Movie Review: Aladdin 2019

*As Annie and the remain members of Team Blast, head back to earth, they're no other option left and just except that half living of the universe are killed off*

Annie: This is just very disappointing, we expected to get the stones to bring back where we used to be, but all we get is nothing to do without these.

Bryan Emmerich: *sighs* I know, i don't have a time powers, i have limits of elemental powers.

Eric Blakron: We better moving...

Annie: Yeah, i am not very happy about what it happened, thanks for giving me nothing...! *walks away*

Sally Ukrone: Well... Now what?

*review starts*

Hey everyone, my name is Annie and welcome back to movie review.

Like i said, 2019 is gonna be a whole lot of remake films that they really want to cashing in for modern viewers, but as far as we know, many filmmakers are running out of ideas to just rebooting the classic films, some are good or others just plain god awful.

Last time, i already covered "Dumbo 2019" that Tim Burton visioned his own remake, its rather good idea, but failed for rushed story and some lame characters, its just a painfully average film that we don't know why Tim Burton made this. But after that, we're gonna have a second reboot, this time with one of the classic film of Disney Renaissance era after "Beauty and The Beast".

"Aladdin 2019" is... Well, a 2019 musical fantasy remake of 1992 classic, written/directed by Guy Ritchie, produced by Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich, then co-written by John August.

When this remake was announced, it was easily unlikely to be a good one, which some might say its gonna be like a same element of remake of "Beauty and The Beast" to just follow the main story and bring back the musical, and adding some new elements whether if its good or plain questionable. Either that or maybe its because we got distracted with previous trailer with Will Smith as Genie, which i was one of those people aren't sure if he's likable as Robin Williams's role. Or maybe he could have a good performance?

So, with all that said, will this movie has a wish come true for a good remake, or is this film deserved to be banished by the cave of wonder?

Well, lets find out.

The Story
With the movie based on the folk tales called "One Thousand and One Nights", you expected that it could follow the same story as the 1992 version. Well, yes and no.

Instead of starting with merchant telling you the story, it was the mariner tells the story with two kids in the beginning. Once the tale starts, it begins where Jafar's thief pal enters the Cave of Wonder, but ended up being killed, Then it quickly changed to introducing our main hero Aladdin (along with his monkey pal Abu), a street urchin who's hiding around to steal something while first meeting Jasmine who hides her identity that she's a princess, which she got tired being in life sheltered. After Aladdin get caught for being trespassing Sultan's palace, he was asked by the Royal Vizier, Jafar to not just leaving the town of Agrabah, but also demanding him to get the magic lamp from the Cave of Wonder. But Aladdin, Abu and his new friend, magic carpet get stuck in the cave, but still got the lamp to tricking Jafar, once Aladdin dust the lamp off, it magically summons Genie of the lamp after spending 10 thousand years and granting our main hero for three wishes ( you know,like any Genies out there), its up to Aladdin for find the path to be a big deal in Agrabah.

Though like "Beauty and The Beast", im rather fine for keeping the same story from the original that we all know. But the big problem of the story is the first act, mainly because it skipped several moments that we like, such as the first introduced the Cave of Wonder and then "One Jump Ahead" scene. I mean i get they wanted to let us know from the original, but what happened to the newcomers? They'll probably confused from the quick pacing in the beginning, it just comes off badly paced and probably questionable direction. The movie also gives us some new subplot, such as the bracelets that Jasmine was wearing since her dead mother (which is rather nice, but rather cliche for wearing an accessory from dead parents) and a new relationship, but with Genie and Jasmine's handmaiden named Dalia, thats fine for that, but the downside is the main focus is Aladdin and Jasmine, making the new relationship rather unnecessary for the main plot.

Though the story followed up nicely, but poorly executed for the pacing and poorly direction. While some subplots are a mixed bag.

The Presentation
for a live action remake, the presentation itself is rather have a nice stuff, but with a flawed effects.

For starter, the setting and the filming location are pretty nice to see, since it was filmed in Wadi Rum Desert, Jordan and the designg setting was done by Gemma Jackson, the same designer with the show "Game of Throne". Its pretty cool place what they show us, though sometimes most locationg is done with CG.

Speaking of CGI, its rather a mixed bag for the presentation of CG effects. Some part are rather good at first, with some flying scene, especially with the "A whole new world" segment, which i have to admit, it looks wonderful for the visual. But other times just looks either cheap or so wrong. Likely the CG animation visual of Abu and magic carpet, they look so video game-ish what they're trying to look realistic, but the detail just doesn't work, except for Iago, he looks ok. But don't even give me started with Will Smith's Genie, which i get they want him look from animated version, which its rather obvious that he's done with motion capture, but once again, it was poorly executed that somes it work, but other times a it creepy.

But to be fair, aside from good setting and location, at least some of the wardrobe are pretty cool, for Arabian setting, which making them look colorful, i love it. Some of action scenes has some nice stunt, especially with "One Jump Ahead" segment.

Speaking of the song, i find them are rather good, though i like the classic version they all of them are pretty damn good to listen to, here, i find them are simply good. Though i have to give a credit for the good singing performance like Mena Massoud, Will Smith and Naomi Scott. Some songs are pretty good like "One Jump Ahead" and the fan favorite "A whole new world", come on, how could you not forget the classics. Though, Will Smith's "Friend like me" and "Prince Ali" are good, but not as perfect as Robin Williams's version. For added bonus, Alan Menken returned to compose the soundtrack of this remake, which is nice for his return. Though, it has a new song called "Speechless" for Jasmine, which i find it to be "meh", its about where Jasmine's feeling for again, living in sheltered life. But the downside is that they don't even doe the reprise of Prince Ali for Jafar, aw well, i guess im ok without it.

One more thing that il give a quick fact, during the song sequence of "Prince Ali", they're over 1000 dancers and extras, which is pretty impressive in this segment, and i gotta say, they did a pretty good job for the choreograph.

The presentation is rather good for some effect, the location/setting and some songs, but one new song is average and the CG are very bad that they could've finalized before released on theaters.

The Characters
Im sure we're familiar with the characters in the original version, with this remake, they have some upgrade, though some remain the same. But of course, it has some new characters.

First is our titular hero Aladdin (played by Mena Massoud), as we know, he's a sefless and dreamer thief that he likes to be in the palace. But of course as he eventually become the price to the palace, he was a bit nervous for his presentation, which i have to admit, i know how he feels, especially for how he tries to impress Jasmine. Its rather relating when he became the prince. But for newcomer like Mena, i think he did a nice work of his role.

Next up is Will Smith's Genie, i have nothing against Will Smith, he is a fascinating actor since the 90's, some good or some flop. But with his role of Genie, he's rather not bad, i get his appearance is to pay homage of Robin Williams. He's eccentric and comedic, which i have to admit, i did chuckle of his moment, but i hate to say everyone, his performance is rather foreshadowed that Will Smith is being Will Smith. Sorry Will, im stick to Williams's best role.

Then we have Jasmine (played by Naomi Scott), an independent princess, strong and feisty. Though she may not have not a similar beauty of the classic, but i find her to be an interesting princess, though like Aladdin, she could be relate-able, since she's very bored in again, living in sheltered life in the palace to see the prince, whether she likes it or not. Which in fairness, even though she remains the same, but i find Scott did a nice work of her role.

And then we have the main antagonist, Jafar (played by Marwan Kenzari), a nefarious and manipulative sorcerer who's had enough of being the "second best" in Sultan's palace. Well, i hate to say that, i find him to be a forgettable villain than the original, its as if he's trying so hard to be a threatening villain who wants to taking over Agrabah, he's more a bit calm than a bit serious. So, like Will Smith's Genie, the remake version of Jafar isn't the best version what we expected.

The rest of the original characters are The Sultan (played by Navid Negahban) who's more wiser and noble ruler than being a dim-witted in the original that im fine with it and Iago (voiced by Alan Tudyk) who's a sardonic and smart parrot, but wasn't as fun than  Gilbert Gottfried's role.

