Based on the opening scene, I thought I was going to love this cool, amusing, self-aware animated flick. Alas, I struggled with a lot of it and wound up feeling kind of lukewarm by the end. And that’s despite a … Continue reading
I didn’t watch this movie expecting it to be good, I watched it expecting it to be hilariously bad. And it wasn’t… it was just your average everyday level of bad. It wasn’t this train-wreck of hilarity, it was just … Continue reading
Unpopular take and also a moment of self-reflection for my apparent monstrosity. Flee is a tragic life story but not one told very well. Yeah, I know… how wrong a take can a guy have? The documentary / animated film … Continue reading
Somehow, Pixar has been relegated to Disney+… but that’s ok since that certainly makes it easier to watch. And happy to say that, when this movie launches and you just want the excitable teen girls to chill out, that that’s … Continue reading
Now, I’m not the biggest fan of the Ice Age series. I enjoyed the first one, find the rest pretty mediocre. But wow… they look amazing compared to this dreck from the fine folks running Disney+. Sure, giveth us the … Continue reading
I hated, hated, hated 2/3rds of this anime. But I liked the ending… or, rather, I liked every ending they kept adding to the movie, thus somehow solidifying my opinion the flick is an absolute mess while also making me … Continue reading
The House uses fur and cloth-based stop-motion animation to tell three independent stories set in a house. That might not be thrilling by the sound of it, but it’s a pretty fascinating and sometimes fascinatingly weird presentation. The first story … Continue reading
You know, I swear I thought the third Hotel Transylvania was decent… I didn’t care much for the firs two but maybe I’d turned a corner and started to admire the goofy comedy. But this fourth film makes me think … Continue reading
A decidedly adult Western (non-anime) animated dark fantasy film that shares DNA with older titles like Fire and Ice, Wizards, Heavy Metal, and Ralph Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings. I’m surprised it exists, though I’m a little soft on how … Continue reading
I’ve watched the various live action Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies and I kind of dig their askew view of middle school. And I even “read” one of the books with the same reaction. When I saw that Disney … Continue reading