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Animated Movie Reviews [BATCH 4] - The Mario Movie, Nimona and More!
Added 2024-02-22 04:21:06 +0000 UTCI was on planes for 18 hours which means I watched 18 hours of animated movies and now I can talk about them at you.
Another trip to the far reaches of Canada means another 18 hours of flight which means another 18 hours of whatever animated movies Air Canada has to offer!
TIMESTAMPS (Spoilers for all movies)
0:40 - Nimona (6/10)
24:21 - Lu Over the Wall (7/10)
36:09 - The Super Mario Bros. Movie (5/10)
1:00:51 - The Night is Short, Walk On Girl (6/10)
1:08:03 - Ruby Gilman, Teenage Kraken (5.5/10)
1:15:23 - Eleanor's Secret (3/10)
1:28:04 - Butterfly Tale (2/10)
1:39:38 - Diary of a Wimpy Kid (4/10)
1:44:06 - Scooby-Doo and Krypto, Too! (7/10)
1:47:24 - Spider-Man, Across the Spider-Verse (10/10, hallelujah)
SHORT FILM GAUNTLET
1:55:07 - The Turtle Sydrome (Fine)
1:56:23 - Centre-Sud Chronicles (No Thanks)
1:59:17 - The Procession (Good)
2:00:19 - The Storm (No Thanks)
2:01:20 - Freaks of Nature (No Thanks)
2:12:09 - April and the Extraordinary World (7/10)
For anyone interested in watching it, Nimona is currently available for free on YouTube (just this week!) and most of the short films like Freaks of Nature can be found for free with a little googling.
Comments
incredible first one of these for me to watch. i fucking hate code lyoko
Sprite!
2025-09-12 20:56:06 +0000 UTCHaving just watched Tatami Galaxy and The Night is Short, Walk on Girl back to back, I cannot agree more with all of your praise for the Tatami Galaxy, but I did have significantly higher opinions of The Night is Short so I’m gonna try and talk the movie up to an 8/10. While the two properties definitely do share a lot in common, from director to visual style to source material, despite their visual similarities I think the main two characters from The Night is Short are pretty incomparable to Watashi and Akashi in a lot of ways. Akashi is curt and prickly to pretty much anyone who tries to talk to her, and Watashi is cynical and slightly full of himself. They're both characters that were geared to exist within the tone of The Tatami Galaxy. On the other hand, the main girl in Night is short is endlessly joyful and motivated, while the senpai is serious and tries his best but is pretty goofy at times. Obviously the characters are changed to suit the tone of the movie better, but I think that even in their simplest purpose they both have almost contrary motivations. The main character of The Tatami Galaxy is droll and self aware in all of the worst ways, embodying almost perfectly the feeling of ennui characteristic of higher education. On the other hand, The Night is Short’s main character is self motivated and endlessly optimistic, carefree in a way that also represents a facet of young adult life. Both series are playing the same ballgame but they bring their own unique spins to the pitch. And I think the disposition of the pov characters makes all the difference when it comes to the morals of these stories. While the themes of these properties are definitely more complex than I can describe in a single comment, I always saw them as a reflection of the main character’s arcs. In The Tatami Galaxy, the Watashi of the last episode learns of all the possible lives he could have been living instead of staying shut in his room. Realizing how much there is to gain by living in the moment, he steps out of his hardened cynical shell to embrace every joy he can while it remains in front of him. When he does this, he's finally able to recognize his feelings for Akashi and accept her feelings in return. On the other hand, in The Night is Short, Walk on Girl, the main character is brash and headstrong, insistent on living the night to its fullest potential in whatever ways she wants to. She drinks an old man under the table, frees the books from the used book fair, and stars in a musical. But in the end she confronts the “illness” that other people have, representative of life's misfortunes, and finally stops to look back at the senpai who she finally realizes she may have feelings for. One is about a girl who never stops walking, and their experience of finding someone worth slowing down for. The other is about a boy who never realized the good parts of his life in the moment, learning to finally see them for what they are. As someone in that general stage of my life, I think both stories had their own distinct messages and things to convey. With that being said, I think The Tatami Galaxy is wildy more successful at conveying its message, that much is inarguable. And if you aren’t a fan of how The Night is Short, Walk on Girl meanders it’s way towards its conclusion, that’s very fair. I think it’s purely a preference thing at that point. But I personally loved the music and art style and little vignettes that took place on that one fateful night, I just had a smile glued to my face almost the entire time, and while the ending drags wayyy too much to be any higher, I would confidently give it an 8/10! Love listening to these reviews, I was really excited to finally have seen one of these and be able to comment on it!
