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Birds of Prey - Review

2/8/2020

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Release Date: ​February 7, 2020
An Appalling Joke

​The DCEU has been a mess. With seven movies under its belt, it's nowhere near building anything cohesive for hardcore fans to latch on to. If we're honest, there is only one film that deserves praise, and it's Wonder Woman. So can another female-led, female-directed project reach those same heights? Birds of Prey seems to be coasting on that question as it barely avoids the absolute lows of being another Suicide Squad. 

The best thing about this movie is Ewan McGregor. His portrayal of the beloved character Black Mask is fantastic as his energy electrifies every scene he's in. Early on, it looks like he's having a great time while being eccentric, and it comes across very well. Margot Robbie also does an ok job playing Harley Quinn. She has nailed down this interpretation of the character, which just seems right at this point. The last person that wasn't offensive was Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Black Canary. Her performance didn't elicit any negative feelings as the part was played relatively straight. Like with most of the characters, the actual acting wasn't the problem that I had with the film.
All my grievances can be attributed to the script and editing. The first blatantly obvious setup of the movie is that it divides the women and men from each other. Not literally, but it basically creates two pens to hold the characters in, one labeled 'Good' and the other labeled 'Bad'. Even when you have Harley Quinn, a mass murderer, and certifiable villain, the film sticks her in the 'Good' pen. Only men are labeled as bad since little is done to develop these characters from being more than one dimensional. It helps make the 'Girl Power' message easier to implement as this plays more like a generic low budget affair than what's expected of a 'comic book movie'.

Another point of extreme pain for me was Casandra Cain, played by Ella Jay Basco. Her performance could have been edited weirdly or just didn't fit with the overall tone that the film, but it was horrible. Her line delivery and acting was cringe-worthy as it never seemed like she belonged with everyone else. It's a shame because the character is in most of the movie. Somehow, this major grievance isn't the worst thing either. 

Black Mask, for the uninitiated, is an iconic villain for Batman. So debuting him in an offshute picture seemed fine to develop his origin story. What I don't apprieciate is how the ending handles him as a character. The amount of disrespect and laziness that this 'girl power' shitshow uses to wrap him up, visibly shocked me in the theater. I couldn't believe what just happened. 

Aside from characters and acting, Birds of Prey fails to be the fun light-hearted romp that it thinks it is. The situations that characters get into are low stakes until the very end, and almost none of the humor hits. The structure in which the story is told is entirely wrong, and a more traditional style would have helped for overall pacing and intrigue. There just isn't that much fun being had as most of the runtime focuses on voice over and scenes dedicated to driving home the 'girl power' message. 

Birds of Prey was bad, boring, and at the end, very upsetting. The vibe that was promised, a fun picture about women winning and men losing was only half delivered as there was nothing fun about it. The failure to capture the tone was the fault of editing, specific performances, and the horrible use of music. Some might take offense to how beloved characters were changed, but I personally was only affronted by how Black Mask was treated at the end. If you go see this, you're either a DCEU fan that thinks Batman v. Superman and Justice League are good movies or an agenda-pushing person that might not even see this at all. To everyone else, stay far away from the theater as the hope of interesting action sequences will fail you just like this picture did when it promised to be interesting.
2/10
The 'girl power' message is thrown out the window when a female character uses their connection to a male character as protection and abuses that

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Joker - Review

10/4/2019

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Release Date:  October 4, 2019​​​​​​​​​
It Left A Smile on My Face

The DCEU, or whatever Warner Bros. wanted to call it, has been officially dead for some time now. With Marvel dominating at the box office, the allure of a cinematic universe is still everpresent. The temptation to make a ton of money won out, as the universe is being rebooted with The Batman (2021). So how does the most famous foil have their origin movie before the hero? Joker proves that as long as there is something to say, it doesn't matter.

When finishing the film, it took me a while to compile my thoughts. I knew right away that it was not to be taken lightly, that it wasn't for the faint of heart. Joker asks its viewers to take a look at the world it presents and wonder if they notice any similarities to their own. It slowly builds, pushing the character and you closer to the edge of realization: even though the movie takes place in 1981—it's about right now.

