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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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!?"
Soul Man (1986) - Rated 31 May 2025
"This was made by the kind of people who think that you can't be racist if you don't *mean* it, the kind who think that we can get past all these nasty politicial divisions just by making rich white people give slightly more of a fuck. Don't get me wrong, they clearly wanted to say something meaningful about racism, there was clear effort put in, but it was put into an 80s campus comedy with a cliche Learning a Lesson plot, and turned out as a movie Ronald Reagan, reportedly, really enjoyed."
Revue Starlight the Movie (2021) - Rated 31 May 2025
"Fantastic. After a series that finished its arc and fulfilled a childhood promise of destiny in full satisfying glory, this movie asks the question: What next? What do you do with the rest of your life? Where do you go after the interesting cast full of queer friendships you found in high school graduates? This movie takes the dazzling beauty, Utena-esque metaphor, and yuriful power of the series and uses the time and budget of a theatrical production to make it shine bright as the stars."
Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight (2018) - Rated 27 May 2025
"Delightful. Takes Utena's basic engine and shifts it into high gear, making the metaphors clearer, the pace faster, and the gay omnipresent. It's got a consistently interesting cast, a clear and focused vision, dynamite animation, and a powerful message of "competition doesn't make good art nearly as well as artists who love, support, and collaborate with each other". Rewrite that narrative, girls!"
