Stardust Wonder

Other than that it was boring and not funny to me, due to the movie's age, it can be insensitive, disrespectful and just, untamed, and it's about a fantasy becoming real, soooo, it's also over the top. I guess it could be fine if you're watching it in a non serious manner and you're making fun of it and taking it lightly, but I'm not okay with things like...well, there's this one scene that comes to mind, it's this random girl getting stripped magically in the chaos created, and shit like that just makes me uncomfortable, well, that was the worst part, but there's also stuff like, using overweight people as a joke, you know, shit like that that's so not funny and old.

No Spoilers. Just finished season 2. Negatives: -I was really disappointed with the start, because it felt anticlimactic after the last season and I expected greater consequences after the events of season 1. -It has many good concepts, but overall too many concepts and the sense of direction is drowned in all of the ideas they're showing. -Also, you know how in stories, there's a high and a low and intensity changes throughout? Well, I feel like it's not the case in Arcane, it's so intense all the time and it was overwhelming to watch for me, so maybe if you get easily overwhelmed like me, don't watch it back to back like I did...Also, because of this lack of change in intensity, the ending feels unsatisfactory naturally, since they couldn't bring the emotion higher, and it was just overall, a bit abrupt and rushed. -Also, despite all the chaos, the plot is honestly a bit predictable and I could predict if someone would survive or not. -Too many characters and I was barely attached to any of them and would honestly not care if they died. -The pacing I feel is weird, I'm not sure how to put it but I just didn't understand why something was shown in a specific time, and the music video parts made this worse. -This might just be my pet peeve but especially in the start of season 2, I was uncomfortable with the body language of characters, lol. Like, maybe it's too edgy? it's just too unnatural and too dramatic for me. I guess that's the whole show; overall too serious and too dramatic. Positives: + I really liked some of the concepts and honestly wish they were the main focus. To put it spoiler free, these were concepts like: recognizing people's state as a product of their environment and history, who decides whether someone deserves a second chance, some very cool sci-fi concepts near the end which honestly kinda saved the show for me, and a take on religion that was fresh to me. +Cool art style, a bit overwhelming but still good. Honestly feel like their main focus was visuals and they wrote the plot specifically for developing visually stunning scenes. Frankly not my thing, I prefer a good story with bad visuals, whereas in this, the story is just ok. +Some scenes, especially the more horror style ones were pretty strong. Honestly feel like the team would do better in a different genre, like horror or superhero.

I guess some might like it, but it just felt too comedic for me compared to the first one and I expected something darker but I guess that's unreasonable since it's a movie for kids. I just feel like that in the first movie, the focus was more on Riley and the emotions truly belonged to her, whereas in this one, the focus is on the emotions and they felt too controlling and Riley turned out more comedic and less realistic and relatable in my opinion. It felt like the writers were shoving too many concepts and metaphors into this one. I will not watch this again, and I wouldn't recommend it, but it's not really bad. The concepts in it might be new to some people I guess but they were pretty old to me.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

I watched this a long time ago but got reminded of it today and felt like writing a review. What I remember... -First, possibly the worst thing: the milking thing... it made me seriously uncomfortable, like no joking. These are the turtles, my beloved characters, and that scene and the constant use of the word milking, like I don't understand how that is okay, it's close to trauma. -The art style is the only good thing, I remember some pretty scenes. -I only remembered this after reading some reviews today as if my brain was trying to forget it lol, but I did not like how Donnie sounded so young, it's just so distracting. -Very bad character writing for the turtles I think, not at all memorable and meaningful given how I remember Raph as only 'the one who needs therapy' and Donnie as the 'weeb', and I don't remember how Leo and Mikey were...I don't mind change, every time the turtles are a little bit different and sometimes more, like the Rise turtles, but I like it, it's part of the fun of watching tmnt for me and I sometimes think about how I would write a tmnt and make my own changes, but this, this is not good character writing. -Too many pop culture references, it's most of the movie actually, a very lazy thing to do... like I can't believe I listened to three different versions of 'What's Up?' one after another. -Regarding voice acting, I remember the characters talking over each other, which I think makes the scenes natural and it can be good and Rise did it too, but it's just too much in this one, it's so constant and can be overwhelming. -I remember the final fight being very anticlimactic, enemies suddenly turning good in a way I felt the movie had not earned the right to do so. -And finally, just the whole concept of the movie, I feel it's unnecessary. Turtles wanting to be part of the human world, and going to high school in the end, like... I just don't get why. I don't think it's a meaningful additional concept to the TMNT world; the mutants have always been very okay being in their own world, not really caring about the human world, and that has a cozy feeling to it, atleast for me; caring mostly about the family, feeling that brotherly and father and son love...that is what I really love. If I were to make a more modern tmnt movie, I would actually lean more towards that: Social media and all other voices tell you how you should be, maybe the turtles give in to it at first, finding jobs, having disguises to appear human, changing their attitudes, but in the end, they return to themselves and back to the sewers, accepting that one can't be anything they wish for and continue living as true Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the old fashion way. Maybe it's because of my autism coming up with a concept like that, it's the 'unmasking' concept. Speaking of, for a modern version, leaning towards things like an ADHD Mikey and an autistic Donnie would be really cool.