There are a plethora of films that tackle topical subjects or timeless themes. With varying degrees of success, they can either say a lot or be too general. Joker makes
a distinction about 2019, how we got here, and what's in store for our future. It focuses hard on a character, taking us through their day to day life and asks if it's acceptable. There is no fantasy to bail you out and no over the top elements to distort the message. The bleak reality of the situation is handled with care and pristinely presented.

It's a one-man show, Joaquin Pheonix is front and center for every single second. There is never an instance where you get a different point of view, Matt Damon in The Martian has nothing on this. His portrayal of a man, contorted by society and always being put down, is hypnotic as evolution happens right in front of you. No big event happens that causes the change, it's a slow burn that boils over. 

This is a character study, something that is said a lot about this film. That choice can be attributed to Todd Philips, co-writer and director of this depiction. He said he wanted to make a small and important film, but blow up its attention by putting it in a big property. It's this approach that takes Joker from just being a comic book movie to being a straight-up drama. It crosses over to traditional film in ways only a few have. It grounds itself in such reality that Nolan's trilogy looks light.

Sadly, with so much to say, most are not listening. People are declaring that there is too much violence portrayed, that it creates a sympathetic murderer. These complaints are like being angry about a documentary showing off murders and their lives. Joker aims to depict and the blatant reality of the situation scares people. Aiming only to inform does not create the acts more dangerous, you see way more violence in a Deadpool or Marvel movies than you will see here. 

Joker is not a perfect film, there were quite a few leaps in logic toward the end. It does, however, get a pass from me since there is so much more it is trying to say. There are sequences in this movie that honestly had me glued to the screen. The attention to detail in color, framing, and excellent use of music pushed this over the top. It's the best thing I've seen this year, which isn't saying much but still holds quite a bit of weight.
8/10
​"I wonder how sheltered the people must be, who don't understand what this movie is trying to say"
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Shazam! - Review

3/23/2019

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Release Date: April 5, 2019​​​​​​​​
When Lighting Misses

We have finally crossed over into the Marvelization of the DCEU. With Aquaman being the best performing comic book movie from Warner Brothers, this film continues the trend into the more light and family-friendly direction the studio is taking. Some are happy to see the darkness go and this entry fully embraces the lightheartedness it aims for. The first thing you have to grapple with when you decide to see this, is its scale. Think of a movie like Ant-Man and shrink that in half. It is honestly off-putting how small this film can feel; it's pretty foreign to anything in this genre. 

The weird feelings don't stop at scale though, execution is another thing the movie can't seem to nail down. There are moments where you know what the story is trying to do but the way it's presented lacks the impact it's going for. This is in stark contrast to the scenes that work because you are very surprised when they do. It's a really weird juxtaposition when you have action scenes that fall flat next to slightly touching family moments that nail tone. It's like a coin toss happened every time a 
scene was filmed; meaning, you never know if what you're about to see is going to be good or bad. 

​Let's focus on the good for a second. This movie is funny. There are so many jokes that land, and some land hard. If you thought Deadpool was funny, this takes the cake in a lot of ways. The best thing about the comedy is that it doesn't need to stoop to meta jokes or breaking the fourth wall; all the funny bits were contextual to the story and were pretty well delivered by the actors. There were a few on the nose references that were tasteful but the rest were truly well constructed. 

Another thing that really worked about the movie was Zachary Levi as Shazam. He did a great job carrying the film with Jack Dylan Grazer, who played his friend Freddy. Their chemistry was spot on and perfectly replicated the relationship of Josh and Billy from Big. The rest of the cast was fine, but the other standout was Mark Strong who plays the villain. He is a really great working actor who tends to steal scenes from the movies he's been in and this is no exception. The characterizations that each actor embodies were pitch perfect and I didn't really have a complaint with the child actors.

But as I said before, there is a lot holding this movie back. Not only the low-budget locations but especially towards the start, I feel like I'm watching an ugly indie. This problem works in tandem with another problem that bookends the film. The ending, more specifically the weak second act break and entire third act, do this picture a real disservice. Up until this point, I could describe Shazam! as a rough around the edges, good time at the movies. With the ending included, it feels like it just committed suicide, it's that bad. I could forgive the drawn out and boring action scenes at first, but when that's the only thing you see for 10 minutes, it really got on my nerves.

