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The Wiloughbys

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This week I watched the Netflix movie, The Willoughby’s. I secretly love to watch kids’ movies, (they’re my guilty pleasure) so I was looking forward to this movie. *WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD* I don’t think there is any way I can talk about the messed-up events in this movie without spoilers, so you have been warned.

The Willoughbys (2020) - IMDb

For a kid’s movie, this movie is downright depressing. This movie is about the Willoughby family. In this family, there is Father, Mother, Tim, Jane and The Barnaby’s. Father and Mother are absolutely obsessed with each other. In fact, they have so much love for each other that they don’t have any to spare for the children. All 4 of the kids are ignored and neglected. They are barely even fed. The kids are so neglected that the Barnaby twins don’t even have their own names, they are both named Barnaby. One day, a baby in a box shows up at their door. Jane and the Barnaby’s sneak out to grab the baby and bring it in the house. Jane wants to keep it, but Tim doesn’t want to get in trouble with Mother and Father. Eventually, the rambunctious baby gets found by the parents and poor Tim gets punished. His punishment is to sleep in the coal room. On the wall of the coal room, Tim marks a dash for every time he’s been down there. The whole wall was filled with dashes. It was super sad to see him curl up in a ball on his pile of coals and sleep there for the night.

The Willoughbys | Netflix Official Site

The movie is narrated by a cat. The cat’s viewpoint was able to see everything. It would’ve made the movie completely different if the viewpoint was by the children. I enjoyed the birds eye view of everything that was going on in the Willoughby household.

Netflix's The Willoughby's Post-Credits Scene Is Super Gross

Together, the kids grow tired of being neglected and they hatch a plan. I find the plot of the movie itself to be pretty morbid, but then they throw in jokes about killing their parents and being free. It was all quite shocking! The 4 kids craft a dangerous trip for their parents to go on. One that is sure to kill them; filled with piranha’s, volcanoes and more! Their parents take off without a thought about the kids. The kids are happy and free for a little! That is until Nanny knocks on the door. Nanny is a large burst of energy and is so excited to be taking care of the children. Nothing the kids have ever been exposed to before. The movie goes on and you see their bond with Nanny grow. That is, until Tim thinks she is conspiring against them and working with Mother and Father. Tim takes drastic action and calls the place no one should ever call…. Orphan Services. Orphan Services is basically CPS in this movie. They dress in all black suits and I would compare them to men in black. Orphan Services surrounds their house and takes the kids away from Nanny. The kids are all split up into different foster homes. I found these scenes gloomy and are something I’ve never before seen in a kid’s movie. I’m not going to say it was “nice” to see these scenes, but it definitely was different and unique to see the plot progress like this. It’s not a happy-go-lucky movie where everything goes right and in the kids favor.

Fast forward many many scenes, and Nanny rescues the kids and they all go out to find Mother and Father. I thought the Orphan Services scenes were depressing, but here is where it gets WORSE!! Mother and Father are hiking a snowy mountain when they lose their trail and are basically going freeze to death. Luckily, the kids come just in time and find them to defrost them. In your head, you think YAY, the parents are going to realize how much they love their kids! BUT NO!! They unfreeze and then literally high tail it off the mountain, leaving the kids and stealing their only transportation. They have no clue how to drive the kid’s blimp, crash into a sharp point at the top of the mountain, and literally fly off and explode. The kids have no gear and are slowly freezing. They’re all losing hope, when Jane starts singing and bringing back hope to them. Her singing is magical and warms the kids and make them visible for rescue from nanny.

Jane’s Saving Song

This movie was so unconventional and unique. You never see cartoon movies where the kids are so neglected and mistreated many times throughout the movie and things don’t go perfectly and according to plan. There are so many loops and it’s a rock coaster of an experience. It had a very heartfelt ending, as expected. I’m happy that the kids got to experience happiness with someone that truly loves them. Overall, I’d give this movie 10 kids out of 10! It’s on Netflix, so I’d recommend checking it out!

