Some Disney Films Being Released Over The Next Year By A LOT Of Disney Owned Studios

Disney is a company that alot of us hold near and dear to our hearts and it's not hard to see why since they were responsible for alot our childhood classics and well since they do have a new film out today it made sense for me to take a look at some of their other upcoming films. Since Disney does own alot of studios i'm going to limit myself to just a small handful and I will try to include some films from the studios that Disney own as they do fall under the Disney umbrella.

Walt Disney Pictures

Lady And The Tramp (2019)

Where better to start this Disney themed post then with Walt Disney Pictures and what I assume to be the next big release from them another freaking remake. I give the remakes a lot of hate and rightfully freaking so but at the same time you can see the logic behind it since they do make money and Disney is a business after all but even so I have to ask who in there right mind was asking for a Lady And The Tramp remake nevertheless November 12th is when it comes out.

Frozen 2

This is a film that like many of you i'm both dreading and looking forward to at the same time i'm excited to return to this world and seeing these characters again however the fanbase for Frozen can be quite bad and that's why i'm dreading it also the fact that it's fanbase is mostly little girls who will except anything as long as it has the Frozen name regardless of the quality is also a bad thing. However based of what i've seen from the trailers this does look really good and I have a feeling that the company will have a monster hit on there hands with this one like they did with the first one but I just hope they don't have another "Let It Go" because I cannot go with hearing that song on the radio all Summer or Christmas again.

Noelle

This is Disney's first christmas movie in over a decade and like with Frozen 2 I actually can't wait to see this film. Which is rare for me because I don't like christmas films that much to me there boring and predictable that's also why I don't like romance films either but this film actually looks funny and it looks like it might be trying to do something different with the christmas setting weather or not it does is something we'll have to wait and see to find out but luckily we won't have long to wait as the film comes out on Disney+ on November 12th the exact same day and service as Lady And The Tramp incase any of you didn't know.

Disney Channel Original Movies

Zombies 2

I'll admit i've never seen the first Zombies film and i'm most likely never going to call me crazy but making zombies sing and dance just makes them less scary. Which for me is a big thing because there meant to be scary there not meant to be happy go lucky teens who sing and dance about there problems but for some reason this film was a hit and so we're getting a sequel next year and I just hope that Disney don't make other horrific creatures start singing and dancing COMING 2021 V-A-M-P-I-R-E-S.

Upside-Down Magic

Your guess is as good as mine as to what this film and the book series it's based on is about but apparently it was popular enough to be given it's own Disney Channel Original Movie. The only thing I know about the book series is that it's published by Upside-Down Magic and is written by Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle, and Emily Jenkins and that's really it you could make up a fact about this book series or film and i'd ave to believe you.

PIXAR

Onward

I honestly feel that this will be the best animated film of 2020 and i'm saying that with a lot on confidence because it's got a great team behind it and it's freaking PIXAR. Like many of you i've seen the trailer for this film and I think that it looks really good of course only time will tell if it's going to be a great film but so far the signs are looking good for this film at least in my opinion anyways.

Soul

The only other film that might became animated film of the year at least in my opinion is Soul and honestly that's because the director of this film Pete Docter also made Inside Out. Unlike Onward there hasn't been a trailer or a teaser released for this film but after reading the plot summery on Wikipedia it looks like the film will have some dark undertones which I do think is going to be rather interesting in my opinion.

Lucasfilm

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

I'm a huge Star Wars since i've been born i've seen as many of the films in theatres as I possibly could that does include the mad ones as well. However i'm not really excited for this film at all infact this whole sequel trilogy has been one big let down in my opinion in my opinion the only good story thread they had they wrapped up badly in The Last Jedi and Snoak was a wasted character so yeah i'm not hopeful for this film being good but at this point i'll settle for just ok.

Marvel Studios

Black Widow

 I wasn't kidding when I said i'll try and do every Disney owned studio that I could think of and would you believe that i'm not even close to finishing yet. Black Widow is a movie that i'm both excited for and nervous for at the same time excited because I like Black Widow and I think she deserves her own movie and I like Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pugh but nervous because the last time we got a female led movie from Marvel we ended up with Captain Marvel the worst MCU movie in my opinion but only time will tell if this is bad or not.

The Eternals

The second and last film from the MCU to come out in 2020 (altho if New Mutants finally get's released who knows) this is honestly the one which I feel has to succeed the most. I say that because nobody outside of the comic book world knows of these characters and that right there means that if Marvel want to do sequels with them or have them in other films then this film needs to be a hit but it's Marvel so we all know that regardless of the film's quality it's going to make money.

