Jobertina McMuffynne

I was okay it the first time watching it because I wanted to find out who the murderer was, but re-watching it, it was actually quite shit! The whole calling themselves "outcasts" was a little cringy, and whatever old man who created the teenage-girl characters had clearly never met one in his life. They were all dressed and acting like how a man in his 50s-70s would, I assume in this case, presume a teenage girl acts and dresses "you should like, totally get insta and snapchat and tiktok!". The whole "wolf-out" thing gave me second hand embarrassment as well. Also, Wednesday is a horrible detective, and made constantly baseless assumptions and accusations, which was annoying. She needed the monster to be literally shown to her for her to understand. The monster was laughable and looked like a cartoon. Very cheap special effects. Also, the bad-guy sister character's name being Laurel was a dead giveaway as to who it was. Of course it's the GARDENER who played no other role than existing! Whoever named her Laurel really thought they were being subtle and clever. Also, Ben grossed me out. The only reason I give this 2 stars is because Jenna did the best job she could with what she was given, and really saved it from a truly worst-possible scenario.

The movie was pretty basic. The fact that he was a snowman just made it freaky in a gross way. Also, hot take, the sheriff wasn't the bad guy. If someone is streaking, they should be arrested, even if it's Christmas. He obviously wouldn't have concluded that the streaker was actually a snowman come to life. Also, "Hot Frosty" was very horse-ish. My household agreed that he was not in fact hot. It felt like the writers were gaslighting us the whole time into thinking he was. The one thing I did like was how Doug Judy and Charles were there. The actors from popular sitcoms were all this film really had going for it. The fake snow was also super bad.

After I had finished it, it didn't feel like I had watched a movie. It's like watching something so much more real, like someone had set up a camera in front of actual people going about their lives. It had probably the most accurate depiction of children I had ever seen on T.V. with their silly little conversations that made it feel so authentic and relatable. The film, through fiction, tells the very real story of many families all over from the naive perspective of children. It will make you laugh, cry and maybe a little confused, and I personally would say it's one of the best movies I've ever watched.

Was it well-written? ehh, probably not. Did I enjoy reading it? Admittedly, I sorta did. I remember reading this book as a 6th grader (sidenote: not an appropriate book for 6th graders), and reading it mostly in one day because I was intrigued to know what happened next. I don't have a good enough attention span to enjoy something very long and drawn-out, even if it's good, but this kept me well entertained because there was drama, and it wasn't so long and detailed that I got bored. Parts of the book did feel a bit rushed, for instance the death of certain characters. In the part of the book where a character dies, which is obviously dramatic and also traumatic for the characters, the emotions shown to be felt by the characters felt very forced, even though, of course, their emotions were justified. They were just presented in a very sort of in-your-face way that made it difficult to take them seriously. The drama between Frenchie and Rose at the end also felt quite forced and artificial, to a point where it became annoying. Another thing about the book is that it had intimate scenes between the young characters. I don't remember it getting too graphic, probably because they were minors, but I do remember being made annoyed and uncomfortable by the consistent use of the word "grinding". Maybe I'm just remembering it wrong? I also think the book used the word "trudging" a lot, or something like that, and it annoys me when books use the same word over and over again. Another thing is that a lot of the characters and their story was just one big trauma dump. I wish there was more to their stories. The super bad stuff in their past were really the only interesting things about them. The main character also didn't really seem to have a personality at all. Many parts of the book were dramatic, but it felt like if the drama was the juice of an orange slice; it was only half-squeezed, but exaggerated so it came off as cringy and unserious. At the same time, I found characters, though cliche, somewhat amusing, and as a bored middle schooler was still taken by the drama, though wished parts of the story could have had more detail.