keith atkins

Overall an enjoyable watch. Ever since Endgame, Marvel's products have definitely grown worse and worse but then kinda redeemed themselves with Deadpool & Wolverine and now this. They're taking their time but they're slowly coming back to their own. Fantastic Four: First Steps focuses mainly on the iconic villain Galactus, one of my favourite Marvel characters growing up. Until now, he has only ever been seen in blurred images or by shadow so it's amazing to see the design come to life for the proper first time, and they cooked! He's intimidating, giant, scary, powerful and poses a good threat for our heroes. Speaking of the heroes themselves, the new cast all fit and play their parts very well. So well in fact that you don't notice that they are new actors. They look and feel like the OGs which is very impressive. As for their character arcs, Reed and Sue are the primary voices around the story. The ones who have to persuade Galactus not to eat the planet while Jonny and Thing are just along for the ride and don't add much to the story. The story itself is fine. It revolves around, no spoilers, a special sacrifice that must be made to save Earth and it definitely has an emotional impact, but there are times, especially towards the beginning, where the plot is being stretched out, full of filler and can get a bit tiresome. Overall, this movie is far from perfect and I can't see it becoming a Marvel classic, but it's worth watching at least once for casual viewers, and multiple times for Fantastic Four fans. 7/10

As someone with Autism, it's painfully hard to watch a new movie for the first time, but watching this was not nearly as hard as some others because not only is comedy my favourite movie category but it isn't slow paced which I think is the reason I could stay focused more. Obviously the cast is brilliant, those hilarious faces that Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson give is epic and we've also got Christine Taylor, Vince Vaughn (who sadly only has a small part) and even a Donald Trump cameo only in the beginning scenes, and having said that, I did review this as of 2021 so not only does Trump's role hit so differently now but I'm pretty confident that Stiller, Taylor and Vaughn inspired the fantastic movie Dodgeball 3 years later, and most importantly, the unattractive female villain that I feel is the equivalent of the Frad character in Dodgeball. So now we've talked about that, I'll say the rest of the movie is just like any 1990s-2000s comedy, you'll laugh out loud but obviously I have to talk about how these actors appeal to me due to their other roles.

SUPER MARIO ODYSSEY!!!!! Oh my god, where to even begin! Well, let me just clarify that this game is definitely one of the easiest of 3D Mario because for starters, going back through the previous ones, you'll find the controls are trash but for this game, they're fine, but going back to the game's difficulty, I started using Assist Mode to step my skills up but once you do that, it's super hard to try out Regular Mode because for assistance, you die from falling off ledges, you have infinite air in water and you have more health, so basically, it just helps you speedrun more, so make sure to keep that in mind the whole way through. Also, going back to how I said this game is pretty easy anyway - it isn't like getting stars in Mario 64, this time you collect Power MOONS and there are so many of them. Around 2 thirds of them are fairly easy to get but that's not the point because speedrunning without the handicap is really satisfying too because the latest character is Cappy, the replacement to Mario's destroyed hat and you can throw, bounce off him for extra distance, side and back flip, long jump, dive, ground pound jump, TRIPLE jump, Mario literally has every move he's ever pulled off in the franchise, and using Cappy makes going quick so much fun, and the next mind blowing fact is that if you're bored of seeing Mario's classic red outfit, say hello to the Crazy Cap store which you can buy moons as well as so many unlockable costumes from, some required for EVEN MORE MOONS or DLC that reference adventures from other games, whether it's by paying the classic yellow coins or the different shaped purple coins found in each kingdom. Oh yeah, haven't even talked about the kingdoms. This is what they're called instead of worlds and while I won't go into detail to spoil you, I'll say that some of the themes are extremely rare ones in video games and will please you! So there you have it, the main things about this game that add so much more to the Mario series and the rest of the things are there waiting for you.

