Friday, November 28, 2014

Christmas Special: Eamonn reviews Moshi Monsters the Movie

(THIS MONTH'S THEME...THIS WAS ROBBED OF CHRISTMAS NUMBER 1 LAST YEAR! #BOYCOTTXFACTOR2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-43GXLnjTo
(Eamonn holds up the dvd of this months film, His Face is a Masque of Disbelief)

I...Ah...Well....What Did I....I Mean....Uh....I Don't...Even,....WHAT? WHAT DID I JUST WATCH?

Ever since last year and i zimmered through Bionicle, I decided to do a toy franchise movie every year!

But First Some Background Info that for those who don't know what Moshi is...YEAH GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!

Moshi Doesn't have a Tv Tropes page, nor do I trust Wrong-A-pedia, who once said RD Reynolds died and That Samuel L. Jackson was buying Shelbourne Rovers!

But I started as, and still am, a wrestling reviewer, and when i'm in a pinch I use that trade's best weapons: observations and Pooled resources.

so from what I gathered is that Moshi Monsters is a MMORPG Where players can assume 1 of 6 Moshis customise it's house and go on missions to earn in game currency to buy items and smaller creatures called Moshlings. Every 3 Months, An ingame event, introduces the new wave of characters which are then turned into the expensive plastic and plushies that do nothing!

And as evidenced in this film, they also don't have 2 original Ideas to rub together!

 So let's slide down the sooty chimley to the Grim Grotto for Our xmas special.

We start in a jungle expedition that is no way resembling the 1 in Pokemon: the First Movie
IMPENDING LAWSUIT COUNTER:1

As Buster Bumblechops, a Rabbitty Richard Attenborough, is on a quest to a mysterious temple. So Indiana Jones and the Half-Assed Crusade over here, uncovers his prize, the great Moshling Egg, Breaking his leg in the process.

After the Title Drop,we cut to Our Hero, a Pikachu knockoff called Katsuma...
IMPENDING LAWSUIT COUNTER:2
Telling, Poppet. a PoundLand JigglyPuff...
IMPENDING LAWSUIT COUNTER: 3

...That Rawry Scrawl is making a Documentary about him. Poppet corrects him and says that he's making the film about Monstro City (Yes! this film is!) whilst planting berries that will attract rare monsters
IMPENDING LAWSUIT COUNTER:4

Katsuma shows off my activating his Bakugan Ability card, HIYAH HURRACAINE! Which is also his catchphrase!
IMPENDING LAWSUIT COUNTER: 5

So the 2 mammals of indetermined Species leave for Monstro City as a hand in a bush steals an accordian Moshling. Later in a sweaping shot of the city, a creature causes trouble and steals a poodle, whilst angrily ripping a wanted sign for an outlaw called fish Lips!

In a café Cltuhumanoid Rawry Scrawl is explaining the film as Katsuma complains about the film being not about him. Rawry then reveals that the film will also follow, short tempered volcanic devil Diavlo, Luvli, a flying cherry that talks like a British Luvvy, Furi, a big eater Bigfoot and Zommer, a Lovable Slacker who is a decomposing zombie. They are interrupted by a new report that a moshling stealing Spree has hit the Moshi world However, only Moshis with names that start with G are being kidnapped.

We then cut to a news report About the Great Egg at BumbleChops Hall. The Sight of the egg is sends Poppet's Pet Elephant, Mr Snoodle into a state of panic.
FORESHADOWING!
So the Mains go to see the egg, whilst being spied upon by a Top hat and coat, the main villain Doctor Strangeglove.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuP6KbIsNK4
No, Isaid StrangeGLOVE!
Aided by Fish-Lips, who we previously seen in a disguise to steal a poodle, The Dr exposits through song of course that he has indeed stolen all the moshlings to feed into his Assimilation Machine, that turns Moshi into creatures called Glomps, Stating he's only stolen moshis whose names start with g, because Glomp starts with G.
ER...?...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3fVj8A-K8E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhtwirqe6Lc
The Machine turns cute individual and diverse Moshis into glomps, badly Drawn bouncy balls that are unlikable characters with no personality and only 2 frames of animation.
OH I GET IT!
It's a Johnny Test episode Machine and Dr. StrangeGlove is really Scott Fellows!

