A sprawling metropolis... One of the creepiest speeches The Watcher gives begins the action...heavy rain... neon lights, a corpse on the ground, that corpse - Yondu! Is it Blade Runner? Nope its What If.
This story is all about Nebula and her time becoming an elite detective crawling about the city in her flying car. In a alternate world where Ronan the Accuser kills Thanos and becomes the Emperor of the Universe and stuff and Ronan wants to conquer the planet Nebula lives on.
This is amongst the best animation and art design What If has ever had! Colors that are muted but pop whenever they can. Big widescreen shots that look like paintings. I have to say that rock guy by Taika Waititi looks astonishing, much better facial detail than CGI can ever do.
So whats the problem then? Sadly, they make the plot so frustratingly simple and boring by stuffing way too much in 28min leaving not much room for real mystery. This would be a Guardians of the Galaxy movie normally but these guys said yeah we can do this in 20% of the time, sorry writers but you can't. So really every answer to every mystery is just a$$ pull. Problems are just solved because "its time to solve the problems lets just do X Y Z"!!! Yay!
Mainly all the dialogues is like "kids playing with their toys" level like when your son says hahaha I betrayed you but no no your other son says I had the doohickey all along and I reprogrammed it because I am a android and the other son says noooo I will punch you over the cliff" you know what I mean?
So in the end this gets a 6, I had fun with it, it looked beautiful and sounded good. Laura Karpman got a partner and the music was better and less maudlin. I am not one of these jerks who gives stuff 0/10 because of bad plot.
Also is Howard the Duck a joke or a real character now I can't tell?
This story is all about Nebula and her time becoming an elite detective crawling about the city in her flying car. In a alternate world where Ronan the Accuser kills Thanos and becomes the Emperor of the Universe and stuff and Ronan wants to conquer the planet Nebula lives on.
This is amongst the best animation and art design What If has ever had! Colors that are muted but pop whenever they can. Big widescreen shots that look like paintings. I have to say that rock guy by Taika Waititi looks astonishing, much better facial detail than CGI can ever do.
So whats the problem then? Sadly, they make the plot so frustratingly simple and boring by stuffing way too much in 28min leaving not much room for real mystery. This would be a Guardians of the Galaxy movie normally but these guys said yeah we can do this in 20% of the time, sorry writers but you can't. So really every answer to every mystery is just a$$ pull. Problems are just solved because "its time to solve the problems lets just do X Y Z"!!! Yay!
Mainly all the dialogues is like "kids playing with their toys" level like when your son says hahaha I betrayed you but no no your other son says I had the doohickey all along and I reprogrammed it because I am a android and the other son says noooo I will punch you over the cliff" you know what I mean?
So in the end this gets a 6, I had fun with it, it looked beautiful and sounded good. Laura Karpman got a partner and the music was better and less maudlin. I am not one of these jerks who gives stuff 0/10 because of bad plot.
Also is Howard the Duck a joke or a real character now I can't tell?