You know, watching some fantasy movie or with asian vibes could be pretty neat. If you've got an itch for that kind of thing, watch Seirei no Moribito / Guardian of the Spirit.
It's a somewhat old anime series, but it's a really good one. Animation by Production IG when they were at their peak, a pretty good story, a cool asian fantasy setting.
Very good fights scenes:
The show is about a female bodyguard called Balsa, who is hired to protect an imperial prince (called Chagum) from assassination attempts by his own family.
The characters are written very well. Chagum especially starts out as a royal prince so spoilt, he doesn't know what hunger feels like before he's forced to set out with Balsa.
I get a massive "stolen assets" vibe from this.
Maybe not "stolen", but it feels like an asset flip. Down to the tropes and plotpoints, it feels like they just took what parts were lying around from earlier movies, dipped it in Szechuan-Sauce and vomitted it on the big screen.
and some kind of stupid ape beast man who looks like a massive black hole of masculinity, like they threw all the man tropes into one ugly bucket of muscle.
How much you wanna bet his quirk will be something childish and unmanly.
Like this guy from Tangled:
Zootopia too, the main character is just Anna's fursona
When I watched it for the first time, halfway through, I got this short epiphany that the movie could be at least 10 times as awesome if the thing that made the animals go berzerk would turn out to be rabies and the last act of the movie was a rabies-zombie-apocalypse.
My God, does anyone else find Awkwafina's voice incredibly grating? I can't stand hearing her in anything, so I'm somewhat dreading this. Otherwise, it looks okay, I guess
I've never heard it before watching the trailer and every second sounded like demon cats clawing at my soul.
And kung-fu con artist baby? Really?
I wonder if that baby will actually be a baby or if it'll turn out to be an old person pretending to be young to scam people.
You know. Like this character from Zootopia:
E;R's inevitable review of this shit.
When it comes out... by the end of 2023.