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First, I just want to say that this is not the best horror movie on the planet by any means. But it is much better than the garbage rating it currently has. I'll explain.

The movie starts off kinda slow. 30 minutes of jibber jabber that just pads the run time. During this time I truly felt that the movie was trash. It felt like all the convo was unscripted and that the entire cast of 10+ people were just talking off the top of their head.

But once the action rolls around I felt that one of two things was occurring.... Either the cast became AMAZING actors that were able to ping pong the dialogue off of each other perfectly, or the director fine-tuned everything with great skill and clarity. Or both I guess. At one point there are 10 people talking at the same time yet nothing sounds forced or contrived.

Then the kill scenes begin and they are exquisite! Everything is directed so well, the kills look real, the blood looks real, there isn't anything that looks cheap or tacky, the kill scenes are straight to the point like you would expect from real psychos instead of over-the-top nonsense. Even the snake looks real.

The practical effects are masterful for a first time movie. Seriously, why has Ben Wilder not blown up after this?? For a first time movie within this specific genre, he has succeeded expertly.

I don't know when imdB started allowing Youtube videos to have their own imdB page, but I guess they allow it now. This "short" is just a Youtube video by a user named "George the Giant Slayer" in which he tries to tie the most recent South Park episode "Into The Panderverse" to the Rachel Zegler Snow White movie. Unfortunately he does a horrible job of tying the two together, especially considering South Park didn't really focus on Rachel Zegler or Snow White during that episode. This video is honestly just some alarmist opinion by someone who is trying to profit off of the anti-Snow White hype. It is 9 minutes long and not really that good of a video, in my opinion.

Those three words describe this perfectly. This movie thinks it is telling the most amazing story ever told by characters that are showcasing the best acting skills you have ever seen. At first you think you are watching a horror movie that is a mishmash of four other movies that already have multiple sequels in which this story has been played out beyond belief. But then we get a very quick glimpse into a lovestory between two people that would never be together in real life. I can't get over the two main characters... a chubby, older male that lacks bravery and begs his woman to not leave him alone when he is injured, and a younger model-esque woman with huge lips and an engorged chest who says multiple times that her only reason for living is to be with her man, who is her "fiance". Why not make them married, especially since they are having a baby. Thats just one of the many minor mistakes that make this movie so offputting. I mean, there are major mistakes too, but all the minor mistakes make it completely unbelievable. I also noticed that the couple in the diner consists of an older man and a model-esque partner that is 20 years his junior, two people that do not look like they would be in a real relationship together. All of this is very telling of the personality of the director.

What is the point of the man in the black car with sharp teeth? You could remove him from the movie and it wouldn't matter. They are trapped in a timeloop-like plot where they can't leave the stretch of road, so his presence matters not. They are trapped regardless of him scaring everyone with magic.

The last 10 minutes of this movie is unbearable. The dialog is absolutely atrocious. And still we are left without any real resolution. I don't know who greenlit this but I'm gonna guess they regret it big time.

Every single time the main character, who happens to be an overweight, half-naked, neck-beard-having, trash hippie with a giant turtle, is put into a situation in which he is about to get captured, the camera cuts away and all of a sudden dude has escaped and nobody sees him. At one point he was on a train with no exit and the feds were approaching him, and all of a sudden he just disappeared and escaped with no problem. This is absolutely horrible lazy writing. If the guy knows magic and can teleport any time he is in a tough situation where he is about to be captured, then what reason do we have to have a vested interest in his safety? What about when he was upside down in a wrecked car with a pipe stuck in his stomach, and two seconds later he is running down the street with no problem and nobody saw how he escaped! How is this overweight guy dressed in a Hawaiian shirt carrying a giant turtle seriously able to allude everyone??

I read on the lead actor's bio that this groundbreaking movie was simultaneously shot in two languages (English and Italian) so that it wouldn't have to be dubbed!! My question is... why? Who cares? Imagine how much money could have been saved if the director just filmed the movie in English and dubbed the Italian. Having two dubs of the movie (which is not groundbreaking as this has been done many many times before) doesn't make the movie any better.