As for the new characters, they're only two that we noticed, first is Dalia (played by Nasim Pedrad), who's a new girl in Agrabah that she's a loyal and confidante handmaiden for Jasmine. and like i said, she was used as a subplot for a relation of human form of Genie, its nice to have a new one, but its rather unnecessary for the main plot. There's Hakim (played by Numan Acar), the head guard of the palace that he's just there to showing a new character. And there's Prince Anders (played by Billy Magnussen) who's basically the replacer of arrogant Achmed, but once again, not important to tell him.

The main couple like Aladdin and Jasmine are more likable and relating like the original. Despite Genie is ok, but Jafar wasn't the best version of main antagonist. While some new characters are ok at the time.

And now for my final opinion of this film.
Overall, Aladdin 2019 is rather above average. Just rather a good remake, the story is followed up, but questionable for the pacing and direction, the presentation are mixed bag, especially for some bad CG and the characters are ok. But to be fair, the songs (minus "Speechless"), are nice to hear, some are good and others are unforgettable, specially for a good singing performances.

Even if its not the best remake than "The Jungle Book 2016", but at least its not as painfully average as Tim Burton's Dumbo. If you're a fan of classic version, maybe this one is for you. Otherwise, stick to the 1992 version.

For my rating, i give this movie a 6/10.

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 Annie, signing out.

(Review ends)

*knocks knocks*

Annie: Huh, i wonder who's coming to my home. *walks in to open the door* Hello?

???: Ah there you are, i just want you to come back to Team Blast's world, because i found the plan to change back.

Annie: Huh?? How did you know them?

To be continued...

Movie Review: Detective Pikachu

*Annie and the remaining alive of Team Blast went to the planet where Thanos lives, but gotten late that Thanos was already dies and no stones on his gauntlet*

Annie: Oh boy... You're telling that without the stones, we're gonna live like this?

Bryan Emmerich: Sadly yes...

Annie: *sighs* We're so boned now...!

Bryan Emmerich: Welp, there's nothing we can do now, i guess we better go back to our home.

*Since it was too late, they're going back to their ship in order to going back home in depression of half livings remain.*

Annie: *pulls out her 3DS to play some of her favorite game, but not before notice a game on the floor called "Detective Pikachu" with a sticker of "movie edition"* Huh, a game with "movie edition", i guess il find out and talking about it.

*review starts*

Hey everyone, my name is Annie and welcome back to the movie review.

Like we all know, making a movie based on video game is always a bad taste of movie genre, mainly because they wanted to make something completely different than the game, but failed miserably that many video game fans would rather stay away for good reason. However, one movie that got a lot of attention maybe it was potentially good.

"Detective Pikachu" is a 2019 movie based on video game directed by Rob Letterman (also as a story writer), produced by Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Hidenaga Katakami and Don McGowan, then written by Dan Hernandez, Benji Samit, Derek Connolly (for screenplay) and Nicole Perlman (for story).

Let me start off by saying that i love Pokemon, its easily one of the most famous, cutest and colorful series from Nintendo since it was ever started in 1996 in Japan and 1998 in US. Though i never grew up to play on Gameboy, i remembered seeing this on anime, its rather fun and entertaining to watch, that is until when i grew that i started playing the game on Gameboy advanced with the 1st gen remake to 3DS with Sun and Moon. Though i wanted to play the later games (especially on Switch), but can't for my personal reason. Though i am anticipating to play "Sword and Shield". However, with this movie, it was not based on typicla adventure to catching Pokemon for our journey, instead,  it was based on the spin-off game called "Detective Pikachu", its basically a typical solving mystery cases with talking Pikachu, and the game is soo average that i didn't care to play it.

So, with all that said, will this movie is solved to be a good one, or is this another film that its an obvious cash grab to buy a spin-off game?

Well, lets find out.

The Story

Like i said, i never played a game to follow the story, but i find the story is much different than the game, but its actually pretty interesting.

It begins with a main boy named "Tim Goodman" was originally wanted to be a Pokemon trainer, but he lives on his own as a insurance salesman in Ryme City, due to his mother's death and his father's disappearance or perhaps his death. As Tim lives on the apartment that it was reminiscing of his past, he heard something entered the apartment, who happens to be a talking Pikachu (who only talk in Tim's mind to understanding). While they met each other,they noticed a capsule with a letter R that contains a deadly gas that causes any Pokemons into berserk, so its up to Tim and Pikachu to find out about R and search about his father Harry.

Well, even i find the story is interesting and maybe better than the game version, but i find the plot about knowing father's whereabouts is pretty standard, like we've already heard about the missing father before like Star Wars or others, which in my opinion, im more caring about the R gas thing, which i find it to be pretty fascinating and kinda creepy in the same time. Another good thing about the story is having a heart, mainly how Tim is a lonely kid that he wanted to be a trainer, but gave up to focus on his job without his trusty parents, even Pikachu has a sympathy to him with a very sweet dialogue of "He would've hug you so hard, your bones with pop", that right there, it really got me, like it made me nearly drop the tears, i love that part. Aside of heart, it also has some funny moments, but i have to admit, some did made me laugh thanks to Pikachu himself and maybe some other Pokemon. Despite the story is good, but the problem is that despite the story could be standard, but it feels like it was rushed whether the case was confirmed or even the twist, but i don't wanna spoil about the twist, since this movie is over 1 hour and 44 minutes.

Despite the story is above average and rushed, but its the execution with a heart, comedy and the extra plot element did it work, especially for the lore of Pokemon.

The Presentation
After all the crappy movies for their desperation of their presentation to make a big bucks, this one is surprisingly well presented and its no wonder why it got a lot attention when the trailer was first released.

For starter, the location is rather pretty cool. At first, i though it takes place on either Lumoise City, but in reality, it takes place in Ryme City like in the game, but it wasn't confirmed which generation takes place on, my guess is it takes place on 7th gen, not the upcoming "Sword and Shield". Aside my theory, the city itself looks pretty cool with mini markets, streets and monument tower. Even though it looks typical, but hey, the city looks pretty cool and probably colorful. The other places are also pretty good with forest, long road and even the old facility.

However, the big deal about this movie, is the animation and the designs of Pokemon. Before the trailer was released, most fans (like me) are unsure if its considered to be watchable, because back then, we've seen previous films based on video game are trying to look different, but poorly execution in order to make the presentation accurate from the video game. But with this movie, it looks much much better for not only accurate designs, but the details are nicely done with skin quality and even the furs. Especially with some Pokemon are adorable like Pikachu, Jigglypuff and even the 1st gen starters (like Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle), though sometimes, some of them could be creepy like Aipom in berserk. Even though im happy the designs of Pokemons are there that they look pretty good, but most fans are diappointed that would've add more in the movie, since we have over 807 Pokemons in the current generation, but it might be hard whether is the hard design or maybe the limit of the budget. Bur hey, im glad they don't include Jinx, because if they do, it makes me go "Oh God, my eyes!!".

And lastly, it has some action scenes, and i have ti admit, the actions are pretty cool to show us their moves like thunderbolt, flamethrower, the sing (which it cause anyone to fall asleep, but not really a fighting movie.) and few others, which is almost like we've seen in anime, but bigger budget in live action (since the budget is over $150 million).

The presentation of this movie is easily the best part they've accurate for the designs and the lore of the world of Pokemon.

The Characters
In most games, many characters are pretty average that they said normally, or even plain nonsensical or cardboard cutout. Here, it show us the personalities and more interesting depiction like Pokemon, well most of them.

