Travolting

In 2006, George Miller directed an animated film about singing and dancing penguins. Five years later, the penguins are back, and they need our help.

You read that title right. We covered this movie back in March 2022 when it was the Travolting season. Well now we're giving it a rewatch and a reassessment, this time focusing on Robin Williams!

After a two episode hiatus from Robin we return to his first and only appearance in the classic animated series, Spongebob Squarepants.

Fraser's newest project which takes him to the role of General Dwight D. Eisenhower just days before D-Day in World War 2. All of the "pressure" is on Eisenhower to make this invasion happen soon to save the world as they know it, but wouldn't you know it... it's gonna rain...

You might be looking at the title of this episode and thinking: "wait a minute, John Travolta's book he wrote way back in the 90s?". Well now our boy is making his directorial debut by adapting his fable for all ages to the screen. John does more than wear an interesting hat in this movie we can tell ya that!

"An Old Dog can't learn new tricks". Ever since Patch Adams, Robin's career had taken a major shift. From his blank check/post-oscar trilogy, to his evil-dark trilogy, to his family comedy roles; Robin's career goes from it's highest to its lowest in a decade. Jeff and Stuart talk about where Robin was, where he is now, and where he's heading.

We're back with the sequel, only this time we travel to the Smithsonian where Robin Williams gets maybe three scenes max in this movie, one which he's a bronze statue with no limbs. In this movie you will be tested on the strange world-building properties of the mystical tablet that brings all of the exhibits to life. What's the tablets range? Does it reach through walls, tunnels and other buildin...

Robin Williams plays Jack Holden, an actor whose career has gone down the drain and is struggling to cope with his addictive tendencies. Hmm... Shrink is one of those movies thats about the inner workings of the hollywood machine with the self-inserted writer character struggling to write his next screenplay.

Our second Bobcat Goldthwait and Robin Williams collaboration, only instead of killer clowns and mimes we have... an incel. Oh dear.

11-year-old August Rush, a musical prodigy who runs away from his group home to New York City to search for his long lost parents using the power of music which brings everybody together. For a movie as whimsical and fantastical as this would seem, Robin Williams' 'Wizard' character sure doesn't seem to add that much whimsy.

Jim Halpert from the Office moves to Chicago and is engaged to Mandy Moore in this romantic comedy about an engaged couple having to go through a challenging marriage course with none other than Reverend Robin Williams who puts their relationship through the ultimate test... and also happens to be maybe one of the most evil human beings to ever exist??

When Ben Stiller gets a job working as the night guard at the New York Museum of National History, he finds that all of the exhibits come to life! WOW! CRAZY!! Walking dinosaur skeletons, lions, monkeys, cavemen? Wait a second... civil war mannequins? Theodore Roosevelt? What kind of museum was this? Checks notes . The Museum of Natural History . Hmm...

Brought to you by the same director who made Mad Max, Mad Max 2, Mad Max Beyond The Thunderdome as well as... wait a second... The Witches of Eastwick? Lorenzo's Oil? BABE!? Wow this guy's got range cause after the pig movie he makes an animated movie about penguins who sing and dance. Not likely to get existential or super dramatic at all right??

In 2006, Barry Levinson (Director of Good Morning Vietnam), decided to make a movie about a TV personality running for President and actually winning the election... what a totally unrealistic concept...

We're back! After taking a short hiatus the Travolting boys are back with the next Robin Williams installment: Everyone's Hero. An animated film about a young boy named "Yankee" who goes on a quest to retrieve Babe Ruth's lucky bat to ensure the New York Yankees beat the Chicago Cubs in the World Series.

In this wacky zany family comedy; Robin takes his family out on an RV road trip where they come across all sorts of cooky situations and strange personalities including Jeff Daniels and Kristin Chenoweth as the Gornicke family.

Robin plays a radio talk show host who comes across an inspiring story about a young boy and his mother, but upon further investigating, he realizes not everything is what it seems.

In this cold dreary time, we bring you a movie set in Alaska where Robin Williams tries to fake the death of his missing brother for life insurance money but Insurance Fraud Investigator Giovanni Ribisi starts to see the cracks in Robin's story. This is also the movie that made Robin drink again.

From the same studio that made Ice Age, comes their second movie about a world where the machine rule, where humanity is all but a forgotten past... Wait... no... this isn't the Matrix... It's ROBOTS! "Aunt Fanny... we were using our arms!"

Robin Williams plays a man with special needs who befriends a 13-year-old Anton Yelchin in 1970's era New York. That's about all we can really say about this movie since nothing else really happens. House of D? More like House of DISASTER...

A futuristic sci-fi drama about a brain implant technology that records your entire life, so that when you die, these editors known as "Cutters" splice and edit your entire life down to a feature length movie that plays at your funeral. Seems like an interesting concept for so many sci-fi movies and tv shows that could really go deep into its ramifications and cultural impacts, sadly this movie do...

It's that time of the year everybody! We are back for our FIFTH Christmas episode for the Travolting podcast. This year we have a special treat because for this season we were given a very special gift that in our episode release schedule it just so happened that we were building up to a Christmas movie Robin Williams played a part in at the perfect time! Jeff and Stuart talk about the 2004 Hallma...

A mockumentary sequel to a mockumentary about a fake Beatles parody band, only this time we are looking back at the influence and impact of The Rutles which features a multitude of A-list celebrity interviews, which is how we got roped in to covering this movie. None of us had seen the first Rutles movie: All You Need Is Cash.

During Robin's "Evil Trilogy" era, he plays a murderer trying to coerce a very sleepy detective Al Pacino into helping him cover up his crime. A very standard old cat and mouse "who dun it" kind of movie except for one important detail. It's directed by up and coming director at the time, Christopher Nolan.

Robin plays Rainbow Randolph, a colorful children's TV Show Host that gets cancelled from the network and replaced with Edward Norton's Smoochy the Rhino. Rainbow Randolph does not take this well and vows an oath of vengeance to send the rhino straight to the deepest pit of hell. A lovely little black comedy.