Movie Review: The Day The Earth Blew Up

 

Hey everyone, my name is Anthony and welcome back to my Movie Review.

As a kid, I love watching animations, movies, series or both? They’re both fun, entertaining and for process done by drawings, computers or models, they’re not stranger as a work of arts for entertainment. On one side, I love Disney, they’re part of my childhood that I love watching movies from VHS tapes and DVDs, but then on the other side, there’s Warner Bros’s Looney Tunes, whenever I watching on TV or even VHS, I always want to see Looney Tunes with craziness featuring all of classic characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and many more. In case for the latter I’ve covered two Space Jam movies, the first one is a classic, despite it wasn’t received well, while the sequel is the equivalent of wanting to reunite your father, who’s completely broken down mess with heavy drink compared from squeaky cleaned appearance from good’ol days. That’s the sequel in the nutshell. However for over decades, Disney is dominating for releasing their fully animated theatrical films, except for Looney Tunes, they’ve never done making ANY theatrically animated film for nearly a century, which is not hard to why it took many years what we have in today’s review.

“The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie” is a 2024-2025 post-apocalyptic sci-fi animated movie that was written/directed by Pete Browngardt and co-written by Darrick Bachman, Kevin Costello, Andrew Dickman, David Gemmill, Alex Kirwan, Ryan Kramer, Jason Reicher, Michael Ruocco, Johnny Ryan and Eddie Trigueros.

The idea of this movie came during the development of then-upcoming “Looney Tunes Cartoons” on HBO Max, where the developer Pete Browngardt was asked to make a Looney Tunes movie on the big screen, not just another hybrid movie, but a FULLY Animated movie on the big screen that, again, WB had never done a cinematic Looney Tunes movie compared what Disney did many years ago. In their concept its gonna be a parody of classic alien invasion movies like “Invasion of the Body Snatcher” (which they actually parodied it with Bug Bunny) and “The Day The Earth Stood Still” (hence the reference from the title), featuring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck. The development wouldn’t be until 2021 that they’ll hopefully this will be a big deal for a movie based on Looney Tunes.

Normally, WB would treating LT like a big deal that kids and adults enjoy this series either from DVD/Blu-Ray or even on streaming platform like MAX (though only in US), but alas, when we have the new current boss David Zaslav stepped in, he completely destroyed EVERYTHING whenever he touches at various animation and kids contents (including Looney Tunes) such as downgrading departments for kids like shutting down Cartoon Network website, taking down Sesame Streets’s deal and worst of all, canceling any projects for “tax write-off”, including a supposed promising hybrid film called “Coyote vs ACME”. Which we can all agree that “Tax Write-Off” thing is a complete Bullcrap! Yet, despite the stupidity what Zaslav and his executive did, we’re still hoping for the Looney Tunes’ first theatrical film to be released worldwide after the premier a year prior.

So, with all that said, will Porky and Daffy will save the earth to bring LT back to glory, or this film makes planet Earth blew up like bubble gum?

Well, lets find out.

The Story

For a looney takes on classic sci-fi movies featuring everyone’s favorite unlikely duo, its actually pretty nice for not just focus on comedy, but the heart as well.

The movie begins, like any sci-fi films, a scientist witnessed an asteroid flying by, but only quickly switch to an unusual UFO crashing down to Earth (along with ripped a roof from the house, more on that later), upon checking the crash site, while he’s quite surprised to see an UFO, right before he gets vanished from being startled. Meanwhile, we introduce to our hero, Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, who’re adopted by Farmer Jim to taking good care of them, even if its different for adoption from Porky being straight, careful and helpful pig, while Daffy is about as insanely loony as we’ve seen. Once Jim is moving away to pass his house to them, it wasn’t as easier said and done from messy rooms, not-so perfect repair and worst of all, they have a lack of money, when they tried to get a job, it didn’t worked out from Daffy’s antic, because at the same time, they need to repair the roof in order to pay up for house inspection, it wouldn’t be until Porky meets Petunia Pig, a scientist employee of “Goodie Gum” factory to finding a perfect flavor for selling gums, impressed about her business with gum factory, Porky and Daffy were hired for their first shift. However, while Porky goes for conversation with Petunia, Daffy has seeing a scientist who’s possessed with a briefcase contains a green goo, which happens to be the same substance from damaged roof, and he starts pouring in the factory to contaminating gums in the supply, leaving Daffy going full on panic about the gums turning people into mindless zombies with alien gums. Its up to Porky, Daffy and Petunia to not only saving people in the city, but the entire world from evil Alien Invader.

When it comes to the story, while il give a credit for making something out of parody of classic sci-fi movies from the 50s, I like the idea of a food product like gums that turning people in alien zombies that Porky and Daffy are gotta dealing with to save the world, its much like “The Invasion of the Body Snatch”, whereas the aliens came from plant-like seed from different planet that resembling human upon hatching known as “Pod People”, but here, its an alien contaminated gums that turns people into mindless zombies. Il give credit for trying something similar, but slightly new, but the downside is that the story came off as but simplistic and feels just like any alien invasion while possessing or disguising as humans, leaving the story, while good for the concept, but felt flat to the ground like ACME products gone wrong. I think the main focus of this movie, is the bond between Porky and Daffy, whereas in cartoons are more like frenemies during the golden age, here, we do get to see the relation between of two where Porky just wants to be careful and be nice and normal, whereas Daffy is a constant troublemaker for his screwball and chaotic persona, even if he wants to helping out pretty badly, but in a not-so easy result what Porky wants. Its more Porky just wants to stick together without causing a mess like a respectful brotherhoods figure since their childhood days with Farmer Jim. While the movie has a nice heart-to-heart moments, but the biggest reason why we like to see it, its the comedy. Keep in mind, this is the movie based on Looney Tunes, which is not hard to see why comedy is the main focus, and I gotta say, it goes to the mix of old school and modern cartoon comedies, which I gotta say, they’re pretty good in LT’s fashion. Sure, there are some are not as perfect from what it used to, but I did enjoy some that it feels like its all coming back to me since I used to watching Looney Tunes or Merry Melodies, they gave smile and giving me a chuckle worthy. Its not as greater nor fresh, but again, il give a credit what they try to giving us some fun humors in LT’s fashion, some worked pretty good and fun, but some others, not so much.

The story is more of a weaker appetizer for being, while good concept, but not in a good execution, even if for one in a half hour long film, but it does have some good humors and nice extra ingredient to have heart moments.

The Animation

The movie’s budget is surprisingly cheap as $15M, its much as low than Novocaine, but Holy Smoke, the animation of this movie looks pretty damn good for bringing animation back to the old route, mainly the return of 2D animated film on the big screen, sure we do have some like Bob’s Burger movie three years ago, but im talking about the return of old fashion 2D animated film from Looney Tunes in modernization.

For starter, the animation is done by Warner Bros Animation (of course), while its no stranger that its based on “Looney Tunes’ Cartoons” (2020 – 2024), mainly both the show and the movie are based on Golden Age design of the early 40s, specifically when Porky and Daffy were both designed by Bob Clampett, which is exactly what Pete Browngardt picked when worked on LTC. Even though im much more of a fan of late 40s to 50s design when some cartoons were done by Chuck Jones and some others, but hey, that’s his pick of the style of the character design in modernization, while maintaining the old school style at the same time, which is pretty nice what they’ve working on.

Of course, when comes for the animation process, they went all in from wacky cartoon fashion when there’s a chaotic humorous moments in typical Looney Tunes, which again, some are pretty good and laugh, while some, not. Again, its mainly the energetic comedic moments involving Daffy Duck that they went all in for this. Of course, it wasn’t just the focus of Daffy for wacky animation, but the same can be said with The Invader, that they can also make a zany exaggeration reaction, which again, il give a credit for what they did for not just the animation, but the design of Invader that its an exaggeration version of typical alien design. Aside Invader, what about the design of the alien gums that they possessing people? Well, like I said before, il give a credit for unique and creative design as a Looney version of “Invasion of the Body Snatcher”, whether be people turning mindless zombies from alien gums that The Invader takes control or other times the alien gum can go shapeshifting into monstrous, giving the latter not just creative, but also creepy what it feels like when the alien gums are covering the body instead of possessing while being chewed.

Of course, it wasn’t just focus of comedic and wacky animation, but it also gives us other times to going on thrilling action or even calm down to give a romance and heart-t-heart moments. The action scenes are pretty cool to watch where Porky, Daffy and Petunia that they have to fight against mindless zombies in attempt to spit out and burn alien gums to death, which again, its a nice and creative idea to fight those alien gums back, especially they also gives a small suspension how those alien gums are menacing looking whenever they’re in control by those alien gums. As for non-comedy moments, the animation and the quality are actually pretty good for the textures and even a smooth animation ranging from Daffy and Porky’s origin to even a chemistry between Porky and Petunia. Even though (in Quick Fact) this movie was supposed to be a movie exclusive on Max, but decided to put it on the big screen, which I guess I can see why they wanna go ALL IN to bringing fully animated Looney Tunes on the big screen.

As for the rest, the backgrounds are actually pretty nice that its done in painting background and nicely shade quality from the background, the human designs are ranging from sorta based on realistic people to LT’s human design, which they’re both standard and also faithful. Though if I have a nitpick for the animation is the additional of CG, granted, some CG can look fine, but they can be a bit unfitting for the world of 2D animation, but I get they wanna limiting the animation with a small addition of CG, think of CG in this movie as an appetizer.

While there’s an itty bitty flaw, but the animation in this movie is surprisingly well done for being both creative, fun and faithful from old school style with modern twist.

