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fealubryne mentioned it a couple days ago, and since I no longer have a list of movies to see (other than the last two Harry Potter ones which I may never get to), now seemed the time.
LJ cutting sincetreuegrit wants to see it but hasn't yet. It's a really mixed movie for me. I love the music (easily the best part of the movie). I love the settings. I love the human bad guy. The main character does nothing for me and I dislike most of the other birds. And if there's a modern day animated movie that doesn't have George Lopez's voice in it, I'd like to know.
I know it's a movie about talking animals, so we have a lack of reality right there, but it always bugs me when we have to accept such unreasonable things: The two main characters jump off a mountain and just by chance hit hang glider after hang glider on the way down so they just happen not to die.
I loved the first few minutes of it, right up until the point the birds started talking. (Yeah, I know, hardly a unique thing in animated movies about animals, but it didn't bug me in other movies (Lion King, Balto).) After those first three or four minutes, I started watching the clock nonstop (and I now have it paused at the halfway point to write this). Let's hope the second half is better!
...or it could have more annoying unrealistic stuff. A whole entire parade is going by, somehow the whole thing misses a skateboard in the middle of the road. Tons of dancers, floats, nothing hits the skateboard, it's just right there when the bird needs it. And somehow the two good guy humans, in the middle of the parade, steal a float without a single bit of protest from anyone. Sigh.
Well, at least the ending was okay. I was worried they'd all end up living in America at the end.
Good things: Costumes were OUTSTANDING. Music was great. Setting/style was really nice. Discovering a RL person named "will.i.am" exists. Seriously, I can't say enough about the costumes and style; I've never said this of an animated movie before, but it must have been a joy to plan out and draw.
Bad: I didn't like almost any character, major or minor. The story did nothing for me. George Lopez. Seriously unrealistic way too often.
The movie was an hour and a half, but it easily felt five or six hours long. I have such a hard time shutting off my brain and not getting hung up on the unrealistic stuff, so while I have to thumbs down the movie, it might just be my own oddness making it not work for me.
fealubryne mentioned it a couple days ago, and since I no longer have a list of movies to see (other than the last two Harry Potter ones which I may never get to), now seemed the time.LJ cutting since
treuegrit wants to see it but hasn't yet. It's a really mixed movie for me. I love the music (easily the best part of the movie). I love the settings. I love the human bad guy. The main character does nothing for me and I dislike most of the other birds. And if there's a modern day animated movie that doesn't have George Lopez's voice in it, I'd like to know. I know it's a movie about talking animals, so we have a lack of reality right there, but it always bugs me when we have to accept such unreasonable things: The two main characters jump off a mountain and just by chance hit hang glider after hang glider on the way down so they just happen not to die.
I loved the first few minutes of it, right up until the point the birds started talking. (Yeah, I know, hardly a unique thing in animated movies about animals, but it didn't bug me in other movies (Lion King, Balto).) After those first three or four minutes, I started watching the clock nonstop (and I now have it paused at the halfway point to write this). Let's hope the second half is better!
...or it could have more annoying unrealistic stuff. A whole entire parade is going by, somehow the whole thing misses a skateboard in the middle of the road. Tons of dancers, floats, nothing hits the skateboard, it's just right there when the bird needs it. And somehow the two good guy humans, in the middle of the parade, steal a float without a single bit of protest from anyone. Sigh.
Well, at least the ending was okay. I was worried they'd all end up living in America at the end.
Good things: Costumes were OUTSTANDING. Music was great. Setting/style was really nice. Discovering a RL person named "will.i.am" exists. Seriously, I can't say enough about the costumes and style; I've never said this of an animated movie before, but it must have been a joy to plan out and draw.
Bad: I didn't like almost any character, major or minor. The story did nothing for me. George Lopez. Seriously unrealistic way too often.
The movie was an hour and a half, but it easily felt five or six hours long. I have such a hard time shutting off my brain and not getting hung up on the unrealistic stuff, so while I have to thumbs down the movie, it might just be my own oddness making it not work for me.
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Date: 2011-09-24 09:49 pm (UTC)Though I don't really give a hoot about this in animated movies (because what do you expect, it's a glorified cartoon) I do get what you mean and I did have a very similar problem with the Star Wars prequels. People falling thousands of stories and landing on speeders with absolutely no injuries/consequences whatsoever, ships firing thousands of lasers at other ships and hitting everything around them EXCEPT the ship, and other cartoon elements in a very not-cartoon movie.
Off topic: Not to mention that I'm sorry but you're writing a freaking prequel. Stop pretending there's any real suspense in battle scenes with characters who are later in the series. It's not like Obi-wan can die in Episode II.
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Date: 2011-09-24 09:58 pm (UTC)Smartass. :D I don't know if the talking animal cartoons that I did like stuck to physics/logic better than Rio or if something else about Rio just made me be unable to turn my brain off enough to enjoy it.
Off topic: Not to mention that I'm sorry but you're writing a freaking prequel. Stop pretending there's any real suspense in battle scenes with characters who are later in the series. It's not like Obi-wan can die in Episode II.
Well sure he could have! ...so long as they brought him back to life before getting to the main story's point in the timeline. Might I suggest a Twilight crossover? ;)
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Date: 2011-09-24 10:04 pm (UTC)You might, but then I might be obliged to bludgeon you with a severed body part of my choosing.
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Date: 2011-09-24 10:05 pm (UTC)