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Kaijû no kodomo (2019)
Great animation, irritating storyline
When I seen the trailer for this movie, I expected it to be a movie with great animation as well as a compelling storyline with relatable or interesting characters, which isn't the case. The animation is overall beautiful with realistic movements, smooth movements, and extreme detail in every frame, however, the style of the human faces is very disturbing and creepy as the eyes of each human/ human-like character are huge with realistic looking mouths. When watching the movie, you get used to the faces for the most part, however, certain scenes in the film make the characters look very creepy and inhuman which can be hard to watch. So the animation gets an 9/10. I watched the English dub of the film, which was a very good dub. The only time that dubs are not very good are when the same voice actors from other anime films dub characters with the same voice, most of the voice actors in this film are new at voice acting and are actually pretty good at it, with some only being in a few live action tv series, while others are new at acting in general. The voice acting is 10/10. Now the reason why this film is did so bad in my opinion is for its terrible storyline. The beginning of the film is ok, where it shows Ruka, who is a preteen that hurts a girl who was rude to her, this causes her to get emotional and to go to the aquarium where her dad works. There, she meets a human boy named Umi, who grew up with sea life with another boy named Sora. Ruka eventually meets both Ruka and Sora and talks to them, however, after this moment I completely got lost in the storyline, with so much happening in a short amount of time. Sora disappears after giving something to Ruka, afterwards Umi stops speaking and eventually disappears also. After all of this happens, a whole bunch of animated fish and whales gather around Ruka as she says something about being the universe. After this she is found by her parents in the water, it then shows her walking across the street like she did in the beginning of the film, she sees someone and guess who it is? Is it Umi? Is it Sora? No!!! It's the rude girl that Ruka hurry in the beginning of the film. I have no idea what the symbolism is or even if there is any, The middle and end of the film run the whole movie, atleast in Your Name, the two main characters see each other at the end, but no, they had to show us the girl from the beginning, I can't be the only person who wanted to see Umi and/ or Sora come back. The storyline in this film is 2/10. Overall, if the storyline was better than this would've been a good movie, but sadly it wasn't so The movie isn't.
Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
Great! But could've been incredible.
If you are a fan of Sonic you should love this movie. The redesigned Sonic is amazing to look at, the special effects are the best that Paramount can make and the acting is great too. However, this movie takes place in an alternate Sonic Universe as Sonic's backstory and setup are very different from other versions. This isn't a problem and it actually goes smoothly in the movie, but there are plot holes in Sonic's backstory, along with little information about certain characters or the places in the backstory. Another issue with the movie is the random Childishness that comes with Sonic's personality. I know that Sonic has always been childish, I mean he is a kid/ teen, but still, even in Sonic X, Sonic isn't as energetic and annoying as he is in the movie. Every time Sonic is in a dangerous situation where he or someone could be killed he always has to crack a joke, especially ones that aren't funny. Sonic also randomly says or does things that are obviously done to make the younger audience laugh, like when he is playing baseball or when he dabs, which was changed in the trailer to trick us. And finally, the main thing that I didn't like in this movie was Maddie's sister Rachel. From the moment we see Rachel, we can tell she has a terrible personality, she keeps trying to break Maddie and Tom up for reasons unknown, she overreacts about everything and is so bad to the point where she has to be tied up to a chair. Although these problems made Sonic the Hedgehog less great, it was still awesome and that's for the upcoming sequel to fix.