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PAW Patrol: Mighty Pups (2018)
It does what's on the box
Having seen plenty of Paw Patrol with my 4 year old, I can say this is a great movie. Normal episodes are 15min a piece with specials at 30min. This one is 45 and promises a more complex and lengthy story than the series has offered thus far without the need for agression or violence while also tapping into the superhero craze. My son was on the edge of his seat and loved every moment of it.
Most of the negative reviews out there come from parent spending full ticket prices on 45min of Paw Patrol and 30min of other shorts. If you add 20min of adverts, you can see why some would feel ripped off. But we saw it on a kids matinee for £2.50 each and it was fine.
I defiantly would have had more Paw Patrol episodes alongside the film rather than other Nicolodian shows.
Addams Family Values (1993)
Doesn't live up to the original
Where the first film focused on Gomez and Mortisha with Fester in support the sequel is dominated by a focus on Wednesday Addams. Fester still is the underlining plot that keeps the movie going, but only in a limited manner. Fester meets Debbie a con-artist who wants all his money and is frustrated that she can't kill him once they are married. She sends the children to summer camp and thus the film splits into two separate stories.
One thing that is strange is that in the first film Gomez explains that fester was quite the charmer and he felt in competition with him. In this film fester seems almost silly in his desperate attempts of woo Debbie. Debbie would have accepted anything to work with as she wanted to take advantage of him. Yet most of the scenes is her struggling with the little that Fester produces.
In many ways, all the other characters become slapstick versions of that which we saw in the previous film. Almost like a parody. With the exception of Lurch the butler who though similar to Frankenstine finds different ways to express his more creative side, by painting, cooking, gardening and playing the organ. In some ways, he may be the most complex character in the film and that's a little sad.
In many ways, this is a theme of the film, to take what they had done so well in the fist film and make fun of it. In some scenes it almost seems like Loony Toons, anvils and all. The number of scenes that can be characterized as slapstick silly as numerous. For instance, Wednesday painting herself into the wallpaper, Gomez spinning Mortisha so quickly that the floor bursts into flames, and of course the new addition to the family, Pubert Addams being shot into the air and momentarily being seen through the window on an airplane.
The jokes are at times difficult to understand and often not funny. Some light word ad-libbing is done well but mostly it's hit or miss. In addition, the so called normal characters they introduce in the film to contact against the Addams' weirdness end up being so silly and weird themselves that they make the Addams look normal. Ie. most of the kids and camp councillors at the summer camp. Maybe that the joke, but it misses the point of what the Addams family is. They are the weird ones not us. They just don't know it.
Overall, the film is not that funny, watchable but just barely and ultimately killed the franchise. It feels that they could have done so much more but chose to be silly instead.