I have a strong feeling that all of the effort for this movie's source material went into this movie.
Teen Titans Go! To The Movies is an animated movie based on the hit CN show Teen Titans Go! It follows the Teen Titans as they are looking to get their own movie, but in order to be taken seriously, they need to have an archenemy. Eventually, they find a villain in Slade, voiced by Will Arnett.
I was pretty interested in this movie because the premise looked somewhat promising despite my distaste of the source material, Teen Titans Go! I went in a theater, and I can safely say that I really enjoyed the experience. I found the movie really funny. I was constantly laughing at the jokes, which was pretty surprising. I could not get myself to laugh at the actual tv show because I found it stupid and child pandering. But that's the thing, the directors of this movie know it, and embrace it for what it is. I mean when your movie opens up with a long fart joke and a stupidly so bad it's good rap song, you know what you're in for.
Something I also appreciate is that the Titans, mostly Robin, actually take their criticism from Jade to heart when she says that. This is partially why I prefer watching something like this than the actual source material; in it, the Teen Titans act half their age, which is apparently an attention grabber. Here, they show a more mature side and I'm genuinely impressed by that.
As enjoyable as this movie is though, I do have my criticisms for it. For one, the animation does look rather cheap for a theatrical animated movie. It's not as bad as Norm of the North; it's not computer animated, instead animated in Adobe Flash. The animation is technically a major step up from the source material. It's more fluid, more detailed and has that theatrical touch to it, but it also has its moments where the animation looks lazy and choppy in certain areas. I can't necessarily blame the movie for this however because the show's animation is regularly choppy.
The plot is all over the place at times, although I can understand why this is; the people behind the movie want it to be faithful to the source material. However, this doesn't necessarily excuse it in my eyes. The movie would continuously switch between its A and B plots and while they do link up by the end, it does make the movie somewhat hard to follow. There are also some filler moments, such as during a Back to the Future-ish reference, which I found really amusing by the way. It's funny and all, but in the longrun, it had nothing to do with the overall plot of the film.
Even with my complaints, I really did enjoy the movie, and even if you hate the show, I still would recommend seeing it since it's a large step up from its source material.
7/10
Teen Titans Go! To The Movies is an animated movie based on the hit CN show Teen Titans Go! It follows the Teen Titans as they are looking to get their own movie, but in order to be taken seriously, they need to have an archenemy. Eventually, they find a villain in Slade, voiced by Will Arnett.
I was pretty interested in this movie because the premise looked somewhat promising despite my distaste of the source material, Teen Titans Go! I went in a theater, and I can safely say that I really enjoyed the experience. I found the movie really funny. I was constantly laughing at the jokes, which was pretty surprising. I could not get myself to laugh at the actual tv show because I found it stupid and child pandering. But that's the thing, the directors of this movie know it, and embrace it for what it is. I mean when your movie opens up with a long fart joke and a stupidly so bad it's good rap song, you know what you're in for.
Something I also appreciate is that the Titans, mostly Robin, actually take their criticism from Jade to heart when she says that. This is partially why I prefer watching something like this than the actual source material; in it, the Teen Titans act half their age, which is apparently an attention grabber. Here, they show a more mature side and I'm genuinely impressed by that.
As enjoyable as this movie is though, I do have my criticisms for it. For one, the animation does look rather cheap for a theatrical animated movie. It's not as bad as Norm of the North; it's not computer animated, instead animated in Adobe Flash. The animation is technically a major step up from the source material. It's more fluid, more detailed and has that theatrical touch to it, but it also has its moments where the animation looks lazy and choppy in certain areas. I can't necessarily blame the movie for this however because the show's animation is regularly choppy.
The plot is all over the place at times, although I can understand why this is; the people behind the movie want it to be faithful to the source material. However, this doesn't necessarily excuse it in my eyes. The movie would continuously switch between its A and B plots and while they do link up by the end, it does make the movie somewhat hard to follow. There are also some filler moments, such as during a Back to the Future-ish reference, which I found really amusing by the way. It's funny and all, but in the longrun, it had nothing to do with the overall plot of the film.
Even with my complaints, I really did enjoy the movie, and even if you hate the show, I still would recommend seeing it since it's a large step up from its source material.
7/10