This may be new information for all my readers here, but April 16th, is actually my birthday. Since because my birthday is coming up, I decided that I wanted to be extra self indulgent for the next couple movie reviews. This Friday, we will be looking at the live-action adaption of the anime Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable Part 1. Then the day of my birthday, we'll be looking at one of my most favorite movies in recent years, Detective Pikachu. There won't be a Friday review that time as my birthday is on Thursday this year. While you're still reading this, I may as well tell you guys about a special review for Easter Sunday. I will force myself to watch the atrocious live-action animation hybrid movie, Hop. I hope you are all looking forward to these reviews!
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Friday, April 3, 2020
Movie Review: Resident Evil: Degeneration
Thanks, but I much rather play the games
The new remake for Resident Evil 3 has come out. I myself am a big fan of the series, and so decided that this week I will be looking at one of the Resident Evil movies. Not the live action ones however, I have too much of a dislike for those films. Instead we will be looking at the first of the animated movie trilogy. Released in 2008 Resident Evil: Degeneration takes place seven years after the events of the first, second, and third game, this is because the first 3 games take place in the same time. The main characters from the second game, Leon, and Claire are forced into a new nightmare after barely escaping Raccoon City seven years ago.
Our movie begins with news clips because news clips at the beginning of a zombie movie are so very spooky. It also provides context to the movie's plot as well as recaps the final moments of the original trilogy, which is just Raccoon City being exploded by a small nuke. We learn that the company behind the zombie virus, Umbrella Corporation goes bankrupt, and is bought by WilPharma. Despite everyone's protests to close down the company to prevent another outbreak, they don't listen of course. We skip to the present (2005), and we are introduced to Claire Redfield, the second main character from Resident Evil 2. I really don't know what she's doing, but she's at the airport to meet up with this kid who is related to someone who works at the same anti-bio-terror organization as Claire. There really isn't any explanation to this, except they needed to come up with some bullshit excuse to have her at this airport. Like after the first 20 minutes we don't see this kid ever again except at the end of the movie. Anyway, the two spot the politician guy, and watch as a news reporter, and a protester dressed up like a zombie harass him. Claire steps in, and stops the protester. Moments later though, a real zombie shows up, and kills the police officer there. A whole panic then erupts in the airport as suddenly there are tons of zombies everywhere. As messed up as it may sound, I love scenes like this, I like to refer to these scenes as "Day 1 Panic" when people left, and right are just being chomped on by zombies, and it's just absolute chaos. Outside the airport, a couple of military people are being sent to go save the politician guy, along with the help of Leon S. Kennedy, main character of RE 2, 4, and a smaller role in 6. By the way, chronologically this takes place after Resident Evil 4, which means that at this point in time Leon had not only survived the Raccoon City outbreak, but he has also rescued the President's Daughter from a creepy cult located in rural Spain; this guy has one hell of a resume. The trio go into the airport, and meet up with Claire's group which consists of a couple of useless side characters, the useless kid, and politician guy. Surprisingly they all make it out okay, except for the military guy named Greg, he died, but I don't care because he was a asshole. Sacrificing yourself doesn't automatically make you not a asshole.
To be honest the movie really comes to a stop after the group leaves the airport, and doesn't pick up again until towards the end. Just like Doom Annihilation, how the fuck, do you make a Resident Evil movie boring? To be completely honest, I really don't remember what happened in this movie, there were zombies, then a bunch of talking, then a big monster showed up. They didn't even blow it up in true Resident Evil fashion, instead it fell to it's death, BOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRING! Unlike the newer Doom movie though, this movie got 2 sequels. I almost forgot to mention, the cg really hasn't aged well. I've seen video game cut scenes from the PlayStation 2 era that look nicer. Really I only recommend that you watch this if you're a die-hard Resident Evil fan, otherwise just avoid it like the zombie plague. This glorified video game cut scene gets a 1 out of 5 Paws up.
