Reviews

Wow. A comedy not made for millenials. How dare Jerry? How dare Jerry make a brilliant and hilarious spoof comedy for people 40+, or at least anyone who actually has a clue what the world was like before cellphones and facebook?

This movie should be avoided by people who don't know any history, or don't understand comedy using only clever words and concepts to push the plot. You can't appreciate how brilliant Bill Burr is as Kennedy if you don't know who Kennedy was in the 1st place. Anyone looking for special effects, CGI, explosions (actually there were explosions lol), an exciting superhero-laden climax, having the plot spoon fed to you like a bowl of Rice Crispies or whatever other ridiculous things i read from people who panned this movie....you should stick to Marvel.

This movie is simply clever and fun, family entertainment, with a ton of cameos from brilliant comedians and actors that kept me smiling the entire run time. If you thought it wasn't that's your prerogative, but i feel sorry for you.

Honestly...what a waste. I love Kevin Smith, but this is not for him. He has no place as writer/director of this franchise.

All the ingredients were there to do something special, but instead it feels like an even worse version of a DC animated special....which generally stink.

Motherboard? Really? Overblown nanotech taking over Skeletor and then possessing everyone else as the leading evil? How original. The plot is so incredibly weak, and most of the characters so badly written, I almost feel sorry for the actors (huge payday aside).

And someone please explain....this cast has some absolutely brilliant people involved: William Shatner, Mark Hamill, Liam Cunningham, Lena Headey, Keith David, John de Lancie...even Melissa Benoist. Why in gods name are the voices chosen for He-Man, Kringer and Orko so completely pathetic, without passion, feeling or any kind of emotion?? I love Stephen Root but his voice doesn't change when he becomes Battle Cat? The most powerful man in the universe still sounds like a weak hipster?? And why decide to speak "I Have the Power!!!" like you're having a casual conversation sitting in a coffee shop? Were they worried THAT would be the thing too cheesy? It wouldn't be top 20 in this show.

This series is just plain disappointing and awful. All these 10/10 reviews claiming it's the greatest thing on Netflix are....well...fake.

Overwhelmingly average, unoriginal and uninspiring.

Once again we have a 100lb woman beating the snot out of, flipping, grabbing, twisting and killing 300lb men. Quite the amazing display against physics but ok...sure...she's really well trained and experienced and knows all the angles and weight transfer techniques. The bigger problem is, she's not a good actor and her character wasn't written very well.

Normally i love Charlie, but his irish accent was awful, and i was happy when he was (supposedly) killed. I say supposedly of course because despite showing people getting maimed, stabbed, shot and killed in graphic ways, Snyder chose to pan away just as the trigger was being pulled on the...spear gun??, so perhaps he'll make a return in the 2nd half of this mess.

All in all, there was almost nothing original about this plot or anything in the way it was presented. We've seen it all in Star Wars, 300, LOTR, Gladiator, Chronicals of Riddick et al, only done much better. The pacing left me not caring in the least bit what was happening, and while many of the actors have proven their depth and skills in other projects, they sadly have very little to work with here.

Will i watch the 2nd part anyway? Probably.... because I'm starved for new sci-fi...but my expectations will be on the ground.

Why?? What was the point?

I spent 8 episodes listening to various characters saying "this can't be real" and "what is happening here?", only to find out it wasn't and ......who really cares?

As much as i loved Dark, that's how much i hate this garbage. Wonderful actors with so much potential completely wasted. The plot could have gone anywhere, and instead the writers/producers chose to go nowhere. Nothing that happened had any meaning at all.

A myriad of characters with different backgrounds, proclivities, languages, motivations...pointless.

A myriad of red herrings and imagery such as pyramids, scarabs, a mute boy dressed as Pugsley Addams, everyone screwing everyone else, class warfare, mutiny, hidden wormholes in the floor lined with black bath tiles and halls made of wires leading to.... absolutely pointless.

Is it your simulation? No it's yours. No it's yours. Tie everyone down to a chair in a psych ward and stab them in the neck with a magic 6 inch needle...black to forget and white to remember.....pointless trash.

Oh wait...it's all a crazy simulation concocted by somebodies sister, brother, father, husband, child...in SPACE.

I gave it 3 stars because everyone but the writers did a wonderful job bringing this abomination of a script to the screen, but it's been cancelled for a very good reason.

As usual, I spent (wasted) time reading some of the other comments before adding my own.

Seems the 1st bunch deemed it necessary to slag the entire program without watching more than 1 episode. Then there are those genuis' who are incapable of watching a fantasy program without applying their own sets of rules, boundaries and morals...as if they have any place in a completely fabricated world. Then there are those who complain about watching a brilliant actor deliver her lines with such incredible depth, that she transforms herself from a model in real life, into one of the ugliest and most hateful characters I've ever witnessed. I couldn't stand her and wanted her dead every second, which means she was absolutely brilliant with transforming her voice and facial expressions into the hateful character she was portraying.

