1989

Colorful, creepy, and emotional, All Dogs Go to Heaven is an odd, almost surreal experience that I didn't appreciate when I was younger but now enjoy. The songs aren't too great but at least they feel authentic. Voice acting is good across the board.

Goofier than the first.

Another winsome movie from the growing up days. Anty was the best!

2 stars is reasonably generous, given because of a couple funny scenes and the general awesomeness that is Weird Al. For all his brilliance as a comic musician, his parodies simply can't translate to the big screen. Al's acting is atrocious - he's completely overblown, obvious, and fake. To some extent this attitude is what makes the film what it is, and I went in kind of expecting that. It doesn't somehow lessen the atrocities, though. The movie's hugest flaw is that it's only occasionally funny. Some of the tv commercials and shows are great - they are the best part, easily. The Spatula ad and the dude with the "nature" show tossing poodles out the window are good for some laughs. In addition, the Rambo daydream sequence is a hilarious spoof of action movies. Beyond these few points, though, UHF far too often shoots for the bottom rung. By the end, you can be sure we'll have guys falling in the mud and getting kicked in the groin. The movie ends up being nearly as bad as a lot of channel 62's ridiculous broadcasts. And of all Weird Al's fantastic songs, why include the horrid, boring Beverly Hills song? It's great seeing a pre-Seinfeld Michael Richards having a field day with his material, but beyond being a novelty piece for hardcore Yankovic fans and a silly slice of the 80's, UHF contains little to recommend.