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How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World - Review

2/22/2019

Release Date: February 22, 2019

The Dragons are Nice

Back in 2010 when this trilogy started, it was easy to enjoy a story about a boy and his dragon. The concept was pretty simple and straightforward. It allowed the audience to journey to a land filled with mythical creatures to become pets. Now 9 years later, that story comes to an end.

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World succeeds in fleshing out an important character that was neglected in the second entry, Toothless. Forget about Hiccup and all the other people, this is Toothless's movie. The story delights in showing off a cliche trope of young love but with dragons. It utilizes the expressive nature of the dragons in full comedic effect as you watch a boy dragon try and court a girl dragon. It's cute if you like that sort of thing, which I do, and are this movie's strongest parts. It makes you want the whole thing to be about this instead.

People are saying that this movie looks really good and gorgeous at times. There were only two instances where that crossed my mind. One was when the camera was pointed at some sand, and the other was a wide

shot of some rocks. To say that the film looked particularly dazzling would be lying, this is just more of the same and doesn't wow.

I could talk about how the characters are paper thin, that the story spends time in needless areas, and that there didn't need to be a "bad guy". All of these things are valid, but I feel like I am repeating myself in my reviews. It seems all made for kids/family movies are dropping in quality. Never letting the audience soak in complex emotions and telling the viewer what to think and how to feel. This movie isn't exciting, though the person jiggling their foot on the back of my chair would argue. There are no real stakes, the villain isn't set-up that well, and this is just a disappointing conclusion to the franchise.

But its ok to like this movie. I know a lot of people really enjoyed what they saw, and that's fine. Just because the best parts are about animals being cute doesn't mean that this movie needs to be buried alive; just be skeptical when someone says its really good.

I don't even want to rate this/10
I guess you forgo character development and story if you got cute dragons

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Captain Underpants - Review

6/3/2017

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Release Date: June 2, 2017

Did You Even Know That This Came Out?

Let's be honest, you probably didn’t know that this movie was coming out. There was like one trailer and that was it. Not much to be excited by or to expect. But who could have guessed that this was my favorite movie for the weekend.

Captain Underpants was hilarious first off. Sure a good chunk of the jokes is “low brow potty humor” with the movie even saying that upfront, but there is more comedy that isn’t the stuff you see all the time. It was genuinely funny, even getting an adult sitting next to me to laugh at almost every joke in the movie. This movie was way more funny than it let on to be.

The animation quality was also surprisingly really good. They style choice the animators at DreamWorks went with was a fantastic fit with the material. The different animation styles used was also really cool too, with three different types of animation throughout the movie.

Sure it is a kid’s movie and that might be enough for you to dismiss it, but trust me it was a blast. It was a funny animated movie with some good voice acting. Kevin Hart and the other two leads did a great job engrossing me in the movie. The script does take some liberties with the source material, but it all first nicely and still respects the books that the movie is based on.

You are not going to believe the score for the movie, but it really was that good.

7.25/10
It was so good, who would have guessed

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