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Ian Simmons launched Kicking the Seat in 2009, one week after seeing Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia. His wife proposed blogging as a healthier outlet for his anger than red-faced, twenty-minute tirades (Ian is no longer allowed to drive home from the movies).

The Kicking the Seat Podcast followed three years later and, despite its “undiscovered gem” status, Ian thoroughly enjoys hosting film critic discussions, creating themed shows, and interviewing such luminaries as Gaspar Noé, Rachel Brosnahan, Amy Seimetz, and Richard Dreyfuss.

Ian is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association. He also has a family, a day job, and conflicted feelings about referring to himself in the third person.

Ep538: DOO Not Disturb

Ep538: DOO Not Disturb

Ian Simmons

Today, the Kicking the Seat Podcast and Don Shanahan review the latest incarnation of the Mystery, Inc. gang, Scoob! The film recently landed on VOD (bypassing a theatrical release, thanks to that pesky bug), and Ian and Don dig into the numerous and supremely odd reasons this calamitous cartoon simply doesn't work.

From genre confusion to unrecognizable main characters, voice-acting missteps to logic problems that could be seen as developmentally hazardous to any child who watches the film, this wide-ranging and very spoilerific discussion is far more fun than the movie at hand!

Also, Ian helps Don celebrate ten years of his site Every Movie Has a Lesson, and recommends a brief YouTube segment in which Sujewa Ekanayake interviews Ian about becoming a film critic (there's also a fun little story about what happened to the rest of the discussion!).

Episode 538 is feeling scrappy!

Show Guide:

Intro Music: 0:00 - 0:14

Intro: 0:14 - 3:09

Scoob! Trailer: 3:09 - 5:31

Scoob! Discussion: 5:31 - 47:41

Outro Music: 47:41 - 47:57

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