Reviews

Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cleopatra is one of the greatest comedies ever made. Priceless, holds up even today.

This is trying to be a "modern" version of that, and it shows, because it has the most generic, overdone, "girl power" / "girl-focused" garbage you could imagine.

It's this generic modern cliche of the main characters not being the main characters in their own movies, in favor of "strong, diverse female characters". Interesting to see this goes beyond Disney and Netflix, but France too.

It sucks seeing this soulless generic modern cashcard trying to imitate one of the funniest, most original, most lighthearted comedies ever - Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cleopatra. Just watch that movie again, instead of this insufferable, generic, overdone trash.

I like the RakaRaka twins. I know them from Cold Ones, they seem fun, and cool, and they're OG youtubers, and as I understand, this is their first movie.

So I really wanna like this, and support it. The cinematography is great, the movie looks awesome, every camera angle is fantastic, the color grading, it's all absolutely professional, and even surpassing big budget movies in my opinion.

But like.... The main characters, and actors portraying them, are so cliched for a modern movie - a black woman and a weird lesbian/butch woman - that's such generic typecast overdone 2016+ cringe.

You'd think a low budget movie by youtubers will be more genuine, and will have better casting, and more charismatic, better characters. But nah - we're doing cliches, like Marvel and Disney, apparently.

Actually, all of the characters are written to be, and portrayed by unlikeable people. This doesn't really encourage me to watch the full movie, when I don't care about any of them.

The ending is kinda cool, in that it's actually a twist, while keeping the whole horror cliche "the story repeats" thing, but yeah - fresh take on it, and unexpected.

You guys are good at practical effects, we all know this, but make a comedy or something lighthearted and enjoyable, because this was not...

This movie makes the right choice to not take itself seriously whatsoever, yet the actors don't go too far into goofy acting, instead acting seriously, which only makes it better and funnier.

I enjoyed it. I wasn't sure about Cage's character at first, but I eventually liked him. Wasn't sure about the cringey generic diverse teenagers and their little backstory, but they were quickly interwoven with his, bringing some much needed, goofy context, to the goofy things happening, all suspiciously similar to FNAF.

Fun movie, recommended with a few beers, when you just want to unwind and be entertained.

My only gripes are that the animatronics aren't scary enough, they're clearly people in costumes, yet giving them a more creepy, robotic look and motion would've made things so much cooler, mixing horror with comedy far better... You can't just add clockwork sounds over clearly a guy in a costume moving exactly like a guy in a costume, and call it "a creepy robot".

But it's still okay, I assume the budget wasn't exactly huge.

You never know what to expect with Cage movies, it's usually bad, and cringe, but this was fun, entertaining.

I mean of course the evil things only go after the men and kill them brutally, while women either survive or conveniently get killed off screen, and are way more stunning and brave than the men, it's a 2020s American movie after all. But the rest is fine.

It started with the most generic, overdone, cringey "mom caught me masturbating" skit, and on top of that - with a badly inserted Meta Quest ad. But the more you watch, the better it gets.

I guess I'm one of the few people in the world who doesn't hate Pete, because according to himself, everyone does. I don't follow American pop culture or politics, so maybe I'm out of the loop, but I don't have a single reason to dislike him, other than his terrible taste in women. His early comedy specials were fantastic - and that's all I knew about him going into this.

Unfortunately it's a bit too much like Louie - the most beta male "exaggerated version of a celeb" show to ever exist - which hinders it several times.

But it also has a ton of heartwarming moments, some realness, some good comedy...

I don't know if Pete's a bad person or not, but regardless, if he were a female pop culture personality - he wouldn't be getting all this excessive hate. It wouldn't be that socially acceptable. But he's a guy - so I guess it is? American logic in a nutshell.

I wish he would speak out about this a bit. Johnny Depp was forced to, and I'm pretty sure Pete is kinda being forced to have the balls to speak out on the hypocrisy of male vs female treatment by the media.

