The First Secret Life of Pets had been a Toy Story Movie…with pets and I’m not satisfied with that but how the story went like was fine and I actually wasn’t disappointed. And this year, we have the sequel. Yeah, that’s right, there’re more new characters and also new bad guys coming. The sequel was a bit disappointing to me. This time, Max started to be different. The original voice of Max changed to another actor and when I hear the different voice, I found it laughably bad for example: “Rooster: Are you afraid? Max: No, No I’m Not!”
I could see the difference and it’s negative. The other casts acted like pets as well: they did little talking, especially Kevin Hart, most of his screentime, he kept screaming like a bunny trying to be Captain Snowball. He went like: ‘YAAAAAAAA!’ but he still kept the humor we all wanted. When it got the vet scene, the other animals went like chaos, especially the hamster in the wheel and the grey cat with green eyes. Moreover, many characters in here which were kinda main in the first movie and now they just switched roles like Gidget, she was one of the main characters in 2016 but in here, she played a minor role. She didn’t even have that much screentime and all she did was just being a catdog. Let’s talk about Indiana Jones playing the Rooster. Ford did good at that role but the problem is that he also didn’t have enough screentime and there’s one scene that I felt they had to make the dog say goodbye to Max and Duke before they leave the farm. That scene was carelessly handled. Duke was also the ones who switched role to minor and so was Pops. He taught young dogs how to be…dogs. These characters switched their roles in a horrible way and I was disappointed. The villains here didn’t have enough screentime either. We had the first movie to be like Toy Story and now The Secret Life of Pets 2 looked like Toy Story 2 with an adventure outside their owner’s house and Stinky Pete looked like the Circus guy which was a bad guy. Most of the scenes are literally boring and they had a slight piece of entertainment in here. Most of the scenes here had the kinds of rap or pop music which didn’t match them, not even a sound just like the first trailer, they had this “Walk it Out” song which I felt really annoyed and I thought the first trailer was horrible. They also had this bad idea to turn Katie and her husband’s child named Liam to be a dog. He wanted to dig, to pee and various things Max and Duke could do. I really think these people could do better than just switching roles without knowing the result, screaming all the time. If I was in this movie, I would say “If y’all want to get Crazy, we can get Crazy!”. Everyone’s acting like chaos is in New York and the humans did not know it (well some did). This is also one of the disappointing sequels I saw this year. Ratings: 5.9/10
One question before reviewing the movie: Is “The Curse of La Llorona” part of the Conjuring Universe? Maybe and maybe not, look at Rotten Tomatoes’ List of The Conjuring Universe and “The Curse o La Llorona” wasn’t there but I still think it is because there’s James Wan (as a producer). And guess what, this movie FAILS! And here’re my opinions about it. Initially, the performances are good with Linda Cardellini as Anna Garcia and her two children, Sam and Chris and there’s a woman Patricia played by an actor with the same name. Their acting was the most impressive of the movie. They knew how to scream, how to weep but I wasn’t impressed much with the actor of La Llorona, she should be a lot scarier than how she was in the movie. I like the make-up of La Llorona, a grey face with black tears and yellow eyes, that’s a bit creepy. This movie definitely looks like a James Wan movie. James Wan had some horror masterpieces like Saw, The Conjuring and more. The cinematography, it was okay, how they shot was good, not disturbing or bad at all. I don’t know if they used that much special effects and then I looked at the budget, it’s $9 million, they wasted some. You know why this movie FAILS? It’s because how I measured the movie in the scare factor, from a scale from 1% to 100%, I would rate this movie 5% scary and that’s the problem with horror movies nowadays, they forgot to make the movie scary, all they did was adding blood here and there, it’s not scary and I wanted to see this in the theatre and then people made stupid decision to rate this R and it’s a waste, just like Hellboy. Even the jumpscares they had were over and over again but none of them worked. The whole movie is totally boring, almost every part of the movie is non-horror. The Conjuring Universe is going to be one of the best horror franchises but all it takes is one substandard spin-off to make you realize just how much craft and care are needed to make these things work right. I really don’t think there’s a reason for this movie to exist. It’s not scary or creepy, it’s just so annoying that I really want to give it a 1 or 0 but nah, good acting, good cinematography as well but still, the movie really FAILS.
We had so many live-action Disney movies recently like Alice in Wonderland (2010), Cinderella (2015), Maleficent (2014), The Jungle Book (2016) and recently was Dumbo (2019). There’s an upcoming Disney live-action movie as well and that would be The Lion King (2019). Most live-action Disney movies can never get better than the animated one and Aladdin’s one of them. First, the acting is kinda weak and bland. We had Mena Massoud as Aladdin. I know he tried really hard to be like Aladdin in the 1992 animated version. There’s also Will Smith as the Genie which was criticized online to be too blue but I didn’t think like that. In my opinion, he was pretty okay and funny as well, even though he couldn’t smash the role like Robin Williams. However, Naomi Scott stole the show as Princess Jasmine. She smashed it for a bit and I was kinda impressed as I said the performances were weak. Though the WORST in here was Jafar played by Marwan Kenzari. His voice was young and friendly, he wasn’t that evil but to be quite idotic and crazy and I had no favour for his roles. Yes, the movie was really entertaining with awesome magical special effects, Will Smith’s humor and more but each of those had problems as well as the musical. They didn’t lack any, but they made the musical more boring, more forgettable and less exciting. The music got lower and the creators got lazier and lazier. They also made the final battle worse. It didn’t take long and it was totally bright. Brightness here and there. Comparing to the animated version, it was totally dark and that’s how the final battle should be. Instead in this live-action, it didn’t take that long and people in Agrabah were like “look at my tricks here, see what I can do!”. They didn’t even pay attention that Jafar’s the ruler, not the Sultan. When Jafar turned into a Genie, he looked like a moron more than a powerful being. His face and hair, it was horrible. They also had new stuffs added to the movie. They were weird and annoying, also new characters as well like Dalia played by Nasim Pedrad. I didn’t see that character in animated Aladdin. She was okay to be added to make the movie funnier but the other new things are unnecessary. It made the movie boring and also took a bit long time and it was 128 minutes comparing to the 92 minutes of the animated Aladdin and it was almost perfect and almost the best Disney animated movie ever made. Personally the movie was kinda disappointing and didn’t live up to the hype. I could barely praise many parts of Aladdin. I bet Disney fans and other types of audiences would like it but Aladdin surely deserved to be mixed from me. It’s just a bland live-action like others. This is definitely not a whole new world!
