Maurice LaMarche Movies

Apparently intended to be shown right after the 1996 Real Adventures of Jonny Quest episode "Bloodline," "The Bangladore Falcon" was held back from release until February 14, 1997. While touring Bangalore, India, the Quest team teenagers find a rare falcon, which may or may be not be able to lead the kids to the legendary city of Shambala. Also expressing an inordinate interest in the falcon are the beautiful but lethal twin daughters of the team's old nemesis Dr. Zin. Lucy Liu, here billed as Lucy Xavier Liu, provides the voice of Melana Zin.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

With Pinky and the Brain occupying two timeslots per week in its third season, it's no wonder that we're honored with a stunning 51 episodes this year, with those slightly cracked genetically-engineered lab mice Pinky and The Brain still trying and trying and failing and failing to take over the world. In the season opener "Leave It to Beaver", Brain relies on outside help in his effort to change the course of mighty rivers. Later on, Pinky and the Brain finally gain the recognition they don't deserve by making comedy films; to fund another world-domination scheme, Brain claims that he and Pinky are members of a new endangered species, the Mousealopes; A.A. Milne will never be the same after 'Brainy the Poo" tries to steal valuable hunny from a beehive (he's a little pink, rain cloud, all right). And in episode acknowledging the fact that they're just cartoon characters, the boys decide to quit the series after several egregious examples of network interference. In the course of their many forays into time travel, our heroes journey to 1946 and land smack-dab in a black and white film noir; stopping over in the 1960s, Pinkie becomes a guru for a familiar-looking group of moptops; Brain does a good job breaking up the happy Elsinore household of Hamlet and his family in the episode "Melancholy Brain"; our heroes' attempt to make a slave of Emperor Franz Josef is foiled by Sigmund Freud in (get a good grip on yourself!) "Leggo My Ego"; and back in the present, Brain resorts to boring Mankind into submission by serving up a retrospective of past episodes in "Schpiel-Borg 2000." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Thirty-five new episodes of the wacked-out cartoon series Pinky and the Brain are dished out for the series' second season. This year, genetically-engineered lab mouse and wannabe world ruler Brain attempts to gull humanity into taking up residence on his papier-mâché imitation "Chia Earth," while in another episode Brain's looney-tuney companion Pinky is reborn as the famed rodent artist Pinkasso. Also, the series' budget diminishes to absolute zero in the sci-fi takeoff "Plan Brain from Outer Space." (Can you prove it didn't happen?) Pinky writes a non-fan letter to the comic strip Family Circus and ends up as President of the United States (so that's how it works). And animal rights activists commit a colossal blunder when they mistake Pinky and the Brain for monkeys. Plus...wearying of trying to take over the world, Brain takes the pledge and joins Megalomaniacs Anonymous; and our heroes meet their future selves, who embark upon an intergalactic thrill ride in search of the legendary World Domination Kit (batteries not included). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Season one of the animated gagfest Pinky and the Brain offers 19 half-hour episodes, beginning with Das Mouse, in which the Brain, a genetically engineered lab mouse who fancied himself a criminal genius, conspires with his goofy fellow mouse Pinky to hypnotize the world into submission -- a job that requires a considerable amount of special white crab meat that can only be found in the wreckage of the Titanic. Subsequent schemes by Pinky and the Brain to take over the world (if only they can get out of their cages) are equally as logical and sensible. In later episodes, Brain creates a voice mail system that he hopes will screw up telephone lines throughout the world; Pinky poses as fable Tokyo-smashing behemoth Gollyzilla, as none of the characters' voices match their lip movements; the boys attempt to infiltrate a moon landing in order to advertise their own brilliance on the lunar surface; and a plan to immobilize mankind necessitates the purchase of a multi-billion-dollar clothes dryer. Also: Brain cooks up some exploding crêpe suzettes with which he hopes to conquer France (and, surprise, the country doesn't immediately surrender). A takeoff of Around the World in 80 Days finds our heroes vying with the Pompous Explorers Club to beat Jules Verne's record. And to persuade the world that Abraham Lincoln has returned to life to help him become an all-powerful ruler, Brain takes a crash course in ventriloquism. Then there's the episode "Mouse of La Mancha" the story of Don Cerebro, who dreams the Impossible Dream of World Domination...not to mention the all-stops-out Graham Greene spoof "The Third Mouse." (Gee, doesn't Brain sound just like Harry Lime when you close your eyes?) ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

This Hanna-Barbera version of "The Arabian Nights" goes to great pains not to offend any pressure or minority group--so much so that one suspects its political correctness was actually a gag. At any rate, such familiar Hanna-Barbera stars as Yogi Bear, Boo Boo, Magilla Gorilla, Scooby Doo and Shaggy are featured in a trilogy of familiar-looking stories. Episode one, "Alliyah-Din and His Magic Lamp", features Yogi and Boo Boo as genies and a female version of Alladin; episode two, "Sinbad", is a freewheeling spoof of both the original story and of Hanna-Barbera's rival Disney studios, built around the antics of Magilla Gorilla in the title role; and the closing segment, "Scheherezade", finds Scooby and (especially) Shaggy forsaking the solving of mysteries so that they'll have time to spin tales for a cranky caliph. The 90-minute Arabian Nights originally aired September 3, 1994, on the TBS superstation. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

A rock & roll singer searches for eternal life in this animated musical fantasy set in a post-nuclear dystopia. Similar to the earlier Heavy Metal (1981) in tone, this film attempts to incorporate mythical themes and mutant beings with music by Cheap Trick, Deborah Harry, Iggy Pop, and other popular acts of the time, with mixed success. Clive Smith's film was a disappointment at the box-office, but has since attracted a minor cult following. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide