tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126885984182007146.post5205519518317084641..comments2024-03-17T00:14:59.428-07:00Comments on Nickelodeon & Disney Channel Reviewed: Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11674596339371994623noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126885984182007146.post-56674159004328579322015-10-11T13:35:44.269-07:002015-10-11T13:35:44.269-07:00Hey Mike, if you see this I can't find the ori...Hey Mike, if you see this I can't find the original link to Gotcha Day but hopefully you can live with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI7YpihN_CY<br /><br />BTW I'm sick and tired of Blogspot eating my drafts so I'm thinking of migrating. You ever heard of Kinja?Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11674596339371994623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126885984182007146.post-77227055931330171092015-10-10T21:05:42.920-07:002015-10-10T21:05:42.920-07:00The Thundermans is a mixed bag. It has charm and c...The Thundermans is a mixed bag. It has charm and can be very good, but it has serious disney envy and the main dynamic can be weak. The main reason people hate it besides the disney envy is that phoebe can get too much abuse and Max often gets away wiht being a jerk, and he isn't too charming. See Change of Art. The writers should take notes from Life with Derek or other shows that did it right. Spongey444https://www.blogger.com/profile/18034297267829136947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126885984182007146.post-8307326228284791592015-10-10T20:34:34.128-07:002015-10-10T20:34:34.128-07:0017-year-old high school senior here. No need to be...17-year-old high school senior here. No need to be alarmed, I'm just trying to make my way through this crazy world.Mike Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02379168931854528159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126885984182007146.post-42999227540015743422015-10-10T19:55:53.814-07:002015-10-10T19:55:53.814-07:00Oh, and fun fact: the actress playing the girl Kar...Oh, and fun fact: the actress playing the girl Karan's George character has a thing for is Rachel Crow, who not only was a staple of Nickelodeon three to four years ago (I forgot what show she was on, not one of the Schneider shows or BTR, that's all I remember) but we're actually from the same hometown! (don't use that info to stalk me now)Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11674596339371994623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126885984182007146.post-90199046487448390292015-10-10T19:54:40.740-07:002015-10-10T19:54:40.740-07:00Having the romantic lead of the female protagonist...Having the romantic lead of the female protagonist being played by animated wooden planks is kind of a staple on DCOMs (even Nickelodeon movies). Even when Spencer Boldman played opposite freakin' Zendaya (yeah I might be a Zendaya fan) in Zapped I just wasn't feeling it from him, and he's supposed to have actual talent. The guy playing Albert - the literal robot with no feelings - in How to Build a Better Boy might actually be one of the better ones.Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11674596339371994623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126885984182007146.post-9119823259306483652015-10-10T19:51:41.746-07:002015-10-10T19:51:41.746-07:00Yay, someone actually agrees with me, kind of !
I...Yay, someone actually agrees with me, kind of !<br /><br />I did love Girl vs. Monster, but maybe I just have the mindset for it. It was dumb fun and chock full of action and I actually liked Olivia's singing. Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11674596339371994623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126885984182007146.post-75536011898447869512015-10-10T17:49:07.724-07:002015-10-10T17:49:07.724-07:00Hey. I'm Nick. You may known me from Twitter a...Hey. I'm Nick. You may known me from Twitter as @ratingsnick. I've check out your blog and I really like the way you express your opinion. I really would love to work with you and this blog. Some of my work include my press website: http://disneynickalive.blogspot.com<br /><br />I have many blogs on there. I think that I can work well with you two and create more reviews for Nick/Disney shows! Thank you!! Disneyalivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13229900455426737350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126885984182007146.post-74573329650817053902015-10-10T17:09:59.520-07:002015-10-10T17:09:59.520-07:00Eh *shrug*. I don't even know if I was coming ...Eh *shrug*. I don't even know if I was coming off that angry beyond a snarky blogger persona. I've seen most of the DCOMs that have been aired this decade and, eh, *shrug*. At this point I think I can only say that I just didn't like it and to me a major part of it was that I didn't think Rowan was that good in it. I've been accused of being "actor blind" before so...yeah, I'll hop onto that as a convenient excuse.<br /><br />Frenemies example...you mean an example I used or the Frenemies movie itself?Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11674596339371994623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126885984182007146.post-59210215553681310782015-10-10T17:07:10.068-07:002015-10-10T17:07:10.068-07:00I have to agree with Mike, don't know what Unk...I have to agree with Mike, don't know what Unknown was smoking but it was bad stuff. This movie was entertaining from start to finish. It didn't do anything great, but did very little badly. While the entire premise was wacky, we knew that going in so suspension of disbelief on that front was fine. When Cleo was pretending to be Molly during school wearing the mask, it started stretching things, but I could still go along with it. However when it was time to play lacrosse, it should have been clear to everyone on the team that Cleo was playing and not Molly. The lacrosse helmet didn't cover enough of her face to fool anyone that knew her and Molly's body was so much more athletic than Cleo's. That was my real problem with the movie.<br /><br />The three leads (Rowan, Paris and Karan) put in fine performances in my view and had good chemistry as well. The kid playing Molly's boyfriend didn't impress me any, but that might be because I found the character pretty annoying and stupid. The other 2 kids to be featured, Molly's friend that ended with George and the kid Cleo liked, also impressed me a little. <br /><br />Overall I thought this was a <b>B-</b> DCOM and while I wouldn't go out of my way to see it again, if it's on and I have nothing better to watch, I wouldn't turn it off either. It really wasn't a Halloween movie, but just took advantage of the time of the year to use the costumes I could see this getting aired on Disney all times of the year.1960posterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01319497662389419606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126885984182007146.post-61565544896568160032015-10-10T15:27:54.520-07:002015-10-10T15:27:54.520-07:00Girl Vs Monster kicks the ever loving crap out of ...Girl Vs Monster kicks the ever loving crap out of this movie. I wrote a review elsewhere, if don't want to see me ranble here:<br /><br />https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CEcQtwIwCGoVChMI4PuC1M64yAIVDeBjCh0arwDs&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DGpvdDtd7_c8&usg=AFQjCNG63GLUuFK3y9xND1WcNP-uj7MigA&sig2=eVJ2gV0Ut-OgbMfD6D69SwSpongey444https://www.blogger.com/profile/18034297267829136947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126885984182007146.post-51073067880920109052015-10-10T14:32:14.522-07:002015-10-10T14:32:14.522-07:00Oh, and I didn't check out the GMW episode tha...Oh, and I didn't check out the GMW episode that followed. I didn't want it to ruin the night, lol.Jetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126885984182007146.post-69572786413451903942015-10-10T14:29:02.883-07:002015-10-10T14:29:02.883-07:00I agree with Mike's review. In my opinion, it ...I agree with Mike's review. In my opinion, it was actually... good? From the promos it seemed like a comedy that would rely on the invisible effects (obviously) and just be filled with craziness and stunts all within one day (as the 2016 DCOM "Adventures in Babysitting" looks like), but no... they actually went in depth with the sisters' relationship (as expected) so I really, really enjoyed certain scenes like the one at the cemetery and the trolley scene (which had the most generic lines in the movie, probably "I'm actually envious of you!" cringe. But it gave me huge "You Wish!" vibes and I loved it). I'm a sucker for those types of scenes, especially in DCOMs because they're so rare.<br /><br />Unknown, I do not understand at all your hate for the movie. But I have to agree that Rowan can't really pull off this kind of character. Is it because of the material she was given? Is it because we're so used to seeing Rowan as the happy Riley Matthews? I don't know, I think by the end of the movie she transformed into a science whiz version of Riley Matthews. <br /><br />I don't think you guys brought it up, but I hate how Cleo went through a transformation like Maya Hart did in GMW, mainly wardrobe-wise. Why was she suddenly dressing nicely by the end of the movie? That, I didn't understand... So much for shattering stereotypes...<br /><br />Onto something else I /enjoyed/: the cinematography/sets. Remember how I said I liked the cemetery and the trolley scene? Part of that also had to do with the way the film captured it. I love when DCOMs put more effort into things like that. Another cool bit was showing George's bike on the street at the end of the movie. <br /><br />And guys, can we at least agree that this was better than Girl vs. Monster? The one that had singing (wtf?) and where Olivia Holt was really annoying in? And it had such a basic moral compared to Invisible Sister... this movie's theme is certainly not something I'd expect in a Halloween DCOM. I really liked this movie especially as a Halloween DCOM because it was so simple and not over-the-top. A simple story that just happened to take place on Halloween.Jetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126885984182007146.post-56846270229605276122015-10-10T11:58:05.659-07:002015-10-10T11:58:05.659-07:00To be fair,. i haven't seen the most singing p...To be fair,. i haven't seen the most singing praise ever. Everyone who likes it is the kind of person who is just going to like it, as they are part of that audience. Not mention it has that DCOM stuff that people like, and it has plenty of heart.