Update Blog - 8/6/22 (Patreon)

It's seems to be a WB kind of week, but for all the wrong reasons. With all the unexpected new of Warner Bros. Discovery cancelling HBO Max projects left and right (even if they were so close to completion), you know when things are going bad with their PR when the best thing you can say about them now is that their new animated DC movie is alright. I can tell you know that this is going to make a wild podcast episode. Anyways, let's get into my week.

- Released my review of DC League of Super-Pets: I'll admit that this turned out to be better than I thought. I honestly expected this to feel unpleasant in a corporately manufactured way with all the same features that cringey modern cartoons have, but this turned out to be just okay. There were a few times I had fun and even bursted out laughing a few times like with the swearing turtle, but a lot of it feels like it's mainly going for the same audience as Paw Patrol, maybe just a tad older, but mostly the same target audience. For someone like me, this just feels like the same typical animated feature you'd expect out of a kids' movie like this, but I can tell that this has an audience and that audience is going to have fun with it nonetheless. It's still not a great movie and still one of the weaker ones of this year, but still managed to come out okay.

- Filming and Editing Animation Lookback: The Muppets: This time, my main goal for the week was to get filming done for Puppet AniMat. Admittedly, I didn't get to do those parts yet before starting editing, but trying to get the shots right was as much of a challenge as before. I still had to do a few additional takes just to get the look right and to have the puppet look at the camera. Luckily, that task was done and I still managed to get a little more ahead in the editing now that I'm getting into The Muppet Show. I even got all the episodes I needed prepared, so this will be fun to revisit the series for a video of mine...again.

- Currently working on my review of Luck: This is it, the final movie review of a new animated feature I have to do for the summer, and we'll be ending off on a very awkward note. The biggest challenge with this shall be addressing the elephant in the room and talk about his this is technically the "return" of John Lasseter. Already, I can see the comments flaming up in anger about people's feelings about him and the debates that will heat up where I got my marshmallows prepared in case. As for the movie itself...we'll see how it goes. So far, it does look good, but the story doesn't hold any promise. As the Simon Pegg cat said in the trailer "Good luck to us both".

So that's been my whole week where I had to work around the chaos that's been happening in the entertainment world. Once I can get Luck out of the way, I'll brace myself to get through all the madness that happened and put it all into AniMat's Crazy Cartoon Cast, but with no other major released coming out any time soon, I'm just happy that I found more time to get the next part of AL: The Muppets ready for you all. So, until next time...

See ya later, dudes!