Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Quick Thoughts #12-Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio Episode 1

What the heck is this. No seriously. What the heck is this. Well this is Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio. A long title made even worse by all the nonsense words in there. This is Adult Swim's newest original animated series. Adult Swim's original cartoons are hit or miss, and honestly the only one to get any kind of big time success is Rick and Morty. But what's this show like. It aired in July of 2016 and was created by, guess who, Brad Neely. He's an artist who's worked on shows like 
China, IL and South Park.
I saw the ads for this show on YouTube. They were dumb and annoying, not a good advertisement for your show, but little did I know that those ads were more accurate than I thought. I went in hoping it'd be good. I really did. It's not. Not at all. So let's dig into Brad Neely's Stupid Show with a Stupidly Long Title Episode 1.

Plot-This show has no plot. It's a sketch variety show with different skits and jokes. 

Good-Nothing is good. There was nothing to put in the good category. Nothing. 

Meh-The animation. Truthfully it ranges from Awful to OK. It can be a bit visually interesting at some points. It's made simply just to look weird. That can work, however it just kinda looks bad at some points, but at others it's OK. Sometimes they don't even have a background which tells me this was very cheaply made. 

Bad-It's a sketch comedy variety show so because it has no plot or characters the comedy is the only leg it can stand on. And it's a leg that's very broken. The jokes are terrible. That's all I'm gonna say about that. I didn't laugh once. In this entire 11 minute episode I didn't even smile. Let me put this into perspective. Even some of the worst Family Guy and SpongeBob episodes can still get an occasional laugh out of me. Even fricking Stripperella got a few laughs out of me. This didn't. 
One the bright side there's nothing straight up offensive or too gross. There's no jokes where someone tears a whale to shreds. 
(By the way it's been a year since I've reviewed that episode and I'm still not over it.) 
The grossest thing this episode in particular does is the Swamp Hag gag and the Doo Doo Kid Skit. 
Yes Doo Doo Kid. He's so special he gets 2 skits in this episode. The joke is he smears poop (luckily it's censored) on everything. Then there's a skit with a dog humping literally everything. I know dogs like humping stuff, but THAT'S THE ONLY JOKE. ITS NOT FUNNY. Then there's the guy who gives very practical advice like "Don't ask a lady for a BJ if her leg hurts" or "Don't spit, swallow, or stretch in public." He's supposed to be a parody of the most interesting man in the world commercials, he's the most likeable man in the world. Like I said he just gives very practical advice. Very practical. It was clear the jokes were mostly just an excuse to show off some weird animation, but the animation unfortunately isn't funny, or good enough to save the jokes. The jokes are just dumb. Straight up dumb, and not in a funny goofy way like Adventure Time. No it's just really stupid. Why is it that adult cartoons have to keep failing so badly. Animation can be used for both children and adults yet most adult cartoons are garbage. There are good ones, but there are so many awful ones. It's to the point that I kinda feel it's keeping the medium from progressing and why people still feel animation is for kids only. It's also starting to feel like those kid shows are more mature with their stories and comedy than these supposedly mature adult cartoons. Really when it comes to mature animation go watch some anime, but I'm starting to get the feeling that western animation well never progress past the 'just for kids' label. 
But hopefully I get proven wrong. Hopefully we get more Rick and Mortys in the future rather than more Allen Gregorys and this.

I'll only give this show 1 piece of credit and that's that they do fit a good amount of skits in the 11 minute run time. 

But yeah this show is awful. Now this was only the first episode I watched so it could get better, but I feel it's going to die rather young. Probably at around 13 episodes and it won't have time to improve. 

Overall-4/10

Oh wait.....yeah I'm scrapping the scoring system. You see I've been thinking and I realized that the way I score things is confusing. Like I could praise an episode endlessly, making it seem perfect, and in the end give it a 9/10. Yeah my numbering system is a bit confusing so here's a simpler one. 
This is the score sheet for this episode. From now on this is my scoring system. I'll judge a show or episode in 5 categories.
Plot
Characters
Animation
Sound
And enjoyment. Then give my overall score. I'll also still label the best and worst parts of the thing it is I'm reviewing. 
Check means it gets a good on that category, a dash (-) means it's Meh in that category and an X means it's bad in that category. Also I have a Check- and an X- for things I'm inbetween on (check- for between good and meh, and X- for between Meh and bad.) 
So how does this show hold up. 
Well I can't judge it on plot or characters as this show doesn't have any, so I just scribbled that part out. 
Animation gets a Meh (-)
And so does sound.
My enjoyment level (by the way the most important category) was an X and so overall I gave the episode an X. 

