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The Bitch Who Stole Christmas (2021)
Absolutely unhinged, so bad it's good
I don't watch Drag Race but I put this on because drag is fun. Insane things happen and then they're just never addressed again. The romantic interest repeatedly pulls off his shirt in the middle of winter for no reason. A character is in a neck brace for one scene then never again. Random characters are dubbed for no reason. There is a local polio child. The mixing is terrible. The trope of the overworked character now extends to the character having been doing this since she was a child. There is a scene where the male love interest goes into intense detail about his wife having been mulched by the gears of a clock for no reason.
Extremely baffling and extremely enjoyable.
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Legend of Everfree (2016)
People like this one???
Baffled that people like this one? I like the first Equestria Girls movie alright because the fish out of water elements are cute and it parallels nicely with Twilight's discomfort at becoming an alicorn princess but in this one (human) Twilight spends all her time being upset that she briefly turned into a demon monster against her will in the last movie and is terrified she'll turn into that monster again despite no indication or established threat that she might and as such spends the whole movie afraid. She runs off into the woods and sits apart from her friends and becomes convinced she's infecting them and then has to be convinced to use life-saving magic multiple times even when the characters are on the brink of death because she's afraid of something that seems completely irrational as far as we know. The rest of the characters besides Sunset feel flanderized with Rarity being completely absorbed with her fashion show lazing back and watching other people do the work, Applejack apparently is so rough and tough she made her own hammer out of stone rather than grabbing one from a toolbox and Pinkie Pie is such a menace she throws a box of nails at people.
The movie has a weird relationship with The Magic where Twilight is terrified of her own magic because she's debilitatingly afraid of turning back into the monster, Sunset is excited by it to the point of ignoring Twilight's feelings and encourages the rest of the humane 7 developing magic to use it, but the main villain of the film who just wants to keep her camp and presumably home turns into a big evil monster because they needed one I guess and she was using The Magic. It seems like a missed opportunity to not draw a parallel between Twilight being afraid of her own magic and the person who's trying to save her campgrounds turning into a big evil monster
First movie is good and I wanted to like this but it's disappointing. If you want good Equestria Girls try the first movie or the specials Rollercoaster of Friendship and Spring Breakdown, the characters there aren't flanderized and take actions that make sense for them. Review is a 3/10 because the voice work and animation is nice and the film is nice to look at but the story and characterizations make it kind of agonizing.
1pm Daily Update (2020)
A new season!!
Excited to see Ashley Bloomfield back on the home screen and the new Delta season!! Wonder what twists and turns we'll see this time.