The story was incoherent. The goal was made clear, but the entire journey leading up to the goal didn't make a damn bit of sense. Why did anything that happened in the movie happen? Where the fuck did that mecha shark come from? Why was it attacking them? how did they end up in the arctic over night, and how were they able to breathe under water/ not die from the extreme cold of being submerged in that water? Where was the character development? What the fuck did the spider, the only one there that can only survive off of meat, eat? What exactly was the rhino? Why did all of the bugs want to go to NYC as well? Where all those seagulls really okay with being forced to lug around a massive peach for days on end?
And the most important question of all: Why would James turn down those delicious looking fish heads I mean really they looked fantastic I would have eaten them pff smh
They made no effort to explain anything, and as a result, every couple of minutes I'm asking questions with no closure and that's something that I personally am not fond of. Also, I don't like coming up with my own explanations for why everything happened in a work of fiction. If I really had to guess, the entire story was just one massive fever dream of Jame's or maybe the damn kid was on the verge of death or in a coma because of abuse, while his parents were just taken by a storm and the whole rhino thing was a fabrication of his aunts'. But what if the original intent was just to show off a wondrous, fictional world where anything could happen? Well, now I'm just a cynical douchebag who can't enjoy the fun fantasy elements of the movie.
The musical bits were awful. You know when you watch a show that shoves in random musical bits for the sake of it to entertain children but they're always so horrible and campy you have a hard time sitting through them? Every musical bit in the entire movie in a nutshell.
There was no flow. Every major event in the movie outside of the very beginning and very end just felt like filler. How does that even happen? I don't know but this movie sure pulled it off.
The characters themselves had no depth. None of them were memorable as their own individual beings. The only thing that stood out about them were their designs. Every character interaction in the movie didn't read as natural. It was all very forced.
In short: It was a poor story poorly executed and as a result I CRINGE
Despite all this, I'm totally okay with the aunts literally driving through the ocean to get to New York. That was hilarious.
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