Jared Gallup

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This is like a weird slice of life type of thing. I'm not sure I understand it. Maybe it's incoherent, unknowable nonsense, or maybe it's all symbolism for life. All I know is that near the ending, there's a highly symbolic conversation between two characters about the absurdity and unknowability of life. And that alone makes me think it's the latter. Perhaps it's all commentary on how none of us really know what's happening and what awaits us. That's what I'm going to believe, and it made me feel okay with the uncertainty I face every single day.

Frankly outstanding. I watched all of it back to back with the girl of my dreams and it hit so close to everything we've ever wanted to say, packaged up into a gorgeously animated series filled with stunning visuals, attention to detail, and the best fight scenes I have ever seen. Every episode meshes cleanly, the plot is focused and the emotional range is seemingly infinite. It's so hard to find shows that have a spark like this. My only issue is that I think some of the more poignant emotion is undercut with jokes. The story could have absolutely had me in emotional shambles with its themes of loss, hurt, and coming to terms wirh things, but I barely got past welling up at the more heartfelt and human scenes before they were cut short. It is definitely made up for with all the parts that had me wheezing and smiling like a madman. I will be watching season 2. I hope this show can explore the scott pilgrim world for a long time to come.

The first season is a rollercoaster of lighthearted fun and alien terror that didn't seem to contribute to the overall story too much, so I would understand anyone who found the show hard to follow for that time. There were a few interspersed serious events that did immediately build upon the overarching story, and I believe that they are exceptionally compelling. The next two seasons took on a lot more serious topics about emotion and life lessons that still stick with me to this day, even though since then I have both entered and succeeded my teenage years. The final two seasons are impeccable, almost each and every episode being a compelling work of story that adds on to the overall story, although the final season seems rushed and a little handwave-y. It would have absolutely benefitted from a 6th season just to further explore what its like to be a gem and flesh out some of the characters more, especially going into the series finale. The movie was great. I don't even think I could do it justice with a description, except to say that it's a great musical. Steven Universe Future is the best, By far. Having all the consequences of the previous seasons come back in full force and get dealt with in realistic, not so happily-ever-after ways is one of tue most amazing works of animation and plot I have ever seen. In summary, this series is a masterpiece that packs together a rich story with life lessons that will serve you well past your childhood. I can't recommend it enough.

This movie, aside from the numerous preposterous things that happen both in terms of how professors are allowed to treat students and how a debate on philosophy works, has a fundamental misunderstanding of what an atheist is. We don't hate God, we don't want to "kill" or "destroy" god, and we aren't giving God the silent treatment because of all the horrible things that have happened in the world, like in this movie. We don't believe in a God. At all. How can we be mad at or hurt something that doesn't exist? If you hate god, you aren't an atheist, you're a Christian at odds with your own beliefs. This movie is a blatant and uncompromising piece of propaganda for convincing them they're the real ones being persecuted, even though the court cases at the end are all cases of Christians persecuting people that they have no business prying into.

An interesting puzzle game, but it's a total corruption of what paper Mario originally was and what people want it to be. I've been a fan since I played the original on my sister's N64. Getting a puzzle done was fairly easy but rewarding, and then the boss battles were actually challenging if you didn't use real strategy. Well this game takes that page out of the paper Mario manual and wipes with it. In sticker star, the boss battles only have two potential outcomes for a new player: 1, you load up on stickers and slog your way through a damage race, hoping the completely unseen defence isn't too high so you can actually get more than 1 damage a hit or 2, You load up on the most powerful stickers in the game and best the boss in 1 turn, regardless of skill. There is no strategy, no badges to get a different set of tactics, no levels so that if you lose you can train and come back, none of it. There is only the quality of the stickers you can find, which really only divide out to "weak" and "completely overpowered" in terms of bosses. I give two stars because the art style is definitely showing evolution from previous paper Mario games, and I appreciate that they at least stylized the game to be even more papery. That being said, the other 3 of the royal star stickers will remain missing from this review because they forgot to make the game good too.

I would rate this more highly if it was an original idea but it really isn't. It's an adult animated comedy that's almost exactly like every other adult animated comedy that is or was on fox, barring Futurama because that was absolute genius. The Cleveland show is good, a little witty, and it could have been a decent show if it wasn't a spin off with what was basically copy-pasted background character that never really got a story other than a deli and a wife that inexplicably turned adulterous and abusive. Oh, and that son who gained 200 pounds and 2 feet of height despite no other character changing in the slightest. I feel like they put 3 slips of paper in a hat labelled "Quagmire" "Joe" and "Cleveland" and then made a series based off of whatever slip they drew. They should have made it into a new show with new ideas but they just fell into the same rut of ideas that family guy and American dad ran into. There were some episodes in the latter seasons that really were good but most of the rest was just not interesting enough to keep it running. At the end of the day, it was always just that guy off of family guy, but without the momentum of legacy that has kept the real family guy going.

At first I was skeptical of it because it isn't on any large game publishing site, and it had lacking reviews when I first saw it. I've been burned by that kind of game before and I didn't want to associate. Then, after about 3 months of it being on my radar, it was shown off by a couple of the YouTubers I watch and they had pretty interesting showcases of it, so I decided to take the leap I do not regret it thus far, about a month in. This has to be one of the most jam-packed piece of entertaining programming I have ever had. The community is wonderfully helpful and the game is just full to the brim of interesting mechanics and beautiful sights that will absolutely thrash your ability to keep track of time as you start mass producing pies and firewood to make sure you survive the winter.

What can I really say? There's a million things I haven't seen, but what I can compare to this is absolutely nothing. I've seen West Side Story and Le Miserables, and a slew of movies and shows that claim themselves as emotional and moving, but none of them come anywhere close the absolute masterpiece that this entire production is. I cannot understate that of ALL visual as well as audible media that I have ever been exposed to has only seldom merely resembled the astonishment and wonder that this production has instilled into me. I've watched it 5 times this far and will absolutely watch again for a long time to come. I particularly liked the song satisfied, since it's wonderfully shot and performed by an actress with such emotion that it's hard not to tear up, dear Theadosia also strums a similar chord that just hits me in a way that I could have never expected 10/10, one for each of the duel commandments.

This is a no from me. It's very clearly trying to recapture previous spongebob movie success, but it's left feeling completely hollow with low stakes and not really any development. It's immediately forgettable, and apart from the animation and the ending(not in a good way). There's no real memorable parts aside from Keanu Tumblereeves, which was a serious misuse of his powers as an actor. Sponge out of water had different animation too, but there was a compelling and creative action scene that I still remember because it was something made so much better by stepping out of the 2d comfort zone. This movie does nothing with it. Now let's talk about the ending. You can almost pinpoint the exact moment where the execs came in to the writing room and said "we've got a spinoff about summer camp. Make the whole ending into a commercial for that" It seems rushed, cheap, cliche, and overall unbelievable. It's also extremely disjointed and completely derails the momentum of the halfway tense final act. In summary: bad, you can tell they're just doing this for a paycheck now. The sponge has been wrung of all originality, and they just need to wait out the inevitable and completely drain the IP of a dead man of all it's worldly value. I don't blame them, animating cartoons can be contentious and sticking on a show for as long as possible is a good idea, it's just a shame to watch the ship sink when this character defined part of my childhood.