The Characters

Even though it doesn’t have everyone favorite rabbit, but the movie does have some fascinating characters. Most of them.

Lets start off everyone’s favorite pair, Porky Pig and Daffy Duck (both voiced by Eric Bauza), since the Golden Age, these two are memorable for their misadventures for their different personalities, whether be Porky being a straight pig to watch over without any dangers, while Daffy is “The Looney One” for causing a chaotic fashion. It may sounds like nothing new what we have in the movie, BUT, as I said before, its pretty nice to have a chemistry between of two, not because of their crazy adventure to save the earth, but also because be respectful and caring to stick together like brotherhoods since their youths, especially for keeping the Jim’s legacy clean for their home after Jim passed them. Which it works pretty good to give themselves, not just bring us back to the good’ol days of their journey, but also having a heart-to-heart together, which makes their updated developments done pretty good. But of course, il give a huge credit for Eric Bauza, while he did the best job for voicing as Daffy, but its quite surprising he also voiced Porky, sure its not like Bob Bergen, but at least Eric tried and I think he did a nice work of voicing Porky, though its not the first time he voiced everyone’s favorite straight pig.

Next up, is Petunia Pig (voiced by Candi Milo), who’s not only Porky’s love interest, but also a scientist who’s desperate to make a perfect flavor for gums, while she maybe an oddball love interest, but she’s surprisingly pretty good and well written, whether being struggled to finding perfect flavor, but also cute to see her chemistry with Porky. I gotta say, its pretty nice to bring this lost character back to light to give her chance to shine, kinda like Lola Bunny, along with Candi did a fun work of her role.

And finally, there’s The Invader (voiced by Peter MacNicol), the main antagonist in the movie where he controlled his human scientist to contaminating gums with green goo to taking control mindless people for his will. I find him to be a fairly descent villain in the movie, rather than a typical alien who comes down to killing people, here, he’s using contaminated gums to controlling people into mindless zombies as slaves for his threat, but he can also be a ticking time bomb when something isn’t going on his way. Though the issue I have is the plot twist where he reveals his reason, I won’t giving you a SPOILER details, but I find the twist is rather weak in my opinion, but still I find him pretty good and funny whenever he exploded, kudos for Peter for his performance.

As for the rest in this movie, there’s not much else to say, either being for small plot or just for humors, there’s The Scientist (voiced by Fred Tatasciore) who’s discovered a UFO before becoming Invador’s mindless partner, Farmer Jim (also voiced by Fred Tatasciore) who’s the still painted father figure who likes to give the advice to stick together in brotherhoods back in their childhood, and Mrs. Grecht (voiced by Laraine Newman) who’s the house inspector who gives Daffy and Porky two days limit to fix the room for warning deportation.

Despite the movie has a very minimal of characters, either for plot or laugh, but I find some of them are pretty nice and even fun, especially for the main ones for being likable and well written.

And now for my final opinion of this film

Overall, The Day The Earth Blew Up is surprisingly a very good film based on Looney Tunes, especially its been many decades we never had a Looney Tunes’ theatrical film in fully animated, despite WB is currently neglectful.

The writing is very good for heart-to-heart and jokes, the jokes are funny as what you expect for LT, some nicely done characters and the animation is so damn good for being another 2D animated film on the big screen.

While I appreciated this movie, but its nowhere perfect with flaws like some small jokes didn’t mesh well, the minimal of CG is iffy and the story, while a pretty good concept, but execution wise, it felt like its been done before like a parody. But yes, I do blame WB for the lack of marketing that, again, they’re pretty much screwing over their prop it’ll concerning me for another flop.

Despite the movie has flaws, its still a great and funny, not perfect, but definitely recommend to watch it both the fans of Looney Tunes and non-fans. Again, its all came back to me when I remember watching Loony Tunes or Merry Melodies that they’re fun to watch. With this movie, its worth to check it out.

For my rating, im gonna give this one an 8/10.

So this ends of my movie review, if you guys have your opinion or any suggestions, let me know at comment bellow and support me on KO-FI.com/blackevil.

Thanks for reading, and im Anthony, signing out.

Movie Review: Novocaine

 

Hey everyone, my name is Anthony and welcome everyone to my very first Movie Review in 2025.

Yes my friends, im back in business to watching some of latest films in this year after taking two months break for focusing on my drawings and even working my DC fanfic “Earth-97”, if you guys like to see my fanfic, check out my first one “Earth-97: Last Son of Krypton”, and stay tune for my upcoming “Earth-97: Warrior of Themyscira”, but the release date is “To Be Announced”.

Anyway, while im working my own stuff, im also ready to going back to the theater in today’s movie in my review, featuring my favorite actor in modern era, in an unusual action with rare condition.

“Novocaine” is a 2025 action-comedy film that was directed by Dan Berk and Robert Olsen, produced by Joby Harold, Tory Tunnell, Drew Simon, Julian Rosenberg and Matt Schwartz, and written by Lars Jacobson. When the film was announced in 2023, it was originally going to be an action-thriller movie for possibly going with more violent involving a main hero with CIP (Congenital Insensitivity to Pain), which a rare condition of not feeling any pain. Once we have my favorite actor Jack Quaid, I assuming they changed from thriller to action-comedy. Which I guess its not hard to see, ever since we’ve seen The Boys, it made a breakthrough for Jack for his journey in mix of action and comedy, whether be the new kid and vengeful member of The Boys, a lower deck ensign member who likes to follow the rules in Star Trek: Lower Decks, or everyone’s favorite good-heart dork reporter and hero from Krypton in my favorite show “My Adventures with Superman” (looking forward for the third season!). Once this film is picked up by Paramount Pictures for distribution, the production company called “FilmNation Entertainment” went to changing their own different label as “Infrared Pictures”, while at the same time, having a helping hand from Domain Entertainment to get financed with the budget of $18M.

So, with all that said, will this movie feels good to go in no pain, or is this film that I’d rather having a real pain without CIP?

Well, lets fine out.

The Story

For an action-comedy film involving our main hero to the rescue while having a rare condition, you think this movie’s story would be giving us something interesting development and maybe creative? Well, yes and now.

The movie introducing us our main hero Nathan Caine, a mild-mannered assistant manager of the bank on San Diego, California. While he’s being mild-mannered, but once he first meet a co-worker name Sherry Margrave, he’s hesitant to get a long with her due his rare condition called “Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis” (CIPA, kinda like the aforementioned CIP, but even more rare), which he thinks he won’t feel the taste when she ordered a pie when he was born it this rare condition, along with social struggle to get along with girls, but Sherry helps him to break the barrier to gaining social from tasting pie to hanging out at the bar. By next day, its Christmas Eve (Huh, another action movie taking place on Christmas, even though it came out on March, eh?), upon the announcement on the bank and his planning to going on a date with Sherry, everything going downhill when the robbers, dressing up as Santa (how typical) broke in for both stealing cash from the vault, killed the manager and kidnapping Sherry in hostage. Despite got brutally hit, its up to Nathan to going out to save Sherry once and for all.

I think the best way to describing this is, its like Die Hard with Jack Quaid with a rare condition, but going outdoor instead of in the tall building. Which is exactly how to describing this movie, while Die Hard is about a family reunion gone danger from bank robbery in Christmas, here its more about trying to building up relationship, in a bad timing, again, in Christmas. Its easy to notice the similarity between of two for the settings, but the plots are different. But unlike Die Hard, this one is about Nathan not only finding his girlfriend in hostage, but also finding the clue to find the robbers and even putting himself at risk on his actions, even if he has a rare condition of not feeling any pain to make some dangerous and ridiculous actions. The story may feel like a copy-paste from Die Hard, but il give a credit to make something new in their mind, however it could be the fault from the writing, where the first act starts out slow, but its mainly made for introduction and learning the characters’ development, some parts can work but some left me questionable for some elements (Il save some for The Characters), but of course, it builds it up for the action after what we’ve learned. There’s also a subplot where Nathan is gotta learn the connection of the family in hostage whether or not this could be too good to be true or so, which yes, it has a plot twist, which, I won’t tell you that, I find it kinda dumb, and the final act is kinda of a rush, again, no details from SPOILER. As for the humors, most of jokes came from Jack Quaid, which il give a credit what he pulled, he’s both funny, entertaining and probably explained why he’s my favorite actor. While some other jokes outside of Nathan can be hit or miss for say the least.

While the story feels like a modern version of Die Hard with rare condition, but il give a credit what they’re trying, despite some writing’s execution can work and others, not.

The Presentation

The movie’s budget is surprisingly cheap that it costed $18M, but in fairness, it looks pretty good and one heck of action with blood and even some brutality.

For starter, the filming location looks pretty cool, which I assuming it was filmed in small town somewhere in California, but I was wrong, instead, in order to save the budget, they filmed in Cape Town, South Africa, which by looking at this place, this is kind of a closest to imitating San Diego, California, either that or maybe going on Vancouver at British Columbia, Canada, im just saying. But in fairness, it still a nice place. Plus, they also pulled from similar camera tricks in some action scenes like head slammed to the table or a wall, the camera follows in, kinda like STEM’s full control fight scene in Upgrade (maybe il review it in the future, depending) along with some slowmotion that are nice and kinda beautiful.

