Roasting is best when you “roast the ones you love”. That is clearly evident in Screen Junkies’ Honest Trailer of the Wes Anderson filmography, making it one of their loveliest episodes yet.
Watch it here.
Honest Trailers themselves are actually nominated for an Emmy and in celebration of that (as well as seizing an opportunity to show off why they are some of the best parodists on the Internet), they made satirical retro TV themes for Emmy nominated shows Stranger Things, This Is Us, and The Handmaid’s Tale.
They even got the one and only (and very game for comedy these days) Michael Bolton to join in on the fun in addition to bringing on the talents of Natasha Bedingfield, Brian McKnight, and Paula Cole to do said TV themes. For Bolton, he wanted to do a Bolton style song for Game of Thrones as a bonus to this “very special episode” of Honest Trailers.
Please enjoy it here.
Much of Netflix’s success can be attributed to series like true crime docu-series Making a Murderer and The Keepers.
That being the case, Netflix want to take parodies of their hit series into their own hands. Thus, Tony Yacenda (Pillow Talking), Dan Perrault (Honest Trailers, one of the Internet’s best parody series), and Dan Lagana (from the highly underrated Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous) made this new mockumentary series, American Vandal.
Think of it as a bit of a cross between Making a Murderer and Superbad.
See for yourself in the trailer.
American Vandal streams on Netflix starting on Friday, September 15th.
Very few, if any, can lampoon movies quite like Screen Junkies can.
So, before The Oscars telecast begins in a few hours, let them give you an honest rundown of all the films nominated for Best Picture.
Honest Trailers and Jimmy Kimmel Live Win Streamy Awards
This past weekend, The annual Streamy Awards honoring anything and everything that you can stream online (though they seem to want to avoid overlapping with The Emmys too much) announced their winners for this year.
Those winners included Screen Junkies’ web series Honest Trailers for Best Writing and Jimmy Kimmel Live’s Mean Tweets for Best Collaboration. In addition to this win, both were up for Emmys this year as well.
We can only see this awards show getting bigger as streaming because more tied-into how you watch anything that you watch on a screen.
Screen Junkies’ Honest Trailers goes all the way back to the year 2000 (yeah, that’s awhile back now) for their latest work to when Ridley Scott’s Gladiator set the standard, for better or worst, for all sword-and-sandal movies of the 21st century.
They also remind of us of how cringeworthy pop culture was back in at the turn of the millennium.
The launch of immensely popular mobile augmented reality game known as Pokémon GO has such far reaching effects that it’s hard to say long this Pokémon GO craze will actually last.
Luckily, you can see all the insane things that that have been happening as a result of the game in this Honest Trailer from Smosh.
The folks at Screen Junkies’ Honest Trailers (Emmy nominated now by the way) live up to their name in their dissection of the latest film in the DC Universe, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, by highlighting all the good, the bad, and the unnecessarily ridiculous and complicated things about the movie that made it almost impossible to be 100% success, all in punchy joke form.
It doesn’t disappoint after their great Honest Teaser of Batman v Superman.
When Jaws came out in 1975, it was a milestone in cinematic history. Unfortunately, it also spawned a bunch of imitators and set up the framework for Hollywood’s countless attempts to establish a tentpole movie franchise.
From the box office figures going north of a $1 billion, it seems a lot of people watched DIsney’s Zootopia.
That also means that a $1 billion worth of audiences were saddled with all the social issues that Zootopia brings to the forefront for adults and the many kids that they probably brought with them to this cute looking family film.
Screen Junkies really pointed how “grown-up” Zootopia really is with this Honest Trailer.
If you think that the latest revival of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is Hollywood not being able to control itself on cashing in your childhood, know that there were a plethora of very real live musicals that spun off of the franchise back in the first wave of popularity of TMNT.
Screen Junkies’ Honest Trailers does the good service, along with an assist from the Nostalgia Critic, to make sure we don’t forget how excessive a franchise can really get by making an Honest Trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of Their Shells.
Screen Junkies’ Honest Trailers actually took on a double shift this week by making Honest Trailers for both 1978 Superman and the 1989 Batman movies as sort of a crash course on what comic book franchises of yesteryear were like.
For our money, Superman takes this one over Batman.
A lot of folks think that if you say Die Hard is one of your favorite holiday movies that you might be a sociopath or something.
Well, let the good people at Screen Junkies have your back and then some in this honest trailer for one of the best action movies of all time.
Watch the Honest Trailer for Die Hard here.
You remember when Minions came out, right? Of course you do, because every square inch of your environs was pretty much covered in some sort of Minions-related advertising.
Well, the folks at Screen Junkies hit that point home as well as some pretty big flaws with the movie itself in their Honest Trailer for Minions. Not that the children that this movie was marketed for would understand the bigger picture here, but the Honest Trailer is a nice consolation for the rest of us.