First is our main hero Tim Goodman (played by Justice Smith, the same guy who's been in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom), he's a salesman in Ryme City who gave up to become a trainer following the sadness without his parents. Even though he maybe a character that we want to feel sorry for him, but unfortunately, i find to be rather forgettable, he didn't have any special personality, he's just a boy who's following the footstep to become a detective with Pikachu from his help. Not to mention, Justice's acting is rather dull, its as if he's trying to be a big deal for sympathy and even caring for him, but not sure. But hey, at least he's not as stupidly annoying in Fallen Kingdom, which ironically, he was nominated for"Bad Supporting Actor" in "Golden Raspberry Awards".

Next is our titular hero, Detective Pikachu himself (played by Ryan Reynolds, aka F***ing Deadpool!), he's easily the most likable character of the movie, unlike the game version where's more acting like Sherlock Holmes, he's has more fun persona for being laid back, sarcastic and probably the smarter Pikachu in the movie, which it was all thanks to the great performance of Ryan Reynolds, which he's always have fun to playing as a talking mouse with electric power and communicating with other Pokemons.

Then we have a secondary lady name Lucy Stevens (played by Kathryn Newton), a fluff columnist that she wants to be a reporter (though she's considered as a junior reporter) and very suspicious over Harry's whereabouts. I find her to be an ok character, which she's more caring about her job to be a big reporter, since she always like to find out the cases. Strangely, she's accompanied with Psyduck.

And we have Howard Clifford (played by great British actor Bill Nighy), he's a former president of Ryme City (due to being disable) and founder of "Clifford Enterprises". He's corporate who used to be a president to keep the city in piece without a fighting between humans and Pokemon, even though sometimes he doesn't the involvement of mysteries of people of either disappearance or death. Even though Bill Nighy did a great work of his acting, though sometimes that he could be predictable if he's a villain or not.

The rest is not much else to say, there's Roger (played by Chris Geere), who's a son of Howard and next president of Ryme City due to his father's disability,  Detective Hideo Yoshida (played by Ken Watanabe, the same guy from Godzilla 2014) who's a former lieutenant of police station when he used to be a friend of Harry, he's rather a cool detective and there's few others.

Though some characters are rather good to tell, like Lucy, Howard or Pikachu, but most of them like Tim Goodman aren't as any special what we expected what we cared or not.

And now for my final opinion of this film.
Overall, "Detective Pikachu" is probably the best film based on video game, with amazing presentation, a good story, it was fun, colorful and it has some nice characters. Though the sometimes the story seems to be rushed and not as special we expected for a typical solving mystery, some characters could be forgettable and it would've been a bit better for show us more Pokemon, but again, due to the limit of designs or the budget. And do i think its a perfect film? Well, not really, even i mentioned it has some flaws, but hey, at least Hollywood finally learn their lesson for how to make a good video game movie like this one, i recommend to give it a try, for better or for worse.

For my rating, il give it 7/10.

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 Annie, signing out.

(Review ends)

Sally Ukrone: Nice, im happy that they Hollywood learn their lesson.

Annie: Indeed.

Bryan Emmerich: Well, i hate to make some negativity, i don't think they learn their lesson.

Annie: What do you mean?

Bryan Emmerich: *pulls out his phone to show the image of live action of Sonic*

Annie: *sees it, but ended up horrified* Oh dear god...!!!

To be continued...

Movie Review: Avengers Endgame

*an energy portal opens in the backyard of a house where Annie walks out*

Annie: Ok, im here. *looks around to first meet Team Blast, but turns out there's Eric Blakron, Bryan Emmerich, Blackonne and Sally Ukrone, but no Smash, Marian Blakron, TBag and Mystica* Hey there, what happened to the other members?

Bryan Emmerich: Welcome to our universe, but yeah, as i said before, you're not the only one who witnessed the event where nearly everyone are all disappeared. We just call you for help.

Annie: Why?

Eric Blakron: Because he have to find the way to bringing everyone back the way it used to be. We have top fight Thanos and hopefully if we got his gauntlet to using it to complete our goal.

Annie: To... Using a rocket ship?

Bryan Emmerich: Yes, build it from last year, we have to blast away into different universe to find him.

Annie: This can be hard like its gonna take a years to going through there.

Bryan Emmerich: Don't worry, our ship has a special hyper-drive that we can go travelling.

Annie: Ah, it kinda make sense.

*As they going into their ship, they flies away from Earth in order to blasting through another universe. Just then, Annie strangely found a comic book of called "Endgame"*

Annie; Huh... I guess i can watching it and talking about it...

(Review starts)

Hey everyone, my name is Annie and welcome back to the movie review.

For the past ten years, we had seen every MCU films that they introduced us that we all know and love, aside from some that are disappointed. But in 2018, we had "Infinity War", which it was despite its a great film, but it jumped the gun in the ending where we lost nearly everyone in MCU, so after one year, we're going to the last chapter of Infinity War.

"Avengers Endgame" is a 2019 Marvel Superhero film directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, produced by Kevin Feige (like many MCU films he's done) and written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely.

With this film, we can all agree its one of the biggest anticipation film we've been waiting for with our heroes going on round two against Thanos one more time since before. But of course, it was a 3 hours long movie that most people like me will never go to the bathroom to watch the rest of the movie. Unless some will gotta go if there's no action with more focus of dialogues or something. But of course, this film was trending of "#NoSpoilers", which even though i will talking about the movie's story, but i won't go further and further, otherwise il be exposed.

So, with all that said, will this movie is a worth of waiting to saving the universe, is this film that we're stuck forever in "Endgame" with  nearly no populations?

Well, lets find out...!

The Story

Since we're in Endgame, we expected to have an epic rematch where Thanos keeps his stone in his homeland, right? Well, this one is pretty different and kinda complicated. But it doesn't mean its bad, but its actually impressive.

It picks up three weeks after the event of Infinity War, Tony Stark and Nebula are stranded in space that their ship is running out, but they're eventually being rescued by Captain Marvel to send back to Earth to reunite the remains of Avengers. Which they're going for a rematch against Thanos, but it was too late that the Infinity Stones are gone from his gauntlet. That resulting to fast forward five years later, where the world is like in semi post-apocalyptic future, Scott Lang strangely came back from the quantum realm (since the mid-credit of "Ant-Man and The Wasp", Spoiler Alert), which he's in the verge of panic for a help. Which turns out, not only he got stuck in quantum realm, but it also made him in time travelling, which Steve Rogers (aka Captain America) got his intention from Scott to building a time machine and bring the Infinity stones. Its up to our remaining heroes of Avengers to travelling back in time to get the stones once and for last time.

Like i said, i though it would've been great for the rematch where Thanos keeps his stones, but that didn't happened, instead its all about time traveling. Which is fine, but it has an interesting execution that this movie has a deja vu feel when they're going back in time, which our heroes are separately into previous films like "The Avengers" (which i liked, despite its a bit flawed), "Thor: The Dark World" (a sequel which is not a good sequel before Ragnarok.) and "Guardians of the Galaxy" (which is easily a fun movie thats its definitely recommended to watch). Plus, despite it still have  funny moments (which its some jokes are funny), but it also adds a drama, since after Infinity War, we want to have some sad moments when the universe remains in depression with half living. Even though the whole time traveling is maybe good, but it has a flaws, which the first act is dragging on for nearly an hour after failed interrogation at Thanos, i understand to give us a character development from the aftermath, but come on, it would've been take a small action since its a three hours long movie. But sometimes it has a same plot element from Infinity War, but in different way, but i don't wanna get a full detail.

Even though its what i expected for the story, but the story is interesting with some good execution, even if some part could dragging on in the first act.

The Presentation
Once again, like any previous MCU films, the presentation are impressive for the actions, the suits, the location and more, but this one is pretty big with $356 million of budget, making it even more expensive, but AS expensive than "Avengers: Age of Ultron".

Lets start with the setting of the location, the location of the aftermath of Infinity War looks pretty moody and depressing with over grown plants and abandoned places, its typical that we've seen before, but not bad. But like i said before, the movie brought us a flash back of three previous films, its pretty nice to brought us the same old locations, even if i was nervous if the old characters could get noticed from our current heroes, even if it could be funny or disturbing.

