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Foodfight! (2012)
Breathtaking, just breathtaking
I have seen a lot of films in my life, but I have NEVER seen a film with such sheer genius as foodfight!
Pixar and blur studios wish they had animation of this high-quality and detail! After seeing what this movie could have been, after watching the original 2002 trailer after the original movies files were stolen, I'm absolutely thrilled that the director took this much determination to animate the entire film AGAIN, along with adding some newly SpIcY stuff, to give us an even better looking product than what we were originally supposed to get! I couldn't even tell this was done with motion capture with just how fluid and expressive the animation was!
The cast and characters are top of the line god tier! Dex Dogtective, I'll say up front, is Charlie Sheen's best performance hands down! Wayne Brady should've at least won an Oscar for best supporting character when playing Dan the big cheeked man, melts in your mouth not in your hand! But the character who really deserves all the love and attention is not Sunshine, not Lady X, and sadly not even Mr. Clipboard, but it all goes straight to the moose, for being THE BEST GODDAMN CHARACTER SINCE JOHN COFFEY FROM THE GREEN MILE!
And the writing and directing? I'm gonna say it, it's better than the entire godfather trilogy! M. Night Shyamalan wishes that a twist ending as good as Lady X being the villain the whole time and she kidnapped Sunshine for six months all because she was a better looking ike than her!
And I didn't bring this up in my cast and characters category, but Dex Dogtective goes through such a tremendous character arc in this movie so powerful that even the characters in Spielberg and Zemeckis' characters didn't have the time to go through! Whatnot with him going from being ike city's best Dogtective to going through clinical depression all because of his dying love for Sunshine and finally realizing that there's more to life than milk and Sunshine when brand x starts to kill off the markets greatest product place- *cough cough* I mean ike's!
In conclusion this movie is a beautiful piece of art that deserves all of the love it's currently getting! Any movie that you know as a masterpiece? All stinky poo poo garbage compared to the chad known as foodfight! If yoy haven't watched it yet? Then get off your fat stinky ass and watch it already! It truly needs to be seen to be believed!
Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
A sequel better than its predecessor
Wow, I can't believe this is actually my very first time writing a review on IMDB, I initially didn't think I'd be doing it for a movie like Kung Fu Panda 2, let alone a sequel for that matter, but oh well.
In all honesty I personally think that Kung Fu Panda 2 surpasses the first movie in every single way, from the visuals, the fighting choreography, the characterization, etc.
The movie doesn't downgrade the characters, it doesn't do the exact same thing but with more characters and most of them serve the same purpose and motivation, it takes everything that we know from the first movie and it all evolves from it like a good sequel should do.
Po not only learns more as a person but he's also learning more in his technique, and the furious 5 aren't just making fun of him anymore they actually legitimately respect him. And speaking of which while I did think the furious 5 kinda served very little purpose in the first movie they actually serve more purpose in the sequel and I actually believe that there's a really good believable friendship between him and the rest of his teammates, including tigress.
And for me personally while I did think Tai Lung in the first movie was an okay villain in the first movie Lord Shen by far not only of the most evil villains in animation history but he is also one of the greatest villains of all time. He has a unique design, a fantastic origin story, a devious voice done excellently by the great Gary Oldman, but at the same they also managed to get some comedy out of him too and it feels like a very perfect balance almost as good as Scar from The Lion King.
And surprisingly for a kids movie starring Jack Black it not only has some great laughs it's also not afraid to become dark and dramatic in a few scenes. Hell by the time I got to the scene where Po was rescued from his last battle with Shen and him and Soothsayer are going over his past I actually found myself crying in that moment, and for me that is a really impressive feet.
Overall I don't think I have any problems with this movie at all, I not only think it's not only one of the greatest sequels ever made, but also one of the greatest animated movies ever made. Everything that you know from the first movie has been stepped up in practically every way possible. It's incredibly artistic with it's mixture of 3D and 2D animation, it has very funny yet smart storytelling, and is really well put together.