But of course, lets not forget to giving us some action scenes, I find the action scenes are pretty good, but oh boy, they’re brutal, bloody and even life risking for our main hero with rare condition. Although some actions are kinda minimal, more like with some scenes are either in accident or even Nathan putting his life in dangerous, such as the kitchen fight scene with Ben over dropped gun with knives and even picking up a gun in running deep fryer to putting Nathan’s hand in crisp like fried chicken, self-stabbing shards of glass in bare hands as a bladed weapon in the tattoo shop scene or even one of robber’s house that showing us some silly traps (which I find them both funny, and kinda childish, but deadly with arrows and spiked ball) and even the torture scene that involves impalement from arrow, or the worst of all, tearing off finger nails (Or god, first “Higarashi: When they cry”, and then this?!). Sure, I do like the good’ol fashion blood and gore kills like I’ve seen Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving, but some of violent scenes are crossing the line like the aforementioned finger nails scene.

Even though there’s not much infos to talking about this movie (as far I could find, as im writing this), but in fairness they did a pretty good work with all the effects, makeup jobs, filming and some action brutal violence scenes, even though I have limits for some brutally violent moments.

The Characters

While the story aren’t as original, but give a credit for creative and different, what about the characters? Well, some characters are fairly descent, yet most of them are just either okay or under-developed.

Lets starts off with our main hero, Nathan Caine (played by my favorite actor Jack Quaid), an assistant bank manager who started as a sheltered man from his condition, but once he meets a co-worker Sherry to building up relationship, it made him break the barrier to be freely instead of being stuck in isolation, of course, once his girlfriend is hold in hostage, he has no choice but gotta becoming an unlikely action hero that he’s gotta asking for evidence and even fighting against robbers. I find him to be pretty good character, sure he’s no John McClane for being streetwise and cocky, he’s more like a newbie to be an action hero, while putting his life in risk with injuries and near death moments, even if he has no feeling pain condition. But what makes him probably enjoyable is Jack Quaid’s performance, sure his performance is nearly similar as his iconic role Hughie Campbell from The Boys, but its writing and his delivery as Nathan is captivating and fun, ranging from uncomfortable to fight to eventually going full on BEAST MODE once Nathan takes the adrenaline. Nathan is probably nowhere memorable as Hughie, Brad Boimler or even Clark Kent, but Jack did a great and fun job of his role, no wonder why he’s my modern favorite.

Next up is Sherry Margrave (played by Amber Midthunder) she’s the co-worker of the bank and Nathan’s love interest that she’s helping him to break out of sheltered life, but didn’t last long once she’s held in hostage by robbers. At first, I find her to be a promising love interest that she’s going to help him to changing his life, which I would like to see a chemistry between of two, but once she’s kidnapped, she’s almost non-existent once there’s some extra depth from her mother and the robbers, but again, they left her under-developed once the robbers came in. Im not saying she’s the worst, she has potential to helping Nathan, but disappointed once she’s kidnapped. Its a shame, cause Amber did a nice work of her role, along with a chemistry with Jack’s Nathan.

After that, we have Simon Greenly (played by Ray Nicholson, who’s actually the son of Jack Nicholson, nice another next gen actor), he’s the leader of bank robber for stealing goods for… Reasons, and his kidnap Sherry in hostage what he said he possibly has a connection with her. I find him to be an okay villain, his purpose seems to be like any robbers for greedy purpose against anybody or the law, while also capturing Sherry that he wants to her back together, but for all the wrong reason as a robber. I think the best way to describing him, in Die Hard fashion that it reminded me of, he’s like the low budget version of Hans Gruber, whereas Hans wants to steal the money for sabotage the tall building for his power, while Simon is just a regular robber on purpose of holding one person in hostage. As far as im surprised to learning about Ray, despite the writing didn’t go well for him, but I think he did a pretty good job of his performance.

And lastly, we have Roscoe Dixon (played by Jacob Batalon, aka Ned in MCU’s Spider-Man movies), an online gamer and Nathan’s best bud before they’ll eventually see each other for real to helping Nathan if he’s in danger. I find him to be good too, especially with his chemistry with Nathan for sharing their times and their fun conversation while playing game, but once Sherry is on hostage from bank robbers, its time to meet together in person for help, along with sharing some clues on their whereabouts. Unlike Sherry, he probably has more screen time for being an unlikely sidekick for helping Nate to save Sherry, its a shame for her in nearly minimal appearance, while Roscoe has more appearance. At first when I see him arriving for helping Nate in person, I was like “Wait? Is that the same guy who played Ned?”, but after that, I wasn’t wrong, while some of his jokes can work, but I think he did a nice work in his role for being Jack’s helping hand.

As for the rest of the characters, they’re there for plot details and for more body counts as I always said, there’s Mincy Langston (played by Betty Gabriel) who’s an officer of SDPD who shares her development that she’s Sherry’s mother that she would like to let Nathan comes to save her, despite being in order from the police with her partner Coltraine Duffy (played by Matt Walsh), Andre and Ben, the Clark brothers (played by Conrad Kemp and Evan Hengst) who’re Simon’s partners for bank robbery whole also separate in order to kill Nathan, and Nigel (played by Craig Jackson) who’s Nathan’s manager before he’ll ended up as the first body count.

While we have a very small list of characters in this movie, along with problems that some characters are under-developed, but there are some actors did their good job of their performance for the depth and deliveries.

And now for my final opinion of this film

Overall, Novocaine is a pretty good film to watch again, even though its not as greater what I expected.

While it feels almost like Die Hard, but il give a credit what they make something a but new like having an unlikely hero with a rare condition, so cool action scenes along with bloody and brutal fashion (despite some that its hard to watch), the production looks good for not-so big budget, some characters are good, the jokes are good too, and the actors are both great and have fun, especially with my favorite main star.

However, while I like this movie, its nowhere safe from flaws like some writing’s execution aren’t as great, some are under-developed or even minimal appearance, since its mainly focus on Nathan Caine.

Even though this movie is flawed, but its a pretty good action movie to give Jack Quaid a chance to shine since his fun times with The Boys, Star Trek: Lower Deck and some others he’s been. If you like to see something fun in action with Jack Quaid, I think this one is for you. If not, maybe you can watch it for one and il let you draw your conclusion if you like it or finding it average.

For my rating, im gonna give this one an 8/10.

Well, it seems that im having a good start compared to last year that it was a crap show, but here, its a fresh start.

But as always, if you guys have your opinion or any suggestions, let me know at comment bellow and support me on KO-FI.com/blackevil.

Thanks for reading, and im Anthony, signing out.

Movie Review: Sonic The Hedgehog 3

 

Hey everyone, my name is Anthony and welcome back to my Movie Review, but for the final review in 2024, even though we’re now in 2025.

Anyway, three years ago, I covered Sonic The Hedgehog 2, which I considered the second one as an improvement over the first Sonic. Whereas the first one is more of a buddy journey to avoiding from Jim Carrey’s Dr. Robotnik, and the second one feels more like a video game story to save Master Emerald with confrontation from Knuckles. With both of them are well-received for Sonic fans (while some like critics found them iffy, but eh.), both movies made a lot of money at the box-office. And its not hard to see why not only they made big profits, but also left us a cliffhanger what we’re having in today’s review.

“Sonic The Hedgehog 3” is a 2024 action-adventure comedy film that was directed by once again, Jeff Fowler, produced by Neal H. Moritz, Toby Ascher, Toru Nakahara and Hitoshi Okuno, and written by Pat Casey, Josh Miller and John Whittington.

Before the release of Sonic 2, Paramount was quickly announcing to have a third movie during the investor event with many crew members are more than exciting to coming back for another plan, especially after releasing Sonic 2, there’s a spin-off series on Paramount+ simply called “Knuckles”, the show came out 8 months prior (Though I never seen it). However, once drawback they had is when Jim Carrey was planned to retiring his acting career, this cause the changing script that the plan went on without recasting. BUT, they were hoped to give Carrey a good script for another chance. But once Carrey read, he’s eventually accepted to coming back from retirement, saying that its like giving him a golden script from the angels, so I guess it means he was more than happy to coming back. Though what about his retirement? Well, the reason why he un-retires, its because he wants to raise more money from his career for his personal stuff, but its a long story. Aside the delay from Hollywood Labors Strike in 2023, the production went ahead for new story, mainly this movie is gonna based on two games, Sonic Adventures 2 and Shadow The Hedgehog. Speaking of Shadow, since we were anticipated, this left numerous rumors for who’s voicing as Sonic’s new villain. One common rumor is he’s gonna be voiced by Hayden Christensen, which I would like to hear that since this was the time when Hayden made a return to shine and a respect from Star Wars fans since Obi-Wan and Ahsoka came out. But alas, it didn’t happened, instead, Shadow’s role is given by none other than John Wick himself, Keanu Reeves, which is a big surprise that we didn’t heard that coming, which it also got me curiously interested.

So, with all that said, will Sonic make another fascinating journey in speed, or is this film left on traumatic rogue like Shadow?

Well, lets find out.

The Story

Like I said before, the movie based on both Sonic Adventures 2 and Shadow The Hedgehog, which is gonna be a nice follow up from those games into movie, right? Well yeah, it does, for the most part.

Picking up a couple years after Sonic 2 (and maybe Knuckles), Sonic, Tails and Knuckles are both hanging out peacefully with married Tom Wachowski and Maddie, along with celebrating the birthday of Sonic’s arrival on Earth. Unfortunately, the party was interrupted by special military called “Guardian Unit of Nations” (or G.U.N. for short) are calling Sonic for emergency about an escape prison from a similar hedgehog, but darker named “Shadow The Hedgehog” is on the loose in vengeance (due to his unfortunate past that he lost his beloved human friend named Maria Robotnik from explosion, much like what happened to Shadow’s own game). So at first, they’re unusually teaming up with somehow survived Dr. Ivo Robotnik and his assistant Agent Stone (after revealing Shadow’s tragic past from Commander Wallers, along with giving them a keycard) to reaching at G.U.N.’s abandoned facility, only it was swerved from Robotnik that not only Dr. Ivo is somehow (and weirdly) reunites his grandpa Gerald Robotnik, but also trapping them with Shadow work with Robotnik for destruction (mainly the Eclipse Cannon). Its up to Team Sonic to stop Robotnik’s threat (once again) along with Shadow to prevent the harsh vengeance.