Roro
2025-05-23 02:08:16 +0000 UTCGlad to see someone finally give Ruby Gillman an average review. I felt so confused seeing everyone roasting it like it's the worst thing ever? When I saw it had a great time, it's just a perfectly normal fun kids's film, with some pretty good animation. It feels weird people hold it to this massive standard and judge it against Spiderverse. it's like picking up some home brand cereal and slapping it against Dom Perignon!
Bunni89
2025-01-11 01:50:45 +0000 UTCLove the Brennan Lee Mulligan-but-extra-unhinged-style rant at ~40ish minutes in lmao
Eremiss
2024-09-23 19:14:18 +0000 UTCIn that case, then yes 😂 I hated Pirates 4 and 5
NoahTheOtter
2024-05-31 00:53:53 +0000 UTCI strongly recommend you check out Redline, specifically the English Dub since it has a really good cast and subtitles may distract from the animation. I also highly recommend Mary and Max. I would describe it as having the heart of Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, but the humor is very much offbeat and black comedy.
Jonah Creek
2024-05-18 03:58:28 +0000 UTCI'm talking, like, Pirates of The Carribean 4
JelloApocalypse
2024-04-27 00:29:02 +0000 UTCI agree with that whole Illumination dialogue rant tbh, MINUS Pirates of the Caribbean. The dialogue there is actually WAY better than the usual Marvel or Jurassic World shlock, but probably just because it predates that stuff by a full decade practically
NoahTheOtter
2024-04-22 22:12:51 +0000 UTCThere was a sequel series for tatami galaxy made recently called time machine blues and I feel that is a much better follow up if you are ever interested in looking into it.
Lucah Martindale
2024-03-04 06:48:24 +0000 UTCAlso, as a quick sidebar, to something in Jello's response that's been itching me: ask yourself if there might be any queer kids growing up in religious communities (like Nate Stevenson did) who feel less like a member of an oppressed underclass, and more like one person who was betrayed once a long time ago. What sorts of sociopolitical forces might engender that perspective? How many times does she have to say "I'M NIMONA" before you realize that they were not at any point trying to make a movie about how being racist against shapeshifters is wrong? Your eagerness to chalk her category-of-one-ness up to a mistake that the filmmakers just didn't think about when, if anything, theyre a bit ham-fisted in repeatedly pointing it out is a big reason why I have a hard time believing you gave this movie a fair shot.
Kompy
2024-02-27 23:15:32 +0000 UTC"Do we have any reason to believe Nimona is an unreliable narraror" you mean besides her narrating her own backstory in-universe and then very very VERY heavily implying she made it up to mess with Bal aka the audience surrogate? The film also does, in fact, possess narration beyond the opening, after Bal is framed for killing the queen (this is where it is revealed that Nimona was the voice at the beginning, switching to her digegetically saying of Bal "he's perfect" right before the title drop). There's also voiceover narration in the scene I already mentioned (where you learn nimona is an unreliable narrator), and at the end, where Bal narrates after Nimona sacrifices herself, directly echoing nimona's narration at the beginning. See if you can guess the thematic significance of this! You wanna talk "unfalsifiable claims", let's cite some sources on that "people in power never truly believe the hateful lies they tell" thing! If you don't think there are any true-believer fascists or bigots in our government then I have some very bad news for you.