As for the action scenes, man, this is gonna be huge, like a lot of action scenes are taken place from the pasts and perhaps in present, but some of them are pretty cool, and other are downright epic, but again, i won't going further. Most of action scenes is all about get the stones before Thanos gets them all for good reason, even though sometimes, some moments where anyone get the stone could be confusing if some like me never seen before, like the reality stone are found in Thor's sequel film. Yeah, im one of those people that avoided this weakest film, despite it has a reality stone that it was used to be Aether.

And lastly, we get the superhero/villains appearance, its quiet obvious that most of them are done in practical, while others are done with motion capture like Thanos, the various creatures and few others. Some of new outfits are pretty good like Iron Man's suit (as usual), Ant-Man (plus, it has an Easter Egg that we can easily notice) and Thor's armor. And some is nice to bring back, like the Captain America's outfit with his signature shield since it got destroyed by Iron Man in Civil War or even Rocket Raccoon's classic outfit that was based on comic, thats another nice Easter Egg.

Despite some some are recycle and hard to tell that i've never heard, but once again, this film looks pretty cool with actions, the appearance, the location and the CG details are outstanding and possibly colorful.

The Characters
With the same casts as before, not only they're still likable whether they remains the same and some has a new developments. Even if some of survivor are missing that they would've make more appearance.

This movie focuses with the remaining heroes such as Iron Man (played by Robert Downey Jr for the last time in MCU), Captain America (played by Chris Evans, also last time in MCU), Thor (played by Chris Hemsworth), The Hulk (played by Mark Ruffalo), Black Widow (played by Natasha Romanoff), Hawkeye (played by Jeremy Renner), War Machine (played by Don Cheadle), Scott Lang's Ant-Man (played by Paul Rudd), Nebula (played by Karen Gillan), Rocket Raccoon (played by Bradley Cooper) and recently Captain Marvel (played by once again, Brie Larson).

These guys are only the focus to their goal of time traveling. In fact, some of them got changed, such as Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) lives in his cabin to have his daughter Morgan, which at first he doesn't want to go without her, but accept for his journey after five years, Thor become an overweight god with eating and drinking, not sure how he getting fat, but my only guess he must had been depressed over his loss (even though it was Chris's another idea for the change), Bruce is permanently turned into Hulk form, though a bit due to his balance of his sides with experimentation for his intelligent and strength, and there's Hawkeye that due to losing his family, he turned into an anti-hero to killing bad guys, though this was based on another character named "Ronin" (despite there's no Ronin in this film, guess we gotta wait for the next saga).
However, before the film's release, they're few other characters in the poster that they're also survived, but barely appeared such as Pepper Potts (played by Gwyneth Paltrow, which it was also her final role of MCU), Okoye (played by Danai Gurira), Wong (played by Benedict Wong), Happy Hogan (played by my favorite actor/producer/director Jon Favreau) and Valkyrie (played by Tessa Thompson), they're basically shown in small appearance for some reasons, talk a bout a waste of potential from their posters.

As for the other heroes died? Well, they'll be back, but we have to wait for a while, and once again, i won't tell how they're resurrected.

And finally there's Thanos (once again, played by Josh Brolin), like i said, i still like this character for his sympathetic figure for what he cared about before changed his life to be a menacing titan to stealing Infinity Stones. Here, at first we though he's still stronger after the snap, but ended being weaken after left alone in his own farm. But current Thanos isn't the main antagonist, its the other Thanos is the real antagonist. But once again, Josh Brolin is still doing a great work of his role.

And lastly that i forgot to mention, is Stan Lee's cameo, this time they made him in digitally de-age of 1970's and it was considered his last cmaeo in cinema history, its a nice tribute for him, rest in peace, old friend...

As i said, the acting are always enjoyable to see with some of our favorite actors over 11 years, especially some are always have fun like Paul Rudd's Scott Lang and some others. Even if some actors who played our favorite characters have a time to say goodbye after the saga, but we still enjoy the characters in MCU, especially some have an upgrade following the Endgame.

And now for my final opinion of this film.
Overall, Avengers Endgame is probably the best superhero film of 2019, with a story that its not what expected, but pretty good, the presentation is once again awesome for the actions and appearances and the characters are once again, likable. Even its an three hours long film, it could get forever, before the main event, some location are a bit generic that we've seen before and some actions a bit lacking from the first act as i mentioned before. But the movie does have a deja vu with the time traveling sequence and its easily fitting to have a drama for the aftermath of Thanos's snap or even some other moments in this film, like before i got shocked and sad for some moments and even the end, than again, i won't tell more. But, this isn't the final film of the saga, we still have one more film, such as "Spider-Man: Far from home".

If you wanna see the epic finale of the saga of MCU, i highly recommend to watch it, but make sure you eat or drink too much while watching a three hours film.

My rating will be pretty hard, which i wanted to give this one maybe 9, but since this is the final part of the saga with some moment with an epic actions and drama, i decided to going with a perfect 10/10.

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 Annie, signing out.

(Review ends)

Sally Ukrone: Wow... This is... pretty emotional...

Annie: I know, but then again, this isn't over of their universe.

*but the ship stops to arrive at the planet where Thanos lives*

Bryan Emmerich: Ah-ha, we're here.

Annie: Alright, looks like we need to tell him to fight back and fixing our universe, right?

To Be Continued...!

Movie review: Shazam!

Hey everyone, im Annie and welcome back to the movie review.

Ever since Marvel Cinematic Universe became a huge franchise for fun actions and likable characters, but what the heck is wrong with "DC Extended Universe"? DCEU is totally gotten worse as time went, not just of disappointing films what we have, but also nearly everyone are walking away such as Ben Affleck, Erza Miller and maybe Henry Cavill (since he's probably gonna get replaced by Michael B. Jordan). And so, we're very unclear if DCEU will still going, or maybe they're seriously need to be rebooted. However, since we have our next standalone film after Aquaman, we're hoping if DC could make something lighter than before, but it definitely does.

"Shazam!" is a 2019 DC superhero film directed by David F. Sandberg, produced by Peter Safran, then written by Henry Gayden and Darren Lemke.

Like i said, we've lost our hope and respect for DCEU for their disappointing films what we've seen (except for Wonder Woman), we would think if its gonna get bad right? Well, since we saw the trailer, it got a lot of attention that it looks like fun and going in lighter tone what it should've been. Not to mention, this project had a hell development back in 2000 and the film was supposed to include The Rock as "Black Adam", but that didn't happen, which Black Adam has to wait for either a sequel or maybe his own standalone film, since the project has been changed until what we have here.

So, with all that said, will this movie holds up if Shazam will rise in the light, or is Carol Danvers overshadowing him when he used to be named "Captain  Marvel" for infringing reason?

Well, lets find out.

The Story

With a movie about Shazam, you'll think that they've learn their lesson to know about our hero and something lighter? Well surprisingly, they've done right.

It started back in 1974, where a young boy name Thaddeus Sivana who's unexpectedly being transported into a different dimension known as "Rock of Eternity", where he met a old man wizard name "Shazam" who's the last wizard of the council of seven wizards. However, Thaddeus didn't know and curiously wanted to get an orb called "Eye of  Sin", but he was banished back to Earth, because he was deemed worthless. Fast-forward to present time, we introduce Billy Batson, a kid who's adopted by the foster family when he was being lost from his mother. After attempt to save his disabled best friend/brother Freddie from the bullies, he ran away to the subway, but not before he was also transported to Rock of Eternity where he meets a dying Shazam, saying that "Eye of Sin" was stolen from grew up Thaddeus Sivana where he not gain his powers, but also summoning seven deadly sins, the wizard gives his own power to Billy by calling the name into a superhero known as "Shazam". Its up to Billy to not only testing himself as a superhero, but also dealing against Thaddeus once and for all.