Other than some weird music transition choices and cheap camera tricks to sell superpowers, the movie is fine. While the lows of Shazam! really hurt, it honestly does a great job at making you have fun. Unlike other mediocre movies, this one has highs, mountains that loom over the low points unlike contemporary Captain Marvel which is content being middling throughout. Its overall low quality is a sore point though as I wish some of the budget wasted on the ending was put back into making it a more well-rounded movie.

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I feel like I was overly harsh on this movie in some aspects. Its funny, hands down. It makes you laugh, it has those touching family moments, and it doesn't overreach with its special effects. I think the shock of the scale of the movie really got to me, but once you accept that fact, there is a lot to enjoy. Its third act still sucks hard and has a sprinkling of problems throughout but I wanted to reconcile that this movie rises above.

5/10
Wasn't Big enough and fell apart by the end
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Aquaman - Review

12/16/2018

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Release Date: December 21, 2018​​​​​​​​
Surprisingly Dry

​This year has ironically become the year of hope. Many franchises have crashed and burned despite fans praying for the latest entries to turn everything around. Aquaman was supposed to be the movie that saved the DCEU, the one that broke the string of failures. With James Wan at the helm, Aquaman was going to be the surprise hit that got people excited for DC again.

For starters, Aquaman is not a boring movie. It's always trying to do something in every scene, never leaving a moment to waste. With the runtime already being 2 hours and 20 minutes long, it was actually a godsend that there wasn't anything superfluous. Another great aspect of the movie is the design and CG work. Atlantis is a well designed place with lots of attention to detail; it’s brought to life in a fantastic way by the CG that matches with the rest of the film.


​Aquaman does have the added bonus of having a setting that audiences have not gotten to experience before. This is the first time a "live action" movie has taken place under the sea, and new is always interesting. Its depiction was really fun to experience and the movie is a bit more enjoyable for it.
The thing that stood out the most about Aquaman came from its story construction. Aquaman doesn't have scenes, it has moments and they are all crafted exactly the same. It starts with a setup based on a familiar trope, then some build up followed by a joke. Sometimes the joke is a subversion of the trope, other times it's just a one-liner or a surprise. This is the only way the movie is constructed; just a bunch of these moments back to back from the very beginning. After two and a half hours of the same thing over and over, I was ready to leave the theater.

This problem seeped into the locations the characters visited. Though there were many exotic places, I felt like I never got to spend any time there. It's like the movie was a train and I stared out the window, never knowing more than just a couple of seconds of superficial detail.

The dialogue was a mixed bag, which is really weird since it actually had some interesting ideas. There were great lines of dialogue butchered by the delivery which was disheartening. All of the leads did a good enough job, but it was the side characters that consistently underperformed.

The action scenes were a pretty big disappointment as well. James Wan's signature style of shooting hand to hand combat sequences was in full effect. Complete with camera spins and tracking shots, the over the top action was definitely on display. The problem that I did not foresee however, was how much Zack Snyder would influence Aquaman visually. Wan liberally used freeze frames, slow motion, and virtual camera moves to nauseating effect.  It straight up ruined a few action scenes, depriving them of weight and impact.

Aquaman is a movie that was entirely spoiled by its trailers. The first trailer shows off all the plot points for the movie and it only gets more egregious for the rest. It's lack of story coupled with its predictability make it really hard to watch. None of the characters have an arc; Aquaman starts the movie not wanting to be king and ends it as king only because he had to. It feels like the movie could have been better if it wasn't changing genres every 20 minutes as well. This is perfectly reflected in the soundtrack when the movie goes from action to techno, jumping from classic adventure to Pitbull's cover of 'Africa'. The movie is all over the place but people will love it because the DCEU now has jokes. "The lightheartedness isn't the basic problem that needs to be fixed here. The overused and unearned moment is DC's greatest foe" is one of the best quotes that sums up what went wrong with Aquaman.
5.5/10
It may steal ideas from seven other movies, but it constantly pushing forward made it not boring

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Batman Ninja

5/14/2018

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Release Date: April 24, 2018
Batman in Japan?

This is a really weird movie because it doesn't come from the usual DC animated studio. It was created in Japan so it has all of those sensibilities. This change actually does wonders to make the movie more interesting visually. It fills a void in the lazy animation work that is expected from the 2D animation.

There is an inherent interest in Batman Ninja just based on its animation quality. It is a clean art style that was obviously born in Japan. This is probably going to be the main draw for people coming into the movie. But it also acts as a warning sign. Along with the Japanese art style comes the region's storytelling. Convoluted with not too many strings to hold it together, the story is what I would expect. It actually ends up being only a little lower quality than what the regular DC animated movies are like.

