JW-30
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As other reviews have said, it's a few familiar plots, clichés, poor CGI and mediocre effects, acting etc thrown together. DOES IT GET MIXED UP? Yes, and you get a muddy mash of regurgitated material.
As usual with such machinations, the worst thing is the script, or lack thereof.
Hundred more words required, but not much to say. Yes, it is that bad. No, you don't need to check for yourself.
This movie seems to need several different titles so potential viewers are not warned off before watching it. I was confronted with it where it was wearing the the title "Rodin".
I liked his sculptures better.
As usual with such machinations, the worst thing is the script, or lack thereof.
Hundred more words required, but not much to say. Yes, it is that bad. No, you don't need to check for yourself.
This movie seems to need several different titles so potential viewers are not warned off before watching it. I was confronted with it where it was wearing the the title "Rodin".
I liked his sculptures better.
There is a type of drugs that makes people see smiling faces on the floorboards, and horses on the ceiling.
The well-executed visuals and effects in this series serve a similar purpose: to bedazzle, and distract - from what ultimately is just a load of random nonsense. The mysteries the start promises are none; it's just distraction elements liberally sprinkled over a very minimal plot with cardboard characters. ("they are NPCs", one might say: but even in the cheaper games today, NPCs have more depth).
A complete waste of your time, avoid. I wish I could forget that I saw it, and even better: get my time back. Avoid. 3 of the 4 stars I give are for production values and acting.
Should you want to see something on the same old recursive-reality trope that gets it right, try Cronenberg's eXistenZ (1999): it delivers, and manages that in 97 minutes.
The well-executed visuals and effects in this series serve a similar purpose: to bedazzle, and distract - from what ultimately is just a load of random nonsense. The mysteries the start promises are none; it's just distraction elements liberally sprinkled over a very minimal plot with cardboard characters. ("they are NPCs", one might say: but even in the cheaper games today, NPCs have more depth).
A complete waste of your time, avoid. I wish I could forget that I saw it, and even better: get my time back. Avoid. 3 of the 4 stars I give are for production values and acting.
Should you want to see something on the same old recursive-reality trope that gets it right, try Cronenberg's eXistenZ (1999): it delivers, and manages that in 97 minutes.
Puppet stories. Why do they have to be over the top?
But I get it, it's not the puppets, it's the humans. The bits about differences and similarities between "fleshies" and puppets worked for me, by the way.
Pretty much standard plots, standard characters combined; but that's kind of the point. The same thing, but more gross - and more honest.
About "more funny", it wasn't my taste. But hey, different tastes. Some will have laugh themselves silly.
Being from Europe, I haven't heard of Melissa McCarthy before; but it appears this kind of humor is right up her, err, alley; and if you share it, then up yours, too.
But I get it, it's not the puppets, it's the humans. The bits about differences and similarities between "fleshies" and puppets worked for me, by the way.
Pretty much standard plots, standard characters combined; but that's kind of the point. The same thing, but more gross - and more honest.
About "more funny", it wasn't my taste. But hey, different tastes. Some will have laugh themselves silly.
Being from Europe, I haven't heard of Melissa McCarthy before; but it appears this kind of humor is right up her, err, alley; and if you share it, then up yours, too.