So Brad Neely's show was the first to use the new scoring system. Yes I'll be using this for all my shows. Toon-O-Ween, Animated Critic, Evan Vs. Disney and Anime Critic. 


Anyway I'm Evan A.K.A. The Animated Critic and I'll see you guys later. 
Peace. 


Saturday, August 6, 2016

The Legend of the Titanic (2/2)-Animated Critic #15

"This movie is like something a crack head conspiracy theorist would come up with."

Previously on Legend of the Titanic
We meet Elizabeth A.K.A. Rose and Don A.K.A. Jack. Elizabeth is being forced to marry an evil man who wants to kill the whales. However her father just sort of suddenly changes his mind about that with no real reason giving. Due to some magic bull crap Elizabeth can talk to animals. Oh and Dolphins are also wizards. It ends with Jack and Elizabeth falling in love despite the fact they only spoke to each other like 1 time, If even, before they decided they loved each other. 
We also learn that everything we know about the Titanic is false and that no body died or went missing. It was all just a misunderstanding.
Yeah needless to say this is not a good movie. 
Well Evan be able to withstand the last half of this movie. Find out in this exciting conclusion to the Titanic review. 

Ugh.....I really don't want to continue. Where did we leave off?
Oh yeah, man getting eaten by shark. Moving on. 
We get a CG shot of this ship. Let's talk about the GGI in this film. It's awful. What....this movie has something awful about it....what a shock. 
Look I can barely even see the boat in this fricking shot.
It's so bad they felt the need to hide it in darkness. It's not night outside. It's still a little light out. THE SHIP SHOULDN'T BE THIS DARK. GOD, I'm sorry this movie is really starting to peeve me off. Well then again it always has been, but it's getting worse. 
So after that we cut to the cliche evil stepmother giving a lecture to Elizabeth. Why is it the stepparents are always the evil ones?.....Whatever. 
Elizabeth tells her off saying she should marry the cliche evil villain instead. 
The stepmother leaves in frustration and Elizabeth starts crying.......again. 
GOOD GOD, SHOW AN EMOTION BESIDES SADNESS. COMPLEX CHARACTERS HAVE AN ARRAY OF EMOTIONS. THEY DONT JUST MOPE AROUND ALL DAY YOU DUNCE. 
GOD I HATE THIS MOVIE. 
Elizabeth's father says if she wants to be with Jack she has his blessing. 
This would be a happy moment.....you know.....if I actually cared. 
Cut to the cliche villains. 
They discuss their battle plan. Luckily our mouse friends are eavesdropping. They go to tell Jack what they heard, but unfortunately the dog is blocking the vents. 
He's asleep...even though his eyes clearly open at some points.
How do you fail at the most basic things. All you gotta do is keep the eyelids close. That's not to hard to draw is it? You guys realize someone got paid to animate this crap. Hope the $30 you made was worth it. So Brazilian Stereotype takes the most obvious approach in waking him up.
He kicks him. Makes sense. You could've just shook him or made a loud noise, but nope...have to kick him. After all how else are we gonna force slapstick in there.
The mice tell Jack that Evil Eye-Patch Man is planning on sinking the ship. 
Yes you heard it right here people. It was a man who did it, not natural causes like an iceberg. It was a man. Duh. Ugh...Whatever. Jack doesn't believe the mice at first, but they convince him by....literally making the same argument a second time. Seriously. They also pretty much catch Jack up on the plot by telling him about the whaling scheme and the fact the villain and Elizabeth's Stepmother are working together.
Jack says the only humans they can trust are his gypsy friends, and to start a search party with the animals for anything suspicious. 
This leads to a pointless scene where the Butler pets a dog.
That's it. He also says he's always wanted a dog so I guess we learn something about the character, but it's a pretty pointless tidbit. 
The butler delivers a message to the whaling ships saying that they got all the necessary paper work (of course this is a lie).
The mice try to make a bunch of noise to distract the telegrapher from delivering the message, and we get a bunch of Tom and Jerry Antics. 
It's weird the telegrapher clearly sees the mice and then proceeds to act like he saw nothing. The mice decide to act fast and cut the telegraph wires. Except they don't know which wires exactly are the telegraph ones so they just cut them all. 
Genius. What could possibly go wrong by doing this. Just cut all the wires. Nothing bad well happen, I'm sure of it.
"You magnificent bastard I READ YOUR BOOK!!!"
Yes, I did just steal a joke from Atop the Fourth Wall, but it needed to be made. 
We cut to the servant of our villain talking with Ice again. 
He tells him that he has to sink to ship at midnight exactly. If he screws up the boss well use his whaling ships on him.
Ice then says people who threaten sharks don't live to see the threats carried out. What? Who the heck goes around and threatens sharks. So ice gets his shark gang (I really wish I was making this up.) And tells them the plan. 
He says they're gonna trick a guy named Tentacles to get the Iceberg in front of the ship. 

