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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Onward (2020) in Movies

Sep 20, 2020

Onward (2020)

2020 | Adventure, Animation, Comedy

8.2

(49 Ratings)

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This could have been the whole game, instead just feels like a fetch quest. Gotta say, (sarcasm incoming) really love the idea here to get two once-charming actors who have since had most of their personality sucked dry by the Marvel beast to lend their hardly descript vocal talents to a hardly descript movie of hardly descript characters. Did we just collectively decide against actual voice acting anymore over dry celebrities practically voicing themselves? Ends with a complete cop-out and its breathtaking animation is clouded by either murk or oversaturation seemingly deliberately. Not to mention the character design is ass-ugly. Can't entirely hate it though, not without some charm and handful of okay moments - but whose idea was it to set up this gold mine premise of magic being systematically pushed out of the world by technology for nothing more than simple convenience... and then do fucking nothing with it while setting it in this bland suburbia of normalcy? Potential brilliance in storytelling through an epic, gorgeous video game-esque Disney film is squandered for another antiseptic, indifferent retread of the most basic themes from the company. Not even funny, either. Had more fun with it than I'm probably letting on but I simultaneously loathe what this represents.

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Sway is a digital storytelling app that makes it easy to create visually striking presentations,...

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Bostonian916 (449 KP) rated The Kitchen (2019) in Movies

Aug 17, 2020

The Kitchen (2019)

2019 | Action, Crime, Drama

6.1

(18 Ratings)

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I'm always a sucker for a good gangster film, and at its core, that's exactly what this is.

Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish both step way outside their comedic comfort zones while Elisabeth Moss stands on her solid foundation in her role. They are all wives of gangsters who have been sent away for their crimes. They are assured that the remaining mob members will continue to make sure that they are taken care of properly in the absence of their spouses. Things fall apart when leadership decides that the amount of "support" being rendered for the wives doesn't need to be what it has been in the past. The women take matters into their own hands and decide to form their own ring of profit making endeavors.

This of course all comes to a climactic end suitable for such a story. However, my chief issue with the storytelling is that I felt like Moss's character was kind of treated as an afterthought. Early in the story there is an obvious goal in mind of the film makers and there is a huge opportunity to do so. But somewhere along the way that part of the story kind of fell by the wayside and when it was returned to it wasn't done justice.