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West Side Story (2021)
Spielberg's West Side Story
I gotta admit that this has to be the best directed adaption of a classic musical I've ever seen. I can say that it is to me because I had seen 5 times in the same month.
Steven Spielberg has always been a revolutionary filmmaker and his best films have always felt like magic. So, if you were to tell me that he directed a musicals and set in 1950s America. Which are 3 of my favorite things in movies: Steven Spielberg, Musicals, and the 1950s. Then why would I not think it's amazing.
I heard a lot of criticism about this movie being more style than substance but I believe that Spielberg's directing style enhanced the substance of Sondheim's interpretation of Romeo & Juliet. Scenes were enhanced to be more dynamic than they were originally choreographed which increased the emotions audiences are meant to evoke in the story's drama.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
WE ARE GROOT!
I remember watching this for the 1st time and surprised to hear almost all of my grandparents' favorite songs. Their most favorite being "Father & Son" by Cat Stevens playing at Yondu's funeral. After my grandparents died this year, that scene has a lot more weight and meaning for me now.
I immediately fell in love with this film after Baby Groot did that iconic dance, it took me a long time to understand the subtlety and the genius in James Gunn's storytelling which let to my complete admiration of him. Yet, the moment the Guardians started fighting Ego The Living Planet, I had a thought. The Guardians of The Galaxy, 1 of the members is Rocket (a super intelligent raccoon) and Groot (a talking tree) and they're fight Ego who is a Living Planet. ... A LIVING PLANET. God, I love cinema. It doesn't get better than this.
The World's End (2013)
Criminally Underrated!
Fun fact: If you drink at the same time as the characters, the film is more exciting!
While sober, it's still super entertaining. Like many trilogies, there's always 1 or 2 that evolved or changed from the style of the 1st. Evolving: such as The Dark Knight trilogy with techniques that always evolve in each film because of the director. Changing: such as the Thor trilogy (not including the 4th) with their tones being extremely different because of the change of directors
This is Edgar Wright's style post-Scott Pilgrim, so those elements from that film are implemented here. This film out of the rest of the Cornetto trilogy is the least violent of them, it's a lot more tamed but a lot more grand. Has a more mastered editing techniques and cinematography with great color palettes, mostly during the night.
Some say that Gary's character development never really got fulfilled, but that's sort of the point.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
"I love you guys."
At 1 moment in the film, after 9 years of getting to know him, we finally got to understand what he means in his best line "I am Groot".
I'm gonna be real here, the Guardians of The Galaxy films & James Gunn in particular have been films for why I fell in love with the magic of cinema in the 1st place. Sure the MCU has a strict vision, but it's James Gunn's style in comparison to the rest of the saga that intrigued me, it's Gunn's reinvention of a sci-fi adventure with a band of imperfectly perfect characters is the best. All 3 of these were made me fall in love with misfits, with a family, with cinema.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Hope For The Future
If they could put this much passion and effort into a sequel to a spin-off of a memorable franchise, I can't wait to see what they're gonna do with their new future projects that are made with the same devotion. 2022 was a great year for animated films that aren't Disney, they're not all perfect like this or too perfect to be compared to this which's the right amount of perfect.
I won't say anything that hasn't already been said about the animation such as it's like Spider-Verse but unique enough to stand on its own.
Every plot beat is character driven with effective emotional impact, all the new characters are great, I was worried that with the big number of characters in this they wouldn't be fleshed out much and be annoying but they weren't and it took me by surprise.
The director didn't need to go that hard with the style and spectacle but he did.
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
A great film to watch during Chinese New Year
Let me say something everyone hasn't said about this film much.
I've never respected an actor more than Ke Huy Quan, he's just extremely charming and wholesome all the time, a really good actor with range of being impressively serious and silly at any time, and has good chemistry with everyone. Michelle Yeoh may be the star but Ke Huy Quan just steals the whole film for me by being the heart of it all, it was a triumphant return to Hollywood after years of child actor stardom and came back with a show stopper, representing every philosophy I respect, and he absolutely deserved that Golden Globe and maybe an Oscar nomination would be nice.
That's all I have to say that hasn't been said before in other reviews.