So if you combine the amazing art and the story, it actually ends up being pretty on par with what is normally delivered. There are obvious liberties taken with characters and their portrayal but this should be expected for a people not inherently familiar with the source material. I'm not bashing the giant robots reminiscent to Power Rangers or the Japanese dubstep music. I'm just pointing out that a bunch of monkeys group up together to form a giant monkey. Let's just say that this movie doesn't shy away from being light-hearted.

​All in all, it's not a very good movie. That means it is in great company for what is expected. It seems like this just brings to light the systematic problem in DC. Empowering creators to make bad movies.

                                            5/10
   Even though its bad, has more story than Infinity War   

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Justice League - Review

11/17/2017

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Release Date: November 17, 2017
Dumpster Fire Part 2

Going into Justice League my expectations were very low. After the dumpster fire that was Batman V Superman I didn't think it could get any worse. I do need to make a distinction on why Batman V Superman is bad. Obviously, Martha plays a big role in dragging down that movie, but simple character things like Batman probably killing people and actions taken by characters that didn't fit. Justice League introduces new problems and forgets some introduced in the "Dawn of Justice". You probably forgot that Batman V Superman had the subtitle Dawn of Justice which of course was ironic due to the fact that Superman died.

Justice League starts off strong. Compared to other movies, like literally any other movie, it was an average start. Since however this is the follow up to BvS, it was actually pretty good. The opening action scene with Wonder Woman was super cool and the tone was pretty spot on. If the movie would have stayed like that, I think the discussion of the movie would have been very different. The movie slows down though, introducing characters and backstories with setups that don't really pay off by the end. At this point, nothing is truly bad with the movie unless you count the weird shots of Wonder Woman. But then the movie takes a sharp turn, and by turn I mean it fell off a cliff. The movie goes from slow to bad very quickly.

The scenes with the Amazons is where the movie starts to get bad. The entire sequences are so poorly thought out that it just seemed so lazy for it to be in the movie. From there it goes from bad lines to bad story, to stupidity and continues in a circle. What I'm trying to say, is that it gets truly bad before BvS did. It really did go by in a blur of wasted potential. And then they changed how  Superman is "brought back to life". The way they did it in the movie makes sense in the DCEU(if it even still exists), but it was just so dumb. There was no iconic black suit, there was no long hair. Everything iconic about that story was never used and thrown away. The whole movie was reduced to the too familiar dumpster fire of BvS.

Overall, if you can help it, don't see this movie in theaters. I did appreciate the 3D, but for the most part, I say that about every 3D movie I see. The movie was a hot mess that you should stay away from. If you are looking to watch a superhero movie, I would recommend Thor: Ragnarok.

                                        4/10
Why do people let Joss Whedon make movies still?

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Batman And Harley Quinn - Review

8/17/2017

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Release Date: August 14, 2017
Swamp Thing a Good Guy?
​I love Batman the Animated Series created by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm. That show holds a special place in my heart like it does with so many others. Timm and Dini were the driving force behind the animated show which has influenced the characters ever since. One-half of that team, the Bruce Timm portion, was the main driving force behind this animated movie and it really shows. His iconic art style from the tv show is back but seems to have creative control here.

Bruce Timm since the animated show ended has revealed his true colors about what he would do with the characters. To put it lightly, let's just say there are a lot of commissions you can find online from Timm, with iconic characters in less clothing than you are used to seeing them in. This point is translated unscathed into the Batman and Harley Quinn movie. It doesn't have the same fun feeling as the animated show, just the perversion of Timm's ideas of what he wanted to do with the characters all along.

The importance this movie places on sex appeal and perversion overshadows everything else the movie tries to do, not that there was much else. The story acts as a backdrop for unnecessary action scenes and it just seems like lazy writing. There is literally a scene in the movie where a regular guy on the street is being chased by Harley Quinn because he didn't take her to senior prom. Not only is this scene stupid, but the guy that she is chasing is able to jump across roof tops and fall great distances without getting hurt. The bit ends with Harley saying the reason he didn't take her to prom was because he went with a girl that had bigger boobs. Batman covers her mouth before the last part is said, but what was the point of this stupid scene. Nightwing follows up that he deserved being chased as a joke.

