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More mediocrity. Yay

posted 15 years ago by r2917
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Another movie made in this day and age and another piece of mediocrity. Shocking.

Some of the writing was so friggin stupid that I just watched shaking my head. It is like writers today and TRYING to be as dumb as they can be and are proud to look like morons.

I liked the premise of this movie and some of the writing was great but there were waaaaaaaaay too many lines that seemed like they came from some silly teenage girl or young adult guy trying to be "hip" than from someone being paid to write a mainstream movie script. The worst would be the Doc saying "O.M.G" near the end....really? How can an adult write that and not be embarrassed?

It's a shame since the animation, sound and creativity with the characters were all top notch.

The only two good characters were Susan (though her monster name was idiotic) and B.O.B as he had great lines and both Witherspoon and Rogen did a great job with the voice acting.

Anyone who thinks this movie comes even close to the top animation flicks out there is nuts unless of course they find stupid writing to be funny. Wall-E destroys this movie and Bolt! was far superior as well.

It is sad that most movies made this decade have as mediocre writing as this and future generations will see these films and probably shake their heads. Then again, we are in the early stage of an Idiocracy so future generations will be dumber than society is now so this will seem like intelligent & quality writing to them. Yikes.

[–] pinkarray 7 years ago

I do agree that this movie could've had more substance to it and is pretty predictable but why put down other people for thinking that it's one of the best animated films? I thought this was a bit better than Kung fu Panda but not as good as Shrek.

I understand you didn't like the film very much and couldn't see what some other people see. Yes, it was cliched but I thought it was wonderful because of how well it followed the beats. I liked how Susan developed from a scared woman in jail to a more confident action woman. I loved how being a giant has changed Susan's life and her loving relationship with the monsters and her parents.

I understand how the monsters weren't much special especially the ones besides the main protagonist but it still showed the least bit creativity.

Wake up, wake up, wake up, it's the first of the month.