This film passes the Kino Lefter McDonald's Test with flying colors.
Every film made after the financial crisis is about (1) processing your trauma (2) with your chosen family (3) while confronting toxic masculinity.
And yet, even fully knowing this, this film got to me man.
I will admit I'm not too well-versed in James Gunn's work outside of his MCU stuff and that original draft for the 2002 Scooby-Doo film, and I'm sure his earlier stuff is eons better…
You may have seen people rag on political cartoons a lot. And why wouldn't they? Political cartoons themselves used to serve as a way of doing incisive commentary and criticism of the political landscape way back when, and now, most of them just serve as a cajole for old cranks make REALLY obvious and lame metaphors, like drawing a giant gorilla with the word "DEBT" printed in bold on it. You may have even seen them parodied by the likes…
Watched in Italian with English subtitles
It's strange that there are only a few notable countries that have an industry for animation. Kind of sad.
Now, I wanted to watch this after reading at least one of Zerocalare's books that he's drawn and written. However, a mutual of mine who is from Italy pushed me to watch the show when it was still new.
There is a level of honesty at play here that I haven't seen in some adult…
Short Review: It was a series of cameos that sort of had a plot around it
Longer Review:
Just for the record, I am not a fan of the show this film is based on. Whenever I watched Toon Disney as a kid, I never saw the reruns of it, so I missed out. I tried watching some episodes before the stream to prep, but I got bored half an episode in and just watched an episode of Sonic SATAM…
