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Kimi to, nami ni noretara (2019)
Not the most surprising love story, but very well crafted.
Hinako is a surfer, Minato is a firefighter. Both about 20 and they fall in love. Everything is ridiculously perfect, but one day Minato drowns while trying to save someone from the ocean.
Hinako, understandably takes it pretty bad, but to her surprise, whenever she starts singing their favorite song, Minato's spirit appears in the closest body of water - be it a stream, the ocean, or a bottle of mineral water.
The whole story is really about Hinako, Minato's friends and family, and how they slowly but finally learn to "let go".
Of course, it's magical-realism, so in the end we get to witness some crazy action as well, where we surf down a skyscraper with our protagonists.
Unfortunately, this is not the most original story, the characters are a little two dimensional, and the filmmaking could've been a little braver.
It's fine though, the film looks really nice, colorful with constantly glowing orange hues and cool blues. The action looks fantastic as well and the environments feel very "lived in" and detailed. Seeing it on a big screen really adds to the experience.
It is also paced well, has some pretty funny moments, as well as a couple of quite moving ones.
Recommended if you manage to catch it screening somewhere, but not an essential viewing.
There.
Really not much else to say about it, but seeing the only other user review for this title is from someone who clearly has no idea what he's talking about, I wanted to add my two cents.
You're Not a Monster (2019)
The worst kind of bad.
There are different kinds and flavors of bad. But which one's the worst?
Offensive? Incompetent? Cynical? Manipulative? Gross?
I'd say the worst kind of bad is "DULL".
And that's probably the most fitting word to describe this show - and one of the only fitting words as well.
The setup - where classic monsters, ghouls, ghosts, etc are part of our society and they're having appointments with our lead, a psychiatrist - could be a fun one. Not a terribly original one, but it's not a bad foundation. Everything else about this show is executed on the bare minimum level.
The jokes are lame, unfunny, barely there, but inoffensive,
the character-design is the blandest I've ever seen, but at least it's not gross,
the environments has just enough work put into them, so you can recognize what they're supposed to be,
the voice-work is good, i guess? With scripts this inconsequential, it doesn't matter much.
Storyboard-art and editing is absolute garbage. There are terrible jump-cuts, boring framing, but the errors and spacial problems are just on the brink of making the film confusing. "Fortunately", almost nothing matters in these stories and they're over really fast, so before you start thinking about it too hard, it's already done and gone.
The animation is as cheap as they can possibly get away with. I hope they finished the whole thing in a week - in that case at least they've been efficient.
Vykradena pryntsesa: Ruslan i Lyudmyla (2018)
Disgustingly cynical or hopelessly idiotic? Parents, you decide, but beware!
I wont beat around the bush: this film is terrible. One of the worst, in fact.
I might seem like I'm exaggerating, but I'm not. I usually don't get mad about mediocre children's movies. But this is a monster that should be killed and mounted.
I could be talking about the plot or characters but they matter not. This is not a story someone wanted to tell, this is a soulless product someone crafted to make money.
The movie is basically ALL the Disney movies mushed together without any rhyme or reason. You get ALL the overused clichés, ALL the way-too-familiar faces and designs, ALL the simple and dumb twists and turns and "morals". Only here, they have no footing in the movie. The characters sound like robots, reciting terribly written parody-summaries of every bad fairy-tale adaptation, and none of them have any kind of personality beyond that. Scene comes after scene, all of them already done in Disney and Dreamworks movies, but here they seem to make no sense or meaning, the are just empty, meaningless setpieces.
The whole film feels like it's been made by aliens, who just cannot grasp our human way of thinking and feeling, or a particularly dumb AI. The closest analogy would be those repulsing youtube videos, with "pregnant Elsa from frozen singing nursery rhymes"-like title. If you're not familiar with those, they are zero-effort, computer generated garbage, that your toddler might come across and click for their title - thus making good money for them. Unfortunately, these videos, are either deliberately disturbing, or just nonsensical, surreal nonsense, clearly made by a computer, or a lunatic to rip you off.
And I have to say the same thing about this movie. I'm thoroughly disgusted. The are either cynical beyond belief, or so out of touch, it's bordering on being a sociopath.
Anyway, they don't deserve your hard earned money and the invaluable time you could be spending with your kids doing practically anything else. If you respect them and yourself, you keep away from this movie.