To be honest the movie really comes to a stop after the group leaves the airport, and doesn't pick up again until towards the end. Just like Doom Annihilation, how the fuck, do you make a Resident Evil movie boring? To be completely honest, I really don't remember what happened in this movie, there were zombies, then a bunch of talking, then a big monster showed up. They didn't even blow it up in true Resident Evil fashion, instead it fell to it's death, BOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRING! Unlike the newer Doom movie though, this movie got 2 sequels. I almost forgot to mention, the cg really hasn't aged well. I've seen video game cut scenes from the PlayStation 2 era that look nicer. Really I only recommend that you watch this if you're a die-hard Resident Evil fan, otherwise just avoid it like the zombie plague. This glorified video game cut scene gets a 1 out of 5 Paws up.
Friday, March 27, 2020
Movie Review: Furry Vengeance
OwO what's this!? A terwibble furry mowvie UwU? Eh, not that kind of furry, sorry.
The movie (If you even want to call it that) opens up in a lovely forest located somewhere in Oregon. A groundhog is then almost run over, and it screams like a person. This movie uses a lot of "Loud Noises and Random = Funny" humor. The guy driving the car is so comically evil, he throws a lit cigar out of his window which pisses off the forest animals. In return the animals then push the man, and his car off a cliff. It doesn't kill him though since this movie is for children. We then skip to meet our main character whose name I forgot, so we'll just say Brendan Fraser. He says he loves nature as he watches his team develop some houses in front of him. His wife is more open to appreciate nature though, but his angsty teenage son just wants to go home to Chicago. He leaves to go meet his boss at a nearby airfield where he had parked his private jet. You see, the joke is that they say they're a green company, but they act the opposite! Wow, how funny! Brendan Fraser's boss says that they are going to tear down the entire forest to put up a eco-friendly shopping center with a forest theme, cause haha it's hypocritical, how funny. The animals living in the forest hear about this, and decide to make Brendan Fraser's life a living hell. Literally for the next hour we get repeated scenes. Brendan Fraser wants to do something, Animals get in the way, and cause bodily harm to Brendan Fraser, then Brendan Fraser gets angry; rinse, and repeat until towards the end where Brendan Fraser, and the animals team up to take down his boss who wants to cut down the whole forest. Brendan Fraser becomes a park ranger to protect the forest, and his family loves him.
This movie is so awful, that it doesn't even feel like a real movie. I don't even want to waste my time going into detail of just how awful it is. I take back everything I said about the Pup Star series. That trilogy is on par with The Godfather compared to this dumpster fire. This movie, is not even worthy of any Paws! For the first time ever in this blog's history, we got a 0 out of 5 Paws up,. I hate this movie
Friday, March 20, 2020
Movie Review: Animal Crossing
Well boys, we did it, depression is no more.
As of today, Animal Crossing New Horizons is finally out! It feels so surreal since Animal Crossing fans have been waiting for so long. In case you are not aware, Animal Crossing is a life simulator game where you play as a new resident of a town populated by adorable animal villagers. Unlike other games, Animal Crossing has no end, it is simply life, and it can be very therapeutic. This 2006 movie is based on the second game in the franchise, Animal Crossing: Wild World for the DS. In this movie we follow a young girl named Ai, as she moves into Animal Village, and not much happens actually. This movie feels more like a slice-of-life episodic series, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Despite the movie using the the original Japanese names for the characters, I will be using their localized English names for simplicity.