After that we see the Captain saying how happy he is that there's no icebergs. And then we cut to Elizabeth's family having dinner, the father saying he's happy to have Elizabeth back at the table, and then WE CUT TO THE BUTLER PACKING HIS STUFF! MOVIE, KEEP FOCUS. ALL THESE SCENES ARE POINTLESS BUT TO MAKE IT EVEN WORSE THE MOVIE JUMPS FROM ONE TO THE OTHER REALLY QUICKLY!!! This movie's sense of pacing is just.....ugh. 

And then, after all those useless 5 second scenes, we cut back to the sharks. We then meet Tentacles. 
Oh my god, what is that monstrosity. 
That's Tentacles. He's an octopus....with a dog like face....OK. An Orca tells Tentacles that he doesn't trust the sharks and that he shouldn't listen to him. Tentacles is stupid though. I mean they're wearing jail clothes how much more obvious can it be that they're villains! The orca gets captured but Tentacles doesn't notice. Yes, he somehow just doesn't notice that his best friend suddenly went missing. 
The sharks tell him they have a game for him. The game is to throw an iceberg. They get a few practice throws in and then we switch scenes, because this movie has a fricking focus issue. Jesus Christ. 
At least the scene they switch to is plot relevant. The dog goes to take the message the butler had earlier away from the telegrapher. I don't really see the point since they cut the telegraph's wires, but whatever. This is a movie about flying magic dolphins and gangster sharks, I think this is the least of its logic problems. 
We then see the butler put his cat in his cage. 
That scene.....it just adds so much. I totally see why it was necessary. Oh wait, no I don't. 
So we cut to Blind Beard and Elizabeth's Dad. The father tells him that the wedding is off, and that he's also a bit confused by the terms of the whaling deal, but is willing to give it another look. So they head back to Blind Beard's room. 
But due to this movies attention disorder we change scenes again. Jesus, focus....please. That's all I want. 
Now if this movie wasn't utter garbage I wouldn't be so hard on this...but this is a movie where sharks are gangsters and you can talk to animals just by crying on them. 
Elizabeth and Jack get the message from the dog. Elizabeth is shocked that her father gave Blind Beard the whaling rights and decides to talk to him.
Back to the father, before he can look at the documents he gets held at gunpoint. 
Dude, he was going to look over the terms. There's a chance he would've signed the documents. Save the gun stuff for when he says no. But whatever, I guess this is the quick way. Blind Beard say he's gonna kill Elizabeth if he doesn't put his 'John Hancock' on the papers. And yes he does refer to his signature as a John Hancock. I know that's a slang term for signature, but...I don't there's just something funny about it. (And no it's not the Hancock part.) It's just a funny term to me.
To make things worse for the father the Stepmother hands over a will and testimony that I'm assuming gives her everything he owns after he dies. 
Luckily a dog listens in the conversation. 
Though we never see him again so there was really no point in showing him eavesdropping. Dang it why is so much of this movie completely POINTLESS?
So back to the sharks. After the warm up iceberg throws he tells Tentacles there's one way to prove he's the best. He tells him to throw a giant iceberg. He literally gives him like the exact distance and coordinates where it has to land, and somehow Tentacles gets it spot on. Whatever, as long as this movie is over soon I'm not gonna complain. 
Some orcas tell Tentacles he pretty much screwed a bunch of people over, and that a ship is gonna crash into the iceberg. 
On the ship our villains try to escape, but a group of dogs alerts the crew. 
The crew calls security, but it seems that that'll be a problem as they see an iceberg. 
Finally, I've been waiting for you. Where have you been. You could've ended this fricking movie way sooner. 
The ship can't turn because the sharks are stopping the rutters, but luckily the Dolphins come for an epic Shark Vs. Dolphin fight. 
But enough of anything that could be potentially awesome and entertaining, we have more bullcrap to sit through. 
The ship can turn again but it's to late and collides with the iceberg (at least they kept something historically accurate.)
We see Jack and Elizabeth run from some water rushing in, Elizabeth saying they need to find her father, and then we cut.....ugh OK. Do you know how hard it is to review a movie where the scenes change constantly. It's annoying as crap. We cut to the Captain who tells the crew to leave without him and that he has to stay with the ship. Well......that's just fricking stupid. 
I well give this whole ship sinking scene credit though. The music that plays is pretty good, and kinda adds some tension to this movie. It's not a whole lot, since I don't give two craps about anything or anyone in this movie, but it is there....a bit. 
We cut to our mousey friends. The captain says that the only hope is to get an S.O.S. signal out. Unfortunately they cut all the wires like idiots and promptly get scolded for it. 