That being said... what is this sexist garbage? There is no way that Italian people can possibly think that this is the way men and women of the world act. Or is this how Italian men and women act? Should have just kept this movie in Italian. The main character is just as dumb and helpless as her character in Children of the Corn.... can't stop this ape-man from grabbing her face and forcing her to kiss him just like she couldn't stop her 8 year old sister from murdering an entire town of people. Cmon lady!

First I will say that there are some good aspects of this movie. The soundtrack is great and really helps to build up suspense. The scenes where the locals and reporter are murdered, when combined with the soundtrack, are very suspenseful and leave you with an uneasiness in your gut (which I think all horror movie makers want from their audience). And some aspects of the cinematography (mostly the cornfield before we see that He Who Walks... is just one of those tree creatures from Lord of the Rings. That being said...

This movie sucks. The original movie was actually scary as a child because it was believable that a bunch of teenagers could overpower a small town of old farmers and run amuck with the help of religious brainwashing and a creepy Malachi (and that creepy red-headed kid.... props to him as that was his first real acting gig). But are we seriously supposed to suspend our disbelief and believe that an 8 year old girl was responsible for all of this??? (Sorry, and 8 year old girl that is also an absolutely atrocious actor). I took the time to make a fan-edit of this film by removing her from the film as much as possible, and the movie actually ended up being 10x better, as long as it isn't named Children of the Corn.

I knew this movie was going to be bad when the children (not teenagers, but 8 year old children) were allowed into town hall during a meeting to determine the fate of the town, only for the girl to demand that the children be allowed to vote. I mean, how do they even know how to vote?? Who taught them about voting? I have never met a single 8 year old that knows anything about voting, let alone an 8 year old from a rural corn farming community. Not only couldn't the teenagers overcome the powerful 8 year old kids, but neither could the adults!! I thought that movies selling the idea that empowered teenagers who know more about the economy than adults = horrible movies, but this is a movie selling the idea that empowered 8 year old know more about politics than adults.

Imagine if He Who Walks... was just the craziness of a kid instead of an actual corn stalk monster that brutally kills adults for no reason, maybe this movie could have been an actual psychological thriller. But it really ended up as a horrible remake with an atrocious actor as the lead star. Everyone in the town deserved to die because they allowed an 8 year old girl to do what she did.

Despite what some others are saying, this cartoon does happen to inject some intelligence into the genre. Each character is developed quite well... by the end of the 2nd episode you will totally understand the characters and the direction they are going, and the fact that there is a character arc in plan, unlike most of the cartoons out there that are just situational. This cartoon probably needs to be watched from beginning to end instead of episodically, meaning that it's only going to be a one or two season cartoon. So for what it's worth, this is a good find. If it had to last for 20 years like Family Guy it would go stale very quickly.

After watching this movie, I would have to say that I would much rather watch this than to watch some of the newer blockbuster movies coming out these days (such as Madame Web), and this movie will get much more replay value for me than half of the nonsense on streaming services. True the CGI effects are cheap, the story is horribly written, the dialog is cheesy, and the characters are pure trope... but there is a balance of action and drama, and the soundtrack is fairly decent for a B movie. Yes this is a B movie, but it never claims to be more. Compared to the garbage out there these days that claim to be A movies and even claim to be GROUNDBREAKING, this movie does everything is promises to do and even a little more, so it has value in my book.

This movie is essentially a very poorly rehashed version of the first. I read that the director worked so hard to ensure that this movie and the first movie were completely different from each other, but the director failed. There is nothing new added to this film. Simply reskinning the main character to make them a pop star instead of a "normal person" is not completely different. And I'm sorry to be the one to point out reality, but Naomi is not some great actor. In this movie she overacts with everything she does.... when she breathes, when her eyes get huge, when her back hurts, when she gets mad and breaks stuff, and worse yet when all four of those things are combined.... the only thing she doesn't overact with is her singing/dancing in the rehearsal scene, yet she looks like she is just phoning it in. It was really hard to sit through this whole movie.

