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Neo Yokio (2017)
Neo Yokio is a terrible parody of anime that I just couldn't sit through
Neo Yokio is an anime parody, except the jokes aren't funny, and even if the lines themselves are well-written, the delivery and directing ultimately kill the joke.
First, I'll get the easiest weakness out of the way. The animation and design of this show is terrible. At first, the animation seemed poor, but not outright bad. After a while though, it become unbelievably cheap that I'm shocked if it even had a budget. While animation in normal, serious anime can be just as lazy in some places, they at least have the benefit of their key-frames being visually appealing, which is not the case for Neo Yokio. The poor animation in some anime is meant so they can spend more on action and fight scenes, where as in Neo Yokio, the show is consistently terrible with its animation.
The voice acting is terrible, which is especially weird considering that so much of the shows cast are incredibly talented people, such as Jude Law and Steve Buscemi. The poor delivery of the dialogue ruins many of the jokes, and makes it incredibly obnoxious to sit through.
The show tries to be a comedy, but I didn't even realize that they were even telling jokes until halfway through. All of the jokes are delivered as if they were normal dialogue, and go unnoticed by the viewer. It's clear that the joke is that the show isn't as interesting or deep as it's appears to be, but the joke gets old, and because of the terrible directing, none of the other jokes hit, except for minor exceptions.
I know what some people might be saying "Neo Yokio is trying to be bad, so that makes it okay!", but no, that's just incorrect. It might make me less harsh on those involved, but it doesn't mean the show is any better, it just means they were self-aware.
The best way to enjoy Neo Yokio, is to not take it seriously, and keep your expectations as low as you can. However, in my own opinion, Neo Yokio is something I won't ever watch again.
Cool Cat Saves the Kids (2015)
This movie was terrible.
This movie was terrible, an absolute joke. It's main character is a grown man doing an obnoxious high voice to try and be cool... and that's the whole movie. It just feels as if they think saying "Cool Cat is cool" a million times is more important than plot, characters, decent writing, because this movie lacks everything in that department. Also, it's plots are just thrown around so they can show you Hollywood and cars no one care about. Also, their morals are extremely contradictory to the story. Cool Cat says at the end of the movie, if someone bullies you online, just ignore them, yet earlier, Cool Cat tries to retaliate when Butch (the one-dimensional bully) attacks him online. Also, Cool Cat is unusually creepy, as a grown man is running around in an animal suit and is spouting lines like "I LOVE ALL KIDS!" and "BOOGIE WOOGIE!" Don't watch this movie, if you respect yourself more than dirt.