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Family Guy: Send in Stewie, Please (2018)
Bored to TEARS
Look, I'm not opposed to thoughtful slow burns if it's well done. But this was agonizing, I quite literally couldn't finish it.
I stopped during Stewie's 'deductive' take down of the therapist voiced by Sir Ian McKellen. It just goes on! For minutes and minutes you're forced to listen to Stewie's least charitable interpretation of a this man's entire life based on a honeymoon photo without a single joke.
TL;DR
This was unfunny, not thought provoking, uninteresting and just... mind numbingly BORING!
I'm a late 20s woman and I've never said this in my life but there's a first time for everything. Stick to jokes about farts.
The Daily Show (1996)
Trevor Noah
Seems like stirring the pot is all he can do. The jokes aren't good anymore and there's no longer any credibility because he's outright lied about the facts to create racial division more than once now.
A perfect encapsulation of what's happened to the once great democratic party if I'm being honest.
So it's got to be a 10/10 by someone's logic. Not mine.
Turning Red (2022)
Not the Pixar I know.
I came in wanting to like this. Regardless of everything I heard
Pixar has always made movies with something for everyone to appreciate. This is not that.
If you didn't have helicopter parents, you simply WILL NOT relate to the main character. And there's absolutely nothing here for you.
There's maybe 2 scenes that'll make you crack a smile and the rest is just. Meh.
I've seen better coming of age movies. I've seen better chinese representation. We've seen the theme of generational trauma explored better just in the last year with Encanto.
The good:
The animation is great as usual, and I like that they did something different stylistically.
The ending wraps up every minor detail down to paying for property damage. They really sell the 2000s Toronto setting.
The dialogue is incredibly natural. At times, these feel like real people until...
The bad:
...you realize how incredibly one dimensional every character is.
I'm done with the Tyger-Mom stereotype... and here it's pushed well beyond believable for anyone who's never experienced it.
I checked out entirely when Meiling's mother brought her drawings of her crush straight to him. Any sense of relatability or realism was gone now.
The mediocre:
The metaphor for puberty frankly makes no sense, as it's terribly inconsistent with it's own logic. Not important as I'm not even sure that's what they went for, it's more a metaphor for individually... that everyone in her family has...
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Fun fact.
I don't believe my literary skill, or lack there of can do it justice, far better reviewers have written books worth of quality analysis of this film.
A jazz cigarrete at exactly 1 hour 42.0 minutes into the film will, according to science, will reach peak effects in 15 minutes... the exact start of Jupiter and Beyond The Infinite.
Cake (2019)
Too Cringe For Me
Not even 20 seconds into the social anxiety rap... There is someone out there that is masochistic enough... I wish them Godspeed.