Jacob Cat

When gru said: "Minions, It's time to rise," and morbed everyone I actually came in my pants. This movie is spectacular. Ever since its release, "Top Gun: Maverick" Has been one of my favorite of the year, possibly of all time. I actually cried when Morbius said "It's morbin' time" and morbed everyone. On September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists associated with al-Qaeda, an Islamist extremist group, hijacked four commercial airplanes scheduled to fly from the East Coast to California. In a coordinated attack that turned the planes into weapons, the terrorists intentionally flew two of the planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, a global business complex in New York City, causing the towers to collapse. They also flew a third plane into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, in Arlington, Virginia. Passengers and crew members on the fourth plane launched a counterattack, forcing the hijacker pilot—who was flying the airplane toward Washington, D.C.—to crash the plane into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, near the town of Shanksville. The 9/11 attacks killed 2,977 people. This was the single largest loss of life resulting from a foreign attack on American soil. The attacks caused the deaths of 441 first responders, the greatest loss of emergency responders on a single day in American history.

This is my first Wes Anderson movie, and I'm happy to say that I really enjoyed this movie. This is Wes 2nd stop motion film, (I also must watch Fantastic Mr. Fox) But enough rambling from me, here is my honest review. Isle of dogs is a witty, detail packed, beautifully animated, and overall well made movie which should be a must watch, wether you like Wes Anderson as a director or not. I want to touch on the humour. This movie is packed with dry, yet witty and smart jokes. most of these jokes landed for me, and it never came across as cheap or quickly thrown in, and from what I've seen, his other movies like The French Dispatch have roughly the same humour. The cinematography is very distinct and very appreciated. I love how the "camera" has these wide shots. It gives you a sense of the world they live in, and overall is generally well done. The animation is gorgeous, and you can just see how much effort and love was poured into this movie. I would consider stop motion as the hardest form of animation, and the fact that this movie wouldn't feel the same if it wasn't in stop motion kinda just drives home the point of how beautiful the world that these people made. If you pause at any moment in the movie, you get a wonderful piece of art. My only complaint with this movie is that some things that came up felt a little random, with no real reason to happen. (spoilers ahead so uh, go watch it if you haven't already.) When Tracy said she had feelings for Atari, it felt a little out of the blue, or when Spots "dies" but somehow survives underground. Honestly I feel a little harsh on the movie with this criticism, considering there was a lot to unpack about the movie maybe I didn't catch something but Idk. Anyways, those are minor criticisms about the movie that kinda don't really matter. The pacing is a great part of this movie as well. It feels perfectly paced. Even when nothing is happening, I never lost interest because the pacing of the film was just so on point. TLDR: This movie is fantastic. It has great animation, cinematography, details, pacing, hilarious, you name it, the movie probably has it. The films only limitations is it's somewhat random plot points, but in the big picture that doesn't really matter. Definitely a must watch. 5/5

Okay, so if you don’t know, this show was created by the same person who created Avatar The Last Airbender. This will come into significance later, but for now, here are my general thoughts; The Dragon Prince is a beautifully crafted show that really shines in character development and world building. I had a fear that the characters would feel very static, one dimensional. But that wasn’t true AT ALL. Seeing Callum find himself and start to figure out who he was, was such a interesting arc. All these characters are wonderfully made, just like in ATLA. That brings me into my (probably only) issue with the show. It felt very formulaic, and by that I meant there are some aspects about the show that are strikingly similar to things in ATLA. For example: A power hungry villain wanting war, or when the full moon comes out (compared to sozins comet) the moon shadow elves got their full power, like the fire benders did in ATLA. But that’s not a huge issue for me. I really enjoyed this show. It had wonderful world building- sorry, gorgeous world building, and wonderful characters that I can really connect too. TLDR; This show is awesome, and it’s only issue is that it’s a little formulaic. Besides that it’s amazing. Go watch it if you haven’t.