"Hel-lo, I'm the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it so you don't have to."— The Nostalgia Critic
The founding character of the
That Guy with the Glasses site and the one that, in conjunction with the
Five Second Movies, launched
Doug Walker's career as an
Internet celebrity.
The Nostalgia Critic is
a cynical critic who, in the original run, reviewed movies and TV shows from The '80s,
Nineties and occasionally
the early 2000s, although in a few cases he reviewed films from later years than this, such as his reviews of
The Room (2003),
Alone in the Dark (2005), and
Ponyo (2008). He has a bit of a temper problem, but is otherwise
very sarcastic.
After running for 222 episodes, Doug
announced the Critic's retirement
in September 2012 (reflected in the ending of
To Boldly Flee and to a lesser extent, his
Scooby-Doo review,
which was the precursor to To Boldly Flee), so he could move on to other projects, the biggest being
Demo Reel. He would continue to make cameos in other people's works and was still referenced in other people's works, but he did not intend to return except on special occasions...
...
that was, until, on January 22, 2013,
the Nostalgia Critic's return was announced, bringing the end of
Demo Reel along with it. Episodes resumed February 5, 2013, with reviews on a fortnightly basis, though now with editorials on the weeks in between, and no cutoff date aside from "not currently in theaters" (besides a couple of exceptions as of 2015). The show also took on Malcolm Ray and Rachel Tietz, who played Tacoma Narrows and Rebecca Stoné on
Demo Reel, respectively, as co-stars. In 2014, Tietz left the show to pursue an acting career in California, saying goodbye to the fans in the review of
Face/Off, and was replaced with her friend Tamara Chambers, who had previously appeared in the review of
Catwoman.
You can see his videos
here
. A list of works reviewed is
here, and recaps of his episodes are
here.
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