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paper mario origami

this is my first paper mario since super. Never played sticker star, color splash, or paper jam. Super was underwhelming, it had its moments but I was really disappointed by the art style and character design, and the 2d-3d aspect felt half baked. So when sticker star came out and all the reviews said it was nothing like the previous games, I skipped it.

The original paper mario, TTYD, and snes RPG are hard acts to follow, and for whatever reason nintendo has decided to go in a different direction in their subsequent games. The other series of RPG’s, superstar saga and the like, I tried out but didn’t really like them. They had some fun art and dialogue, but the gameplay part was tedious, I didn’t like the reliance on timed button combos in every fight.

All that to say I’m giving origami king a shot after inital reviews seemed positive. The first few hours are good, already I’m liking the writing and exploring the world so far. The battles are.. fine, it feels more like puzzle solving than actual rpg battles. There’s no EXP, you earn coins by how well you do. At this point I’m drowing in coins, you can spend them in battle to get some bonuses, but the battles are pretty easy even if you don’t solve the puzzle right away.

No partners thus far, I thought there would be partners in this game so maybe they come in later. Having percentage totals of the hidden things you find in each area is nice, and unlocking things in the museum is a nice goal too. Your mandatory little Navi character is pretty charming and there’s a bit of hand holding but it’s not at the level of like, skyward sword* obnoxious.

I’m hoping there is some more purpose to the battles, besides just some enemies have to be defeated to progress. If not EXP, something to have it make a difference whether you fight an enemy or not, besides some extra coins. If instead of coins you won some other type of points specific to fights that would be nice. This early in the game though, I’m willing to stay with it and see how it feels further along.

* still hate you Fi, you and your shit motion controls

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The Lion King remake

The Lion King was my Disney movie - I saw it in the theaters at 7 years old, listened to the soundtrack over and over, even the instrumental tracks, played the sega genesis game but never got past the second stage,all that. The Aladdin tape got more play but the Lion King is more “me”.

I’m not a “disney” person as much as I’m a “cartoon” person, and disney does have some great cartoons to be sure. Disney cartoons tend to stick to the house style and don’t often get wild or experimental, although the house style has a consistent quality and high production standards. The Princess and the Frog for instance isn’t very ambitious in its art direction and seems like it borrows a lot from other disney films in terms of character designs, but the animation itself is very fluid and lovely to look at. Goofy Movie had incredible art direction and a kick ass soundtrack despite the generic high-school drama story and being an OVA of the goof troop cartoon.  Hunchback of Notre Dame is getting some deserved re-evaluating long after its release, just look up “Hellfire” on youtube and tell me that’s not one of the best musical sequences in a disney film.

Anyway, the Lion King remake. Disney remakes in general are not so hot, feeling more like a technical experiment or an expensive fan re-imagining you might see concepts of on deviantart. Disney asked, “what if the Lion King was real life”, and then made a movie that is no more and no less. Maybe less, because they took out the dramatic color palettes and character animation. It’s technically impressive due to the realistic, documentary style CG, but that’s really all there is to speak of. Real animals or convincingly real CG animals plus a little bit of mouth movements to look like they’re talking = Babe, or the Lion King. Or those Snow Buddies movies, whatever they’re called. Babe I’d say was better because it was created with talking animals in mind rather than retrofitted from a cartoon where the animals were drawn with exaggerated and humanized expressions and movement.  Real animals don’t act like people do, so you have to compensate for that in other ways, be expressionist in colors and lighting and sound and environment and such. If you just have footage of a lion walking around and you have an actor read their lines on the soundtrack, it’s like “look who’s talking” or “america’s funniest home videos” or whatnot, there’s no connection between the image and the voice because we know lions don’t talk. And if you rely on the voice acting to convey the character, it’s not going to work because the animal is just standing there not reacting. For whatever reason, technical or otherwise the animals in the film don’t emote much, and you can justlook on youtube and see tons of videos of animals being goofy or reacting to things, so it’s not like actual animals can’t be expressive.

I didn’t quite get the full effect from what critics were describing in their reviews, but watching it I get why it doesn’t work. Basically if you listened to the audio of the lion king and looked at photos of animals, it’s about the same. Disney went the extra mile to move the animals around a bit but it’s not like they made anything that matches what you’re hearing. Like the bird, I think John Oliver voices him, anyway, it looks like a bird flying around and flapping and moving its head but.. I can’t see it being John Oliver’s character. It’s got beady eyes and a flapping beak and it’s just a bird hopping around some lions. It doesn’t look scared or angry or annoyed or whatever the voice of the soundtrack is. 