The movie begins introducing us to our main character, Ai. She is taken into Animal Village, and goes to the Town Hall where she meets the mayor, Tortimer, a tortoise who had been the mayor of Animal Village for many years (Although as of Animal Crossing: New Leaf, he has retired, and the player character takes over as mayor). Tortimer tells her that she needs to go visit Tom Nook at his shop, Nook's Cranny, as he is her landlord. Upon meeting, Tom Nook, just like in the games, puts Ai straight to work to help pay off her house loan. During this part Ai gets to meet all of her new neighbors as well. The first villager she meets is a peppy cat named Rosie. Next is the lazy alligator, Alfonso (who wears a cute little Mario shirt). She then meets the Able sisters, Mable, and Sable who run the clothing shop. Now after a hard day of work, Ai finally arrives at her new home. Though on her way she comes across a human boy from the next town over named, Yu. The next day while delivering a package to Apollo, the Eagle, Yu returns, accidentally knocking her over into Apollo's garden, crushing some of his flowers. She then meets Mr. Resetti, who in the games would only appear if you turn off the game without saving first to punish the player. Ai learns from Mr. Resetti that Apollo might be at the museum's cafe. At the museum she meets the owl siblings, Blathers, and Celeste who run the museum together. From Blathers we find out the the museum is almost complete, but they have yet to find one remaining fossil, the Seismosaurus (Nowadays, it's referred to as Diplodocus instead). Down in the cafe, we meet Brewster, the pigeon who runs the cafe, as well as Caesar, the Gorilla, and Cyrano the Anteater. Ai then meets Apollo, she tries to apologize to him, but he doesn't seem to respond making Ai think that he is mad at her.
On her last delivery of the day, Ai meets Margie, the elephant. The two bond over sharing cherries, and talking about each other's dreams for the future. Margie is hoping that she can become a famous fashion designer one day. The two then compare their aspirations, and talents to Cherry Pie. Margie states that you shouldn't leave a cherry pie in the fridge because then you might forget about it, just like how it's good to practice your talents, or risk getting a bit rusty. Ai then says that Margie's sketch book must be her cherry pie. We then skip a bit forward to nighttime where Ai is walking along the beach when she stumbles across a message in a bottle that speaks of a Winter Festival Miracle. Although she has no idea of what it could mean at the time. The movie skips forward a bit to the middle of summer. One evening when Ai is walking along the beach once more, she finds another message in a bottle. This time it's asking her to plant trees in certain areas of the village, complete with a map of where she needs to plant them. The next day, or so Yu, and Alfonso are searching the village for fossils. Rosie then mentions that she had found a whole bunch of them awhile back. The boys then have Ai, Margie, and Rosie join them on a small adventure to find the fossils. They end up in a large cave where they do find the fossils, but they also find something better. They come across an entire Seismosaurus fossil. Yu tries to break the fossil free only to make the cave start crumbling in on itself. The group make it out in time, but now no one will be able to get the Seismosaurus. Later that night is the Fireworks Festival, where the famous K.K. Slider is going to preform live (I wish I could see him live, America why you so boring). There Margie requests the song K.K. Bossa, which really is one of the best songs in the series. A little while after the festival, Ai goes to the beach again, and finds yet another message in a bottle, this is going somewhere trust me.
The movie then skips to early fall where Ai is approached by Rosie. Rosie berates Ai for not being at Margie's farewell party. The thing is though is that, despite being her best friend Ai was not even made aware of such a thing. Ai feeling hurt that Margie would leave without telling her heads out to the cafe to try, and calm down. However at the cafe, K.K. Bossa, Margie's favorite song comes on the radio, and the girl begins crying. Upon walking back home, still a bit bummed out she comes across the wandering artist, Wendell, the walrus. Ai takes him back to her home, and gives him some food, and water. She then finds a letter from Margie. The letter reads that she apologizes for leaving without telling her. She didn't want to leave for her next step in life with tears in her eyes, since she knew saying goodbye to her best friend would make her feel sad. Ai goes back into her house only to find Wendell gone, a painting left from where he was, kinda like in the actual game. Feeling uplifted by Margie's letter, Ai decides that she must make her own cherry pie, first by believing in herself more. Rosie also stops by, and apologizes to Ai for what she said. Ai forgives her as the two watch a meteor shower fill the sky. We skip time again to winter time, specifically the day of the Winter Festival. Ai walks around the village taking notice of the trees she had planted that summer as the letter asked. She wonders if the Winter Festival Miracle will even happen, oh little does she know man. That night, the village comes alive with a assortment of lights decorating both the trees, and the homes of the residents of Animal Village. Though as the Winter Festival starts, something strange happens. What appears to be a UFO crashes in the middle of the forest. In the UFO is Gulliver the seagull who during the Wild World game traveled via UFO instead of ship for some reason. Glad he went back to his seafaring roots as of New Leaf. The town's people actually do believe him to be an alien, and agree to help fix his ship.