The mice try to pull the wires together but can't. Gramps decides to go get a character we haven't seen since the beginning. In fact I actually kinda forgot about him. 
I forget this characters name so he'll be.....Bob.
To get to Bob though Gramps has to get through the flood in the kitchen. It's actually a pretty cool scene. I always like seeing smaller things interacting with the bigger human sized world. I have a soft spot for it. 
Bob is being stupid cause even though the ship is sinking he's to busy getting cheese. Gramps tells him they need help and he comes with him to the wires.
Also I think I paused at a really bad time. 
So at the wires they can't get the ends to connect. 
Luckily Bob has an idea. OK, get this. His idea is to connect the wires to his moustache.....and it works. 
Cause....that's how wiring works. 
Jokes stolen from Atop the Fourth Wall: 2
But seriously do I even have to say how dumb this fricking is. Also earlier you had no idea which wires were which so how do you even know that these are the telegraph wires. Lucky guess I assume as it works, unfortunately Bob dies. 
No not Bob, I had so much of a connection to this character we saw for 2 whole minutes. 
We cut to Tentacles who's moping around (cause of course) that he caused the untimely demise of a few hundred people.....oh but wait I forgot. In this movie nobody dies. 
Also I just realized there was a decent amount of time between when Tentacles threw the iceberg and when it actually collided with the ship....HE LITERALLY COULD'VE JUST MOVED IT! I MEAN HE WAS ABLE TO THROW IT SO MOVING IT QUICKLY BEFORE THE SHIP GOT CLOSE WOULDN'T BE A BIG PROBLEM! Kids, this is what happens when you DON'T USE YOUR BRAIN! 
Also, more moping around. Yeah, that's what this movie really needed. 
One of the dolphins tells tentacles to help as this was all his fault. He gets up his lazy bum and goes to help. He also frees the orca along the way. 
He serves no purpose to this movie besides being captured. That's literally his entire character arc. 
Tentacles comes in the middle of the Shark and Dolphin battle and throws the sharks out of the way. 
Which admittedly is kinda awesome. 
We cut back to the mice who prepare to leave on the emergency escape boats. The Captain wishes them all the best of luck. 
So even though this entire ship sinking scene has problems it's probably the best scene in the entire movie. It has awesome music and actually has a little bit of tension. Not much, but a little which for this movie is a pretty astounding feat. So how do they screw this up. 
This guy. He calms the crowd down by saying 'there's room for everyone.'
Hmm....you know I haven't made a Spongebob joke throughout this entire episode. 
Ah....that works. 
You wanna know why so many people died or went missing on the Titanic. Because there wasn't enough room. The Titanic was supposed to be an unsinkable ship so they didn't think they'd need escape boats. They had some, just not enough unfortunately. I also think that the ship had way more passengers than expected which was another factor, but I may be wrong about that. Point is there wasn't enough room which is why woman and children left first, and as such about 1,500 people out of around 2,200 people died. From what I've read up all the passengers had life jackets, but obviously that wasn't enough.
In retrospect the number of deaths just kinda makes this movie more...vile. Saying there was room for everyone and that nobody died is kind of a spit in the face to those victims isn't it. But who cares right? I mean it's only a kids film. *sigh* I'll debunk that argument later. We got more bull to sit through. 
Also from a storytelling perspective, if we ignore the slap in the face to the innocent victims of the Titanic crashing, this still doesn't work. The live action movie's crashing scene worked because 1-We were invested in the characters and romance and 2-There was a big chance that one of characters might not make it. Since there wasn't enough room in the lifeboats we get the feeling that Jack and Rose might not make it and it just raises the tension. Since we know there's enough room in the lifeboats now we know our characters are OK and thus tension is killed. Tension comes from danger or threat of some kind, and if our characters aren't in any danger tension is gone. 
That's why Nightmare Hospital from Steven Universe or Speed Demon from The Powerpuff Girls works so well in the Intensity department. We feel there's some kind of dangerous presence lurking around. (The mystery aspect in both episodes also helped the tension but still, you get my point. Without a threat there's no tension or sense of emergency.)
So good job movie, not only are you offensive, but you also suck at telling a story. *clap* *clap* *clap*
So we see Elizabeth and Jack running from the flood continuing to look for Elizabeth's father. 
The two mice come to tell them to get away from the flood. Noooo really? I didn't think the flood was dangerous at all. 
They do eventually find him in the tied up state our villains left him in. 
Then the mice come back to tell them to get to the deck. No fricking duh. 
Also the father can hear them. 
HOW!? WAS HE ALSO INFECTED WITH 'MOON BEAM MAGIC.' 
"Great Continuity"
AT4W Jokes-3