Wednesday (2022)
If I had a nickel for every time Tim Burton copied the X-Men, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
I love Tim Burton's filmography, Edward Scissorhands is beautiful and Batman Returns is an underrated gem, and I love The Addams Family with the 90s movies and the original TV series. But this show didn't feel like an Addams Family show, it felt like Tim Burton's 2nd attempt to mimic the X-Men concept like what he did with Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children even though it's based on a book but the premise felt like the X-Men, and Wednesday's just X-Men + Riverdale + Nancy Drew. A school is full of special children born with special abilities with racial-centered conflicts.
The family dynamics are absent in most of the episodes and they're what made the Addams Family so iconic in the first place.
Jenna Ortega is the only best part of the show with her great acting skills.
Black Adam (2022)
In honor of Zack Snyder & Michael Bay
In the trailer there's a scene that pays homage to Iron Man fighting 2 military jets in the air. That scene wasn't in the movie and that's the only part that disappointed me, maybe. Everything else was like if Zack Snyder actually obeyed Warner Bros. Orders to be like a fast-paced Marvel movie and that's the nicest compliment I could say about director Jaume Collet-Serra. I remember seeing Jungle Cruise, another Collet-Serra adventure movie but from Disney. I thought the reason why it was bad was Disney but after seeing Black Adam I can say that it's both their fault in making Jungle Cruise bad. I'd like to say that Dwayne The Rock Johnson was the driving force in this entire movie as actor & producer, and should be for future Black Adam projects to come. In Black Adam, me and my cousin were cheering like lunatics when the first fight happened and were in amazement at the good cinematography shots.
Cinematographer Lawrence Sher was kind of lazy in this compared to Joker and Godzilla King of The Monsters. Hell. It sure does look like a Monsterverse movie, but like the rest of the DCEU it has better colorful cinematography than half of the MCU, even when it's grey. The editing and pacing were very weird, some scenes were slower than they should be and the other scenes were faster that they shouldn't be, and sometimes the editing in fight scenes are both cool and unnecessary. The music is nice, the added songs used in fight scenes were also a problem, it's like the song choices in Suicide Squad and not The Suicide Squad. However, the score by Lorne Balfe was decent, parts of the melodies are similar to Iron Man, Moon Knight, and His Dark Materials. The Black Adam theme would be more epic if it was composed by Steve Jablonsky or Bear McCreary, Sounds like an operatic hero them, it'd be cool if it were in a darker tone with a baritone like Thanos' and Hellboy's theme.
Dwayne The Rock Johnson as Black Adam is one of the perfect casting choices in the DCEU alongside: Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn, Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman, Zachary Levi's SHAZAM, John Cena's Peacemaker, and Henry Cavill's Superman. (wink). He gave an awesome performance being stoic showing a lot rage & power with hidden pain in his soul, to be honest, I like The Rock playang more serious characters than comedic ones because he's Oretty good at being dramatic. Especially Pierce Brosnan as Doctor Fate, he still has that James Bond charm and brilliantly puts that in the character in his scenes, and I wish they'd have stayed more faithful with the lore of the character and let him live for a solo film or maybe a prequel but that would ruin momentum. The rest of the cast were fine, Noah Cent... whatever was a neat casting choice since all I always see him in the Netflix romcoms, the kid who played... the kid was just Freddie Freeman but cool and with a skateboard.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022)
Makes me appreciate The Incredible Hulk and Ang Lee's Hulk a lot more.
When people said the MCU has fallen from grace from being theme park rides to poorly designed playgrounds after Avengers Endgame but I'm here to tell them wrong.
It's after Spider-Man No Way Home that the MCU has taken its dark turn or was it Doctor Strange M.o.M... whatever.
She-Hulk tries so hard to be more of a sitcom than the usual MCU TV formula and I thought it was a good idea however the problem with She-Hulk is the execution of the idea, the sitcom-esqe comedy is so bad that it makes me want to rewatch Crazy Ex-Girlfriend to see what real humor and character writing looks like again.
The Sandman (2022)
I Believe Something Went From Great To Wrong Here.
Episodes 1-6 were great, not as good as the original comics but great: philosophical conflict, good acting performances, great VFX, astounding cinematography, all that jazz. It's not as eye-catching as the art in the comics but it's pretty cinematic.