It feels like yet another standard story of Sonic facing against Robotnik’s threat of destruction like we’ve seen Sonic 2, or ANY Sonic games. However, it doesn’t mean its repetitive with same quick pace action and simple humors, the movie does giving us a powerful, emotional and nice reference from the games that it ends a nice combination and faithful on both Adventures 2 and Shadow’s own game, but of course, its more like merging together, which is a nice touch. Speaking of emotional, its nice to giving a nice touch and referencing Shadow’s origin, sure his origin is completely different that instead of being made from Robotnik’s experiment, here, Shadow came from the crash landing meteor. But much like Shadow’s game, we do get to see a heartwarming and emotional chemistry between him and Maria Robotnik to forming a friendship and sorta exploring Earth in Shadow’s not-so curiosity, but once Maria is dead, it left Shadow both heartbroken and angered he became after been left on suspended animation for five decades. Again, while his origin is slightly changed, but its pretty nice to give his faithful tragic origin. However, while they give some pretty good development, but the downside is that the pacing could’ve been better to slow down to give us more development going straight to action and some humor moments, sure it does hit the brake to gives us an emotional and the message of this movie, even though the message is more about “Be in good heart” or teaming up for “The Power of Love and Friendship” are pretty cliché, but the execution works good, but works bad due to pacing problem. As for the humors, well, much like the two previous films, they’re rather hit or miss, mostly some Sonic and his team’s jokes are a double edged sword, sometimes they work, but others are cheaply forced, but of course, Jim Carrey as Dr. Robotnik and Grandpa Robotnik do work based on Carrey’s memorable and over-the-top humorous performance, however, there are some moments can be a bit iffy. Which yes, most jokes are like plenty of pop culture references (aka depending if it works or not, but sorry to say, Deadpool is already made a best references) and out of nowhere, a 4th wall breaking (again Deadpool did better, no offense).

While its not perfect for rehashing some, but again, its pretty nice for doing another story reference on two games, some humors are okay and of course, its nice to have some heart and emotional moment.

The Presentation

The movie’s budget costed $122M, which is surprisingly going higher compare to two previous films and once again, they did a pretty good work on it.

For starter, once again, despite halted due to Hollywood Labors Strike in 2023, when it comes to filming they look pretty nice from fictional village of Green Hills in Montana to even going more locations in action from Tokyo, an abandoned facility to London. Though can be said for battle in space, cause hey, gotta make a followed reference from Adventures 2. I should also and uniquely mentioned that while the actors were gone for solidarity, they first started animating our familiar characters like Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Shadow. Although there’s one scene that when our heroes are in a party restaurant for trying to reconnect about teaming up together, when we look at the restaurant, we can see its filed with people dressing up as Chaos, you know, those cute little fairy-like creatures where you raising them like babies in Sonic Adventures games? Its a cute reference of it. Otherwise the only one’s missing to go crazy, is having Cheese the Chao in cameo. Aw well.

As for the designs and even some other references, they’re pretty nice what they went, especially those references/Easter Eggs are no strangers to giving a Fan Services to Sonic fans, there’s the aforementioned Chao, some nice and emotional Shadow’s origin (that I mentioned before) the special military G.U.N., a really nice touch of bringing back the song “Live and Learn”, Dr. Robotnik’s video game outfit that we all know, and of course, the climatic battle of Eclipse Cannon. Those are really well done to including those, which I can give a credit for a nice touch to follow up on two games in one film. For the designs of our familiar characters, they look both good and once again, look faithful from the game, sure we can see the furs detailed for slightly realism, but again, stay classy for the designs respectful from the game. However, if I have a problem of the character design is why is Sonic’s fur now changing to blue pale, I know its kinda meant to aging up a bit, but Sonic is still a young and cocky hero, when looking at two previous movies, Sonic looks nicely medium blue that he looks pretty good, but here, his fur gone pale. I know its questionable, but that’s just my own nitpick from what I’ve noticed.

As for the action scenes, once again, they’re enjoyable to watch, especially we like to see two battles between Sonic and Shadow, they’re no stranger the highlight of this movie that we’ve all like to see since Adventures 2 (jeez, if I keep mentioning Sonic Adventures 2, maybe il buy one on GameCube or in digital). Sure we do get to see Sonic and his team in action, but most of them are either chasing away and avoiding obstacles like try not to get caught from Shadow or even escaping from black hole. The the first part of Shadow’s capturing is kinda scary, BUT, at least he didn’t grab a pencil to kill somebody, let along with our heroes. However the action scenes are kinda lacking, but again, they wanted to focusing on development on both the message and the characters’ development that we like to know, even if the pacing can be questionable at best. Again, even though its my nitpick, but I would like to see more actions other than Sonic and Shadows.

While it may have some flaws, but the presentation is pretty good to have some nice and fun reference from Sonic games, fascinating action scenes and well respected designs. I guess you can say, this movie is gearing towards Fan Service to Sonic fans, eh?

The Characters

With the return of our familiar characters, as well as introducing us the new ones, this left us assuming we can make a new development of them, along with the new ones? Well, yeah some of them have a nice character developments, even though the characters we have are probably minimal.

Lets start with Team Sonic, with Sonic himself (reprised by Ben Schwartz) Miles “Tails” Prower (reprised by Colleen O'Shaughnessey since the video game days) and Knuckles the Echidna (reprised by over appearing actor in my reviews, Idris Elba). These guys are our main heroes in the movie, but then again, Sonic is our main star throughout the trilogy, but its another nice reference, this time from Sonic Heroes. Though we’re all familiar of the team, Sonic is a lead energetic cocky hero, Tails is the brain with mechanic and pilot skills, and Knuckles is a hard-hitting muscle of the group, even if his arrogance is his weakness. While its nice to have a chemistry between of three for their journey, they’re usually doing some helping hands or even conversation for the plans and advice.

But like I said before Sonic is no stranger to be the focus, which in this movie, Sonic is unfortunately being stuck in his selfish journey that he’s gotta learn how to be connecting with his partners as a team without losing them, even one time nearly reaching his boiling point of potential anger if either something isn’t going on his way and losing something he loves, especially losing his mother figure Longclaw is still haunting him. Its more likely Sonic needs to learning about team up for sparing and, in typical cliché, fighting for “The Power of Love and Friendship!”. As for Tails and Knuckles, they’re aren’t much to say about them, Tails is more of a strategic plan of our heroes, while Knuckles pretty much a hot-headed muscle of the team. Despite Sonic is the only one with character development while two others are minimal, but they did a fun work of their voice performances.

Next up, we have the return of Dr. Ivo Robotnik, aka Dr. Eggman (reprised by Jim Carrey), since we saw the previous movie, he was meant to be killed off from his final battle in his Kaiju sized mecha, we assumed that he’s lone gone, but of course, in typical Eggman’s fashion, he somehow returns from faking his death. At first, we may assume he’s gonna be a neutral fella to be with Sonic for finding out on both G.U.N. where his grandpa had been and the search of Shadow. But as we expected this is definitely a swerve for his destructive plan to be in his grandpa’s footsteps. Despite the predictable, Jim Carrey is always did a fun work of his comedic performance for his live-action jokes and his delivery.

Speaking of Jim Carrey, we have Dr. Gerald Robotnik, he’s the grandfather of the Robotnik family and the Old Man of Project Shadow. While he looks and act almost like his nephew Ivo, but there’s a difference between of two, whereas Ivo is much as goofy and mad for hunting Sonic so bad since the beginning, Gerald on the other hand is more serious and tough old man of the project, especially if something didn’t go on the way, he takes the destruction on his own hand. In other words, the difference is day and night between Gerald and Ivo. While they both have a different personalities, but Jim Carrey’s own chemistry between of two are both weird, but of course, funny. Which I will admit, I kinda like the crazy idea of Carry in double role, especially to have a both comedic and dramatic chemistry.

Last but not least is Shadow The Hedgehog (voiced by John Wick and Neo himself, Keanu Reeves), while the Robotnik family are the villains, but the same kinda be said to Shadow. But unlike the Robotnik family, Shadow is actually both memorable and tragic character both in the game and the movie. He was once live normal and peaceful when he had a childhood and helpful friend Maria Robotnik (played by Alyla Browne), while in the game, we can briefly see their chemistry, but here in the movie, we do get to see them have fun, Maria showing what humans have and do and of course, live together like a brother and sister figure. But of course, once Maria is gone from explosion, this left Shadow in anger for vengeance, but unlike John Wick, Shadow goes for on breaking free out of prison for massacre, especially for his fight against Sonic and teaming up with Robotnik family for destruction. I find him to be pretty impressive and well written for having him in a faithful depiction from the game, being lone and vengeful on his way for attacking, which is why Sonic is going to have a tough task to stop the dark version of him. But of course, Keanu Reeves did a great job and probably nicely fitting for him. I guess its not hard to know why I like to calling him as “John Wick as a hedgehog” for a fun coincidence.

As for the rest, they’re aren’t much else to say about them, while its nice to see them again, but not much to tell, either for plot devices or for some humor.

