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Civil War (2024)
8/10
Speechless, brutal movie
28 April 2024
This movie made me feel sad and scared about almost everyone involved; main characters, extras, etc.

The plot? In a nutshell it's about a group of journalist that travel to the white house for an interview with the president of a divided nation, but it's very ambiguous about what caused these events.

Visually? Gorgeous when you get to see nature, highways and buildings, you get to see different places, some greatly affected by war and others not too much.

And it's a grounded movie, a lot of action movies make you feel like all the death and pain the characters go through it's not that important, but this movie makes it feel more 'grounded' and real, and that's scarier, stressful and sad to witness.

The sound? It's phenomenal, you have to experience it yourself in imax or a good sound system, i'm not a scaredy cat but even a single gunshot sometimes made me jump in the seat as if it was a jumpscare in a horror movie.

I liked this movie but it also made me feel uneasy, there's a lot of deaths and none of them are pretty, heroic or anything positive there's a lot of violence and it made me feel like it was a living hell.

And you can sense how all this violence affects the characters, they're not made of stone.

I don't recommend this for people that are sensitive to these things, i thought i was 'strong' but i left the theater speechless.
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6/10
A decent filler movie
28 April 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Saw the movie in Japanese with Spanish subtitles, if you're a fan or a newcomer to the franchise the movie does a good job of filling the dynamic of the show in the first minutes, it's great.

How's the pacing? Well all the action happens at the end, it's quite good but it doesn't make you feel like they're really in danger or the stakes are too high, movie plays it safe.

From start to middle you get some mundane things; introductions, buying groceries, normal family stuff.

Plotwise is where things fall apart; Anya is going to participate in a cooking contest and her spy dad hints that she should make a "MereMere" dessert, which is one of the judge's favorite desserts.

Winning this contest could bring her dad closer to infiltrate a reunion of influential people in the country, so they travel to the specific city where that dessert is made to learn how to cook it but Anya eats a chocolate containing a chip that other spies where trying to get and they kidnap her and try to make her poop to collect their data.

I say it's filler because at the end, none of this mattered at all - the parents rescue Anya and the contest is cancelled because the kitchen broke, so no cake is made, no stella is won and her dad is not closer to complete his mission.

Visually the movie is gorgeous and at certain scenes the animation style changes completely, one for a gag and the other for a fight and both look awesome

If you're a fan of the franchise you might love it, and it's awesome for newcomers and the entire family (well maybe not kids) but for me... it's meh.
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Tyson's Run (2022)
7/10
Decent family movie
18 April 2024
I watched this movie in Spanish and the voice actors did a decent job at potraying the actors, but for Tyson sometimes he sounded robotic and with a few microphone 'pops', i don't think this how the original movie sounded.

Overall i was hooked from start to finish and invested in Tyson's journey.

Story: It's decent and is focused on a young teenager; Tyson which has autism and decides that would like to go to a normal school instead of being home schooled by his mother, there he meets people who are understanding of his condition; students and teachers.

Most importantly he makes a new friend who sparks in Tyson a passion for marathon running.

Acting: The acting is decent, ok... but there are times where they don't act very good and the person i noticed of doing this the more was Tyson's father; he's too serious and i never saw him smile in situations where he should've, everyone else was fine in my opinion.

Script: Good but oftentimes it lead to characters overreacting, you can see that in Tyson's mother where she often seems unreasonable with her husband over very important points.

Sound / Visuals: The visuals are cristal clear, specially in the school but there are no outstanding shots, soundwise nothing remarkable either since not a lot is going on; either characters talk or there is some kind of montage.
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Migration (I) (2023)
7/10
Suprisingly decent
17 December 2023
I went with low expectations about this film because the trailers looked like the movie wasn't good, but after watching it i can say it's really worth the ticket.

Visually there's nothing to complain about here the ducks and all kinds of birds that appear here look nice and are really expresive.

Soundwise nothing outstanding, decent, you can hear every character clearly because all was mixed well. The ambient for all scenarios is done pretty well too (Swamps, cities, forrest)

Storywise This is what i liked the most because it's not that dumb for an illumination movie, it has drama and funny moments throughout the entire run, but nothing too deep, just enough to be entertaining.

I would say if you go alone or with your family you'll have a good time.
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5/10
Decent but should be better
13 November 2023
I'll be fair; the music and visuals are decent but the actual plot of the movie is just painful.

Visually: Stunning, all the trolls look 'good' and move fluidly, the backgrounds are full of colors and surprisingly very well detailed (Troll town, a beach, some concert scenarios and a big city in the night)

Sound: Very good too, the main attraction are the musicals which i thing were decent, mixing 90's songs with some of their own originals for the movie. (No back street boys in a boy band movie??! What a crime), can't complain about the voice actors they were all decent.

Writing: For me this is the worst part of this movie. The plot is about some trolls reuniting after years to save another troll that was kidnapped by a famous duo that is stealing the troll's talent for their own use.

But how they plan to save him, how they reunite after years it's made in the dumbest way possible - not sure how they got 2 writers and none of them came up with a decent story to tie all together.
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