Everyone knows Norm MacDonald was comedy genius, and he really let's himself loose in this cartoon. It feels like 3/4 of his lines are just adlibbed... the pigeon literally IS Norm MacDonald. But Mike Tyson.... wow. I don't know how much of his lines he wrote, but if he indeed wrote his stuff then he should be bowed down to. The stuff he says plays on his own real life wit and all sorts of mistakes he has made in his own real life, such as making fun of his misunderstanding of things and the way he blows money on cheap stuff. I absolutely love this cartoon and the absurd dry humor and absolutely random weirdness. I've binged watch every episode twice.

I never watched Big Mouth when it first appeared on Netflix. So it was already 5 seasons deep before I watched it. And I first watched the spin-off Human Resources (absolutely horrible name). I found Human Resources to be an interesting concept... obviously the spin-off is raunchy, adult-themed, and pushes the boundaries by focusing on the topic of sex with children, BUT at least each episode covers actual aspects of emotion. But this Big Mouth garbage... it is borderline offensive. How did this trash pass over critics' heads and actually get nominated for an Emmy?? This is a cartoon involving actual CHILDREN in which the children are having SEX. How is this acceptable? Only in a disgusting perverted Hollywood would this sort of pedophilic filth be acceptable. One episode is devoted to a child under the age of 18 having actual sex with a pillow and getting it pregnant. How is this not considered to be child porn? What, just because it is a cartoon for adults? I don't get how this is okay.

The main male actor does an amazing job. He really sells it. But the main female actor constantly overacts in every scene. At first I thought it was intentional in the spirit of the 80's... I guess that might explain why every actor other than the main male actor does a horrible job. But I don't believe it's intentional. The movie throws some entertaining curveballs, so I feel it is a good flick overall. But the back and forward in time gimmick loses its value about halfway in. Though it helps to give the movie replay value. Once the cops come into the picture the viewer has to suspend a ridiculous amount of disbelief in order to buy what is being sold. Only in the movies of the 2020's does a young inexperienced petite female police officer get away with dominating an old experienced tough-guy cop. At least the movie doesn't mind putting blame on the proper individuals, otherwise it would be like every other unbelievable movie these days.

When I was a kid I thought this movie was great. Kids running around doing whatever they want, Culkin as a bad guy... Culkin even uses the F-word! But I rewatched it the other day and.... boo! This movie is for kids, because it doesn't make any sense for an adult. First of all, Culkin is not a good actor. He speaks his lines like he is reading from a note card. It's horrible. And in this movie it's even worse than Home Alone or My Girl. Elijah is the real star here... his acting is great. Second, what is up with these parents!? They already lost one kid, why are they allowing the kids to run around town doing whatever they want? There is a huge cliff beside the house and the wife just walks away from the kids playing on it. "Where's your daughter?" "Oh, she is out skating on the ice somewhere"... makes no sense. Third.... ridiculous plot holes and str8 up crap writing and acting. Need something bad to happen at night? Just have the parents leave the kids at home alone. But the worst thing.... How does a little girl fall through the ice, yet two grown adults with axes can stand on the same spot and hit the ice for 15 seconds straight and not fall through... how? Smh, this movie is not great.

This is the first time I have said "this movie sucks" of an M Night Shyamalan movie. Dakota's acting is abysmal. The CGI is atrocious. The story..... ugh, so many freaking plot holes. Shyamalan has just given up on connecting the dots within a story. Now if you ask a question he just answers it with blatant exposition. And if he can't answer his own movie's problems then he just shrugs it off and moves along. I mean, seriously what is this mess? I'm surprised this is based off of a real book. Being it was written by Stine I sincerely hope that the original story made sense. Because this does not. And if Stine's story does make sense, then it's time for Shyamalan to simply stop. Even if it doesn't make sense it's time for him to stop. This movie SUCKS. It's over for this guy who was a 3-4 off'er.

