𓃶𓃶𓃶 GOATZILLA 𓃶𓃶𓃶

I'm seeing a lot of people praising the way the movie is made towards fans of the franchise and I somehow agree. I loved all the details and nods to the base material too y'know (The whole intro scene? Peak. Shadow Bonnie showing up? Hell yeah). The thing is I believe you can put fanservice and show love to the fanbase while maintaining a coherent story, which was (at least to me) lacking here.

I felt frustrated by the way some characters get like 2 minutes of screentime. What do you mean Henry Emily shows up, explains William killed his daughter, gives Mike the music box and then never shows up again? I honestly thought we'd get some more scenes or even flashbacks of the two working together idk. It felt like the character was just here for fanservice and the plot resolution and that's ALL.

Same way for the Marionnette. I didn't understand why Charlotte is all of a sudden a vengeful spirit or why the hell she is possessing humans. The craftmanship behind the puppet prop is absolutely insane and she shows up for like 2 minutes in the entire movie only to be replaced by bad CGI for the rest of it. I liked the idea of the actual Marionnette hiding inside the animatronics (as she does for Toy Chica) to control them it was a nice touch (and a good Lefty nod) and should have stayed like that for the whole plot.

Don't get me started on Michael Afton. Why is he suddenly a straight up villain? Where's the complexity of his whole character? Why the hell is he trying to be like his father when his goal in the games was to stop all the shit he had done and free the children's souls as a way to redeem himself? Lowkey hoping it gets better for his character in the third movie but for now I hate what was done to him for the movie (and that's sad because Freddy Carter does a great job as Michael)

I hate the trope of making a character obviously despicable and then punish him for the satisfaction value. I already hated that in Black Phone 2 but at least there was coherent and toned down build up. The teacher in FNAF 2 was just cartoonishly evil and it annoyed me tbh. Why the hell would you be so mean to the point you ruin yourself the work of a student (ik it happens irl but it was so forced and obvious here I just hated it).

The whole "resolution" of the movie felt rushed and unecessary. It felt like a parody with the animatronics from the first movie showing up to save the day, Michael getting shit on randomly and Mike suddenly turning his back on Vanessa???? There was no reason to act like that especially after she clearly showed she didn't want to have anything to do with the ideals of her brother. It was so abrupt like bro what the fuck.

In the end my whole point is that you can't excuse a movie being badly written just because it does a good job at staying faithful to the source material visually and lore wise. You can have a movie being interesting for all audiences (here adults who grew up with fnaf for 10+ years and kids/teens liking it nowadays/growing up with it) while having a solid plot.