That’s a pretty apt comparison, but a funny one nonetheless. It’s as if they tried to really make an anime out of it, while using the elements that made Spider Man: Into The Universe popular. To me, it just comes off as uncanny, even if it was not intended to be.
I guess it’s understandable that it’s overreliance of wild take can be jarring for some people, but if you ignore that aspect, this animation is, dare I say, kino.
Speaking of which, was this a good movie?
i watched it on a whim once out of boredom and seeing it on netflix while waiting for something to happen. it is absolutely a good film
>Franchise gets first release in two decades
Huh. I assumed that the entire concept was too hot to handle these days.
So I watched it and I think a couple of things are going on that make it look like that
It's funny, cuz if you listen to the Japanese audio, a lot of that narration just isn't there. Added whole cloth for the English dub. Makes it ten times better IMO.
Oh nooooooo not the artistic integrity of Tak and the Power of JuJu........
Nigga forget the AI voices, this shit is getting the Disney Remake treatment of stripping the cultural references behind African voodoo stuff and making it "more appropriate". Literal current year revision shit for an okay 3D platformer collectathon.
When did Voodoo become America’s Sacred Cow? I always assumed that maybe a handful of blacks practiced it, if that. Part of me feels like it’s less the backs making a fuss, and more Big City White Liberal Chicks and their simps making a fuss on behalf of blacks.
I used to play the first and second game a lot as a kid, I would rather it just stay dead, then trust any studio these days to touch it. Nowadays revivals and sequels are a lot like the Monkey Paw, you’ll get it, but more likely than not you won’t like it.
It was originally a video game series and was surprisingly decent for a Nickelodeon 3D platformer. The show was awful, but the original series it came after was a hidden gem of the sixth generation.
Tak isn't even based on Africans. Looking it up, he seems to take more from South America - Mayan, Aztec, and Andean cultures being amongst the ones listed.
Ok, so this proves that its the Chicks and the Simps in LA making a mountain out of the Molehill then. Though it is kinda funny thinking about it. The way to make a South American Hero more appealing to the masses, is to give him dreads. Cause dreads are South American.
He doesn't have dreds though...
In the leaked material posted, the dreads is the plan for the remake, allegedly. That is what I’m referring to. Sorry, I should have been more clear with that.
Given the way the film was structured with individual stories, it probably made sense to give it more context in the dub.
God, being at the forefront of the 80s/90s anime wave in the US was something else. Robot Carnival and Vampire Hunter D on the Sci-Fi channel on weekend afternoons when I was in elementary school. Neo Tokyo on MTV late at night when I was in middle school. And then Memories being the hot thing passed around amongst the anime nerds in high school back when DVDs were starting to become more popular. They all hit different parts of my brain in different ways. And then there was the thrill of catching unedited anime randomly on channels like IFC. MD Geist blew my mind the first time I saw it on there. I was going to wax poetical about how it's a shame that nothing is truly "alien" for kids today, but it came out sounding too faggy and boomerish. Instead, enjoy the first "anime music video" most of us back then ever saw.
