Rose Stirling

Leonardo is a loser, his girlfriend or wife i'm not sure what she was, is also a loser who swears a lot and is just generally unlikable. Then there's this sergeant guy - Seann Penn - who is just a gross old man who likes to sleep with woman of color but he's a racist. He has a weird sexual relationship with Leo's gf and she falls pregnant - the relationship between these two lacked nuance and was just hard to believe. So yeah all round just a group of losers doing loser stuff. I think this film was made up by a group of really old men just wanting to get paid. No thought went into the writing of this film. Some people have said it was left woke nonsense. I disagree the left in this film are portrayed as stupid, unemployed bums who smoke drugs and swear a lot and are pretty incompetent - I find it hard to believe a resistance movement with secret code words, underground channels and multiple tech devices could be made up of people who seem like they barely passed kindergarten. They're also portrayed as violent, the sort of people who through protest will kill other people with no thought or care. It definitely was not pro left or right (a truly nasty portrayal of the left showing the worst of the worst of mankind and yet you got the feeling we were supposed to root for them). I really have no idea what they were trying to say. I was just mad i'd lost three hours of my life to this. It was so bad it was almost comical at times - terrible script writing. Terrible character development. Terrible story.

Absolutely loved this film and the message. 100,000000 x better than Elio which should be classified as a horror film and not suitable for kids yet has better reviews than this (weird). So glad to find a film with great authentic acting, people that actually do resemble the cartoon characters and a lovely story and message. Go see it!

If you like cartoon horror films this movie is for you. There's a scene where the main characters clone (a little boy age poss 7), well his body melts and explodes until it dies. Reminded me of a scene from the R18 film Poltergeist where one of the characters looks in the mirror and his face melts away. A huge wtf moment as a mum. But because its a cartoon its okay? What makes it especially bad that he dies in this grossly visual way, is that hes a lovely kind caring boy and he dies at the end of the film after youve grown a connection to him. (Sick stuff) Honestly disturbing and completely unnecessary for a children's movie. Fortunately my miss 6 is so desensitized from playing games like Minecraft combined with some of the other disturbing crap that gets pumped out as suitable for children that she thankfully wasn't as traumatized as I was. How sad the world we live in today that kids can tolerate such darkness. This movie is probably targeted at the wrong age group. I'd say it's a 10+ age group it's suited to. But tbf kids in that age group probably not into cartoons. So the creators of this movie absolutely missed the mark creating a cartoon targeted at kids that is is actually scary and dark. If you care about your child's mental health don't take them to see this unless they're 10+.

Okay but why are all the reviews the exact same?

This movie was really emotional. I wish I'd brought a box of tissues. Only negative is it wasn't suitable for my 5 year old. This is more suited for 9-13 year Olds. It touches on things like death and getting old and losing your childlike belief in anything. Very confronting as an adult which I enjoyed. But probably too mature for younger audiences. In saying that my miss 5 was mesmerized. But admitted she wished we went to Garfield instead! I left feeling sad and I think the entire theater was crying. Very different film to the trailor as not a happy silly movie definitely more deep.

I think in writing, this film had potential. Where it went wrong was casting. For instance: They had a Chinese woman play the part of a kooky Christmas store owner obsessed with the holiday season. It was just ridiculous because it wasn't believable. Yes someone like this might exist in real life. But I've never met them and I know a lot of Chinese people. They're not known to celebrate this time of year and if they do it's never on that level generally speaking. The film by trying to shy away from stereotypes became fake and almost too PC, too try hard. If they did it to one character okay but it was everywhere. Maybe the actors saw this too so struggled to embrace the characters. Hence coming off disingenuous and forced. Sprakingvof forced there was no chemistry between the two lead characters sadly and I wonder if there had been if this would have saved the movie. But I doubt it somehow as there were too many other pieces of casting that made no sense. The girls parents were Russian - once again not believable you had the most Brittish woman on the face of the earth playing a Russian woman, and the main actress was not believable in that sense either and again felt like certain messages being pushed I.e anti immigration while not actually employing genuine immigrants to play the role of immigrants is kinda laughable, it felt like they were trying to portray modern issues while failing to grasp that they were speaking to the minority in society and not really get to a deeper level of meaning that many of us consider i.e those anti immigrant people who scream and yell obscenities are often complicated characters, mental health is an issue or substance abuse not an excuse but by simply portraying racist behaviour is easy to do and rather shallow. And I think people are sick of such shallow rhetoric, as it causes so much division and is not reflective of the majority. It is a big issue though but deserves its own pedestal - maybe even it's own movie. In saying all this I've realised this films main issue, there were too many story lines within one main story line and they all are big issues but lacked depth and came off forced/fake. The homeless actors none were allowed to grow or develop into really meaningful believable characters. However I loved the whole heart transplant story idea. But since that in itself is unbelievable then they really needed the characters and plot line to ring true. The characters needed better lines, better chemistry but they didn't so the message was lost. I must admit tending to a very distractive newborn baby while watching this. So perhaps I just missed too much of this film to grasp it's message. Either way it didn't keep my attention whether distracted or not. I found myself looking at my phone a lot.