For years, Screen Junkies has amassed a gigantic fan base with their various series including Honest Trailers.
With over a billion views of their YouTube channel and nearly 5 million subscribers, they’re not only getting expanded, but also having that expansion be for subscribers.
That’s right. A YouTube channel that is focused on a comedic breakdown of movies and TV from every angle possible is getting its own subscription streaming service.
Screen Junkies Plus will offer several new series with all of your favorite Screen Junkies pundits including a scripted show “Interns of F.I.E.L.D., a show that imagines after credits scenes for movies that don’t have them, another one that ponders how certain movies hold up years after its theatrical release, and much much more exclusive content/swag/etc.
If you’re already hooked in, Screen Junkies Plus launches next week on Nov. 17th for $4.99 per month.
Of course, there’s a trailer with epic movie voice guy for this announcement.
With how big the return of Star Wars is going to be, Screen Junkies does their second Honest Teaser in their Honest Trailers series ever for Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens.
We don’t know how they do it, but Screen Junkies tap into the collective unconscious and really voice what we’re mostly all thinking when watching the various Star Wars teasers and trailers.
Jurassic World was one of this summer’s biggest blockbusters and rightfully so with making good on its dino-action.
However, there are plenty things in Jurassic World that all that dino-action made up for and Screen Junkies’ Honest Trailers make sure to point every one of those flies in the ointment out.
Watch Jurassic World’s Honest Trailer here.
Fondly remembering your childhood, and even going so far as to reboot it in many cases, is very en vogue right now.
Unfortunately, many things that you saw growing up, don’t hold up or are much worst than you remember.
Screen Junkies do a great, hilarious job of showing how many Disney movies were much darker and had much more racism than you probably would recall in their Honest Trailers like the one for The Lion King.
They do a real bang up job for their latest Honest Trailer for a time honored Disney movie, Peter Pan. Watch it and try to jog your memory how you let everything wrong about the movie slip by you.
One of the highest grossing movies of the year and far and away the highest grossing installment of the Fast and Furious film franchise, Furious 7 kind of stands almost as an box office enigma.
It’s the sort of thing that peaks the interest of Screen Junkies to make their famous/infamous Honest Trailers and they finally have assembled one for this latest Fast and Furious movie.
Screen Junkies delve into the tropes and more that drove Furious 7 to not need a Fast in the title to gross over $1.5 billion worldwide in their Honest Trailer for it.
At this point, the Screen Junkies seem to be building a collection of M. Night Shyamalan Honest Trailers as the filmmaker has rode the success of The Sixth Sense for well over a decade and then made a whole barrel of things that have been overwhelmingly panned.
Thus far, they’ve covered After Earth, The Last Airbender and they have now finally gotten to The Happening where people seemed to kill themselves not entirely unlike how people would die in all those Final Destination movies.
Before too long, Shyamalan might catch up to Michael Bay in an Honest Trailers count.
When Jason Bateman said that Hollywood doesn’t have any discipline when it comes to a successful movie on WTF, Disney doing a short film based on one of Disney’s biggest hits as soon as they can is a sort of thing he’s talking about.
Luckily, Screen Junkies’ Honest Trailers are around and do not spare the rod on Frozen Fever.
For their latest thorough comedic re-examination of a movie, Screen Junkies’ Honest Trailers takes on one of the best movies about hip-hop, 8 Mile.
You’ll undoubtedly get Lose Yourself stuck in your head again, but it’s worth the run of jokes that Screen Junkies found in revisiting one of 2002′s biggest movies.
Watch the Honest Trailer for 8 Mile here.
For all the times that you were aggravated over having to trying to replicate some of rock’s most famous songs on a plastic guitar shaped controller and ultimately throwing it away out of frustration and boredom, Honest Game Trailers at Smosh Games is here to bring back how much time was wasted on the Guitar Hero franchise.
Watch the Honest Trailer for Guitar Hero here.
The word out on the street is that Mission: Impossible-Rogue Nation does the Mission: Impossible franchise quite well, especially considering it’s the fifth movie in the series.
While that is probably true (remember how fun Ghost Protocol was?), that shouldn’t stop you from enjoying an Honest Trailer from Screen Junkies of Ethan Hunt and his posse at the IMF.
Watch the Honest Trailer for the previous four Mission: Impossible movies here.
While much of your fondness for the 90s is being exploited for how much you can’t stop loving it, Screen Junkies’ Honest Trailers revisits one of the worst relics of the 90s, the live action film adaptation of The Super Mario Bros.
Whether you’ve seen it or not, you’ll definitely be shocked how it got made. In fact, Paul Scheer did an episode of How Did This Get Made? about it.
Watch the Honest Trailer for The Super Mario Bros. movie here.