This movie feels like it should be in a bargain bin at a discount dollar store, meaning it is worth less than a dollar. This is some seriously low-level entertainment with the most boring melodrama a person could possibly write. The cast is basically just reading their lines... there isn't any actual acting. I think the director intended for this movie to be suspenseful, but there is nothing suspenseful about this drivel. And there is actually supposed to be a second part to this, as if anyone is going to care about Zaki's character enough to want to see why he became the psychopath the script wanted him to be (remember: the acting is atrocious, so he never really feels like a true psychopath). This story of love and romance and a crazy attractive young neighbor who falls in love with a semi-attractive older lady has been told and retold a thousand times by Hollywood (remember those dime a dozen grocery store lust novellas?), so I think whoever financed this thought that they could just reskin the story and a streaming service would pick it up to appeal to a certain demographic audience. If this actually gets streamed then WOW, but if a second film gets made and streamed too then I know what line of work I need to take up.

How does this mess have such a high rating? I have never seen so many plot devices in a tv show. How did the power sword go from being the source of power in the original series, to being nothing more than a prop in Revelation, to becoming the source of power again in Revolution? Need a source of more power for Teela? Make the dragon squeeze his hand into the air. Need Keldor to not be an obvious Skeletor? Have him fight Motherboard disguised as Skeletor and not worry about He-Man maybe killing Motherboard then have Keldor turn into Skeletor. Seriously, this is absolute garbage.

Some might say the previous Kevin Smith He-Man cartoon was worse because of the virtue signaling and overly diversified characters, but at least the story made sense. This series is just a complete jumbled mess. I know the series is called Masters of the Universe, so its not just about He-Man, but his absence of being a MASTER is just too much. Teela should not be more prominent. And Keldor should not be more prominent than Skeletor. Why did this series jump into the Matrix?? The constant glitchy computer effects in the cartoon itself is very annoying. This isn't a story we needed. The dialog is weak, the voice acting is atrocious (especially Cringer and BattleCat, and Transformers Skeletor), and EvilLynn and Teela were NEVER more powerful than Skeletor and He-Man. EvilLynn was smarter than Skeletor but not more powerful than him. Kevin Smith just loves to ruin stuff for fun huh?

The American Society of Magical Negroes is one of those movies that would have been released straight to DVD and instantly delegated to the "2 for $5 DVD" bin about 10 years ago, IF anyone would have actually had the gall to make this movie at that time. The American Society of Magical Negroes attempts to be a satire of the Magical Negro trope itself, except it goes overkill by creating a world in which actual magical Negroes exist and help save White people from themselves for the betterment of Black people, essentially justifying the existence of the Magical Negro trope within the movie's own universe.

To be honest, it is not funny to suspend your disbelief and think that a world exists where actual real magical Negroes save White people from causing harm to non-magical Negroes... there is no way to tell this story in a humorous way. Someone actually thinks this is a comedy? I feel bad for David Allen Grier having this thing on his resume, not to mention it was pulled from theaters after 3 weeks. Using the Magical Negro trope to attempt to tell a rom-com story about two biracial individuals... it ends up being an excessive amount of pandering to an un-engaged audience.

Like most people who watch a movie that is absolutely unbelievable, I have questions that easily poke holes into the plot. What are the technical requirements to become a magical Negro? The main character is biracial, so his invitation to become a magical Negro means that the American Society of Magical Negroes accepts mixed people. I hoped to see a white Negro (i.e. Albino) in the organization so that the American Society of Magical Negroes would be inclusive with a big checkmark for diversity, but unfortunately the members of the American Society of Magical Negroes seemed to only be classified by their skin color. This led to other questions about the entire premise of the movie... if the Magical Negroes help White people, what about white Negroes? Do they not get helped? Watching this movie left me confused about my own reality... its that bad!

Will there be a "The American Society of Magical Negroes Part 2" in the near future? Or a reboot with an origin story for the magical Negroes in 10-20 years? I definitely think not. NEXT!

Starts out okay while you wonder what is going on.... but once you piece the story together you can't stop looking at the horrible practical effects. By the time you are ready to see the story move to the next level, you are all of a sudden watching a claymation celebrity death match with horrible stop-motion... the only way to truly understand the crap ending this movie has, is to sit through it yourself. We are left with a horrible mess of a film that leans too heavily on 50 year old film tropes to help trod along this story's narrative. The filmmaker got lost somewhere along with way with this movie, as the very ending makes no real sense. Though I'm sure there are people who will come up with their own explanation and say "see, this us what he meant". But no no, he was actually just confused.

