And the winner is...

GASTON




That's right. Gaston here, from Beauty and the Beast, is our ultimate villain idol (at least as far as singing goes.)

Villain Idol: Round 2: Top 6

Hans and Gaston were tied for first. Scar and Dr. Facilier are tied for last.Ursula and Mother Gothel hold firm... for some weird reason.

Our top six is:

Hans

Gaston

Ursula

Mother Gothel

Scar

Dr. Facilier

Which means we say so long to...
Frollo who sings the greatest villain song ever.

Jafar who has MASTERED the evil laugh.
Oogie Boogie who sings an amazing, and inventive song.
Shere Khan who sings one of the lowest notes I have ever heard.

The scores tonight were:

HANS 43

Gaston 43

Ursula 30

Mother Gothel 19

Scar 14

Dr. Facilier 14

Shere Khan 10

Frollo 6

Oogie Boogie 4

Jafar 3

DISNEY VILLAIN IDOL

So, I pulled every ANIMATED Disney Villain that opened their mouth to sing, and these are they who made the list:

Honest John from Pinocchio
Bram Bones from The Legend of Sleepy Hallow (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad)
The Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland
The March Hare from Alice in Wonderland
The Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland
The Flowers from Alice in Wonderand
The Pirates from Peter Pan
Mad Madam Mim from The Sword and the Stone
Shere Khan from The Jungle Book
Kaa from The Jungle Book
King Louie from The Jungle Book
The Sheriff of Nottingham from Robin Hood
Sir Hiss from Robin Hood
Ursula from The Little Mermaid
Gaston from Beauty and the Beast
Jafar from Aladdin
Oogie Boogie from The Nightmare Before Christmas
Scar from The Lion King
Ratcliffe from Pocahontas
Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Dr. Facilier from The Princess and the Frog
Mother Gothel from Tangled
and the villain from Frozen

Our top 14 is:
The villain from Frozen

Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Dr. Facilier from The Princess and the Frog
Mother Gothel from Tangled

Ursula from The Little Mermaid
Gaston from Beauty and the Beast
Jafar from Aladdin
Oogie Boogie from The Nightmare Before Christmas
Scar from The Lion King
Shere Khan from The Jungle Book
King Louie from The Jungle Book
Honest John from Pinocchio
Bram Bones from The Legend of Sleepy Hallow (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad)

But sadly, we can only have a top ten. So, here are the three who are eliminated:

Gaston, JUST KIDDING. He's safe, and will go on to the next round. But sadly, these guys won't...

Bram Bones. Bram is going home because the same dude did his voice as the dude telling the story, so it's a little strange, but, while awesome, I just don't think he's going to last in this competition. I love the voice, but I'm not sure it stood out enough to stand the test of time.

Honest John from Pinocchio, for the same reason.

King Louie from The Jungle Book, mostly because a more phenomenal villain voice eclipses him in the movie, let alone on this list.

So, our top ten is...


The villain from Frozen

Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Dr. Facilier from The Princess and the Frog
Mother Gothel from Tangled

Ursula from The Little Mermaid
Gaston from Beauty and the Beast
Jafar from Aladdin
Oogie Boogie from The Nightmare Before Christmas
Scar from The Lion King
Shere Khan from The Jungle Book

Voting is open. Tomorrow we will narrow it down to six, then to four, then to two, then to one. Thanks for voting!

Male Edition Winner:

And the winner is...

Jack Skellington

The Pumpkin King.

Here he is singing "Poor Jack" Because that song is awesome.

The votes stood at:

Jack Skellington 70
Quasimodo 50

Round 5: 2 Left

Our votes ended tonight with:

Jack 40

Quasimodo 37

Aladdin 36

Gaston 33

Willie the Whale 12

Scar 10

So, we said ta-ta to Aladdin, Gaston, Willie, and Scar. 

I give you, our final two:

Jack

Quasimodo

Here are some bios of these fine voices, so you can make an informed decision.

Jack Skellington

You might recognize his speaking voice as Prince Humperdink from The Princess Bride. But you might recognize his singing voice from Oingo Boingo. Front man Danny Elfman, (world famous for not just the band, but for composing thousands of movie scores and theme songs including The Simpsons, the 90's Batman theme, most Tim Burton movies including The Nightmare Before Christmas, etc.)

