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No. 82394
>>82391
I have mentioned the positives, but I felt it unnecessary to go into too much detail over them due to the fact everyone else had already talked so much about them- which is quite the point I was making. I liked the world setting and I liked how the basic theme of BELIEVE because I'm an idiot who can't help but fall for that kind of thing.
I don't believe that the character archetypes used *were* absolutely necessary in a story like this, and if they were, then they could have gone in a slightly different direction to add a bit more dynamism into their roles, which they didn't....with, perhaps, the exception of the cool-perfect girl sorta admitting she knew about that famous witch, thus hinting at her being different in the past. (Though I'm aware that this too is also a common as muck thing to do, it at least adds a facet).
And you're not wrong in me wanting it to be different...but I don't see how that makes me wrong or the work more acceptable. Every time you see a flaw in something, don't you want to correct it? (Oh, Korra shouldn't have ended like THAT, there wasn't much going on in Django...). It's a review. I'm reviewing it. Of course if I see a problem with it I'm going to point it out and say 'they goofed', and if you're just going to shrug it off as the movie's style then you go ahead and do that, but you can't judge a work in a vacuum. Or you can, but then that's a very limited way to address anything with artistic merit- not even post-modernism does that. If they decided to put a story or a plot in I'm allowed to judge that because they wanted to do something with it. Use it as a loose framework for animation? Was that their goal? Then they could have chosen something better suited to that goal. And I can look at other characters in similar veins, other animated productions with similar themes and say 'well actually those do that theme/character better than this does' and judge accordingly.
So what were the writers trying to achieve? They certainly weren't aiming for lofty heights here, that's for sure, and if you're going to stick to something like 'a fun, light-hearted adventure with witches', well, they certainly nailed it...but just BECAUSE they nailed it does not mean that what they set out to do was brilliant. It was an average idea enacted superbly. If you're happy with that, be happy, but the fact is this could've been better than a 7/10, even with the scant 21 minutes they gave themselves.
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