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DuckTales: Sky Pirates...in the Sky! (2018)
Don Karnage without Homage
Definitely a missed opportunity. The newer Ducktales likes to pull things from other shows and poke a bit of fun and reinvent them, but the take on Don Karnage and the air pirates falls quite flat. Jim Cummings (who was brought on to voice Darkwing Duck's appearance in the Ducktales show) was not the voice of Don Karnage, and Jaime Camil did a very stilted, jarring rendition that didn't pay homage to the original well. That's really the problem here- there's little to no respect paid to the air pirates and Don Karnage from TaleSpin. The backup pirates are just that- and they're all the same lazy pirate stereotype. ... Not a good episode.
The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue (1998)
Awful, formulaic tripe, doesn't keep to the original film.
People have said it already that the first NIMH was dark and a real masterpiece. I don't necessarily even mind a lighter tone if it kept true to the story set in the first movie. Building off of Don Bluth's The Secret of Nimh could have worked. It could have a decent sequel. Even the initial plot of NIMH looking for the rats and going to rescue some... that could be very interesting and doable.
But it does it without Bluth! Big mistake. Honestly I'd like Bluth to return to this kind of production.
Sloppy story, unnecessary songs, plot holes, totally unfaithful to original tenets of the first film, poor animation. How do you escape a burning lab? Launch hundreds of feet into the air, through the glass roof, and hope someone catches you. Ugh.
Nothing is redeeming in here. Nothing. Thorn Valley has mice, it seems, almost no rats. The rats in NIMH were downright xenophobic. Even if they softened that outlook, I didn't see any rats besides Brutus and Justin. ... And no Peter Strauss? Maybe he knew this was going to be a turkey of a project.
The poor turkey fell down, indeed.