What I love about Danny Elfman's voice is that he makes the melody come to life. Danny Elfman is known for utilizing the voice as an instrument, and his own voice is no exception.

I heard he cast himself as Jack's singing voice after having listened to far too many auditions that didn't get it right, so he said, "I'll do it myself." And boy did he!

Here's my favorite song he sings: Jack's Lament (1:53 is my favorite part.)

Quasimodo

Tom Hulce both sings and speaks for our cuddly hunchback, but you might recognize him as Mozart in the 8 Oscar winning 1984 movie Amadeus. (One of those Oscars going to Mr. Hulce himself.) Tom Hulce also performs on Broadway.

Here's my favorite song that Quasimodo sings: Heaven's Light. (Let it play to also get Frollo's Hellfire.)

Round 4

Our standings:

Gaston 26

Aladdin 26

Jack 20

Quasimodo 20

Willie the Whale 15

Scar 12

Sebastian 10

Hans 1

Olaf 0

So we big adieu to 

Sebastian, Hans, and Olaf.

Our top 6:

Gaston

Aladdin

Jack

Quasimodo

Willie the Whale

Scar

Round 3: Top 10

After Round 2 our standings were:

• Jack 31
• Gaston 23
• Aladdin 22
• Willie the Whale 16
• Quasimodo 15
• Scar 11
• Sebastian 10
• Hans 6
• Olaf 6

• Clopin 5
• Kristoff 5
• Philip 5
• Shere Khan 4
• Li Shang 1

Because 10th place was a three way tie, I eliminated all of them. So, America, your top 9:

• Jack
• Gaston
• Aladdin
• Willie the Whale
• Quasimodo
• Scar
• Sebastian 
• Hans 
• Olaf 

X-Men movies, especially Days of Future Past

I dug this latest installment of X-Men movies. I dug it a lot. Here. Why don't I tell ya why in the form of an...

X-MEN MOVIE RECAP

We started in Y2K with X-Men, which was one of the best super hero movies we had ever seen. It even came out on DVD! Oooooooh. We've come a long way since then. The movie followed Wolverine who couldn't remember a lot about his past but decided to help out Rogue who had been kidnapped by Magneto who wanted to wipe-out all the hum
ans, (non-mutants.) Hahahaha. Silly Magneto.

Then we got X-Men II, (or X2,) in 2003 and that movie was even better! Wolverine got more clues about who he was, and everybody teamed up to fight their common enemy... until Magneto tried to kill all the humans again. Come on, Magneto. Silly goose. Then, in order to escape a huge flood, Jean Grey goes crazy, or, well, super strong AND crazy, but that's for another movie.

This movie, in fact. This movie called X-Men III: The Last Stand, (2006.) 'Though it should have been called, "The Movie That's So Bad We're Going to Have To Pretend Only Part of it Actually Happened When We Make the Next Movie." Spoilers: I mean, really, how does Professor X get to the future after Phoenix obliterated him? Well, someone else took the trouble to answer this question. You can read about it here. That site provides a lot of answers to your "Wait. What? Huh? All this time traveling is making my head explode! Did he just travel through time and have a conversation with himself in his mind?" questions. Anyway, The Last Stand was awful. Just horrible. Horrible!

Then X-Men said, "Well, we just killed off everybody. What are we gonna do now?" And they brought in a couple Wolverine movies. The first was X-Men Origins: Wolverine, (2009.) And it was dull.

THEN they were like, "Well, that was boring. Let's do something else. I know! Let's Lucasize this!" And they came out with X-Men: First Class in 2011. Meh. Oh wait. That "meh" should be bigger. MEH. That's better.

Then they were like, "I miss Wolverine. He was hardly in that prequel! Let's bring him back, but this time let's make his movie even BORINGER!" Which, they somehow managed to do in 2013's The Wolverine.

And finally we get to 2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past which is just as mind blowing as its title, and quite possibly the best one yet! It had a huge, incredibly talented cast. It was Mystic & Wolverine heavy, (yay!) It had Marcus in it. ("I love you, Marcus!") It was great! Nobody bothered me. I had a few questions, but the link above answered them pretty well.

Male Animated Disney Idol Round 2

Thanks to about a million wild cards, our list for Round 2 is going to be quite different from the list we saw in  Round 1.


