The bloom was off the rose a bit on the re-watch, but honestly, I still think this is good! They crafted just enough of an engaging narrative and emotional stakes for Mario, the voice cast all puts it good work (yes, even Chris Pratt), and this has gotta be Illumination's most beautiful, visually appealing work to date. But I was growing a bit tired of it towards the end. The script certainly has its weaknesses, and its share of groaner…
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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie 2024
It really is a miracle that this film got made and released at all. Just as delightful, goofy and gorgeous watching the second time, though experience-wise, a bit of a step down going from a packed theater of excited fans at the Animation is Film Festival last October to a dead quiet auditorium with three other people, one of whom fell asleep halfway through the picture. I hope this movie finds its audience in the end, but moreover, I can…
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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie 2024
From the soulless feature-length commercial “Space Jam” going forward, I’ve waited basically a lifetime for the Looney Tunes to be reinvigorated in a way that played to their comedic strengths while also doing new and interesting things with the characters. Pete Browngardt and his team have pulled off the seemingly impossible. Not only have they been killing it with the Looney Tunes Cartoons on Max, but somehow they managed to translate these characters into a 90-minute narrative. An absolute delight…
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 2024
Sorry to say that Tim Burton's juice is still MIA. Michael Keaton is as game as ever, which makes it all the more frustrating that Beetlejuice feels sidelined in his own nostalgia cash-in. It's been 36 years, why not make him the co-lead at this point? That's what we came to see! Instead, we get a grab bag of human world subplots that all feel like timer killers. And while all the Afterlife stuff is wonderfully crafted with physical sets,…
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