20th Century Fox

Terminator: Dark Fate

Now i'm including this here because it is being released by Fox internationally so technically it's Disney. We won't have long to see this film is any good or not because it starts releasing next week and like alot of the franchises mentioned here i'm a bit of a Terminator fan and like alot of you I to felt let down by the recent sequels and I cannot wait for this one since the original creator James Cameron is back producing the film and Linda Hamilton is back as Sarah Connor so so far so good.

 Bob's Burgers: The Movie

I'm not that big of a fan of Bob's Burgers I don't find it that funny and I don't see the appeal of it what so ever. However it's always a good and interesting thing when a TV series gets turned into a movie because not the creators have to turn something that would normally fit a twenty two minuet time slot into an hour and a half movie and it would be interesting to see what they do with these characters in my opinion.

Death on the Nile

I Loved 2017's Murder on the Orient Express and so you can bet that i'm excited for the sequel and i'm not a big mystery lover either. I honestly can't wait to work out who did because that's always the best part in a mystery movie. On top of that the great Sir Kenneth Branagh is returning as Hercule Poirot and the guest cast for this film sounds amazing with the likes of Jennifer Saunders , Dawn French , Gal Gadot and Rose Leslie all being cast in the film.

The New Mutants

This is a film that's had several release dates since it was due out in 2018 and has had several push backs with the current release date being April 2020. At this rate i'll start to get excited about the film when i'm actually a few minuets away from watching it be it on the big screen or on a streaming service because yes that was rumoured at one point and the lack of marketing especially given the new date is slightly worrying since there should be at least another teaser by now but nope nothing beyond the initial teaser we got in 2018.

The King's Man

Finally the last movie i'm going to be talking about and it's another prequel (the first one being Black Widow) and like Black Widow I can't wait for this one. I've seen all of the Kingsmen films and so it would only make sense that I not only be excited to see this prequel but also go and see the movie whenever it comes out the only thing I can see being a drawback is that it's a prequel and so you know who's going to come out on top.

There we go guys there's alot of movies from alot of different studios all owned by Disney and as you can tell the studio is going to be releasing alot of films be it from from Walt Disney Pictures to 20th Century Fox. If you think I included alot of films I didn't even scratch the service of the Fox film slate I even had had to narrow it down to next year just to keep myself from going insane and I know that chances are i've missed of alot of Disney owned studios but given that they own so many can you really blame me for missing of one or two.

Why The Live Action Disney Remakes Don't Work In My Opinion

Guys and girls lets be honest with ourselves Disney is going to be pumping out alot of remakes in the coming years regardless if we want them or not. However where as before it was one maybe two every few years it's now up to five in just this year alone and yes I was counting the upcoming Maleficent in that and well I thought that instead of telling you some fluff piece about why the live action Disney remakes are better then the original i'd go the opposite why and tell you why they don't work

To start of this recent trend of live action remakes is nothing new in fact the studio have been doing it since the nineties with a live action remake of The Jungle Book and again a few years alter with 101 Dalmatians and it's sequel four years later 102 Dalmatians. So the company has been doing these remakes for a long time but i'd say that things really kicked into high gear with the release of 2010's Alice In Wonderland.

Since ever since then they've been churning them out of the regular and alot of them have the same problem or sometime problems in common. The first being they have nothing to do with what ever film there remaking the 2010 Alice In Wonderland has nothing to do the 1951 original outside of the title and a few characters and that's an issue here because when going into this film and given who the director is people wanted to see weird imagery but instead what we got was something dark and depressing and that's not Alice In Wonderland at all.

The second issue that alot of these films have is that there more interested in cashing in on the name rather then fixing any issues with the previous film. If you look at films like Beauty And The Beast and The Lion King those remakes are more bothered about telling the exact same story in the exact same order then they are about fixing any issues that the original film had which to me defeats the purpose of a remake in the first place however to Beauty's credit it does at least try to solve some of the original films issues but it also creates more issues and those are issues that the original film never had.

These films have no idea what to focus on for every film that trys to do something new like the first few minuets of Maleficent there are several that are more interested in telling the same story. That to me says that even Disney have no idea what there doing and picking these films not because the original was flawed and could be fixed but because the original was a hit and so by that logic the film should be a hit as well.

Since she has a new movie out next week let's take a look at Maleficent from 2014 that film was promoted as being a story all about Maleficent and for the first ten to fifteen maybe even twenty minuets it was all about her. However it soon became apparent that this was in fact a remake of Sleeping Beauty so it took what could have been a cool idea how Maleficent became evil and turned it into something that we already saw so it wasted a good idea for the sake of telling the same story over again.

Which is a shame because telling a Maleficent origin story does sound like a good idea and it could very easily have held it's own film. Imagine if the opening of Maleficent was the whole film they spent time making us fall in love her and wanting to her succeed wouldn't that make her downfall more tragic and more heartbreaking but because Disney only cares about remakes rather then fresh ideas instead we get a sloppily told remake of Sleeping Beauty.

