Just Play It

X-Men fans unite! Just Play It reunites with the original mutants to hit the midpoint of our trilogy of the year. We unpack this '03 gem discussing how it improved upon its original predecessor, how it handles multiple plot lines, and why Bryan Singer is STILL a problem. Hope you can see where you're going because JPI is BAMF'n right toward ya with a rewatch and official review of X...

Star Wars week comes a bit later this year courtesy of the first theatrical Star Wars movie to be released in 7 years. The Mandalorian and Grogu meet The Corn Dog and Cap'n Pop. Just Play It has a bounty on the Jon Favreau & Dave Filoni family fun adventure film so Nick and James bump the sickest Shakari synth track in the Razor Crest on the way to the theaters. We discuss the discourse a...

The students become the masters in this one. James and Nick use the cosmic key to rift into 1987 to check out what was going on in the universe of Cannon Films. What they found was 80s movie gold in the form of oiled up muscles, convenient plot devices, and a furry little fella named Gwildor. Just Play It gives Masters of the Universe (1987) a first watch and review. The only thing we have left to...

The Boys of JPI meet the Boyz of the Hood in this one. We do a first watch, a thorough review, and a complete breakdown of John Singleton's breakout Oscar nominated film, Boyz N The Hood. From a non-negotiable director fresh out of college, to real life gang related danger, to insane true story side character side quests, we discuss it all in this episode. An impossible feat resulted in one o...

Just Play It comes riiiiippin' back into action with the Ripster herself and lucky for all of you, there is no 57 year wait for this one. James & Nick board the Sulaco and gear up for battle as they watch, breakdown, and review the "greatest sequel of all time", Aliens (1986) directed by James Cameron. Thanks for tuning in. For more, follow us on Instagram & YouTube @justpla...

We bust out our pens and start journaling our inner monologues as we watch a Gen Z childhood classic, Diary of a Wimpy Kid. It's Just Play It's first watch of this coming of age comedy and we ask the questions: What the heck is Greg's problem? Why is Rowley such a GOATed friend? And when is Loded Diper's next gig? Get your weed whacker ready and throw on your serape, because it...

The boys are tux'd and suited up for this one. We tuned in live to the 98th Academy Awards in our very first livestream ever. We made our picks of the winners for 10 categories during our 'Best Picture' episode and now we find out live who was right and who was wrong. See our instant reactions to the hits and misses as we watch our televisions of Hollywood's biggest night. Than...

One flew east, one flew west, and Just Play It flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Just like Michael Keaton said to Jack Nicholson in 1989's batman, "LET'S GET NUTS!" We get a little looney with our Oscar Movie of the Year. The mythical wheel landed on the 48th Academy Awards' Best Picture Winner - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, blessing us with a first watch and revi...

Did you know that this was Michael Mann's theatrical directorial debut? Did you know they had real cops and robbers in this film? Did you even know this film existed? Well neither did we, which is why just played it. This week, Nick & James crack open a film called Thief starring James Caan to see if it can steal our attention and get away clean with our praise. Thanks for tuning in. For...

On this episode, the X-Men meet the JPI-Men in the clash of the millennium. It's the concession stand kids vs the black leather mutants. James & Nick tackle the original X-Men trilogy in 2026 leading up to their appearance in Avengers: Doomsday. We discuss little known fun facts, the Bryan Singer controversy, and how this movie kicked off a quarter century run for Hugh Jackman's Wolv...

A new season means a new franchise of the year, and that year is 2122. Welcome aboard the Nostromo where the boys of the Just Play It podcast run, hide, and fight for their lives watching a cinematic classic, Alien. We explain the origins of the movie, how it came to be made, and discuss how much this movie holds up. Get ready to grab your flamethrower and crack some eggs because Nick and James ar...

We've primed ourselves for this moment. Corndogs have been dipped, the kernels have been popped, the game has been preee'd. The epic stage is set for Just Play It to announce the winners for the 3rd annual Poppys & Cornys, to crown the biggest piece of crap fictional character, and to decide who is coming out on top of the 2nd annual cinematic crossover of characters combat tournamen...

The third movie in the Wrap Party Trilogy is here! We welcome you to our end of the year bash where we get to pregame before the finale with the ultimate quiz gauntlet, high stakes prizes, the annual logline AI image generator, and of course the Best Weapon and Best Fighter Tier Lists from all the movies we watched in the year 2025. A good old fashioned pregame is the only way to get ready for wha...

