There's no way around it: This was not executed well. I wouldn't say it was conceived well, either.
Cute premise for breaking the fourth wall, I guess. Cute dancing, I guess. But what happened to this show at least pretending to be realistic? It's a story with zero substance, and you've seen all of the gags by five minutes in.
This is like SAO, but with pens instead of swords.
Okay, anyone who knows me knows that I love this busting-down of gender "barriers" stuff. I'm a dude who used to play with his mom's old Barbie dolls, who never thought that was odd until popular media later made me think so by way of TV/movie boys who are ridiculed for doing the same.
But I like it done well, not with ham fists. This is so in-your-face that it ruins the humor of all the sub-plots. One could make the point that Liv's dialogue especially is far too on-the-nose. Showing the audience what they're doing, instead of stating it explicitly, repeatedly, ten times in five minutes, would be light-years better.
There are some great moments in this show, but they're buried in so much boring crap that it's a chore to watch.
There are some great moments in this show, but they're buried in so much boring crap that it's a chore to watch.
Spent most of the movie disbelieving that it hadn't yet been 90 minutes. The format doesn't really work.
I refuse to round my mean episode score of 4.91 up to a 5. This wasn't even "Meh". The few good episodes were completely buried by the worse-than-shit-tier writing of the rest.
I refuse to round my mean episode score of 4.91 up to a 5. This wasn't even "Meh".
That damned elevator door disappears between the wide shot of it opening and the tight shot of Maihime and Rindou walking out. Continuity is damned hard when you have no budget for animation.
Despite being the penultimate episode, there is almost no sense of urgency or climax this week. More bad writing, yay!
No. NO. You can't just magically sink the Harekaze in the harbor after everyone disembarks without any explanation. It doesn't work that way!
Some great stuff happened in the rest of this episode, but oh, that terrible ending. Absolute bottom tier writing.
I really wish Star Trek had learned to handle romance. Or, failing that, learned not to base episodes on it. Approximately none of the emotional connection between Sisko and Fenna is truly believable—even though the actors clearly have chemistry, the characters don't.
Why Trek's writers continued trying to put the captain figure in a relationship even though it almost always fell flat, I may never understand. Maybe the network (foolishly) demanded love interests?
They couldn't even throw a monkey wrench into the science to make things a little interesting. Make the reignited star fizzle out after a few days, make the Prometheus crew intervene to fix a miscalculation on Seyatik's part, anything. The whole package is way too cut-and-dried.
It's some kind of accomplishment that Fran Drescher and Bill Cosby's characters were more compelling than Robin Williams' title role. Remember, he's supposed to be the (shooting) star.
I wish Williams had been a believable 10-year-old, but neither his performance nor the way his character was written made it work. And truthfully, nobody got good writing in this film. The comic bits weren't funny, and the dramatic moments (especially with Jack's parents) were absolutely cringe-worthy.
Once again, here I am in the aftermath of choosing a movie based on knowing nothing about it other than who some of the lead actors are—and once again, I find myself disappointed.
Lots of bad CGI and questionable writing. The ending screams, "Please give us a sequel!" but there almost certainly won't be one.
This is just awful. None of Archer's behavior is believable. They wrote the story they wanted to tell and forced the characters into it, rather than writing what the characters would do.
Which might have been at least somewhat acceptable IF it was actually a good story. But it's not.
I lost count of the times someone stepped into their path, or spoke to/at them. No way is Chika's mom satisfied with that wager result. They're on hiatus; the rest of the series from here must be someone's dream world.
Chuck Coleman from The Wonder Years drove me nuts until I looked up Andy Berman's other credits. I couldn't place him, but knew I'd seen him in something else recently.
That has no bearing whatsoever on the fact that I hated the A plot and thought the B plot would've been more interesting as the episode's focus.
Continuing the tradition of saving money for the season finale (I guess?) by paring the penultimate show down to a few uninspired scenes tying together reused clips of the past.
Miss. Especially with Donald Trump appearing, who even discounting modern politics must have been the most wooden performer ever to grace this show's set.
Not sure why Disney+ lists "Nursery Crimes" first in the title when it's the second half of the split episode, but OK.
More like "The Stupid Effect". One of the worst plots this show has ever trotted out, honestly.
Somehow managed to be even more tedious than the first half.
I repeat: DO NOT use a clip show for your season finale. It's lazy.
Seems to want to be a Robocop parody for kids, or put another way: "What if Robocop was a slapstick physical comedy?"
I can't help but wonder if one of the other potential actors considered to play John would have helped the film… Jim Carrey or Robin Williams in particular. It would have been tough, though. No role had much to work with in the character department.
If one of the few things that got a laugh out of me now was seeing Igor from Young Frankenstein in the minion recovery meeting, that's not a great batting average. This script is objectively a mess. I'm not even judging it in comparison to the cartoon series, as I've never seen that.
As a young kid, I remember seeing this because I spent the whole feature plugging my ears; the theater had their sound system set waaaaaaay too loud. Between that and my age, I didn't catch any of the subtler gags and references that kept me going during this viewing. Star Trek fan that I became later in life, now I'm disappointed that Rene Auberjonois had such a brief role in this movie.
Not only is it largely a clip show, but they also chose some of the least funny clips possible.
Funny moments spread throughout, but the fabric joining them just doesn't hang together as anything one could reasonably call "cohesive". Characters are, um… Well, they show up on screen and say stuff that moves the story ahead, I guess.
That said, I'm certainly going to take and remember the gags that worked. ("Now comes the part where we throw our heads back and laugh." "Were you fighting with the narrator?" etc.)
Could have been moderately enjoyable if the songs were at least good. There's at least some delicious irony in the plot thread about Connect 3's record label only wanting them to perform songs that the management think they can sell, because that very kind of sanitized, empty, soulless pop music comprises the movie's entire soundtrack—which Disney no doubt expected to sell.
I dub this "No, No, Clip Show" as an homage to the previous episode, which was actually decent. Note it was originally a full-hour special, but was split into two episodes later (presumably for syndication) and those are what we have on streaming now.
At least they didn't pull such a stunt in the first season, like Fresh Prince did.
Very little of the charm remains from its two predecessors. Less plot, worse jokes, more jump cuts!
Oh, there's no time. We have to get going! Save your chatting for later; we're going in! NOW!
But if you want to take ten minutes and find out how much your robot loves you, that's fine. Saving Kyoto can wait… suddenly. Dafuq?
UGH the script is awful.
The tone of this episode is completely wrong for the series. It's an obvious fanservice special with no relevance to the rest of the story. And to make it worse, there's literally no reason for Haru to care if she loses this game. Why even bother playing along?
And to think that, if I give in to my completionist urges, there's a whole second season to get through… Ugh.
What's it called when a comedy isn't funny?