So StrangeGlove and his army of mutant testicles steal the egg and vandalise the museum. But his real plan is to make Katsuma unwittingly go on a fetch quest for Ingredients that will turn the hatchling into a Mega Glomp...Wait!

If the Plan is to steal every creatures individuality , Isn't making 1 creature bigger and Stronger that the rest in turn making it an individual?

Congratulations! Britain! I didn't think you'd top Horrid Henry for stupid plans that created a huge plot hole! but you've done it!

So Bumblechops tells katsuma some advice "if you don't stand for Something, you'll fall for anything" Before giving the 6 creatures An Airship.

The Fetch Quest is for 3 rare items I'll spare you the terminology and names used, but they are a rare fruit , Tears from a Blue Weaper and a Rainbow Diamond.

First stop is HumbaLumbaLand, the Africa Stand-in that made me spit out my xmas Snowball Drink. "Humba" being a Racial Slur. for a black person.
Y'KNOW, FOR KIDS!
It's revealed that Katsuma can't Whistle
PLOT POINT!
Something that comes handy to know when Meeting cannibals who communicate solely by whistling!

So Poppet, Katsuma, Furi, Diavolo and Luvli are put in a pot. and need rescuing-despite the fact that DIAVOLO AND LUVLI CAN FLY! AND HAVE BEING FLYING SINCE THEIR CHARACTERS WRE INTRODUCED!

Bullshit aside, Zommer rescues the others by detaching his detaching undead body to win a Limbo Contest, winning the fruit and his friends freedom but staying behind to party.

Escaping the jungle to go to Jollywood, they are captured by StrangeGlove's Partner in crime, an Evil clown called Sweet tooth
IMPENDING LAWSUIT COUNTER:6
When Diavolo helps the others escape by using his lava to melt the binding toffee during the song, The Clown of Ambiguous Gender attacks with all his sweet based weapons. the plan is to Separate Katsuma from his more sensible friends.
...So Basically Katsuma is Sailor Moon?

Diavolo and Luvli are captured with Zommer collected by Scare force 1 later on.

Our 3 remaining heroes uncover the Indian Inspired City of Jollywood, an obvious and ridiculous pun of Bollywood, here they meet Bobbi SingSong  a gingerbread man who is a Bollywood superstar, right down to the Moustache and White Velvet Suit. Katsuma replies he's more famous because Bobbi's only famous in Jollywood!

Why do I get the feeling Katsuma has the same agent as Jade Goody?

After Bhranga/Techno ear vomit-LISTEN TO THIS SHIT!..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edgr4KanFRw

The Blue Weeper reveals itself to be...an allusion to Vishnu!
And I can't believe a Toy Company has done this again!

BACKSTORY!
20 Years ago, Matchbox had to discontinue several models of it's Monsters In My Pocket Figures and Trading Cards after being sued by the British Hindu Society after being offended when models based on key gods in their Parthenon were described on their trading cards as "hideous" and "freaky" And even though Moshi has turned their key god into a blue tiger on playing a sitar on a lotus on a cloud, It's no less offensive!

After making GOD! laugh, and collecting his tears, Bobbi teleports our heroes to Mt. Sillyman Jaro, but Furi distracted by food, is teleported to a cell next to Diavolo and Luvli's.

With Blinki the camera out of commission, Katsuma complains no-one will see him save the day loudly causing an avalanche. Poppet and Him blame each other for the mess they're in, until Pratsuma finally realises how much of a prick he is. this leads to another terrible song!
FAST FORWARD BUTTON!