Ai, Rosie, Alfonso. and Yu group up together to find one of the pieces which leads them back to the cave they had found back in summer. They however cannot push the boulder blocking the entrance, but help arrives in a big surprise. Margie had returned to Animal Village to celebrate the Winter Festival with her friends. Though hearing about the UFO, and hearing that her friends went to the cave she headed off to help. With her strength, they are able to move the boulder out of the way. Inside the cave, Yu spots a gear on top of the Seismosaurus fossil. With the cold making the cave more sturdy, Yu is able to climb up the fossil, and retrieve the gear. On the way down though he slips, and falls off the fossil. He is saved by his friend Alfonso though, while Ai catches the gear. The hood that Yu was wearing as part of his costume also comes off, revealing that this would be the first time anyone would be able to see his actual face, and Ai calls him cute (This is so sweet, i'm going to get diabetes). The group then return to Gulliver where they find that someone had already found a gear that looks identical to the one that they just got. Suddenly the gear begins to glow, and float, and shift into it's true form. Turns out, that gear was a tiny UFO that they saved, also a real UFO this time. Above them appears the mothership, but of course it's friendly, and only wants the tiny one back. Upon returning the small UFO, the fleet then creates a constellation in the image of Ai before leaving as thanks. Blathers decides that Ai should be the winner of the decoration contest since she used the sky to decorate the town. Gulliver then leaves, and thinks to himself that he really didn't intend for that to happen. How was he supposed to know that arranging the trees in that way would attract a real UFO. This also means that Gulliver was the one behind the bottled messages. Everyone celebrates as Ai finally feels like a proper member of the community. Apollo also apologizes to Ai for not making it clear that he wasn't mad at her the whole time. During the credits we learn that Margie had finally made a design that everyone wears. Tom Nook's shop also upgrades, just like how it does in the games. Blathers is able to receive the Seismosaurus. Ai helps Apollo re-grow his garden. Ai also becomes great friends with Celeste (Though she was starting to be friends with her as of the winter story arc). With the end of the credits is the end of the movie.
So, i'll state right now. I'm probably a little biased because Animal Crossing is one of the things in this world that makes me feel so happy. The plot may not be the best, but I think it makes up for it with charm, and wholesomeness. The more I play the games, or re-watch this movie, I just want to be a part of this joyful world. Especially if my cat, Mr. June was a villager. He'd make for a good character I think. Back on subject though! Another thing I really love about this movie is the soundtrack, and sound design, lifting straight from the game. Funny enough I actually have owned this movie on DVD for quite awhile. However, it is only in Japanese, it's only been recently that I've finally watched, and understood it completely. As you can probably guess, Animal Crossing is pretty special to me, so don't mind if I just disappear for a few months once I get my copy of New Horizons. This movie gets a 5 out of 5 Paws up from me (Mainly because of the sentimental value it has to me).
Movie Review: Doom: Annihilation
Doomed from the start
So as of today the game Doom Eternal is out, and because of this I thought it would be good to review the Doom movie (Not the one with The Rock mind you). Looking at the trailers, I thought that maybe this could be decent... ish. I was very wrong in the worse way though. You know how Doom has adrenaline pumping game-play that never bores, and keeps you moving, right. Well imagine that the film adaptation goes the opposite direction entirely, even during the action scenes, this movie is boring as hell (Unintentional Doom joke there). For the plot we follow a group of marines that find themselves in a demon infested base on one of Mars' moons, Phobos (Which I just found out is a real moon, so that means we're probably screwed if demons figure out how to get down from there). Forgive me if this review is a bit short. This movie was so boring, that I forgot most of the plot points, and I really don't want to re-watch this. Also maybe mute the usual music on here, and play this song to get into the mood.