The world building, lighting, pace and set direction was equally brilliant imo. Those complaining about fires being lit apparently forgot fire creates heat, not just light. Yes it's true that if 2 blind armies met in the middle of a battlefield it would be nigh impossible to discern friend from foe, which is why it never happened. Instead the 'good guys' lured the enemy into choke points, knowing full well how many allies were there compared to the number of enemies. They wore different materials which made different noises and differentiated friend from foe...it's not difficult to imagine if you open your mind.

In truth this is one of the best programs I've ever watched. The cast is epic and delivers a tour de force of performances like nothing I've ever seen, and it only gets better with each subsequent episode and season. The depth of emotions, from the highest highs to the lowest lows, from pure love and joy to absolute animalistic savagery, is delivered in such a believable way that I truly felt like a member of the family. Yes there were some questionable things i found difficult to understand how blind people could navigate, such as riding/guiding a horse, but overall the cast/writers created an extremely realistic and believable world for how hypersensitive blind people could have adapted to the world around them over 100s of years. The savage fighting style of Baba Vas et al was truly brilliant imo, using misdirection and one's hearing and other senses against them.

I do have 2 complaints...petty but still real for me: 1. I hate that Baba Vas died 2. Wasn't impressed with NY being the place all the sighted people gathered in the end...a little cheesy to me.

Otherwise worthy of 11/10...i wanted more!

The April reviews on here could be called 'attack of the old trolls'. It's rather sad to read one old and bitter person after another immortalizing their age and bitterness in the comments section but, here we are.

To be clear, people are entitled to their opinions, no matter how convoluted, however the nature of these attacks are such that I find it hard to believe these people find anything pleasurable in life...truly sad.

For anyone berating the writers for bringing in Jack Black, Lizzo and the brilliant Christopher Lloyd to shine in one episode...do you remember Sir Alec Guinness? Pedro, Giancarlo, Katie aren't exactly no-names, so what does it matter if you recognize other actors? Oh no...the fantasy has been broken and you're brought back to reality and forced to think of School of Rock....puhlease. And oh no.... Favreau/Filoni decided to world-build instead of having a singular focus on Mando in every episode, line and action. How will your fragile mind be able to process such depth? And Sackoff haters? Sackoff.

I hope that anyone claiming S3 is a disaster, somehow manages to find happiness and peace in their lives despite the apparent devastating letdown to your existence. The show was written for the millions and millions of other people worldwide who loved every second...like me.

I originally saw this Brillaint cast and immediately thought...this has the potential to be brilliant, but will unfortunately much more likely disappoint the heck outta me.

Sad to say I was right....hard to express how disappointing this is so far. The sheer unbelievability of it all...a vicar and his wife turn into scheming cold-blooded murderers, when the entire situation would be solved by turning in the mentally disturbed pedophile with the abusive mother. The vicar's wife questions why she can't find instructions on how to kill someone on the internet with the same alacrity as if she wanted to learn how to paint the kitchen.

It's the classic tale of an innocent priest defending a pedophile by claiming the usb drive full of filth was his, then throwing a math tutor down the stairs and handcuffing her in the cellar, then plotting to murder her, all to save the poor pedophile. Yup...i said all that.

I gave this pointless mess a 5 for 3 reasons.

#1 and 2 is David and Stanley #3. Stanley's character says 'Everyone is a murderer. You just have to meet the right person".

I truly believe every human is capable of great beauty, and great horror. It really does depend on who you meet, and who influences you the most.

Unlike most others here, My rating is based on the reality of watching only 1 episode. There's definite room for improvement, but making any global judgements about the entire series after 30 minutes of viewing is...well....projecting.

Anyone spouting how she-hulk is instantly better than Bruce at everything simply because she's female, clearly wasn't actually watching the episode. The only things She-Hulk does 'better' is she's instantly got the ability to control the change, and she keeps her personality. Otherwise she's half his size, strength, speed etc. Just because Bruce had to endure years of torment fighting off his alter ego, doesn't mean she has to as well. It's a fictional character....things can change. Deal with it. She got her powers differently than he did, and so hers work differently. She got all the benefits and none of the negatives...deal with it.

Anyone insisting this is yet another attempt at hollywood to emasculate men is also projecting. This is the hulk...up until this arc....hulk smash! How hard is it for she-hulk to master throwing a rock? She doesn't have the dual personality, and maybe that's because Bruce had that already before he was in the original gamma accident?? Or maybe who cares and why does it matter? That's the source material...take it up with Stan.