Baby Simba is cute though! 

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Doraemon: Story of Seasons

I think I’ve played nearly every Harvest Moon / Story of Seasons / Rune Factory game ever made, at least until the more recent generations when the Harvest Moon IP split off from the original developers, and since Stardew Valley took the formula and refined it so well that the other games seem old fashioned and cumbersome in comparison.

So I wasn’t expecting much from a Doraemon branded version of Harvest Moon, but I gave the demo a try and liked it well enough to buy the full version. The art style is a huge selling point - the watercolor style is beautiful, and really brings the natural world of the game to life. 

I’m surprised, as someone who has played these games many times and knows the formula very well, that there’s much less hand-holding than some of the main series games, and all of the tutorials are optional. I expected a Doraemon game would slow things down for the younger kids in the audience, but you can pretty much set your own pace. No more “the first season is the tutorial season, you have to play through x amount of days before you’re allowed to progress”. You can just say “no thanks” to any of the tutorials, and skip them. 

There’s a couple nice QOL changes, like how growth of your crops occurs when you water them, rather than overnight. It’s less realistic I suppose, but it’s a more immediate display of your progress, and makes watering more satisfying. 

I also appreciate that, at least as far as I’ve seen, friendship levels with the villagers raises pretty quickly just by talking to them each day. I’m not sure if the amount increases the more hearts you get, but I’ve gotten a couple heart levels with everybody without giving a single gift. It always was annoying giving out dozens of expensive gifts in order to max out friendship for whatever unlockables were gated behind a villager’s affection. 

Speaking of hearts, there is no marriage in this game since you play as a kid, but there are a lot more events between your friends and the villagers. So much so that it can get a little disjointed - you might run into a couple events back to back that are totally unrelated, so that one event might end on a cliffhanger and then the next event proceeds with no acknowledgment of what just happened.

Still, it’s nice to have more events to break up the gameplay and continue the overarching story. I don’t miss the lack of a marriage aspect, some previous Harvest Moon titles leaned too hard on the dating-sim aspect while the actual farming was just rote and tedious. 

The tool and housing upgrades are a little too grindy for my liking, you need 20-40 of each type of building material and ore if you want to upgrade anything, plus the cost of the upgrade. If they had cut it down to 5-10 of each amount that would be more reasonable. Considering how much energy and time it takes to mine that amount just for one upgrade, it’s pretty excessive. I guess you can buy a few materials as well but that always felt like a last resort.

Anyway, I am pleasantly surprised by this game, it’s not perfect but it has a lot of charm.