Kompy
2024-02-27 18:59:26 +0000 UTCSo you're making the argument that Nimona is an unreliable narrator? Do we as the audience have any reason to believe that? Audiences know that the narrator would be unreliable because what they describe is objectively and explicitly *not* what's happening. Like in Emperor's New Groove when Kuzco is going on about how Pacha sucks and is a terrible, selfish guy, but the scenes we see of him is just him goofing off with his kids and consoling his wife. But a narrator is just that: a narrator. The person telling the events, which beyond the intro the film does not possess. Then there's the *narrative*, which is how the story is communicated. Is there anything explicit in the narrative that suggests the events we are seeing aren't accurate? No, we're given no reason to doubt such events. And suggesting as such is a unfalsifiable claim. If the narrative being unreliable was an intentional decision, that would've been communicated to the audience in some way. And unreliable narratives aren't really something you see in films beyond like, weird French abstract movies and psychological horror. And for the superstition thing: historically, commoners tend to believe in superstitions wholesale, while figures in authority tend to use it as a justification to maintain hierarchies while not believing it themselves. There's a few exceptions, like James VI/I, who I think genuinely believed witches were plotting to overthrow the government. But like, the Bishop of Rome didn't *actually* believe God appointed him above the rest of the church. It was a justification to establish himself the supreme authority of the church. Stuff like this still rings true today with modern superstitions, aka conspiracy theories: people who pedal them to the masses don't tend to actually believe them; they pedal them to get votes. You makeup an enemy, and declare how you're the only one capable of destroying that enemy.
Folkloric
2024-02-27 16:53:44 +0000 UTCI've kind of locked myself in to being an Animated Movie Review guy
JelloApocalypse
2024-02-26 04:11:05 +0000 UTCJello out of curiosity, was the selection of live action films on air canada bad or just not interesting to you?
DragonRageLee
2024-02-24 23:40:28 +0000 UTCThat girl caterpillar with a fear of heights wouldn't know what to do in skies of archadia
Drednot
2024-02-24 03:57:05 +0000 UTCoh also it's extremely stupid how the mario movie is made to be an introduction to the mario universe when everyone and their dog is familiar with it already and adding something to the world or doing a new plot would be infinitely more interesting
PurpleIsDebeste
2024-02-23 23:53:59 +0000 UTCI've been trying to capture the vibe of stock standard writing for a while now and "jurassic world" really is the perfect comparison, good job!
PurpleIsDebeste
2024-02-23 23:50:22 +0000 UTCmy friend and were constantly gushing about how cool spider punk was for basically the entire duration of spider-verse 2. I feel like it's incredibly rare for a movie to present a character to the audience as "this is the cool character" and have it not feel forced. spider punk absolutely delivered, dude rocked.
Abby_Gale
2024-02-23 18:56:21 +0000 UTCI would recommend Ōban Star-Racers as French animation, but that's French-Japanese (and a series, not a movie) so it might not count to you
Ziggy
2024-02-23 18:11:21 +0000 UTCAlso glad someone agrees Illumination's Princess Peach looks & sounds bad at this point the Chris Pratt contraversey feels like it was on purpose to distract from its other issues even tho it was probably just a happy accident for the studio
dollqueen
2024-02-23 13:31:07 +0000 UTCIf ur gonna watch perfect blue & paprika i gotta recommend tokyo godfathers again it's a pretty good time and also directed by satoshi kon
dollqueen
2024-02-23 13:26:39 +0000 UTCI personally wouldn't put FMA:B in the 10/10 category simply because the beginning feels very rushed. Like - whether or not you like the way 2003 or FMA:B did those early arcs more isn't really the point, it's more that it's very easy to tell that the studio was rushing through the stuff they had already done once. It's just enough to shift it down to a 9/10 for me.
