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Fun story. Mostly good writing. Surprisingly good characters. Plus Picross! Considering they’ve been acquired by Epic and Mediatonic will likely eternally be on Fall Guys and/or Fortnite content development, it’s disappointing that we likely won’t get any more stories like this from them.
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The framing device with Candice Bergen’s weird ventriloquist father takes off half a star from this by ruining Mickey and The Beanstalk. He wasn’t even very good at keeping his mouth from moving and half the time he did the dummies’ lines from off camera.
And according to Candice it sounds like he loved that puppet more than he loved her. (Which considering the puppet was in his will and she wasn’t seems like it might be true.)
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Occasionally horny, often trippy, usually probably racist, but boy is it amazing to look at. The parts overlaying animation over live action are particularly great.
The Three Caballeros song (and reprises) are the only bits that completely worked for me, and that’s likely at least partially due to my great affection for the ride in the World Showcase at EPCOT.
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I’ve listened to a bunch of A.G. Riddle books and enjoyed and/or really liked them. This one I just don’t know. While being a page turner and generally entertaining, it had some real problems I just could not get over.
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Kids and I love the Beetlejuice The Musical cast recording so much that I finally caught up with this I maybe for the first time so I could see if kids would be ok watching.
I think I might have tried to watch this when I was younger but thought it was too creepy. I certainly recognize bits and pieces. I was surprised how little Beetlejuice is actually in Beetlejuice.
Definitely still to creepy/gross/scary to show my kids.
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Hearing Alec Baldwin’s voice from Ben Affleck’s face and Steve Buscemi’s voice coming out of a Jason Priestly lookalike is very confusing.
Movie is actually moderately better and better looking than I expected though. How do they shoot ghosts with bullets though?
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Such a great performance by Mara Wilson and great job by all the actual 6 year olds playing 6 year olds. Too much time early with the family and focusing on the adults.
Watched this with the kids because they (and I) loved the new Matilda the Musical adaptation on Netflix. They liked this version ok but definitely still prefer the new musical and not just because its newer and “old things are boring and not funny.”
In a mostly fun movie where Sandra Bullock is supposed to be a hacker but constantly has no clue how the Internet works, the most unbelievable thing is that she could really spend more than 30 seconds talking to Dennis Miller without punching him in the face.
He’s supposed to be her ex? But maybe her therapist too?
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Great, often mindless, fun. Open world collect-a-thon Breath of the Wild-like that I put on the easy difficulty and played almost 60 hours of while on the elliptical. Great traversal, okay combat that I almost exclusively button mashed my way through despite the potential depth there.
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Doing a Black Panther MCU binge before Wakanda Forever. First time I’ve rewatched this in ages, easily the MCU movie I least enjoy watching.
I truly hate storylines that revolve around miscommunication or simple misunderstandings. Even more so in this case because it robbed us of a true Captain America movie. The Spider-Man and Ant-Man bits are great though.
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