Frutic Reviews

You Animal! (2020)

Nice graphics and amusing characters, but terrible message

[4/10 · 26 January 2022]

The movie has been a pleasant eye candy visually, the characters somewhat enjoyable,though a bit insipid and cliché. But what is the moral of the story? Its OK to cheat? Its OK to laugh and be angry on somebody because he is poor and you want more than that, that you just like him for sex, and insult him for loving you and wanting to be with you? Not saying he was the greatest but the main character was angry at him and laughing at him for unreasonable motives.

Also throwing a fit over something she herself ends up doing, having unprotected sex resulting in a baby?

And happy in the end because..what, she made a new friend? Almost instantly after a rage fuelled cat fight with the rich guy and his"friend"

What is the reason of this movie? I feel sorry for the animators that had to put up with such a dull content. They made me give it 3 stars rating and one more star for some amusing scenes. But it's not saving the movie at all.

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)

What...did..I just watch?

[1/10 · 6 October 2015]

I am patient with a lot of misunderstood movies, I give credit for intentions when I see at least something good in them, and I even see and enjoy the aesthetic of the ugly in some, even if otherwise unwatchable, but this movie has the only 1/10 rating that I ever gave so far. And this review is the very first one I ever make, it forced me to break the barrier because of the abundant dullness and pretentiousness it transpired. I am not a fan of plays, and acting on a stage but I watched Birdman, and even if it wasn't on my taste as a theme, I couldn't just not give it credit for the plot, characters, camera movements, charisma, and so on. But this movie, "A pigeon...." is distinctively boring, dull, depressing. It was probably made for a very small hipster /critics niche in audience. If i try really hard I can say that the 1 point/10 rating that I gave it(which is too much anyway) is for the relatively good visual quality it had.

I did not like the dull characters, there was no solid story,(though I could understand some points the director wanted to make with it), there were too many long scenes, too many quiet moments, too many random scenes with no relevance to each other, the whole movie sets looked way too simple and "artsy", the insinuations of animal cruelty and racism were outrageous.

This was MY opinion of this movie, and whoever decides to say that I am wrong, well...good for them...They are also entitled to their opinion, and I am glad they didn't feel like they lost their time. But this is what I have to say about it: It was an absurd movie with no coherency, and with nothing interesting to say that is of any relevance. P.S. And about the "art" factor... I have lived most of my life in this domain, both doing art and seeing it, and this movie has failed to suggest art in the slightest, to me.

I definitely not recommend .