Azelhia
2024-02-23 12:17:24 +0000 UTCI really enjoy the more truthful opinions on certain movies and shows. I had the thing of watching Nimona and being like “Wow I like this! But something feels off.” And I didn’t know how to articulate it, because everyone else was praising the movie so much! And you really put it all into words.
Lazyday
2024-02-23 09:17:08 +0000 UTCThink this response offers a much firmer handle on your basic issues with the movie, much appreciated :) My response to most of it is "the movie is not really about oppression, it's pretty much just about nimona". Very similarly to how nimona the character thinks she is about tearing down the system but is actually just about causing problems, Nimona the movie thinks its world and plot are shaped by prejudice and exploitation while they are in fact shaped by Nimona the character's personal grievances and dysfunction (this btw is very much reflected in the actual history of punk subculture). This is deliberate, because Nimona is telling the story. It's teens misunderstanding punk all the way down. That is the basic fact that drives the story and makes the movie interesting to me. Consider that the thousand years thing is just some detail nimona made up because it sounds big and mythic? Isn't that the sort of thing nimona would do? Wouldn't Nimona want there to be a sick pizza dance party after their daring escape? Wouldn't Bal's underclass status only matter *to Nimona* insofar as it gives them a basis for connection? The movie literally opens with her narration, but then, that's the sort of choice you might be less likely to ascribe artistic intent to when you go in with arms already folded. See, you can SAY a story is driven by characters and not world building, but I don't think you actually understand what that involves. If you're constantly asking "how does this sociopolitical thing they mention offhandedly a few times work in this world" and not "how does this make the characters feel", you are not watching it as though it is a character-first story. to your point about how empires rise and fall, I umm don't know how to break this to you, but you are describing religious superstition which, yeah, is a bit irrational! We literally in real life have thousand year old prejudices that people run political campaigns on, I'm sure YOU wouldn't be politically motivated by the old monster stories, just like YOU probably aren't politically motivated by the bible in real life! I don't think a skeptical position going in invalidates a critique per se, but it certainly can color it. I'm not the tone police or your mom or whatever but as a fan of the story and a fan of yours I was disappointed to hear that color there. I listen to all of these, I know what you sound like when you're REALLY rooting for a movie that ultimately fell short for you, and i missed that energy. What can ya do 🤷♀️ (pinky promise im not making any more edits after this btw, and I sincerely apologize for being every bit the annoying superfan you were afraid of)
Kompy
2024-02-23 05:49:52 +0000 UTCSpeaking as someone who had no idea who worked on this movie, I would also give it a 6.
Kruh-Daze
2024-02-23 04:51:09 +0000 UTCI don't think having expectations when you walk into a movie, positive or negative, is as big a deal as you're making it out to be. I do this for a living and it's very common and easy to be surprised by a movie and immediately pivot my opinions if it's different than how I expected. I watched it with Jay and we were both cautious walking it, but very ready to be pleasantly surprised. I don't think it's fair to discredit my issues with the dialogue just because I came into the film thinking the dialogue would be bad because it was written by writers with a long history of writing bad dialogue. Especially when the dialogue is, demonstrably, very bad. The reason I dislike the setting so much isn't because I hate cool shit. It's because I think it makes the really interesting themes the movie *wants* to have completely toothless because they don't hold up if you ask one or two basic questions about the world we're being presented. Nimona's struggles as someone on the outside being othered by society don't work as a metaphor for downtrodden people left behind by the system because "Nimona" isn't a systemic underclass. She's one person who was betrayed once an insanely long time ago and, as far as the movie shows, never even clashed with the government a single additional between then and the present day. It's entirely possible we did, but the movie doesn't tell us. It doesn't even hit at any additional conflict. In real life and in well-written fiction, people in power purposefully other marginalized groups based on race, sexuality, religion, etc. in order to have an "enemy" they can rally their followers against. It's a cheap way to rise to power at the expense of another's freedom and rights. I was waiting for this to be focal to the story because Bal is part of the lower classes. His ascension to the role of knight is a big deal at the start of the movie because historically it's been restricted to nobles. Surely a non-noble rising to this position will set a new precedent and have massive repercussions for his society. This is important enough that the head of the institute decides to murder the queen to prevent it from happening to retain the status quo. ...But