Now like many of you I was pretty excited that they were doing a Kim Possible movie however it lacks two things that the show had. Those being charm and identity because this is a remake it has no identity of it's own so it's always going to be tied to the Kim Possible brand name and it doesn't help that the film did nothing to at least make an effort to carve an identity of it's own since it's more focused on shoving iconography from the show down your throat.

The show was full to the brim with charm heck outside of the action it's charm was one of the things that made it standout. So you;d think that the movie would honour that and have plenty of charm as well and well you'd be wrong just like alot if not all of the remakes that have been released so far this one feels soulless it feels like the only reason it was made is because Kim Possible is now considered nostalgic and not because they had a good story or something new to say.

Two of these films do try to keep things fresh by adding in new characters which wouldn't be a bad idea if all of them added to the actual story. When we go to see Dumbo we want to see a heartwarming tale about an elephant just trying to get back to his mother and nothing more we don't however need nor even wanted to see a bunch of drama with a bunch of characters that we don't even know that's not Dumbo to anyone really.

Now I will state right here and now that Aladdin 2019 is the best of the live action Disney remakes but even so the character of Dalia was pointless. She adds nothing to the overall story and her whole romance with The Genie could have been dropped from the film and nothing would have been lost and the same could have been said for her. If your going to introduce a new character then make that person relevant to the plot don't just have them in a few scenes and stick them in a side plot that doesn't connect to the main one.

The original Aladdin while it most likely didn't have to create original characters and I say most likely because i've not read the source material. It at least makes all character main or not important to the overall plot and I don't honestly feel that Dalia is important to the plot of this remake and so you have to wonder why they even went to the trouble of creating a new character when they could have just picked a character from the original and gave them her role in this film.

I will never doubt this alot if not all of these films look visually stunning even if you hate every live action Disney remake that's out that is something that you have to admit to be true. However the issue is at least for me there's no meat to them there just focused and dazzling you with the visuals that they don't even bother in telling a somewhat decent plot and while it is important for a film to be visually stunning it also needs a plot.

Now getting things to look like the animated film isn't a bad idea since that's how people expect certain things to look. However that to has it's faults since it doesn't allow the film to have some sort of identity which is already going to be hard considering it's a remake and so it needs every little chance that it can get but when things look exactly like the cartoon it makes people wonder "why don't they just watch the cartoon" instead of keeping them focused on this newer version.

I noticed this with both Beauty And The Beast and The Lion King but those two films were telling the exact same story in the exact same order. Which yes I know I touched on it before but it's a huge issue because instead of being creative and telling a new story with these characters only now it's live action. There more interested in giving us the animated films story which only makes people want to watch the animated film.

Due to the story being the exact same alot of the surprise and tension is now lost because we know what's coming and what to expect. Honestly both remakes would have faired (might be spelt fared) a little better with fans if they changed the story up enough that way even the fans of the original wouldn't know what to expect and thus could be taken on this ride the same as the new fans but nope Disney just cares more about cashing in on nostalgia then actually doing something that makes sense.

Disney cares about cashing in on nostalgia so much that they are now in the process of remaking a film that's not only important to animation but also important to them. That film being Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs it was the first animated film to be released in North America and it was also the first film to be released by Walt Disney and it absolutely shouldn't be remade because of how important it is. 

Could the original be improved upon yes of course but that doesn't mean that it should he remade classic films like this should be preserved the way they are. Snow White is a classic in every sense of the word and the fact that Disney have decided to remake this over a film like Home On The Range which could do with a remake to fix it's issues to proves what i've been saying all the time in this post they only care about nostalgia and making money from it.

    

Batwoman "Pilot" Review With SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DC fans this has been quite the week for the company with not one but two movies out one animated and the other being Joker and the fact that both Supergirl and a new show have premiered just last night. While it would have been super easy for me to take a look at Supergirl since i've been watching the show on and of since it first started it's the new show that i'm going to be taking a look at and so here is my spoiler filled review of the pilot episode actually called pilot for Batwoman.

The plot of the episode is that military graduate and security agent Sophie Moore has been kidnapped by a new gang themed around Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and this brings back Kate Kane who tries to find the missing agent. I'm not going to go to deep into the actual plot of the episode here just because if I did i'd be here all day writing just that bit I will say that it did a good job of setting up certain characters and character arc's for the season but at the same time there's very little sense of where this season is going.