The season begins decent with random people being called upon and the players having the ability to continue playing or go back to the floor. But once you get a few shows in you will realize that the entire game is flawed by design. Here are the reasons why:

The Randomizer: it picks random people, but never chooses a person twice. This gives the players along the edges and in the corners the biggest advantage because the chances of them being chosen to play are minimized. You will realize this by the time you get to the last episode as one of the contestants in the corner is chosen to go into the final round, yet she only played ONE TIME before. And there are many players that made it to the end of the season having never played a single game, yet people who played and won some 10+ games are eliminated.

Gameplay (answer correctly or pass): If a person answers the question correctly then it is the other player's turn. But if they can't answer they will pass, lose 3 seconds, and have to answer before it is their opponent's turn. Because of this, most of the winners win because their opponents couldn't answer the questions and passed too much. So it is not a game by which the player who answers the most questions or knows the most trivia will win, but a game by which the person who passes the most loses. And the person who is never called upon by the Randomizer has the biggest advantage.

The clues: Who picks the order for clues? Because it is not random. The first few clues are always the most obvious, but the clues do not become progressively harder. Randomly at times a player will receive a very hard clue, pass, receive another very hard clue, answer it, then their opponent receives an easy clue... which leads me to --

Rigging: it seems rigged. When you watch a player pass 4 times on very hard clues, only for their opponent to receive easy clues every time, it is hard to believe that the questions are completely random. Not to mention, the players were not sequestered from each other or from the internet, so they were able to fraternize and study their topic each evening. This gave the players in the latter of the season more of an advantage, and even set the stage for the possibility that some players worked together to give a specific player more of a winning chance than others. If you watch the whole season you will be left wondering why a person holding a very large portion of the floor purposely chose a topic that they knew absolutely nothing about, against an opponent that very clearly knew something about the topic, and then passed over and over until they lost, giving their opponent the win with almost zero effort

Each episode the person with the most pieces of the floor wins $20k, and the person who wins at the end takes home an additional $250k. But the last two episodes were strung together as a "season finale" instead of being two individual episodes. This seriously makes me feel like they lost so many viewers towards the end they were not able to afford to give $20k to the winner of the 2nd to the last show.

Don't read this any further if you intend on watching the entire season --- Throughout the season there are multiple players that work very hard to progress... they don't pass, they play and win huge chunks of the floor. Then they lose to a person who played just one single game. This happens a lot towards the end of the season, with the final winner being a contestant that was situated in the corner and only played one time prior. This is so flawed... she didn't deserve to win, and in all honesty it looks like she was given the win, as her opponent just stopped answering questions and passed on everything after choosing a category that he knew nothing about.

The thing I complained about the most while watching the show was the narcissistic attitudes of majority of the women on the floor. They walked and talked with ridiculous levels of arrogance. One woman dressed and acted like she was a teenager. While a grandmother even said "am I hot?" right before the game began, thinking that she would distract her opponent. All of that arrogance was a huge distraction from the gameplay.

We watched all of the season, but decided we would not watch a 2nd season if it is made. Though I highly doubt it will be made because it seems like the producers ran out of money before the 1st season concluded.

I went into the movie theater with an open mind. And I forced myself to sit through all of it, even though I was the only person there. I feel like I should have waited until after the 1st to watch this because then I could have said that my New Year's Resolution would be to sit through all of this thing, and I would have felt that I accomplished something at the end of the movie.

If you didn't know already, this movie is about race more than culture. It is presented as a cultural story about an Afghan immigrant vs. The US, but the director has already deconstructed the history into a story about a non-white character vs. White America. I truly don't understand why someone would choose to tell this story with so much attempted humor... if you really think about it, there is nothing humorous about the experiences of the main character. There is especially no humor that should be presented in a dry manner. I would personally feel disrespected if this is how my story was told, but that's just me. These types of stories have been done before by other directors of old in a much more successful manner, even with humor involved. One good thing is that this movie does not come off as abrasive as similar stories (i.e. The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster), but it is nevertheless the same hyperbolic story being retold in an analogous manner.

