Lego Disney Princess: Villains Unite Special Review

It's pretty obvious that all of the Lego specials are there just to shift the toys and really nothing more then that. As both Lego and whom ever they are working with at the time do get to rise in profits because of it and given the horrendously bad luck that Disney have been having in the past few years they really do need a win and well they've just released another Lego Disney Princess special and I thought that i'd review it for you all as I reviewed there first special a few years ago and so then join me as I review the special that really doesn't hide the fact that it's mainly there just to shift the toys with the special in question being called simply just "Lego Disney Princess Villains Unite" enjoy.

The plot of this special is when Gaston teams up with several classic Disney villain in the hopes of not only recruiting Chernabog but also in taking the Princesses own castle it's up to several classic Disney Princesses to stop him for good. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about thew actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad however tho this specials plot wasn't all that good either as while it was yes very passable for the specials target audience of little kids there's nothing really in this special from a plot point of view that will please die hard fans of these truly iconic characters as this is a plot that does feel rather weak and to be frank isn't the strongest plot and while it is perfectly understandable why these Lego Disney Princess specials don't have the best plots as there only there to sell the toys and that's really it films like The Lego Movie and The Lego Batman Movie proved that you can be there to sell the toys and still have a good plot if you have people that care enough to put in the extra effort in the first place and that's just not something that's coming through in this film as by all rights this is a special that should have worked but because of the fact that it's plot isn't focused on that much it makes what could have been a really cool idea seem like nothing more then that as the film does the exact thing that you think it would do with that cool idea and do absolutely nothing with it where as if they did something literally anything with this cool idea then we would have ended up with a plot that will please everyone both kids and adults alike with the plot of this film being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Jodi Benson as Ariel , Auli'i Cravalho as Moana , Mandy Moore as Rapunzel and Anika Noni Rose as Tiana. Also starring in this special is Katie Von Till as Snow White , Julie Nathanson as Belle , Jennifer Hale as Cinderella , Kate Higgins as Aurora , Richard White as Gaston , Jonathan Freeman as Jafar , Susanne Blakeslee as The Evil Queen , Debra Wilson as Ursula , Corey Burton as The Magic Mirror and Henri Lubatti as Sir Hiss.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us un this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty not that bad. As pretty much all of this special actors have played these characters in the past with some of them even being the official voice actor for these characters it does make sense that they would turn in a good performance in this special as they would have had alot of chance to really get to know there versions of the characters with a special shoutout going to Debra Wilson as Ursula as she sounded so much like Pat Carrol alot of the time during this special with her only taking over the role full time last year and yet she's already nailed the characters voice perfectly with her being the best actor in this special as while alot of the other actors are good in this special all of the ones that are taking over the role from someone else you can just tell that that's not the original actor doing it and you therefor loose something because of it where as here because of the fact that Debra Wilson has already got her Ursula voice nailed down perfectly it really does feel that your listening to the same character that we first saw back in 1989 as the voice is just that good with her being that good in the role as well with the acting that's in this very special not really being helped by the fact that the script for this special is just so bad as it gives none of this specials actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does hurt the overall quality of the acting that's in this very special.

Doing the animation for this special is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Atomic Cartoons. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty not that bad with the specials animation being of a really high quality granted it's not as good as any of the Disney animated films or even the theatrically released Lego films either but for a special whose sole purpose is to shift toys to young kids the specials animation is alot more better then what it really had any right to be as by all rights this specials animation could have been just OK and nothing more then that and given that this is a Disney+ special people would have been OK with that but no it really does seem lie the people that were doing the animation for this special really did care about what they were doing and wanted to put there best effort in this special and while it is hard to say if this is the best animation that Atomic Cartoons have ever done what can be said is that for a kids special the animation quality is alot more better then hat it really had any right to be as you could very easily confuse the animation in this special for something that's in a direct to DVD movie for example as there's alot of thought and effort that's gone into this specials animation with all of the backgrounds having colors that really do pop and while the princesses looked a little bit better in the previous Lego special they do look pretty decent in this special as well with the same thing even being true for the specials roster of villains as well.

One of the things that was really annoying about this special was the fact that you could tell pretty much right away the main reason as to why this special was made. As they spend a good long while just showing us Snow White getting ready to go to the market and then at the end of the special they then have a long sequence of shots were we see several of the princesses doing things around the market place in several buildings all of which make it vey clear that the only reason that this special was even made in the first place was to sell the toys as it gets so obvious alot of the time that you might as well be able to see the price tags on all of the characters and while yes the theatrically released Lego movies where also made solely to sell the toys as well but they were at the very least a tittle bit more subtle with it by having what they were actually showing us in the film be about of the films main plot where as here it just makes it super obvious as to why this special was made in the first place and while yes the eighties also had alot of animated shows and movies that were made to sell toys as well however times have changed since then and that's no longer the thing to do and heck even before they start showing us the princesses helping out around the town they start of with a big wide shot of the town as a whole which you just know is going to be a playset and you can bet that there's already a playset for the princesses castle as well as it's just that obvious and that in your face about it when going the more subtle route would actually serve to help the special out in the long run as people would stop thinking that there seeing an advert for the toys and will start just enjoying the special in the first place.