There’s Tom and Maddie Wachowski (reprised by James Marsden and Tika Sumpter) are now married, even though they’re adoptable family of Team Sonic, though they have their own development from Tom, while being a Sheriff of Green Hills, he also decided to be a puppeteer of himself? (I guess he created his own puppet for either Team Sonic or maybe his future baby), while Maddie likes to do art with yarns. Agent Stone (reprised by Lee Madjoub) is Dr. Ivo Robotnik’s agent assistant with a respect of making coffee with goat milk, and at least he has some funny moment, even if there’s one moment that he got screwed that we kinda feel sorry for him. Director Rockwell (played by Krysten Ritter) is the high rank officer in G.U.N., and Commander Walters (reprised by Tom Butler, which I didn’t notice him) is the former vice chairman and somehow joined as the leader of G.U.N., but SPOILER ALERT, he sadly didn’t last long.

While some new characters are actually pretty good to showing up, while the returning characters are good too, even if some are either a unique development, but some are one-dimensional. But at least the acting with some deliveries are fun and nice to see them back.

And now for my final opinion of this film.

Overall, Sonic The Hedgehog 3 is actually a pretty good film.

Despite the movie has a same flaws with some cheap jokes and predictable moments, its actually more improvement than two previous films with fun action, a good story with a nice writing (for the most part), some memorable characters, it has a nicely emotional moments and it has a nice reference for Sonic fans.

Again, even if it may have some problems, and this probably a better Sonic movie we had, not just an improvements, but even follow faithful from Sonic Adventures 2 and Shadow The Hedgehog. And I think this is definitely a must-watch film for Sonic fans that they can easily find familiar in this film. But for non-fans of Sonic, I’d say give this one a watch, cause im sure you may like this one and maybe this movie will give yourself a shot to play some Sonic games if you want.

In the end, I think il give a credit for Jeff Fowler that after been releasing three Sonic movies, he’s gotten more promising in his career, cause I think he did a good job to giving us three Sonic movies, and as im writing this review, we’re having a Sonic 4 in development, I know this may sounds like a potential franchise fatigue, but we’ll cross our fingers for improvement.

For my rating, im gonna give this one an 8/10.

So this ends of my Movie Review and im officially done with 2024 films. I know I may have missed some that I left them off, but we have our own limits for which one we like to watch and talking about some. So il take a small break from reviews, but il be back for next couple months for new movies in 2025.

But before we’re going to see 2025 films, tune it next time that il do the Countdown of the Best and Worst films in 2024.

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Thanks for reading, il see you later for new review of 2025, and im Anthony, signing out.

Movie Review: Frozen

 

Hey everyone, my name is Anthony and welcome back to my Movie Review in Christmas Edition.

Yes, my friends, its Christmas season as usual in December. But you know what we like to be in December, which is the beginning of winter? Snowing. Yes, snow is always the freezing droppings from the sky to building a snowman, playing snowballs, doing a work of art and forcing ourselves to shoveling when we gotta dealing with heavy snows and snow bank that you’d rather melting them down with fire…!! But im getting ahead of myself. So with all the snowing, but what if I told you that we have a queen with ice powers in animated feature? Well, Disney is certainly giving us our answers more than 10 years ago.

“Frozen” is a 2013 animated fantasy musical film that was written/directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, produced by Peter Del Vecho and co-written by Shane Morris.

Long before we have Frozen, that was a couple of attempt to making a package film based on Hans Christian Andersen, some includes The Little Mermaid (which we all know how it turned out before it came out in 1989) and The Snow Queen. This supposed project is going to be a hybrid film between animation segments into live action to explaining about the success of Hans Christian Andersen. However, the package film plan didn’t make on development due to back in the late 30s to early 40s, Walt Disney was in struggle due the flops that he won’t be able to push the productions, leaving a package film based on Anderson was thrown out.

But Disney’s adaptation of The Snow Queen wouldn’t be until in the 90s (which was Disney’s Renaissance), they were planned to make their own adaptation with Glen Keane, but once again, canned due to Keane called it quit, that is until he worked on Tangled. However, it turns out many attempts that they really want to make an adaptation of The Snow Queen was a complete Fuster Cluck with all the step up and step downs, along negotiation gone wrong between then Disney CEO Michael Eisner and then Pixar’s boss (and pre-self-destruction man) John Lasseter, until Eisner was eventually resigned and Bob Iger took the role.

Anyway, the development wouldn’t be until Chris Buck stepped in (after leaving Sony) after John Lasseter came to a suggestion to make a movie based on The Snow Queen, which Buck agreed to be not only the director, but also as a story writer, and at the same time, Peter Del Vecho threw is hat in the ring as a producer. While they’re writing for the story, its gonna be a loose inspired story based on Anderson’s version to be a typical fairy tale story about princess meets the prince unlikely, but with Snow Queen. But the biggest drawback for Buck and Del Vecho is the depiction of Snow Queen, she was originally going to be the main villain like in the original tale, but in their original plan Snow Queen (who’ll later named Elsa) comes out to ruining the marriage by kidnapping Anna and using ice powers to freezing the entire kingdom with Prince Hans coming to save Anne against Elsa. But alas, it will be too complicated for their draft, it wouldn’t be until Jennifer Lee stepped in for helping them to change the story, making it going soft to be a musical and comedy than an action adventure film, along with changing Elsa’s role from evil Snow Queen to Anna’s sister with ice power. Plus, the movie was originally going to be done in hand-drawn animation much like The Princess and The Frog and 2011 Winnie The Pooh, but decided to ditched the 2D film into a CG animated film to featuring stereoscopic 3D.

When Frozen welcoming us to Arendelle on November 27^th 2013, it was one of the BIGGEST Disney’s animated film ever, critics and audience love this so much from the writing, the animation, fun voice acting and the songs, which they considered it once of the best film ever made since Disney’s Renaissance. The box-office was a Bit Hit to earning $1.280B, making Frozen currently stand in 5^th place of the highest-grossing animated films, even though the sequel, Frozen 2 is currently in 3^rd place, leaving Super Mario Bros movie got sandwiched by Anna and Elsa.

As for my experience, I’ve heard about this movie that I was curiously interested, but didn’t have a chance to see it, until eventually bought a DVD of it. I watched it and I enjoyed watching this movie. Even when I rewatched it on Disney+, it still a great movie.

So it makes you asked, does this movie is worth of bring out to Arendelle, or is this film that some controversially called it “Overrated” (if “Let it go” is in our ear worm)?

Well, lets find out.

The Story

While its no stranger its meant to be based on The Snow Queen, but more of an inspiration for their creative liberty. But as for the story and the writing, its actually pretty good.

Taking place in Norway fantasy themed land called “Arendelle”, where we introduce the twin sisters, Anna and Elsa. At first when they’re in home, they love to playing together with snow, thanks to Elsa’s ice power, especially creating their imaginary friend Olaf the snowman (though not yet to be alive). But then, an unfortunate accident struck in when Elsa accidentally hits her sister with her ice power, injuring her in cold, along with Elsa’s high risk of her power from her fear, resulting her parents bring them to the colony of trolls with Grand Pabbie accepts to healing Anna (which thankfully its on her head, not on heart), but had no choice to clearing her memory from Elsa’s power. And at the same time, they’re also forced to separate in two rooms to leaving Elsa isolated in her own room without Anna, and wearing her gloves to prevent her power getting out of hand (no pun attended), her anxiety is nearly reaching high. But to add another smack in the face in tragedy, upon grown to adulthood, their parents are leaving for two weeks, but alas, they were caught by a storm with waves, killing them in the sea, leaving Anna and Elsa on their own in their castle. Fast forward to three years later, its coronation day that Elsa is declared as the Queen of Arendelle, ready to open the gate giving public a second chance to see them again, much of concerning dismay to Elsa herself, since she’s not ready due to her struggling to control her power, while Anna is hyping up to see people “For the first time in forever” (literally for the song, more on that later). After the coronation, Anna is appreciated to see Elsa out of isolation for more chance to shine together, that is until Anna meets Prince Hans for their falling door opening of love, much of dismay to Elsa. Which when Anna tries to explain this, but Elsa’s fear has reached the boiling point that after accidentally got her glove snatches, her power snaps and ran away. Its up to Anna, along with meeting an iceman name Kristoff with reindeer Sven to going there to finding Elsa to clearing the point.

I gotta say, while its no stranger to be nothing to do with Snow Queen, but its actually a pretty good, original and fun story, its more about a sibling struggle based on one of them is struggling to use powers and fearing prediction what she’ll become in the future, while the other one is trying to help her to think positive, even if trying to clearing the point will be difficult due memory from what happened was wiped out, which sounds, on paper at least, but that’s just me. The first act is nice and probably emotional start how we thought it will be fun to see Elsa using her power, but when accident happens, it’ll unfortunately becoming a downfall, because without a help to Elsa, it will becoming disaster, and now Anna is gotta find Elsa her to clearing this out, without going much worse. It may have some flaw, but its a pretty good writing. There’s also a plot element to finding out the “True Love” part, which I find it to be rather odd, in many fairy tale stories (if you’ve watching Disney films), finding a true love is no stranger when our main heroes are dreaming to see who likes to get along, especially for winning the battle with “The Power of Love”, I know its pretty cliché, but again, true love in fairy tales are predictable at best. But in this movie they kept in secret to know who’s the true love for Anna, at first, I was like “Yeah, this whole true love thing is just worthless”, until I was eventually realizing it’s a secret plot convenient which wouldn’t be until we find out in the third act, along with a backstabbing plot twist, but il save that later. But of course, while the movie has a drama about a struggling sister relationship that left into separation, but it also has humors, and find the humors are actually fun to listen and its almost like a self-aware, not full on, but still, whether good timing or even a fun delivery. One of my favorite is when Anna first meet from she asking for winter clothes at Oaken's Trading Post and Sauna or even when they’re in chariot, especially the latter that I like their build up chemistry from explaining about her situation to not all men are good and cleaned (including nose picking and eat a chunks… Yeah, been there back in my childhood and I regret it), its actually both fun and somewhat related. Though sometimes, not all humors are perfect, there are some that unfortunately being forced or even wasting time, one of which is when Anna and Kristoff go to the tribe of trolls with wasting our times with their song. That’s just one downside for the humor, while the rest are enjoy, fun and again, relatable.