As for the actual episode....it's not great. I would have preferred a more sussed out back story than a 3 minute scene where 'alien ship tried to attack hulk jeep, then accident, then arm cut on door, then hulk blood mixes with cousin's blood who has same genetic predisposition to turning gamma radiation into hulk reaction', but that's what we got. Apparently the writers didn't think her back story was interesting enough to spend more time on it, and wanted the show to be about her exploits in court after the change. I don't pretend to know because...1 episode.

Anyone complaining about hulk being hulk and not Bruce the whole time....that's the source material. Once he controled it and became 'smart- hulk', he stayed huge and green most of the time because....why the hell wouldn't he?

Anyone complaining about blaspheming Capn America for being a virgin his whole life...get over yourself. He was...until he wasn't. It was a funny observation. Believe it or not, not all Marvel content has to be about epic world-saving battles, strife, death-defying stunts, anger/animosity and decades of emotional struggles and tragedy. Wanda-Vision was brilliant as a stand-alone concept, and this might end up being brilliant as well...or it might truly suck. Won't know until the whole series airs....which is exactly my point.

Apparently people have really low expectations of what deserves an 8. I had hope watching the 1st and even 2nd episodes...maybe a cool conspiracy; maybe some brainwashing ala Homeland....an interesting twist and a little creativity would have been amazing.

Instead, government and corporate baddies give experimental drug to platoon which gives them all brain tumors...because money. One lone wolf trained US navy seal survives, discovers the truth, kills a ton of people ala Rambo, despite hundreds of other equally trained military people + FBI chasing him. Add in a bunch of requisite flashback scenes of his murdered wife and daughter, a bunch of shallow "bad guys" in the military and business sector who do terrible things (with zero character development) because money, and you're left watching 8 episodes that really should have been a 2hr netflix movie.

Good for a binge....lots of action; lots of guns, killing, a little torture...everyone dies except Chris Pratt....who has a brain tumour but takes a bunch of pills and washes them down with a beer each time...and that's enough to keep him alive.

Wash, rinse, repeat. Could have been much better.

I just don't get the insanity of comparing this to the GOAT animes like Death Note, PsychoPass, Steins Gate or even Attack on Titan.

It's decent...don't get me wrong...but i was supremely disappointed when Thors (sp) was killed early on and the anime became just another story about vikings killing, looting and pillaging, with some whiny/screaming brat tagging along wanting revenge.

Some of the fight scenes were very well done, and I enjoyed seeing how Askalad plotted and schemed his way to victory after victory. His character arc was the most intriguing with many secrets were revealed over time about his past and heritage, but he was the anti-hero all along killing everyone in his path (including his only friend just because).

I binged both seasons but was left wanting a ton more from the story. Again decent, but the best all time? Not even close.

If you're able to get over yourself and simply watch a program as it's meant to be presented, season 4 is definitely for you. Is S4 different than the other 3? Sure...i guess.

However even deaths in this show are generally humorous and ironic in some fashion....even the heartwrenching way Rock's character dies. All the Coen bros humor is present...all the subtlety, irony, social commentary and masterful performances by talented actors are present. It's an entertaining and clever ride and oh yeah....it deals with racism and inequality...a lot. It's 1950 Kansas, USA. The usual racist trash will complain the show was too woke, or pushing some BS agenda to rally everyone against white people...and they'd be tragically wrong...as usual.

Season 4 told a brillliant story. It was rife with fantastic acting and I couldn't wait to watch the next episode...binged watched over 2 days in fact. I enjoyed it for what it was. You can too.

Every second was brilliant. Still sucked that he was killed, but what an incredible sendoff. This rivaled Casino Royale as Craig's best Bond work. God only knows who will replace Craig, but they'll have huge shoes to fill.

Hopefully the next iteration will gift us with a better villain, as Malik didn't do it for me at all. The idea behind him killing off Spectre and Bloefeld with MI6's own weapon was well done, but his back story was weak and his characterization was as well imo.

And god please hire someone who can sing and someone who can write a song with passion for the next theme. Most uninspiring Bond song ever.

One of the worst movies I've ever been stupid enough to sit through. Utter and complete trash. The main character clearly can't fight, so the fight scenes are even more comical than they're meant to be. With all the brilliant female leads out there, no idea why they cast someone who couldn't fight.

I assume the writers were going for a grindhouse kind of vibe with blood spatter and over the top killing but, even that was a fail due to the cheese and bad acting. Oh yeah...and the bulletproof armored 1989 Porsche 944 acting like a tank and plowing thru cars without even a scratch...while being driven expertly by a 9 year old...riveting stuff. AVOID.