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Help I’m a fish

This came up randomly on, youtube or some other sharing site, it is a danish animated film which also had an english release starring alan rickman and aaron paul. It had some nice looking traditional animation so I decided to check it out. Animation wise it reminds me of Brave Little Toaster or Fern Gully, although design wise it's kinda drab. The colors are dark and dingy looking, nothing really stands out about the characters, or the environments. Even though most of it is underwater surrounded by marine life, there's nothing as vibrant or exotic as Finding Nemo, or a real life trip to an aquarium. A couple of familiar species like sharks, squid, piranha, anglerfish here and there and then a lot of greenish gray "just fish". The character animation is nice, the characters are expressive and emote and walk in their own unique ways. There are some points, mostly with the villain, where something dramatic is happening and the camera just sits there on a wide shot and it just looks awkward. But other parts have some nice composition and timing, so it's hit or miss. Story wise, I was impressed by how well it stuck to a simple premise and made the most of it. There's no real side plots or digressions or distractions, it's basic and straightforward and I can appreciate that. Kids get turned into fish, they have to find a potion to turn back into kids, kids learn a lesson about understanding each other, bada bing bada boom, we're outta here in 65 minutes. Tonally it's kind of.. weird, there's some humor but overall it's pretty dramatic and has some serious dark moments. Like, they have a Homeward Bound moment of "Oh Sassy! oh Max! .. but where's Shadow?" but with a KID. They think one of the kids is dead. The same kid, in fish form, got violently struck by a crab and is visably bleeding out, and writhing in pain. When he's turned back into a human he has a limp, and later on has a cast on his leg. The villain has a horrible death, where he turns into a grotesque fish man, and then drowns, silently sinking down into the darkness. The darkness gets to an absurd point when the parents come into the scenario. The aunt is more cartoonish, but the mother and father are realistically drawn and voiced. So they find their kids missing, think they might have drowned, and run into the wacky professor. Said wacky professor tells them "oh tHey'Ve bEen tuRned inTo FIISH!" and the parents are PISSED. The aunt is ready to murder him , and the dad is like "stop, if we kill him we won't find out where the kids are". Later we see the same realistic dad with the wacky professor, pulling fish out of the water and going "SON IS THAT YOU??" with the sad, heavy expression of a realistic looking father who thinks his children might be dead. It's madness. That ending where they think one of the kids died? Weirdly all of the adults stand back and try to calm down the nerdy kid who is frantically trying to bring him back to life. They're like "we're sorry, it's too late" like it's his dog and not THEIR OWN SON. I didn't really mention the villain other than him dying and looking awkward, and that's pretty much all he does. Alan Rickman does lend him some gravitas, and he's designed to look like a creepy clown fish (not a clownfish like Nemo but a fish that looks like Pennywise), but overall he's not very threatning. His thing is gaining human intelligence to become a powerful dictator, but he mostly just orders around the shark and the crab, who eventually figure out they're stronger and don't need him. On his own he's kind of stupid. He's like "shark you have betrayed me, you will be executed, btw you're the executioner, so kill yourself. Wait that's stupid. Hey smaller fish, you be the executioner. Oh shit the shark ate him. OK then, shark you are the general of my army. I m a geniarse" When the shark is out of the picture and he's still following the kids, it's like.. what threat is he at all? The jellyfish kid, somehow, managed to beat up 100 piranhas. This guy is a regular sized fish with no special powers other than human speech. I guess he could mess up the ocean if he got away with the potion and enacted his weird plan, but that doesn't really effect the kids and all. Let Aquaman deal with it, at least we're not fish anymore and we can go home. Anyway, it's mostly some tone/plot related stuff, and it's not as visually interesting as it potentially could have been. It's still a decent movie. The main character arcs of the kids are nicely done. The villain could have been better developed. I didn't mention the music! It is mostly euro pop with lyrics sort of related to the movie, but not too much, so it can still get some play on the danish top 40. I like euro pop so it was fine, if kind of ill fitting. Help I'm a fish! check it out

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9 chickweed lane/pibgorn

I’ve been going through the archives of both comics lately..

-I like the art, sometimes. There are 2 things he draws well, sexy legs and cats. Fashion, sometimes. 

- I like Edda and Juliette’s relationship, sometimes. I like how affectionate and simpatico they are. Not so much a fan of them comparing how sexy each other are. 

-Juliette is probably the best character (so far), she has the most depth - her problems with her mother, her job, her ex, etc. 

-Edda in comparison is pretty two dimensional. She’s the most brilliant, talented student ever, and also she puts whoopee cushions on people’s chairs and shit. How kooky. 

-Amos is the Steve Urkel of the strip, if Urkel had less self confidence. It’s the old geek fantasy dynamic, of the shlubby nerd who gets together with the childhood friend dream girl he places on a pedestal. At least their relationship is mutually loving, unlike so many comic strip poison marriages.

-The strip makes it clear early on that it’s strictly ivory tower, with nothing but contempt for anything or anyone low class. If it’s not Brahms or Bogart, it’s dumb garbage for the idiot masses. And did you know that politicians.. are stupid? And that tv sitcoms.. are dumb? More cutting, insightful commentary such as that can be found in this week’s 9 Chickweed lane! 

-In some ways.. I find the comic aspirational, if only I could be as smart, sexy, respected, and talented as Juliette and Edda, if I could find as much pleasure they take in high class culture.. If I could be as wealthy, full stop. It’s a high society fantasy, not unlike the Cary Grant and Fred Astaire films the characters admire so much. What brings me back down is the closed minded, and I hate to use the term- elitist, viewpoint..  you just have to look at anyone that isn’t Juliette or Edda and see how crudely and hastily they’re drawn, the venom directed at any fool who would dare get in their way, the literal strip with Edda at the top of an ivory tower, the bottom of which is covered in graffiti and barbed wire.