However, it all went downhill when you get to episodes 7-10, it's like a different show the tone's like every other Netflix show like amateur college writers wrote those episodes and knew nothing about the source material. Poorly written recently-new characters, wasting a bunch of time, and plot beats of random dumb luck. I mean it's almost as if it's the 2nd season but forgot to finish the 1st.
Hustle (2022)
Adam Sandler has definitely made a change.
In my opinion, Adam Sandler was always one of my favorite actors and he's always at his best when he's in a drama-comedy, this is one of his better films later in his career, and this is one of the best basketball films lately. It has that Adam Sandler comedy charm in the first few minutes but it's more genuine and doesn't go too ridiculous and random like always to interfere with the drama. The filmmaking in this is pretty good, some choices of cinematography movement shots are questionable but the color palettes are as basic and comforting as always in a Happy Madison film with more contrast. Adam Sandler's character is likable and relatable like his character in Uncut Gems.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Raimi Creativity of Madness in Phase 4
I'm a big Sam Raimi fan and whenever there's a movie randomly playing on TV I can tell that it's a Sam Raimi film. I've seen his Evil Dead Trilogy and Spider-Man Trilogy, let's face it most of us watch this because he's directing and we enjoy his filmography and style, he's the reason why us 2000s kids love Spider-Man so much, and why we come to love Marvel films. When it was announced that Sam Raimi the father of the Maguire Spider-Man trilogy will be directing I was completely surprised since Marvel has lately only been bringing in indie filmmakers who have never directed a blockbuster before which's why most of their films are a bit of VFX eyesore. But I had faith in Sam he has a background in blockbusters, he worked & mastered VFX, character-based action, and great character development. I was also hoping that the studio won't get in the way of his vision like what Sony did to Spider-Man 3 and knowing the MCU's more on their vision than the directors I was worried and while watching it I realized...
This is the most Sam Raimi movie I've ever seen, it was like I was watching a different film, as James Gunn's Guardians of The Galaxy Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness didn't feel like an MCU movie it feels like a Sam Raimi film. Every inch of Raimi's style is there: the thrilling jump scares, the warm lighting & color, horrific editing, the thrilling camera movements, horror sequences, horror moments, bloodshed action, sympathetic & empathetic characters, Bruce Campbell cameo, and over-the-top moments.
If you've known his directing style as I do, you know that Raimi likes to go over the top in horror scenes (Evil Dead 2) and misery scenes (SM 2). But in this, he's not just gone over-the-top with the dark fantasy he's gone over-the-top in the entire MCU by giving us the multiverse and reintroducing fan-favorite Marvel characters: Charles Xavier, Reed Richards, and Blackbolt that made me cheer and more exciting reaction than Endgame. Bite me!
A director like him is definitely what Doctor Strange needs 'cause in the first film it focused more on the worldbuilding of the mystic fantasy like an action pact Harry Potter movie, actually both of those movies' theme scores sound a bit similar in my opinion, no offense to Giacchino. While Scott Derrickson focused on the Sorcerer Supreme, Sam Raimi focused on the Doctor STRANGE. I love the first film, it's a mind-bending visual spectacle and a quiet masterpiece in the MCU, the visuals were a homage to other mind-bending films like Inception, Memento, The Matrix, and 2001 a Space Odyssey with Christopher Nolan's complex running theme of Time. And I love the 2nd film the same way, it's a dark fantasy exploration that also establishes the worldbuilding of the multiverse, a thrills & chills adventure that's so bizarre, so absurd, so STRANGE for an MCU film to be giving us shocks of happiness, horror, dread, and sadness. The one thing I think both films have in common is that they'd be even better if they were 30 minutes longer.
I used to think that the MCU was bland, predictable, and lacked color because of how similar they've all become after phase 2. Besides the Guardians of The Galaxy films being an amazing space adventure we've never seen before, everything else had inherited a consistent tone of concrete grey lack of full creativity and not enough effort in VFX in phase 3, except Thor Ragnarok. I compared the Russo brother's MCU films to their other film Cherry and I finally saw what a full Russo brother's film looks like, making me realize that the MCU movies were missing individuality. But in phase 4 Marvel has finally listened to the complainers and gave more creative freedom to the directors giving some of the films and TV series a more cinematic appeal in every shot of cinematography while a few are still as mediocre as a sci-fi CW show. Wandavision experimented with TV tropes, Falcon and The Winter Soldier was more murky and political, What If... played with their characters like creative children with their action figures, Loki was quick in their story progress, Shang-Chi was a great homage to famous Chinese cinema genres, Eternals was... something, and Spider-Man No Way Home was an epic conclusion and tribute to the Spidey films of the past that would make Stan Lee shed tears of joy.
And Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness is the most Sam Raimi I've ever seen. I would like to discuss more on Doctor Strange's character arc but I want you to see it for yourself.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Great but boring.
Every scene was so slow and boring that it was hard to understand the plot or even the characters. It does have great cinematography but beautiful shots don't make up for a boring movie. I literally felt sleepy throughout half of the movie and woke up until Harrison Ford showed up.
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)
Enjoyable and better than the 2nd one.
The Secrets of Dumbledore is more enjoyable and binge-able than Crimes of Grindelwald. There's not much character development but just for plot relevance but that's a bit passable. There's some Harry Potter nostalgia of magic items and spells here and there but neatly relevant to the plot.
The screenwriting is more structured thanks to the prodigal son Steve Kloves returning to the Wizarding World, few of the characters were a bit underdeveloped and written out but more characteristic in their actions, and personas perfectly portrayed by the actors. I'm a Johnny Depp fan but Mads Mikkelsen's portrayal of Grindelwald is more compelling and well written, Jude Law's Dumbledore is consistent with the original in the Harry Potter franchise, and Dumbledore's bond with Grindelwald and their relationship is more believable thanks to the acting and chemistry from the actors.
The cinematography of this movie is more endearing but the lighting and contrast are a bit low but visually appealing. A big improvement to the other 2 movies, with bolder colors and better color palettes in a few scenes, and gives more energy in sequences thanks to the cinematographer of the 2 Kingsman films.
The Batman (2022)
The New Norm of Superhero Films
Every modern PG-13 superhero movie tries to keep things clean with their poorly timed wisecrack humor and goody 2 shoes heroes but in The Batman everything is risky, dirty, and violent. Without getting too R-rated it got away with a somewhat accurate serial killer story. It puts the goth in Gotham and puts the dark in Dark Knight in their style of the film.
The best part is that Batman doesn't begin as a goody 2 shoes who protects the innocent but as a vigilante who punishes the guilty and it's through this journey of truth that he earns the title of Gotham's hero, knight, guardian. Having to live with a lie to discover the truth. The acting in this film is the best I've seen, Robert Pattinson's acting with his eyes has never failed, I've never admired Paul Dano's performances I always thought he plays the same whiney characters but in The Batman he's still bit of a whiney character but a very threatening villain. Everybody else completely disappears into their character like I completely forgot that Colin Ferrell was Penguin and it's not just the make up, unlike most films of today where the actors are the characters in reality which's not what acting is.
I've mentioned the film being dirty and when I mean dirty I mean the cinematography, every shot is beautifully murky and mysterious and it makes the all of the MCU look like a Disney rollercoaster that goes in a loop while The Batman look like a powerful muscle car that can go anywhere. The MCU may have improved their digital camera cinematography but DC has perfected it bringing life, bringing more color into their shots, with perfect matching color palettes that don't ruin moments.
Many complain that it's not accurate to the comics but the it is somewhat accurate to reality.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
This is Johnny Depp at his best.
These films are the best trilogy. A great plot, iconic characters, and an outstanding final battle. These films' practical action scenes are an excellent homage to classic silent slapstick comedy made by the greats: Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
Peacemaker (2022)
Full James Gunn and Way better than Titans
I now understand why James Gunn wanted to work on Peacemaker. The character is on a journey of redemption while challenging his own philosophy of peace, it's like the philosophy of Sicario but with violent action and raunchy comedy. Like any James Gunn production, there's always a good catchy song that tells how the characters feel and how they function.
The series show James Gunn's independent film roots like Super (2010) or Slither (2006) and those roots are all there. Seriously, Peacemaker is like Crimson Bolt: An ordinary individual with no superpowers pursue in being a superhero with a campy costume with an optimistic partner in their local city fighting low level crime with extreme violence. The directing is similar too where it looks low budget but has a more emotional characters journey.