Our movie starts by introducing us to two different groups of scientists. One group on Phobos, and the other at a secret base in Nevada, Earth (Not to be confused with Nevada, Jupiter). They are seen researching some obviously demonic looking teleportation devices. One of the groups send a guy in only for him to become a monster. Eh, only a minor setback. They turn on the gate again, and we get a title-card! We are then introduced to our protagonist Joan. She wakes up from a deep sleep, along with all the other marines whose names I can't remember. One thing i'll give the movie credit for is the fact that the ship's AI is named Daisy which is possibly a reference to Doom Guy's pet rabbit who had unfortunately been killed by demons at the end of the first game. To be honest, the Easter Eggs are the only noteworthy parts of this movie, and even then I only counted two, counting the AI's name. We get some exposition from the marines that this is Joan's fault that they are going to Phobos. To make things more awkward, Joan's ex-boyfriend who is a scientist is coming along to join the research team. They soon arrive at the base, but no one is answering the communication signals. The group then gets a message that something bad happened at the base, and they need to find out what happened. They find a hidden entrance, and walk around for awhile doing nothing. Finally 35 minutes into the movie, we see our first demon... and it's a generic zombie, how disappointing. Since because these professionally trained marines are idiots, at least three of them are killed off. They use a chainsaw for five seconds, I guess that's kinda cool? Man, you know you've failed as a action movie if the action scenes are boring to watch. The marines also come across another easter egg, as well as a few survivors. The easter egg being a name tag belonging to a fellow marine by the name of Blazkowicz which is the last name of the main character from the Wolfenstien games, and as a fun fact he is actually confirmed to be Doom Guy's grandfather in one specific timeline.
Among the survivors is a very suspicious science guy, I don't remember his name, but I'm 99% sure the word Butt was in it, so he's going to be Dr. Butt. The crew returns to the ship only to find a new type of demon, the imp, also known as the second weakest demon in the Doom games next to the zombies. A couple Imps take out many of the marines. The Imps don't even resemble their in-game model at all, and it looks like a cheap rubber suit monster that would appear on a early episode of Power Rangers. With their transportation compromised the remaining marines decide to try, and get the power back on in the base. Upon arriving at the power thingie, Dr. Butt locks the remaining marines, and survivors in the room. More Imps arrive, and kill everyone, but Joan, and her ex-boyfriend. Those two somehow get out, and make their way to Dr. Butt. Along the way Joan comes across the iconic BFG 9000, or more formally known as The Big Fucking Gun. In the game, the BFG allows you to explode many demons into bloody chunks with only one blast, making demon killing oh, so much easier. However in this movie, the BFG gets a major downgrade. Not only does it look like a toy gun from the dollar store, it also does barely any damage to anything. Her ex-boyfriend also gets killed by a demon because movie. Joan goes to stop Dr. Butt from literally releasing Hell on Earth, but instead she is pushed into the portal. Arriving in Hell, she meets the mastermind who tells her their plans for destroying humanity. Finding a portal back to Earth Joan goes through it, and ends up at the Nevada lab. She tries to tell the people to close the gate, but because these guys are stupid, they keep the gate open. We hear some demonic growling before the screen cuts to black, and the credits start to roll. What a unsatisfying ending. Who knows maybe I would've liked it if the rest of the movie was better. With this movie finally over, I think I can relate a lot to Doom Guy now. Watching this movie felt like going to Hell, and back... well, I mean, if Hell was boring as... Hell.
Even if this wasn't associated with the Doom franchise, this is still a very bad, and boring sci-fi action flick.It's bad to say, but it seems to be that the 2005 version with Dwayne The Rock Johnson is a much better Doom movie, then this attempt. Seriously Hollywood, why is it so difficult for you to make a goddamn Doom movie!? Sorry, i'm getting really angry over this, maybe it might be best for me, and everyone else if I stop now. This snore fest gets a 1 out of 5 Paws up.
