What are you watching?
- Thread starter Blackbird.
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Gave this a bash tonight, but had to quit halfway through...
Visually it's absolutely stunning - stop-motion animation of the highest calibre, and no doubt it will be a smash hit over the Xmas holidays.
But... my god it's schmaltzy. It's a musical, so I should have known better, but the angelic auto-tuned singing of Carlo/Pinocchio is sickeningly saccharin throughout... it's so horribly drippy that it's hard to enjoy it or feel any connection to the characters at all, it's like watching a feature-length episode of Middle Class Choir Boy of the Year.
That and Ewan MacGregor in the role of narrator and playing the cricket character just makes it unbearably naff - though ironically, it's the first time that MacGregor hasn't been the most wooden character in a film, although he does come a close second.
Disappointingly wet.
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For nostalgic reasons back to when I was a kid, I went to rewatching Viva Pinata.
Looking at it now, its very inconsistent in quality, some episodes are bangers (like the Wild West parody episode, or the Chewnicorn episode) while others are horrible, definitely the attraction as a kid is the funny Pinata Animals. Bit of a bias here admittedly as Paulie Pretztail ended up being my favourite of the cast but he is the biggest victim of the inconsistencies, most of the time he's the Straight Man archetype to everyone else's antics but it gets suddenly forgotten in multiple episodes.
Granted from something out of 4Kids from scratch and not their usual anime dubs, I'm surprised how far they pushed referencing material that they normally block when dubbing Anime. They have a candy bar episode they didn't pull punches referecing alcoholic bars.
Looking at it now, its very inconsistent in quality, some episodes are bangers (like the Wild West parody episode, or the Chewnicorn episode) while others are horrible, definitely the attraction as a kid is the funny Pinata Animals. Bit of a bias here admittedly as Paulie Pretztail ended up being my favourite of the cast but he is the biggest victim of the inconsistencies, most of the time he's the Straight Man archetype to everyone else's antics but it gets suddenly forgotten in multiple episodes.
Granted from something out of 4Kids from scratch and not their usual anime dubs, I'm surprised how far they pushed referencing material that they normally block when dubbing Anime. They have a candy bar episode they didn't pull punches referecing alcoholic bars.
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I remember when my brother went to see it in the theater when it first came out, and he said it was the scariest movie he had ever seen. Because of that, it took me a couple decades before I summoned the courage to watched it myself. (I'm a bit of a scaredy-cat when it comes to horror movies.) Of course it was brilliant, one of the greatest horror/sci-fi movies ever.
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