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Philip J. Fry
04-22-2021, 04:41 AM
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Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgqG2MQ3MCE

IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8512986/) / On Netflix (https://www.netflix.com/mx/title/81078367)

Philip J. Fry
04-22-2021, 04:49 AM
Nay from me. I felt like this movie was more concerned on having the viewers doing this (https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/033/487/rick.jpg) than about telling a story (imagine this as if Forrest Gump were a Basque rebel meeting every personality from the 60's). The main guy has barely any characterization (he wants to rebel against the man, occasionally fucks, smokes weed and... that's about it), we never stay much with any of the many personalities he meets and the movie in general has very little to say and gets tedious pretty quickly. And even the voice acting is, in general poor, partly because none of the actors have anything to work with (and there are some really talented people, FE, freaking Captain Vidal) and on another, because there are parts that feel miscast, particularly when they ask Spanish or French actors to play either Americans or Canadians and just cannot do the accents. I mean, the main baddie is this former KKK CIA agent from Louisiana that sounds as if he was coming from Barcelona or Madrid.

The most salvageable aspect is the art. It's adapted from Muguruza's original GN and from what I've seen from it, it captures the original style well while adopting a crisper, more cinematic look. The art style is very pulpy, it kinda pops from the screen and captures well the decade, although the animation isn't very fluid (then again, I don't think this movie had that big of a budget, so I'll give it a pass).