Technically reprising her role from the Elseworlds crossover is Ruby Rose as Kate Kane / Batwoman and she is joined by Ex Birds of Prey Star Rachel Skarsten as Alice , Meagan Tandy as Sophie Moore , Nicole Kang as Mary Hamilton , Camrus Johnson as Luke Fox , Elizabeth Anweis as Catherine Hamilton-Kane , Rachel Maddow as the voice of Vesper Fairchild , Dougray Scott as Jacob Kane and Brendon Zub as Chuck Dodgson.

I honestly didn't mind the acting in this episode I always say that you can't expect great acting from a pilot episode because all of the actors are trying to find there characters and it's true here. The acting isn't that good and the chemistry isn't quite there yet but that's to be expected from a pilot episode and just based of this episode alone I can see the acting and the chemistry getting better over the course of the season.

SPOILERS START HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They spoil what could have been a really cool reveal at the end of the episode because they reveal that the season's main villain Alice is in fact Kate's presumed dead sister. To me that's a waste of a good reveal because we hardly know these characters so just imagine how much cooler it would have been if we got that reveal at say the end of episode twelve or thirteen when we've had much longer to get to really know the characters it would have made for a great holy s**t moment but here it just feels wasted.

Now if you'll recall in the Elseworlds crossover event we did meet Kate fully dressed as Batwoman and so this series does act as a prequel. However it's hard to say how far back we've gone because there's no indication what so ever of a time frame and the fact that it's basically a prequel means that we already know that Kate is going to come out on top by the end of the season and so there's no tension what so ever it's not the fault of the show runners but rather who made the call to have her appear in Elseworlds who's at fault.

Speaking of Alice I freaking loved her in this episode she's wonderfully insane and just out there she's everything the original book Alice was and then some. I honestly couldn't wait for her scenes to come up because I was having such a good time watching her and the fact that she quotes Alice's Adventures In Wonderland just really helped sell the whole wonderland gimmick to me and I can't wait to see more of her this season.

I've held of talking about this long enough but I just have to talk about this there was some controversy surrounding the show. The first of which had to do with the casting of lead actress Ruby Rose who is a lesbian but apparently she's not lesbian enough to play this openly gay character and that to me is just so freaking stupid because there's no such thing as being lesbian enough what does that even mean anyways someone please help me out.

The second bit of controversy comes from the fact that from the trailer this series seemed to be pushing an agenda and yeah I kind of agree the trailer did do that. However some of the cringyness from the trailer wasn't in this episode and so I don't really think that this series has an agenda what so ever however there is a certain line of dialog spoken in the trailer which is in this episode and it's the batsuit line I hated that line in the trailer and hate it in this episode the suit it perfect just the way it is giving it to a woman suddenly doesn't mean the suit has faults that's just bad and forced writing right there.

As to be expected there is going to be alot of action in this show and there is some in this very episode and I have to say that for a TV show the action wasn't that bad. Don't get me wrong it's not that good either but given that these shows always have a small budget it's a miracle that we get anything at all and I do feel that Batwoman shouldn't have fought Alice in the first episode that's something that should have been held of until later in the season like maybe the season finale or if your going to have them fight here have Batwoman only just win like make it a really close fight so then that way she has growing to do as a fighter.

SPOILERS END HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Overall in terms of pilot episodes this wasn't that bad in my opinion but there's alot of room to grow as for if i'll be checking this series out week to week i'll probably watch the first few episodes and then take it from there and since this is a pilot episode i'm not going to give it a rating since it's the start of a journey and not the whole thing and so i'll only review the whole show when it ends it's run and not it's first season. 

Wonder Woman: Bloodlines SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Review

Animation fans DC is back with yet another new movie and oddly enough there released this movie on a Saturday. I will be getting more into that later on in the review because such a weird day to release a movie but i'm a huge fan of not only the Wonder Woman character but also the 2009 animated film and so you can bet that in was excited as all hell when this film was announced and so here is my review of Wonder Woman: Bloodlines.

The plot of the movie is someone is looking for Themyscira and it's up to Diana to stop them for stealing it's tech all the while she's trying to help heel a young girl who's turned evil. This film is part prequel and so you do get the Wonder Woman but a more condensed version of it with alot of stuff cut out as for what I thought the overall story it's fine but it was also a very weak plot with the actual story only coming into play around forty five to fifty minuets into this hour and twenty three minuet movie.

Reprising her role is Rosario Dawson as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman and she is joined by Jeffrey Donovan as Steve Trevor , Marie Avgeropoulos as Vanessa Kapatelis / Silver Swan , Adrienne C. Moore as Etta Candy , Kimberly Brooks as Cheetah and Giganta , Courtenay Taylor as Doctor Poison , Constance Zimmer as Veronica Cale , Nia Vardalos as Julia Kapatelis , Michael Dorn as Ferdinand , voice acting legend Cree Summer as Hippolyta and Mozhan Marnò as Doctor Cyber.

