#crescentfang

Like, there are a lot of things I enjoyed about the film. The environments were gorgeous, thecharacter designs were fuckin’ slick, I enjoyed that they brokeconvention with a lot of the charcter moulds-- i.e. a chemistry nerd who wears stilettos and pink lipstick, a nerd slacker who is actually loaded, etc etc. Really put the foot down that intelligence and nerdyness don’t correlate to stylishness and money.

They tried to accomplish a lot in an hour and a half and didn't really pull it off particularly well in my opinion. Big cast, not enough time to really develop them much.

I mean, besides Hiro, Fred is the only one who gets a considerable amount of development. Which is fine, since Fred is hilarious, but at the same time, I dunno I felt that there could've been more done.

I think it would have been enough for me to hook into the major surface traits for each character and kinda roll, but the rushed manner and predictability of everything spoiled it. Like I honestly don’t need to know why Wasabi is obsessed with organization or why Go-Go has a need for speed, but I feel like if the scenes had time to breathe more, we would’ve had time to see more authentic interaction between the characters develop.

EDIT 01: Also Tadashi, Hiro, Fred and THE VILLAN (dundundun) are given a lot of screen time. Wasabi, Go-Go, and Honey-Lemon kinda shrink back and aren’t really given any time, so by contrast, Fred and Hiro’s personalities dominate and the other characters seem really weak and underdeveloped. They aren’t probably, but they never had a chance to express it.  That all sounds really hippy-like, but oh well.

Also the humour itself was....hit and miss. There were a lot of scenes where I had an idea of how the comedy was going to play out and I just couldn't engage as much. Like cerebrally I appreciated it, but it didn't actually make me actually laugh. There were a few moments that did, like four or five, especially the easter egg at the end. But yeah.

I feel like when Disney made Wall-E, then kinda cracked open a geode of material that they hadn't previously used, and they've just been reusing that material since. For me that is really evident when you compare the physical humour of Wall-E to Baymax. Really similar.

I'm sure the fact that I came in knowing that other people had said it didn't impress definitely pulled me out of the zone.

At the same time, I went into Badlands Rumble ready to get my balls rocked, and I walked away satisfied, but fully acknowledged that it wasn't some shining bastion of writing and character development. It was predictable but fun and had the nostalgia factor for me since I grew up on Trigun. But Badlands Rumble benefits from the majority of the audience already knowing the characters, so it doesn't have to spend time really setting anything out for us.  Likewise the predictability of the film is part of why it’s enjoyable. You know how things are gonna roll because 9 out of 10 you’ve seen the series. You’re happy to be along for the ride and see some new shit from the series after like ten years. Big Hero 6 was kinda like that but without the benefit of the bulk of the audience being familiar with it, despite it being an established franchise.

I never thought I’d use this turn of phrase in my life but Big Hero 6 needed to raise the stakes. I never felt like anything was really on the line up until the last ffffffffffffffffffffff ten? Twenty minutes of the film?

Honestly this shit shoulda been a two parter, but it would’ve never been made at all if it was.

I guess on the whole it just felt really rushed, to the point where it bothered me and it really broke my immersion.

I enjoyed the ride, I guess. It didn’t rock my world or inspire some great fucking revelation in my soul or whatever. It was fun. Fun and pretty and well story-boarded.

[[I will applaud the fact that despite the montage of them getting all souped up, the first real situation they get into illustrates that they don't have the tactical skills or reflexes that someone with training would have. Cause in the montage when Wasabi is all dicin’ up those tennis balls like he does it every day, I just kinda...no. No. No. Just cause you have lazers on your arms doesn't mean you have the physical abilities to use them with 100% like you’ve been taking hand to hand training all the time.  I guess they could’ve implied that physical prowess with Wasabi being stacked like a brick shit house, but I dunno if that’s enough for me.