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Galavant – Aw, Hell, the King

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Galavant - Aw, Hell, the King

Galavant (Harry Collett) and Richard (Timothy Omundson) make their way back to Richard’s kingdom in need of the king’s army to help rescue Isabella (Karen David) only to discover the subjects have demolished the castle, using various pieces to build up the town, and are living in a democracy that isn’t too keen on invading another kingdom. Neither Richard’s attempt to find a new role within the democracy nor Galavant’s attempt to rally the villagers to their aid proves fruitful as the pair leaves with only a single new supporter: Richard’s childhood friend Roberta (Clare Foster).

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Galavant – World’s Best Kiss

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Galavant - World's Best Kiss

The second episode of the show’s Second Season gets back in the groove as Galavant (Harry Collett) and Richard‘s (Timothy Omundson) journey continues, Gareth (Vinnie Jones) struggles with both Madalena (Mallory Jansen) and his role in the kingdom – offering Sid (Luke Youngblood) a temporary position (before being thrown into the moat), and Isabella‘s (Karen David) continued attempts to free herself from Prince Harry‘s court. Although the premiere had its moments, “World’s Best Kiss” does a better job of recapturing the magic of he show’s First Season.

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Galavant – A New Season AKA Suck It Cancellation Bear

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Galavant - A New Season AKA Suck It Cancellation Bear

ABC’s musical adventure comedy returns for a Second Season with Galavant (Harry Collett) and Richard (Timothy Omundson) ending the travels with the pirates and returning to solid land. Focused on returning Richard to his kingdom and saving Isabella (Karen David), who has been kept prisoner these many months by her adolescent cousin (Kemaal Deen-Ellis) who plans on marrying her, Galavant’s journey is sidetracked as he and Richard become lost in the Enchanted Forest. And by Enchanted Forest I mean the gay pub in the middle of the woods run by Kylie Minogue who refuses to let the heroic leading man leave.

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Anastasia

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  • Title: Anastasia
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AnastasiaOne of only two feature releases for the short-lived Fox Animation Studios, 1997’s Anastasia has the feel of a Disney princess movie while mixing the look and design of a Don Bluth film. Beginning with the fall of the Russian Czar by the evil Rasputin (Christopher Lloyd) and the disappearance of the family’s young daughter (voiced as a child by Kirsten Dunst), the story picks up a decade later with an older Anya (Meg Ryan) leaving the orphanage where she was raised to journey into the wilder world searching for a family she scarcely remembers.

Along the way our heroine will encounter a pair of con men (John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer) who attempt to take advantage of Anya’s resemblance to the missing princess by training her to be Anastasia (not realizing she is indeed the genuine article). On the way to Paris to present Anya to the Dowager Empress in exile (Angela Lansbury) the group will also have to deal with the undead Rasputin out for vengeance and his cute sidekick Batrok (Hank Azaria).

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Still Slightly Out of Tune

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  • Title: Pitch Perfect 2
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Pitch Perfect 2Based on the book by Mickey Rapkin 2012’s Pitch Perfect was an occasionally fun, if wildly inconsistent, story glorifying a bizarre college subculture where a capella groups were the biggest celebrities on a college campus. Picking up three years later, loner Freshman Becca (Anna Kendrick) has grown into the Senior leader of the three-time defending a capella champions who face new adversity when a complicated stunt goes wrong at a public event.

Barred from competing, touring, or defending their national championship by the announcers (John Michael Higgins and Elizabeth Banks) who cover the sport (and also run it now?), the Barden Bellas’ only chance for redemption is to become the first American group to win at the World A capella Tournament.

If you thought it was bizarre seeing colleges go wild over a capella singing in the first film you haven’t seen anything yet as, in typical sequel fashion, Pitch Perfect 2 goes bigger this time around. The results are much the same as the first film with awkward romantic subplots and an odd storyline designed to make Becca the outsider of the group once more as she is the only member of the Bellas planning for life after college.

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