Anyway, good show. If you're a fan of Pete, you'll like it. If you're not - I don't know why you'd watch it. Also, Art The Clown makes a random appearance, which was a huge plus.

It was fine until exactly 1 hour and 10 minutes, when the generic exposition cop woman randomly threatened to shoot the main character for no reason whatsoever. Until then I was like "this is fine - fan service, a predictable insertion of tons of female characters because it's the 2020s, a kids rating, so no violence, but that doesn't necessarily make it bad, so overall - nothing too surprising or bad."

But yeah, the cringe factor got cranked up so hard in those 5 seconds that I legit stopped watching it, because I lost all interest, this is bad. I should've expected it to be cringe and misandrist considering it's proudly directed by the same woman who made M3gan, I guess, but I did expect some competence.

But yeah, overall, it's a really bland and generic movie based on a game that had no lore whatsoever until a youtuber pulled some out of his rear end for views, singlehandedly creating some (bad one).

That same youtuber also has a really corny cameo, I guess for the kids to cheer over, but... yeah...

Cringe.

To be fair, though, the visual presentation is great, and the acting is surprisingly good, at least from the main guy. He goes above and beyond with what he gets to work with - a silly movie with a ridiculous plot - but he carries his weight and shows a great range of emotion throughout. Too bad his efforts were wasted in a movie this bad.

So yeah, they did overdo it with the shaky cam and the bad acting and the lack of... a plot that makes sense, really, and a lack of the suspenseful horror element you'd expect. And maybe this did go viral purely because it takes a popular name and flips it on its head. But I'd rather some British dudes doing a horror B-movie with it than Disney nowadays.

There are things to like and even love about this movie, such as the lack of certain cliches that are done to death in slasher movies (e.g. No "final girl" cliche, which even today continues to be super rare and cringe), and it reminded me of Inbred - another goofy British horror movie that had some bad, but also a whole lot of good, and even great, hilarious, plus original.

Unfortunately this movie doesn't exactly match Inbred in fun and originality as I had hoped. It's kind of boring and unsurprising.

It's still alright. Since big-studio movies are mostly trash nowadays, I'd recommend watching this regardless, but I'm really hoping the sequel will be excellent.

If the people who are working on it read this - aim to make something like Inbred, or the first Terrifier movie.

Those had cool villains, lots of violence pandering, a familiarity to them, yet tons of subversion of expectations, great humor to break up the gore, and just... were somehow lighthearted, while still being tense.

I sure hope you can take this franchise in that direction, and even surpass it. Because this first movie didn't really nail it, but it is promising.

Or, you know, the sequel could be even worse, and actually have the cliches, losing the few things it had going for it... We'll see, I guess. But for now, I'd like to support this franchise.

Mainly - if you want your life to be positive and joyful instead of even more depressed by entertainment that's trying way too hard to take itself seriously, while still being ridiculously fantastical and not close to historically accurate. So yeah, when I was a kid - I loved this.

Rewatching it today - sure, it's hacky, hammers in way too many trends and cliches that didn't stand the test of time whatsoever, but that's pretty much most of those parody movies.

It's still lighthearted and goofy enough to be cheerful and entertaining, brightening your day with some mindless fun.

But I admit, being a kid when I first saw it - nostalgia may be playing a pretty big role in why I like this. I see tons of editing and acting errors now, that even in a parody movie I can't say are excusable, but again... Still mostly fun and lighthearted, and I enjoyed it even today.

Almost half of DM victims are men. But of course the battered woman narrative is all pervasive. Another anti male diatribe which reduces a universal problem down to a crass binary. Only male victims' struggles and pain is ridiculed, ignored and discounted from the feminist narrative. Avoid this nasty piece of rhetoric, the gender version of race baiting.

Olivia Wilde sure fell off since Tron, which is sad to see, btw. Yes, she's been in "strong woman" roles that weren't generic misandrist single-narrative-pushing garbage. However, those days are long in the past, apparently.

