Sorry for not posting yet.
I've been spending time with my family since it is Spring Break.
Well, since you all loved all my My Take posts, I figured I'd go and do my very first.......
MOVIE REVIEW-eiw-eiw............
Sorry, too much?
Well, no use beating around that bush!
Let's begin!
Strange Magic: This is one of those films that just came out of nowhere without anybody realizing it.
Mostly by the way that the movie was just announced two months before it's release.
It kind of makes it pretty sudden and I still feel like I just heard this movie!
But what makes this so much more interesting is the fact that it came from the mind of George Lucas and his studio, LucasFilms.
I mean, how is this not getting much attention when it came from the mind of the guy who created Star Wars?
But when we look into the movie itself, does it make us feel like we want to go inside their world like Star Wars?
Or does the magic act more as a curse?
Let's find out!
The Story: The one thing to note about the story is that it's all about true love <3.
What is it?
What are it's trials and tribulations?
Where to find it?
How do you know that the person is the right one?
And so much more questions to be answered here that it just makes you want to scream,
I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!
This movie tries so hard to hammer in this love notion in a way that's so cliched!
It checks out every stereotypical trope you can think of for a love story!
But that's not even the worst part!
Do you know what's worse than a predictable story?
A predictable story that feels like it drags on tooooooo long.
The way they try to extend these scenes are with musical numbers.
Yyyyyup.
This movie is also a JukeBox musical!
By the way, I won't talk about the songs since they weren't made for the movie.
But I will say that unlike Happy Feet where they put an interesting twist to the songs, this movie has pop-rock versions from random songs that don't fit into the movie in the first place and also suck out any joy out of them.
And so much more that you'll feel like a goblin pleading the movie to stop singing.
If you don't think that you can handle that, then stay away from this movie.
It's really hard to believe that all this came from the man that brought us Jar-Jar Binks and this;
The Animation: I don't wanna lie.
The animation is amazing in this movie! :)
You can tell that these are some of the top animators that were working on this flick.
From the plants to the skins to the designs of the characters to the solid moments, these are the animators that people wish to have to make a beautiful-looking movie.
So what's holding it back?
Well, this whole world is just your typical fantasy world filled with fairies, goblins, elves and much more.
These are things you can find in movies like Ferngully and Epic.
What's even worse than that is that they would even rip off some designs from those movies.
Like, the pale, flesh tones of the goblins, the leaf armor of the fairies, the woodland creatures as their steed.
There is, sadly, nothing original found in this movie.
The Characters: With a movie that's as badly written as this, don't expect to find any well-written characters.
You've got Mariane who is the heart-broken girl that wants to prove that she don't need no man!
Or does she?
Maybe she does!!OOOO! (sarcasm.)
You got Dawn who might as well be a nypm seeing as how sex-obsessed she is.
Sunny is the best friend of Dawn who has a huge crush on her.
Grezzelda is the Bog King's mom who want's her son to find a bride.
Bog King himself is the evil ruler of the dark forest that hates love because potatoes.
But, he's actually not the antagonist of the movie.
That would be Roland; the Gaston-type prince that wants to marry Mariane in order to be king.
As generic as they are, some aren't really hateable per say.
But that's the thing.
I said, some.
There are others that can make you cringe for many different reasons.
Like the way Roland is predictably bad.
The SugarPlum Fairy is annoying.
Dawn is too bubbly, so she's annoying, too.
The Fairy King is an absolute idiot.
Bog King's minions are not funny in the slightest.
You wish.
The list for these guys just goes on!
It's kind of ironic for a movie about love, there are no characters that I love in it.
No wonder Disney didn't want to have anything to do with this flick!
Down to the point where they had to bring back the TouchStone Pictures banner to make sure that nobody would ever think that this was a Disney movie.
Guys, do yourself a favor and don't watch this film.
Well, that's all for this post, folks!
If you want to see more, you know where to look!
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