Review of Sahara

Sahara (2017)
4/10
Felt generic and underwhelming
26 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
It's about a snake who decides to leave his home, falls in love with a snake from an oasis, is forced to rescue her with her stoner brother, and defeat the incredibly generic villain you probably can't appreciate.

What did it get right? It looks pretty good, and the humor is adult-friendly. (Yeah, I'm the kinda guy that laughs at a snake snort sand because he's in withdrawal)

What did it get wrong? Pretty much everything else in the movie. The characters aren't memorable in the slightest, as they have no back stories or motive, and most of them are simply abandoned after "they had nothing else to offer". Similarly, I'd like to know the main characters better, as the only back story we ever got was from a secondary/support character and the only thing explained were that his parents were killed and he escaped. I'd also like to better know how the other snakes were captured, but no, we just get an ugly "love interest" and a salty character that gets skinned later on. The climax battle scene was dramatic and I had no idea what was happening other than a creepy old dude is able to climb really well, then dies, only to reappear solely for the purpose of a semi-humorous reintroduction of Pitt. (EDIT: I watched it again, and the other snake didn't get skinned, I just missed their reappearance at the end of the movie)

Writing is 1/5 Graphics is 5/5 Humor is 3/5 (i'm being generous, that was a pretty funny scene)
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