Christmas has come early! We have quite the gift for you. Two gifts to be exact! First off, we watched our very first Hallmark Christmas movie, and by golly, what is there to say? No seriously! We're at a loss for words. To make up for these loss of words, we decided to treat you to a double duty episode where we get a head start on our end of the year wrap party. We discuss our final reranki...

Great Scott! It's the end of the road Marty! Or I thought we didn't need roads... wait a minute, we're on a train track! Heading straight towards the end of season 3, with our franchise of the year. Doc and Marty are very much back, but this time in cowboy hats and Nee-Kays. Cap'n Pop and The Corndog watch the finale to the Back to the Future franchise and they discuss if it st...

Just Play It lives out the dream going trick or treating on Elm Street, but little did we know, we got a burn victim running around in an ugly Christmas sweater! Nick & James join an angry mob of gasoline toting parents and head straight to the boiler room for this one. We watched for the first time Wes Craven's 'A Nightmare on Elm Street'. We share thoughts, reactions, reveal i...

Have we seen this movie? Nope! But did we like it? Yup! The Just Play It crew avoid eye contact with a hungry-hungry UAP in this genre morphing horror-western! The ghoulish fool and the spookie dookie take a wild trip to the Burbank Fry's Electronics to check out Jordan Peele's blockbuster movie, Nope. We get into the details of this film that make it so cool. We can't tell what wou...

James & Nick 'trick or trick' in the wrong neighborhood. This one being Santa Carla, the murder capital of the world. But weirdly enough it looks like the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk (BOARDWALK!). The JPI boys vamp it up this week jumping off a foggy bridge into a first watch of The Lost Boys. Music by these extremely talented artists: "Spooky Swing (Electro Swing Mix)" - Ca...

IT'S MORBIN' TIME! Time for us to Morb out to the places we will be Morb. Can you you feel it Morbin' in the air tonight? Oh MORB! Halloween season kicks off here at the Just Play It Podcast and boy howdy it is a banger. To start the great month of October, we watched Morbius and during our first-watch reaction & movie-review breakdown episode, you will witness the very first Ho...

Steven Seagal is here to blow up the Alaskan landscape with oil, fire, shell casings and explosives. In order to save the environment, you gotta play a little dirty! James & Nick hop on a snowmobile to the last frontier of Hollywood, also known as, 1990s martial arts(?) movies! After a first watch, we share our reactions and thoughts on the only movie Steven Seagal ever directed. In this monum...

Just Play It watched 3 Fantastic movies so far this year, so why not make it a Fantastic 4th trip to the Baxter Building to round out 2025. This time though, we had to search the corners of the internet to find this hidden, no buried, gem of Roger Corman's unreleased Fantastic Four movie from 1994. Or as the Chief Corndog himself would call it, The Fantastic 199FOUR. We get into the complicat...

Halloween comes early this year as James and Nick return to the annual tradition of watching a Disney Channel Original Movie. This year our trusty wheel gave us a bit of a scare landing on the fourth installment of a beloved DCOM classic franchise, Return to Halloweentown. A movie that's just a bit past our time, with a recast main character and leans on post-Potter influence, what can go wro...

We herald a Galactus size episode to fully get into The Fantastic Four: First Steps.  James' in theaters pick of the year is the latest MCU project featuring the live-action Incredibles. We get immersed into conversation completely breaking down this movie and discussing how well it captures Marvel's first family. Strap in for a complete review, the latest in movie news, and if this movi...

Justin Time-berlake stars in the 2011 sci-fi, Andrew Niccol directed movie, In Time. Just in time for Nick's birthday (close enough), we celebrate with his movie pick (#NicksPick) of year 3 for Just Play It. Does 'In Time' stand the test of time? Is it a forgotten gem? We take a timeout to breakdown this movie in full and discuss. Times up! Cuz you're on JPI's time. Thanks...

We're so Back to the Future, Marty! It's Part II, Marty! MARTY! Wake up it's time to fast forward the clock, garbage-up Mr. Fusion, and tell Griff to BEAT IT! James and Nick get back into the DeLorean after a stint in a suspended animation kennel to revisit and rewind the clock in the franchise of the year. Thanks for tuning in. For more, follow us on Instagram & YouTube @justpl...