👩🏼‍🦰👩🏼‍🦰👩🏼‍🦰👩🏼‍🦰👩🏼‍🦰👩🏼‍🦰👩🏼‍🦰👩🏼‍🦰👩🏼‍🦰👩🏼‍🦰(10)/ 10

Bad Trip turned good trip

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This week I watched the movie Bad Trip. I have to say, I am a HUGE Eric Andre fan and am absolutely obsessed with him. He is one of my favorite comedians. His show, The Eric Andre Show, makes me piss myself from laughter every single episode. I love his stupid, crude humor; that’s my kind of humor. I also love Tiffany Haddish and Lil Rey Howery, two great comedians. Knowing the cast that was involved, I was super excited to watch the movie. Now this isn’t like any typical movie you’re used to. With 3 comedians, you know this is going to make you laugh your ass off. The movie is a prank movie. There is a plot at the center of it, and you have your 3 main characters, but the supporting “roles” are random everyday people who don’t know they’re being pranked. If you’re confused, watch the trailer and you will understand. To summarize the movie sans all the pranks and the real people, Chris and Bud take off on a journey from Florida to New York City to find the love of Chris’s life, Maria. They don’t have a car or any transportation, so they borrow Bud’s sister’s car, who is in prison. As they take the car, Bud’s sister escapes from prison. She goes to get her car and finds it missing.  She sets off a journey, ready to find them and kill them for taking her car. The whole movie is absolutely hilarious and the addition of life real people in the movie makes it even more amazing.

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In Eric Andre’s show, he does a similar act. He goes into public doing insane things to prank people. I love that they put his pranks into a movie. He is one of the producers of the movie, so I saw that many of that pranks that I have seen on his tv show are in the movie. For example, many pranks center around an art gallery. In his show, they have an art gallery prank and Eric Andre stumbles in, knocking every single piece of “art” down. Onlookers watch horrified to see his destruction, not aware that the whole gallery is a set up. In the movie, the gallery scene is destroyed by Tiffany Haddish’s character driving through a wall with a car and then proceeding to beat Eric Andre with the various art pieces. Everyone runs out in a panic not knowing what to do. Knowing that they all think this is real makes it ten times funnier.

Chris (Eric Andre) getting beaten with “art”
Red band trailer for Bad Trip featuring Eric Andre, Lil Rel Howery ...
Bad Trip Trailer: Eric Andre's NSFW Prank Movie With Tiffany ...

Overall, I would give this movie a full 10 laughing emojis out of 10! I haven’t Overall, I would give this movie a full 10 laughing emojis out of 10! I haven’t laughed at movie as hard as I laughed at this in a long time. Every scene in the movie is insanely funny so if you’re in need of a good laugh, check out Bad Trip! This kind of humor might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it is definitely mine!

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂(10)/10

The Hunt; satire or action/thriller?

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In recent days, movies seem like the perfect escape from our dismal reality. I could’ve picked a sci-fi or fantasy movie that truly took me to a new world, but instead I picked an “action” movie. Although there was tons of action in the movie, I put “action” in quotes because it felt more like political satire than a true action film. I decided to watch the movie The Hunt. Before The Hunt even came out, it had a lot of controversy surrounding it and even had its theater release canceled twice. After watching the movie, I understand why. Just looking at the movie poster you can see why there is so much controversy surrounding it. I think that any political piece will stir people up, but this movie in particular hit the nail on the head.

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The plot of the film is all about rich liberals, who call themselves “elites”, that get together to hunt what they call “deplorables”. These “deplorables” consist of rednecks, conservatives and people appropriating stereotypes in general. The film later explains why each of the people were chosen to be hunted for sport. One of the “deplorables” was a game hunter, another a gun rights activist, another tweeted against the main “villain” of the film. All people who stood for everything that the “elites” were against. The Hunt could be compared to The Purge. Although, The Purge was supposed to be taken seriously, you could instantly see that this film was not.

