My Coco review

My Coco review

 

Intro: Is it me or does this movie reminds you of The wizard of OZ or Footloose? 

Coco: This movie is centered on a boy name Miguel who has musical ambitions however his family is against it. This creates conflict between him and his family to the point where he runs away and ends up in the land of the dead. He can't stay there too long because he will be trapped there if he does. So Miguel has to get out of there before it's too late. 

I can't join the bandwagon and say this is the best Pixar movie in nine years because I haven't seen all of them. Plus I hear this movie is similar to Brave. I like the mystery around Miguel's family tree because it'd done In a way where the director plays with your exceptions. That's another thing this movie did well making us believe one thing when it's something else. This also did a good job of capturing Hispanic culture. (That's saying a lot coming from me because I haven't been around people like that in twelve years.) What can I say about the animation it's stunning! The theme of the movie is family it's done in a way where we should honor and remember each other. 

Miguel is a fun and loving boy who's into music. 

Hector is the best character in this movie. Despite being deceiving and self-serving he can a lot be funny and charming. Plus when we learn more about him you'll feel sorry for him. 

Ernesto de la Cruz is a famous musician who encourages Miguel to follow his dreams. 

Mama Imeida is Miguel's Great-Great-grandmother. she's a hothead who struggles to resolve things with her family.    

One of the problems I have with this movie is that it didn't do a good job at balancing the importance of family and following your dreams, what's the point of having a family if they will get in the way of your ambitions? Just because you have ambitions that don't mean family doesn't matter. Miguel's family looks stupid to think music is bad because of what it did to their family because music wasn't the issue, I can't say more without spoiling anything. Also, the story might be predictable for some people. I'm surprised that this movie got away with doing something that isn't family-friendly. 

Pixar took a big risk doing a movie about another culture and it paid off. I would recommend this if you like Brave.  

Rating = Worth Seeing  

My Inhumans review

My Inhumans review 

 

Intro:  I owe Iron Fist an apology because that's no longer the worst Marvel show I've seen. 

Inhumans: This series is about a group of altered humans called the Inhumans who live in the dome City called Attilan located on the Moon, the royal family of Attilan learn that one of their own is dead so they investigate what happened to him or her. Meanwhile, someone close to the royal family starts a coup to dethrone them, this results in the royal family being separated on Earth. So, the royal family has to reunite and get back to Attilan before things get out of hand. 

This show should be an example of what you shouldn't do when writing a story, seriously the people who work on this should be embarrassed. To be fair this was suppose to be a movie and you can tell because episodes 2 to 6 feels like filler to stretch out the story of the movie. The biggest problem with this series is the creators didn't make the royal family likable because of how they run Attilan and they made the main villain likable because he wants to change that. When the bad guy of the show is nobler than the heroes something is wrong. The writers are aware of this so they tried to fix this by making him look bad to the point where you have to choose the lesser of two evils. I feel like I'm being brainwashed, it's like watching DBZ and you tell me that Goku is the big bad. 

I thought the creator was going in the Thor direction with the royal family but they didn't. Also to make things worse the royal family has the nerve to say that they do things for the greater good if that's true they wouldn't run Attilan the way they have and do something heroic. Speaking of Attilan I'm not impressed with it because we don't see a lot of it or its people. How am I suppose to care about the fate of Attilan if I'm not invested in it or its people? The relationships in this show bugs me because they're either unconvincing, rushed or characters shouldn't want anything to do with each other considering their history. Another thing the climax of this series is a joke.

Gorgon (a member of the royal family.) is the muscle and kind of the comic relief of the family. 

Karnak is the brains of the family and he can see the flaws with everything. I'm not kidding if he screws up he can pause foresees the outcome of his or others' choices. Due to this ability he's annoying to be around I mean who wants to be around someone who's a know it all? However, I like his arc that he doesn't have to be perfect to be useful. I'm sorry but it's hard for me to co-sign on this because people do want perfection from each other especially if you work in a demanding job but I digress. 

Medusa (The Queen of the royal family.) is the type of person you want to strangle, she treats everyone besides her family like crap even those who tried to help her. She has the weakest ability out of the royal family and that is her hair can be used as a weapon. Is this a joke? How is she not (My editor censoring me from spoiling the series.) I mean she's nothing without her hair. Another gripe I have with her is I'm surprised that she's married to Black Blot considering the bad blood between their families. 

Speaking of Black Bolt (the King of the royal family.) I don't have much to say about him because he's a mute. The reason why he's like that is that he can destroy anything just by speaking or making any sound. (I'm surprised that this didn't kill his love life.) I can kind of see why he's the king. What bothers me about him is that we learn in flashback that he didn't want to be King but he took on the responsibility because of a threat that's coming to Attlian and we never learn what that threat is.    

Crystal (Medusa's sister.) is an entitled brat who's racist towards humans. My beef with her is she serves no purpose in this series. 

Maximus (The supposedly main villain and Black Bolt's brother.) is the champion of the people it's hard to despise someone who manages to dethrone the royal family without bloodshed. He would still be lovable if he didn't let his inferiority complex get the best of him. I wish I knew what his relationship with Black Bolt was like before the coup. What bugs me about him is that he shouldn't pose much of a threat to the royal family because he's human. In the comic, he can teleport why didn't he get that here?     

Mordis ( Another baddie.) is sympathetic because his powers are almost as dangerous as Black Blot yet he's treated differently, what the fudge!?! He has every reason to be evil.      

The only good thing about this series is that it has some entertainment value just barely and it made a social commentary of hypergamy kind of. Overall, this series is a mass, I wouldn't recommend this unless you want to see if this is worst than Iron Fist.