While the ship is crashing we see the villains escape. 

We also see the father has safely gotten to a life boat. 
Jack and Elizabeth don't get on a life boat for some reason. I mean if this stayed historically accurate it would make sense as there might not be enough room for them, but no, literally a few minutes ago there was a guy who said that there was enough room for everyone. Why are you being stupid. Get on a fricking lifeboat. 
The ship begins to sink more but Tentacles holds it up.
Jack and Elizabeth are in trouble, because they're stupid and DIDN'T GET IN THE LIFE BOATS. 
They eventually see Tentacles' uh....tentacle and freak out.
The Dolphins tell Elizabeth and Jack though that Tentacles is a friend. A friend who put you all in danger even though he had more than enough time to push the iceberg out of the way, but decided moping was the better option. What a good friend. 
Tentacles comes up to apologize about this whole mess saying it was his fault. Elizabeth says it isn't and that this was the doing of an evil greedy man. Even though...you know...part of it is Tentacles' fault, but whatever I've ranted on that enough.
Also is it just me or has her hair color changed. I guess they made it darker to show its night out, but would blonde hair really go that dark in the night? It just looks...off. 
Anyway we get another surprise as the whales come. 
We check back with the people leaving on the escape ships. And there is seriously a 5 man orchestra playing sad music. 
You know when other movies or shows do this it's usually done as a joke, but here it's played completely straight. Also now doesn't really seem like the best place to do this. 
We cut back to the captain who is staying with the ship, because all these characters are complete morons who somehow managed to get through life with only a handful of brain cells. 
Seriously going down with your ship is not honorable. It's dumb. OK I well admit this is apparently historically accurate to the real captain of the Titanic......kind of. He wanted to go down with the ship, but when captains say they're going down with the ship, they don't mean that they're going to just stand on the ship while it sinks and wait for death. No, when people say that they mean they're going to save everyone else first or die trying. Which is in fact honorable and is what the actual captain of the Titanic, Edward J. Smith, did.
Edward Smith did everything in his power to calm the passengers down when he realized there wasn't enough room on the life boats. He made sure everyone was going to be safe before he even thought about himself. That's the true meaning of "The Captain goes down with his ship." Putting everyone else's safety before your own, which usually does result in the Captain dying or his rescue being belated. That is honorable. That is heroic. However just giving up and waiting for death to come, instead of doing something to help the passengers  is not honorable. It's fricking moronic. Edward Smith sacrificed his life to save the passengers and the crew, this captain does nothing but quit. 
God I hate this movie. 
But let's be honest at least this bastardized version of Edward Smith has more of a reason to stay then Elizabeth and Jack. Seriously what's their excuse. There's literally no reason for those two to stay. Just get on the life boats. 
Tentacles saves the Captain. You know the Captain who in real life sacrifices his life trying to save the passengers. 
Yep the movie kept him alive. Ha ha....way to spit in the face of this man's selfless sacrifice. 
Also may I remind you that this version of the captain is a complete idiot. I don't want this version of him to live. 
Jack and Elizabeth are in a sticky situation meanwhile. They have to jump. 
I mean they wouldn't have to if the just took the....you know what I've said my thoughts on this matter enough already. So they jump. 
Unfortunately they do not freeze to death. Instead a whale saves them. 
And so, with all that said and done, we take one last look at the destroyed ruins of the Titanic as it begins to sink completely. 
Is.....is it over. Am I done. Are we done with this god awful pile of crap. 
No, we are not. Unfortunately we still have an ending. Darn movie, how dare it has the decency to wrap it's story up. 
So we see the passengers somberly leaving the ship. But there is a bright side. 
Unfortunately he begins moving again.
Darn it. Anyway we cut to a celebration of some sort. 
We also see our villains are completely stuck in the artic. 
But even during the end this movies Attention Disorder can't keep calm and so we cut back to the celebration. It's the wedding of Elizabeth and Jack. 
I love how the 'captain' and Elizabeth's father are just staring at them kissing in the creepiest fashion ever. 
Oh, but not only that, but it seems Gramps and Stella are also getting married. 
Seriously, they had less screen time together than Jack and Elizabeth. That's impressive. 
Also look at this photo. 
Stella looks drunk. I don't blame her though. I to would try to drink my way through this movie if I was old enough. 
And don't even get me started on Gramp's face. It looks like he's suffering from PTSD flashbacks, but for some reason is getting joy from them. 
Anyway Jack's dog receives some wonderful news. And he rushes to tell Jack about it. 
It seems Tentacles is alive. They play it out like its supposed to be a happy twist, but we already saw signs that Tentacles was alive earlier so you ruined your own twist. 
Also I keep pausing at the worst of times. 
The captain gives his thanks and salutes Tentacles for saving everyone's life. Even though everyone already left by the time he came and the only ones he saved were Jack Elizabeth and the captain, who may I remind you were all being stupid idiots. 
Also this seems quite uncharacteristic of a man who wanted to sink with the ship. 
But there's more 'good' news. Bob is alive. 
Wait.....what. How? How did you survive that. You were electrocuted. 
So in this movie the total death toll from the Titanic comes down to 0. 
The flashback ends and we cut back to present day. 
By the way I forgot to mention the live action movie this film rips off also is told completely through flashbacks. 
And so our movie finally ends with one of the boys asking if the whales are safe. Gramps replying that the whales well always be in danger and that we need to protect them. Wait. So you made a movie about the Titanic and used it preach your stupid, forced whaling message? Who? Who thought this movie was a good idea. 
Well screw both of you. 
There is just....so much wrong with this. So much.....
I can't....I just can't. 