At the end of Round 1 our scores were:

Quasimodo 13
Frollo 2
Clopin 5
Jack Skellington 22
Prince Charming (Snow White)
Cinderella's Prince 10
Scar 16
Phillip 15
Hans 6
Kristoff 5
Aladdin 20
Hercules 5
Li Shang 16
Power Line
Olaf 16

Wild Cards

Sebastian 5

Gaston 24
Shier Khan 10
Willie the Whale

So, eliminated this day is...

Power Line from A Goofy Movie

Prince Charming from Snow White

and

Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame

We will leave Willie the Whale and see if anyone votes for him. Tomorrow night we will cut the list down to a remaining ten. Voting is open now. Vote from this list:

Gaston

Jack Skellington

Aladdin

Li Shang

Olaf

Scar

Philip

Quasimodo

Cinderella's Prince

Shier Khan

Hans

Clopin

Kristoff

Hercules

Sebastian

Willie the Whale

Vampire Academy

I read all the books, and I liked them. Don't be fooled by the dumb name. It's actually a fun, funny movie.

Male Animated Disney Idol

New Rules: 1 vote per human Facebook account.

Disclaimer: To be in the running the male must be animated, and must be featured in a song. A singer like, Bashful, for example, who only sings a tiny little bit, shall not be nominated. Also, Bashful's voice is not excellent, and listing him would be a waste of time. Get my drift?

We pool our top 15 from...

Prince Charming from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs known for One Song
Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio known for When You Wish Upon a Star
Honest John from Pinocchio known for An Actor's Life for Me
Pinocchio from Pinocchio known for I've Got No Strings
Cinderella's Prince from Cinderella known for So This is Love
Phillip from The Sleeping Beauty
Roger from 101 Dalmatians ('61) known for Cruella Deville
Merlin from The Sword and the Stone known for Higitus Figistus
King Louie from The Jungle Book known for I Wanna be Like You
Baloo from The Jungle Book known for The Bare Necessities
Alan-a-Dale from Robin Hood known for "Not in Nottingham"
Elliot from Pete's Dragon known for "I Love You Too"
Sebastian from The Little Mermaid known for "Under the Sea"
Louie from The Little Mermaid known for "Le Poissons"
LaFou from Beauty and the Beast known for "Gaston"
Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast known for "Be Our Guest"
Aladdin from Aladdin known for "One Jump Ahead"
Jafar from Aladdin known for "Prince Ali (Reprise)"
The Genie from Aladdin known for "Friend Like Me"
Jack from The Nightmare Before Christmas known for "Jack's Lament"
Oogie Boogie from The Nightmare Before Christmas known for "Oogie's Song"
Child Simba from The Lion King known for "I Just Can't Wait to be King"
Simba from The Lion King known for "Can You Feel the Love Tonight"
Scar from The Lion King known for "Be Prepared"
Zazu from The Lion King known for "I Just Can't Wait to be King"
Power Line from A Goofy Movie known for "Stand Out"
Ratcliff from Pocahontas known for "Mine Mine Mine"
Quasimodo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame known for "Out There"
Follo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame known for "Hell Fire"
Clopin from The Hunchback of Notre Dame known for "Bells of Notre Dame"
Hugo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame known for "A Guy Like You"
Hercules from Hercules known for "Going the Distance"
Phil from Hercules known for "One Last Hope"
Li Shang from Mulan for "I'll Make a Man Out of You"
Theme Song Guy from The Emperor's New Groove known for "Perfect World"
Prince Edward from Enchanted known for "True Love's Kiss"
Ray from The Princess and the Frog known for "Ma Belle Evangeline"
Dr. Facilier from The Princess and the Frog  known for "Friends on the Other Side"
Flynn from Tangled known for "At Last I See The Light"
Hans from Frozen known for "Love is an Open Door"
Olaf from Frozen known for "In Summer"
Kristoff from Frozen known for "Reindeer are Better Than People"


And our top 15 are...
Quasimodo
Frollo
Clopin
Jack Skellington
Prince Charming (Snow White)
Cinderella's Prince
Scar
Phillip
Hans
Kristoff
Aladdin
Hercules
Li Shang
Power Line
Olaf

Lady Animated Disney Vocalists Idol Finale

The winner is...


IT'S A TIE!!!!!

JUST KIDDING!!



The winner, at the LAST SECOND, is...

