Tag: cartoon
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)

Co-written by Seth Rogan, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is a surprisingly fun and effective cartoon feature, drawn in the kinetic, impressionistic style of the SpiderVerse movies and scored with a thumping mix of modern and classic pop standards. It seems that with this combination studios have re-energised comic-book films to a super-heroic degree,…
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)

Full disclosure time. These are the reasons why I went to see this film: Also, I have an affection for schlock, and Transformers as a concept is the schlockiest of that ignoble genre. (By this point in cinema, “schlock” is definitely a genre with its own context and history.) To explain my other reasons, although…
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

I just saw Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and it was really good. The art style and soundtrack are the best things about it, feeling integrated into the story at a level that’s rare for superhero films. For once one of these projects feels like an actual comic book film, which apart from Doctor Strange in…
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The Super Mario Bros Movie (2023)

I just saw The Super Mario Bros Movie and now I’m hooked on the brothers to the end. Well, maybe not, but it was a pretty good movie. It’s kind of amazing that it’s taken Hollywood this long to do a Nintendo film right, but I guess even Marvel had many years of failed projects…
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2023)

I just saw Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and it was really good. It’s the best new film that I’ve seen in 2023, which indicates either how good it is or how bad my choices have been. January’s always a slow month for movies, of course, and now it’s February maybe good ones are…
