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You have no idea how happy I was when I saw this was actually a thing. I haven't read the books in years and yet this film's existence was a childhood dream come true. Seriously, with how popular the series was and still is, I can't believe it took this long. My hopes were really high, and as hard as it is to believe, the film actually surpassed my expectations. This isn't just a good film. It's fantastic. They captured the spirit of the source material to a tee. It's hilarious, it's clever, they got my two favourite villains in this. But as an added bonus, they also gave Mr. Krupp, who in the books was just a typical 'evil' principal character development, giving the film some nice substance. Funny how so far, we've only had 4 world-wide released animated films and the only great ones are superhero parodies. But yeah, if you like the books, this is a dream come true. If you never read them before, this is a good introduction. I strongly recommend this one. My only complaint is that George and Harold sound too much like teenagers, but I already had an issue with that when I saw the trailers and it wasn't enough to sour the experience.
Subject: Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
Rating: 10/10
Recommendation: Like I said, if you're a fan of the books, you owe it to yourself to see this.
Subject: Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
Rating: 10/10
Recommendation: Like I said, if you're a fan of the books, you owe it to yourself to see this.
The Ghost and Molly McGee Finale Thoughts
Okay, so I have heard quite a few times that the finale to The Ghost and Molly McGee is absolutely fantastic. And I can't help but find it impressive that with the exception of Star Vs. the Forces of Evil, Disney's show creators have been doing a great job landing endings to shows that got canned too soon. That said, when I title this my thoughts on the finale, I'm also going to include episode 20 as that felt like it was meant to be the actual ending to season 2 while the true finale may have been intended for a third season if circumstances allowed it to happen. I will say, I am really glad this ending is as good as everyone said, because to start things off, episode 20 was kind of a let-down. Not that it was bad. It featured a lot of good elements, but the whole thing felt rushed, like it felt like this was meant to be a 40 minute special, not a full 22 minute episode. The main conflict is established way too quickly with the setup feeling oddly half-baked for a show that
First Impression of Scott Pilgrim Netflix
So, yeah, like I assume many people, I was ecstatic when I found out they were making a Netflix show based on Scott Pilgrim using the art style of the comics. And everything about the promotional material gave off the impression it was going to follow the books a lot more closely than the movie did. For what it's worth, I adored the film, but after the first hour, it does kinda start to do its own thing, even completely rewriting the ending since volume 6 hadn't actually been released until after they'd already written the final act. I think they may have gotten cliff notes with vague details about where they were gonna go with that. So, I've seen episode 1, and for the most part, they were following the source really closely. I guess because Netflix only had the budget for eight episodes, they had to leave out a few scenes I was hoping would make it in. Some of this stuff was actually in the first 20 minutes of the movie, too. But I was alright with that. I found it kind of
First Impressions of Netflix One Piece
You know, I've seen a lot of positive reactions to Netflix's live-action One Piece adaptation, from the various trailers to the show itself, now that it's here. Even so, I still had my doubts. There was just this part of me that felt a show this grand, this big, this long, with this many prominent characters couldn't work in live-action. It also didn't help that a lot of the praise for it prior to its official release came mostly from people who worked on it, so there must have been a bit of bias there. But everyone said this was the one, this was the show to potentially break the live-action adaptation curse, much like how Warcraft broke the video game movie curse. So, I've noticed that in order to make sure they can cover a good chunk of the series, each episode is essentially the length of a short feature film, which is an oddly common direction for a lot of streaming shows these days. (And one I'm not really the biggest fan of, if I'm being honest) So out of curiosity, I
A little something about current cartoons
I've been meaning to make a journal commenting on this for a while, but I need to address one of the most common complaints with modern cartoons, their art styles. While there are of course exceptions to the rule, many current cartoons use very odd styles. While Dan Povenmire and Jeff Marsh have been using slightly more realistic designs since Milo Murphy, Phineas and Ferb used a lot of odd designs, including having the main leads shaped like the first letters of their names. (Yeah, that was intentional) Meanwhile, OK KO uses a really cheap style reminiscent of 60's-80's anime, not unlike Dino Girl Gauko, which makes the influence far more obvious with its intro. Heck, much like Doug Walker brought up in his editorial of modern cartoons, many shows these days use simpler shapes so they can put more of their budget into the animation itself. (On a side note, it really is kind of annoying how many people don't know the difference between animation and art style) First off, it's not
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I saw it today and it was hilarious! Never read the books, but shelved or checked em in at the library. Also I love how they had different mediums: Stop-motion puppets, 2d animation, your typical comic book drawing 2d and then CGI and the special effects. I also love the voice acting choices and whatnot 
Also I commented during the movie at some points even on the obvious-"He's a villain! He is blurting out his plans!"
Also I commented during the movie at some points even on the obvious-"He's a villain! He is blurting out his plans!"