Evan....


Oh, Kevin. Listen I'm fine. I don't need your help. 

Evan, I'm your guardian angel. You can't keep things from me. Something's wrong. 

OK, you wanna know what's wrong. There's all this crap with Adora and Ashley first of all. I feel so awful for the way I treated them. I just....I just want to make it up to them, but I'm afraid. 

Afraid?

What if they don't accept it and are still mad at me? 

And until you have the acceptance of others you can't accept yourself?

Uh....I guess. 

Evan, realize how silly that sounds. If Ashley and Adora don't forgive you, the worst that could happen is that you'll have to move on. They are the past. The future is the road you should focus on. 

Man, how deep.


You tease, but trust me. I haven't done you wrong yet. 

True. I'll give you that. 

There's more than that though. I'm sensing a lot of anger and not just at this Ashley and Adora situation. We can talk about them more later on, but now, I feel, is the best time to address the problem of this movie. 

What about it? It's a bad movie. 

Your right about that, but this isn't your run of the mill bad. It's not Good Neighbors or Striperella, or even Peter Problems. I feel way more anger coming from this movie than from other products you've reviewed. 

Ha, makes sense. This is without a doubt the worst thing I've reviewed yet. I created this blog to talk about an industry I'm legitimately invested in. To show the good and bad and hopefully show people that animation should be taken as seriously as other forms of entertainment. But you know what I realized. There's a reason people can't take animation seriously. All the pandering, nonsensical garbage that can be found in it. Not just in this movie. But in some of the most popular shows like Spongebob and Family Guy to the most obscure crap like Striperella and this. This movie is everything I stand against when it comes to making animation for kids or otherwise. The pandering, the unoriginality, the awful story, the bland characters. It made me realize that people can't take animation seriously because the creators don't take it seriously. And if they don't take it seriously why should I? Why am I even wasting my time with this. It's just.....I feel like it's time to stop wasting my time. I'm not doing any good. This endeavor has been pointless. 