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Movie Review: The Luck of the Irish (2001)
You would have to be pretty unlucky to watch this movie
Top o' the morning to ya laddies! 'Tis St. Patrick's Day, the day where all Irishmen, and Americans who claim to be at least 1% Irish get wasted on Baileys and Guinness. Since because it is St. Patrick's Day, what better movie to review then one featuring Leprechauns. One of the first movies to pop into my head was a old Disney Channel Original Movie from the pre-High School Musical era (Which were the only good DCOM movies in my opinion, little me couldn't get enough Zac Effron). Luck of the the Irish is a kid's movie from 2001, and it shows. It is so early 2000s that it actually hurts. The movie is about a young boy, curious about his heritage, he ends up causing trouble for his entire family. Main character also finds out that his dad actually fricked a Leprechaun, so that's something. I forgot, this is also a basketball movie as well because, fuck it, Leprechaun playing basketball.
The movie starts with a weird dream sequence where our main character, Kyle is at the upcoming Heritage Day event at his school, but he is less then a foot tall. After that pointless opening scene, Kyle heads off to his Basketball game. With a lucky shot, he manages to win the game, and his team is set to go to the semi-finals, or something like that. The next day, Kyle is treated like a hero at his school. Everything seems to be going well for him, that is until his classmate, Bonnie starts to continuously harass him about Heritage Day. When he gets home, Kyle tries to ask his parents where they come from, only for his parents to dodge the question in a very suspicious manner. Kyle is forced to do his own investigating now, and finds out that his dad had changed his last name; totally not suspicious at all. Later on Kyle, and his friend Russel, who is the only black kid in the entire school find out there is a Irish Heritage Carnival going on that day. The two boys go there, and come across a strange old man who before leaving shouts out, "Buy the boy, a bag o' spuds!" while tossing some coins that land in a perfect stack. The boys then meet Seamus, a step dance master. With the lively Irish music playing, Kyle can't help, but to do a perfect step dance. Although he ends up falling over, and this is the beginning of his problems. The next morning, Kyle's mother is seen making classic Irish dishes, and talking in a thick Irish accent. She then states the obvious, they're Irish. She didn't want to tell him because she was worried that he would be discriminated against for being Irish, even though discrimination against Irish people is so two centuries ago. While at school, Kyle starts having the most unluckiest day ever, and it gets worse. Due to the fact that he always got baskets in basketball because of luck, Kyle doesn't actually know how to play basketball. Kyle really flops at the semi-finale, but the team still manages to win. The next day at school, absolutely everyone hates him. Now I was never into sports when I went to school, but i'm 99% sure kids don't act like this.
That day Kyle realizes that not only is he getting shorter, but his hair is turning spiky, and red, and his ears are gaining a point at the tips. He rushes home, and finds his mom in her true Leprechaun form. Kyle takes the news that his dad actually fricked a Leprechaun relatively well. His parents explain that they shouldn't be turning though since Kyle has the Lucky Coin he always wears around his neck, which is essentially the luck of the entire clan. Although before he had left the school, a magnet test showed that his was not his coin, as his coin is solid gold, and thus can't be attracted by a magnet. Kyle's mom decides that it must be her father who stole the coin, which makes no sense, why would he steal the coin that keeps him human as long as it's on the youngest clan member's possession. By the way, the old guy Kyle, and Russel saw at the Carnival is actually his grandfather, and owner of the largest potato chip company in the area.Since Kyle's dad is completely human, and won't shrink, he drives Kyle, and his tiny wife to where her father would be, the potato chip factory. Kyle manages to sneak in via blending himself into a convenient field trip group that Bonnie happens to be in. Bonnie finds him, and he explains to her what is happening before they are chased around by a whole team of security guards. Soon enough they are caught, and Kyle meets his grandfather. His grandfather is willing to talk with him as they walk over to where Kyle's mom is. Kyle then mentions that maybe they can ask Seamus if he saw their coin. Grandpa freaks out because turns out Seamus is a evil Leprechaun, so of course he was the one that stole it. They take Grandpa's car, and go to find Seamus, they also pick up Russel along the way. A chase scene starts as the group drives after Seamus before they are stopped by a popped tire. The whole family now doubts that they will be able to get their luck back, but Bonnie decides to motivate them with a history lesson about the Irish arriving in America, and how with hard work they can do anything. Ah yes, the message of this children's movie is, Capitalistic Ideals are good; also that Leprechauns are the most oppressed minority. We also get this great one liner from Russel, as seen in the GIF below.