<br /><br />Also, is it odd i tolerate that Frenemies example more?<br /><br />That one's concept was stupid it was funny and i enjoyed it, while this was too tame to be all that funny. I think they put it that as an easy way for Cleo to literately get into her sisters shoes and thus strength their relationship or whatever.<br /><br />I'm not gonna Rowan was really brilliant here, but she's obviously a lot better here. She just seems like less awkward due to how it's written. But as a said, she's nothing that brilliant here. To me, a Great DCOM performance comes from someone being hilariously ovwer the top and amazing ala Sharpay.<br /><br />The reason i'm a bit light on this one as cuz i am very used to DCOM's by now, even more than the shows, so i know the limations and i rarely get mad at the flaws anymore, so i can just focus on the good/decent stuff. <br /><br />And since this did nothing horribly wrong or offensive, i was able to call it fine. Spongey444https://www.blogger.com/profile/18034297267829136947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126885984182007146.post-31518909706736237572015-10-10T07:33:42.018-07:002015-10-10T07:33:42.018-07:00As for swallowing the fact that Rowan can pass off...As for swallowing the fact that Rowan can pass off as a twin for Paris...eh It was too much for me, it just drove home how ridiculous this movie was. Not the premise - you knew that coming in - I mean the movie itself. I looked up the book this movie is allegedly based on (more on that when Mike joins in) and this subplot does not exist anywhere in there, at all (in fact Cleo's role is actually male in the book). Which means they were under no obligation to try to work this odd plotline in. It's...I'm still trying to wrap my head around why they went this direction. Yes, other DCOMs have asked the viewer to swallow a lot but either 1.) they sucked too (the idea that a hot mean girl wants to break up the relationship between his boy and his...dog.... ala Frenemies) or 2.) they did a good enough job with suspending the viewer's disbelief that it doesn't matter, either through skilled writing in handling the disbelief (usually through worldbuilding, something Christian and Sean talk about in regards to George R.R. Martin in the night's Girl Meets World - you'll have to read their review for context) or diminishing the importance of that plotpoint in the movie so it's not just as big a distraction, or some other means. Just the way I experienced the movie, it fell much, much into to former than the latter.<br /><br /><br />The reason why they used Lacrosse is because Girls' Football (at least American football) doesn't exist as a high school sport and, if you don't mind me getting a little political, they wanted to use as "manly" a sport as girls typically play because the most intellectually laziest, straightest, shortest line towards girls' empowerment in entertainment is to simply write girls as if they were testosterone-soaked boys and reinforce the same patriarchal stereotypes they're trying to be fighting against, except it's women buying into acting out the patriarchal stereotypes so even the writers themselves don't notice. I guess there are people who thinks a teenage girl plowing into and dropping another teenage girl onto the grass hard enough to cause injury for having committed the inexcusable sin of being on an opposing high school's team and not having main character shields/plot privilege is awesome and promoting female empowerment, uh, somehow, but the way Molly and Cleo were playing I wouldn't let my 26 year old Arizona Cardinals linebacker cousin (he doesn't exist BTW just making up an example) play the sport. Or, to put it this way, I wouldn't let my actually-in-the-Marines-who-has-actually-been-in-combat-and-shot (not shot at, I mean actually shot) uncle play the sport.<br /><br />Eh, I guess the only thing I can really say at this point is that I REALLY wish I could see or figure out why people think this movie is so great. Really. Like I said I WANTED to like this movie. I still do! I'm almost starting to wonder if Rowan has some magic spell or something on nearly everyone else on the planet and for some reason I'm not effected. <br /><br />...and yeah, I watch Lab Rats often enough to get it :pRayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11674596339371994623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126885984182007146.post-10836127718616607712015-10-10T07:33:22.384-07:002015-10-10T07:33:22.384-07:00That actually brings up another point in that Invi...That actually brings up another point in that Invisible Sister wasn't available for early viewing OnDemand either. I wonder if the ratings bomb that was Teen Beach 2 made them change their policies (it was too late to chance policy for Descendants, I'm betting) or if people complaining about how "unfair" it was to have Girl Meets World available for early viewing made them change their policy (thanks, basement dwellers). It's very possible Disney Channel caught wind of how many episodes of Girl Meets World were also leaked (and I don't mean the recent basement dweller's definition of the network putting it up early for viewing through their own means, I mean people literally recording it off an OnDemand recording on their phone and putting the phone recording on Google Docs) and not wanting that for Invisible Sister.