-I haven’t mentioned Pibgorn yet, mostly because that is it’s own mess of problems. It’s a fantasy about fairies and succubi and other magical creatures, but nevertheless stars two ladies with sexy legs, one young and free spirited, and one older and troubled, and bespectacled, geeky love interest. Hmm. The thing you will notice immediately about Pibgorn is that every other page features a woman (usually Drusilla) being stabbed. Don’t fret, they won’t die, since they’re magical creatures, but they will get painfully stabbed, impaled, and shot, over and over again. Not to mention immolated, and in a memorable sequence, have a tree covered in thorns grow out of their throats like a pig on a spit roast. Hey friend, you OK there? Something you want to talk about, perhaps?

-In any case.. there’s something unique and genuinely appealing about a strip that has, not high ideals per se but an appreciation for the arts and higher education even if it comes at the price of some disturbing sexism.. but it’s the case of a really singular work that is flawed but the flaws are also interesting in themselves. 

-Some of the dialogue though, sheesh. I’m paraphrasing, but Edda asks something like “do you think, as a woman, you are deserving of moments of utter rapture” which is the most asinine sentence. The fuck are you talking about Edda, like do women.. deserve happiness? Why would you not? What does being a woman have to do with it?  

-*fart noise*

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Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure

- Is it me or does the kid's ears get bigger every other scene.. at some point he looks like a floppy eared hobbit - the Mom says "don't send a boy to do a man's job", which is pretty messed up. He's like 8, his dad is dead, you're either implying he should take on his dad's responsibilities, or he's failing to live up to his dad. granted she is under a ton of stress, being about to lose the family business and desperately trying to hang on to it, she could be just lashing out. complex drama in this tom and jerry movie - what's with the shot of the beanstalk rising out from under the coat.. pretty uh.. weirdly suggestive?? also it is his dad's coat which is symbolic of him turning into a man I will shut up now - so this is all a modern re-telling of Jack and the Beanstalk, except instead of a farm they live in Disneyland/Story Time Village from the Simpsons. But at the top of the beanstalk there isn't just the giant, there's Disneyland but Real. - So does Jack and the Beanstalk, the fairy tale exist in this universe? Because neither the kid or the mother mention the story, even though the whole theme park is based on other fairy tales and mother goose bedtime stories. Like when the farmer offers the kid magic beans, the kid doesn't say, "magic beans for my cow, and my name is Jack? Why that's just like Jack and the Beanstalk" -OK scratch that, the kid does suddenly remember Jack and the Beanstalk at the last possible moment -Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood is a fairy. Seems kind of inappropriate but whatever, it's an animation reference -I did laugh when Tom wanted to eat Humpty Dumpty -Is Moby Dick really a "fairy tale"? I mean it's classic fiction but not quite the same as, like, Old Mother Hubbard -The kid's face, jesus -The Giant is less of a brute or simpleton like other versions, but more of a Gaston-like rich bully. His musical number isn't bad, compared to the song that was just "twinkle twinkle little star" with worse lyrics -TUFFY, finally. For some reason he is wearing a diaper and sounds like Fifi Le Fume. Him being as big as Tom is pretty funny though. - Droopy dog is pretty funny in this one. He's not bad in Wizard of Oz. In Wonka his cameo is just kinda there -Holy FUCK is that song inappropriate. Like, sulty and suggestively singing about "tell me a bedtime story" is one thing, putting on skin tight pajamas holding a teddy bear and wearing pigtails like a little girl? CREEEEPY. -Soo overall this one was funnier and more cohesive than the others, mostly because it was a straightforward story and not a clumsy remake of an existing movie with tom and jerry shoved in. My major problem was with Red, not for being sexy but for being sexist and male gaze-y. She's there to get leered at, her dressed as a little girl was incredibly inappropriate, the giant and the squirrel ogle her and kiss her and wink at the audience. As a character she's nice and helpful and gets things done, but she's treated like a sex object and that's not OK.

