter (Maxwell Simkins) the sex talk which, like the main storyline, doesn’t have a real resolution either.

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Paddington 2

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  • Title: Paddington 2
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The sequel to 2014’s Paddington brings back the cast for another adventure this time swapping out Nicole Kidman for Hugh Grant as the film’s villain. The trope of the obviously innocent hero being convicted for a crime no one believes he committed is one of my least favorite, but Paddington 2 makes it work by tapping into the same earnestness and heartfelt nature of the original film.

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Shifting Gears – Valentine’s

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  • Title: Shifting Gears – Valentine’s
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On Valentine’s Day, the main storyline involves Matt (Tim Allen) visiting his wife’s grave and making a new friend (Nancy Travis). While the episode doesn’t set up Travis as a romantic interest, the interactions between them (first at the mausoleum and then at the pharmacy) does build on Matt learning how to move on after his wife’s death. Sadly, neither of the B-stories have much to offer in terms of Riley (Kat Dennings) fretting over a dance video which is really just an excuse for Dennings and Seann William Scott to dance badly, and Georgia (Barrett Margolis) getting sick when left alone with Carter (Maxwell Simkins), both feel very much lazy paint-by-number sitcom filler.

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Paddington in Peru

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  • Title: Paddington in Peru
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The first Paddington film in eight years takes Paddington (Ben Whishaw) and the Brown family out of London and into the jungles of Peru. Flipping the fish-out-of-water concept of the series on its head, the third film in the franchise returns Paddington to the jungle while pushing the Brown family, who all choose to accompany him, into unfamiliar surroundings allowing them to react to the strange new world.

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