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Information
- Year
- 2016
- Runtime
- 104 min.
- Director
- Chris Wedge
- Genres
- Action, Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Family
- Rating *
- 5.6
- Votes *
- 8,885
- Checks
- 300
- Favs
- 7
- Dislikes
- 9
- Favs/checks
- 2.3% (1:43)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:1
Top comments
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SimbaLV
Well hmm..im speechless. Wtf did i just watch? I really cant describe. Sorry. Dissappointed. 6 years 12 months ago -
LaabNavNoyd
quote:Freaking horrible. I simply lost track of how many laws they broke in the course of the movie:
Must be fun watching a movie with you... Have you seen The Avengers. Don't you just hate how Thor fly's without any help. How Bruce Banner changes in to this weird green monster all the time.... It's a freaking movie... 7 years ago -
KuroSawWhat
I cannot decide if this movie is awful, fantastic, or fantastically awful? This overwhelmingly reminds me of the family "gimmick" movies from the 90's. Those films which you can describe with a single sentence, and the entire plot hinges on that statement. In this case: "There's a creature that bad guys are looking for, and it drives around like Herbie." ...except that it's a Dodge RAM pickup truck. .. With a 6.4 Liter HEMI V8 engine. .. Trust me, that's important to the plot. You know exactly how this movie goes, already. Kid finds creature, no one believes him, magical adventure, yadda, yadda.. you've seen this a million times before.
What I found far more entertainment value in was counting the product placements. Some of the highlights include nearly every vehicle, including the old junkers, being a Dodge. Spongebob Squarepants cameos, since this is a Nickelodeon production. Characters carrying Windows cell phones, which was totally a popular thing in 2016! You know it was! At times I found myself pausing the film to decode the relationships of merchandising, such as when they are walking to school between two car dealerships, and the one across the street and out of focus seems to be Hyundai.. I had to search out if there was some relationship there, because why are they in the movie? Also, it's fun to guess just how close to 30 the two lead "high-schoolers" might be.
Yet, all of that aside, I had intended to put this on as background noise while I worked on my laptop, but I simply could not tear my eyes away from it! The stereotyped character actors are character-acting to the nth degree! The creature effects are astoundingly good! Everyone on screen is taking this pure schlock completely seriously! And it's very well produced! At points I found myself in laughing fits, not necessarily because of what was happening, but at the fact that something like this is able to exist! Honestly, I was entertained! I had a good time! And I would watch it again!
Is it so bad that it's good? You better believe it is! 5 years 10 months ago