I've seen enough DM to know that most, or at the very least - half, of those are men, abused by women abusing their "protected" status "the patriarchy" built for them because "it's so bad".

Such a top tier message about trust and equality, and a fantastic, satisfying resolution to this one game (which is usually definitely not the case).

The moments surviving (or about to die) characters share just after each game have all actually been really strong and memorable...

Really good stuff. My only issue is - I'm up to halfway the last season (as of yet) and still there are no real answers to anything, nothing makes sense in the long run, and I really hope it does, eventually, and isn't come cheap copout. But we'll see, I guess.

Either way, this show has been consistently really engaging.

The emotional moment between Arisu and Kyuma in the end was fantastic, but the episode tanks hard after that.

This show's biggest problems start shining when we're introduced to a new game, where Chishiya is the main character for us to follow.

He's a flat character, but that's not the issue, it's that this show's cartoonishness goes overboard with the new side characters, who are so cartoonish and ridiculous, that they just take you out of the serious life-and-death vibe the show is going for. And that's not the first time this happens.

At least the show has the decency to kill the annoying new characters off eventually, but wow, this overly-cartoonish characters thing is a recurring problem.

How come for the last 6-7 years Family Guy episodes have been so extremely inconsistent? Some episodes (most, actually) are absolute crap, while others (like this one) do show promise, and have peak Family Guy moments, like a showtune that's actually good, jokes that are actually good jokes, not just lame, generic political statements 5 years too late, and, you know - featuring the important, funnier characters.

But then it still also has... exactly that - unfunny jokes, unfunny, generic political statements, cringey lame "internet meme" jokes 5 years too late (like a Karen joke, which was made even by her being voiced by Seth's annoying sister, who voices literally any side female character, to the point of it being insufferable and ultra predictable)...

And the ending of this episode (and in turn, the entire season) was absolute cringe. Like, for real, cringe, making you cringe kind of cringe...

I guess ol' Seth hasn't cared about this show for so long, he lets anyone write for it, and of course, most upper-middle-class writers from the bigger US cities are absolute trash.

But yeah, this episode was good. Especially good, considering this show's track record over the last years. But I'm sure the next season will continue the trend of 19 dumpsterfire episodes and 1 decent one.

Well, another terrible episode from a show that's barely clinging to life and hasn't had anything to do with comedy or "political incorrectness" in over 10 years.

It sucks, and not because of the super cheap, lazy, and more importantly grossly outdated MAGA / Joe Rogan shot that was used to cheaply solve the boring subplot, but because both that subplot and the main plot were impressively boring and unfunny.

I urge you to look up the nobodies who write those episodes nowadays on Twitter on Instagram, they look exactly like you'd expect them to. It's pretty pathetic. But it makes sense why this show sucks so hard once you see them.

It's simple, yet carried by great actors and great dialogue, tension, and some really awesome old western vibes.

I'm not really into westerns, and I don't know if this even classifies as one, or is just wearing a western's clothing, but I loved it a lot. At least two thirds of it...

Other than the fact that I had to use subtitles in order to understand what the heck anyone was saying, I've got no other small complaint.

But I do have a big one - and it's pretty obvious - the ending. For most of the movie, it seemed like it was obvious where it would lead. A lot of movies lead to that.

And now I see why - because it's expected, and makes sense, it's a reward for the viewer for watching for so long and caring for those characters.

Unfortunately, we get a pretty abrupt and underwhelming ending to an otherwise captivating movie, and... well, there's no easy way to say it - but it's a terrible way to end it.

It's not cool or unique or "subverting expectations", it's just disappointing, and leaving viewer with that feeling.

Here I thought I was watching an epic fight between two great forces of men. Turns out, the boring sub-plot about an uninteresting and generic aging sheriff was the main plot line here. And that's supposed to be my reward for sticking with those characters for two hours, hoping for a proper resolution.