<br /><br />I'm really not seeing why everybody is giving Rowan so much praise in this one. Someone really needs to explain to me point-by-point if necessary. I thought her acting was outright wooden and stiff. Especially her voice inflection, if that makes sense. To me it didn't seem like Chloe coming out as an organic character as so much as Riley (yes, Riley, not Rowan, Riley) trying to play a cynical Goth role, and Riley just doesn't have it in her. In my mind it makes me wonder if Rowan's acting range is pretty much Riley and...nothing else. I'll be outright enthusiastic if someone wants to school me on otherwise, though. Hey, I have an open mind. I WANTED to like Invisible Sister. Hell I still do! I just, in all honesty, can't. <br /><br />I wasn't trying to come off as ranting against DCOMs or movies with an obvious STEM bias, or trying to promote women in STEM. Those are still good! (Or rather, again, it's just another storytelling trope/tool that can be handled either well or in meh fashion). I like movies that try to positively show women in STEM fields! I was just trying to point out that 1.) there are a whole bunch of movies that do it more successfully, in fact on Disney Channel alone you can virtually randomly take your pick and, or movies outside of Disney Channel, 2.) for all the talk of having women become more interested in STEM fields and all the sudden interest in promoting it in the entertainment industry (to pull a Cleo and be soul-crushingly cynical - or maybe just put on a John Oliver hat - it's pretty obvious Disney Channel's just doing it for parental brownie points to help encourage their families to become regular Disney Channel viewers - as one of the largest media corporate conglomerates out there it's the only reason why Walt Disney Inc/Co/Whatever does anything) there seems to be actual little interest or implementation in pushing that interest when and where it matters, in Grades 1-3. By middle school it become exponentially more difficult to convince or teach a child who has little interest in math before to suddenly gain an interest in math, let alone by high school. Not impossible, and it does happen frequently, but "hey let's make it more challenging to prove the naysayers wrong!" isn't a game you want to be playing with a child's education. As it stands right now there is little interest or practical effort in changing the status quo in the grades that matter. That's not Disney's fault or responsibility, and it's not this movie's fault or responsibility, or Rowan Blanchard's, or Paris Berelc's, or Sabrina Carpenter's or Debby Ryan's or Landry Bender's, it was just something I wanted to throw out there. Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11674596339371994623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9126885984182007146.post-73489466134519564742015-10-10T01:49:10.641-07:002015-10-10T01:49:10.641-07:00I gave my thoughts before, but i suppose i can say...I gave my thoughts before, but i suppose i can say more. Wehn you said you didn't like it, i figured you just thought it was meh when compared to other movies. But now you say it's a "turd". Fine, but i don't see it. I don't see it as amazing, or even special, but it's largely inoffensive. It doesn't have the bigger issues the last few DCOM's kind of have.<br /><br />Her nature was amusing and her bit about the cliche was amazing. Your rant about STEM was...a thing. Got nothing to say to that.<br /><br />Yeah, Rown being Paris is hard to buy but given what we have had to sallow in dCOM's, i can let it slide.<br /><br />That scene was pretty solid, nad it along with hte big moment at the end sums up the positive aspects of the film. The Lacross thing is odd...cuz of all the sports they culd have used, they picked that one. Are kids into that, or were they just bored of Football?<br /><br />Girl Meets World being after this actually served to show me how much better she is here. She's not as awkward as flightly, and she seems much more confident. Paris was just kind of there, and Karan was alright, but she stood out with her better moments. She can be bland, but it's a DCOM. I've come to expect that.<br /><br /><br /><br />I never saw her as unlikable at all. She was pretty normal to me. Besides being a bit closed off, she's fine. Everything the film says about her is informed, which is her biggest issue. <br /><br />My Grade is B-, which my go to DCOM grade if it does nothing special. MVP is Rowan by default, since no one else stood out to me. It's nothing special, but it's cute. i also like there wasn't a huge romance. it almost goes there but in the end, it doesn't.<br /><br />And no, you have not become Eddy from Lab Rats...heh..get it? ...I'm sorry. Spongey444https://www.blogger.com/profile/18034297267829136947noreply@blogger.com