Even though its just another typical superhero story as usual, but the origin of Billy was started from sad to enjoyable as the movie went on. Especially for the Shazam's testing montage, it is quite fun and nice to showcase his powers. But what it makes this film good is that it has a lighter tone and a sense of humor, even though its odd that it takes place on Christmas(?), but it has better light tone than "Justice League" and of course, this film is funny as heck, especially when it comes to a montage, the jokes and even a silly nicknames to avoiding transformation (for obviously avoiding secret identity). Even if it should've been on the first place.

Even though the story is much like any typical superhero movies, but the execution are  much better for better light tone, nice direction and a fun sense of humor.

The Presentation
With a lighter tone, we expect the presentation of this movie looks fun with action and entertaining, well yeah.

The filming location is pretty nice, especially that it takes place on Philadelphia, with the poor village and the scene where Shazam and Billy sits together on the steps in front of Art Museum, i can't help but think "I sense the similar location of "Rocky" movie.". Aside Philadelphia, they also filmed in Ontario with the school, the shopping center and a generating station. In other words, this movie is 50% taking place in Philadelphia. Even though its the same location for taking place in DCEU.

As for the action scenes and the CG, it looks much more better than "Justice League" for the graphic detail, fight scenes and power effects. Even if some say it was the cheapest DCEU film ever made between 80 to 100 million dollars of estimated budget. The action scenes with montage and fighting are fun and entertaining in the same time, especially for the powers, they looks great, even if the smoke (which it summons the seven deadly sins) are a bit cheap. As for the designs of the seven deadly sins, despite they look pretty average what they appeared, but they they look pretty scary, especially with red eyes, geez they looks rather terrifying, even though they're appeared from either motion capture or even CGI.

And  finally, you're probably wondering my though of Shazam's suit? Well, it looks pretty simple what he appears, but it looks pretty good and kinda look faithful from the comic, especially with light of his logo on the chest and on his wrists, which obviously the suit has a battery on its back.

Despite it was considered as a "cheapest budget" of DCEU film, but i find the presentation looks pretty good for actions, the creepy seven deadly sins designs, Shazam's suit and probably a better detail of CG.

The Characters
Since this is a movie about Shazam, we expected that the characters are gonna be likable for their development? Well, they've done it better what we expected like Aquaman.

First is our titular hero Billy Batson, aka Shazam (played by Asher Angel for Billy and Zachary Levi for Shazam). As a Billy kid, i find him to be good, despite he's a bit emotionless, but at least Asher's acting is better than the kids from Tim Burton's Dumbo. But when he transformed into Shazam, Levi's easily steals the show for his fun and cocky role, you can tell Zachary have to playing as our titular hero. And for his abilities, he has powers based on immortal elders (along with combination of his name), "Wisdom of Solomon" represents intelligence, "Strength of Hercules" is obviously super strength, "Stamina of Atlas" means superhuman ability, likely invulnerability, "Power of Zeus" is of course, lightning power, "Courage of Achilles" means the power of will, and "Speed of Mercury" means super speed. Even though in my old time, i didn't care pretty much about Shazam, but as time goes, im started to liking him, he's not like my number one favorite hero in DC, but at least its the first time i learned about him.

Then we have Billy's best friend/brother Freddie (played by Jack Dylan Grazer), he;s also a likable character in this movie, despite being disabled, but he's a fan of superheroes, which we can see he collected various stuff from either Batman (like Batarang) and a crushed bullets from Superman's indestructible. And of course, since he first meet Shazam, he sorta act like a mentor to write down the list what abilities Shazam has and possibly teaching him for how to be a superhero. Even though he's a fan of superhero, Grazer is also did a great work of his role. Which obviously makes us wishing he could also become a superhero, right?

While the rest of the foster kids, they're not much else to say, but more likely the kids on token list, there's Darla Dudley (played by young Faithe Herman) is a energetic playful girl, Mary Bromfield (played by Grace Fulton) who's a den mother for the kids,  Eugene Choi (played by Ian Chen) is a gaming boy with the brain and Pedro Peña (played by Jovan Armand) a shy kid who doesn't want to be in trouble, but more best way to describe him in the words of Scott Steiner: "He's FAT!!" (Sorry...)

As for the foster parents like Rosa and Victor Vasquez (played by Marta Milans and Cooper Andrews), they're basically a parents for adopting five kids for... Plot development for Billy?

And there's the old wizard named "Shazam" (played by Djimon Hounsou, who previously played as Ricou in Aquaman), who's only shown in the first act as a plot device to Billy to becoming a hero as a last wizard of the council. Even though there's not much else about him, but Djimon did a nice work of his role.

And finally, we have the main antagonist Thaddeus Savina (played by Mark Strong), he's a bad guy wants revenge against Wizard Shazam for stealing the Eye of Sin for not only has give him powers, but also summons the seven deadly sins. Though he has a great power, but he's a typical ruthless bad who wants to taking over humanities with monsters. Even though he's pretty average for his personality, but Mark did a great work of his role, he has cool powers and probably a somewhat better villain than Carlton Drake from Venom.

The characters in the movie are easily better for their development, their personality and their fun acting.

And now for my final opinion of this film.
Overall, Shazam is easily one of the best DCEU film ever done, with good execution for the story, great actions and presentation and the characters are likable, including Zachary's main role of Shazam. Even though Wonder Woman did good, but Shazam easily topped over for better light tone, fun acting and it was also funny to watch. This is the film that again, what it should've been on the first place after all the disappointing films what we have. So, if you're a fan of DC superhero movie, i highly recommend to watch it, its a film that it won't disappoints. Go see it, my friend...!

Though, i wanted to give 10 for a perfect DCEU film, but it has some flaws with an ok villain and some of CG could be a bit of problem. So for that, i give this movie a 9/10.

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 Annie, signing ou--

*review ends with a phone ringing*

Annie: *grabs her phone* Yeah-hello?

??? (on phone): Are you Annie from other universe?

Annie: Yeah its me? What do you want?

???: Come to our universe, we need to talk...

To be Continued...

Movie review: Dumbo 2019

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Hi everyone, my name is Annie and welcome back to movie review.

From before, 2018 had a lot of superhero movies that some are great to watch, but others are either ok to bellow. But when we're in 2019, im might be concerned to say that Hollywood are going to releasing plenty of remakes of previous movies in order to appeal for modern viewers, which it might be an easy sign that they're definitely running out of ideas with their budgets, but Disney is one of them that they're bringing not one, but four remakes and i gotta review them, along with some others outside of Disney.

"Dumbo 2019" is... Well, a 2019 live action fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton, produced by Justin Springer, Katterli Frauenfelder and Derek Frey, then written by Ehren Kruger (also producing).

This was Tim Burton's revision of the 1941 animated film with the same name by Walt Disney, which this film was made when Walt had a financial problem following the release of Fantasia, since it was the time before WWII. So for some reason, Tim and crew members decided to cashing in that when we first heard about it, we're very skeptical for Tim's announcement, but it got a lot of attention from the trailer that maybe this could be original than being copycat from the 1941 version?

So, with all that said, will this remake will able to fly high, or is this film really humiliating with name calling like "Dumbo"?

Well, lets find out.

The Story

With this remake, its actually quite different what we've expected for the story and the setting.

It takes place in 1919, where a amputee of WWI and an equestrian performer names Holt Farrier return with his kids and his buddy ringmaster Max Medici after the war, but the reunion was too soon that Max's circus is having a financial trouble, which he was forced to sell horses and Holt's wife Annie sadly died from the outbreak of "Spanish Flu", which Holt was forced to taking care a female elephant that they gave her a name "Mrs. Jumbo". But one day, Hold, his fellow members and his kids Joe and Milly noticed that Miss Jumbo has a baby with strangely big ears, which they originally calling him as "Jumbo Jr". But when they brought for the performance of his debut, the debut went embarrassing that after an accident and his reveal, the crowd start mocking him as "Dumbo", causing Miss Jumbo went aggressive for his humiliation and ruined the circus, causing her to be taking away for dangerous reason, leaving Dumbo all alone with Farrier's family. But little did the kids know, they noticed when Dumbo sucks a feather, it gives him the ability to fly with ears. Its up to the Farrier's family and Max find out whether Dumbo is worth of performance or not.