POCAHONTAS

The final votes added up to:

Pocahontas: 180
Ariel: 170


Here she is singing Colors of the Wind:

Round 5

Ariel: 108
Pocahontas: 94
Elsa: 78
Cinderella: 70

Zombie Aurora: 20

Elsa, Cinderella, and Zombie Aurora are cut.

The final 2 are:

Ariel from The Little Mermaid and Pocahontas from Pocahontas

Now, for a little information to help you make your VERY IMPORTANT VOTE.

POCAHONTAS

Voiced (singing voice) by Judy Khun also known for singing Mulan in Mulan II, & Cosette in Les Miserables.

Here she sings my favorite song from Pocahontas, Just Around the River Bend.

ARIEL

Voiced by Jodi Benson also known for playing Tour Guide Barbie in Toy Story II, and Thumbelina in Thumbelina.

Here she sings Part of Your World from The Little Mermaid.

Lady Disney Idol (Round 3)

At the end of Round 2 our votes were thus:

Shanti: 10
Aurora: 20
Pocahontas: 28
Milan: 5
Elsa: 16
Ariel: 42
Esmeralda: 5
Peg: 1
Rapunzel: 3
Cinderella: 10

Our top six contestants are:

Ariel
Pocahontas
Aurora

Elsa
Cinderella
Shanti

Voting for Round 3 is now open. Vote 10 times. Tonight, two will be eliminated. Don't let it be your favorite!

Helping you make your decision are a few gender bent princesses.

Disney Idol (Female Edition) Round 2

Your Top 13 Was:


Cinderella from Cinderella
Peg from Lady and the Tramp
Aurora from The Sleeping Beauty
Shanti from The Jungle Book
Belle from Beauty and the Beast
Jasmin from Aladdin/Mulan from Mulan
Nala from The Lion King
Pocahontas from Pocahontas
Esmeralda from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Tiana from The Princess and the Frog
Rapunzel from Tangled
Anna from Frozen
Elsa from Frozen


After tallying up the votes on Facebook, the judges allowed a wild card to come back from being eliminated. So welcome back Ariel from The Little Mermaid. She'll perform a Wild Card song right here.

The first singer booted is Nala from The Lion King. She received 0 votes after round one.

The next to go is a tie between Belle from Beauty and the Beast, (the judges sob about this one, guys,) and Tiana from The Princess and the Frog. They both received one vote, and sadly, that's not enough to stay in the competition.

The last singer to go home tonight, is, sadly, Elsa from Frozen, who only managed a mere 2 votes.


After the rest of the votes were counted, the standings are as follows:

The Remaining Top Ten:


Pocahontas from Pocahontas: 28
Aurora from The Sleeping Beauty: 28
Mulan from Mulan: 21

Cinderella from Cinderella: 20
Elsa from Frozen: 15
Rapunzel from Tangled: 13
Shanti from The Jungle Book: 10
Esmeralda from The  Hunchback of Notre Dame: 8
Ariel from The Little Mermaid: 8
Peg from Lady and the Tramp: 3

Voting is open now. Don't let your favorite fall through the cracks!

Animated Disney Idol (Lady Edition)

Our contenders are: (Contenders must sing an entire song solo, or in a duet, or with back up singers.)

Snow White from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: known for "Some Day My Prince will Come"

Cinderella from Cinderella: known for "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes"

Alice from Alice in Wonderland/Wendy Darling from Peter Pan: known for "In a World of My Own"/"Your Mother and Mine"

Peg from Lady and the Tramp: known for "He's a Tramp"

Aurora from The Sleeping Beauty: known for "Once Upon a Dream"

Madam Mim from The Sword and the Stone: known for "Mad Madam Mim"

Shanti from The Jungle Book: known for "My Own Home"

Ariel from The Little Mermaid: known for "Part of Your World"

Ursula from The Little Mermaid: known for "Poor Unfortunate Souls"

Belle from Beauty and the Beast: known for "There's Something Sweet"

Mrs. Potts from Beauty and the Beast: known for "Beauty and the Beast"

Jasmin from Aladdin/Mulan from Mulan: known for "A Whole New World"/"Reflection"

Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas: known for "Sally's Song"

Nala from The Lion King: known for "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"

Pocahontas from Pocahontas: known for "Just Around the River Bend"