The bottom line is that the movie is as boring as watching paint dry or water boil. It is black and white cinematography (quite subtle eh?) with 20-30 year old humor that is poorly executed with consistently cheap, tropey, far from subtle racism that sells the idea that every white American that a non-white non-American has a conversation with will result in the white American viewing the non-white non-American as a novelty while living a totally ignorant existence as a person who fails to realize how their words affect any other person -- imagine if a racist Leslie Nielsen was in a totally boring version of Naked Gun in which the cops targeted racial minority criminals simply because of their skin color... would that even be funny?

This movie falls into a growing untitled category of movies that attempts to paint a certain class of people as living meager lives while walking around and staring into space, yet somehow manage to absorb knowledge from the thin air around them and manage to know more than the people that they reach out to for help - such as in this movie when the woman knows more than the doctor that they visited for help, completely negating any reason for the woman to visit the doctor in the first place! The only reason for the scene is to show that white American doctors do not have the best interest in mind for non-white non-American immigrants, AND do not have the intelligence required to be a doctor, AND happen to also be completely racist! If you want to see what I mean, you honestly don't have to view the movie... you can simply watch the trailer, when the doctor considers the dog from White Fang to be an immigrant -- totally believable that a man with 8+ years in medicine school who the main character pays to analyze them in a therapy session is ironically too dumb to know what an immigrant is. I'm sure this scene is funny at some point in history at some place on the planet, but nobody in the theater laughed.

Btw, I was the only person in the theater.

I really think that in 50 years people will look back at this movie and others like it with disgust that Hollywood created this garbage. The main character in this movie has been created from cultural misappropriation, but presented in a manner that attempts to convince the viewer that the story is being told in a genuine manner. But if you look beneath the black and white of the movie, you will discover thin veins of bland British comedy. I look forward to the day that this story about a poor Afghan girl with PTSD will be told in a genuine way that doesn't involve cultural misappropriation.

If you are the type of person that likes to slowly wade through mud from one side of a creek to another to find something interesting, then you should go for it...if you find this film on the bank, just realize that its probably there for a reason.

If this was described as "a person walking around on stage talking about boring mundane day-to-day things that are not funny" then I would laugh and be like "are you serious? I gotta watch this". But it was described as a "comedy special", so I watched this thinking that someone was going to tell jokes and I was going to laugh.

Not only did I not laugh, but the audience didn't laugh either. There is one joke about the color blue.... wow, it was like watching that one lady back in 2016 who said "wiped the hard drive? Like, with a cloth?", which is essentially when the word "cringe" was invented in pop culture. The entire audience of this special looked at each other with a weird look on their faces thinking "Is this funny? Am I supposed to laugh?"

I hope that analogy gives you an idea of what you can expect to feel when you watch this thing. It is beyond dry. And I don't mean dry like the Office, but dry like static cling in your laundry. You are going to get electrocuted when you stand up from your couch to turn off the tv.

How did this person manage to secure a Netflix special? I just don't get it. I highly doubt you will either.

Yeah sure, the movie is not the best movie on the planet. But it is definitely not a 4.7. The acting is decent, the plot is totally believable (look at how many female high school teachers are in the news for doing illegal acts with their students that are much younger than this guy), and there are some decent "thrilling" scenes. I don't know what the guff is about, other than the fact that Jennifer Lopez's character shouldn't be sympathized with because she is the adult that flirted with a kid (yes, a 19 year old person is still a kid mentally and emotionally) and then had that kid come over to her house and spend the night while doing totally inappropriate things. Of course I don't sympathize with Ryan Guzman's character either because he is psycho, but I don't feel any sympathy for Jennifer Lopez. From what we learn in the movie there isn't anything wrong with the husband, so Jennifer Lopez separated from him, clearly emotionally harming her son during a very important time of his life (graduating high school), all for what...?

If anything this movie predicted the future, at these types of relationships now seem to be the norm in our society. So if we were to rate this movie on realism it should have a 9 or 10!