In the first 5 minutes of the film, you can see how gory and twisted it will become. I really enjoyed the gore of this movie. For some, they might want to look away. But I felt that it adds to the humor of the movie which might sound weird to say. But once you watch the movie, you’ll understand! In the first 5 minutes, the rich bad guys are on their private jet getting ready to begin their hunt. Their characters are designed to come off as rich righteous assholes and they did a great job at that!

Cut to our first time meeting our hunted characters and you might be confused why they’re all there. The first one of the bunch we meet is Emma Roberts character, who name in the credits is only “yoga pants”.

*WARNING SPOILER AHEAD*

I have always been a fan of Emma Roberts and was super excited to see her in a movie. No, that dream and excitement was shortly crushed after she was one of the first people to go with a quick headshot. I was so shocked and even screamed at my tv for a quick second before I could watch the rest.

Anyways, back to business. After half the group was taken out in the first 20 minutes, we finally meet our main character. Our main character is a quick-witted country girl named Crystal. I loved her character! She was funny, smart and an overall badass who had no remorse killing the people who were trying to kill her. I don’t want to add too many spoilers, so you will just have to watch the movie to see her in action.

Our resident badass, Crystal

This movie caused such a stir that our own Cheeto in chief managed to tweet about it among other things. I understand why it got people’s panties in a bunch. The movie was meant to mock all political groups. The film mainly satirized two types of people: rich snooty liberals and gun-obsessed conservatives. But don’t worry, everyone gets made fun! Not just one group over the other.

Overall, I’d give this movie 7 laugh/cry emojis out of 10. It’s got the f*cked-up humor I enjoy, paired with some great gore and a badass lead. Check it out for yourselves!

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂(7)/10

A Movie That WON’T Have You Singing Along!

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This week I checked out the musical movie genre and watched Cats. Going into this I knew that the movie had terrible reviews and only had a 20% on Rotten Tomatoes. This might have led me to have a personal bias before I set out to watch the movie, but I tried to push those thoughts out of my head. My mom saw Cats on Christmas, but I decided to skip out. She thought it was good movie, but then again, she doesn’t have the best taste in movies.

I grabbed the snacks and sat down to prepare to watch Cats. Within the first couple minutes, I was already confused. There was about zero dialogue in the first ten minutes. I believe that the first couple scenes of a movie are crucial to set the plot and introduce any main characters. I was not getting any of that from Cats. The whole movie they barely talked without singing. I like to think that I enjoy musicals, but this movie might’ve changed my mind. Every single scene, back to back, was filled with songs. Songs that you really had to sit there and pay attention to and listen to every single lyric to understand what was going on in the scene. Although the music attempts to have a fun energetic vibe, it is overall nonsensical and not enjoyable. When the music ceased, nonstop cat puns and hissing were weaved into each scene; “cats got her tongue”, “cat’s out of the bag”, it never ended.

How I felt watching Cats

The first scene, the main character is quite literally dumped into the scene. The world the movie is set in, is not introduced. I found myself struggling to understand the dimension the cats were living in. Were they the only ones living in the town? Were there any humans around? How did they all get there? I had many questions!

Another question I had was about the look of the cats themselves. Some of the cats were wearing accessories like necklaces, earrings or hats, while others had full outfits complete with shoes and another portion weren’t even wearing anything at all. Does that mean that the cats who aren’t wearing anything are naked the whole film? The CGI look of the cats was unsettling as well. The cats had cat ears, whiskers and tails, yet they had human faces. It was very unsettling; just check out the gif below!

Although, there were many many negatives, I did have a few positives. I enjoyed Taylor Swift’s scene where her Cats character, Bombalurina, is hanging out above the cats laying on a moon and sprinkling cat nip onto the crowds below. The cats got high on the cat nip while she had a nice musical number with lots of backup dancers. I also liked the main character’s, Victoria the White Cats, dances. Francesca Hayward is a trained ballet dancer so her dance scenes were fluid, graceful, and overall beautiful.

Overall, I’d give this movie a solid 3 cats out of 10. It didn’t WOW me, I found myself hating that they sang almost every single line and the CGI/animation made me uncomfortable.

🐱🐱🐱(3)/10