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Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part One (2024)
Warner Bros just can't learn from their constant mistakes
DCs animated features were top-tier for years, but those days are gone. The story is great, the voice-acting is okay if not flat, but the animation is truly lacking, it's been on a downhill run the last few years but this one and Battle of the Super Sons are tied for worst art quality.
I don't mind Crisis being split into two movies, but there is so much dead space that couldv'e been snipped, but it's cheaper to release these straight-to-video without worrying too much about quality control, I suppose.
It's a shame seeing the Justice League suffer the same standard of low quality as the Looney Tunes Cartoon have gotten.
Drive-Away Dolls (2024)
The Coens are better as a team, but this is still pretty darn good.
I think the biggest problem with this movie is the trailer paints a different movie. The case is very important to the story, but it's definitely in the backseat while the love story rides shotgun and the buddy/roadtrip movie is in the driver's seat.
Qualley is always great and it's no different here, she's doing a lot of the heavy lifting to keep the movie going and stole every scene.
Viswanathan is delightful as her more reserved counterpart, she is the "straight-man" of the comedic duo and she's just right for the part.
Joey Slotnick was a very pleasant surprise, he went all-in playing a bumbling tough guy and he plays so well off of Wilson.
The movie has some parts that don't make a ton of sense, it's got a few scenes that could've been tweaked, (Jamie doesn't even check the case Matt Damon hands over) but overall it was such a fun ride and Marian and Jamie were a ton of fun.
Wednesday (2022)
Uninspired trash
This is every other CW, ABC Family teen drama, nothing new, nothing special. Somehow they made The Addamses boring, except Wednesday, which in this version is a stereotypical whiny brat teenager. They don't think too highly of the audience either, everything is dumbed down to the lowest common denominator, then spelled out and repeated just in case it went over your head. Charles Addams made comics that were separate from the norm, the 60's show brought them into the "suburbanite" world and highlighted them as different from the 9-5 husbands and housewives, the 90's movies rewrote Fester's backstory and added to Gomez and Morticia's physical and emotional attraction, this makes Wednesday look dull and especially vanilla. Luckily it's very forgettable.
Terrifier (2016)
An insult to horror fans
It isn't scary, early on our killer gets kicked out of a pizza place for writing on the walls with feces. The one thing they did get right was not letting this over actor talk. When you meet the main characters for the first half you can't wait for them to be removed, Jenna Kanell is actually doing a decent job with the trash script she was handed, literally every other character is too dumb to live. The kills aren't scary or fun, one of his big moments he just pulls out a gun, the Art's look is 7/10, spookiness is 5/10 when he's just sitting there, if he moves, makes faces, or tries to be creepy it drops to 1/10. A trash horror movie can be carried by a scary/fun killer, Art is neither.
The Munsters (2022)
Exactly what I wanted.
It's corny, it's silly, it's wonderful. The Munsters should be silly, the concept is ridiculous, this is a feature length 60s sitcom episode and I loved it. It's probably one of the most faithful to the source reboot/prequel/revival I've ever seen.
Rob Zombie could have made it a big bloody violent horror movie and some would have loved it, some would have hated it, he made it in the spirit of the show and the results are the same. The difference with it leaning earnest is it's something the kids can watch, the adults can enjoy, and it'll always have a new audience come Halloween, I can see this becoming one of those tradition movies like Hocus Pocus, Great Pumpkin, Casper.
Head of the Class (2021)
An absolutely perfect example of bad television
Every word is delivered like the actor was fed the line seconds before shooting, the "comedy" is obvious and lazy, every person on screen is somehow both overacting and bland. The character seem vacant, the writing is sophomoric when it's good, not a saving grace in the show, usually there's one person doing a good job with a bad script, not this time.
Anne (2017)
A very pleasant surprise
Anne Shirley is back and with some updating. This show has so much to offer, it has tender moments, it's funny, and at times it's absolutely heartbreaking. Anne is played perfectly, as is Marilla. Mathew, Diana, and Gilbert grew on me as the show went on. There are new characters and storylines that deal with racism, and LGBTQ issues and they felt mostly natural in this world. The show did get canceled and left on a cliffhanger but it was still a very fulfilling watch.
Jellystone (2021)
I wish cartoonists still had talent
Oh cool, the same talentless hacks made more trash. There are some major problems, such as the "art," the voice-acting, the so-called writing, but the biggest issue with this is the lack of anything worth sitting through. They brought back a ton of old characters, in name only. They have taken what people loved about these characters and stripped them down to loud and unfunny blobs. If you want to change the characters, that's fine, but make it an improvement. Maybe hire some artists, maybe hire a writer or two, you could swap out any characters in any scene and it wouldn't make a difference. There are no jokes or gags, just some yelling. This is the opposite of art.
Looney Tunes Cartoons (2019)
They aren't Chuck, Bob, and Friz, that's for sure.
It you take all the wit, charm, and comedy out of Looney Tunes you get this. They gave Looney Tunes the Ren and Stimpy/Spongebob treatment. They've been dumbed down, the gags are obvious, and the "humor" is random for random's sake, lazy noise. Most of the main characters look the best they've looked in decades, the voice-acting is fine for a fair amount of them, but there's no heart here. I know I'll be in the minority here but seriously, this is almost as bad as The Looney Tunes Show.
Looney Tunes Cartoons (2019)
They aren't Chuck, Bob, and Friz, that's for sure.
It you take all the wit, charm, and comedy out of Looney Tunes you get this. They gave Looney Tunes the Ren and Stimpy/Spongebob treatment. They've been dumbed down, the gags are obvious, and the "humor" is random for random's sake, lazy noise. Most of the main characters look the best they've looked in decades, the voice-acting is fine for a fair amount of them, but there's no heart here. I know I'll be in the minority here but seriously, this is almost as bad as The Looney Tunes Show.
Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
3/10 and the 3 is only because they fixed Sonic's design
Sonic looked great, Robotnik looked good at the end, Sonic's world that seemed way more interesting than the "what if he was on earth with some non-compelling human" looked fantastic. The writing was lazy and a great example of a bad movie. I get it's for kids but why not make a good movie for kids? The whole thing was a cliche of laziness, being unimaginative, and cash-grabbing from Hollywood burnouts.
Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie (2013)
Such a wasted effort
I've been hoping for an animated movie from Kevin Smith since the Clerks cartoon first aired. This isn't it. It looks like garbage, seriously, if it was a 2-5 minute youtube video it would be acceptable to be this badly animated. Kevin needs to get over his "I smoke weed now so everything is the best thing ever" bullshit and start writing things that are actually funny again. He has consistently gotten worse over the last few years. Everything is dumbed down even more than it was. Jay used to be the stand-out idiot in his movies, now everyone is just as dumb. Dude seems to be comfortable being a lazy writer and recycling the same gags over and over again but the guy who made Clerks wouldn't respect the current hack using the name Kevin Smith.