The rain stops, and Kyle spots a rainbow. Grandpa then begins running with Russel, and Kyle following him to the end of the rainbow. Russel tries to explain to the actual Leprechaun who knows magic that there is no end of the rainbow. Man, I bet Russel felt like a dummy when they find the end of the rainbow, Seamus' RV with the pot of stolen lucky coins in it. With grandpa's help, Kyle gets back his coin. Though grandpa wants to now steal the rest of the coins, leading to a argument which wastes enough time for grandpa to be captured by Seamus. Kyle then makes a bet with Seamus that he can beat him at sports, if Kyle wins then they get the coin, and grandpa back. Agreeing to the terms, Kyle, and Russel are teleported to Ireland where they do ancient Irish sports, such as Hurling. They tie, and since technically Kyle didn't beat Seamus, the coin is taken away, and he threatens to keep his grandpa as his slave forever. Kyle makes another deal, beat him at a game of basketball, and if they win Seamus is sent to the land of his father forever, but if Seamus wins then Kyle will be Seamus' slave. They are then teleported to the big basketball game that the boys were going to do anyway, and no one seems to question what thirty-something year olds are doing in a high school basketball team. At first the game is going in Seamus' favor, but then Russel is given a coin by grandpa, who says the coin is lucky. With the coin, Russel starts getting more points for their team. Turns out though that the coin isn't lucky at all, and it's confidence that makes him good. Kyle sees this, and starts doing his best too. Of course Kyle's team gets the winning score at the last second. At first Seamus thinks he is being sent to Ireland, but nope, Kyle's father is from Cleveland, meaning that Seamus will live in Lake Erie forever. Now it's a happy ending, and stuf- wait, it's not over yet!? Yup now it's time for Heritage Day where Kyle does a Irish dance, and then sings "This Land is Your Land". Most cringe part of the movie to be honest, well aside from when Kyle break dances when he supposed to be dong Irish Step Dancing. After that, then the movie actually ends.
I consider myself pretty lucky I didn't grow up with, well, whatever this was. Personally I think you would need a few pints before you even attempt to watch this. One thing I will give it credit for is that, this movie is fun make fun of. Due to that one redeeming feature, this Disney Channel "classic" gets a 2 out of 5 Paws up.
The movie starts with a weird dream sequence where our main character, Kyle is at the upcoming Heritage Day event at his school, but he is less then a foot tall. After that pointless opening scene, Kyle heads off to his Basketball game. With a lucky shot, he manages to win the game, and his team is set to go to the semi-finals, or something like that. The next day, Kyle is treated like a hero at his school. Everything seems to be going well for him, that is until his classmate, Bonnie starts to continuously harass him about Heritage Day. When he gets home, Kyle tries to ask his parents where they come from, only for his parents to dodge the question in a very suspicious manner. Kyle is forced to do his own investigating now, and finds out that his dad had changed his last name; totally not suspicious at all. Later on Kyle, and his friend Russel, who is the only black kid in the entire school find out there is a Irish Heritage Carnival going on that day. The two boys go there, and come across a strange old man who before leaving shouts out, "Buy the boy, a bag o' spuds!" while tossing some coins that land in a perfect stack. The boys then meet Seamus, a step dance master. With the lively Irish music playing, Kyle can't help, but to do a perfect step dance. Although he ends up falling over, and this is the beginning of his problems. The next morning, Kyle's mother is seen making classic Irish dishes, and talking in a thick Irish accent. She then states the obvious, they're Irish. She didn't want to tell him because she was worried that he would be discriminated against for being Irish, even though discrimination against Irish people is so two centuries ago. While at school, Kyle starts having the most unluckiest day ever, and it gets worse. Due to the fact that he always got baskets in basketball because of luck, Kyle doesn't actually know how to play basketball. Kyle really flops at the semi-finale, but the team still manages to win. The next day at school, absolutely everyone hates him. Now I was never into sports when I went to school, but i'm 99% sure kids don't act like this.
