Reviews

Just like most of the other Cryptid shows, I've watched this one is far different compared to MonsterQuest and a few others, but doesn't beat them.

I think what separates this compared to the others is the fact that it's just one full episode 1h and 36m.

It has a very unique style of art, which made more interesting and entertaining, it reminded me of the old 90s show animal X.

Remember when I said, it doesn't beat MonsterQuest, with all the good stuff aside, it's not a perfect show, and does have issues like the fact that they mentioned about a girl getting devoured by the creature, the father seemed very genuine in his tears, but I think that's terrible part of that is that he didn't have the authorities simplifying, or helping the family with their loss.

Nonetheless, I still enjoyed the show and I do recommend it.

Is it just me, or am I the only person here who doesn't understand the hype for this film, i've watched this movie 4 times and couldn't get into it, nor could I understand it.

I've watched fantastic Mr Fox in the past and the film never really appealed to me that much, I didn't like the uncanniness of the characters, and the seemingly mumbling dialogue.

But after watching Isle of Dogs, I completely changed my mind about fantastic Mr Fox, and after re-watching it, despite the creepy animation, fantastic Mr Fox had much better looking visuals, the action scenes look like they had effort put into them, and the film treated. It's happy ending in a way that felt like a happy ending.

Isle of dogs on the other hand, had none of that.

The characters in this movie look just as creepy, and I don't even think the scariest horror movie of all time can come close to this level of creepiness, this is my issue with the film, it's considered a comedy and it's treated like a comedy by so many people, but I've watched the film several times, never laughed once, and I remembered being creeped out by how the way the characters break the fourth wall with their eyes, wide open and grinning unsettlingly.

I noticed that a spike being a PG film, it has quite a lot of blood violence, and that's the type of violence that you wouldn't really see in a PG rated film today. And the violence was so exaggerated that combined with the creepy uncanny characters. Just didn't make the film feel like a comedy it made it feel like a horror film, even if the blood violence was dark humour, then he did a really BAD JOB, because it's not executed in a way that feels funny, I never felt like there was any clever context for why they were in these situations because it comes out dead randomly, in certain parts, making it feel like it was happening just for the shock value.

Despite being a comedy, it was a down right miserable film, now I get that the dogs are dumped on an island, which is understandable, but remembered when I said that fantastic Mr Fox had a happy ending that felt like one, Isle of dogs had one as well, but even with it, the characters still seemed depressed in away, the only emotions that I ever truly saw in the film was angry, sad and confused, and I did not record seeing a single character smile.

I didn't really like how the film had all these random scenes, like the sumo wrestling, kabuki, and the sushi scene, I get that they try to acknowledge Japanese culture in a positive light, but I've noticed that the scenes just happened and never get brought up again. It's like they were just there for the sake of satisfying the audience, I know we all like to be satisfied, and I understand that, but without no plot or reason, it just kind of makes these scenes feel random and pointless, and they don't add anything to the story.

Remember, when I said that fantastic Mr Fox had mumbling voice acting, at least I film exaggerated the dialogue by having the characters shout and all that, all the dogs did host, some voiced actors like Bill Murray, who I think is a legendary actor, and he has the voice of an Angel, But his voice in this film, just sounds like nails, scraping a chalkboard, the way the characters were speaking, sounded almost like they were mumbling or whispering, and it was just grating to me.

I have never truly seen the brilliance in this, i've heard a lot of people saying that this is the goat of all Stop Motion films, and I'm like GUYS!! We've got paranormal, Del Toros Pinocchio, Coraline, Merry and Max, and you just want this to be the best one of all time.

I've never understood the overwhelming appeal for this form at all, and I don't think I'll ever understand what people like about it.

I've watched a lot of cryptid documentaries in the past, I remember seeing the show back in 2015 but wasn't interested at the time, but in 2020 during lockdown, I watched a few episodes and ended up loving it. I love their unique sense of humour and the theme song to the show. AKA (mountain man's town) absolutely rocks.

