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Encanto (2021)
Love This
Honestly my least favorite part is that there wasn't more of this. I adore the family dynamic. I mean sure there are parts that bring up questions with the isolated mountain town, but it's a cartoon so I'm just going to suspend disbelief and enjoy the story. Love the music, love the characters and the story was just perfect.
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)
Just Lacking
So there were parts of this I liked, like the fact that the women were finally in on the adventures, but overall it still doesn't measure up and the series continues it's trend of getting progressively worse. The thing is in the first movie, Johnny wasn't incompetent. He had a couple accidents here and there because he didn't understand the world. He had a unique and optimistic viewpoint, but he wasn't useless. He pointed out all the flaws in the ways things have always been and Drac needed to see that. He showed Drac how to have fun again. Even at the start of the second movie he made good points when he was suggesting changes at the hotel. But it started to go downhill from there and Johnny's character keeps downgrading until by the start of this film he's a total screw up. And he's never portrayed as much more than that.
The thing is the part that made the first movie so magical wasn't the relationship between Mavis and Johnny. It was the relationship between Dracula and Johnny. The scene with the painting of his first wife, the table racing, all those magical moments between such drastically different characters as they learned to share the same world. The more they downgrade Johnny as a character, the more they lose in the films and that's why all the films after the first just don't compare to the first film in the series. I mean. It's an interesting story but I'd like to have actually seen the hotel under Johnny's management and seen what this new chapter looks like for Drac instead of having it fade to the cartoony post credit animation. The movie wasn't bad, but it could have been so much more.
Arrow: Collision Course (2018)
Honestly if it weren't for the DC Crossovers I would be done with this show.
I only bother with Arrow anymore because it crosses over with the Flash and other DC series. Oliver, Felicity and Quentin are still great characters but the rest of the show has just completely gone off the rails, continuously downhill from season 4 past.
A civil war plot only works if you care about characters on both sides. The mini arrow wannabes introduced last season aren't characters I give a damn about. Dinah is practically off the rails crazy, her holier than thou attitude is grating when all she is is a meta human killer that belongs in Iron Heights. Or did we forget what she was spending her time doing when Oliver found her? Rene is a glorified thug, his character is two faced and unlikable. Curtis is annoying and naive and none of the three are capable of being accountable for their own actions. Not only do I so not care that they left the team, I think the show would greatly improve if their characters weren't a part of it.
Laurel makes a horrible villain and the actor playing Ricardo Diaz worked much better as a cop on Fringe than he does as any sort of super villain. It's hard to care about the show anymore when I barely care about any of the characters. I know I'm way behind, I've caught up on every DC show but this one but honestly while I loved this show in its first three seasons, the only reason I'm suffering through this now is to get to the next crossover.