**Through research it seems that Tuffy is supposed to be the same character as Nibbles, the little diaper-wearing mouse that is Jerry's nephew or little brother or something. Although going backwards from "Willy Wonka" and "Wizard of Oz" I was under the impression that Tuffy was a new character, just another mouse that takes on various roles based on the story, unrelated to Jerry. I would kind of prefer to think of the "Tuffy" in those movies as a different character, because he's too articulate to be a baby. Also Tuffy is like Nermal, a cute character with eyelashes and a female voice actress but with male pronouns. I will keep the male pronouns as that's what they refer to him in the movie, but I kinda think of Tuffy as a girl. Or maybe he's trans, it's 2019, it can be a thing. I will stop talking about Tuffy now

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Things I have seen lately Vol. ??

Super Duper Sumos This came up randomly on youtube in the “shitty cartoon” crowd. I vaguely remember seeing somebody working on this when I went on a tour of a college animation program (I did not take said program). Or maybe it was unrelated. This cartoon is almost interesting. A trio of super obese guys who walk around in public wearing nothing but thongs and shaking their asses a lot had to be doing it for somebody. The blonde one who's the party dude of the bunch talks to his own ass like it's a separate person. If they were drawn better this would be a really weird porno, as it stands it's almost impressive how generic and shitty it looks. Like basic of the basic, "how to draw cartoons for beginners" lazy derivative characters and animation. I really can't stand this style of cartoon, it's hard to describe, but it's like a non-style. I can't really compare it to anything other than a how-to book for kids, because most cartoons have a unique look to them. Maybe Cow and Chicken or something in that wheelhouse. Or like art from a cereal box, and not a good brand of cereal but like Good Value brand Fruity Circles. Everything is just kind of third hand copied from some other source.The Sumos have a western-anime style in their default expressions, their Master Splinter is like a Mr. Natural looking guy, there's an Igor out of a halloween coloring book, bootleg Morticia, some kind of fart ghost old man thing. Like all these fat dudes twerking is kind of funny until you realize that's it, that's the only joke, and the rest of it is thrown together to vaguely resemble a cartoon and fill up 20 minutes. I'm not expecting it to be Princess Mononoke or anything close to a work of art, but even Aqua Teen Hunger Force took limited animation and crude humor and made something funny. I dunno why I wanted this cartoon to be better. I guess it's not everyday you have fat superheroes (?), sumo wrestling is a unique sport to base a cartoon around, and it's pretty in-your-face to have these huge guys throwing their bodies around and being totally shameless. I like seeing more unconventional body types. It's almost different enough to be interesting, but there's no creativity or humor to make it work. It's just filler.

Tom and Jerry and Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory Man, everybody was dunking on this cartoon when it came out. Like there's a million direct-to-dvd-or-streaming cash grab cartoons out there, but this one caught the public eye since it's a remake of the well-loved original Willy Wonka movie, except with Tom and Jerry added in for no reason. I gotta admit, I am a sucker for Tom and Jerry, and a sucker for a watered-down retread of a familiar story. It reminds me of those fake movies on Deviantart where someone has edited in a whole bunch of characters from unrelated series into an existing movie to make a huge unnecessary crossover. I love those too, just because it reminds me of being a kid, and a movie wasn't a movie so much as a background to an imaginary hangout. You're hanging out with the characters in the movie, and all your imaginary friends from all the other stories you like. Like Star Wars is fine, but what if you get to be Princess Leia and Sonic the Hedgehog is there too? It's dumb, it's super dumb once you grow out of it, but it's fun. So yeah, it's me, I'm the one who this movie was made for. It's dumb, soothing and familiar, and just shitty enough to laugh at. and Tom and Jerry are cute* (*even if they've never been funny**(**they have probably been funny in some early shorts or whatever but in the 90's, forget about it***(***tuffy is also cute)

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Digimon adventure Tri

Started watching this series, done with the first movie. I’ll take a break until the next one but here are my impressions so far..

I have already spoiled myself on the major events and read reviews. The biggest thing for me was the absence of the 02 kids .. it’s clear that the focus is on the 01 crew and so the others are awkwardly out of the picture. Knowing at least the gist of what happens to them, it’s strange to start off with a dramatic, mysterious sequence showing them in peril and then just not addressing it. It raises so many questions - what happened, where are they, why are the others not concerned, etc. I guess it’s convenient that they are out of the way so when digimon start appearing again they’re not involved.. but if I didn’t already know I’d be waiting for it to come up and become a larger part of the story.