Not only does the whole movie stink of lazy writing, tropes that just aren't funny, and just a waste of mostly good voice acting, but it really is hard to watch. It really plays out like a really bad fan fiction. This twisted piece of garbage makes me what to pull out my hair most of the runtime. This is not a Batman story in any way shape or form. If you could take one thing away from this movie, do not let Bruce Timm write anything ever again. From the Harley Quinn fart jokes, the implied Nightwing and Harley Quinn sex scene, Harley Quinn singing at a bar for the sexual jokes, the super girls bar, to the unnecessary fight scenes, the disrespectful portrayal of the main heroes and other heroes. This movie has some of the laziest writing I have ever seen. The movie literally ends with Harley Quinn stopping Poison Ivy by making a "cute sad face" and Harley Quinn suggesting that they just burn the villain because he is made of leaves which prompts Batman and Nightwing to kiss her on the cheek.

Overall I wish this movie didn't exist. I wish no one watches it and it is forgotten. I have said before that recent DC animated movies are not very good, but this is the worst of them all. There is literally nothing good about this movie.

                                         0/10
           Probably on par with the Emoji Movie

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Wonder Woman - Review

6/2/2017

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Release Date: ​June 2, 2017
The Movie I Deserved But Didn't Need

This was Wonder Woman's first time being in a movie about herself. How was her first solo film outing? Pretty shaky I’m afraid. I really wanted to like this movie. Wonder Woman was probably my most anticipated movie for 2017 just because of the potential it had. Hearing how the director spoke about her history with wanting to direct a superhero movie, and Gal Gadot just being a perfect fit with the character, it seemed like the stars were aligned for this movie to be great. As I watched the movie, my high expectations were not met and I had one constant thought throughout the movie, “I’m bored”.

There is a lot to like in Wonder Woman. The movie lightly touches on things like PTSD and politics but it never goes deeper than a surface level acknowledgement. This in itself is fine but just acts as an example of the movie overall. I think the easiest movie that you can try to compare it with is Captain America: The First Avenger. Both movies revolve around a major war with the hero making a difference in both instances. Where the movies start to differ is overall structure and how they convey information to the audience. In Wonder Woman, the movie starts you off with exposition as it should. Giving you backstory to the character and the word that she knows. The only problem with this is that it is boring. You have characters verbally tell you things instead of showing like movies should. Plus, that world she knows and you are introduced to is irrelevant 15 minutes later. You don’t form the emotional bonds it wants you to and it feels a little rushed and empty. The first Captain America movie shows Steve Roger having to get help with a fight, trying to enlist but failing. It shows you the struggle, it doesn’t tell you about it. That struggle persists and is a key factor of the movie for the first quarter of the movie. Wonder Woman’s view of man’s world is also consistent but is to generic to be considered influential to the story.

Wonder Woman also has the added problem of having way too much slow motion. Worse than having too much slow motion is also the problem of having slow motion for things that don’t even need it. For example, there are slow motion shots of people just jumping in the air. That does nothing for an audience member. The character jumped in the air, not to dodge something, they are not being hit or hitting anything, just jumping in the air. Sometimes the audience just needs to see the action played out on real time to get the sense of how quick an action was or just to take in the combat. If you slow down all of the combat, then it just feels slow. Captain America: The First Avenger has less combat in its movie but feels more action packed. Wonder Woman also has the added problem of the Taken effect or the Jason Bourne effect. The practice of having the combat be really up close and shaky so you can't really see what is happening. The main problem with this is that the effect only happens when the combat is not in slow motion.

From a structure standpoint Wonder Woman is very different than most other comic book movies as well, but to its detriment. In other movies you get to see the villain and build them up to have more weight for when they confront the hero, but Wonder Woman doesn’t do that. You know from the start who the villain is but since you don’t actually meet him until the end, it kinda just feels boring. Even the fight with the final villain was boring and wasn’t fun to watch.

There can be an argument made about how the movie is more of a personal story. The commentary about that new world discovery for a person. But that has been done before, and other movies have done it better.

Overall Wonder Woman was not the movie I was hoping it to be, but was probably the movie I deserved. My faith in The DCEU has been completely shattered and there is probably nothing that can fix it. All my hopes lie with the animation division of DC and recently that hasn’t been going well either. Chris Pine was funny, just a side note.

