KingCritic
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This episode makes no sense.
The time travel is fine, they went over that it exists in the JL or DCAU, but the fact that Supergirl and Brainiac 5 instantly fall in love and decide to stay with each other forever?
Ridiculous, so rushed and forced.
Ironically, Justice League handles romance very well. Batman and Wonder Woman have liked each other for basically 4-6 seasons of this show and technically have never gotten together.
Sure Brainiac and Supergirl are younger, but there's no way they'd fall in love this quickly and make such rash decisions. Kara is leaving behind the only family and universe she ever knew, for this guy she just met.
This trope was overused before, and I don't like it.
The time travel is fine, they went over that it exists in the JL or DCAU, but the fact that Supergirl and Brainiac 5 instantly fall in love and decide to stay with each other forever?
Ridiculous, so rushed and forced.
Ironically, Justice League handles romance very well. Batman and Wonder Woman have liked each other for basically 4-6 seasons of this show and technically have never gotten together.
Sure Brainiac and Supergirl are younger, but there's no way they'd fall in love this quickly and make such rash decisions. Kara is leaving behind the only family and universe she ever knew, for this guy she just met.
This trope was overused before, and I don't like it.
...but not much else.
Despite Thomas being in the title of the movie, and the big part of the cover for the film, he's not exactly in it a whole lot, or at all really. The film does not remotely resemble the Sodor or characters depicted in the original series, despite it being created by the same person behind the TV show.
Instead of the world being the train's world where humans happen to be in it, it is instead, a regular human world (ours) where trains are the ones who happen to be in it. Toss in a plotline about magic gold dust and a town full of people who never appeared in the original Thomas and Friends series, and you have a movie cobbled between the actual series and the odd live action universe canon from Shining Time.
I've seen this movie twice, mostly when I was younger and loved Thomas the Tank Engine, and once again recently decades later.
The film has a stellar soundtrack, amazing cinematography, and the casting, props, and a few scenes are decent. Nothing else really works, even though you could tell how much passion was put behind the production. The script behind the film is too complicated for kids to understand what's going on, and too simplistic for adults to care.
This is not a good introduction or depiction of the story of Thomas the Tank Engine, you'd be better off just watching episodes from the original series instead.
Despite Thomas being in the title of the movie, and the big part of the cover for the film, he's not exactly in it a whole lot, or at all really. The film does not remotely resemble the Sodor or characters depicted in the original series, despite it being created by the same person behind the TV show.
Instead of the world being the train's world where humans happen to be in it, it is instead, a regular human world (ours) where trains are the ones who happen to be in it. Toss in a plotline about magic gold dust and a town full of people who never appeared in the original Thomas and Friends series, and you have a movie cobbled between the actual series and the odd live action universe canon from Shining Time.
I've seen this movie twice, mostly when I was younger and loved Thomas the Tank Engine, and once again recently decades later.
The film has a stellar soundtrack, amazing cinematography, and the casting, props, and a few scenes are decent. Nothing else really works, even though you could tell how much passion was put behind the production. The script behind the film is too complicated for kids to understand what's going on, and too simplistic for adults to care.
This is not a good introduction or depiction of the story of Thomas the Tank Engine, you'd be better off just watching episodes from the original series instead.
My only real issue with the film is that they didn't use "you can be my wingman anytime" line at the end of the film. Also what an F14 was doing in an airbase that clearly only had modern aircraft (very minor complaint).
I didn't like the original Top Gun all that much, this flick was far better while still feeling in line with the 80s flick's motifs and world. Very good screenplay and cinematography, above all, I think the best part of the film was the acting. Tom Cruise really sells Maverick and he's far more likable than I remember him being from the first Top Gun.
All the callbacks were great, I only really had issue with them not using one of them, other than that, very solid film in the high 8 range (8.5-9.0)/10. I highly recommend this film even if you haven't seen the original because it really works.
I didn't like the original Top Gun all that much, this flick was far better while still feeling in line with the 80s flick's motifs and world. Very good screenplay and cinematography, above all, I think the best part of the film was the acting. Tom Cruise really sells Maverick and he's far more likable than I remember him being from the first Top Gun.
All the callbacks were great, I only really had issue with them not using one of them, other than that, very solid film in the high 8 range (8.5-9.0)/10. I highly recommend this film even if you haven't seen the original because it really works.