How is this getting 90% on rotten tomatoes, sure visuals are cool but this ain't an art show you need to have a fricking plot
What the absolute frick is anyone's motivation
why are there a bunch of plot holes
the frick is up with 90% of the shit that was shown but had literally zero meaning
oh and why the frick is everyone so god darn fricking ugly
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these black shadow people are buying the fish, also we're going to not sell them the fish and instead feed it to the warawara's who need it to escape this shit world and become people but also everyone comes from a space rock and who cares how the warawara's get here in the first place
a HERON?? OBVIOUSLY that means the boy's gonna be kidnapped disappear even though the heron is the servant of the granduncle which means that we're basing this off the mom disappearing for a year which we know involves a heron n=1 maybe???? even though everyone (n=1 remember) forgets about the world after they come back???? but also the step mom has magic archer powers in real life????
why is the arrow heat seeking? the protagonist is so neurodivergent he doesnt care he auto shooting bow just landed in an arrow in the wall? why the frick does the stepmom want to stay in shit magic land, why is she trying to give birth in the delivery room?? Why doesnt the parakeet king (only based character btw) try a little harder to arrange the blocks??? Why do the parakeets not murder pregnant women??? What the frick was the message his mom left him??
Why is the mom a fire mage?? How does she know she's gonna be his mom?? Why is the delivery room taboo????
What the absolute frick did Mizyazaki trick me into watching?? Is this a joke where in 6 months he's just gonna meme on everyone who said this movie is good by revealing he intended it to suck as a criticism of movie critics?
p.s. my movie theater didn't play any previews, instead played the same reel of ads twice in a row jesus christ the movie theater industry is fricking dead
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Parakeet king tried as hard as he could and failed because he's got a bird brain. The rest are good points.
It was reallly half-assed because Miyazaki is old and doesn't give a shit.
He's just like the parrot king fr fr.
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90 fricking percent critic and audience approval on rotten tomatoes, is the site just completely astroturfed at this point? is everyone just pretentious as frick who thinks because its studio ghibli they have to like it to be cool?
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Rottentomatoes is garbage. Has been for years. Their critic review is almost always wildly off-mark, and their user ratings is meh. I don't like the percentage system or however their derive that result.
I stick with imdb rating, and if it seems too high or low, I skim a few user reviews to get a feel for it (obviously ignore all 10/10 reviews because they're r-slurred). Normally, when a movie first comes out, you get a wave of easily impressed r-slurs hitting 10/10 on imdb, so downgrade the average rating by 1 or 2 points.
So downgrade by 1.5, and a 6.1 rating seems about right.
Check the user reviews and discard all the 10/10's. Looks like 6-7 after skimming about 20 of them.
I'd give the film a 6.5. It's not awful and not great, and if you like ghibli films, you'll enjoy it even though you'll see a lot of its failings.
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