More mediocrity. Yay

That's the same impression I got from this movie. It seemed like it was just "imitating the cool kids", and cobbling together bits and pieces from other films to try to make a new movie.

That said, your last paragraph is dead wrong. Sturgeon's Law has always been true, and will always be true. In fact, it is the very fact that mediocre films like this exist that defines exceptional works as exceptional. If every work was exceptional, than they'd all be mediocre, because all mediocre means is falling in the middle of quality (which actually, was the whole point of the movie The Incredibles, which I'd say was an exceptional movie to this mediocre one. Meanwhile, on the even lower scale are movies like Doogle and their like, which truely define what it means for a children's animation to be "bad").

I dunno. I thought the cheesiness was part of its charm. It's just that I think it'd be worse if the movie tried to take itself too seriously.

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Nathaniel: Sire, do you...like yourself?
Edward: What's not to like?

altrought i agree this was mediocre, there was something i like to point out.


The worst would be the Doc saying "O.M.G" near the end....really? How can an adult write that and not be embarrassed?

Probably the one that isnt conservative old fart and understand that expressions like these are now part of society whether you want it or not.
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In this universe, there's only one absolute... everything freezes!

As a creative writing major, I must tell you that "Mediocre" is entirely the wrong word to use.

Some of it works, and some of it doesn't. It's a movie of >>mixed<< quality. You feel >>ambivalent<< towards it.

Mediocre implies a generic, interchangeable, forgettable product, and this simply is not the case.

This movie is Unforgettable. To call run-of-the-mill is to ignore its subtler charms.

It's chock full of intelligent and esoteric allusions. It's multilayered. Yes, there are a lot of stupid and obvious jokes, but half the time they are just a front for the much more clever comedy. There's a lot going on at once. A prime example is the missile firing. On one hand, you have "ET Go Home." On the other hand, you have a riff of music from the ET theme playing.

The soldier getting hit in the foot with the syringe is pretty basic humor, but anyone who's seen "the amazing colossal man" will get the allusion.

This movie is superficially entertaining. You go wrong if you assume that it can't also be intelligent entertainment.


To me, it doesn't matter if the humor works. This is a good scifi-action movie, and it works because it is CHARACTER DRIVEN. This heroine is not a bland, born-badass, needlessly obnoxious Jerk Sue of the common "emplowered female action hero" variety. She isn't a bland submissive nobody. She isn't an irritating Tsundre.

She is Susan. She's not an emotionless catch phrase dispensor kicking ass. She is not a bland satellite character who exists to provide a token love interest for a real hero.

She is a meek young woman who fights giant robots.



This is a multifarious movie. If you are a scifi fan, you might have the context to appreciate its full entertainment value, depth, and unrepeatable awesomeness.


This movie deserves classic status alone for successively knocking down every 50s scifi creature feature cliche in the book with a ruthless inversion, including the ones we don't even have names for. (male ankle, female teen making out with reluctant frightened male, Military psychotic idiot turns out to actually be a nice, reasonable, forward-thinking person, the ever-popular unbreakable energy sheild, etc.)

Hollywood never cease to amaze me. They can produce stinkers faster than you can spell out "Ginormica".
What a bore! The CGI looks cool and the action sequences are big and loud enough to please fans of that kind of loud, mindless movies. In the other hand the story is utter mediocre, generic, absurd, fatuous, in short: MVS is mere crap.

What a waste of money. Not even my kiddies liked it, except for the little one, and she likes everything that looks colorful and shiny.

5/10

I too found this flick mediocre. Enjoyed other CG movies a whole lot more. :/

"She isn't an irritating Tsundre."

D: Tsunderes are cool. (most of 'em) >_>;

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I have to agree, and I rarely slam movies. If they aren't great, why would I watch them?

In this case, I found the animation beautiful to watch, and loved the character details. But the dialogue was just painful to listen to.

It was very frustrating, listening to many of my favourite actors trying to make the lame jokes sound funny.

Is there a thread on the worst lines from this movie?

Is this a Dreamworks vs Pixar thing??