The rain stops, and Kyle spots a rainbow. Grandpa then begins running with Russel, and Kyle following him to the end of the rainbow. Russel tries to explain to the actual Leprechaun who knows magic that there is no end of the rainbow. Man, I bet Russel felt like a dummy when they find the end of the rainbow, Seamus' RV with the pot of stolen lucky coins in it. With grandpa's help, Kyle gets back his coin. Though grandpa wants to now steal the rest of the coins, leading to a argument which wastes enough time for grandpa to be captured by Seamus. Kyle then makes a bet with Seamus that he can beat him at sports, if Kyle wins then they get the coin, and grandpa back. Agreeing to the terms, Kyle, and Russel are teleported to Ireland where they do ancient Irish sports, such as Hurling. They tie, and since technically Kyle didn't beat Seamus, the coin is taken away, and he threatens to keep his grandpa as his slave forever. Kyle makes another deal, beat him at a game of basketball, and if they win Seamus is sent to the land of his father forever, but if Seamus wins then Kyle will be Seamus' slave. They are then teleported to the big basketball game that the boys were going to do anyway, and no one seems to question what thirty-something year olds are doing in a high school basketball team. At first the game is going in Seamus' favor, but then Russel is given a coin by grandpa, who says the coin is lucky. With the coin, Russel starts getting more points for their team. Turns out though that the coin isn't lucky at all, and it's confidence that makes him good. Kyle sees this, and starts doing his best too. Of course Kyle's team gets the winning score at the last second. At first Seamus thinks he is being sent to Ireland, but nope, Kyle's father is from Cleveland, meaning that Seamus will live in Lake Erie forever. Now it's a happy ending, and stuf- wait, it's not over yet!? Yup now it's time for Heritage Day where Kyle does a Irish dance, and then sings "This Land is Your Land". Most cringe part of the movie to be honest, well aside from when Kyle break dances when he supposed to be dong Irish Step Dancing. After that, then the movie actually ends.
I consider myself pretty lucky I didn't grow up with, well, whatever this was. Personally I think you would need a few pints before you even attempt to watch this. One thing I will give it credit for is that, this movie is fun make fun of. Due to that one redeeming feature, this Disney Channel "classic" gets a 2 out of 5 Paws up.
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Monday, March 16, 2020
Announcement: March 20th Review
This Friday, expect something a little different from usual. No, it won't be like February 14th where I did two mini-reviews. Instead I will be spoiling you with two full length movie reviews! Now what movies am I reviewing that deserve to be reviewed on the same day? Well you see, I am a bit of a gamer myself (Not the kind that is sexist, homophobic, and racist mind you), and on March 20th not only will there be a new Animal Crossing game, there will also be a release of the new Doom game. In case you don't know either game series; Animal Crossing is a life simulator game where you play as a human who lives in a ever growing village full of cute animal neighbors. Doom meanwhile is if a Heavy Metal album came to life. It is a adrenaline pumping action game where you can actually rip off your enemy's arms, and use it to beat them to death! Enough info-dumping, let me get back on subject! Did you know both of these very contrasting games have movies? Well now you know! To celebrate their new game's release I will be reviewing both movies as well. See you this Friday!
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| I swear to Tom Nook, if we don't get Doom Guy as a Rabbit Villager in this game... |
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