Disney really does seem to have it in for Snow White recently as not only do we have that dreadful live action remake but here in this film they basically turn some one who was quite resilient and smart into someone who is basically the groups comic relief. With this being something that's not new as it's been going on since Ralph Breaks The Internet but here it does become annoying as she's meant to be one of the main characters of the special and yet the makers of this special rob her of everything that made her likable in the first place in favor of the version of the character that Disney has been pushing since 2018 and that's just not who the character as while yes she can be a ditzy at times but she was also smart and as she was also resilient and while she was more then willing to have a laugh with her friends when it came down to it and when push did indeed come to shove she was also willing to defend what was right and stick up to bullies and that's just not something that comes across in this special with the special instead taking the time to make fun of the fact that she's afraid of Apples and won't have them anywhere in the castle which given the fact that she was also killed after eating an apple is kind of understandable and while the special does show us how far she's willing to go to help her friends out and how kind she is as a character which is true to her character it also felt like something that was mandated and forced upon the makers of this special as that's how all of the other princesses act as well and isn't something that exclusive to her but credit where credit is due this special did treat the character of Snow White alot more better then THAT dreadful live action Snow White remake ever really did.

For a special that's subtitled Villains Unite and a poster that has alot of the villains seemingly ready to take on the princesses. The main villains of this special oddly enough don't play that large part in the films plot outside of the fact that it's seeing all of them together that makes Snow White and the other princesses realize that they will need help from more princesses to take them on as it's instead Chernabog that acts more as a main villain to the princesses then Gaston does which is something that does make alot of sense as Chernabog is this huge creature who can destroy anything that he wants but at the same time tho the special also doesn't show us the villains working together which is something that they really should have done as that would have made there defeat at the end of the special all the more satisfying and while they can't for obvious reasons have the villains openly kill or threaten the princesses what they can do is have the princesses take them on and loose in their first fight but not get captured by them as this would then make the villains all the more creepy then what they already are with that also being a way to justify the specials title as well and while it does make sense that the villains wouldn't get along with each other as there all meant o be greedy people who only look after number one in the first place it would have been great to show them working together much like how seeing the princesses working together in the first special was a nice little moment to see but to be fair including a very little known character like Chernabog in a major role was something that does work really well as nobody would have blamed the makers o this special for going for a more well known villain like for example Cruella De Vil or even Scar or Hades as there more well known characters and while Chernabog does feel alot more like a side villain in this special he does work really well in the context of this special.

Now then this special has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty three minuets and eight seconds. Which is a perfectly solid running time for this special as this special really does have more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time however tho in sayin that this special really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as while the special does have the right amount of plot there for it's currant running time it's also one that could have been done with getting some plot development to explain things like why Jasmin wasn't one of the princesses chosen since she has experience in dealing with Jafar she would have made for a great inclusion into the plot of the special and how Gaston is back from defeated in the previous special something which they never mention in this special with the special also lacking in character development as the only character that gets some form of character development who overcomes her fear of Apples pretty quickly when she starts using them as weapons against The Evil Queen however that that's quite literally the only piece of character development that we get in the whole film as none of the other characters get anything that helps to set them apart from one another with it not even being reveled why Gaston wants the princesses castle in the first place with us not even finding that much about any of this specials characters in the first place which you could argue is due t the fact that we get to find out alot about them in their respective films but at the same time tho we still need to have the characters go through some form of character to make them memorable or well done however given that this special was made for little kids it does make sense that the characters in this special don't have that much character development as the specials target audience isn't going to care about things like that but I really will admit that this special really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty not that bad. As the special does have some cute and funny jokes in it like for example Snow White always carrying an axe around with her even when she's just going to the market is a really cute idea and is something that does play into her character as she does seem like the kind of character who would do something like that especially after everything that both she and the other princesses went through in the previous special and the fact that the special even pays it off by having Cinderella reveal that she always carries a pair of giant scissors with her much like how Snow White carries a giant axe was a nice and sweet little pay off with the best joke in the whole entire film being the joke where Rapunzel is always trying out different weapons to replace he beloved frying pan with them starting out with things like a pillow which she quickly gets rid of when it's destroyed very early on in the special to the outright ridiculous like the castles own mailbox something which she does carry on with her for alot of the special which is a nice little joke with it being one that could very easily become a good running joke for her character should Disney decide to go down that route with her character with alot of the specials jokes being just as good and just as funny in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall out of the two specials that Lego and Disney have dine it's the previous special Lego Disney Princess: The Castle Quest that's the better one as that one feels like it has more love for the Disney brand this is despite the fact that this special has more obscure characters in it however this special does have some really good jokes in it in tho and is the more fun special to watch in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very special in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very special really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Disney fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this special that I used in this very review being the really great the official Disney fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this special with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Disney fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Lego: Star Wars Rebuild The Galaxy TV Series SPOILER FILLED Review