I've just seen Avengers: Endgame (2019) and it was the greatest moment I've ever experienced. If you read this review, first I had to warn you that there would be spoilers. I laughed and cried and sometimes I cheered for unusual and things I wanted to happen. The acting was way better than last time in Avengers: Infinity War (2018). I really am impressed, especially Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans, they're the best! The actions and fight scenes were the most EPIC. The scenes were mostly unforgettable. I could remember a lot after watching it for the first time. Every character were there (except Vision, Black Widow (cuz she's dead) and maybe M'Baku (I haven't seen him). There were portals everywhere and the final battle was a lot better than I had expected. Here are my top 10 best scenes of the movie: 1. "Portals" or "Avengers Assemble" 2. Iron-Man's Death and Funeral 3. Cap Wields Mjolnir 4. Banner mixed brains and brawns together into Professor Hulk 5. Cap shared a dance with Peggy Carter (extremly emotional) 6. Black Widow's sacrifice 7. Thor chops off Thanos' head 8. Thor joins the Guardians of the Galaxy 9. Cap, Iron-Man and Thor vs Thanos 10. Iron-Man and Nebula reunited to the remaining Avengers Some scenes were hilarious like Thor changed into an overweight man and ate junk food, drank beer and played Fortnite with Korg. Some were emotionally sad like when Iron-Man died and his funeral was attended by lots of people, when Cap shared his dance with his wife Peggy Carter that he never had time to do that (the saddest part of that scene was the song, I cried so much) and Black Widow sacrificed for the soul stone. The lines were really iconic to me like "I am inevitable" by Thanos and Iron-Man's last words before he snapped his fingers "And ****...Iron-Man" or when Ant-Man called Cap’s buttocks “America’s Ass” (that was funny cuz Cap’s butts are…big”.. It was so strange was that Steve Rogers retired being Captain America but I was glad that The Cap generation passed on to someone else and it was Falcon (Sam Wilson). Also I’m impress what they had done to Hulk, mixing his self and Hulk’s strength (brains and brawns) into Professor Hulk (that’s how they called) but I had a thought that they had ruined Thor (his big belly and “hobo” hair) but it was still fine because no matter how he changed, he was still a hero and he still remained funny. The sountrack was marvelous, better than in Infinity War. Alan Silvestri did an excellent job, especially "Portals", I liked that one most. The Marvel Studios intro wasn't how I expected it to be. It was a little unsuitable but I liked the song and when Cap danced ith Peggy, the song “it’s been a long long time” was 100% suitable which made the scene unforgettable and of course, sad also made the ending one of the best superhero movie endings. The movie's 3 hours and 1 minute was well-used. No scenes were useless or unnecessary at all. The ending was moving but perfect and someday, I wanted to watch this again and again. I just hope it would deserve 2020's Oscars's Best Picture, Best VFX, Best Original Score, Best Costumes and more. Avengers: Endgame is the greatest movie of 2019 and perhaps one of the best of the 2010s and maybe of all time. This is a MUST-SEE. Also, I don’t rate this 9.8 because I’m a big Marvel fan, but I am being fair to the point means the movie deserved a 9.8. I just hope it topped Avatar (2009) at the box office. Now it’s being $1,223,641,414 worldwide. It's one of the movies that gave me more than two emotions and being a blend of humor, action and heart
The movie is really terrible! WatchMojo was right, the screenplay was kinda written by a 9-year-old and the fights weren't epic. Even though the special effects were outstanding, the movie couldn't get any better
This prequel was a mich better one than the first two movies. There were a lot of parts which were funnier, better in my opinion. In fact, this was the best Thor movie
I've watched this since I was young and now I could still remember many parts of this - it's really memorable, one of the best Pixar movies I've ever seen
The best Pixar movie I've ever seen, one of the best Disney movies I've ever seen and also one of the greatest animated movies I've ever seen - everything is so good in here (especially when toys come to life)
I felt it like a Halloween remake of this movie but I still love the HELL out of it. The music score was excellent, to be honest. The acting was not bad and the directing was really good.
This movie had shown the character I have always wanted to be- a character with freedom, no school and be young forever. I really like the character much more than the movie. The movie wasn't bad though. It was really funny for me and I like many parts of it
There's quite a lot of jokes in this movie which made me laugh but I'm really not impressed about the movie: contentless, almost nothing good about it.
Such an impressive movie. I love the acting, it was excellent and the story was great as well. This is also really helpful for people who want to know how Facebook was made.
This is not just an entertaining film but also quite educational to audiences who watch this. I recommend this is a must-see for kids who love studying history