*SPOILER ALERT* This is the equivalent of Deathly Hallows Part 2. The action never stops, this review isn't gonna go into TOO MUCH detail just because the first hour and a half is about Erebor being reclaimed and the men are refused their owed money, it eventually leads to the battle and that pretty much sums it up really. Sure there's good scenes in the first hour and a half and OBVIOUSLY this movie is near excellent 'cuz it's the final Tolkein LOTR prequel. If only they made this a "meanwhile" movie when something else happens during the fight. Maybe have the fans think the dragon's dead but have him return because he's a good character and so much for the Desolation of Smaug cliffhanger, he's gone in the first 10 minutes. Just my thoughts though, it's worth a watch!

One of the most underrated shows of all time. I'm 14 years old and I'm still watching it because it will go on as my favourite of all time! You call me a kid for doing that but listen to this - I see this as a way of moving kids to adults for teaching them the important facts of life and this is told by how Daffy knows almost nothing aside from the stuff he cares about and that Bugs, Porky and others can tell him. And that's just one of the many genius ideas - Bugs has the most amount of patience I've ever seen in my life. Daffy messes up in every episode no doubt and all Bugs does in response is say a sarcastic comment or teach him how to handle the situation. With Porky, however, it's a different story. As the series goes on, as dumb as Daffy is, he becomes smarter and smarter throughout the series (just a little it of course) and he uses Porky's kindness to get his own way, but just generally, here we are talking about the fact that Daffy's Bugs' deadbeat roommate who reveals to be crashing in the house until he gets back on his feet, which never happens and that it's what a large amount of the episodes are about - Daffy trying some jobs to strike it rich. But getting back to that "here we are talking about it" part, Daffy's actually the main character of the show and not Bugs. All Bugs does most of the time is managing life in a normal way, and sometimes finds himself in comedic situations thanks to his LOONEY friends but Daffy, having the actual problems, is finally coming to terms with it and so, of course, it has to revolve around him more to how he tries that, but even then, being Daffy, it never works. So overall, you get the idea that this TV show is full of ever-lasting laughs, some adult humor to move kids to the seriousness of life and most importantly, how all the characters have actual human roles in the story to finally change things up with the legendary franchise. Also, the fact I said "story" means that when a thing in an episode happens, it will always be referenced in a later episode and this is one of the few shows that do that. Even the animation is grown up enough, just in the first season though. The second is bright and colourful and that's DEFINITELY something that you don't see in every TV show! Here's the most mind-blowing part though, this is just the main idea of the show - wait till you watch the actual episodes!! It's really sad that the show didn't have maybe 4 or even 5 seasons, and here we are now in 2021 and the entire franchise could've expanded a lot more now. 5 stars definitely!! Edit: Well that aged like fine wine, we now have Space Jam 2! Looney Tunes shall never die!! Edit 2: Okay looks like I wasn't thinking at all when I said only a few TV shows follow one story because LOADS do that, right? Anyway, last time, I swear.

The first game I was ever introduced to but that doesn't mean I 100 percented it because one, I was too young and two, this game is in my opinion the hardest of the 5. There's no Tanooki Suit/Propellor Mushroom to break the game with and not even a WHITE Tanooki Suit after losing 5 lives, and finally you know in the later games you can max your lives to the 3 crowns? Well it's only 99 in this one. Anyway, with all that said, this game is also the BEST in the series even though it's the first one. Who'd have thought?! There may not be challenges or exclusive dlc like in the newer games but there are, of course, the minigames. I hadn't played Mario 64 DS before this so I didn't know that most of them are copied to it but I can complain about that now. But to back that up, we can't forget the "Mario Vs. Luigi" multiplayer either. Instead of just playing the game with 2 people, you fight the other player for 8 stars on 5 different courses that feel like the battle tracks in Mario Kart. None of the other games even despite being newer ones had these two features that are different to still technically playing the levels and it shouldn't be that way. Also, the power-ups are very limited but then there's blue shell! It's always a pleasure to play random levels while bouncing around in it as well as go INSIDE the shell to protect yourself from enemies, and finally we have the original creative bosses such as Mummipokey, Mega Goomba, Monty Tank and Lakithunder. WHY DIDN'T THEY MAKE ANY OF THESE BETTER IN THE LATER GAMES?!?! IT'S JUST THE KOOPALINGS EVERY TIME!!! So overall, unless you're like me and you're a typical fan of the Mario Bros games, you might as well just play this one.