then it turns out him being common-born doesn't matter? Like, Bal's lower-class nature never even comes up again. I was expecting to see riots or class warfare where the conservative nobles who support the Institute use Bal's alleged assassination as propaganda to confirm their worst thoughts about the underclasses: They can't be trusted, and they're lesser. But. No. There's none of that. There's no fighting in the streets. There's no problems. Everybody is completely united in hating The Bad Assassin Man rather than political groups using Bal's betrayal as a rallying point. Frankly it barely even mattered that Bal was part of the lower classes in the first place. We don't see the lower classes being oppressed or underserviced by the society they live in. We don't even get a quick line about how "it's going to take a lot of tax money to repair the Institute and they're using it there instead of to fix the poor people's bad infrastructure" or anything. It's VERY weird. Similarly, Nimona's relationship with the people of the city could've been so much more interesting if her conflict with the founder was much more recent. As recent as 30-70 years ago, even. The monstrosities of the past would be fresh in people's minds. People wouldn't just hate the abstract idea of "monsters" like they do in the movie. They'd have grown up on stories from their grandparents of the ACTUAL monster that attacked their city. Some people who saw the first attacks might still be alive to talk about them. The prejudice would be fresh in their heads. Nimona shows that there are actively people running campaigns to govern the city based on how well they can protect in from monsters. That works when the gap in time is 1-3 generations. ...But 1000 years? I mean, empires rise and fall in 200 years. Sometimes less. Are you telling me this civilization was really founded on the tenants of "fighting monsters", and its protectors kept power by claiming they'd keep the ideals of their founder alive when there haven't been any monsters in hundreds of years? When the only monster alive seemingly hasn't done anything since the founding of the city? That's not something I would care about as a citizen. This is sort of the reverse of a problem I have with "Breath of the Wild", actually. In BotW, Link is put to sleep in a cave for 100 years while Hyrule falls to ruin. You're supposed to be exploring a post-apocalyptic world, but other than the ruins of Hyrule castle the world hasn't really changed in the last 100 years since Link went to sleep. Half of the named characters are from long-lived races who remember Link and knew him personally before the calamity, so it's not like he's isolated. Zelda is still alive, which she shouldn't be. The rest of the world hasn't advanced or decayed any further since Ganon's forces took over. It kind of makes you wonder why the time gap is 100 years at all when really it could've been as short as 1 year and almost nothing would be different. My problem with Nimona's world and themes is that they're AESTHETICALLY cool, but not *actually* cool. Cool worldbuilding is when you see something interesting and go "Ooh, how does that work?" And then the creator shows you how it works and it raises two or three additional cool points of worldbuilding, because everything is supposed to be interconnected. Nimona has worldbuilding where you ask one question and the writer goes "Uhhhh don't think about it", because if you think about it suddenly the world doesn't make sense anymore. And that's lame! Also, I would not say Nimona is paced well from scene to scene. Again, the DIALOGUE EDITORS did a good job making scenes feel fast because there aren't long gaps of time between them, but characters don't actually have arcs with solid pacing. Bal is reluctant to work with Nimona for the first several scenes they are together. He seems entirely offput by her and only slowly comes to accept her even standing near him after she's rescued him multiple times. After the scene where Bal escapes from the top of the Institute, he returns to the base and is now suddenly best friends with Nimona. When the fuck did that happen? I mean, I know he think he's officially cut off from Ambosious's help, but why would that make him suddenly besties with Nimona? It makes sense he would finally come to accept her presence. He has nobody else to turn to. He might even be willing to start thinking of her as his sidekick... But why does he suddenly love goofing off the way she does? Why does he know her favorite pizza order? Literally two hours ago he found her kind of annoying. This isn't character development, it's character teleportation. Bal moved from "Finds Nimona offputting (for comedy)" to "Nimona is his bff" because the writer knows that 65% of the movie is the point that your unlikely heroes are friends now. This wasn't earned. It's simply expected. I spoke with Flare (the Nimona superfan I briefly mentioned in the audio) and she told me all the cool things they cut from the movie and all the vestigial ideas in the setting the graphic novel brought to the table that sounded much more interesting. I'm sure there are lots of things about the novel I would've found so cool, but the unfortunate fact is that they aren't in the movie. And the movie is going to be the way that 95% of people who know what Nimona is engage with Nimona. And that's a shame!