                                          7/10
             The Theme Song Is So Good Though

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Teen Titans: The Judas COntract

4/4/2017

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Release Date: April 4, 2017
It it Good?

Nope. Teen Titans: The Judas Contract is not good, it’s really bad. The animation quality for all the feature length DC animated movies suck for some reason, at least since 2014. The television animation from Warner Brothers is very good but they were not able to achieve that here. Some of the detail work and textures were good on occasion, but overall the art was pretty bad. The actual animation, movement of characters, was a little better but still a little janky. If you were to compare this to Young Justice, the most recent Warner Brothers animated television show, that has a much higher quality to it.

Beyond the visuals is the story and it suffers. It seems this movie was made as an attempt to bring children back to animation since the focus is on a group of younger kids. This is executed very poorly because it takes a generic take on what probably could have been a much better story. With the inclusion and slight focus on a moody teen who just wants to be left alone, I could think of a thousand of different tropes that could have been used better here. The story is rushed at the beginning trying to include so many different subplots that it sucks. Just watching the movie is painful. It doesn’t really pick up until 35 minutes into the movie. Even when it does pick up, it is still hindered by all the subplots that it tries to maintain throughout.

The quality of the whole story is pretty poor with one character even talking about sexual attraction which seems to be a main plot point for the movie as well. There is also a hint of child sexual relations in the movie where an adult has a sexual relationship with an adult. It’s so creepy and weird that when the sexual relationship between adult characters happen it all just seems like an oversexualized bad story all together. The movie tonally is so off that most of it goes by with you scratching your head. In one scene, a girl is on edge because she is about to be attacked, but 10 seconds later she is crying and a montage of pictures flashes across the screen. How did someone being angry lead to crying then a montage of a party?

Other than the atrocious story, the voice acting is also pretty bad. Different characters have different qualities of voice acting which throws the whole movie off balance. Just another problem to throw on top of the pile of garbage this movie is.

Overall I would not recommend this to anyone to watch. If you like DC animation, I still would not recommend this movie. It’s hot garbage. I really wish that Justice League Dark was going to be the turning point for the Warner Brothers animation studio, but we just get more trash.

                                                    5/10
              A piece of wood stopped a bullet

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The Lego Batman Movie -Review

2/12/2017

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Release Date: ​February 10, 2017
I Work Alone... Atm

My relationship with The Lego Batman movie started with its first trailer. I was amazed at the tone the movie seemed to be taking, it landed every single one of its jokes which had me laughing the entire time. I then proceeded to follow Lego Batman on Instagram which posted regularly with jokes and posts that slowly built up my excitement for the movie for months. Then my surprise when the first round of reviews came out about a week ago saying that it was not as good as I was hoping it to be. To my surprise those reviews were wrong, it’s much worse.

I have a strong affinity for Batman since I watched the animated series when I was younger so anything that drifts away from what Batman stands for is an unwelcome change. That being said, I get the obvious attempt to diversify Batman into a more comedic sense. The movie does a great job with this and still every joke lands in the movie. I’m not exaggerating literally every joke lands and made me laugh, but why is it worse than reviews said it was?

To start off, I will withhold all spoilers because if anything is spoiled for the movie it will not be as good. But I can still tell you where the movie goes wrong without spoiling it. The movie 10-20 minutes in is amazing. It might be a little weird for some but it was really funny and made me hopeful. I wondered how such a great beginning could be ruined, and then it showed me. The nonsense garbage that followed after those glorious first 10-20 minutes was cringeworthy. It made me sad to see what people who don’t understand what Batman is, to transform him into something he is not. Obviously there were some nice messages in the movie for children but Batman is not the property to be using for that.

Even though the majority of the movie was not good there were still good jokes throughout. Like I said prior, all the jokes land, but the movie that surrounds these jokes is not good. If you were to take these jokes and the first 10-20 minutes and put them all together this movie would have been much better. Not only does the messing around with Batman continuity ruin the movie for me, but the hand fisted plot points that slowed the movie down. If you take a kid to see the movie they will probably like it. If you are of post puberty age and like Batman go see it with limited expectations, and if you just want to watch a movie go see something else.

All in all if the movie itself was better this would be great. There are so many good jokes it’s crazy though.

                                        7/10
     Second DC movie to disappoint me this year



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