The story of this movie is very good for all that we can relate a serious issues from sibling problems to teasing us about the “true love”, while the humors are good, but its not 100% perfect, but still enjoyable.

The Animation

The movie’s budget is surprisingly low (not as lower) that it costed $150M, and on its presentation of its animation and the songs, they look beautiful and memorable.

For starter, remember when I said on Arendelle being fantasy themed Norway? Well, its exactly their purpose. According to art director named Michael Giaimo, during the pre-production, he had to do a research about the presentation of the land of Scandinavia how land looks like, along with, in order to make village looks right, he visited a Danish-themed town called Solvang, California, which is located near from Los Angeles. I gotta say, the village in Solvang (which translates to “Sunny Field” from Danish language) looks surprisingly beautiful and peaceful, almost like we wanna take a trip to Denmark, which I guess it explained why they took inspiration setting to make the village in Arendelle. But it wasn’t JUST Solvang, California for their research and inspiration, the team flew to Norway to studying and sketching the landscape from mountains, fjords, architecture and even the culture. The producer, Peter Del Vecho, said that they had to take a short schedule trip for not just learning and drawing on Norway, but also fitting for the story to impressing Lasseter. Another challenging for the background is winter theme, they went into Jackson Hole, Wyoming during winter season, in order to learning how they move from deep snowing with various outfits, and of course, if you’re familiar about Elsa’s creation of ice palace and even the challenging of the lighting and reflect, its mainly due to the team visiting at Ice Hotel, which is surprisingly located on Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec, Canada and to this day, its one of the oldest ice themed hotel since 2001. I never been there (despite im currently and also in Province Quebec in Canada) but I will say, this ice hotel in Quebec is surprisingly beautiful, creative and most impressive, I guess its not hard to see why they went there for studying the lighting and the realism of the ice and snow effect.

So what they did for the land of Arendelle is surprisingly well done and beautiful with mix of green, blue and gray for its village and even in the landscape. And when its eternal winter, boy they’re taking it a challenging level from the nature with snow, the snow and ice sculpture and even the aforementioned ice palace.

For the effects and the design, they’re always did an impressive work, not just how people wearing clothing in Norway fashion, but also the magic in winter themed, its mainly they wanna blending a unique style on both CGI and traditional hand-drawn (well almost for the latter), which they pulled the similar technique from Tangled. The character design is, once again, no stranger they had to pulled a similar design from Glenn Keane, based on blending classic design into 3D today, but still, they look pretty fascinating and inspirational for the fans of the design, especially their clothing they’re pretty nice, decorative and somewhat colorful, this is mainly due to studying for the Norway’s folk costume in circa 19^th century, which is at least what the character designer Jean Gillmore came for the challenging design, not just the characters, but the clothing as well. As for the effects, the snow and ice are outstanding for the way its smooth, stick to clothing and the magical when Elsa pulls, like I said the magical snow/ice effect is somewhat close to be in 2D animation, but again, its for the effects, while the ice and snow in natural were done in 3D, but still they did an impressive work.

As for the animation, once again the movements, the effects and such are pretty damn good for its smooth, realism and well-craft, ranging from human movements that are well done and again, realistic, to even some are fictional like a creature animation from trolls (in their rock form, nice touch there), Olaf the snowman and even the snow monster, they’re ranging from standard to slightly cartoony animation, but still they’re pretty good and creative.

But of course, since this is Disney movie, the last part to be mentioned are the songs, they’re actually memorable, along with some that are my favorite.

The first from the opening is called “Frozen Heart”, which is basically working as icemen in winter season, its the equivalent of “Off to a good start”, almost like my underrated. Imagine “Mine mine mine” from Pocahontas, but less greedy.

The second the first memorable one “Do you want a build a snowman?”, which is after the accident that became the major problem from changing, Anna wants to see her sister Elsa again, but alas, it became clear that, due to Elsa’s forced isolation from the build up fear from her ice power, it was a start of partial split. It starts out pretty cute that Anna wants a second chance, but again, everything went down from overwhelmed by fear for Elsa to tragic loss of their parents, Anna really wants to rebuild a sibling connection like building a snowman, but again, it was doomed from the start from a freak accident, pretty good, cute and uneasy how we feel.

After that, its “For the first time in forever”, which is basically Anna’s own song in her excitement of reopening the gate to everyone can come in for Elsa’s coronation, but much in dismay for Elsa. I find it pretty good to listen, building up to bringing back the glory when the gate is reopened after been shut down for several years, along with nearly sharing us the world building of Arendelle. I may like it this one, but not my favorite.

Then there’s “Love is an open door”, where its simply a love song for both Anna and Prince Hans, since when she saw him, as the name implies, opens her door for their relation. Its more like a mix of romantic and comedic in this song, its nice and catchy one, but again, I may like this one, but give it a pass, which maybe im not a fan of the lyric, but again, its not the worst song ever, its just a give it a pass.

Of course, how could we ever forget one of the most iconic song “Let it go”, this is the equivalent of the main event song, where Elsa is now freeing herself with ice powers and of course, building her ice palace, which it looks so damn beautiful and creative. If you ask me, im not liking this song, I love this song with beautiful animation sequence of this song, a perfect fitting for Elsa after been causing trouble, a beautiful composed song and Idina Menzel did a great job of her singing performance. I guess its not hard to hear why there’s a cover version from Demi Moore. But sure, while I love this song, but I can understand some calling this one “overrated” for being an ear worm, but what are you gonna do about it when this song received an Oscar for “Best Original Song”.

Next, there’s “In Summer” which is pretty much after introducing Olaf while helping Elsa to preventing winter in eternity, Olaf loves to see and feel like going to summer. I find this song is okay, again, not the worst song ever, its another song that il give it a pass, but of course, il give a credit for Josh Gad’s singing performance

Last, but not least, and probably the worst one “Fixer Upper”, which is the trolls’ song that they think Anna and Kristoff are in relationship for their “true love”, but SPOILER ALERT, she’s meant to get a true love relationship to Prince Hans (insert foreshadowing moment, more on that later). I think it safe to say, this is the most unnecessary and time wasting song ever, when Anna is in danger that her heart is caught freezing in life threatening form Elsa’s overwhelming of fear with her power’s going out of control! I mean for god’s sake, what was the excuse for? Fill in for another comedic song when we already have “In Summer” or “Love is an open door”? I mean come on, there’s NO excuse to giving a god forsaken song from these trolls…!! Im sorry, im just being taking too much pressure over this time wasting song, I know its not their fault that they wanna make something new, but il give a credit to the singers, but again, the execution is just wasting our time before we’re going to the third act.

While the songs are nowhere perfect, but they gave us some great songs, but so do to the animation for its beauty, creative and enjoyable to see.

The Characters

While the writing is very good, the same could be said for the characters? Well, absolutely, my friend, but in this movie, they gave us the most memorable ones.

Lets start off with our main princess (at the time), Anna (voiced by Kristen Bell), she’s the young, fearless and optimistic princess that, while she wants to see Elsa to be confident with opening the gate to see more people to coming in, along with curiously meets Hans. I find her to be enjoyable, since she’s more on a lighter side princess compare to Elsa, being open-minded, fun and generous that even she wants to the public, but also loves her sister Elsa, even if it wasn’t easy from the start. But of course, Kristen did a memorable performance of her role, especially with her singing.

Next is probably my favorite one in the movie, Elsa (voiced by Idina Menzel), she’s the older sister of the family and the only one who has ice powers, while she likes to get used it, but once accident occurs, everything went down that her fear has grown, even for her struggling to control her power, especially she’s meant to be the queen of Arendelle, though, much like Anna, I would like to see her being confident to control her power and eventually her chance to shine for her chemistry with sister Anna, but then again, her fear is overwhelming her. Though I know she’s meant to be Snow Queen, but as we all know, she’s not the most threatening one in Arendelle, it was all of mix of fear and misunderstood who she is instead of being the menace from her power, we can definitely feel sorry for her from the people viewing her because of her powers, cause as Uncle Ben always said “With Great Power, comes Great Responsibility”. But of course, Menzel kicked ass of her performance of Elsa, along with her memorable song “Let it go”.

After that, we have Kristoff (voiced by Jonathan Groff), he’s an iceman who usually working to deliver ice cubes in winter season, but he usually like to hanging out with his trusty reindeer Sven. I also find him fascinating, sure we may assuming that he’s going to be Anna’s love interest (despite the love triangle part for our guessing game who’s her true love or not), but more like her partner to finding Elsa in snowing quest. But I think he’s also enjoyable for chemistry to Anna or even having fun to hanging out and making imagination voice of Sven, and Groff does a great and fun work of his role.