JelloApocalypse
2024-02-23 04:27:57 +0000 UTCYeah it's a very distracted movie? I enjoyed my time with it but I wouldn't call it "Well-constructed." The old people's mermaid spouses never telling them what happened is pretty stupid and inexcusable. I wrote that down in my notes but didn't include it in this review.
JelloApocalypse
2024-02-23 03:58:14 +0000 UTCI did not know that spiderverse 2 was the first half of a two part story so pacing wise i was very confused and when it ended and I realised that the story wasn't going to wrapped up it pissed me off and spoiled my enjoyment of it a bit. Like that movie is amazing but i was so let down watching it my first time
Demifly
2024-02-22 23:35:56 +0000 UTCThank you so fucking much for bitching about cranky kong. I hate his vo terribly in that film. It was so goddamn awful for Cranky Kong. He needs to be a crotchety old fuck.
William McKenzie
2024-02-22 22:50:25 +0000 UTCfor recommendation, I haven't seen you review the tintin movie which like technically isn't french but Belgian is close enough. Also considering it was directed by steven spielberg it sure is a "this better be good" kind of movie lmao.
BreadBunny
2024-02-22 22:35:58 +0000 UTCAngry anti-capitalist boi is peak
0bl1vi0
2024-02-22 21:16:07 +0000 UTCJust finished watching Lu Over The Wall- that was a cute movie, and I loved the animation, but I don't know that I followed, like... what the thematic throughline was supposed to be. Just like, in terms of worldbuilding, it didn't seem to be trying too hard to set up a real dynamic or a conflict that made sense? You got these mermaids, and it turns out they're perfectly friendly and helpful and don't have a problem with people (despite some sort of history of conflict that kinda gets blown past?), and... like, the town's whole grudge against them turns out to be borne not from that conflict but from two specific misunderstandings two specific old people had, which could've been trivially resolved by, like, the guy's mom or the octopus grandma's boyfriend going up to them and explaining the situation, which they didn't do... why? Granny even asks "why did you wait so long?" and hotboy mermaid doesn't even answer, like it's not a question the movie even cares about. Which makes it especially weird when the whole movie circles around to being about this ancient curse(??), and Kai is responsible for stopping it because (????), and we're even bothering to follow this character who doesn't seem to care about the situation because (???????)? It feels like the whole mermaid situation is supposed to be some kind of magical realism metaphor for something, but I never got a clear sense of the protagonist's inner conflict and in what sense he developed over the course of the movie. Got less gloomy? Made friends? Is the theme that having friends is good? Or that you should follow your dreams, or something? If the mermaid situation is supposed to be the core of the story, then it doesn't make sense- and if the protagonist's inner growth was supposed to be the core of the story, then either it did a bad job getting across what that was, or I'm just stupid and missed something. I'm left with a feeling of... "wow, cool movie! look at all that fun stuff that happened! ...why did any of that just happen?"
Benedict Ide
2024-02-22 21:04:45 +0000 UTCThere is probably a nonzero chance that the writer for the Luma stole the bit from like Catbug or the muffin in asdfmovie who was voiced by the catbug actor
Grimbiliah
2024-02-22 20:34:52 +0000 UTCShowing my age but in high school had this exact experience with people stealing takes from the Nostalgia Critic which was wild because he wasn't even talking about movies that had come out in the last 15 years
I have nothing BUT contempt for this court
2024-02-22 19:43:46 +0000 UTCIf you want a nice and comfy French movie with fun characters and great animation, you should watch Ernest and Celestine! It’s been a while since I watched it, but I thought it was memorable and very comfy. The two characters have such a great “surrogate dad and daughter” dynamic I wish I can see more of.