Personally, im rather glad that they don't do a copycat of the original version to focusing with talking animals, because it will be considered as an abomination remake, which they mainly focus with the main humans to rooting for Dumbo, which im glad that they made the story different. Unfortunately, having a completely different story would've been better for the execution, likely it has an extra plot with an entrepreneur to bringing Max Medici and Dumbo to "Dreamland" for money, which it may sounds good idea, but its obviously predictable that we've seen or heard it before when entrepreneur is bad to make money, in the most cliche element of any films out there. But another problem about the movie is the lack of heart moment. Well sure, we do have some heart felt moment where Jumbo is being sold away from her aggressive nature and with the kids comforting Dumbo, but as the movie went, the heart element just ended lackluster. Though yes, we do have "Baby mine" moment, but it was short and it was on the first act.

The story is a good change, but most of the execution just comes off as a lackluster and probably predictable.

The Presentation
Since this is a Tim Burton's movie, you think the presentation itself will look great for art direction? Well, i'd say yes and no.

For starter, the story taking place in 1919 is actually good how it takes place, the filming location is wonderful shot and some of the setting of the circus and the attraction park called "Dreamland" are amazing and yet colorful, since this is a movie all about circus.

Another good presentation is the performances in the circus or even marching, whenever there's the play without Dumbo (perhaps),  it always enjoy to see, especially for the costumes, the way they shows and or even the tricks are quite fun and entertaining, i know sometimes some are done in CG, but some could be practical, even though they don't something cartoony way.

Speaking of CG, Dumbo himself looks rather cute, though i get they wanted to make him look as a real elephant for the detail, but sometimes it feels like they're trying to make him cute, but not for a big adorable eyes, which i find him a bit cartoony. And of course, they do brought back the infamous "Pink Elephant" scene, but the good thing about it as that at least they didn't make Dumbo being drunk, it was done by the performers with bubbles, but geez, the Pink Elephants are completely desperate to be like the original, but not for the modern CG that they look awfully cartoony, since they obviously using the element of squash and stretch and the detail is soo video game-lish. But sorry Burton, i stick the original Pink Elephant.

The the art direction is pretty good for Tim Burton with suits, performances and the setting, but some of the CGs are bellow average.

The Characters
Since the movie mainly focus with humans, you'll think that the humans will have a purpose and likable in the remake? Once again, yes and no.

First is Holt Farrier (played by Collin Farrell), at first, i though that he's gonna be the main human for the story and maybe helping Dumbo. But no, Holt is pretty much have no purpose but just came back from WWI, but missing his arm and caring about his kids and Max and thats it. Though Collin did a nice job of his acting, but his role is pretty much as a cardboard cutout.

Then we have Farrier's kids, Joe and Milly (played by Finley Hobbins and Nico Parker), even though they're replacing Timothy Q. Mouse, but im ok to having kids comforting Dumbo which in order to rooting for him and have a sympathy to relate. Even though the kids are rather 25% likable, but their development are underdeveloped, where Joe is an enthusiastic boy and Milly likes to be a smart scientist. but of course, their acting bellow they one are either annoying or even emotionless. Though im fine for kids with Dumbo, but the execution would've done better for extra development and maybe re-shoot.

Next there's Max Medici (played by Danny DeVito), he's ringmaster who's not only being boisterous, but also have a good heart to our main heroes. Even though he's also a character to struggling from financial of his own circus, which i think i like his development more than the original. But like Holt, he have not purpose for the plot. But to be fair, Danny DeVito did a great work of his role, since he's pretty much as being Danny DeVito.

Then we have Colette Marchant (played by Eva Green), a trapeze artist that despite being with Vandevere, but like the kids, she's also rooting for Dumbo at the time. Though despite she looks beautiful and Eva's nice acting, but again, like Holt, she has nothing to do with the plot.

And finally there's V.A. Vandevere (played by Batman himself, Michael Keaton), an entrepreneur and owner of Dreamland to exploit Dumbo and Medici's circus. Even though he's typcally depicted as ruthless and enigmatic bad guy, but Keaton's role is also pretty good for his delightfully evil. But il easily stick to his role of Vulture from "Spider-Man Homecoming", because i find V.A.'s character is despite being delightfully evil, but his goal of exploiting Dumbo for money feels like a tiring villain role list.

As for the rest of the characters, there's not much else to say, though sure it has some for the jokes and maybe a sympathy for Dumbo, but again, they're not much any specials what so ever. But hey, at least there's no crows for their controversial racial stereotypes of Afro-Americans.

Despite the acting are great at the times, but its the characters are trying so hard to have a purpose with Dumbo, but ended up as lack of development or even plain as a character left on the shelf.

And now for my final opinion of this film.
Overall, Tim Burton's Dumbo may have a potential for a different way, but ended up being tripped with some problems. The story is nice for the changed, but not for the lack of heart and the typical exploiting for money, the presentation looks pretty good for the settings, but not for some of bad CG and the characters that they have some interesting casts and acting (most of), but not for underdeveloped and waste of space.

Like i said before, it may have a potential, but ended up into problems when it comes to their execution of the humans or a different story. But since this is a Tim Burton's movie, i don't think its not bad or good, its rather pretty average. Its not the best remake like "The Jungle Book 2016" or the worst like "Ghostbusters 2016" Its just "Ok" level like "Death Wish 2018". So, i don't know if i recommend to watch this if you never heard of "Dumbo", otherwise, stick to the 1941 classic one by Walt Disney.

So, i give this movie is 5/10.

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 Annie, signing out.

*review ends*

Annie: Huh, this is the first time im doing a review, but, im not sure if im gonna be a full on replacement from a man who's like me or something...

To be Continued...

Movie Review: Captain Marvel

Hey everyone, my name is Anthony and welcome back to my movie review.

For over 10 years, we have a lot of MCU films that they're introducing us for their origins and teaming up together to save the world and the universe. However, most of them are male as a main protagonist, though sure we have Black Widow, Gamora and Scarlet Witch, but they're like sidekicks. However, it was time to have main female protagonist with energy power that we've been waiting for before Endgame. And not to be confused with Shazam from DC comic.

"Captain Marvel" is a 2019 21th MCU film directed by directed/written by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, produced by Kevin Feige (like every previous MCU films), and co-written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet Nicole Perlman (for story) and Meg LeFauve (also for story).

Aside of Iron Man, Spider-Man, Deadpool, Venom or several others that i like, Captain Marvel is also my favorite hero, due to her flight skilled and her powerful energy, which some might say she's the most powerful heroine in Marvel, which it explained that she got shared by Mar-Vell before he died from cancer (man, even aliens can also diagnosed with cancers).

Unfortunately, the potential turned into concern, mainly because it was released theatrical, RottenTomaotoes.com had thousands of so-called review (known as "Review-Bomb") that they give a lower rating, which its almost like they're sabotaging the official website critic in order to make this movie look bad including harassing Brie Larson's performance, which is a total embarrassment from these toxic users on the internet, not to mention, RottenTomatoes.com has to do a clean up by removing every review-bomb from the toxic users. Like when i heard that, not only it made me concerned, but it also pissing me off from these man-child for their poor excuse for "Feminism". Absolute disgusting for their attentions, horrible...!

Enough of controversies, will this movie holds up for her grand power, is it suffers with memory loss to know who Carol Danvers is?

Well, lets find out.

The Story

Before we get started with our familiar heroes of Avengers, we're gonna started all the way back to the past in 1995.