Then we have Olaf (voiced by Josh Gad), a living snowman who also act as new sidekick to Anna, and a comedic role in this movie. While Kristoff plays as Anna’s partner and sorta comedic role, Olaf is more of a comedic role, curious, playful and clumsy with being detached from obstacles. I think he’s also enjoyable, even he’s kinda cute as Anna and Elsa’s imaginary snowman to life. Aside his song aren’t as good (in my opinion), but Gad did a fun work of his performance as fun and curious living snowman.

And finally, we have Hans (voiced by Santino Fontana), he’s the prince from Southern Isles when Anna first encounters him, which at first, he’s going to be her love interest, like any traditional fairy tale stories when princess meets a prince. However, unlike Prince Charming, he’s much more protective that he wants her safe because of Elsa’s threat what he sees her. At first, you may think he’s just another prince who wants to save a princess, but like I said, while he’s charming and handsome, but he can be… Too protective and… Too good to be we Anna. But lets just save the last part at the third and final act. While he maybe an over the top, but I think he’s somewhat fascinating one, even if he could be too good to be with Anna. So imagine him as Gaston, but more of a brain than brawn, and Fontana did a great job to playing as Hans and perfectly fitting voice for him.

As for the rest of the casts, there aren’t anything else to say, most of them are either for plot developments, some humors or just there.

There’s Grand Pabbie (voiced by Ciaran Hinds, aka Steppenwolf from DCEU’s Justice League) is the king of trolls who gives us prediction for the plots whether it’ll work or not, Duke of Weselton (voiced by Alan Tudyk, aka Duke Weaselton from Zootopia, due to name in joke) is the first person who’s seen Elsa as a “Witchcraft”, Oaken (voiced by Chris Williams) is a big and fun owner of trading post and has a sauna (that’s a weird combination), and King Agnarr and Queen Iduna (voiced by Maurice LeMarche and Frozen’s co-director Jennifer Lee), who’re Anna and Elsa’s late parents for their protection and their responsible to close the gate for their concern before they came to untimely death when they’re sailing away.

The characters in this movie are no strangers that we love them for their fun performance, relatable and of course, lovable.

SPOILER ALERT if you haven’t seen the movie, if you don’t mind

The final act is quite unusual and of course, one that ended up becoming the biggest backstabbing moments in Disney film, for the time before those plot twist parts are overused, but long story.

After Elsa’s fatal accident of blasting ice power on Anna’s chest, a trolls’ time wasting, Anna and Kristoff are asking Grand Pabbie to healing her, but alas, it won’t work, cause it’ll be impossible to heal. The only way to save herself is to have a true love’s kiss, mainly from Hans, so they heading back to Arendelle. Meanwhile, Hans and his army are reaching to the ice palace to breaking in to hunting Elsa, but she tries to fight back against his army, but again, overwhelmed by her fear, she was taken to the prison, despite she’s gonna be waiting for Anna, or so we think, based on Hans. Thankfully, Kristoff has arrived with Anna, but the concern is rising that she’s dying from frozen heart, which is gonna be a right time to having Anna having a true love’s kiss, right?

Well, NO…

Instead, it was all setup from Hans that instead of kissing her, he chooses to potentially becoming the hero and ruler of Arendelle by planning to kill Elsa and forcing Anna to marrying, or taste the cold bloodshed if she refuses. So he locked her up and lying the dukes about Anna’s death from Elsa, which again, planning to murdering Elsa, despite Anna is struggling her own life. Elsa’s power is getting too much in the prison that she ends up creating a blizzard and using too much ice that she easily broke free, leaving Hans reaching his boiling point of betrayal to finding her, while Anna is about to die from freezing while being locked, thankfully, the door is unlocked by Olaf, despite learning about the betrayal, believing Kristoff is going to be her true love, so Anna and Olaf are breaking out of the castle to finding Kristoff in the middle of Elsa’s blizzard, while at the same time, Elsa is trying to hiding herself from Hans’s death sentencing at her. Once Kristoff arrives, it will be too late for Anna and at the same time, Hans found Elsa, pulls out his sword in attempt to kill her, fearing from losing her sister, Anna sacrifices to save her sister from her so-called “lover” Hans, completely freezing her to death in front of Elsa. But it wasn’t until Anna is slowly thaws, resurrecting from frozen heart to find out the true love will thaw the frozen heart, its mainly to stay connect with sisters together, which pretty much means love breaks Elsa’s fear and isolation to eventually feeling both confident and controlling her power, along with forgiving Anna for what happened (Yeah, the whole loving the sister is odd, but like I said before, its always difficult to connect when it comes to sibling relationship in the name of love and family). Meanwhile, Hans is briefly return for what happened, but Anna is no longer trusting the betrayer like him by giving him a satisfying Sucker Punch and sending him back where he belongs. And in the end, Kristoff and Sven received a gift from Anna with new wagon and giving him a duty as a delivery man, much of appreciation to him to giving her a kiss, Olaf enjoys to see the true color of summer (though he has a snowing cloud to keeping himself alive without melting, while Anna and Elsa are promising together to never closing gate ever again and they live happily ever after.

The final act is quite of rollercoaster ride, aside of time wasting song from trolls, but its pretty unexpected to have a prince betrayal to breaking the traditional love in fairy tale (kinda controversial, but hey, il give a credit). Sure the whole love of sister is odd, but again, this is meant to reconnect together with the power of sister. And of course, since we saw what Hans did is downright mean spirited for betraying Anna with lies, again, its satisfying for what he deserves.

And now for my final opinion of this film.

Overall, Frozen is quite of fun movie for being (formerly) a Disney Princess film, and its not hard to see why this movie was a BIG deal.

Despite the movie have some problems like a small flaw at the final act and one time wasting song, but its still a great movie with pretty good story, well written that we can relate with serious problems, beautiful animation, some fascinating songs, its funny and of course, they gave us memorable characters, especially I like Elsa (well I like Anna too, but still Elsa was like my waifu when I was 19).

This is Definitely a Must-Watch film for Disney fans and maybe even Andersen fans. Sure its more creative liberty and inspired form Snow Queen story than based on, but il give a credit what they wanted to make something different, I know its not easy for changing similar to Tangled, but still they did do their best and their succeeded. So if you wanna see this movie, get your friends and family together and watch it either physically or in streaming like Disney+. Cause im sure you’re gonna like it, well, depending if you like it or not, but il let you drawing your conclusion.

While the movie is close to be perfect, but it didn’t make a perfection by some flaws. When it comes to my rating, im gonna give this one a 9/10, along with earning the Trophy of Success.

So this ends of my movie review, if you guys have your opinion or any suggestions, let me know at comment bellow and support me on KO-FI.com/blackevil.

Thanks for reading, and im Anthony like to say as always, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, and Happy Birthday to Jesus Christ. Though i have one more movie in 2024, but save it after the celebration. And Il see you guys in 2025.

Movie Review: Kraven The Hunter

 WARNING: The following review contains Strong Language. Readers discretion is advised.

(sigh) Hey guys… Im Anthony and welcome back to my Movie Review…

You know… As a fan of Spider-Man, I’ve always wanting to see something new when they’re giving us a movies involving villains and others, especially I was expecting to giving us another new role of Spider-Man, but boy was I wrong…! When they gave us the third and final one that same out this year. (groan) I feel like im not ready for this…!

“Kraven The Hunter” is a 2024 Superhero film that was directed by J. C. Chandor, produced by Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach and David Householter, and written by Richard Wenk, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway.

The idea of the movie wasn’t originated as a standalone film, but rather a supposed plans to having Kraven into Spider-Man movies before MCU or Sony’s own universe. Around after developing or releasing Spider-Man 3, our old friend Sam Raimi wanted to have Kraven on Spider-Man 4 as a villain, despite it was supposed to having The Vulture, but as I said in my review of Spider-Man 3, it was canned. After the release of The Amazing Spider-Man, Marc Webb was planned to have Kraven either in the sequel or a tease to having Sinister Six in the end via cliffhanger, but because The Amazing Spider-Man 2 got flopped, it was thrown out too. After MCU introduced Spider-Man in “Captain America: Civil War” and his first MCU standalone film “Spider-Man: Homecoming”, Sony would like to have Kraven in MCU, but they changed their mind to bringing him into their own cinematic universe to give Kraven as standalone film, but had been delayed to be released due to the Hollywood Labors Strike. Even though when they were planned during the starting of their cinematic universe with Venom, they were thinking that they wanted make an adaptation of “Kraven’s Last Hunt”, but decided to ditched it for focusing on his origin, at least what the writer Richard Wenk was hoped for when he stepped in to write his own take of Kraven following his release of “The Equalizer 2”.

But alas, this movie is released the same year as Venom: The Last Dance and Madame Web, this year was an absolute Shit Show that they’ve gave us a very bad results. In fact, a week before I released my review, Sony was announced that, because of the financial Fuck Ups and delays from the aforementioned labors strike, Kraven the Hunter is going to be the last film in Sony’s own Spider-Man Universe. That’s only Six films in their cinematic universe, this is even less and pretty weak to bad compare to DC Extended Universe that it has 16 movies before WB and DC Studio rebooted their cinematic universe, but I digress.

But after watching it… (groans) I still feel like im dreaded to talking about this final FU film from Sony’s Fuck Up take of their own cinematic universe…!

Lets find out…!

The Story

While il give a credit to make something new, but the execution is anything but…!