Chloe Auger
2024-02-22 19:33:15 +0000 UTCI agree with some of your critiques of NIMONA, its a very normie-friendly Disneyfied version of its source material, but I think you are being a sourpuss and begrudging it a rule-of-cool setting and a main character you don't find very personally sympathetic (which is fair!) and are avoiding engaging with the reasons people love it by nitpicking those things (which is lame!) Tl;dr Give it a 7 you cheapskate The script isn't just well-paced moment to moment, it's well-paced structurally, too! The order in and speed at which information is shown consistently excels at cueing the viewer in to how the story is using the information- if you ever watch it again, pay attention to how consistently the script uses swords to represent distrust or closed-mindedness, how focused it is on the idea of monstrousness and different characters' relationships to it. Yes, the thousand year wall doesn't make much sense when you think about it literally, because it isn't important to the story as a literal wall (though unlike in the comic they do in fact literalize it on-screen, i guess ymmv on how much that matters), it's only important to the story as a representation of "the setting's culture of keeping out The Other". At the end everything isn't "back to normal"- ships are passing in and out of the wall, indicating that the old ways of thinking are changing somewhat, and things are improving without everything needing to burn down. Nimona's stupid-punk worldview you hate so much is very specifically proven wrong in the face of common sense incrementalism! Wow! Same deal with the flashback- it doesn't function as an objective explanation of Nimona's backstory, it's specifically how she remembers gloreth and the nascent kingdom at her lowest and most self-pitying. Overall tho yeah, kinda basic-bitch movie that sands off a lot of the weird crunchy edge of the comic! The comedy is mostly not that funny, the animation is pretty unimpressive, Todd sucks ass and I'm sure you will be VERY unsurprised to learn is the only named character totally original to the film (the fact that he doesn't die after smashing into the billboard is the worst thing about the script, both in terms of narrative utility and what that injury would be it just objectively should have killed him), they completely changed Ballister from a mad scientist vigilante terrorist to an innocent UwU sadboy, they commit a lot less to Nimona disappearing at the end, I was a little disappointed overall! But uh it's really obvious you went into the film expecting it to be mid because it was written by the Ice Age guys and it's an unflattering look
Kompy
2024-02-22 18:33:09 +0000 UTCIf I'm being honest I did start storks in the last 10 minutes of my final flight and its vibes were not bad.
JelloApocalypse
2024-02-22 18:18:15 +0000 UTCYeah this is definitely not specific to him or anything but this sure does happen. This was a big issue with my StiB videos too.
JelloApocalypse
2024-02-22 18:16:43 +0000 UTC"Do I really wanna watch... 'Storks'?" I actually had to see that one for a family movie night a while back, and it was unexpectedly enjoyable. Like- the premise is dumb, it's not a movie that needed to exist, but- turned out it was Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, so like... it was funny! Had good jokes. Good comedic timing can do a lot of work for a nothingburger idea. You've definitely watched worse movies in your quest to watch every animated film.
Benedict Ide
2024-02-22 15:17:08 +0000 UTCMy personal beef with Schaffrillas is that when he got big I was in high school, and ALL the high school boys who watched him would just take his opinions wholesale and repeat them verbatim like they were their own, like literally copy pasted. And it continued to happen when I got to college. Like guys, I watch him too, and he's a wildly popular YouTuber, I know you're just stealing his takes. Like, I know that's not technically his fault, but its left a bad taste in my mouth.
Folkloric
2024-02-22 15:09:13 +0000 UTCIt's funny you say that, because TomSka thought that too, and it turns out that he worked with a guy who worked on the Mario movie. Though after asking him about it, he said he didn't know if ASDF was an inspiration cause he wasn't a scriptwriter.