Lego and Star Wars have had a few decent specials in the past and such it wasn't quite shocking when they announced that they were working on a TV miniseries together. With the miniseries in question having only just come out and as i've reviewed pretty much all of the the Lego Star Wars specials it really only made sense that I review this miniseries the very first chance that I get and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the show sees the Star Wars universe enter the multiverse with the show in question being called simply just "Lego: Star Wars Rebuild The Galaxy" enjoy.

The plot of this show is when a piece that's binding the Star Wars galaxy as we know it is pulled out from a Jedi temple it's up to young hero Sig to travel across this new Star Wars galaxy in order to try and put his own galaxy back together again. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad but at the same time the plot of this show isn't all that good either as it's not the kind of plot that works within the confides of the Star Wars franchise with the plot of this show being something that would work better in a show like Doctor Who for example where as here Star Wars has never experimented with alternative universes before now and while this is a non canon story it is something that does feel out of place in the Star Wars universe this is despite it being a really good plot for very little kids there's nothing that in this show plot wise that will please die hard Star Wars fans tho with the plot of this show also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this show is Gaten Matarazzo as Sig Greebling , Tony Revolori as Dev Greebling and Bobby Moynihan as Jedi Bob. Also starring in this show is Marsai Martin as Yesi Scala , Michael Cusack as Servo , Anthony Daniels as C-3PO , Dee Bradley Baker as Sgt. "Salty" Sharp , Wicket W. Warrick and An Sullustan X-Wing Pilot , Trevor Devall as Ackbar Troopers ,  Emperor Palpatine and Jedi Master Sheev , Kevin Michael Richardson as Farmer Scala and Jabba The Hutt , Matthew Wood as Human X-Wing Pilot and General Grievous , Shelby Young as Sulky Kid and Princess Leia , Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker , Ahmed Best as Darth Jar Jar , Helen Sadler as Darth Rey , Sam Witwer as Maul , Naomi Ackie as Jedi Jannah , Matt Sloan as Jedi Vader , Kelly Marie Tran as Darth Rose Tico , TC Carson as Mace Windu , voice acting legend Phil LaMarr as Darth Kit Fisto , Avengers: Infinity War star Ross Marquand as Han Solo , Piotr Michael as Yoda , Jake Green as Greedo and Jennifer Hale as Mon Mothma.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about thew acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad. As the people that you expect to deliver a good performance really do deliver a really good performance the issue is tho is that the acting from alot of the shows more younger really isn't that good with alot of them being wither wooden or miscast at best and those that do deliver a solid performance get lost in the shuffle from all of the bad acting that this show has to offer and while it is great to see some true legendary Star Wars characters back again alot of them are only there for fanservice and nothing more then that with alot of them just appearing in one or two scenes in one episode and that's really it and while the sound alikes that they do get to play them do a good job playing those characters nothing will ever beat hearing the real thing which granted in some cases they had to recast there characters but it still would have been better hearing the actual live action actors return to voice there respective characters as that's just how good the original actors are as there respective characters with the acting that's in this show not really being helped by he fact that the script for this show just aren't that good with this shows actors not really being given alot to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does effect the overall quality of the acting that's in this very show.

Doing the animation for this show is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Atomic Cartoons. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad as this show does take an animation style that's similar to The Lego Movie in that yes it's CGI but it's done in a way that makes it look like stop motion animation and that style is one that will never get old and it is something that does look good in this show with the shows animation being alot better then what it really had any right to be as nobody expects good animation from a Lego Star Wars Disney+ special and yet that's exactly what we get here in this show with the characters having some really smooth looking and fluid movements to them and while the show does have an animation style that's similar to The Lego Movie it doesn't copy everything that those movies did which do lessen the effect and remind you that your just watching a special instead of making you feel like that your playing with the actual Lego sets.

