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The Little Engine That Could (1991)
Am I the only one who dislikes living vehicles?
The animation is decent, especially since we are talking about a 90's product. The Voice acting also brings the 90's quality.
But I can't bring myself to like this movie. Yea, I see others love it. But I personally would prefer to never have heard of it in the first place. I'm not into the theme which involves vehicles brought to Organic levels of life. I mean Organic (that means, I am excused to like Knight Rider's K.I.T.T. 2000). This movie just makes it worse. In this movie, everything you can see made by human hand is alive for some reason (Satanic Ritual maybe), and that's unnerving for me, who likes technology in the way it is. And when they get rude, scary, or outright selfish, I took a moment to thank the great beings for me to live in the real world. I usually wish I could join the main heroes, or villains, in the movie, video game, or novel/comic I read or watch. This is one of the exceptional cases when I was grateful for living in the real world where trains are not living objects. But can it be worse? Please, keep that scene away from me, in which the phrase "I Think I can" is repeated the great beings knows how many times, in a manner that clearly sounds like imitating the sound of a running Steam Locomotive. I always found that sound annoying, but here, it was turned into an atrocity, a scene from hell, to torture me. Before it even stopped, I was ready to do what I never believed I ever get close to doing... then it stopped to my brief relief, only to give me a song... which returned the discomfort. Again, in most cases, I don't like the characters in an animated movie singing. There are exceptions. And this movie doesn't have that.
Let's get to the appearance of the main character of all characters, who has her... yes... HER face on the chimney, where the steam comes out. Doesn't that hurt? Having the face in front of the water tank must be atrocious as well, and some characters do have that too, in a similar manner to Thomas the Tank Nightmare. But here's the elephant in the room: Almost any man made object is given an organic face. And I am thankful for living in the real world this time. Period.
If you like it, including the endless repetition of "I think I can" in a train-imitating manner, good for you. Just please, stay away from me whenever you have THIS movie, and especially THAT line in mind.
Strange Magic (2015)
Not Worth It at all
Someone's review on The internet was quite accurate: This movie does makes you hate romantic love forever. The visuals are decent, and a select few characters are tolerable. However the movie can't be saved. Just can't. I mean, it's so clichéd, so unoriginal, so forces you to watch this "romantic love" in motion, I mean, what was George Lucas thinking? And it's just sad, because he has been doing so... wrong lately. I mean: SW Prequels failed to the point he sold the entire franchise to Disney. And now, Disney tried to disassociate themselves from this movie to the point of bringing back the Touchstone banner. No words can describe how awful this is.
Is it just me, or most of the time, adding love to a story just ruins it?
Spoiler Alert: this will end in the girl, who said She needs no man in the beginning, ending up with a man after all. Hell, this is what happens all the time. Can't we get a movie with an unhappy ending already? When love doesn't conquer, as opposed to the stereotypical, and completely false saying "love conquers all"? Is it so much to ask to see a movie where love loses already?
Elf Bowling the Movie: The Great North Pole Elf Strike (2007)
This will be short to review this movie
*spoiler alert* Because this whole movie simply fails at being a movie, a Christmas special, and has terrible ideas. They could have made a bible based movie about how Jesus became Santa Claus in secret. Or just tell the true tale or something. Also, it's elf bowling we are talking about... Did a flash game from the mid-to-late nineties call for a movie? How many flash games deserve a movie adaptation? And if so, why this one? And if this one, for some reason... How did they even get to the conclusion? I do not understand some movies.. Really I don't. This is like Kis Vuk and Food Fight at once, for Christmas. And worse, a poorly primitive game's adaptation. Two hours too long without any worth watching it. And I just don't know how to say how bad this thing is. Yes, Christmas is a celebration hard to make good movies for, and I swear I rarely see a Christmas special that does. Making Santa Claus a pirate, giving him a brother who cheats and commits crimes for 400 year straight, and still nobody even considers it when letting him challenge S.C. twice. Illogical Story again. And the visuals could be way better too. When this thing came out? 2007 was the year when Ratatouille came out, and that was visually appealing, with a story that was actually made for human consumption. I don't think the Easter Island idea was serious too. And the magic orb... don't get me starting on it...
In short: No!
Vuk (1981)
Vuk has no sequels, it's a standalone retro classic for everyone
And I mean it. This cartoon was the most successful of the 80's Hungary for a reason. Unlike Gát's "Kis Vuk" labeled monstrosity, which in no way connects to this one despite being titled as "A Sequel", Vuk delivers allegory of freedom and slavery (The Foxes are on the rebel side, fight for Nature and the Spirit of The Fox, while the Hunters and their dogs represent Slavery, kinda like any dictatorship in history, including the Soviets, under whose power Hungary was first tortured, then unhealthily spoiled.) Gát György says "they were working on the footsteps on this one". Well, with a movie that makes no sense, lacks a story, and is just outright a mockbuster, you may claim you are into Video Brinquedo footsteps rather than the master of Hungarian Animation's, whose name was Dargay Attila. And Dargay, Indeed, was an angel in the Makuta's pool of evil, which needed his works to think about freedom. The line included many masterpieces, like "Ludas Matyi" which decipted a medieval Hungary, and a boy who stroke the power of an evil man in power. Vuk did the same: Decipting a world where Foxes fought for their freedom against the Hunters, who killed their families. If Disney contacted Dargay to work on a sequel right away, it would be a better fate for this Classic than have a mockbuster claim itself as a Sequel. Before Lion King, and After the year Vuk was released, Disney was living it's golden age. So why not? Why didn't it happen? Well, maybe that's for the best too, because Hungarians are a bit sensitive towards their materials. My respect goes for the now dead Dargay, who borough us tales of freedom. And one of them was told in the POV of foxes. And they deserved it, because most of the time, Foxes USED to be the villains or bad guys in stories. Here, we find out they are not. And why they aren't.