In the opening intro, which is the craziest thing I've ever seen and it's great 'cause James Gunn always embraces the craziness of his work and makes them cool, I mean just look at Guardians of The Galaxy they weren't very famous until he made us care for talking raccoon and living tree. As I was saying, the song of the intro 'Do ya Wanna Taste It' Is about if Peacemaker wants to go through with all this, and in my favorite scene, the gun range appliances scene and its song 'Drag Me Down' is about how loyal Peacemaker and Vigilante's friendship is and how they keep each other up.
The comedy and drama, let's compare this with other HBO Max series like Titans which is bad, and Doom Patrol which is good. In Titans, it's a full soap opera and it seems to try to copy Zack Snyder but failed which is not what Zack Snyder is about. In Doom Patrol, there's crazy comedy and the deep drama that are character-driven but sometimes it's in separate moments that are in the wrong order of tone when there's an emotional moment there's a joke in the middle of it. But in Peacemaker the raunchy comedy and deep drama are combined, each comedic scene is a character moment that's taken seriously to the characters but how they way they display that is way funny.
Kaubôi bibappu: Cowboy Bebop (1998)
The guardians of the galaxy before the Guardians of The Galaxy.
This show is great in main character writing, faithful to the creative genres of sci-fi, crime, western, and noir. Each character has a memorable personality and origin story that fits the series' main story theme of forgetting the past, stay in the present, and move forward to the future.
The Croods: A New Age (2020)
This is actually good.
I want to point on the parts I don't like first. The animation seems more kid-friendly than the last movie, it had brighter and colorful like Trolls and Boss Baby. Where the first movie had better contrast lighting and the right shade of color making the locations feel realistic like How to Train Your Dragon and Rise of The Guardians making it feel like a real place, where the new Dreamworks movies like A New Age feel like designs of a kids' book. The imaginative creature designs in the first were as fantastic where the second goes a bit weird. The jokes were too much where everything is predictably a joke.
But the good thing I like is the writing. The writing is a bit cringey but the character-driven story beats are good and organic, the behavior of the character can come off as silly from time to time but they serve a purpose to their development. The jokes are predictable but the characters' actions break expectations, the first movie was this family comedy road trip story taking place in the Neanderthal period with Avatar landscapes and creatures where the second is a family sitcom drama.
The Suicide Squad (2021)
So this the famous James Gunn.
The Suicide Squad is what a full James Gunn blockbuster film looks like. Gunn's expertise in writing memorable quirky characters is what The Suicide Squad needed in the first Suicide Squad (2016) and now is mastered in The Suicide Squad (2021). Warner Bros. Decided on giving directors full creative control on their DC movies since Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) was the best they've made in decades. Which gives the DCEU a winning streak this year against the MCU I don't even feel like I wanna watch Shang-Chi since the disappointment of Black Widow.
All of the characters in the opening were used for an example that the characters can die and shows the status quo of everything.
The characters' positive, disillusionment, flat, and other arcs were great. Bloodsport's positive arc from being a bad role model to becoming a proud hero to his daughter. Peacemaker's disillusionment arc of obsessing over the peace of America like psychotic Captain America continues to the Peacemaker series. Ratcatcher II's flat arc of believing that even the most horrible creatures in life have a purpose and are worth valuing really rubbed off on the characters and theme. Polka-Dot Man's arc from living as a tragic and pathetic psychopath to died a redeemed and appreciated superhero to the audience. King Shark's arc from untrustworthy to faithful and he got many nom-noms. Harley Quinn's change from Birds of Prey was tested and was fulfilled satisfyingly.
Iron Man Three (2013)
He is Iron Man
This film is my most favorite in the MCU 'cause it's not too connected to the MC universe, not about the infinity stones, and it doesn't have obvious CGI like Black Panther. It's all about Tony Stark suffering from PTSD while fighting terrorists with little of his technology and more on his intellect. The best part is that it doesn't feel like watching a Marvel movie it feels like an Iron Man movie directed by Shane Black.
Tony Stark suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is the most human outcome that happened after The Avengers (2012) it's realistic and relatable, it begins his paranoia to build more armor, he's afraid that he can't protect Pepper, and yet it affects their relationship badly.
The theme of power is pretty good when Tony lost his home and only has one low battery armor showing powerlessness while the bad guys have the upper hand at their power.
Director Shane Black perfected a prosperous tone in this movie from beginning to end. I like how it's all during Christmas like a modern Die Hard film making a great Marvel Christmas movie.
