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39. Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

Johnbobb: 24
Ermine: 26
Red: 28
Evillord: 30
Inviso: 33
Karo: 40

Total: 181

Johnbobb: man this is one of the most early 2000s animated movies out there. The soundtrack is about as good as you could hope for it to be, the animation is just horrifying enough while not being unpleasant to watch, the comedy is low-brow and goofy but still funny. Making the various theme park rides into spaceships is still a stroke of creative genius (even moreso by making the rides continue to act as they would on earth, even if that makes no logical sense). The movie, much like the show that later follows it, throws reason out the window in favor of goofball antics, and it's just a good, dumb time.

Ermine: The robot dog is very cute.

I laughed once. When the slime guy was trying to take apart robot dog and Jimmy is on speaker saying that Goddard was going to explode and he's like oops my bad. Good delivery.

Rest is very unremarkable.

How do kids breathe in space?

???

Also, for being such a genius, why did it take Jimmy over 24 hours to realize his parents were abducted and didn't just go to Florida?

Red: Generic children characters with generic genius but also incredibly stupid main character go on an adventure to save their parents from mind controlling aliens. Nothing is particularly awful here, but also none of the characters are stand outs at all. The aliens eventually are super incompetent and Jimmy about as generic an animated movie main as you could get. His apparent super intelligence becomes harder to buy when he is also insufferably dumb at the same time.

Evillord: I think I had this on VHS as a kid. A lot of the humor is honestly really dumb and juvenile, which is a funny contrast with its big-brained main character but doesn't make it a lot of fun to watch as an adult. Between the stiff 3D animation and the shitty soundtrack, it ends up feeling low-energy, even when the kids are partying or fighting. Still, characters like Hugh and Carl Wheezer have their charm, and I liked the part where the kids were hung over from going on the 10-year-old version of a bender.

Inviso: This was bad. There are some animated films that cater to kids, but are still mature enough to make them palatable to the adults taking their kids to the movies. This is not one of those. Every aspect of this film is childish and filled with plot holes that no kid is going to care about. But as an adult, its extremely frustrating, and its made worse by a cast of elementary school children who piss me off with their over-the-top eccentricities. Jimmy is annoying, but not as much as Carl or Sheen, and Cindy is literally there to be the female rival. Its just really obnoxious, and the only reason it ranks as high as it does is because the plot kept moving forward at a decent pace, and at least the concept is interesting, even if the execution was godawful.

Karo: Jimmy is this young genius who is for some reason is still in elementary school when he is knowledgeable enough to be able to build like a fucking robot dog and shit. His parents don't seen particularly concerned how their son launches himself into the stratosphere or plays around with hazardous technology on a regular basis.
So the story is that Jimmy tries to contact extraterrestrial life by sending a toaster into orbit, and ends up getting every adult in town abducted by aliens. So all the kids go into space without spacesuits and defeat an entire alien civilization, and the film ends on the touching note of everyone belching for like two minutes straight.
The film wants you so so much to see Jimmy as an endearing character, the problem is that he is just not endearing in any conceivable way. He is an obnoxious tool who seems to get off on showing up all the other kids in school with his superior intelligence, and it is hard to feel sympathy for him even when he gets bullied.
As for the supporting brats, you've got the fat, stupid, asthmatic kid whose entire character is being one of those three things, the horrible abusive girl who spews verbal bile whenever she opens her mouth, the skinny stupid kid who is somehow even stupider then the fat one, and the juvenile delinquent who feels a bit too old for his class and seems to exist solely to impart to the children watching the film just how cool it is to be a juvenile delinquent. Jesus fucking Christ, you wouldnt think there would be group of characters so terrible that they would make the cast of Chicken Little seem lovable, but we just may have done it here.
It is not helping that youve got an idiotic plot accompanied by irritating music and some of the worst CGI animation to ever grace a theater screen. Everyone is misshapen blobs of human flesh that are so grotesque that even the slimy alien vomit pile people are far more pleasant to look at.
I do give Nickelodeon a lot of guff, but their strength lies in unique art styling. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but it always seems different. But then they go and make this, which is the most generic, white bread, I want to suck Pixar's dick early 2000's CGI trash ever.
This is nothing more than a cheap cashgrab targeted at CG-mania, and you don't need to be a genius to figure that out, boy or otherwise.