Reviews

This movie is about some television ghost hunters who are shooting their first season's finale in the hopes of being renewed. Everything rides on this last episode: Will it be exciting enough for the audience? So of course, they manage to finally find a (truly) haunted house and then... blow it. Nearly every time something really cool is happening, the dummies aren't recording it and it doesn't dawn on them that all this freaky stuff would have made great footage! Their honest reactions as things begin to go wrong would have made great footage. But no, they react like the Scooby-Doo team and basically run around all scared and not being ghost hunters at all! Idiots. The movie however, was entertaining, but I just couldn't get past the fact where they didn't capture all the cool stuff on camera!

From the cover image, I assumed this was an Indian or Middle Eastern production, not a Danish program. I gave this movie a chance, and it was interesting all the way through. The main character boy was likable and his rather intelligent goat was fun as well. The plot itself is rather simple. Boy wants to see the world (not follow in his father's footsteps) and adventure follows.

Now for the spoiler things. I found some parts of this movie upsetting. First off, the boy's father has a loose eye. It flops around in his head and gets stuck pointing in the wrong direction, so he needs to smack himself to loosen it once again. Is it a false eye? This did not need to be here.

Once in the big city, the boy is reminded of the penalty of having one's hands cut off for a minor offense. Perhaps this is true to history, but definitely not something that should have been in an animated feature.

And lastly, the sultan himself, the big bad guy, is repulsively fat and eats constantly, belches loudly, and even farts around his wives. He is made to be more comical, but he is definitely gross. He does seem to get his just desserts in the end, but watching the credits shows that even he too gets a happy ending.

If these things don't upset you, you'll find this to be an enjoyable one-time watch. It's free on Tubi.

Okay this takes place in the future I suppose, where some virus has wiped out a lot of the human population. I figured this movie was made in 2020 because of the covid thing inspiring so many movies with viruses, but this was from 2015! Anyway, everyone who was meant to die is already dead so everyone who is still around should be fine, right? No, instead they're just a bunch of weasels stealing from each other and knocking drones out of the sky (where are they all coming from?) to pull out their little batteries as currency. And then you got that one idiot who's wasting electricity powering an arcade is full of games he doesn't play!

The fact that the world kind of gone to crap is really nothing to do with the virus. The survivors could simply get it together and rebuild and carry on with a lessoned world population. Unless I missed a reason why electricity and stuff doesn't work? I suppose it's because there's no one around to maintain it.

In the movie, main character guy stumbles upon a drone and was about to step on it to take its batteries and stuff but instead realizes this one's kind of different and takes it home. He carefully extracts his battery and checks it out in his little testing thing at home, and the electrical potential value is off the chart! That element peaked my interest and I had to know why this particular drone was so special. Also, did it fly through AI or was someone controlling it?

The movie is kind of slow paced but was interesting enough. I think stuff like the drone races was kind of silly. I don't think that they would be wastefully gambling and competing with what could be a useful resource. Kind of looked like a bunch of RC drone nerds at a convention, not to a bunch of scavengers living day to day. Not to mention 4C, who obviously has no problem finding food. Not a critique on his personal self, just pointing out the fact that these characters do not seem to be suffering too much in the aftermath of the virus.

First off, the review: This movie is obviously low budget but well done in that it didn't try to overreach or over promise. Had a simple enough yet effective spacecraft (complete with those LED light strips you can get for your computer case) which crash lands on a planet coincidentally very much like Earth, so everything works out. Dude doesn't seemed concerned about starting a fire, in that what if the oxygen levels are so high it could have created a cascading firestorm, but we're not supposed to think about that. And the dog is there of course, so the man has a reason to speak aloud - unlike a cartoon, where the main character says their thoughts out loud when they are completely alone.

The movie was kind of boring but not so much so that I fast forwarded it or was too concerned about how much time was left in it. That does say something. I was interested to see where it went. So yeah, kudos to the guy that wrote, directed and starred in it or whatever, you helped me pass some time. And I got to see the movie for free on Tubi. It was a recommended suggestion and without knowing anything about it it made me curious enough to check it out. Thanks. The foreshadowing was obvious, repeatedly showing the guy's untied bootlace, which he later trips on. But got to admit you got me on the frayed rope! The character even comments about how smoothly it went.

And now for the questions: That's nice that space mangoes can be all connected to make a battery, but there is no way that battery later powers a spacecraft. And whose idea is it to not include a simple solar cell or something in the emergency kit of such a spacecraft? And why is this alcoholic buffoon even allowed in space, and what idiot allowed him to go with tons of beer and vodka on board? Then he ignores his supervisor to shave a few hours off of his flight, and that totally cost him a bunch of time namely this entire movie! What a dummy. Then when he finds out his girl is dead you'd think he'd abort the mission and go back to Earth - he's kind of not fit to fly anymore. And unless space travel is super common in the future (assuming this is the future) you don't get to take your dog along just because he wanted to go! And time was going really fast near where the spacecraft was, but yet the dude's beard didn't grow really fast or the dog didn't get any grayer being in that area. The only thing that really seemed to happen was that watch would spin around real quick. And space mangoes turned mushy really quick too. But you think the battery on the spacecraft would wear out and other parts would decay considering the relative centuries they spent in accelerated time.

But this is a silly little movie so I'll try to stop thinking about it like it was "interstellar" or something. And hopefully, you watched the movie yourself before reading what I had to say about it. Right?