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Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2018)
Great animation but I can't stand anything else.
If someone creates a fight compilation and uploads it to youtube I may enjoy that. But story and characters are a big fat no. And I'm not at all against different interpretations of characters but all of the turtles are the same drink with slight flavor differences. So like they are all a "cranberry" but Leo is "Cranberry grape" while Raphael is a "Cranberry Strawberry" etc. What I mean is all of the turtles are wild and spastic, constantly cracking jokes, never taking anything seriously and are just zipping around like children high on sugar. As some others have stated, the writers simply wrote four Michelangelos. The enjoyment I and other fans get from the dynamics created from the different personalities clashing and working together in other interpretations of the turtles is lost here. Even April is wild and loud (A bit problematic in hindsight when you take into account negative tropes about black women) If anyone needed to be the level headed one it was April.
The fight scenes in this show are spectacular but I would argue they can be "too spectacular" There are a lot of anime fights that I find boring to watch because the characters are weightless. Like they might as well be flying. Therefore there is little to no feeling of threat or danger and the cool fight scene becomes "ooh look at the shiny toy! Look at the jingly keys!" kind of spectacle.
The story dragged its feet and I think it suffered because of it. Right when things looked like they could have been interesting the show is canceled. Oh well. I tried to like this, I watched several episodes from both seasons but nothing about this show made me like the characters. Too many highs, not enough lows, made it hard for me to feel empathy for the characters. By the end of it I kind of low-key hated the turtles and April but Splinter, who I hated at first, comes out as my favorite character in the show. And I'm normally neutral towards Splinter. I hope the upcoming movie is at least decent.
Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992)
Pretty Good Kids Film
To get this out of the way. I don't care that Tom and Jerry talk. I actually think that was a smart move for this movie. They don't have to talk, but removing that lane of communication, I feel, forces less talented writers to push them into the background of their own movies. (Like in 2021). So for what it's worth, if there is ever another movie, the director really needs to think about that.
I was probably a toddler when this movie came out. Just watched the 2021 movie so I decided to rewatch this one for comparison.
The only things they share in common are humans. This movie has songs and an actual plot. Oh, and Tom and Jerry talk. Honestly I don't blame you if you think I am blinded by nostalgia. I admit I am at least half blinded by nostalgia. I like this movie but its not without its problems. This movie is more a vanilla adventure than a comedy. The Tom and Jerry antics are in it though limited, they take a back seat to the story.
Most of the songs are okay (and short). The Friends til the End song is great. So is the 'Money' song that birthed the hilarious meme. 'God's Creature's' song is too short to count. Robyn's song is sweet but also short. The only song I'd cut from this is the super pointless alley cat "this is our terf or whatever" song. Those cats never do anything so why give them a song?
About the humans, Robyn is obviously the most controversial character. She is a store brand Jenna from Oliver and Company and to be honest her presence drags the movie down. Mostly because 'helpless damsel girls' is one of the most tired tropes in the universe. My adult self understands she's helpless but Tom and Jerry animations need more proactive/kinetic characters for action and comedy. So a little damsel girl falls way out of the scope of what I think Tom and Jerry should 'be'.
My only real complaint with this movie is that even though it has a shorter run time, it still feels too slow. I chock most of that up to the animation (It doesn't look as good as I remember it) with mostly competent but clearly lower budget than Disney animation, the action/chase scenes could have been a lot better. But as a kid I really thought this movie was one of the best ever. Another complaint is the random crazy captain man near the end of the movie. I know the Tom and Jerry 'universe' is devastatingly limited but there are several animal characters that could have had this role. That is the problem with these Tom and Jerry films at their core, they keep introducing one in done humans instead of using Butch or Spike or Toodles, or Quacker Jeff etc. Heck I'll even take Nibbles. Yes Butch trying to steal 1 million dollars of ransom money would be funny.
So in the end. It's not the best, but it isn't as horrible as people make it out to be. A bit doddering and amateurish, but its also cute and inoffensive and nowhere near as cringe as I thought it was going to be from watching it after so many years.
Tom and Jerry (2021)
Bellow 'Eh'
I was super curious so I watched it once. And I will never watch it again. That doesn't mean that I hated it. I was actually pessimistically amused. But many things drag it down. The movie feels like a first draft first try.
- The movie isn't really about Tom and Jerry. They are featured in a movie about a girl trying to work in a hotel.
- Most if not all of the human cast is boring and unfunny. I thought the head manager of the hotel was kind of funny. And the head chef too. I thought the alleycats were going to be characters but they aren't sadly. I thought the female cat would be an antagonist but she does nothing.
- The plot is lame. Focusing everything around a stupid wedding was the worst possible idea.
- Opening with the pigeons is pure cringe.
- Tom singing in autotune almost made me turn the movie off. I was watching the movie with a friend and they abandoned me at this point.
The only good thing about the movie is Tom and Jerry chasing each other (And the random Droopy cameo), but I have to say, I bet if I go back and watch the movie from the 90's I'll enjoy that more. Tom and Jerry talking might have actually saved this movie. I mean that 100%.
The Borderlands (2013)
I do not understand the hype
What I'm disappointed by most is the monster. And worse still the human reaction to it. At no point did the movie ever explain why people (the ancient pagans) worship the monster. It didn't do anything for them. Sacrificing babies didn't make the crops grow better. People just worshiped a giant alien stomach acid worm and fed their babies to it for no reason. The monster seems to have a psychic influence over the people in the town but the monster doesn't manipulate them to feed it more...for some reason. Stupid monster.
On top of that it goes against all human nature that a creature like this could go unknown by humanity for this long. A cover-up by the Vatican no less. But it would be impossible for any group to cover such a thing especially now with the current level of technology, this strange monster would have been revealed to the world decades before our protagonists showed up. You can't just cover up the existence of eldritch horror.
In the end the main characters die following an obviously dead person down a hole and they get eaten by the monster. This movie is just a big tumble of cliches so I give it a 1 out of 10.
Summary: Cosmic Horror has never made sense