This weekend, my girlfriend and I sat down on Saturday night to watch a movie after dinner. She was scrolling on Hulu earlier in the day and we saw the new release: Girl 2020. We figured "a thriller? might be interesting". Afterwards, we had some time so we decided to watch another, and I had recently gotten The Land Before Time for us to watch, so we watched that.
This movie was just disappointing. I gave a 45% out of 100%. I was good enough to not turn off completely, and it kept my girlfriend and I talking. I find a bad movie is one of three things: terrible and I just shut it off, mediocre sparking critiques and criticisms, or that perfect bad movie that becomes good again.
Girl is that frustrating mediocre bad movie. We found ourselves just complaining about lingering shots, pointless decisions, why are her tits out? etc. If you like Bella Thorne it might be worth watching, but honestly its a pass from me.
This left us wanting so I pulled this up to watch. I loved this movie when I was a child. I watched this all the time and the sequels growing up. So I wanted to revisit this childhood classic.
I'd give it a 90%. This comes with a caveat of: this is a kids movie, nothing more. It is a beautiful film. The animation is smooth and captures the magic and wonder it film invokes.
I loses points for being very short, at 69 minutes, it really feels like nothing actually happens. I feel like they could've spent more time giving each character something to overcome. I don't honestly remember if Ducky or Spike had anything themselves to overcome.
And also for being too quick to change the colors when the lighting changes. Each dinosaur will drastically change color scene to scene and it throws you off.
This movie is very sad, but nothing makes me ear up like that credits music. I cannot hear it without getting misty eyed.
I think any child will still enjoy this movie, so I still recommend it. If you're an adult who hasn't seen it: it is maybe going to leave you wanting more from it.
I don't normally talk about movies, but I spent my weekend decompressing, so this was all I really had to write about. I am curious what other childhood movies still hold up. Have you revisited any of your childhood classics? What are your bad movie thresholds? What do you do when you are watching a bad movie?
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