Folkloric
2024-02-22 15:06:33 +0000 UTCI got to say though, that one villain song where she controls the Marines feels like an early 2000s live-action Disney villain song, Am I crazy for thinking that?
Blue Glasses
2024-02-22 14:40:19 +0000 UTCOooh, I'm excited to listen to this when I get the chance! I don't always agree with Jello's takes, but even when I don't agree, it's clear they're still well thought out and they're always thought provoking and entertaining
Conner K
2024-02-22 12:12:56 +0000 UTCI felt at the time that the cute star thing saying messed up stuff in the Mario movie was some 2015 ASDF Movie level shit but that’s an insult to ASDF Movie.
Michael Dunne
2024-02-22 09:25:55 +0000 UTCHmmm french animation... I'll admit I don't have the most experience with them, but there's a couple recommendations if you're interested! The main one I think you'd like is Ernest and Celestine, which I remember just being a really cute movie about an old man bear and a little mouse girl becoming friends (I'd also really recommend checking out the picture books the movie is based on, they're quite lovely). I've only watched the first one, and I remember it being well animated and cute but maybe not mind blowing? There's also The Triplets of Belleville, which I remember really liking just cause it had such a weird energy to it. I could see it being really divisive because the art style looks so... the way that it does lol, but it really worked for me! Surprisingly mostly a fun romp with a grandma saving her Tour De'France Cyclist grandson with their fat dog. This director also made another film, The Illusionist, which I didn't like nearly as a much but has a more palatable art style. And there's Persepolis which I watched so long ago that I don't really remember how much I actually liked! I hear it's not as a good as the graphic novel it's based on, but still pretty good. I also like Fantastic Planet and how surrealist 70s movie it is, but I can definitely see that one not being everyone's cup of tea lol; but it's important to film history.
Emma Breslauer
2024-02-22 07:48:53 +0000 UTCI think it was really weird that for half of Ruby Gillman her motivation was to bridge the gap between Krakens and Mermaids and then the mermaid becomes evil and then they don’t bring that up again and just pretend that wasn’t her motiv.
Kiran Nguyen
2024-02-22 07:38:06 +0000 UTCWhen you brought up the Tatami Galaxy creator using characters like actors in other works I thought it was a neat idea and I had heard of someone else doing that before. Then I remembered who else does that, Hiro Mashima, the mangaka of Fairy Tail. And everything he's made isn't good. So happy to hear of a talented creator doing the same thing.
Ignis Astrorum
2024-02-22 05:44:09 +0000 UTCIt's honestly freaky how similar Uta and Lorelai are
JelloApocalypse
2024-02-22 05:36:57 +0000 UTCGotta respect how your review of film red was just a plug for your book lmaooo
Psycho
2024-02-22 04:59:23 +0000 UTCOh my One Piece movie reviews are up on there if you want to see those early.
JelloApocalypse
2024-02-22 04:39:15 +0000 UTCI don't think it's private: https://letterboxd.com/JelloApocalpyse/ I don't think anything I have on there is very interesting, though. I mostly use it as a checklist to see which animated movies aren't greyed out yet. My private review google doc I use to organize my thoughts would probably be more interesting to read over. I might share that some day once it's got more stuff on it? It's pretty disorganized and vitriolic though, haha.
JelloApocalypse
2024-02-22 04:29:19 +0000 UTCGood to have ya back, man.
George Blanchard
2024-02-22 04:26:34 +0000 UTCWoot woot! These reviews keep me sane on long drives. Always a laugh. Do you share your letterbox publicly?
omc262
2024-02-22 04:25:33 +0000 UTCYIPPE:3
The_Weird_Thingyyy
2024-02-22 04:23:54 +0000 UTCWOO! OPINIONS!
Psycho
2024-02-22 04:22:15 +0000 UTC