Honestly the acting in the film was alot better then what I thought it was going to be and i'm saying that because the acting in the 2009 film is so good that I can't picture those characters played by anyone else. Altho I will say that Nathan Fillion has alot more charm in his performance then Jeffrey Donovan does but that's just my opinion and Rosario is honestly getting better in the role of Wonder Woman.

The animation for the film was done by Digital eMation who have done the animation for the recent Scooby Doo! movies. They might have done some DC films as well but their website doesn't list their credits and their name isn't listed on the film's IMDB but it is listed in the actual film. Their animation is usually really good but here I don't know why but the animation seen in this film just feels really lazy to me I don't if it's because they were busy working on Return To Zombie Island or if they just didn't have enough time or money but they could have done alot better in my opinion.

SPOILERS START HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As you can see in the above picture Diana does get a new costume and in my opinion it's miles better then the one she's been wearing in the recent animated films. If your wondering why it looks familiar it's because it looks exactly like the one that Gal Gadot wore in the 2017 film it's actually unreal how similar it looks but for some strange reason they choose to have her in her Animated Movie Universe attire for the majority of the film but when it comes to the final battle she suddenly needs a costume change.

They did Steven Trevor dirty not only did they give him nothing to do outside of being the toyboy for Diana they also emasculate him at every single chance he's always the but of the joke. Which for a film where the main character is a feminist icon isn't something to be proud of as it comes across as you saying that all men should be the but of all the jokes and that women are better then men at everything and that was something that really annoyed me because both the 2017 film and the 2009 animated film treated him better then this film did.

Not to keep on bringing up the 2009 film but in that film they at least explain how Diana got her costume and they explain away things like the lasso of truth. Here while they do explain how she got her costume nothing is explained which is something I thought to be rather odd since there could be people who have only seen the 2017 film and thus don't know the lore that well and so they won't really know how the lasso works that well and why when Diana wraps it around herself it's a big deal.

This is going to be the last time I mention the 2009 film but in that film when Diana got her costume it felt earned it felt like we earned that moment of seeing her standing proudly in her costume. Here she comes out wearing it after no build up and very little time spent with her and establishing what this version of the character was like when she was younger while that might not seem like a big deal to some of you it is to me because we don't know what this version of the character is like because the only time she's featured she's a bit player in someone else's story where as here she's the main character so we need to know more about her.

Now I said i'd mention this at the start of the review and i'm a man of my word but they released this movie on a Saturday. Which to me is such a weird day to be releasing a movie because no one is going to be checking out a new direct to DVD movie on a Saturday if anything alot of people are going to be spending the day in bed or out with friends or family. The only reason why I think they did this is because Teen Titans Go1 Vs Teen Titans on a Tuesday which is when DC would normally release there direct to DVD movies and because TTG makes them more money they gave that the prime date and this gets the weird weekend date for it's release.

Like I said there is alot of jokes in this film and alot of them are oddly centred around Steve Trevor for no reason what so ever. That said there are some jokes which aren't centred on him and that are actually funny the film overall is actually entertaining outside of the issues that I mentioned and having funny jokes does help the film be more entertaining it's just a shame that there's more jokes emasculating Steven then this about literally anything else.

There are alot of villains in this film and if i'm being honest alot of them are really weak and I say that because outside of one villain the rest have no motivation what so ever. In fact the only one who does have motivation is Veronica Cale which is she wants the tech from Diana's homeland and that's it the rest of them are just there to serve as bosses for Diana to fight. I'm not saying that every villain in a movie like this needs a reason to be fighting the bad guy but it honestly help the film if they were given one even if it's just something small it would at least be something.

Now I Know I said I wasn't going to be talking about the 2009 film anymore but there is just one more thing I want to bring up and that's Queen Hippolyta. In the 2009 film we know why she doesn't want Diana to go of to man's world because we've seen some of what she's gone throw and so it makes sense here even tho she does kind of give a reason as to why she doesn't want her to go it still doesn't explain why she's cold towards her daughter during the final battle or wouldn't even offer to help her when she was fighting Medusa if the film makers are going to have her act like that then at least give us a solid reason and not "I was afraid of loosing you.................even tho your here on the island defending me".

Now since this is a superhero action movie we finally get to talk about the action seen in the film itself. To me the action wasn't that bad I meant it wasn't really great either but it's alot better then what it could have been in my opinion and for me the best action sequence in the whole film is the one in the third act on Themyscira it's a long drawn out fight to the death and there are several times in which Diana could have died and I was left on the edge of my seat because of that fact and yes they do show her bleeding and yes there is an after credits scene which i'm mentioning now because its my last chance to do so.

