You know what, let's start over. Let's talk about the movie. What did you like about it? I mean, your only defense of the movie is "a lot of people like it", which, if you read my review, I noticed and acknowledged. So I don't really care.
See, you'll notice Crim brought up things he liked or disagreed with. He did say the movie was fun and uplifting, which are kind of vague, but you know what, don't disagree with him there. Just wasn't fun and uplifting enough. I also agree with the point about character arcs; he doesn't really have any examples to back that up, but he's just commenting, that's fine. Porsha's kind of lack of an arc not very cleverly masquerading as an arc got my attention in the review because it stood out (Ash the porcupine kind of gets screwed over too, but there's a lot of characters) ... and also she stood out.
While we're talking about Crim, though, it's not so much that the show is kind of tacky (I liked Mama Mia fine), it's that Moon is willing to die for it. Turning Crystal into a murderer just is the thing that fucks the whole thing up. That's the easy fix. You can even keep that he eventually decides to murder Moon, but like it's so casual. He's like "I'm going to murder you." and everybody's like "Oh, yeah, he's going to murder you." It fucks with Suki's arc, for instance; either he's done this before, so deciding to save Moon, who she doesn't even like, now is out of character, or she's all like "I think he's not bluffing, and I don't want you to be murdered, but I don't want to lose my job with the potential murdering psychopath." which not is not exactly the big come to Jesus moment the movie treats it as. The stakes are too damn high for a movie that's just "fun" and "uplifting". Last movie they weren't brave enough to actually pick a winner of the contest that was the premise of the movie, now they're in a life and death struggle?
There's a middle ground here! Let's find it.
It's less that the Sing movies are bad; they're just safe, you know? I've seen this movie. If it wins the Ursa Major, well, I'm actually okay with that. At least it's, you know, actually fucking furry, and that's not nothing. At least we're at a point where a. at least we can finally point out our own genre in a lineup and b. where I can see a perfectly fine movie of that genre and say "yeah, it's nice, but ... I expected more" and then turn around and actually find more.
I'm sorry, I went off there, what were you complaining about again?
You know what, let's start over. Let's talk about the movie. What did you like about it? I mean, your only defense of the movie is "a lot of people like it", which, if you read my review, I noticed and acknowledged. So I don't really care.
See, you'll notice Crim brought up things he liked or disagreed with. He did say the movie was fun and uplifting, which are kind of vague, but you know what, don't disagree with him there. Just wasn't fun and uplifting enough. I also agree with the point about character arcs; he doesn't really have any examples to back that up, but he's just commenting, that's fine. Porsha's kind of lack of an arc not very cleverly masquerading as an arc got my attention in the review because it stood out (Ash the porcupine kind of gets screwed over too, but there's a lot of characters) ... and also she stood out.
While we're talking about Crim, though, it's not so much that the show is kind of tacky (I liked Mama Mia fine), it's that Moon is willing to die for it. Turning Crystal into a murderer just is the thing that fucks the whole thing up. That's the easy fix. You can even keep that he eventually decides to murder Moon, but like it's so casual. He's like "I'm going to murder you." and everybody's like "Oh, yeah, he's going to murder you." It fucks with Suki's arc, for instance; either he's done this before, so deciding to save Moon, who she doesn't even like, now is out of character, or she's all like "I think he's not bluffing, and I don't want you to be murdered, but I don't want to lose my job with the potential murdering psychopath." which not is not exactly the big come to Jesus moment the movie treats it as. The stakes are too damn high for a movie that's just "fun" and "uplifting". Last movie they weren't brave enough to actually pick a winner of the contest that was the premise of the movie, now they're in a life and death struggle?
There's a middle ground here! Let's find it.
It's less that the Sing movies are bad; they're just safe, you know? I've seen this movie. If it wins the Ursa Major, well, I'm actually okay with that. At least it's, you know, actually fucking furry, and that's not nothing. At least we're at a point where a. at least we can finally point out our own genre in a lineup and b. where I can see a perfectly fine movie of that genre and say "yeah, it's nice, but ... I expected more" and then turn around and actually find more.
I'm sorry, I went off there, what were you complaining about again?