It's brutal, ridiculous, action-packed, fun, entertaining, yet... again, brutal... Masculine. It has all these qualities modern American movies can't possibly have anymore, so no wonder this Indian movie is doing so well in the west.

People needed it.

And I needed this. My only real issue is that it's 3 hours long. But man, it's 3 hours packed with insane action, superb music, lots of tension, and lots of raw testosterone. It's absolutely crazy how long it's been since I've seen a movie like this.

And it's not just all that - it's generally flawlessly executed. It's perfect at what it's trying to be. Great job, India. Show those weaklings how it's done. Remind them how fun and awesome movies can be.

My main issue is with the voices. Eggman, most notably, was voiced by a great voice actor until now, not sure why he needed to be recast. Knuckles doesn't sound right too, with a goofy obviously-forced (not natural) deep voice.

Sonic's voice actor does a great job filling Roger Craig Smith's shoes, so no complaints there, at least.

The character designs are good and as you'd expect, and the budget for the animation is clearly vastly higher than it was for Sonic Boom, which is always welcome.

But that hour-long episode model just doesn't work well for a kids show. I watched it with my kids because like any parent I force my childhood upon them (jk, they like Sonic legitimately), but this is too long to keep a kid's attention.

20 minutes per episode like any normal kids show would've made way more sense.

Also as much as people love to hate on Sonic Boom, it was way better packed with bite sized adventures and humor than this. This tries to be too serious, too complicated, and again - episodes are way too long for its own good.

So nobody in my house really enjoyed it or wanted to continue watching after one episode. I'm only rating it this high because it's a decent attempt at doing a Sonic thing.

And while Netflix didn't ruin it with his usual, predictable forced agendas (at least not in the few episodes I saw), it did ruin it by making it not fun or interesting enough.

Kind of like what they did with the Cuphead show. Great concept - not great execution. Hard to tell who this is for, too.

Those few, basic OG Sonic game references will only resonate with long-term Sonic fans, but the show is targeting children... yet it's too complicated and serious, and long, for children to get invested into... Go figure.

I wonder if Netflix even does any screen testing or... at this point, even cares who they're hiring to do the big decisions and write the scripts, direct... I'm starting to see a pattern of disappointing shovel ware productions with a high budget.

I wasn't really sure about this movie, cause I've seen countless with similar premises and they all sucked, but it turns out - this one is pretty great.

It's about a creative and funny boy being basically forced and guilt-tripped into hanging out with an initially-rude and somewhat shut-in girl with "treatable leukemia," so I was expecting some generic cringe, but lo and behold - a fun and wholesome relationship happens.

And this is a movie with actual likeable characters - an extreme rarity nowadays, so I wanted to see them happy, so when they clicked - it was enjoyable.

Unfortunately, this means that the obligatory forced drama between the main characters, which I knew was coming and anticipated, was 10 times worse.

It didn't help that the movie basically guilt-trips the boy as much as the characters around him, and keeps insulting him and doing its best to make us feel like he hasn't been good, eventhough we see with our own eyes that he has.

And at the same time, but of course, makes the girl seem like an angel on earth, eventhough she's been rude to him many times.

That's the kind of generic agendas every generic movie pushes - boy is bad, and should be shamed and insulted - girl is amazing, and should be praised and forgiven for anything.

And with that in mind, although this movie could've been great, it's ultimately a bit generic and average. Good acting, though.

Oh and all dads in this are a**holes and abandoners, and the mom is a ridiculous drunken p***phile, and that's supposed to be funny or emotional. Yeah... "great"...

It's weird that instead of big pharma or big oil, who are way more relevant right now, South Park is like - "big toilet paper is the current thing we should make an entire episode about."

And there's Hogwarts Legacy thrown in in the beginning, clearly just because it was a hot topic for a week. As a joke it led nowhere, clearly just shoehorned in because the creators always want to throw in relevant things into the show, but can't really make them work into it in a funny way... Like this time around.

