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21. DC League of Super-Pets

Plasma: 6
Inviso: 9
Red: 9
Ermine: 12
Suprak: 16
Johnbobb: 25
Karo: 29
Mythiot: 29
Evillord: 30

Total: 165

Plasma: Wait, did I just watch a fun, breezy movie involving the Justice League? This must be a miracle. I never thought Id see the day when a DC movie made me smile so muchhell, even Batman was genuinely hilarious (And hes voiced by Keanu Reeves, of all people! How is this possible?).
Super-Pets had to have been made in an alternate universe. Its the only explanation. But you know what? Ill take it. I love how this movie utilizes a straightforward plot and makes everything fun with the pet gimmick. The guinea pig villain was legitimately great, and that final battle had me gripped. Pure fun, and the clever dialogue and meta-jokes are icing on the cake.

Inviso: I appreciated the number of in-jokes and DC comics references from this movie that I didnt know I wanted. Its a comedy film, so of course theyre able to play up the absurdity of, say, Superman putting on a pair of glasses and somehow going undetected, when in reality, everyone would know exactly who he is. Also, the Bruce Wayne/Batman humor was on the nose JUST the right amount to keep it light and funny throughout the film. But ultimately, I just found it to be a really cute film about a dog learning to be a dog from other pets that didnt necessarily have the same vaunted upbringing as him, and I think the end result was happy endings for everyone, including the villain. It was an inspired choice to make the kitten a murderous psychopath, by the way, because yeahthats whatd happen if you gave a cat those kinds of superpowers. This was a fun movie, and even though it was pretty standard in terms of non-Disney/Pixar animation (plotlines and whatnot), Im not going to criticize it too much for that, since at least the execution worked well.

Red: Super hero origin story, but with pets. A bunch of unwanted pets accidentally get superpowered and with an overpowered but very much typical good dog who has to be nerfed for the movie to work save the world from an evil guinea pig. It really isnt all that complicated beyond that, but it is a fun little story and all of the animals finding their homes and identities at the end was fairly satisfying.

Ermine: It's astounding how incredibly MID this film is. I don't really get why they decided to make Lex Luthor a complete joke but sure. Not to mention the actual villain is terrible and unfunny in every way.
Thankfully the whole thing is mostly inoffensive with a little bit of fun.
I would have liked to see the characters grow alongside Krypto throughout the movie instead of y'know, all of a sudden being able to control their powers after like a 5 second pep talk. 5 second pep talk does not character growth, but y'know what, sure. Who needs actual character growth in a movie where every voice actor is just doing their regular voice so each character doesn't even feel like a character and just sounds like said voice actor. Terrible, god awful casting of basically every animal character here.

Suprak: *no writeup submitted*

Johnbobb: I went into League of Super Pets with extremely low expectations, and to its credit it did manage to succeed them! It's kind of like the Secret Life of Pets movies if they were less terrible. But like Secret Life of Pets, it gives way too much time to Kevin Hart playing an animal that feels less like a character in its own right and more like a vehicle for Kevin Hart. I'm getting really, really burnt out on the Dwayne Johnson/Kevin Hart dynamic. It was funny in Jumanji but by now it's just done to death and feels the exact same the entire time, which particularly doesn't work in a movie like this. The main super-pets kind of dragged it down, but the side characters made me laugh a couple times.

Karo: Did you ever wonder what would happen if you take the most generic kids CGI movie template ever and cross it with the most generic superhero story template ever, then populate it with the most unlikeable group of fuzzy cartoon animals to grace the silver screen since Open Season? Oh dear.
So what happens is that a chunk of kryptonite lands in the pound and gives the animals superpowers, one of which is an evil guinea pig who simps for Lex Luthor and wants to take over the world. The good animals have to stop her because the real heroes cant for arbitrary reasons and that's really all there is to the movie.
Its honestly just Secret Life of Pets with terrible characters and random DC fanservice. Also, what the hell they did do to poor Jessica Cruz? I am just left wondering which super villain cut off all the hair on one side of her head and fused her with a dreamworks troll prior to the movie.
Should just call it the BS League of Super Pets because you will need an industrial strength pooper scooper to deal with this mess.

Mythiot: *no writeup submitted*

Evillord: Dog shit