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Nostalgia Critic

Original title: The Nostalgia Critic
  • TV Series
  • 2007– 2007–
  • TV-MATV-MA
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Doug Walker in The Nostalgia Critic (2007)
  • Comedy
  • Fantasy
A sardonic critic reviews movies and TV shows from his childhood and adulthood.A sardonic critic reviews movies and TV shows from his childhood and adulthood.A sardonic critic reviews movies and TV shows from his childhood and adulthood.
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
9.3K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
4,315
731
  • Creator
    • Doug Walker
  • Stars
    • Doug Walker
    • Malcolm Ray
    • Tamara Chambers
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    • Doug Walker
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    • Doug Walker
    • Malcolm Ray
    • Tamara Chambers
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    Malcolm Ray
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    Tamara Chambers
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    238 episodes238 eps • 2008–2022
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    49 episodes49 eps • 2015–2022
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    Lewis Lovhaug
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    Noah Antwiler
    • The Spoony Oneas The Spoony One…
    39 episodes39 eps • 2009–2015
    Aiyanna Wade
    • Aiyannaas Aiyanna…
    36 episodes36 eps • 2016–2022
    Joe Vargas
    • Angry Joeas Angry Joe…
    37 episodes37 eps • 2009–2016
    Barney Walker
    • Dadas Dad…
    31 episodes31 eps • 2011–2022
    Lindsay Ellis
    • Nostalgia Chickas Nostalgia Chick…
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    Rachel Tietz
    • Rachelas Rachel…
    28 episodes28 eps • 2013–2020
    Mathew Buck
    • Film Brainas Film Brain…
    28 episodes28 eps • 2010–2016
    Bennett White
    • Bennett the Sageas Bennett the Sage…
    27 episodes27 eps • 2009–2015
    Orlando Belisle
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      • Doug Walker
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    A sardonic critic reviews movies and TV shows from his childhood and adulthood.
    • nostalgia
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    • profanity
    • f word
    • 34 more
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      • I'm the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it so you don't have to.
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      • Comedy
      • Fantasy
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    • Trivia
      The Critic's feud with The Angry Video Game Nerd (2004) started as a joke when the Critic complained about the Nerd's fans comparing them. Doug Walker didn't expect James Rolfe to acknowledge him, but when he stated on his site that he was a fan, Walker contacted him about keeping a feud going. This became one of the show's best-loved running gags, culminating in no fewer than three in-person confrontations between the Critic and the Nerd, and leading to a real-life friendship between Walker and Rolfe.
    • Quotes

      [repeated line]

      Nostalgia Critic: I'm the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it so *you* don't have to.

    • Crazy credits
      Starting with the Battlefield Earth review, the worst line from the movie/movies reviewed is repeated over the Channel Awesome logo.
    • Connections
      Edited into The Paul Behragam Talk Show: "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" R&T Part 5 (2015)
    • Soundtracks
      The Review Must Go On
      (Theme music: 2013-present)

      Written by Doug Walker

      Orchestrated by Michael Schiciano (as Michael 'Skitch' Schiciano)

    User reviews73

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    Top review
    4/10
    It's Complicated
    On one hand, the Nostalgia Critic is one of the most important figures to me, at least in internet culture. His content introduced me to the world of critical culture, which is watching analysis on their takes on media. And I'm not going to pretend that N. C.'s old content were always bad. These episodes weren't either clever or deep compared to today's contemporaries. But these episodes, Batman and Robin, The Room, Dungeons and Dragons, the bizarre animated Titanic rip-offs, they had their charm and at least was entertaining. He was alongside AVGN as these forefathers of this emerging genre.

    But on the other hand, the N. C. Is also the most outdated and ironic critic in all of YouTube. Since his revival and since his Jurassic world review, the N. C. was going to rely more on using live-action skits to evade copyright issues. In theory, this could possibly work if you have enough creativity, quality production, and, great acting and writing. But in execution, Doug Walker had none of them. The skits are, and continue to be, the worst aspect of his more modern episodes. These episodes are plagued with such puss-poor production that it makes The Incredible Bulk look like a James Cameron film, impressively bad and repetitive comedy that feels ripped off from Seizer and Friedberg, horrible pacing that causes all of the scenes to be unintentionally awkward and unbearably boring, sets that are either a lazy green screen or be set in this unbelievably dull office building, and even the music is this repetitive, stock "epic" tune that feels way too overused. But even then, most of the later episodes aren't consistently bad either, just extreme hit or extreme miss (though it's more the later). And these episodes just get worse and more dumber as the years go by.

    But then comes the lingering elephant in the room: "Change the Channel," which, long story short, recontextualized him and his company, Channel Awesome. Gone was the perception of a flawed, yet passionate filmmaker who made a company so that others can accomplish their dreams, instead revealed Doug Walker as an inept, out-of-touch, and egotistical idiot. While there were far more insidious individuals who turned Channel Awesome into a toxic workplace of nepotism, sexual harassment, and gross mistreatment, it was Doug Walker who enabled this to happen. He is still complicit with their actions. And as such justifiably resulted in the largest exodus of creators from a YouTube company which brought the death knell for community-based YouTube Channels.

    Watching the Nostalgia Critic turn into a parody of himself is genuinely sad. I truly did grew up in that golden age of YouTubers. He was the reason why I got into cinema and the arts, why I became obsessed with how movies get made and why I follow that weird genre of YouTube Critics like him, but more sophisticated, earnest, and actually funny. He's a trailblazer lost making his own trail in circles. He's the Nostalgia Critic, we remembered him because he doesn't anymore.
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    • Release date
      • July 2007 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Crítico de la nostalgia
    • Filming locations
      • Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • Production companies
      • Blip Studios
      • Channel Awesome
      • That Guy With the Glasses
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