It wasn't a set up for anything, like you may hope; not even a joke - it's just "here's a thing people are talking about right now." Not the first time South Park does this, and it disappoints a bit.

But yeah, still an interesting episode, just not exactly funny. They go about how toilet paper is wasteful and inefficient, and it's one of those cases where you can't tell if the South Park creators are being serious or completely joking, or perhaps trying to use "big toilet paper" as a metaphor for big pharma, but I really doubt it. There's rarely deeper meaning, even if people love to search for it.

Not that there needed to be. Some better jokes would've been nice, though. No one likes the Randy weed farm sub blot. In fact, back when that got introduced is pretty much where the show started falling off.

...Well, I don't, I was hoping for something a bit cheery, but this ain't it.

It does, however, feature some amazing performances from the main cast, especially Aaron Paul and Amanda Seyfried.

Their performances kind of carry this movie, because the rest of it is rich white people, mostly women, being annoying and unlikeable. There's really no one likeable in this, except for the main cast.

And when a movie has a majority of unlikable and unrelatable characters, and is really trying hard to push on your heart strings with sad music and forced drama... well, I usually see through it and dislike it. Especially when it's 2 hours long. And you can't hear the dialogue most of the time because either the music or the ambience is too loud, and everyone's mumbling.

And of course it ends super predictable, Aaron Paul's character doing the most self-disrespecting things so that women watching can have a happy ending, yet men get a sexist remark and a crappy ending, because all the male characters either died or got cucked and are magically fine with it because women are watching and this needs to pander to them, and them only.

So yeah, good performances, but overall, with that predictable ending, pointlessly long runtime and many other predictable moments - plus that obvious target demographic that apparently men aren't in - I'm not gonna pretend I enjoyed this.

It's better than his last special, but there's an entire segment of 69 jokes ripped off from Tom Segura, and a bunch of other jokes I'm pretty sure he stole from others like Doug Stanhope, as he always tends to.

He also repeats some of his own old jokes by the word, like "If you're (insert group here), know that you're not welcome here." or "(insert group here) are the worst people on Earth." or "You may know DJ Qualls as the skinny guy from Hustle n Flow"- and it's pretty ridiculous. Like you're watching a broken record loop for over a decade.

And as always, he's found new and inventive ways of pretending to be edgy, while actually doing the most middle-of-the-road, safe jokes as to not veer away from his new, fake liberal persona. For example, he makes fun of Greta - and that was something - but before he started he had to be like "I agree with her on EVERYTHING!"

Jeez, Jim, where'd your balls go? You're not edgy if you tell the audience what your "real" opinion is before or after each joke, and it's always a safe leftist one we all know you don't actually mean.

But hey, this special isn't as bland and aimless as the last one, and for Netflix, it's far beyond what the standard is.

So despite my many gripes with Jim "Jefferies" the person, Jim "Jefferies" the comedian is still 10/10 by Netflix standards.

This show sure fell off since about 2015, and the first episode of this season wasn't exactly priming either, but this one is CLASSIC SOUTH PARK at its best!

Hilarious all around, even if the sub-plot about Kyle is a bit forced and aimless; considering they crank those out in a week, it also touched on some pretty current things and was unapologetically edgy and hilarious.

It's nice when they manage a balance between humor and preachiness and I think they did it well here, unlike in a lot of previous attempts.

Here's hoping the rest of this season continues going up in humor and more towards what made classic South Park so good and unique among all the other adult cartoon shows.

My favorite thing about this episode, is that for no reason whatsoever, there's a scene (when Kelly fire extinguishes the couch) where there's studio lighting equipment FULLY, ENTIRELY visible right behind Kelly.

It's not one of those briefly-visible overhead microphone situations, like in almost every Friends episode, but an entire studio light and those umbrella things they use to reflect light, like, clearly visible. For a while.

I gotta wonder how that happened, and how come everyone else in the world seems to have blocked it out, lol.

