Sasha Wood

I never read the book, but I liked this movie. Was disappointed they didn't continue with the rest of the series. One thing that bugged me is they should have made the girl playing Number 6 have a different hair color so she didn't look so similar to Sarah.

This show started out promising, but went off the rails. The show definitely wouldn't be considered "politically correct," and I usually don't care about that stuff, but even I would say half of season 1 crossed the line into offensiveness. Season 2 was really funny. But after that, the jokes just got really disgusting and weren't funny. If you like crude, inappropriate "jokes" about bathroom stuff and pregnancy, they you'll probably like it. But it grossed me out and I stopped watching after season 4.

While I've always complained how the Disney live actions change so much and I just wanted live actions to be true to the original, it turns out staying totally true to the original is not great either. This movie was scene by scene, line by line, same as the original, which made it kind of boring and felt pointless. While I enjoyed it more than Disney's live action remakes, it felt like a reenactment that just wasn't as good as the original. Like why would I bother watching this version when I can watch the original that's basically the same and better? Plus, the portrayal of Astrid fell pretty flat. In an effort to portray Astrid as tough, the actress totally lost Astrid's expressiveness shown in the original, which was necessary to make the character interesting and show growth. And I didn't feel much chemistry between Astrid and Hiccup because of her lack of emotion too.

Maybe I should have had lower expectations. I never read the book and the trailer looked good, so I was looking forward to to this movie, but found myself disappointed, bored, and sometimes confused. Several things were just conveniently there or left unexplained, which I found to be annoying and confusing. So I found myself tuning out pretty early on and just leaving the movie on in the background. And the ending was not at all what I expected it to be (in a bad way) with no real payoff. Millie's performance was good, but she didn't have much to work with. Best part about the film was her hairstyle.

I really wanted to like this movie because it's Anna Kendrick and the concept seemed interesting. But the pacing was so slow that I stopped watching 1/3 of the way through and then made myself finish it later. The scenes were also so choppy and disconnected that I didn't feel really invested in any of the characters, even the main character of Cheryl. The tense scenes towards the end were good on their own, but it took too long to get there. And there was no real satisfaction or pay off at the end, so it just felt like, what was the point of watching this? And I get what the point of the movie was from watching Anna Kendrick's interviews about making the movie, but her interviews were way more interesting than the movie itself.

I watched the first episode and it was so boring! I don't understand how so many people are loving this show. I couldn’t get past the first episode because it was so slow and boring, and I had no idea what the characters were talking about.

It was entertaining, but the original is definitely better. I didn't know what to expect going into this movie. After watching it, I have to say that this remake is proof that the original was so well written and the lines were delivered so well by the original actors that nothing can top it. I liked that this version was a full-on musical because that made it different enough from the original that it was still entertaining and fun to watch. Overall, it felt almost like a parody of the original, which is totally fine (although I don't think that's what they were going for).

This show started out with good potential, but quickly became repetitive and cliche. The cliche of teens constantly drinking, doing drugs, and partying is very overdone. I guess because it was an MTV show, they were trying to appeal to a certain audience, but I didn't know any teenagers who did that when I was growing up. And how were the well-to-do parents just happy to have their daughters' boyfriends living in their house? That would never happen. And Lori's character progression in season two when she went from being crazy to suddenly being normal and no longer fighting for Carter as soon as the trial ended made absolutely no sense.

I don't get the hype around this movie. I like the basic concept of two kids growing up together and falling in love and then being separated and trying to find each other again. But there was almost zero relationship development in this movie, so there was nothing to justify them wanting to be together so badly later on. It was like the movie makers expect the audience to accept that the guys loves her just because he says he says so and is obsessed with finding her...? And she loves him because...he found her? There were also way too many things in this movie that just weren't explained or were really unclear. And the upbeat song and dance sequence at the end totally didn't match the tone of the rest of the movie.

The problem with this show is that they're comparing apples to oranges by having acts of all different ages, styles, and numbers competing against each other. Seems like a really unfair way to judge things and expect people to vote. Categories exist in competitions for a reason.