SPOILER Oh and the sequence when Karak teaches Hunting to little Vuk? That's cute!
Kis Vuk (2008)
Sequel? No! It's a Mockbuster, overly advertised
Do you know, when you are watching a sequel to movie you loved? Well,that's not a case with Kis Vuk, which was advertised as one to a Hungarian Classic. But compared to the original, it looks more like a rip-off than a material related to it. Not a sequel at all.
Mockbusters are movies that piggyback on the publicity of popular works, hence the similar title, but They do not tend to be released in cinemas, let alone have the same treatment as Kis Vuk did in Hungary, BUT: It's Animation is just demonic, it's characters are non-existent, bland, and ugly, just as everything. There is no story, at all. The love-stories are forced and just doesn't fit the Vuk Lore. Gát would argue, but well, I don't think He was sane the whole time He was directing it. And I shall be dead if the whole "Budget", namely 5 million Euro, and 1,4 Billion Forint, was at all used for this Mockbuster. But well, who knows what kind of mental disease Gát has, it probably involves greed. If you are making something a sequel, do not make the characters take on a new style, nor redesign anyone drastically. And this movie just shits on that, thinking it will have any sort of success being the controversy it is. A sequel should also have ALL connections to its predecessor. Well, we saw no proof to that. And the fact we see the face of the humans? We would have seen at least one in "The Little Tramp" but at least it knew what it was hiding. In Kis Vuk, we are not afraid of any of the humans, despite humans being seen as evil in the face of the hunted animals. Sound effects include only sounds from a free downloadable archive, and a lot of sounds are repeated a million times, very noticeably. And those songs? Are you freaking kidding Me? Probably the Craze for Justin Bieber, whose haters are proved right by this day, inspired them, except that one character that doesn't even fit what's happening. And did I tell you about the camera-motion? It's not helping. Trust me, it's making it worse to make out anything from the movie. And there are also objects in it, which would have fit in a Inspector Gadget ripoff, but In something supposedly about the son of Vuk, it's just not fitting.
In short, it lacks a story, it lacks characters, and it looks and sounds like a sketch, rather than a complete movie. As I said, out of the 1,4 Billion Forints, no money went into this production. If some did, wasn't more than, maximum, a few thousands. The main problem: It is selling itself out as the sequel to Vuk from 1981 and the novel it's based on, but it breaks golden rules of being a sequel, and lacks any connections to it whatsoever, also, its aura is just... NO!!!! Gát György just denies the truth when told to him, and avoids any form of punishments. He is actually Video the Brinquedo of Hungary, just worse. My judgment to this movie is: Please, remove any claims that it's a sequel, and replace all of them with the Ripoff and Mockbuster labels. Because Kis Vuk is more like Ratatoing to Ratatouille. A cursed copycat who borough shame not only to Hungary, but to PLANET EARTH and all lifeforms inhabiting it. Seriously.
Álom.net (2009)
Regina is just not a protagonist, and the movie is really bad (spoilers)
1: Hungary is portrayed really wrong. As if We were rising up enough to have Cheerleaders. Like America. I love America, but Hungary trying to copy it? Thats another story. 2: Regina (played by Labanc Lilla, who should be a porn-star) is said to be the main protagonist of this movie. A dumb, all pink blonde, who is also egotistical, and just plain whorish, with no idea of it. I saw movies this thing is based on, and there, Regina's type IN NO Circumstances is placed on the protagonist role. Never protagonist!!! Regina should be, like, the antagonist, and should Bully girls who are not as popular as herself.
SPOILER ALERT!
Near the end, it is "revealed" who wrote those sex adverts in her name... yea, I don't think its true. Its more like the movie wanting another way to force the belief of the "protagonist" ti be better than what she actually is. But I will believe it wasn't Regina when bear cub rain falls from the sky. Regina looks and behaves like a whore (a bad, antagonistic one at that). Its impossible of a woman like her to resist sexual temptations.
Spoiler ends
3: this movie makes no sense whatsoever. The continuity just... there is none. They want me to believe that Regina is going through a character development, but I see none.
4: those "cupp-cupp" slangs... Geez, so disgusting, there is no way this is what American high school protagonists say, like, EVER
5: Terrible Acting, if there's any... Lets keep in mind that photo-models are the vast majority of these "actors", trained to pose for magazines we men buy for our creepy self entertainment. The movie shows too much breasts and butts to to be what it wants to be... It makes it more like a porn movie.
6: that writing: Special thanks for those who were against the creation of this movie. The movie literally spits in the face of those sane people, who tried to save the world from this sexist trash. Cause Thats what it is: Sexist