About this podcast
Amity and Lemuel have seen a lot of things, but they have missed some major cultural plot points. The Latecomers is their recaps and reviews of the shows that have shaped entertainment and culture because when it comes to the good stuff - better late than never.
Episodes
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- Luca (2021) · 55 min · Season 7Show Notes Santa Gorgonzola! We’ve got a Vespa slinging treat this week with sea monsters in love in Luca from 2021. Set in the Italian Riviera, Guilia, Alberto and of course…
- Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) · 50 min · Season 7Show Notes Disney does Southeast Asia this week in Raya and the Last Dragon. A post-apocalyptic heist film with dragons, babies and food? Sign us up! Raya is the Disney princess…
- Soul (2020) · 1 h 15 minShow Notes Deep in the dark time of Covid came Soul - released directly into homes on Christmas of 2020. We are very confused as to how long it takes for all of this to happen…
- Onward (2020) · 42 min · Season 7Show Notes This week we discuss the first release impacted by COVID - Pixar’s Onward came out March 6, 2020 - possibly the worst release window in modern history. A fairy - or…
- Frozen 2 (2019) · 1 h 4 min · Season 7Show Notes Just in time for Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we watched Frozen 2, wherein the people of Arendelle have been lied to about their colonialist history and the massacre of…
- Toy Story 4 (2019) · 58 min · Season 7Show Notes Toy Story 3 was one of the best closings to a trilogy in cinematic history - so let’s totally ignore that fact and make another one! But actually, the fourth story of…
- Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) · 57 min · Season 7Show Notes Why would you follow a naming convention? Ralph wouldn’t know anything about that because wrecking and breaking are obviously different things. We watched Ralph…
- Incredibles 2 (2018) · 54 min · Season 7Show Notes The Parr family is back and this time it’s a matriarchy! Picking up right where the previous movie left off, supers are still a strain on city infrastructure but rich…
- Coco (2017) · 59 min · Season 7Show Notes This week we get ready for spooky season with Coco. If you aren’t colorblind, this movie is a color wonderland full of neons and contrasts. We wonder how it is that…
- Cars 3 (2017) · 39 min · Season 7Show Notes Sequels can add to or detract from a franchise. Cars 3 is a surprisingly warm and fun entry into a series that until now we watched out of obligation but not out of…
- Moana (2016) · 1 h 3 min · Season 7Show Notes Let’s sail the open sea this week with Moana. She is the leader of her people and as the leader, sometimes you have to defy your parents and set sail into certain…
- Zootopia (2016) · 47 min · Season 7Show Notes Nature or nurture - we delve into the age old question this week with Zootopia. Dumb bunnies, sly foxes, shrewd shrews, sloths in sports cars, a cheeto loving cheetah…
- Finding Dory (2016) · 52 min · Season 7Show Notes This week we return to the sea to help our sidekick friend as she becomes the main character - it’s Finding Dory. Can you have main character energy if you forget…
- The Good Dinosaur (2015) · 53 min · Season 7Show Notes This week we learn that sometimes even great minds go terribly terribly wrong as we watch Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur. You’ve never heard of it, well all the better for…
- Inside Out (2015) · 1 h 12 min · Season 7Show Notes A movie about a child with creatures in her head sure leads to a diverse conversation. This week we watched Inside Out and talk about film ROIs, the definition and…
- Big Hero 6 (2014) · 57 min · Season 7Show Notes We get to hang out with Baymax in the source of my favorite gif to send to literally anyone - Big Hero 6. Young Hiro loses his brother after already losing his…
- Frozen (2013) · 1 h 13 min · Season 7Show Notes We’ve come to the bane (or joy) of millions of millennial parents who simply wished their kids would Let It Go with Frozen this week. The power of ice, isolation, and…
- Monsters University (2013) · 48 min · Season 7Show Notes We head back to school to see the origins of the epic friendship between Sully and Mike in Monsters’ University. One has a dream, the other an expectation and neither…
- Wreck-It Ralph (2012) · 1 h 9 min · Season 7Show Notes A wholesome movie about the friendship between a grown man and a child - no, really. We watched the video game adventure Wreck-It Ralph. Ralph and Vanellope share…
- Brave (2012) · 45 min · Season 7Show Notes This week we roam the Scottish Highlands with the spunkiest redhead you’ve ever met - and her mom - it’s Merida and bearida in Pixar’s Brave. Will-o'-the-wisps…
- Winnie the Pooh (2011) · 32 min · Season 7Show Notes A movie no one knew existed that wraps us in the warm hug of nostalgia - we watched the 2011 Winnie the Pooh. A honey hunt, a honey prize, and a honey trap (not that…
- Cars 2 (2011) · 49 min · Season 7Show Notes The second in the Cars trilogy makes its appearance this week and we have a few questions - chief among them is - WHY? Don’t fall into the trap I did and think the…
- Tangled (2010) · 1 h 2 min · Season 7Show Notes Back to Disney’s fairy tale roots this week with Repunzel - I mean Tangled - wherein all that hair never tangles. We’ve got a childlike princess who manages to avoid…
- The Princess and the Frog (2009) · 58 min · Season 7Show Notes This week we join Tiana in New Orleans to build a business and fall in love, not in that order. We may go ahead and overlook any possible overt racism in service of a…
