ben-angstadt

This movie is an absolute disaster. It's nearly unwatchable. It's less of a coherent movie and more of a collection of sketches from 5 - 6 storylines that are almost entirely unrelated. The villain motivations are extremely strange and the character is barely in the movie. Many of the pop culture jokes "for the adults" are either extremely lazy ("There are a lot of milk types these days!", "Card readers at gas stations sure are tricky!", "Retirement is great!") or extremely dated (references to Terminator 2, Spiderman 2 with Tobey Maguire, Dance Dance Revolution to name a few). The ending makes literally no sense at all. And there's basically an entirely separate movie about the minions built within this movie, and honestly that movie would've been more interesting. Most of the characters have become extremely unlikable, and every new character introduced is irritating, pointless, or both. Don't waste your time in the theater. It'll be streaming on Peacock soon enough.

I was really looking forward to watching this show but the execution is laughably bad. The acting is truly woeful, made infinitely worse by the comically stupid teleplay. Characters speak in a way that actual humans don't actually talk - and in some of the worst fake accents I've ever heard. Camerawork and editing are frequently terrible and at times the camera whips around so fast that it's actually nauseating. Characters are under written, pacing is uneven, and the entire show has a uniquely low budget corniness. I give it 3 stars because the core story is interesting, but by the end we were watching just to laugh at how poorly made it was. I wish the source material book had been made into a documentary instead.

I love Hip Hop specifically and dance in general, but this really missed the mark. What we can see if the dancing shows that there were a lot of talented dancers cast in the production. Many of them I know as performers at the top of their game. But the directing choices here are inexcusable. There are CONSTANT cuts. In one brief, 1 minute 30 second long routine, I counted 47 cuts. FORTY SEVEN! Add to that some absolutely atrocious camera angles, poor lighting, and laughably bad special effects and the whole thing just feels cheap. The music is pretty bad to boot - there had to have been the opportunity to do a recording of the tracks that didn't sound like it was a MIDI mixer on a $50 keyboard. I really, really wanted to like this, but it simply wasn't possible. I'd love to get a better recording with a more adept director, but with tWitch's tragic passing, we aren't going to get it.