I wasn't big on the trailer, but the animated intro is what got me hooked, so I sat down and watched for a bit. Nothing wrong with shutting my brain off for a bit with my dad. Fast forward to the end of the movie, and my father (a fan of The Twilight series and Passengers (2016)) said it before I could. It was bad.
The guns are too quiet, the protagonist has little to no personality, it's "comedy" but the jokes are "uncle is assaulting me again!", the screenwriting is weird and all over the place. I can excuse the CGI, not everyone has 30 studios under their sleeve that they can crunch out willy nilly, but JFC the screenwriting is ALL OVER the place. There's too much fluff in it, the things we see on screen are way too confusing and characters spend too much time silent. The directors weren't good either, because Tess Haubrich is a competent actress (see Fleabag) but she's not good here at all. DO NOT EVER assume actors and voice actors are "doing it for the paycheck", there are really bad directors out there that waste a good actor's potential.
If you're stuck in 2018, and saw this movie's name for the first time, skip it and go watch Ragnarok. It's an infinitely better "brain shut off" movie. And while you're there, watch Shaun of the Dead as well.
The guns are too quiet, the protagonist has little to no personality, it's "comedy" but the jokes are "uncle is assaulting me again!", the screenwriting is weird and all over the place. I can excuse the CGI, not everyone has 30 studios under their sleeve that they can crunch out willy nilly, but JFC the screenwriting is ALL OVER the place. There's too much fluff in it, the things we see on screen are way too confusing and characters spend too much time silent. The directors weren't good either, because Tess Haubrich is a competent actress (see Fleabag) but she's not good here at all. DO NOT EVER assume actors and voice actors are "doing it for the paycheck", there are really bad directors out there that waste a good actor's potential.
If you're stuck in 2018, and saw this movie's name for the first time, skip it and go watch Ragnarok. It's an infinitely better "brain shut off" movie. And while you're there, watch Shaun of the Dead as well.