No spoiler review: So yeah this film is far from perfect and I left it saying "It was alright. It was pretty good." So yes it's solid and overall just about good enough to re-watch. Visually it's incredibly stunning, but that out of the way, there are moments when it loses the magic of Buzz's character and occasionally it's difficult to see the toy character inside the real space ranger. The opening scene had plenty of gags and Toy Story throwbacks and easter eggs, but sadly the rest of the movie did not quite follow that example. It didn't make the pleasure to watch the film any better, but it didn't completely ruin it. Although through around the 20-30 minute period it almost lost my hope for it because it felt bland and empty, but after that, Buzz's character turns into more who we're used to seeing. Compared to Toy Story, this movie comes nowhere near close AT ALL, but ignoring that and looking at this film as a standalone, it has good action, though not much of it, a good story for its genre, and, again, it just about manages to capture the essence of Buzz and other elements of Toy Story, just not nearly as much as the intro as there is less humor. Speaking of which, it's not the best humor we've seen from Pixar, but once again it's enough to make for an 'alright' film. One to watch at least once.

UNPOPULAR OPINION: Luigi's Mansion 2 is actually better but I have autism so it takes a good long while to get used to something new but now that I have, let's get reviewing! The controls are definitely not as good because sometimes if you leave him around doing nothing, he auto moves which is a nuisance sometimes. Also, instead of following the idea of a variety of mansions like in dark moon, it goes back to basics of one giant mansion (or in this case hotel). I hate it when films and games do that because I just think it needs to change scenery, but thankfully the 17 unique floors sort that out. The first 6 (I'm including the basement) are realistic enough and I'm really liking that now that I'm growing up, but then after that, it becomes typical game-like. If there's one thing that I like about this game that was annoying in Dark Moon is the story structure. E Gadd calls you every 5 minutes on the DS but on the virtual BOO (ha ha!) sometimes he either forces you to whip out the headset or he just appears. They should've just always did the quicker one. Next there's the story itself. The legendary Mario characters arrive at the luxury hotel and it turns out it's a trap by King Boo to trap them in frames. Perfectly simple compared to Dark Moon. All of Gadd's inventions that do different things don't even affect the gameplay and when you recover a Dark Moon piece, some of the fog opens up to the next mansion but the ghosts don't turn good until you've done em all. It's a video game for sure but they could've done something to make it more understandable. Overall, I still love Dark Moon for being unique and more simple for being older outside of the mission structure so I give THIS ONE 4 stars.

Spoilers ahead! The Super Mario Bros Movie is a goddam masterpiece! It's made by Nintendo themselves alongside Illumination! Therefore it's visually stunning whilst having a great story. It ain't your typical Peach gets kidnapped by Bowser. This time Mario and Luigi are seen plumbing in Brooklyn which is how the arcade games started off, Luigi ends up in the hands of the Koopa King himself, and Mario meets all the Mushroom Kingdom residents for the first time, showing us a great introduction to this Universe! The Kongs also make an appearance which leads to a fantastic entry for DK. Really the only bad thing to say is they should've added MORE classic characters, but hopefully the inevitable sequel will do that. And you might be wondering why I haven't mentioned Chris Pratt's voice. Well the story is so entertaining that I couldn't focus on it! So that's fantastic. And finally the easter eggs. This movie is litered with them! So yeah, I think we all expected the film to be rubbish but by adding a different story approach, stunning visuals and nostalgic characters, it turned out awesome! Whether you're a Mario fan or you're new to the series you're gonna love it. Well done Nintendo!