It would be nice to have a continuation from their side of the story. at least. It kind of feels like a hook for one. I just really like the 02 kids, especially Daisuke, although they’re not as popular as the original crew.

But, enough complaining about what wasn’t in the show and on to what was.

First off, Meiko and Meicoomon. I’m liking them so far, personally, especially Meicoomon who is everything I ever wanted in a Digimon. I’ll admit I even splurged on a life-size plush of her as soon as the first movie was over. I can see where she and her trainer are very similar to Hikari and Gatomon, although their relationship is quite different - where Gatomon was a former villain who softened after bonding with Hikari, Meicoomon begins as a friendly digimon who is being babied by her partner, and hints at a darker side yet to be seen. 

Meiko herself I think works as a new member of the team, taking more of a passive role as she’s an awkward newcomer to a close knit group. 

Taichi and Yamato’s relationship is something I was never too interested in, as important as it is to the series. It’s another pair of boys who are sort of friends and sort of rivals, who fight a lot and hide their true feelings from each other, and I just wish they would work it out already instead of spending all their time scowling at each other. 

Tai here is beginning to have doubts about battling digimon, which manifests as a lot of brooding and hesitation before just going ahead and battling anyway. There’s not really an alternative on the table - they have to fight to prevent destruction, even if battling causes destruction anyway. Is there something else Tai could do that would be non-violent? Maybe but at this point it appears to be the only option.

Besides Tai and Matt, the other characters are pretty on point. Sora is awkwardly in the middle of Tai and Matt’s feud but she has some funny moments on her own. I like how awkward Izzy still is, how he keeps talking even as everyone else is having a different conversation around him, or how he’s too embarassed to shop for clothes. I could take or leave his crush on Mimi, I don’t care a ton about who dates who, but I admit I was a JoeMimi shipper when I was younger. It’s interesting to see Joe off to the sidelines, dealing with the pressures of school. Joe was always my favorite 01 character, so while it sucks he’s separated from the others most of the time, it’s nice to see his school and home life. I wonder if he really does have a girlfriend, haha.

TK and Kari are still really bland characters. Other than doting on their older siblings and maybe flirting, they’re still the little-kid characters who grew up and lost their personality. At least if Davis was around he’d be hitting on Kari or trying to one-up TK, without him TK and Kari are just kind of there.

(I realize here I’m super inconsistent with the original and dub names. I grew up watching the dub and have since switched to subs, but I still mix them up. Oh well.)

Anyway, there are five more movies to go.. We’ll see how my feelings change after I finish them.

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Trolls

Trolls was awesome! I had low expectations going in- The trailers made it look like Smurfs/Shrek/Angry Birds or any other kid's film where a curmudgeonly straight man is snarky about the cutesy world he lives in. And true, there are quite a few cliches in it: toilet humor, pop songs, dance parties, there's even a background character that says "ohmygaw!" just like in Angry Birds. I forgive all of that because the animation is incredible. There's a real Jim Henson vibe to all the fuzzy monsters- Everything has a felted texture, from the characters to the backgrounds. The character animation is wonderful- stretchy and fluid and full of expression. I got a Spongebob feel from a lot of the visual gags and timing. The main character Poppy is very Spongebob-like in her energetic optimism and silliness. There's a ton of variety and creativity in the visuals, with a handcrafted theme - felted cut-outs, knitted monsters, pop-up cards, magazine collages. The colors are gorgeous and vibrant, it really is a treat to look at. Story wise? It's nice enough with a good message. The dialogue is pretty standard quips and gags and heartfelt speeches you'd expect. The visuals are much stronger- the funniest and most moving moments are expressed without words. There are a few parts that drag- an annoying cloud character that has a long bit about high fives, an extended bit where the trolls act as wingmen on a date. Still, the main characters were nicer than I expected - Grumpy Troll isn't just a general misfit, he's more of a worrier who's focused on survival and prepares for the worst. Happy Troll is pleasantly silly, self-assured and caring, and her positivity is genuine.   I think this would make a good watch with the sound off and some fitting music instead.

Trailers: Sing looks cool, I've always thought a toon American Idol would be fun. There looks like a lot of individual character stories going on, which sounds interesting. Moana also looks cool, I'm not exactly a Disney person but their animation is always worth checking out. I'll pass on Boss Baby, the whole idea just sounds off-putting. I'm willing to be proven wrong, though.