Esmeralda from The Hunchback of Notre Dame: known for "God Help the Outcasts"

Meg from Hercules: known for "I Won't Say I'm in Love"

Giselle from Enchanted: known for "That's How You Know"

Tiana from The Princess and the Frog: known for "Almost There"

Rapunzel from Tangled: known for "I See the Light"

Mother Gothel from Tangled: known for "Mother Knows Best"

Anna from Frozen: known for "For the First Time in Forever"

Elsa from Frozen: known for "Let it Go"




Our finalists are:


Snow White from Snow White and the
    Seven Dwarfs
Cinderella from Cinderella
Peg from Lady and the Tramp
Aurora from The Sleeping Beauty
Girl from The Jungle Book
Ariel from The Little Mermaid
Belle from Beauty and the Beast
Jasmin from Aladdin/Mulan from Mulan
Nala from The Lion King
Pocahontas from Pocahontas
Esmeralda from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Meg from  Hercules
Giselle from Enchanted
Tiana from The Princess and the Frog
Rapunzel from Tangled
Anna from Frozen
Elsa from Frozen





Then, since American Idol does it this way, we narrow the choices down to a top 13.

The women who didn't make the top 13 are:

Snow White. Snow White's voice is unique, for sure, but not entirely pleasant to listen to. Come back when you can sing an octave lower.

Giselle from Enchanted. Giselle sings good enough, but not good enough to stay in this competition with the other talent.

Ariel from The Little Mermaid. For a mermaid who's supposed to have, as Prince Eric calls it, "the most beautiful voice," she sure sounds pained when she sings in her upper register.

And the last woman who is going home tonight is... Meg from Hercules. She has an all right voice, I guess, but something about it makes me want to punch her in the face.



America, your top 13 is...


Cinderella from Cinderella
Peg from Lady and the Tramp
Aurora from The Sleeping Beauty
Shanti from The Jungle Book
Belle from Beauty and the Beast
Jasmin from Aladdin/Mulan from Mulan
Nala from The Lion King
Pocahontas from Pocahontas
Esmeralda from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Tiana from The Princess and the Frog
Rapunzel from Tangled
Anna from Frozen
Elsa from Frozen

Voting is open now.

Do You Want to Build a Snowman?

Ladies and gentlemen, do not ask, "Do you wanna build a snowman?" Instead, ask why you haven't seen more hilarious memes about that quote.

Well, now you don't have to ask either... unless you want to.

The Legend of Hercules

We rented this movie in the hopes that it would be so bad it's good. We weren't disappointed. This movie is awful.
It wishes it was Clash of the Titans, which is sad. A movie about Hercules should never wish it was a movie about Perseus.

This was one of those movies that you watch and think, "Why?"

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

So, my first thought is "Wow, this music is trying really hard to be Danny Elfman's music from the first trilogy, only it's awful."

My second thought was, "This flash-back scene sucks. Why is Peter Parker's mom only partially upset about leaving her only son behind? I'm more worked up about leaving my only son home with the babysitters while I watch this movie. I guess they didn't really love Peter, to not be torn up about leaving him forever."

So, that's how we started the movie. I'll say this movie wasn't bad. I thought the dialog was pretty awful, but not noticeably awful where someone off the street who knows nil about dialog would be like, "that was awful." But I, who have studied dialog, noticed. The mediocrity hit me hardest when Max/Electro was on screen. I love Jamie Foxx, but in the first three seconds of being on camera he has to tell us he's a nobody. Come on! Can't we find out another way? People don't usually declare their nobody-status that easily to celebrity strangers. Another review likened him to Jim Carrey's The Riddler in Batman Forever, but in Batman Forever The Riddler didn't have to tell us he was a nobody. That fact was loud and clear. (Is it sad when Batman Forever is showing you up?) It's just not exactly subtle.

And can we trade in Leo DiCaprio Jr. and get James Franco back, please? It's not that Baby Leo sucks, it's just that James Franco was SO MUCH BETTER. (Seriously, why are we doing these movies again? Is it just to replace Kristen Dunst's Mary Jane with Emma Stone's Gwen Stacy?)

Then the movie ended and another movie with another theme started. And that was my major beef with this movie. It was either too long or too short. It was complete and incomplete at the same time. It felt rushed. The script should have been reworked 900 more times.