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OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes (2017)
A "kids show" written primarily for manchildren
Of all the animation I've ever seen come through Cartoon Network, none stands out in my mind quite like OK K. O. Let's Be Heroes. There are a couple reaosns for this, but one that want to talk about primarily in this write up.
OK K. O. is not a TV show, as we understand it. It's a loose collection of references to other cartoons, anime, and video games. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, except that the show fundamentally fails to connect with it's youngfer audience. The references are almost all things from the 90s and EARLY 2000s, that most children wouldn't get. This is where it becomes clear that this show was never for kids: It's for people in their 30s who get their political views from Twitter and Tumblr.
It's not that I don't like the show, but much like Steven Universe, it's very obvious that this was written for a very specific crowd and random children were not one of them. It continues the proud tradition of western animators trying to ape Japanese Anime without actually understanding why anime works.
Getsuyoubi no Tawawa (2016)
Perfectly Serviceable
A show about the life and times of girls with very large bosoms and their male partners.
I do like the show. It's cute, sexy, and best of all short. You can finish both seasons in an hour. But the obvious problem is that it becomes repetitive and samey very quickly. As much as I enjoy how soothing the calmness of the series is, I can't help but want more. Maybe I want more explicit sexual content, or a story that lasts longer than a minute. Just a conflict of some kind is it. But that's SOL for you. I recommend Tawawa, but with the caveat that you will grow bored of it before long.
Street Fighter (1994)
One of the best video game movies ever made.
It's campy, it's cheesy, all the characters overact and that is what makes it good. Street Fighter doesn't pretend to be a serious drama or an epic tale of good vs evil. It's an action comedy and it makes full use of that label.
Raul Julia gives a stunning performance despite his cancer ravaged body and Jean-Claude Van Damme plays a very believable Colonel Guile. In truth almost all of the castings are perfect aside from some necessary changes to the origins.
More movies should be like this, not afraid to be over the top to compensate for the obvious weaknesses.
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
Just watch for the fights
This film looks amazing, has fantastic fights and Kong has way more character development than you'd expect out of a giant primate.
And that is where the good stuff ends. Godzilla Vs. Kong proudly follows in the footsteps of previous monster verse entries by being a horrible film with really, really good fight scenes. The human characters exist. That's pretty much all they have going for them. The villains were never a threat to anyone and really that whole section of the plot was just to manufacture situations where Kong, Zilla and Mecha G get to fight.
There are two teams of humans: Team Kong which are some scientists, a clearly evil relative of the villain (she even dresses in all black) and a deaf little girl who can sign with Kong. And Team Godzilla which is Madison from KOTM, Madison's friend from High School and some conspiracy theorist guy who may or may not be right about everything. Madison was already a bit character, so I question the logic of making her a main protagonist, also she's kinda mean in this one. Something I find very amusing is that these two groups of people have zero interaction with each other. Team Gojira only exists to bring Mecha Godzilla in on the action and Team Kong exists to give Kong a powerup. MONARCH is there too, but their role appears to just be celebrity cameos and literally watching the chaos unfold impotently.
My two major problems are 1. Godzilla is an absolute jerk and despite causing the whole plot everyone still treats him as the godlike hero of the film. And 2. The villains don't feel particularly villainous until the story forces them to make boneheaded decisions out of evil. For example: in the Third Act evil lady, who hasn't really done anything bad at this point, starts to harvest some of the weird Hollow Earth energy which was the sole purpose of the expedition. This is presented as bad for some reason and then a stand off occurs between the heroes who kidnapped Kong and brought him to Antarctica and the corporate goons. Predictably they all die for, y'know, doing their jobs and the heroes escape in the knick of time. The funny thing is that Kong, and likely the audience, would not even care if the bad guys didn't start pointing guns at everybody with no prompting.
After that, Godzilla and Kong meet up and fight for a while before Mecha Godzilla, also a harebrained villain scheme, shows up and takes center stage. Then the music goes all Man of Steel. While the fights are cool, they still try and shoehorn the humans in to complete their paltry character arcs. Then the movie ends. So I'd give it a 6/10.