After giving us a moment when our main hero, Sergei Kravinoff escapes the prison to going back to the wild in Russia, the movie brings us to the origin in teenage years. After the mother took her own life, Sergei, his brother Dmitri and his father Nikolai are setting themselves up for drug trafficking. But when they’re on a hunting trip in Africa, Sergei sees a lion, he tries to shoot it, but refuses in concern, but got threatened by a gunshot by Nikolai, causing the lion bites Sergei and carrying him out of nowhere, laying and dying. But it wouldn’t be until we meet a girl from Africa named Calypso who hears the lion attack and Sergei’s dying to healing him with her serum (that was created by her grandma before she passed away), along giving her card of Tarot to him before he was rescued, which not only he’s survived, but also giving him animalistic powers like see far away, speed, agility and skilled fighting, hunting and camouflage. Once he comes back home to see his father and brother, but unfortunately, due to being having enough of families criminal activity and seeing a display of lion’s head, he left on his own to be sanctuary (in other words, he goes into a mix between Tarzan and Rambo). Fast Forward to 16 years later, Sergei, now renamed as “Kraven The Hunter” is now a lone vigilante in the forest,killing anybody on his way for ransom. But after reuniting with his brother Dmitri for his birthday, he leaves outside (because… He’s distracted from air vent to catch a fresh air??), but upon waking up, his brother was captured by a group of mercenaries, run by Aleksei Sytsevich (aka Rhino) and his partner as Foreigner. But after getting rejected by his father for ransom, he looks after Calypso (now as lawyer) to working together to not only save Dmitri, but also facing against Aleksei once and for all.

Now, the story sounds basic as you can get that its all about saving Kraven’s brother from the group of mercenaries, but alas, the writing, not only it just came off as too basic, but it was nothing but both boring and a mess, since it tried too hard to giving us a developments from either our heroes, the message or such, but most of them are either lackluster, no effort and lazy. One of which is a subplot that Kraven gets a cheap advice from his father Nikolai to “control his fear”. Oh gee, a superhero movie about control your fear? I never heard that one before… What’s worst is that despite we like to see Kraven vs Rhino and Foreigner, but writing is unfortunately is such a mess that instead of two, they gave us three with the inclusion of Nikolai to have a dysfunctional relationship between Kraven, Nikolai and Dmitri, especially cheap from name-calling coward based on being into fear, along with kid vs father is also been overused since Star Wars. But of course, I kinda feels like they wanna add a teeny tiny humors, but those “jokes” are barely there with zero chuckle for giving to me.

The story is boringly generic, the writing is a complete mess with cheap message, overcrowd villains and nowhere fun from get-go…!

The Presentation

The movie’s budget costs estimated $100M to $130M, yet another above cheap budget, but by looks of it, it feels like the same results as Madame Web.

For starter, the filming locations are pretty cool, the movie takes place on both London, England, Russia and Turkey. The first part is no stranger that they filmed in actual, London, which looks beautiful to see. However, the filming depiction of Russia is in Iceland, which I think its a rightful place, cause its a very long story how Russia has become today. As for Turkey, for my guessing they filmed in Glasgow, Scotland. Then again, due to countries’… Political reasons, but they filming locations for their depiction are actually pretty nice looking.

As for the traditional design, it seems to be rather minimal we have. Kraven’s costume appearance, while we never have a similar appearance from the comic, but I like this, looking him more like a wild anti-hero in animalistic theme weapons like knifes, darts and maybe even arrow.

Speaking of weapons, the action scenes are good for say the least, those action scenes are like the only good things in this movie. The best way to describing the action scenes, they’re like if you mix Tarzan for animalistic fighting style and Rambo for the use of melee and camouflage. Sure, its not perfect, but they’re good to watch, especially we may like to see Kraven either doing parkour from the forest and the buildings or even chasing cars in bare feet (talk about giving him a “Fist with your toes”).

But then came to the elephant in the room, its the digital effects. Much like two previous films in this year, the effects are just as either mediocre or just laughably bad. There ranging from fake blood in some action scenes (I feel like they’ve never learned from Venom’s third film) or even Rhino’s transformation form, the latter is just so bad that he probably made me laugh how dumb and nearly ugly he looks. Yes I know he’s meant to be some kind of experiment from the serum, but come on, do they really have to make him look that bad?? But don’t even get me started with The Chameleon appearance, but I won’t give you a spoiler, but when I saw his form, it also made laugh from its stupidity. Like… This fucking movie, man…!

While some traditional designs, the filming and the action scenes are pretty good, but good lord, the digital effects are just so bad that its either cringe or hilariously bad. On second thought, its probably both.

The Characters

With badly written in the story and such, its safe to say a lot of characters are probably being one dimensional, for the most. And not to mention, a very minimal of characters we have here.

Lets start with our titular protagonist, Kraven The Hunter, aka Sergei Kravinoff (played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, aka Kick-Ass), he’s a vigilante hunter in the wild for having animalistic abilities. I find him to be a fairly descent one, even if in this movie, he’s more like, again, a mix of Tarzan and Rambo for being an apex predator and much against from his father. While il give a credit for Aaron’s performance and he looks pretty jacked up (though not as greater than Jackman’s Wolverine in Deadpool and Wolverine, but he’s more of typical ruthless bloodthirsty vigilante in his frustration against his father, good performance, but not helping from a weak script.

Next, Calypso (played by Ariana DeBose, aka Asha from Disney’s Wish), a voodoo priestess, a lawyer and Kraven’s love interest that she’s responsible of reviving Kraven with serum, along with giving him abilities. She’s there to giving us a plot convenience about her family and creation of serum to Kraven, but she’s just there for details to our hero, that’s about it for her one dimensional appearance. While Ariana did a fine performance, but again, she’s just weak in her role.

After that, we have Dmitri Kravinoff (played by Fred Hechinger), he’s Kraven’s brother who’s said to be a “Master of Disguise”. Yes, I know he’s meant to be The Chameleon, but alas in this movie, not only he’s just his father’s second-in-command and even a dude in distress for being captured by Aleskei’s group. While il give a credit for Fred’s performance, cause I think he had a good time, but once again, the script killed his potential.

Next, we have two main villains, Aleksei Sytsevich, aka Rhino (played by Alessandro Nivola) and Foreigner (played by Christopher Abbott), these guys are the main villain for their capturing Dmitri for their… Reasons that we probably didn’t know. But I find them rather mixed, they have potentials, but they felt flat, ranging from Aleksei being silly villain with his serum to keeping himself in human form while has a transforming into the dumbest looking form of Rhino ever. As for Foreigner, I find him okay at best, he’s just a cold blooded assassin who’s hired with his eye that gives him the ability to hypnotizing anybody on his way, not bad, despite giving us another poorly digital effects. Once again, while il give an appreciation of their performances, but Nivola’s performance is just forced to make him over the top that he makes Jesse Eisenburg’s Lex Luther looks tame, while Chris Abbott is fine at best. They’re both fine, but, im gonna say again, the scrip and the effects are equally bad and cringe together.

And lastly, we have Nikolai Kravinoff (played by Russell Crowe, aka Jor-El from Man of Steel, aka Maximus from Gladiator, aka Zeus in Thor: Love and Thunder, aka… Pretty much any films if you’re familiar), he’s the father and the crime lord for drug trafficking to rewarding ransom, along with possibly bring the dread to Kraven ever since he was attacked by a lion. I get they wanna make something new to having Kraven having a feud with his father, but alas, not because Nikolai is such a forgettable villain for being an evil father cliché, but the movie is suffered with so many villains for being the “one hero versus more than one villain”, it feels like they took the same problem as Spider-Man 3, but unlike Spider-Man 3, it was very poorly executed for poor character development and cheap excuse of high profile appearance like Russell Crowe. Again, like some, I’ve nothing against Russell, great actor, but its just when he showing up, they gave him a very weak writing and his minor appearances.

With bad writing of this movie, this movie is no stranger that many characters in this movie are both underdeveloped, poorly executed and even cliché.

And now for my final opinion of this Fucking movie…!

Overall, Kraven The Hunter is pretty much the final “Fuck You” from Sony’s own cinematic universe.

While it has potential that I kinda like, such as the action scenes and Kraven himself and maybe even Foreigner. But like the previous Sony’s Spider-Man Cinematic Universe, everything else is just broken down Cluster Fucks with Shit writing, lame characters, overused clichés, crowded villains that are Shitty written and a horrendous digital effects.

This is definitely not hard to see why this is the last film of Sony’s Spider-Man Universe that they tried WAY too hard to be like MCU, but Sony are just WAY too stupid to make it look good, but in reality, they’re just clowning around with bad movies and box-office flips that it makes DCEU looked tamer. Sure the Venom movies are “meh”, but everything else are nothing but absolute Shit Shows! Especially this year is already doomed when they gave us Madame Web, and this one came out is probably the reason why Sony should give up and focus on a goddamn Spider-Verse or hell, maybe even give some a second chance with Raimi’s Spider-Man 4 or even Marc Webb’s The Amazing spider-Man 3, but in reality, Sony is pretty much Fucking around at this point…!

So folks, after watching this, im gonna say again, do me a favor and learn from my mistakes, just don’t even bother to watching this, its not worth it for how shit this movie really it. Or better yet, don’t even bother of watching six Sony’s own cinematic universe, again, while Venom is okay, but all of their movies are mediocre to awful. Like, Sony really needs to Fuck off to focus on other universe instead of what we have…!

For that reason, im gonna give this one a 2/10, along with earning the Dumpster Fire of FAILURE, have some shame of Failures you have there, Sony. Again, they really need to Fuck Off…!

So this ends of this stupid Shit Show, if you guys have your opinion or any suggestions, let me know at comment bellow and support me on KO-FI.com/blackevil.

Thanks for reading, and im Anthony, signing out.