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Tuesday 3 April 2018

Scooby-Doo! and Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery Review


Scooby fans the Mystery Inc gang have done alot of crossovers in the past but few have been in a feature length movie and none have featured a band and that's all changed with the movie i'm about to review Scooby-Doo! and Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery.

The plot of this movie is Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Gang team up with the one and only rock band KISS in this all-new, out-of-this-world adventure. That's really all I can say about the movie since anything else would spoil some of the awesome scenes that this movie have to offer but tho I will say that the team up does feel very natural and the story is pretty solid.


As the Scooby gang we have Frank Welker , Matthew Lillard , Grey DeLisle and Mindy Cohn who's playing Velma for the last time in this movie and I do have to say that the Scooby regulars do a pretty solid job in this movie but let's be real you all want to know how well Kiss did well starring as the band we have Paul Stanley as The Starchild , Gene Simmons as The Demon , Tommy Thayer as The Spaceman and Eric Singer as The Catman. I do have to say that the saying about musicians being bad actors is still true with this movie there not bad but they should have taken a few acting lessons before recording this movie.

I'm gonna try and not give anything away here but if you've seen this movie you'll know that alot of what happens in the final ten minuets just doesn't add up at all and that's a shame because alot of what came before it is so freaking good and freaking insane.


As you all know by now the animation was handled by Warner Bros. Animation and I have to say that the animation was really freaking good like better then what I was expecting it to be I was expecting the animation for this crossover to be on par with the Powerpuff Girls and TTG crossover but no it was freaking amazing and you can tell that the animators had a blast working on this movie.

Something tells me that the makers of this film watched alot of Sailor Moon or any magical girl anime just because there's alot of scenes in this movie which to me looked like they were inspired by anime and since i'm an anime fan I liked seeing those scenes in this movie but tho because of how awesome they are i'm not going to spoil anything because you have to see this movie.


For me the mystery aspect of the film was pretty good the film does a good job of giving you small nuggets of information which is what a good mystery should do and it's something that this franchise has been known to do quite well and i'm glad that they did it with this crossover which could have easily just been a quick cash grab movie and nothing else.

I will say that if you like Kiss then you will love the songs in this movie because all of them are Kiss songs and all of them are awesome especially the intro song which is my personal favorite Kiss song "Rock and Roll All Nite" altho I would have preferred it if they played that song near the end of the movie.


Like I said there's alot of stuff in the final ten minuets that just doesn't add up which normally wouldn't bother me that much if the scenes before it weren't just pure awesome and I think that the film makers forgot how awesome those scenes are because those final ten minuets is full of things which made me go "what this doesn't make any sense" and it is was kinda frustrating to see it play out.

The Scooby films usually don't have childish jokes or fart jokes in them and I think that helps in making them more accessible to adults but sadly tho this film does have a fart joke and guess what it's not even funny in the slightest but tho the jokes nine times out of ten do work in this film but like I said there is a really unfunny fart joke which isn't needed.


Overall believe what many Scooby fans say about this movie it really is freaking awesome and i'm glad there working on a second on and I have to say villainess is pretty hot just gonna put that out there so this movie gets a 7.5 out of 10 from me.





Ducktales 2017 Review


Disney fans the time has finally come after not talking about the show since it's premier episode I have decided that now is the perfect time to get a review about it done so here is my review of the Ducktales reboot woo-oo!

What makes this show standout from it's 1980's counterpart is the fact that it actually has a story going on and the story is what happened to the boys mother and I think it's great that this show is finally tackling that subject as it bothered alot of people when the original show came out so it's only wise that this show would tackle that story and so far it's being really well told it's going to last the whole of the first series so as of now we can only guess but I cannot wait to find out the answer.


Returning as Donald Duck is Tony Anselmo who for this series is joined by David Tennant as Scrooge McDuck , Danny Pudi as Huey Duck , Ben Schwartz as Dewey Duck , Bobby Moynihan as Louie Duck , Velma as Webby Vanderquack , Beck Bennett as Launchpad McQuack and Toks Olagundoye as Mrs. Beakley. Now I have to say that while the cast for the original series is made up of legends the new cast more then live up to the legacy left behind and you can tell that all of the cast are really having fun playing there characters.

Like the original show this show has a different adventure every episode and while some of the adventures are indeed fun there are times where I wish they would go back and visit the mystery about the mother storyline since that to me is more interesting but that's a very minor issue.


The animation for the show was done by Disney Television Animation (for those who don't know they mostly do the animation for Disney's TV output and they also did work on Clerks: The Animated Series) and I have to say that the animation in this series is freaking fantastic you can tell from the get go that alot of love and care has gone into making this show and I think that's because they had a lot of fans of the original series working on this one and so they want the show to be as good as it can be.

Thank the lord for Webby if your like me and you watched the original show then you'll know that Webby in that show was annoying as hell and pretty much served no purpose and had the personality of a rock but in this show she is such a great character and she has tons of personality for me she is the best character on the show gone is the Webby of old and in her place is new and more awesome Webby and long may she reign.


There's something I have to talk about and it's about Disney XD we went for months without any news or any new episodes in fact the only way I could watch new episodes was through online streaming and that's not something I would recommend doing if you want to see the show succeed but tho due to the fact that Disney wouldn't tell us anything about new episodes (heck even now we don't have a set return date) people who run streaming sites are going to getting alot of views because of the fact that they have new episodes of the show.


I consider this to be a comic book series since it's based of the Uncle Scrooge series by Carl Barks who also created the character and the show does indeed reflect his designs especially with the Scrooge character gone his blue over coat and it's replaced with a red one which is what he wore in those books.

I do have to say that apart from fixing Webby the show also gave the boys individual personalities as well Huey is very organised and loves to follow rules , Dewey is adventuress and Louie only wants to make money and have fun.

The humor in the show is at times really good i've lost count at how many times i've laughed at the jokes in this series but then there times where the joke just isn't funny which granted for this show is very rare but it does happen and when it does it sticks out like a sore thumb.


Overall out of all the reboots that are out there this one is easily the best one and i'm glad that it's getting a second season I just wish Disney would release more episodes so we can get our Ducktales fix this show gets a 9 out of 10 from me.