SPOILERS END HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Overall like I said this is a very entertaining film and out of the two Wonder Woman animated films I think i've made it clear which one I prefer and so this film gets a modest 5.5 out of 10 from me

Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Review

Ladies and gents I make it no secret to being a fan of the first Teen Titans Go movie and so you can bet I was looking forward to seeing what they would for the teams first straight to DVD movie. Unlike alot of you reading this review I never watched an episode of the 2003 Teen Titans TV show so that might be why I don't mind Go! as much but even so I was looking forward to see how the two teams would interact and well I now don't have to wait to see it because it's been released and here is my review of Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans.

The plot of this movie is villains from both the 2003 world and the 2013 world team up to take on both versions of the Titans and both teams have to put aside their differences to put a stop to this dimension level threat. Yeah when I think of a crossover movie this is the kind of plot that I think of and i'll admit even tho everyone knew that both teams would eventually get along it was still fun seeing how they would get to that point and I was shockingly engaged throughout the whole thing which was something I never thought i'd say for a TTG product but that's how good the story was for me.

Starring in the film is Scott Menville as Robin , Tara Strong as Raven , Khary Payton as Cyborg , Hynden Walch as Starfire , Greg Cipes as Beast Boy , Kevin Michael Richardson as Trigon , Robert Morse as Santa Claus , Grey Griffin as Mrs. Claus , Rhys Darby as Master of Games and in a surprise bit of casting "Weird Al" Yankovic as Gentleman Ghost and Darkseid. It goes without saying that all of the main cast are returning from the show as is Robert Morse I just didn't bother to state it because it was pretty obvious.

As for what I thought about the acting from the main cast it was honestly really good but that's not really a surprise since they've been playing these characters since 2003. The whole cast really do a solid job in this movie I can't fault a single actor in this even Weird Al who's not in the film that much still gives a solid performance and out of all the actors he's the one you'd actually forgive the most for not turning in a solid performance just doe to the fact that he's been in better things but nope he's good in this.

Now I can't find the company who did the animation for this film at all so i'm just going to say that it was done by Warner Bros. Animation just for the sake of it. In all honesty I went into this movie knowing that the animation wasn't going to be as good as Go To The Movies but it's still really good considering that this is a straight to DVD movie you can tell that the animators really did care for this product and were determined to make it the best they could.

Visually this is where the film is a bit of a let down for me just because if you took one frame from the first movie and you knew that it was from a movie. In this film tho it looks exactly like the show I could take any picture from this film and i'd struggle to work out if it was from a film or not but at the same time I have to give them a little bit of wiggle room because this is a straight to DVD movie but you still need to tell that it's a movie and not just an episode of the show.

SPOILERS START HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now there's a reason why i've thrown up a spoiler warning here and it's due to one scene that I wasn't expecting to happen. During the film the two teams learn that they have to use this device to cross dimensions and when they do one of the worlds that they visit is that of the New 52 DC Films and they meet the Titans from that world and adding to that is the fact that they got Sean Maher to reprise his role as Nightwing.

They don't just visit the world of the New 52 films tho they also go to the world of a possibly 60's inspired show which could be a reference to The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure but i'm not exactly sure tho and they also visit the world of original comics which I honestly thought was really fun to see on screen and the fact that the comic Titans use word bubbles and the only way they can movie is if someone turns a page is funny as hell.

There's a scene in this movie which is straight up like the awesome scene in Avengers: Endgame and like in that film it's awesome in this one. To put it simple during the final battle with Trigon both Titans stop of at the various worlds and they recruit every single Teen Titans team and they all join in the final fight heck i'm honestly shocked that they somehow didn't work in the current live action Titans team.

The first joke of any comedy is always important because that joke will determine if the audience is with you or against you and sadly the opening joke in this film is bad all it is is just some pet food slowing leaving a can and that's it. Yes the opening joke from Go! To The Movies was bad since it was just a fart joke so you would have thought that the team would have learned their lesson and put in a better opening joke but they really didn't.

What I honestly wasn't expecting from this film and it's something that i'm glad happened it's that hey made Raven the main character of the film. It's like how they made Robin the main character of the previous film in that she's the character who goes through the actual change and grows as a character in this case it's learning to accept her demon half which is what the 2003 trigon is after so he can take over the multiverse. and that does lead to a cool as hell scene in the third act where 2013 Raven absorbs all the power from all the other Raven's to form a truly awesome form.

Like the previous film this one is a musical but unlike the previous film the songs in this film aren't that good and are honestly kind of forced. The songs in the previous film where catchy and were songs that you could sing along to here the songs just sound the same to me but I will admit to liking the nineties style rap that both teams perform early on in the film mostly because they take some shots at Teen Titans Go! and the fact they have a small budget which was honestly funny.