Of course, not all the episodes are perfect, and I can sort of understand why some people might not like it, as most of the episodes, they try and trap the creature but fail most of the time,

But that doesn't stop me from liking it as at the end of the day. It's a very interesting show that I think deserves a watch.

Before I get into why this is such an awesome show.

I should let you know that it's not suitable for kids under the age of say 10. The show was released in October 2007. I first watched it in 2012 when I was only 6 years old. The first episode I watched was the American Loch Ness.

But the one that caught my interest, the most was in fact that the one that scared me the most, and that would be the chupacabra episode. The episode used to scare me as a kid, but in May 2018 when I was 12 years old, I overcame my fear of the episode, and and ever since that, monsterQuest, as a whole became my number one favourite show of all time. I love practically every inch of this show, regardless, whether the facts sound Farfetch or not.

Whatever you may think of it, I personally think that it is a solid five star rated show, Criminally underrated And I absolutely encourage you to watch it.

The first chapter, brings us to a flys prom, in the middle of the prom, I an identified flying object is cited and the free characters, Sam kit and Wally, try to find out what it actually is.

The second chapter of the episode is by far one of my favourites, Sam and kit, retain to their ship, only to realise that they were tasked on trying to find an infant monkey, whilst on the case, they also hear sounds which they both believe is the baby monkey, I enjoyed this episode because it incited me with new information, which I didn't even know of, and that's why this episode is in one of my favourites.

Sure, the first chapter of the episode of the blue bandit was acceptably, good and easy to watch.

But the other chapter wasn't, (honey badger break in) what is the first episode that made me cringe.

First things first, I'm not a fan of fart jokes, self-aware, they can work in certain places, but if execute is wrong, it just makes it look incredibly cringe, TCC has quite a lot of that, however, the reason why I'm okay with the one off fart gags that the two skunk characters do, it's because it's a kid show and kids at age 4 do occasionally laugh at that type of humour, and second, it's not really that funny but it does make sense in the context of the animal, so they're not really doing it for laughs they're just doing it for knowledge, reasons as well.

However, in the honey badger breaking episode, there was one scene that, to be fair, if they removed that scene where sweetie drops stinker on Sam, it would've been a downright acceptable episode, but they decided to add the scene, it's so random, it's so cringe, and it just made it hard to watch. I get that they're trying to acknowledge the facts of the animal, but it just comes across as crude and painfully unfunny that I don't even think of four year-old would find it hilarious.

Plus none of the information really needed explaining in the first place, as they do justify it in an earlier episode, so it kind of makes the presentation of that scene pointless.

Now first things first, I don't really have much to say about these two episodes other than they were acceptably well done, the first chapter in this episode the disappearing dung ball.

This is a kid show marked towards four-year-olds maybe it's just me being too old and not being able to appreciate this humour as much as I did back then. Come on it's marketed towards kids, kids around four years old Do laugh at butt and fart jokes, and of course I was that kid back then.

The next chapter where the spiders pet frog goes missing, these 2 chapters of episode 6 we're not too bad or too good they were just average, so that's why I gave them a 9 out of 10.

The honey Bee episode I really enjoyed, and there wasn't really much there that I particularly didn't like, it introduced us to a new clay agent (Indy) The episode had great comedic elements, And introduce my to one of my favourite characters.

The second episode, yet again, had wholesome comedy moments between Sam and kit. The episode had them solving a mystery about trees mysteriously falling down in the middle of the woods, and nobody knows whose causing it.

So Sam and Kit have to solve the mystery and find out who the mysterious tree destroyer is.

These two episodes, but brightened up my day, And I do recommend checking it out.

The first chapter in this episode was incredibly wholesome and showed the bond between Sam and Kit. The plummeting eggs episode, also introduced us to a new character (Wally Bugler) The episode had the three characters solve the mystery in the wetlands of Europe, where birds eggs were mysteriously falling out of their nests.

The next chapter in the episode was not as fun as the plummeting eggs. But the mole rat episode was okay, not my type of episode, but it was still easy to get by.

So yeah, this episode was alright, not too bad, not too good, but it was easy to get by, and that is my thoughts on it.