Ununnilium
Cinema Addict
Member Since: 22 Oct 2010
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Bio: Deeply queer, impossibly problematic, full of love and kindness defying the evil that plagues the land.
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Jumanji (1995) - Rated 07 Jul 2025
"Honestly, better than I remembered from childhood. There's some painfully honest engagements with trauma and abandonment, and this may be one of the most complex characters Robin Williams ever played. Plus, it's genuinely funny, with a willingness to go all the way - the Blues Brothers-esque scene in the department store was spectacular. There's definitely some 90s-upper-middle-class-ness about it, but it's still a solid family movie. (And honestly, I loved the weirdness of the ending.)"
Antz (1998) - Rated 28 Jun 2025
"Ugly, pointless, and it stars Woody Allen."
The Wuzzles (1985) - Rated 23 Jun 2025
"This was one I had a lot of nostalgia for, memories based on having a few episodes on tape decades ago, memories of a colorful, deeply weird world with all sorts of interesting elements. And... kind of? Ultimately this turned out to be a largely average example of 80s toy-based kid cartoons, with cliche plots and *way* too many fat jokes. But it does have some moments where the mashups do something clever and original - my favorite is the road hogs. With better writing, this could've taken off."
Wizards (1977) - Rated 22 Jun 2025
"A skeleton of an interesting story, but jeez, the plot structure, the character arcs, the animation - or should I say, the combination of animation, superimposed rotoscoped stock footage, and static storyboards - are all so weirdly thrown together. It tosses in huge ideas about technology, war, peace, and the legacy of the Nazis without ever making actual points, and gets real skeevy about the ugly mutants vs. the pretty white people. The two minutes of Avatar/Blackwolf climax is amazing, tho."
Rover Dangerfield (1991) - Rated 14 Jun 2025
"It's said that they wanted to make this R-rated, but the studio wanted a G rating, and the resulting mess is responsible for the weird tone and pacing and short length. Makes sense, but I don't think the original idea had legs - this movie has an unpleasant sexuality already, combined with a design that's far too realistically Rodney to fit thru a dog. Seriously, the animation is upsetting. Plus it really is just a kids' movie plot with added darkness. Made for bad movie night and nowhere else."
Do It Yourself!! (2022) - Rated 14 Jun 2025
"They're all so frickin cute and gay!! There's a surprising level of emotional complexity in here for how light and bouncy it is, with every character having a believable level of Shit Going On. (Serufu in particular is an *extremely* relatable AuDHD girl.) And they all have strong interactions with sapphic vibes and good arcs and they're really fun!"
Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (1986) - Rated 12 Jun 2025
"This was trying to do something deeper and more interesting than most movies for very small children, featuring a conflicted deuteragonist and a villain who's stylized as Just Evil but ends up being more than that. Sadly, the way these movies were made prevents any of that from being especially coherent, but as an aforementioned very small child, it definitely Hit and affected me in a way I couldn't name. I'm glad it exists."
Appleseed (2004) - Rated 07 Jun 2025
"It's clear that they shouldn't have tried to compress the entire manga into a single movie, because wow, this is easily 50% exposition by weight, and what they cut out to make it fit was the characters' personalities and any reason to care. It doesn't help that the CGI is stiff, weird, and inexpressive, and that there's very little sense of visual storytelling - it's hard to tell when we're going into a flashback and when we've just skipped forward. It does make me want to read the manga, tho."
Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer (1985) - Rated 05 Jun 2025
"There's some amazing animation in here, not consistently but often, in a very 80s OAV style. There's some great designs, with the robot horse standing out, and some interesting ideas and notable action, and... *gawd* the story is hollow. The structure is too broken to let any of the ideas it gestures at play out meaningfully, too much of it is about massaging a boy's ego, and it just fails as an adventure. (And the faces of the doll characters, the proportions... nope, don't like 'em.)"
The Care Bears Movie (1985) - Rated 04 Jun 2025
"Oh jeez this is cloying. Even as a toy-selling show for very young kids, it's low-quality, with a plot that's broken in several places, animation whose budget fluctuates wildly between scenes, voice acting that's all over the map, and uff, the *songs*, Carole King what did they *do* to you?? Plus, an overall feeling like a watered-down Christian movie. Well, at least there's a sexy book!?"