For some reason this show likes to put out bad trailers for there actually good movies like think about Go! To The Movies had a bad first trailer and so did this one. It's due to that trailer that I honestly thought that this film was going to be really bad and so I was presently surprised to see that it's not only good but it's also a very entertaining film and alot of that does come down to the jokes in the film.

The comedy in the film apart from the opening joke was actually pretty good with a fair few of the jokes landing with me. I'll admit that I found the previous film to be funnier but that doesn't mean that there aren't some jokes in this film like for example both Starfires find Sean's Nightwing to be more attractive then there own Robin and the fact that the 2013 Starfire frequently swoons over the 2003 Robin right infront of the 2013 version.

Now then since this is an action movie that means we do have to talk about the action seen in the film itself. The action in my opinion was honestly really fun we get to see both teams working together side by side which really does help in my opinion but sadly they don't take full advantage of that just because they stick to having the 2003 versions team up with however there 2013 counterpart is but the action is still really good and feels like it belongs in a movie.

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Overall this is a really fun movie and since we know that the previous movie is canon to the show we can there for assume that this one is as well. While the film isn't as good as the previous movie visually it is epic enough and the action is fun enough that you kind of forget about that and so it gets a 7 out of 10 from me.

  

Viz: The Trumpeter's Lips Review

Now then comic book fans as you might have gathered by now i'm a bit of a Viz fan not only do I read each new issue when it comes out but I also make it a habit to read the annuals and well since my review of last years went down a treat I thought i'd try and make this either a yearly thing or one that happens every few months and so here is my review of the new Viz annual Viz: The Trumpeter's Lips enjoy.

As I stated in my review of the previous annual there is no plot just a bunch of individual strips each with there own story to tell. So one of them might be about someone recording a Christmas TV special but the one below it would be about something completely different and so I would advise anyone thinking about starting to read Viz books to be ready not to expect a whole lot of plot just expect there to be a basic set up and nothing more,

All of the old favourites return including the likes of Buster Gonad , Biffa Bacon , Roger Mellie , The Male Online and The Fat Sl*gs. There's really nothing new I can add about these characters because alot of them have been going on for around twenty years and the same person who created them is still writing and drawing them to this very day and so if you already like these characters then your still going to like them here.

Just so you all know the characters that i've listed aren't the only characters who appear in the annual this year it's just there the only ones that I can actually remember. I honestly think that if I was to count how many characters appear in this years collection including one of characters there would most likely be around forty to fifty characters but that's just a very rough guess so please don't hold me to it.

I'll have you guys know that it's hard for me to find any suitable pictures for this review let alone any from the actual collection and so any picture I do use most likely isn't from the collection but is the best representation of the character. I honestly feel that the above picture is perhaps the best representation of the Roger Mellie character because without him saying anything you get what kind of character he is.

Now i'll full on admit I wasn't expecting to do this review so early on in the year and yes I know it's near the end of summer but what I mean is I wasn't expecting to be having a copy of this book until much later in the year. So you can imagine my shock when I walked into a shop in Wales and I found a copy of this book so you can bet that I bought it as soon a I saw it because i'm not waiting several months like I did last year i've learned my lesson.

As with any Viz book be it the I guess yearly annuals or the monthly issues the news articles are so worth reading. I have to wonder how the team come up with funny and fresh news articles every single month because each article is worth reading just to see what crazy stuff the editorial staff come up with and dare I say it this year there actually better and funnier then some of the featured strips but that's just my opinion.

Now I would very much like to mention who did the artwork and who wrote each strip but like alot of comic strips there names aren't seen anywhere. That being said the artwork pretty much what you expect from the Viz team at this point altho if you know some of the creators then you'll notice that some of the characters look alike for example the character of Buster Gonad looks alot like Baz from The Fat Sl*gs however due to Buster's full name I can't post any pictures.

If i'm being honest one of the strips that I enjoyed the most with this release is The Male Online which is weird because I barely find those strips to be funny. However when I was re-reading The Pieman's Wig and reading this annual I found myself not only enjoying the strip alot but also laughing at pretty much all of them because they are really funny and that was something that I wasn't expecting to do.

Now as with the previous Viz releases this collection of strips is rude as all hell which is also why I can't include pictures of certain characters due to their names. So if you have any young relatives then don't even think of getting them anything from Viz because chances are it will scar them for life even the one's that aren't quite that rude are still more mature then anything seen in the Beano or Dandy that's how mature they are.

In all honesty this annual isn't as funny as last years one but it still does have plenty of good jokes in it. For me tho the best one isn't even a joke it's a headline all it is is a question asking how Henry The 8th Mowed his lawn I don't know why but for some reason that really got a laugh out of me maybe because it's so strange and absurd that you can't help but laugh at the joke that being said tho there are alot of jokes that I just didn't find funny and there was a few jokes at a certain controversial president which were honestly pretty funny.

