So the formatting is still an ongoing issue that seems to be affecting more people than just me. So apologies if it still looks weird, it could be like this for a while. Moving on, we’re doing a double today of films that on the surface don’t seem to have a lot going on in them. While that’s never exclusively a bad thing (some films do well with the less is more philosophy), how does it fair when it comes to these two? Let’s find out together shall we?
Ferdinand Review
Plot Summary - Ferdinand (John Cena) is a flower loving bull who refuses to fight. When he is stung by a bee and goes on a rampage however, he ends up being taken far from home, and is forced to face the thing he hates to do the most.
Pros - Cena as Ferdinand is the best thing about the movie. He makes the character just so damn likable and does a good job with the material being given to him. Kate McKinnon is a close second as his goat friend with her usually funny self, and the film is actually quite nice in the animation style as well.
Cons - There’s one particularly annoying scene that drags on for far too long, and is clearly the best example of padding in a film I have seen in some time. No jokes, that one scene is so tremendously annoying I wrote off three points based on that alone. Besides that, the films other biggest problem is a tremendous lack of character development for pretty much any character in the movie. Development is at best minimal and at worst people change on a whim. There’s also too many goddamn side characters, and the usual host of adult jokes that kids will never understand scattered throughout.
Final Score - 6/10
Cena’s likability carries this film above mediocrity. Otherwise parents, your kids will like it, it’s a maybe for you.
Wonder Wheel Review
Plot Summary - Ginny (Kate Winslet) is unhappily married to a carousel worker, and is having an affair with the local lifeguard. When her husband’s estranged daughter re-enters their lives and sets her eyes on the lifeguard, Ginny’s world begins to unravel.
Pros - The cast is fine, the lifeguard character is the most likable one, and it’s a really pretty film to watch.
Cons - The rest of the characters are extremely unlikable, the dialogue is repetitive and nerve grinding, and the film just never seems to do much of anything. Very few problems are resolved, and it ends on the worst kind of ambiguous ending.
Final Score - 2/10
I can’t really recommend this film to anyone except Woody Allen completionists.
Next: Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle - Before that though, we may do the first episode of the new review series. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, just keep an eye out for an upcoming Starship Troopers review, that will explain everything.
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