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There was one character that I left of the list of characters that actor Dee Bradley Baker is playing in this show and that's the fact that he's also playing Darth Nubs. Who as the name would suggest is an evil version of his character from Young Jedi Adventures with this show being a good way to have more of those characters given the fact that those characters can pretty much never appear further along in the timeline due to the fact that Young Jedi Adventures takes place during the High Republic Era with his appearance in this show being nothing more then a fanservice moment and even then it's not really something that alot of people will get given that this show has a much more older target audience then the younger audience that Yung Jedi Adventures is aiming to get but at the same time it was still fun seeing the character show up as an evil version of himself the issue is tho is that the show does nothing with his character with him really only appearing in one scene in episode two and that's really it as he just straight up disappears from the show which makes his inclusion in the show feel pointless especially as they could have had someone else play the role that he plays in this show as his character really does nothing in this show apart from be someone that the main villain of the show can yell at and that's really it.

One of the main talking points of this show while it was being promoted was the fact that they finally had an evil version of Jar-Jar Binks. With his character like all of the evil versions of characters all having the word Darth before there name and Darth Jar-Jar Binks is a really fun as at heart he's still the clumsy version of the character that we met all the way back The Phantom Menace which does make him fun to watch and the show does try to do something fun with his character by making an evil bounty hunter who's after the thing that our heroes have in order to give to an evil Sith Lord version of Sig's brother except he nearly always messes it up in some creative way which does make him a fun character but at the same time tho the show really doesn't feature his character all that much and do all that much with his character with the show only featuring a small handful of times when it would have been better if he served as a secondary antagonist for the main heroes instead of having that role filled in by the dull and uninteresting Darth Rey who is just as bland and just as uninteresting as the hero version of her character only now she's dressed all in black and never ever smiles where as with Darth Jar-Jar they could at least get some comedy out of his character which would be something that would appease the shows target kid audience as Jar-Jar Binks himself was a character that mostly kids really did like.

As a comedy this show isn't as funny as all of the other Lego Star Wars specials or even any of the Lego special for that matter. As in this show all of the jokes seem to be just references to other Star Wars media which is something that's fine for one or two jokes but when all of the shows jokes boil down to the characters making references to other Star Wars media not only does it start to get old and old really fast in this case it also goes along way to show you that the makers of this show really didn't bother to come up with any actually funny jokes and thought that just including references to the Star Wars projects would be more the  enough to create an actually funny jokes and while yes the show does do some funny things with it characters like by having the alternative Luke Skywalker be this surfer bro type of character who inherited his fathers Podracing skills is a funny idea but like alot of things in this show the makers of this show do nothing funny with that idea instead we only see him Podracing in one technically two episodes and that's really it when they could have done some really funny jokes and had some really creative set pieces with this version of Luke Skywalker Podracing and yet they do nothing with that idea and it just makes it seem like a waste of a good idea but to the shows credit they do hint at this good guy version of Darth Vader still being Luke's father in a pretty funny way but even then that joke could also be argues is nothing more then a fanservice moment as well.

Now then this show really has / has an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty minuets. With the show really having episodes that last no longer then twenty three minuets which is a solid running time for this show as the show really does have have just the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time but even with that in mind the show doesn't resolve it's main plot line which does mean that there will mostly likely be more episodes in the future which does go against everything that was said in the build up to this show coming out as the show was promoted as being a four part limited series and with that in mind you'd expect them to finish of the plot of the show which they don't do which does mean that there really pushing the limits of this show from a running time point of view as if this show stuck with it's four episode order and stuck to that very limited running time then it would have been a very passable series where no scene feels wasted as every single scene was about advancing the plot and the character and yet now by stretching out and by possibly adding more episodes they run the risk of stretching the shows plot really thin as the show really doesn't have alot of plot there to cover more episodes but I really will admit that this show really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk a bout the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad. However on the flip side of that is the fact that this shows action really isn't all that good either not that it's bad because it's not it's just not as fun and not as creative as you'd want it to be with alot of boiling down to who can hit who the hardest and there not really being any variation in that with there being the occasional aerial battle and that's really it and while we do get some of the creativity that Lego is known for we don't get to see all that often which is a shame because when they do get be really creative that's when the action scenes are not only really fun to watch but it's also when there really engaging to watch as well as we the audience are then left wondering how the character really will get out of this situation all of which makes you wonder why the overall vast majority of this shows action is not only very boring to look at but is also very predictable as well as it because very obvious very quickly not only who is going to come out on top in the action scene but also tho the characters will end up escaping the action scene as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall this wasn't a bad series but at the same tie it wasn't a good one as while yes it will indeed please some of the young audience that this show is quite clearly trying to reach those are the only ones that will get some enjoyment from this show as there's not alot that's actually enjoyable about this actual show in the first place in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very show in this very show and as such that really does mean that this very show really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Disney fandom wiki page , the official Star Wars fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very show that I used in this very review being the really great the official Star Wars fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very show with alot of them being better quality then what'd think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Star Wars fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.