Has it really? Evan, listen, there's still effort out there. Animation has been around for over 100 years. I don't see it dying anytime soon. In those 100 or so years it has only gotten better. In fact some may argue that currently animation is in its prime. There is garbage, but you must look at the medium as a whole and realize why you love it to begin with. The heartwarming moments, the sad moments, the funny, happy moments. The messages. The history behind it. For every Stripperella there's a Rick and Morty and for every bad Spongebob episode there's a good one. People are beginning to take the medium much more seriously. The fanbase of animation is only growing larger. Even if there is still crap, you can't let the rust effect the value of an overall great looking diamond to you. I think you heard enough of my voice though, so I'll leave you be. 


OK, see ya. That Kevin. Sometimes I think he only wants to see me just to yap. 
So....what should I do. 
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No....no Gundam Houses. 
Don't turn my favorite childhood characters into annoying douchebags.
A whale....being torn to shreds. 

Great Nickelodeon, just ruin another classic show of yours. 
Stiffy Woods....seriously that's his name. 

Ha ha ha ha....he peed on his leg. How charming. 
Flying Dolphin wizards.....who can grant you the ability to talk to animals by crying on them....WHAT!!!
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AHHHHHHH!!!! NO, I CAN'T TAKE IT. ANIMATION HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE GREAT BUT THE CREATORS OF THESE MOVIES AND SHOWS JUST DON'T SEE THAT. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DEFEND ANIMATION WITH ALL THIS CRAP. PRESENT IN IT. 
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This episode is hilarious. 
It makes me have so many feels.

Friendship really is a magic thing. 
Sometimes things are just to big for one to handle by themselves. 
Life is a beautiful things isn't it. It's a great thing.
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*Sigh* no. Animation has told some of the most beautiful, heartwarming, tear jerking, happy, funny stories I've ever seen. It can and should be taken seriously. I can't give up on it. There's crap, but it's all worth sitting through when you find that diamond in the rough.
I should know...it's just for a second there I forgot. 
Thanks Kevin. 

So let's finish up this review then. This movie goes against absoulutley everything I stand for when making an animated product. The animation is OK, but there are obviously some low budget tricks on display. The soundtrack is actually probably the only decent thing about this film. I'd definitely listen to it. Of course that's not enough to save this movie. It treats it's target audience like idiots who wouldn't know about the Titanic even though I'm sure most of them would. It lacks any effort in the writing with pointless padding, bland characters, a forced romance and of course it rips a good chunk of it's plot points straight from the live action movie. This is what happens when people think animation is just a kids thing and as such don't have to try. Kids well buy anything right. I've said it before and I'll say it again, kids are not dumb. They well also realize this movie is dumb and their intelligence deserves to be respected. 
This was just a lazy cash grab. 
Let's not forget how insulting this movie is. Not just on a production standpoint, but on a personal, real life level. It spits in the face of everyone that had to go though the tradgic Titanic crash just to give kids their happy ending, because kids can't handle a sad ending. The only emotion a movie can makes kids feel is happiness. That is just contempt for your target audience on the most stupid level. 'Kids don't like movies that have sad moments.'
Land Before Time 
Lion King (Heck most Disney movies)
Even Captain Fricking Planet knew kids could handle sad moments. CAPTIAN PLANET. AND I HATE CAPTAIN PLANET BUT IT SURE AS HECK HAS MORE RESPECT FROM ME THEN YOU!

Contempt for the target audience, stupid, bizzare, pointless, or just dull plot moments. Bland characters, and it insults the legacy of the Titanic and everyone onboard. And all for what. A forced whaling message. Cause the whales are clearly more important then....you know...not spitting on the face of thousands of people. 
And you know what....I realized something. The most insulting thing about this movie could've been fixed if the ship wasn't named Titanic. 
Think about it. All the problems would still exist except it wouldn't be spitting on the legacy of a real life ship that people actually died on. 
AT4W Jokes-5
But seriously. Why didn't they do that. Money. It always comes back to money. Wanted to cash in on the success of the live action movie. And while it is great to make money off of something you worked on it shouldn't be just about the money. That's just an insult to the medium. 
It insults the genre of animation, the intelligence of the audience and worse of all the victims of the Titanic crashing. 
All for a whaling message. 
SCREW THIS MOVIE. ITS THE WORST THING I'VE HAD TO SIT THROUGH YET!

