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I had heard a lot about this movie and I may have gone in with some slightly off expectations because of how gorgeous the animation was supposed to be. Right away it's trying to sell me toys in the first five minutes. The designs and scenes are geared very much for selling plastic to children.

The story they wrapped this commercial in was insultingly bad. If they had spent half as much on writers as they did on their voice acting talent they would have had something worth putting that gorgeous animation over.

Did I mention the gorgeous animation? It was pretty to look at but the dialogue and story were incredibly predictable and disappointing. I don't see myself ever bothering to watch this movie again and I wish I hadn't bothered the first time. An incredible waste of animator talent.

The rest of the movie was basically copy pasted from a thousand other low budget horror movies. The characters are cliches pulled from better films. It's sad that the entirety of creativity in this project filled twenty minutes and then the rest was badly stolen bits and pieces of better films. The acting is ok, they did what they could with exceptionally derivative material. The whole thing feels very much like it was made by a committee or some AI they fed a bunch of other similar movies and it sort out this pointless copycat of a film.

I'm considering using a video editor to chop that first 20 minutes free of the rest of the film and keeping that small bit in my collection as The Empty Man.

I didn't watch this one for a while after adding it to my collection. It was just another small budget horror thrown in the watch later bin. So glad I finally got around to watching this film. The camera work is good. Shots are beautifully set up. The characters are well developed. It reminded a bit of how Stephen King would always give you enough about the victims to care when he had the monster get them. A lot of horror tends to make the victims "deserve it" and that's what I thought I was getting here but instead I got was characters that while horrible, were also incredibly sympathetic. The writer made me care and that matters in good horror. The ending was very well done and over all I really enjoyed this movie. Some other reviews mention it being boring or slow, I found it was a very nice level of suspense but attention spans run short these days.

Definitely a keeper.

I got about halfway into the series and just couldn't stand it anymore. It started out ok but not great, then just dove into a horrible CW relationship drama. There was so much wrong I just couldn't keep watching anymore. Maybe I'm a writing snob but when things turn into that style of conflict where it hinges entirely around the parties not communicating in any meaningful human way, what's the point to even watching? Why waste time seeing non-functional caricatures of people flail about in these silly situations? It's pathetic and embarrassing to watch. I feel bad for the writers, clearly they are out of their depth.

A giant wet fart of an episode. There weren't any funny jokes and the whole thing was insulting to watch. So people are mad that they have a utopia because... they're a Jerry now? It doesn't even make any sense. Jerry isn't Jerry because he's bored. I can understand Rick being upset with this but why on earth would anyone else do anything but celebrate? If there was a reason, it wasn't well explored. This is the kind of thing you stick between two filler episodes to fill time between filler episodes. What a waste of talent it was having the animators create this garbage just to keep the worthless writers in a job.

This was seriously just lazy. Any tie to christmas was usually tentative at best. I ended up turning it off part way through because it was just a total waste of time and energy. Thank god the budgets were low on these productions because the people behind them would have been a waste to throw more resources behind.

Honestly this anthology is pathetic. What happened to the spark of creativity that made the schlock of previous decades seem so much more enjoyable?

There are just so many better offerings out there, so many more films worth spending an hour and a half watching, why on earth would you waste your life watching this?

Horror films that require their characters to do the dumbest thing possible over and over again to make the movie keep moving are not horror movies, their idiot flicks.

Nothing about this movie is even marginally scary unless you have been hit in the head with a sledgehammer in the last week.

The high ratings on this film are most likely paid for because this film is honestly really awful. Just cliche stupidity all the way through.

I imagine part of the problem is that it's impossible to write characters that are more intelligent than the writer. Not much else can explain just how pointless and stupid this movie is.

Full of cliche, badly written, lots of non-lines given to human and alien alike to avoid having to write dialog. I feel like they're not even trying anymore and are just pumping out product in various slightly different flavors for the masses.

Honestly I didn't watch past the first episode because my patience for this garbage is growing increasingly thin. Half of the first episode didn't even involve dialogue, simple lots of gibberish subtitled with "mumbles in argonian" which would have made more sense if it was the aliens species doing it, but they spoke perfectly legible english, and it was the human actors gibbering non-dialogue.

Disney... what are you doing?

The "end" of the series (I assume it's gearing up for a second season but it's ended for me) was a major let down on what was an amazing series.