It started where our main hero who's strangely named as "Vers" has a nightmare. Despite that, she's with her mentor name "Yon-Rogg" for training and also keeping her emotion safe from an organic A.I. name Supreme Intelligence. However, during the mission to saving Kree, Vers was kidnapped by the alien shapeshifters known as Skrulls with the commander name Talos, where they checking Vers's memory, but she managed to escaped, but ended up landing on old rental store "Blockbuster", meaning she landed on Earth. But when she landed on Earth, she meets members of S.H.I.E.L.D such as Phil Coulson and Nick Fury, which it got a lot of attention to her, but little did she knows, she finds something familiar that if she's an alien or a human name "Carol Danvers", its up to her to figure out who she is and whether is good or bad.

Though its a nice story development with my favorite hero, but the downside is the same plot element about a main hero who suffered an amnesia, though in fairness, maybe its kinda good story of suffering amnesia in superhero theme. Though it also tries to have a plot element about Captain Marvel's emotion based on her power, but the emotion weren't matter, since its all about the truth of her past for who she is. The movie as has a subplot about the Skrulls that they need their home, but i won't spoil whether they're good or bad. Since this is MCU film, it has a humor part, but once again, they're either funny to "Um, yeah...", which its more likely the funny dialogue that i like.

Though the plot is not bad that i can say, even if its a bit cliche about our main hero with amnesia. But the execution as a superhero movie and the prequel of MCU is nice for where we started.

The Presentation
Since this is MCU film, its no secret that the presentation will be a pretty cool for the actions, suits and setting, right? Well, i'd say yeah.

First, the filming location is pretty nice, even though its pretty tricky, since it takes place in the mid 90's, notably, bringing the old cars, trains and even old stores. Speaking of stores, its no secret it has product placements, despite its unnecessary, but at least its nice to have a nostalgia for anyone are familiar from the past like Blockbuster and RadioShack (Though im more familiar with Videotron than blockbuster). As for fictional like the ships and the planet Hala, they looks pretty cool as a futuristic world, even though its likely done in CG. The notable filming location is on Edwards Air Force Base, which i have to admit, its a nice place to show and an action scenes, even if filming in Air Force Base could be expensive.

Speaking of action scenes, its not secret that like we to see those, but the action scenes are only showing from the first and third act, since the second act is only about character development, which i understand for the story, but even though it kinda drags on as a 2 hours film.Anyway, the action scenes are pretty cool, with fighting in the train, car chases, the shooting against the Skrulls or even dogfight from either the sky or in space. and the effects of Captain Marvel's power are impressive for any action scenes, which like i said, it might be make sense that she's the most powerful heroine in Marvel Universe.

for the appearance, i find them are a bit mixed. First off, the suits are impressive for Captain Marvel and Starforce. The looks of Skrulls are pretty cool looking, especially they're also tricky for the effects where they shapeshifting. And lastly, they even de-aging the look of Phil Coulson and Nick Fury, which they look not bad at the time, like i though it was done on makeup, but in reality, it was done in computer which im not sure if it helped with the quality, but hey, at least they don't do something horribly cheap like "Justice League". Speaking of quality, they also using CG and puppet for a cat name "Goose", though it may looks nice, but other times it feels fake-ish, the reason for that, its because Brie is allergic from cats (Yikes...).

The presentation are pretty like any MCU films, though some CG are flat out forced like the de-aged characters.

The characters
Speaking of the characters, you'll think that they'll be another likable fellows in MCU? Well, i think so.

First is our titular hero Captain Marvel, aka Carol Denvers or Vers, ugh... (played by Brie Larson). Even she's my favorite heroine on Marvel, i find her to be pretty fascinating one, where we though she's started alone and being an alien from Hala for taking over the galaxy. Though she's considered to be believable for her truth and justice (not in America way, more like universe way), with her flaws about controlling her emotion. Despite her flaws, but she's an interesting character and Brie did an impressive role.

Next, we have young Nick Fury (played by Samuel L. Jackson), before becoming the director of S.H.I.E.L.D, he started as a  low level bureaucrat and without his signature eye-patch, which it sounds reasonable in 1995, despite his look was done in CG for his young age. Before becoming a badass and cool leader, he's a desk jockey and rather believer of superheroes when he first saw Captain Marvel. Despite his sub-par digital look, but at least Sam is always doing his best performance.

Then, we have Talos, the leader of Skrulls (played by Ben Mendelsohn), at first, you'll think that he might be the main antagonist of this movie, well, i'd hate to spoil it, he may not be the villain, but he's rather a fascinating shapeshifting alien being, he's somewhat buttoned up and laid back, though he may have a sympathy, due to the fact he and his race needs home. Though me may not be the best villain or not, but he's a not a bad shapeshifting being.

Next up is Yon-Rogg (played by Jude Law), though at first, he maybe a nice humanoid alien for helping our main hero, but he takes seriously on his way with Starforce, even though he's one of those good guy that we're easily predicting what he's done with. He's like Orm from Aquaman, but in reverse (kinda). Though Jude did a good role, but i find him to the forgettable as Carlton Drake.

And lastly, we have Mar-Vell/Dr. Wendy Lawson and Supreme Intelligence (played by Annette Bening). At first, i was wondering who's gonna be for Mar-Vell, but it was a female one in MCU than being a man in the comic, i find it to be bellow idea, but im kinda ok with it. Mar-Vell is sorta like a mother figure to Captain Marvel from the past that we're curious in the flashback, but unlike in the comic where Mar-Vell died from cancer, she died from a fatal flight crash. Although Yon got a lot of attention to making a Supreme Intelligence look after Mar-Vell/Wendy, which i though she was played by different actress, but no, its the same character based on her look. i'd say Annette did a nice work of her role.

While the rest are kinda important for the future, for plot development or perhaps for more members of Starforce, there's young Phil Coulson (played by Clark Gregg) who started as a rookie of S.H.I.E.L.D. before becoming high-rank member, Maria Rambeau (played by Lashana Lynch) is a long lost old friend of Carol, Korath (played by Djimon Hounsou ) is second-in-command mercenary of Starforce and Minn-Erva (played by Gemma Chan) who's a sniper of Starforce.

And like any Marvel films, Stan Lee appeared in cameo, which in fun fact, before the movie starts, it shows the logo of Marvel Studio with many clips and picture of Stan Lee, since its obviously a dedication when he died last year. Though again, this won't be his last time in his movie cameo.

While some characters are average for bad to good or even predictable, but some of them are likable that we're rooting for before the beginning of Avengers.

And now for my final opinion of this film.
Overall, "Captain Marvel" is a pretty good film as an origin of MCU, with good story, the presentation are fun with actions and suits and the characters are nice to see on the big screen, especially for our main hero. Though the plot could be cliche for amnesia element, some awkward CG moment and some predictable character, which i understand they're trying, but some executions are off.

If you're curious to see the origin or like to know about our main hero Captain Marvel, i'd say check this out.

I give this movie an 8/10. I would've give this 9, but i dropped to 8 for some flaws.

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, sig--

*review ends, but crash noise hearing by*

Anthony: Huh? *gets up to leave his house to notice that there's a car crash on the other car, upon investigating, the driver seat is empty* What's going on here?

Citizen 1: I... I don't know how i feel or something, sir?

Anthony:What do you mean? *sees a citizen was disintegrated* What the?? *sees a a cargo aircraft flies down and crashes with citizens in panic from explosion* you've gotta be kidding me...! *grabs his phone to call for help, but too late, sees his hand is disintegrated* Oh no...! What the F-- *completely disintegrated into dust of death*

To be continued...

Movie Review: Fighting with my family

Hey everyone, my name is Anthony and welcome back to my movie review.

Let me start off by saying that, i love Pro-wrestling, for over decades, we've seen a lot of wrestling shows that we like to see our familiar faces in the history, like Hulk Hogan, Sting, The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, John Cena, Trish Stratus, Becky Lynch and so much more in wrestling businesses.