If you watch this movie like an average movie in a trilogy and not in a whole universe it's extremely great, I don't know why Joss Whedon butchered the arc of this movie by not explaining how Tony build more armor in Avengers Age of Ultron (2015).
The characters in this movie are good too: there's Harley who has the potential to be Iron Lad, there's Rhodes who helps Tony with best friend chemistry and without powers in the final act, there's Pepper who is forced to be a damsel in distress but ends up saving Tony instead.
A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017)
Never look away.
My name is NJ De Leon and it's my solemn duty to review every fascinating, perfect, and impressive detail and disappointing, failed, and awful fragment of any piece of cinema and TV that I admire to do so. I've spent 3 afternoons and evenings watching A Series Of Unfortunate Events based on a book series.
The series is about 3 siblings who undergo unfortunate events that have a certain theme of anti-child-safety they suffer multiple aspects that children are forbidden to experience. For example the first episode, They lose their parents and are forced to live with Count Olaf who's introduced as the unfair parent figure, he made them do chores, he commits child abuse on Klaus and others. The other episodes are about animal safety, unsafe house conditions, illegal labor, unfair school system, social climbing, strict needless community laws, hospital horrors, societal rejection, mountainside dangers, subterranean hazards, lost in a hotel, courtroom injustice, and shipwreck. The adventure of the Baudelaires is sympathetic and thrilling.
The Protagonists: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are peculiarly intelligent children that overpower the adults, their skills perfectly work together to go up against their unfortunate situations. Violets skill to invent helpful devices, Klaus' incredible helpful memory of informative books, and Sunny's astonishingly strong teeth and taste in culinary arts.
The series has multiple storylines, scenes, and sequences that are so complex like a puzzle, and when they're put together it's as satisfying as passing a school exam.
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
Reboot or Sequel?
I got very confused thinking whether this is a reboot or a sequel because of the logic and mentions of this movie. Throughout the movie, it felt more like a reboot than a sequel since the first movie the world of the Looney Tunes lived underneath a golf course, and in this movie, they live in a self-aware computer simulation designed as an algorithm which made it feel like a reboot. But when we meet the Looney Tunes characters they mention the most obvious things in the first movie, like Bugs and Lola mentioning that they've done a basketball tournament before and all of the other Toons remembering Michael Jordan and Sylvester bringing Michael Jordan but instead brought Michael B. Jordan for an unnecessary cameo. Which makes my mind hurt like thunder: is it a reboot or a sequel?
I believe Warner Bros. Relied on nostalgia too much in this movie, there are cameos and references to their movies but they don't do it right, they even made cameos of characters they don't even own like Rick and Morty, I think. I don't know how many things they own but they relied on it too much and don't have enough time to improve the story.
The good parts in this movie are the setups and payoffs in it but some don't make any logical sense. The plot is good with the stakes, the goals, but some of the urgency doesn't make any logical sense as it was established before.
The character arc of LeBron was a little cliche but all the other arcs from other characters were either tossed aside or replaced that doesn't fit with its thesis and we're never established in the first place.
I understand that this is Looney Tunes where everything is crazy and fun but in cinema there has to be some rules that need to be followed.
The Boss Baby: Family Business (2021)
The New Age of Dreamworks
The Boss Baby: Family Business lived up to the title it succeeds in its heartwarming theme of Family and it was creative to set it on Christmas even though it wasn't the right time. The heartwarming story about fatherhood and brotherhood.
The Protagonists' positive arcs of Tim, Boss Baby (Ted), and Tabitha tied with the flat arc of Tina ended happily and even the Antagonist got a meaningful change ending. There's some symbolism in there about the characters.
The reason I call this "The New Age of Dreamworks" is because of how Dreamworks is evolving into a more colorful and brighter studio aiming at a new audience. Which makes it hard to believe they created the fairy tale satire Shrek everybody remembers and the glee club colorful Trolls I wish I'd forget.
Evil Dead (2013)
Not Groovy.
I'd prefer Sam Raimi's original Evil Dead trilogy to this copy. Raimi made The Evil Dead in such a horrifically funny way that it became a pop-culture iconic film that its story can't ever be rebooted.
This version is just having a different directorial style and ideas that its just shaming itself.