Dillos Life i: you mean i can even become an anime?? [butternuts] [dillos]

so yeah beated - I can see why people would like it because of the second half, but it feels more like an action movie that uses a pre-existing movie to establish a plot so the movie doesn't have to bother doing that itself - kinda bizarre how much the back half focuses entirely on Doug and like there's zero communication at all from the point he enters the village to the rest of the movie

the change to make the mutants live in an abandoned village as opposed to just in the mines is pretty neat though, and there is a great variety of new mutants to populate it which is at least visually compelling....... but the characterizations are entirely lacking. the original movie they're actual characters. I also lost track of who's supposed to be who among them, the original makes it pretty distinct who's who among Jupiter, Ruby, Pluto, Mars, Mama... and well the other boy mercury as minimal as he is doesn't get confused with the more established mutants. this one nah I can only really extrapolate from actions that are repeated from the original into here to say "oh that's them"

like when Bobby & Brenda set up the trap against Jupiter my first thought was, "oh Jupiter was in this movie?" and it's so weird because in the original he's clearly made out to be the big boss, with a backstory told by the gas station owner. but here it's just oh yeah we haven't done anything with these characters so lets pull back from the source material again, after giving Doug something brand new that actually worked and made up most of the ending alone.

so yeah, what the movie does new it does alright, but what the movie repeats is just flat-out worse and it's hard to give props to a movie when 75% of it is just the same thing done badly. should've focused much heavier on the original content.