It really should have been made solely as a drama instead of incorporating comedic elements, as the comedic elements force you to suspend your disbelief of the drama itself. This is especially true when it comes to the music montages... they should not have any comedy incorporated as the film then looks like a parody of itself, which causes you to anticipate a punchline during the intensely dramatic parts, such as when the racist cops pull over the group in the South, when the guy is being held over the balcony like Vanilla Ice, when the guy gets run over by a dump truck, and when the guy becomes addicted to crack... he's not Chris Rock on In Living Color, he's a representation of real-life Motown singers that fell apart and lost it all. Even the first opening scene where the guy has to escape a card game... the film cuts back and forth from the comedy of the first performance and the drama of the escape. Its too emotionally jarring with the true socio-emotional issues of the characters being parodied (I guess this is what happens when a Wayans brother helps write your movie!).

This movie is a great movie with great actors, especially Michael Wright (Eddie), who is an amazing under-rated actor who gives it his all in this film. But I don't think Robert Townsend should have acted in this movie, as he is not the best actor for drama. He always has a smirk on his face and looks like he is about to bust out laughing, which is overly evident during the music montages... which are actually some of the worst parts of the movie.

I think the worst aspect of the movie altogether is the voice-overs during the music montages. As if a band member would be able to talk on stage to his band-mates in a low volume voice, and have the band-mates hear them without their voice picking up on the microphone for the audience to hear... its just not believable in any way possible. Not to mention, Townsend's character directs his band-mates to sing and dance in real-time on the stage, having to make changes on a dime... that is absolutely unbelievable. It would not be possible, and that type of thing parodies the entire concept of live music altogether. "Okay, you sing in a low voice... NOW! Okay, now you and the other guy do backup vocals in harmonic thirds... NOW! Okay, now spin around and do a three foot shuffle with a slide into the chorus... NOW!" Absolutely ridiculous. It makes the Motown performances look like an episode of Who's Line Is It Anyway with Drew Carey... cmon!

If you can suspend your disbelief to the infinite degree during those performances, ignore the comedic aspect, and allow yourself to become emotionally vested in the drama of the film, then you will enjoy the movie for what it is meant to be worth. If this movie had been released on Lifetime or BET, instead of releasing in theaters, I think it would have received better critic response. Especially if it was filmed in 2020, as critics wouldn't have responded to the commentary on racism with such a negative view. In 1991 it was considered to be shoehorned into the movie, but in 2020 every movie is a shoehorned commentary on racism.

In a time in which remakes just palette swap characters, this show captures all the best aspects of the original series. I'm surprised how funny this is... it is updated and relevant, without focusing on being politically correct to the extent that every little joke or act offends those that are offended by every little thing. My only complaint is that I would much rather see videos from different genres of music. I like that they include non-music videos, but all the music videos are either extremely poppy or rap. What's wrong with throwing some metal videos into the mix?? I don't think the music videos are really all that relevant to today's culture, let alone the culture of the original series. But that is just a small complaint.... I am very happy to binge watch all of the series. Now this is how you remake!

Unfortunately being that Scott Hall has passed and he never officially published an autobiography (or even an official biography), this video is the closest thing to a Scott Hall autobiography that we will ever get. And that's not necessarily a bad thing, as this video does a great job of capturing Scott's story. It basically showcases how Diamond Dallas Page saved Scott's life and gave him an extra 5+ years of life to enjoy before his passing. The video covers a decent amount of Scott's history, but mainly focuses on DDP's rehabilitation efforts to save Scott's life. Scott, DDP, and Jake the Snake Roberts are the main focus of more than half of the video -- a similar video covering Jake's rehabilitation was covered a year prior in his video: The Resurrection of Jake the Snake. Both of these men's stories are extremely emotional, as both have gone through some serious emotional, mental and physical trauma in their entire lives. Its just unfortunate that Jake the Snake was the only one of the two to actually overcome his struggles with alcohol and drug addiction. If you watch this video intently you might shed a tear. Scott Hall was a great wrestler and an awesome person -- he was honest about his struggles, but he also did a lot for charities while he was a wrestler, especially Make-A-Wish (such as when he gave his actual championship belt to a kid dying from AIDS). RIP Scott Hall.