For movies about wrestling, its not easy to make a plot, which most of them about the obvious underdog or even difference between fiction and reality. They're some good like "The Wrestler" starring Mickey Rourke or some that are mediocre like "Ready to Rumble", a movie during the dying era of WCW (World Championship Wrestling) with an F minus grade jokes. However, there's one film that happens to be an adaptation of true story. Yup, we're doing another one.

"Fighting with my family" is a 2019 biographical sport comedy film written/directed by Stephen Merchant (yup, Wheatley from Portal 2 is also writing and directing) and produced by Kevin Misher and Michael J. Luis.

Even though this the film based on the true story about a recognizable female wrestler name "Paige", but it also said that it was on the documentary called "The Wrestlers: Fighting with My Family", though i never watched the documentary, but i was quiet curious and interested to see of our familiar former Divas wrestler for where did she began and her wrestling debut.

So, with all that said, will this movie will building up that you wish to be a pro-wrestler, or is it really a "Shoot" for a poor excuse to the fans?

Well, lets find out.

The Story

Since we've heard about wrestlers origin, we expected to have a nice and clean backstory, unlike some wrestler who used to wrestle in backyard. But for Paige, she has a nice and yet difficulty time before joining the main roster.

It tells where Paige started as "Britani Knight" in indie wrestling with her parents and her brother Zak Zodiac in order to bring more wrestlers to train for their promotion. Despite the promotion, they always calling WWE trainer Hutch Morgan to have Britani and Zak for tryouts, until he accepted before taping the episode of SmackDown on O2 Arena. In the tryouts with various wrestlers, Morgan chooses Britani as "Paige" (due to someone who already have a same name), leaving her prepared for going in US at Florida without her brother, causing her difficulty goal that she can't stop thinking about her family while training in NXT training. Its up to her whether she keeps training to WWE or giving up to stay with her family.

I find the story itself is was fascinating and rather too real, since we always like to training to be a wrestler, its not easy for doing by herself with the help of her brother or even the family, which she has no choice to find some new friend who's in training of wrestling like Jeri-Lynn, Kirsten, & Maddison (despite that they didn't have wrestling experience since some of them are used to be a model or a cheerleader). It also has a subplot that without Paige, we Zak went desperate to be in WWE, leaving him in depression with alcohol and probably went far for wrestling, which is rather understandable whether the company will ruining him or perhaps refuses to bring some random stranger. But the one thing that i like as a wrestling fan, is the plot element to be a pro-wrestler, i since i enjoy seeing some wrestling shows or even seeing indie wrestling, it is pretty tough to be an entertaining athlete that we're rooting for to be in either bigger indie wrestling or even wrestling shows like either WWE, TNA or even NJPW, it always got the attention for the dream that we like to be a wrestler, whether playing babyface or heel personality. Like in true story, i enjoyed watching wrestling shows like WWE or even indie wrestling on Christmas, i wanted to be a wrestler, but failed quickly due to my laziness, but i digress. One thing that they wanted to include is have some comedy, i find them to be pretty low brow and unnecessary for a biographical film, i did chuckle at time, but in the end, the comedy element is a waste of time since "The Chaperone". (Zing!)

But i have some problems, which is the setting, some inaccurate and missing parts, for example, the movie somewhat taking place in nowadays, due to the current stage of the shows like RAW and SmackDown Live, because her past taking place in 2005 to 2014, where she wrestled in independent with her family, then she went to "Shimmer Women Athletes" and finally picked up in development-territory called "Florida Championship Wrestling" in 2011. But the one im not proud for missing element is they didn't include her NXT women's championship reign in NXT before going to the main roster, which it would've been awesome that we rooting her, instead it changed to NXT live even with her and three female wrestlers. But some moment that im fine is the inclusion of The Rock himself, which in reality, he never met her before saw the documentary.

The story is pretty good and relate-able when it comes to be a pro-wrestler, but it had a problem with some inaccuracies and the missing elements.

The Presentation
Since this is a wrestling movie, you think that the production is rather simple and nice cinematography. But i find this movie looks pretty cool.

For starter, the filming location around in UK and in US. Though my guess is where they try to find the location for where did she began. The setting of wrestling show in indie are rather fascinated since most moments taking place on WAW (World Association of Wrestling) and indie wrestling school. But of course there's the WWE stage like RAW and SmackDown Live look rather fascinating, even though il miss the old times that they have a screen (called Titantron) above the entrance, but the downside is that as i mentioned, they kept the current logo and stages than borrow the old stages, since in 2014. But of course, the cinematography are beautiful show for showing the arena, the park and the action scene of wrestling and training.

As for the wrestlings, i always enjoy seeing some choreograph to show us some wrestling moves and some finishing moves, its entertaining and challenging if anyone likes to trying it in training, especially Paige's wrestling was performed by Tessa Blanchard.

The presentation are pretty good for say the least, since the budget was over $11 million, which it may sounds like low budget, but hey, at least they did a nice work.

The Characters
Since we follow the story, i can say the characters are fascinated and rather emotional for again, related for similar reasons.

Lets starts with Saraya Bevis, aka Paige (played by Florence Pugh), its is no secret that she's the main focus in the movie, despite of typical underdog, but pretty common that she started as a wrestling with stage freeze when it comes to her promo for the first time in NXT/WWE. But at least she does get better to be comfortable for her action, since as i mentioned, she can't stop thinking about her family, which her biggest weakness that we can relate for. But at least Florence did a nice work of her role, even if she may or may not look like Paige in real life.

Then we have Zak Bevis, aka Zak Zodiac (played by Jack Lowden), he's Paige's brother with flaws that he wanted to be in WWE, but ended up stuck on her own indie wrestling with his parents and married with his baby. Its understandable that he wants to wrestle with his sister, but didn't picked up after the tryout. Though Jack did a nice work for his role, but i careless about him, since Paige was my favorite Divas for the most part.

Then we have WWE trainer Hutch Morgan (played by Vince Vaughn), even though he's a fictional trainer in the movie, but i find him to be rather an ok character, even if he may have a sympathy to Paige, but he's more of a typical serious coach in wrestling. Though Vince did a nice work of his role, but like Zak, i felt careless that he's sorta like a main antagonist for his seriousness.

As for Paige's family, they're shown for not only their wrestling promotion, but also rooting for her, even if they're rather limited. Rowdy Ricky Knight (played by Nick Frost) is Paige's father that i can'\t help but looks kinda like "Giant Haystacks", and there's Sweet Saraya (played by Lena Headey) who's Paige's mother with messed up passed, though she has a nice hair style.

But the most notable one who's in the movie is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson himself, though he appeared as cameo, but his execution are pretty good, he's basically a semi-wrestler to giving the advice and gave a respect to Paige and he always "The most electrifying man of all of entertainment" that he uses his catchphrase that we all know in the "Attitude Era". They even brought some wrestlers like Sheamus and Big show, but they basically showing up on backstage purpose.

The characters are rather interesting, even if most of them that are rather average and careless. But at least The Rock's cameo is more fascinating.

And now for my final opinion of this film.
Overall "Fighting with my family" is rather a pretty good film that i can say, the story is pretty good and feels real that, the presentation is very nice for the location and wrestling moments and some characters are rather good. Even if the story that despite its good, but it has an inaccuracies with WWE stage and missing plot element to follow her origin of her timeline and well some characters are limited and rather forgettable. But at least some wrestling moments are a lot fun and entertaining, which is exactly what WWE is all about.

If you're curious about Paige's origin or a fan of wrestling, i'd say check this out, for the most part. Otherwise, stick to 2008 movie "The Wrestler".

For my rating, i give this movie 7/10. I wanted to give it 8 if without the comedy and maybe an accurate moment, but its seven out of ten for me.

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.