Overall this was a solid collection of the best strips from previous issues but with that being said it's not as good as the previous one and so it gets a 7 out of 10 from me. If you guys liked this review let me know because i'm thinking of reviewing every issue of Viz when it comes out and this would be a great way for me to gage if there's any interest

Classic Doctor Who: Spearhead From Space Review

Doctor Who fans I will always state that the Third Doctor is my favourite doctor and while I have seen the serial i'm about to review before this is my first time reviewing it. This was a serial that for a long time I never saw in it's entirety until a few years ago and well while I was stuck thinking of what other classic Doctor Who serials I could review this was one of the episodes that sprung into mind and so here is my review of Spearhead From Space.

The plot of the serial is The Autons are trying to take over the world and it's up to UNIT and a newly regenerated Doctor to put a stop to it. This episode had a lot to do not only did it have to introduce a new doctor but also a new companion and a new enemy but it also had to reintroduce Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. So you would understand if the story wasn't that good however I thought that the story was really entertaining but I feel it could have done with at least one more episode just to get things right.

Like i said this serial introduces both Jon Pertwee as The Doctor and Caroline John as Liz Shaw and it also reintroduced Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. Joining them in this serial is Hugh Burden as Channing , Derek Smee as Ransome , John Woodnutt as Hibbert , Neil Wilson as Sam Seeley , Betty Bowden as Meg Seeley , Hamilton Dyce as General Scobie and John Breslin as Captain Munro.

Now this is something that you guys won't know but i've been a fan of Jon Pertwee's since I was a kid because I watched a lot of his other show Worzel Gummidge and so I know that he can act and he is really good in this serial. I'll admit that outside of this serial I haven't Caroline John or Nicholas Courtney in anything outside of Doctor Who but in terms of this serial i'd be interested to see what else they worked on because they were pretty solid in this serial. The guest cast I thought were OK at best altho I got the impression that they didn't know if they show treat the material seriously or not and so while some of them deliver an over the top performance some of them also play it straight.

Now not only did this episode have a lot of characters to introduce but it also had to introduce a new enemy the autons. In  this serial I have to say that they are kind of creepy but at the same time they looked fake to me i'm honestly sure that at one point I saw the eye of one of the actors playing one of the autons. That being said tho they look creepy as all hell there's just something about an emotionless face which just looks freaking creepy.

Now in case you couldn't tell by the above pictures this was also the first Doctor Who serial to not only be produced in but also shown in colour. I know that that's something that we take for granted these days but back in the seventies colour TV was still a relatively new thing so it was a big deal for any show to be shown in colour and that right there makes this episode historic because like I said it was the first Doctor Who serial produced in colour.

This is the only serial i've seen with Liz and I can say that I like her she's got the feistiness of Amy but with the brains to back it up. To me she seems like the type of character that will put you down but will do it by saying something smart and I just love that about her and it makes me wonder why they got rid of her after just one series since there appears to be more to her then what we actually saw in this serial.

I can't really talk that much about The Brigadier just because this serial really doesn't show of much of his personality but given that he's present for all of the third doctors run it's bound to shine through in later episodes. Here he seems to be a rather stern character and I hope that we get to see more of his softer side in the later serials just because having a character who's always stern could make them unlikable.

One of the reasons why I think that this serial would have been better with five episodes is that it would have given a chance to flesh out some of the secondary characters. The fact that they didn't do that is an issue when it comes to the character of salesman John Ransome who appears through out the adventure but they don't really give us a reason to care about him nor make him seem a more three dimensional character and so when he does die I felt nothing.

Now what is something to be expected in the Jon Pertwee era is that there is a few action scenes however at least in this serial there is no scenes of Jon fighting someone. The action that we do see in this serial is kind of average all it is is just two guys shooting each other and that's really it but given that if im right this was the first real action sequence on Doctor Who I guess it's good that they started of on a small scale.

There was one scene which actually scared the living he*l out of me when I saw it on the screen and it's the scene where the doctor is almost killed by The Nestene Consciousness. What made this scene so creepy and scary to me is that not only is it shot in extreme closeup just of Jon Pertwee but because of that we get to see alot of the reactions on Jon's face and he looks scared and so if The Doctor is scared then we the audience must be scared as well.

Overall in terms of debut stories this was pretty solid and given that the serial had so much to do it's wonder that it still turns out to be as good as it is but that said the small episode count does mean characters aren't fleshed out that well and it does mean we don't get to see much in terms of personality from our leads and so it gets an 8 out of 10 from me.