- Toy Story 3 (2010) · 48 min · Season 7Show Notes This week - the ultimate end to a trilogy that will still not be left alone - Toy Story 3. It’s the end of an era with Andy, so what is next for our beloved toys? If…
- Up (2009) · 48 min · Season 7Show Notes It’s time to cry - we watched Up this week and we cried. Then we talked about Up, and we cried. So if you need a catharsis, join us to watch this absolute masterpiece…
- WALL-E (2008) · 1 h 5 min · Season 7Show Notes We’re headed to the final frontier with the embodiment of a PC in search of his Mac lady love in WALL-E. Turns out you can make a largely silent film about a…
- Bolt (2008) · 41 min · Season 7Show Notes The Truman Show meets Homeward Bound this week with Bolt from 2008. Back to Disney Animation this week with an adventure about a couple of tortured animals trying to…
- Ratatouille (2007) · 53 min · Season 7Show Notes If you can’t get into The French Laundry, we have a close runner up this week with Ratatouille. Pixar is trying to get all of us to be cool with rodents in the…
- Meet the Robinsons (2007) · 46 min · Season 7Show Notes This week we gain a family with Meet the Robinsons from 2007. Science and jokes make up this bright boisterous offering - the second fully CGI Disney animation, but…
- Cars (2006) · 1 h 0 min · Season 7Show Notes Let’s talk about boys vs girls and the societal downfall delivered by car culture this week with Cars from 2006. Yes, Lightning McQueen is a big jerk and Mater is an…
- Chicken Little (2005) · 31 min · Season 7Show Notes Lemuel is MAD as we plumb the depths this week with probably the worst movie Disney has ever made. Visuals: bad. Writing: bad. Story: bad. Characters: bad. Cast…
- The Incredibles (2004) · 52 min · Season 7Show Notes A true animated Film this week as we watch The Incredibles from 2004. One of Pixar’s best, this one hits on looks, acting, story, and writing making it completely…
- Home on the Range (2004) · 39 min · Season 7Show Notes Anti-capitalism and anti-toxic masculinity come together in a movie about cows starring Rosanne Barr and Judy Dench - non of this was expected when we put on this…
- Brother Bear (2003) · 48 min · Season 7Show Notes 2003 brought us this week’s offering - Brother Bear. We are of two minds on this one but everyone can agree that more movies should have moose doing bits. This…
- Finding Nemo (2003) · 44 min · Season 7Show Notes The sequel to Finding Dory this week, where we start by Finding Nemo. A fantastic cast brings the beautiful animation to life. From an uber-sympathetic Willem Defoe…
- Treasure Planet (2002) · 47 min · Season 7Show Notes They don't know me 'cause I'm not here - sometimes a Goo Goo Dolls song is actually the theme song to a movie you didn’t know existed, so we are learning things this…
- Lilo & Stitch (2002) · 43 min · Season 7Show Notes Travel to Hawaii with us this week and let’s meet a stubborn master of destruction and her pet alien in Lilo & Stitch. There are a lot of things to like in this - the…
- Monsters Inc. (2001) · 52 min · Season 7Show Notes Back to Pixar this week as they have a blast with fur texture and character design in Monsters Inc. We learn the power of cuteness and laughter and the dangers of…
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) · 34 min · Season 7Show Notes We’re going under the sea - and then back up again to find Atlantis. A city was lost, and now a linguist and his capitalist adventurer buddies are off to find it. And…
- The Emperor’s New Groove (2000) · 47 min · Season 7Show Notes This week we travel to the Incan empire with The Emperor’s New Groove. How do we know it’s the Incan Empire? They kinda allude to it a couple of times in order to…
- Dinosaur (2000) · 45 min · Season 7Show Notes Lemuel is in heaven today as we got to watch and get to talk about Dinosaur from 2000. Tippet to Verhoven to Katzenberg it’s almost a miracle this movie exists at…
- Fantasia 2000 (2000) · 46 min · Season 7Show Notes Fantasia 2000 brings the original concept of Fantasia to fruition with six new vignettes and one they couldn’t get rid of. The flow is similar and the mouse is back…
- Toy Story 2 (1999) · 50 min · Season 7Show Notes It’s our 400th episode!!! Thank you for listening, you’re the best! This week, three Pixar films in, we get to their first sequel with Toy Story 2. Woody and Buzz…
- Tarzan (1999) · 1 h 13 min · Season 7Show Notes This week we put Lemuel’s concerns to rest with Disney’s interpretation of Tarzan. How do you make a naked psychopath into a kid’s movie protagonist? Rosie O’Donnell…
- A Bug’s Life (1998) · 51 min · Season 7Show Notes We’re going back to Pixar this week with some four legged ants and their plight in A Bug’s Life. Sometimes you have to believe something for it to be true - whether…
- Hercules (1997) · 51 min · Season 7Show Notes We’re going to Greece with Hercules, who is too strong for his own good. Trying to do good can get you in trouble with all sorts, especially Hades, who has no…
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) · 60 min · Season 7Show Notes This week, bafflement abounds as we discuss the 1996 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame. We watched it, I dare say we enjoyed it a lot, we still are not sure how or why…
- Toy Story (1995) · 54 min · Season 7Show Notes It’s not Disney… YET. We watched Pixar’s maiden feature film Toy Story, the first full CGI animated film in history and boy does most of it hold up. We talk about the…