Best Part-The Soundtrack (Seriously props to the composers who were the only people on this film actually trying. But if anything just listen to the soundtrack if you can find it.)
Worst Part-The insult this movie is to the real Titanic and it's crew and passengers. 
Overall-1/10

But that's that people. Thank you so much for a year of doing this blog. We've had our ups and downs, but I've had a lot of fun doing this. 
Animation has a long history and also has a lot to talk about both good and bad. I'm not giving up quite yet. 

Here's what you'll be seeing in the next year on this blog:
Sofia the First
School Days
Date A Live 
Madoka Magica
More Disney
More Spongebob 
More Family Guy
More Steven Universe
Pokemon 
Ponies
Gumball

Thanks again guys for a year. I'll see you all later.
Peace. 



You feeling better?

Yeah, I am. Finishing that up review was a huge load off my chest. Hey, I'm sorry by the way. My anger at the movie kinda made me a bit of a douche. 

It's all good. I'm not insulted. I understand you didn't mean any harm.

Still it was quite douchey. I shouldn't let one awful movie get the best of me and make me lash out. 

I'm sure it was more than just the movie.

Yeah.....this whole Adora situation is troubling me, but I'm going to be OK. Now....don't say I told you so, but.....

My words really did help. Didn't they.

Maybe......a bit. 

Ha ha...knew it would. 

Don't rub it in my face. 
Now if you excuse me, I gotta go apologize to Ashley. 

Actually, you don't. 

Ashley!!

I'll leave you two be. 

Listen, I just want to say sorry for causing a ruckus back there. 

No...no it's totally fine. I was in the wrong. I was taking my anger from a stupid movie out on you.

Well....true, but I didn't even take the time to understand why. I just assumed the worst. 

Well....how about we say we both did things we regret today and leave it at that. 

Fair enough......but I'm more in the wrong. 

Nah-uh

Yeah-uh......
Ha ha ha.

Ha, listen point is I'm sorry. I let my anger get the best me.

I'm sorry to. I always assume the worst intentions in people.

I don't blame you for that. After all people can be cruel sometimes. They can back stab, and hurt others without remorse......we're not all bad though.

Yeah.....yeah you're right. You know we never really did catch up. How's life been since you moved from our neighborhood. 

I guess it's been good, I'm mostly alone working on review stuff, but I'm having fun.

Do you not have many friends or something? 

Yep, some things never change. Ha ha. 

Well then I'll be your friend. 

What?

I'll be the person you can just chill and talk with whenever you get bored of writing. We never got to hang out much when we were little, because I was to shy to talk to you, but I'm working on improving that. Besides your cool and deserve better. 

Better what?

I don't know. Better life. You always seem so depressed or unhappy. 

Ha, what are you talking about. My life couldn't be better. I'm living my dream of being able to discuss a medium I love with all kinds of people. 

Listen, Kevin told me some things about you. Like how much guilt you've been feeling about this whole Adora thing, and about how timid you are around others.

So, I have some problems, but I'm trying not to let those ruin my life. I have regrets, but there's nothing I can do about those now. 

How are you so positive. 

I'm just sick of all the negativity in this world. We need more positive reinforcement.

Ha, yeah. Well I'm leaving. If you want to talk later message me. 

Can do. See ya.




So now that that's over we can continue planning.

I'm still worried about him.

Why's that. 

I feel like under his positive exterior is an inside full of regret and pain and agony.
Like the whole optimism thing is just a cover up.

That may very well be the case, but it's the way Evan coops with problems in his life, and it helps. 

Man, how do you-know him so well.

I told you, I've known him all his life. 

Oh right, the Guardian Angel thing. 

You still don't believe me do you?

Nope. 

Understandable. Let's just plan how we're gonna reconnect Evan and Adora. 





Out of character Note: sorry for how long it's taking to update and post part 2. Hope you enjoyed and once again thanks for a whole year of doing this. 























I just noticed its called LEGEND of the Titanic as if the events this movie was based on were a myth or something.....
God I hate this film.