I rated it a 10 before I'd finished the season but had to go back and drop it to a 7 because of the weak writing and shoe horned opening for subsequent seasons.

Tell your story and wrap it up.

I started passing out not even half way through. Finally at about the two hour mark I checked out and left to do something else while my wife steadfastly attempted to finish this awful wooden mess. As usual I blame the writers and directors here, not the actors. They did what they could with what they were handed. Sadly they were asked to sculpt a wet fart into a masterpiece but even Michelangelo can't work in a medium consisting of sewage and hot air.

This isn't cannon, it never happened, and it's not part of the MCU. Even Howard The Duck is cannon in my head, but not this.

I'm giving it 3 stars because it was ALMOST not a total waste of time. A whole lot of disconnected nonsense that went nowhere and was probably supposed to be symbolic but ended up falling flat. Like many others before them, a director attempts art instead of telling a story and ends up doing neither.

I wish we could stop making this kind of garbage. Such a waste of resources on a planet that is rapidly dying from over-consumption of resources. When the world is burning and humanity is doomed, at least we'll know we made all this lovely "art".

I honestly felt insulted by how bad the writing is in this series. They pulled another "Locke and Key" here. They're shooting for that demographic that has an IQ below room temperature and they are shooting for it HARD. It's starting to seem like "rewriting an existing excellent story-boarded script to be consumed by those who are as dumb as a stump" is Netflix's big thing. As long as the money keeps rolling in from idiots why bother with anything more?

This movie was just embarrassing. The budget for this movie could have made 4 more movies that are each 4 times as good as this one.

Chad? Just... yikes.

Seriously, don't waste your time on this one. It just keeps going and going, getting dumber and dumber as it goes.

Oh god there's a character limit minimum on these reviews. This movie doesn't deserve a real write up because I'm not going to put more effort into the review than the producers did their script. So lorem ipsum.

Ok right off the bat I want to say that I love weird movies. I'm all about art house flicks. Jodorowsky doin' his thing is great. Dafoe in Antichrist was amazing. When a movie really has something to say, it can be very exciting to hear it in an abstract dreaming style. This is not one of those movies.

This is basically Dante's Inferno with all the political and religious satire stripped away then run through a wood chipper. On top of that the audio levels jump up and down all over the place from whispers you can barely hear to shouting and music that will deafen you.

I am so disappointed. This is trash.

I give 1 star for the cinematography and 1 star for Willem Dafoe. I don't think I'll be watching anything else by this director in the future.

I was blown away by how they had created a parable for teaching about the horrors of slavery, and how it was so bad that they had to use cute talking animals instead of actual black people to do it. Surely a sign of how bad society treats black people.

Then it just... wasn't anymore. It didn't take long before it stopped being any kind of story about the horrors of slavery. It rapidly morphed into a cookie cutter feel good family adventure quest movie that hand waved away all the real lessons, then finished with a giant dose of deus ex machina.

What a wasted opportunity. I would give it one star but the animation and character design were cute.

What a work of art. Watching it for my first time, not knowing what was coming, on four grams of psychedelics, was an experience that can never be recreated now that I know, and have seen it.

Wow.

Edit: Ok watched it sober the very next day. Still amazed by what I just watched. I think this movie is close to Primer as one of my top time travel movies of all time.

Like night and day. The original was awful, this is a far superior movie.

I'm not saying the guy who made this film was a white supremacist but... the clan meetings he went to definitely didn't center around feet and ninja turtles.

Stopped with about 10 minutes left. Didn't care about the end. I was just done watching this garbage.

Hitting the 2nd to last episode and having them just drop it all in your lap instead of dribbling it in throughout the season was definitely the nail in the coffin for this series. If they make a 3rd season I will be skipping it entirely and not wasting my time on it. This series was more unintentional comedy than horror or suspense.

What is with this new movie format of dragging everything out to two and a half hours? This is a half hour Twilight Zone episode at best. Still, better than Wonder Woman 1984 so I'll give it 2 stars instead of 1. Skip this one.

DC has a long history of just completely missing the mark but this one was torturous. So incredibly bad. I don't want to list a bunch of specifics because I'd be bringing in spoilers, if you want to watch it, have at it. This is worse than Justice League. Yuck. I'm gonna go rewatch some Lynda Carter Wonder Woman episodes to get the bad taste out of my mouth.

The first half of the season had serious promise. By the end of it I was begging for it to stop. Absolute garbage writing ruins another good premise. HBO when will you learn?