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Mech Cadets (2023)
There is now a level zero in animation
The story is fine, nothing spectacular and it seems inspired from Ender's Games, Transformers and other Mech series without anything original. But this would be fine if it was well done.
However, the animation itself is just awful (like garbage awful). So much so I suspect it is 100% AI generated with minimal human intervention for cost purposes. The frame rate is headache inducing, and then, once you notice a few issues common with AI-images (fingers for example) it becomes the pet peeve you struggle to unsee and makes you squirm with horror each and every time.
It really is a shame. While there is nothing new in the plot and there are glaring plot hole all other the place, it is not "bad" per say. Defo something I would watch with my kids, but 5 min in and they were so turn off by the frame rate that they walked away.
I am pretty sure I have the standard model of teenagers at home, and they really are all about that 60fps in gaming, and my daughter is a studio Ghibli far. I had to explain this was not "a bad CGI from when I was young and it was really bad"
I feel this is the route Netflix is taking with a lot of their offering nowadays: cheap, cheap and cheaper.