Though I am curious about how bad the movie was, so I'd appreciate your thoughts if you have the time. I don't give the Rat any of my shekels, and I had no intention of watching an edgy "look how meta we are dood pickle riiiiiiick" reboot of the fucking Rescue Rangers cartoon anyway. How bad is it?
*Spoilers for Rescue Rangers if you give a shit*
I have Disney + for "free" because I'm still on the mailing list of a studio I used to work with and they sent a bunch of codes for them, and I like to put on some classics on the background to work with.
Regadless, I saw Rescue Rangers and it is a Roger Rabbit wannabe, you can even say it is a sequel of sorts, with the cartoons still living in the "real world" and being called "toons". It is a cynical outlook of Hollywood, where people's dreams are chewed and spat out and Chip and Dale are yet another victms of the grind, being famous from their 90's cartoon, and now washed out. Chip resigned himself to a simple life selling insurances while Dale still holds to his past glory in hopes for a "reboot", being stuck on those pathetic "has been" booths we see on geek conventions.
So, pretty soon Chip and Dale get a call from one of their old pals from the show and they get involved with a plot about missing toons, which is about stripping toons from their parts for bootleg movies (yeah, subtle Disney).
But you know how in Roger Rabbit, both Eddie and Roger have to bond together as they uncover a mystery and each time they find a new piece for the puzzle, they go further in top the "rabbit hole" (har) just to find out the culprit in the last leg of the movie? Yeah, in Rescue Rangers you find out who the villain is on the 25 minute mark of the movie and the rest is just references and a vague plot about stopping the bootlegers.
And then we come into the real meat and potatoes of this movie, the cameos. You know that scene in Roger Rabbit that we see Daffy and Donald duck playing the piano to set up the tone of the club scene as toons being vaudevillian actors? yeah, you won't find anything as clever on Rescue Rangers, it is just pop culture humor shit that internet manchild consume, so much that the only thing people talk about this movie is that they put "Ugly Sonic" on it. HAHAHAAH SO FUNNY!!
Also, they put Tigra from the 90's avengers cartoon on it, and you know that's because someone in the production used to jerk off to her, you just know it:
And then we have more humor from 40 year olds who grew up with these cartoons, but can only use "internet humor". Hey guys remeber Gadget? what if she fucked the Fly from the show! And what if they had a bunch of mutant half mice, half fly children!!! And remeber the Fly didn't talk in the show, well in "reality" he has a deep black man's voice, ISN'T THAT FUNNY!!!!
Also there is a black woman detective that works with Chip and Dale but no one really cares.
But you know, this whole shit I've just spewed, here is the twist, those are the best part of the movie, the bad thing about the movie is the animation!!
You know how Rober Rabbit it was supposed to be the pinnacle of the animation technique directed by one of the greatest masters of all time Richard Williams, who made the animators blible:
Rescue Rangers? Fuck it, second rate CGI models and animations, and as for 2D characters? Fuck it, Disney doesn't do 2D animation anymore, that is warehouse Koreans, and even that is too expensive, so let's just 3D MODEL THIS SHIT AND CELL SHADE IT AS IF IT WAS A GODDAMNED PS3 ANIME GAME!!!!
Serious, you can see the polygonal pinch point and they even clip all over the place, not to mention when there is a scene with camera movement, the "2D" characters track super weird.
Usually the tech problem we see in these "lesser" Disney movies is just the fact that quality work is scarce, and Disney needs to keep pumping content, so they go with B and C listers for their animation while getting the quality studios to work on their big blockbusters.
But this shit is really bad, Rescue Rangers and that god awfull CGI on the She-Hulk shit? I wonder if Disney isn't hurting for cash and tightening the belt for these productions.
But yeah, Rescue Rangers is pretty shit, don't watch it. Watch Roger Rabbit.