Oh well, interesting trivia aside, this is yet another great episode. It's even cooler that we actually have different, unique settings in this one, and a guest star from the aforementioned, much worse Friends show.

The episode's great, a classic, like most MWC episodes.

But what really got my attention recently is that one of the guys in it was also in The Wizard and in Friends (as the Bite Me Blondie guy)!

I've seen this episode a million times and never realized it until now that it was him.

And the more I rewatch this show, the more I see all the actors who went on to become either extras in big shows or big shots themselves.

The guy who played Joey in Friends was in MW first. Pamela Anderson was in MWC first. So many others were in this legendary show first! It's pretty amazing just being extra focused on the side characters and their actors, because there's a good chance you'll recognize them from other shows too.

MWC was like the kickstarter (or at least the stepping stone) for so much mainstream Hollywood talent.

I wasn't really feeling it at first. Everyone was a cliche, not exactly interesting or original characters that had anything fresh to say... Kind of generic, even a bit boring.

But by the time I was halfway through the movie I was super invested. Characters grew and evolved, became more fleshed out. The dialogue went on to become clever and extremely philosophical, even.

Not only that, but I felt things I didn't think a modern movie would ever made me feel ever again, considering the situation we're in as a society right now.

Heartwarming? Wholesome? Who knew this movie would be like this. I sure didn't. But I'm so glad I stuck around.

Best 2022 movie by far. What a gem.

This is the "murder mystery" movie that deserved all the attention garbage like Glass Onion got. It's also the "family comedy" that deserved all the attention of every theoretical "comedy" movie that came out in recent years - all mostly vapid garbage.

If anything, this movie's fairly low (in my opinion) rating and undeservingly low popularity proves we're lost as a species, and there's no hope. If something this good gets swept under the rug, while every generic, mind-numbingly stupid Disney / Marvel / Star Wars reboot or remake or show gets all the views.

If I have to complain and take a point - it'll be for the predictable forced drama in the third half. Every formulaic show does this, there's always a moment near the end where the main cast has to have a fight, then reunite, and it feels forced, and in the case of an otherwise original and fresh movie - it felt highly unnecessary. And disappointingly predictable. Nothing else about this movie was that predictable, so my standards were higher for the ending. But I won't spoil it for you.

Oh, and the ending was garbage. Another 3 points for building all that up, all that originality, and ending on cringe. But again... I assume the normies will actually like it, and that was the point...

I don't know, I guess it's mixed feelings after all.

What a fun movie that is, especially to watch now in 2013 when everything else is so generic and formulaic and always crammed with toxicity.

Well, this movie is pure AF. In fact, it's super fun if you just shut your brain off and enjoy the action and comedy.

Oh, and the cast is absolute killer - not just the main trio, who are all unique and hilarious, but all the big names too! Billy Bob Thornton, Eva Longoria, that woman who was the stunt double in Kill Bill - all great to see.

The only thing I don't like is the aggressive orange filter plastered over every shot. We get it, it's meant to be hot in Texas, but come on, guys... That's way too orange. May have been fine for the late 2000s, I remember a lot of games had such strong color filters too, especially orange and green ones, but this is 2012 and still far more than needed.

But yeah, everything else about this movie is pretty awesome if you know exactly what to expect - a fun comedy/action movie with quirky characters and dope fight scenes. Billy Bob Thornton.

And I mean it's borderline a ripoff. But nonetheless, this is a very good family movie, albeit a choc full of cliches, from the very start.

Even so, and even though the characters were all also cliches, or ripped off from other media (for example the main character is basically Tarzan), I enjoyed it.

Could've been shorter, and it could've been more original and less cliché, but for a kids movie - it not only gets the job done, but it's surprisingly clean and wholesome for a modern Disney movie.

I don't know if the standards are just so low nowadays, or this is actually good, if not the best Disney's published in the last decade, but either way - it's a good, and in the world of modern Disney - actually refreshing - family / kids movie.