michalchik

I couldn't make it through this movie. I got my money back about halfway through. I didn't give it a 1 because the effects and action were almost competent and the opening was kind of cool, but even these the strongest points of the movie were still weak. We have seen it all before and better. It is obvious they spent money on this film, but the plot is contrived (I'll avoid spoilers), every action sequence is telegraphed and then rubbed in you face. You see each stunt coming a mile away (sometimes literally). The acting is wooden. The characters are caricatures, less that one dimensional. I won't even begin to go into how bad the science, technology, geopolitics, etc.. of the movie is.

I know, people aren't supposed to take a movie like this seriously, but its hard to play along when things get this ridiculous. If this was a Saturday morning cartoon it might be worth the price of admission and little kids might not see the glaring weaknesses, but this is a big budget movie and they should have tried harder. Cartoons can be made into good movies, the Transformers worked, Iron Man worked. This movie belongs on the trash heap alongside the He-Man movie and Cat Woman. If you watch all the trailers you have seen anything worth seeing in the movie. OK, I admit since I didn't make it to the end I don't know that for sure, but it is not worth the risk.

I watched this, or more accurately, I forced myself to watch several of these shows before writing this review. This is another in a long stream of adult swim live action shows that at best are filler because they aren't trying hard enough to find good animation. Watching it, you get the feeling that this show is produced by a couple of guys that just know the staff at AS. The guys are probably nice and may be funny in person, but this show is just pathetic. Doing vaguely disgusting things may be funny when it is 3am, you are drunk and grossing out some poor waitress at Denny's, but this sort of stuff is truly pointless on TV. I plead with Adults Swim to please stop giving your friends jobs, or at least don't give them jobs that affect the line-up. Filming a Junior High-school kid picking his zits would be more edifying and interesting than this show. I turn off my TV as soon as this how comes on and it rarely goes on again even if there are good shows on after it.