Update Blog - 5/11/19 (Patreon)

Always remember to love what makes you unique and the you are perfect in the way that you are imperfect! Because like the song said in Uglydolls...crap...I can't even remember any of the song. They're too forgettably the same as all the other pop songs out there. Ah well, hope you're not spending Mother's Day weekend by watching Uglydolls, because there are much better to spend time with your mama. 

- Released my review of Uglydolls: I always thought that this was just trying to copy the same formula as DreamWorks' Trolls and for the most part, I was kinda right, but that's not the biggest issue about this movie. Admittedly, I wouldn't count this one as terrible and I've seen plenty of worse animated films out there. I can  see how some would defend this by saying it's harmless and even I would recommend kids to watch this over the depressing Wonder Park. However, there's just one thing that really makes this movie more problematic than it seems and that's the combination of the message and the movie's execution. It's a movie that wants to tell kids to embrace your "ugliness" and love how you're unique, yet there's literally nothing unique about this movie at all. It's so bland and generic that it's hard to even find one piece of originality in this film, and that's the true problem here. The movie doesn't want to be unique, it rather wants to act like every other animated film, resulting it to feel as soullessly manufactured as the dolls in the Institute of Perfection. The movie is just 90 minutes worth of hypocrisy and irony and I'm thankful I got Pikachu to quickly wash off the bland taste..

- Created a Special Video Game Review: Here's something I haven't done since the Epic Mickey days. Originally, I scheduled this review to come sometime in June. However, I'll say right now that next month will be massively packed with many videos, so in order to make sure everything fits, I decided to move this one earlier than usual where this will come out much sooner than expected (and by soon, I mean probably next week or the week after). In a way, playing this game for the review helped me refuel my energy for video making. I've had a bit of a burnout in the past weeks, so taking some time off from pushing myself to make more videos and spend time on just gaming for hours ended up being what I need to get back that spark to return doing what I do best. Hopefully, It'll also help out in the long run with the following videos I need to make, so this could be the start of something. 

- Currently working on my review of Detective Pikachu: I promised that I would review this one and that's exactly what I'm doing now. I've been a Pokemon fan all my life and I've always been highly intrigued by this movie ever since the trailer first came out...and the Pokemon look great! Many would expect it would look like...well, what happened to Sonic last week, but I will say that the trailers showed a lot of promise for this movie. It won't be my first video or review that I would talk about Pokemon (I mentioned Lucario and the Mysteries of Mew in my Top 10 Best Animated Sequels and previously reviewed Pokemon: The First Movie), so I'll feel like I'm right in my element just like if this is an animated feature. Did this break the video game movie curse like what some have stated? Will this be better or worse than all the anime movies we already got? We'll have to wait and see when I bring out my review ;)

- REMINDER FOR PATRONS $50+/MONTH: This month's Google Hangouts Chat will be happening on Thursday the 16th, and Sunday the 19th and both at 2pm EST. Let me know if you're not available for either so I'll organize a quick chat.

Funny enough, thanks to Detective Pikachu, it does work out to clear my mind out of the crap of Uglydolls. Regardless of how the Pokemon movie comes out, I'll get a lot more out of it that what I did with the dolls. But will it be worth it though? We'll have to wait and see when that review comes out, so until next time...

See ya later, dudes!