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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Happily Undead in Dark River (Dark River Days, #2) in Books

Jan 6, 2021  
Happily Undead in Dark River (Dark River Days, #2)
Happily Undead in Dark River (Dark River Days, #2)
Grace McGinty | 2020
4
4.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I read the first book in this series a few months ago and really quite enjoyed it so when I got my KU subscription and saw this was in the catalogue I decided to grab this one, too.

This one picks up not long after the events of the first with Raine now being persona non grata in Dark River apart from her four guys. It's going to take some time for the townspeople to come to terms with Raine being the victim of their well-loved, long-term resident (who I won't name.) It seems that what went down in their little town has drawn the attention of the Vampire Nation and they are on their way to investigate.

I did enjoy the first one, this one wasn't quite as engaging. I felt this one was getting a little too complicated with all the new lovers she was acquiring. Four men I can cope with - and have read several books with four males in reverse harems - but I think that at the end of this Raine was quickly verging on about 7 or 8 men that she would happily share her bed with and the others not be bothered about. It was getting a little ridiculous for me.

I can't say the storyline of this one pulled me into it, either. It was rather reminiscent of the first. Someone wants her dead, various attempts on her life and then saved by her guys - only the number of them has multiplied a little. There was quite a lot of sex in this, with various partners and combinations of men. It felt rather heavy on the erotica side of romance and I wasn't entirely convinced by the feelings floating around.

As much as I liked the first book I don't think I'll be continuing the series.
  
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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Joji Presents: The Extravaganza (2020) in Movies

Nov 27, 2020 (Updated Nov 27, 2020)  
Joji Presents: The Extravaganza (2020)
Joji Presents: The Extravaganza (2020)
2020 | Comedy, Music
4
4.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
Not as good as Hair Cake. In seriousness, as someone who firmly believes that FIlthy Frank was perhaps the single greatest online entertainer who ever lived - something this casual was always going to seem like a downgrade for me as opposed to his former persona's caustic, over-the-top antics. But I also really enjoy Joji and feel he's similarly unique in a different way - one of which I dig quite a lot. Ballads 1 and Nectar have some *banger* songs on them that I regularly put on repeat so I was fully ready to have fun with this. But what was marketed as a dark spin on a circus stage performance meets a lite version of The Eric Andre Show ended up being a rather low-energy, repetitive slog that stretches at barely over an hour. I'm still not even sure what the point of this was, the only half-inspired bit was Run (and maybe Sanctuary yet it seemed so telegraphed) but other than that it's a collection of confusingly samey (though never bad) live renditions of songs that you get no benefit of seeing performed here as opposed to hearing/seeing them on the albums or music videos. Joji's downtrodden, walking broken heart persona (which - by the way - I love) tries to mix with this high-energy would-be attention grabber and truthfully it doesn't work or come even close to justifying the ticket price. The costumes and songs are still rock-solid even though two or three of them just feel like the same track. It makes me happy to see George's newfound success in something he's so passionate about, but this was a misfire imo. Alas, not even Joji performing Tick Tock as a 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘔𝘦 minion can save it. God-tier ending, though - why wasn't the whole thing more like that?
  
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Gareth von Kallenbach (980 KP) rated Captain Underpants (2017) in Movies

Jul 11, 2019  
Captain Underpants (2017)
Captain Underpants (2017)
2017 | Animation, Comedy
9
7.2 (25 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
Based off the bestselling kids’ book series by Dav Pilkey, Captain

Underpants tells the story of George Beard (Kevin Hart) and Harold Hutchins

(Thomas Middleditch), a couple of over imaginative elementary school kids

that spend their days trying to make the most out of the daily monotonous

chore that is school by secretly playing pranks to keep themselves and

their fellow schoolmates entertained. And, trying to make sure they don’t

get caught by the school principal, Mr. Krupp (Ed Helm). Outside of

school, they spend countless hours in their treehouse creating comic

books.

 

Their greatest creation is the underwear sporting, high flying,

overly friendly, and extremely unintelligent superhero Captain Underpants.

Mr. Krupp’s main purpose in life is to make everyone else’s life

miserable. When he threatens to separate the boys, put them in different

classrooms, after being caught playing a prank. The boys decide to

hypnotize their principal into becoming the incredible Captain Underpants.

Ecstatic about seeing their comic book come to life, they suddenly realize

their plan backfires when Mr. Krupp in Capt Underpants persona hires

Professor Poopypants (Nick Kroll) to be the school’s new science teacher.

He’s no ordinary school teacher. Professor Poopypants wants to rid the

world of laughter starting with kids the at George and Harold’s school. Oh

NO!!!!

 

 

 

This film is everything you would expect it to be: outlandish, vibrant, and

full of potty humor. Just enough to keep parents entertained and the

kiddos completely engaged. From what I gather, not having read the books,

but my son has, it follows the storyline pretty closely to the first novel

in the 8 book series. I am not surprised if Dreamworks capitalizes on this

and releases a movie for each book.