Actually Poppet's Positive Attitude is enough to grow helpful flowers defrost the dead, and reveal the Frosty Rainbow Diamond.

With all 3 artefacts, StrangeGlove brings Scare Force One Around. Poppet has Magic seed from her helpful flowers. StrangeGlove goads Katsuma into doing tricks with egg when he steals it back, which naturally falls out of his paws and into the five remaining fingers of StrangeGlove.

Snoodle attacks StrangeGlove and Fish Lips' cablecar, falling to his (Disney)Death. With all the heroes captured Poppet sings and mourns for her puny pet pachyderm.

Trapped on a Conveyer Belt of Doom. it's revealed Snoodle is alive and uses his whistle to get the airship to collect him.

So let's finish this year with a bang!
Pratsuma, carring Snoodle, uses his Hiyah Hurricaine and Snoodle's whistling to free the other Moshlings, who run of the Glomps and rescue the egg. After the final song, the Egg Hatches into a Mrs Snoodle!
FORESHADOWING HAS ARRIVED!
And It's revealed that the temple has more eggs, just in case Mind Candy plans to release a film for every useless plastic trinket they'll ever Make!
THIS FILM MIGHT SUCK...BUT I JUST THINK IT'S STUPID!
I KNOW NOTHING! And continue knowing nothing from this franchise, and I won't lose sleep about that! the charecters are one dimensional, the villains don't an edge to them, the animation is basic and the songs won't pass the Grey whistle test! But since I'm obviously a man who know nothing I can't really judge it any harder than a Colourful mindscrew to appease fans and babies!

CREDITS
Moshi Monsters was Reviewed Compiled and Edited by Eamonn Bermingham
with clips from
Moshi Monsters: the Movie
Dr Who
Dr Strangelove
and Music
The RetroBot-Christmas Robot!

Moshi Monsters are registered trademarks of Mind Candy and the film was distributed by Universal Studios.
All Rights Reserved,
And all clips belong to there Respective Owners.

Merry Christmas and have a happy new year to all you that make this all possible!

Eamonn

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Eamonn reviews Pacific Rim part 2

(This month's theme-Jefferson Airplane-White Rabbit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR8LFNUr3vw

When we left off,  we are in the far off future of 2025, where Kaiju, sea monsters from another world have terrorised the coastal cities of the Pacific. To combat this  new threat, humanity is united, if only by it's xenophobia, to create powerful, if casually racist, robot armour. Our hero who saw his twin brother eaten by a kaiju, has never gotten over and reluctantly gotten back into the army base in Hong Kong.


So Rayleigh is reunited with his old pit crew and the newly rebuilt Gypsy Danger 2.0. Mako, the Japanese Girl who at first we think is just Pentecost's P.A., reveals she is a pilot but won't be 1 of the candidates. She honestly tells the American that the trauma has made him gunshy, but he responds that when she becomes a pilot she'll have to think on her feet!
FORESHADOWING!


We also have an establishing shot of the romance between the two. Mako tries to become a candidate but Pentecost mentions not going out for revenge. At the Mess Hall, Striker's Pilot tells Rayleigh that the mission is too important for washed-up pilots to make a haims of it!


The candidate trials is a martial arts/kendo tourney, which makes no sense since Jaegers are Giant Rock'em, Sock'em Robots and are too bulky to do the flips and kicks shown here. Sick of the 3rd degree Mako has on him, Rayleigh calls her out for a fight. so 1 sexual tension fuelled fight later, since it's being established that film has a smurfette Principle and the only other woman on base is married. Rayleigh is impressed but Pentecost refuses and still keeps shtum about why.


A cutaway shows Pentecost nose bleeding. Because of the Sydney attack protests are raging and safe zones for the wealthy are set up mainland.


Nuke drifts with a Kaiju Brain with a McGyvered Interface (it's made from a motorbike, a bellows, an Xbox and it's headgear are curling irons!) Pentecost gives Mako a child's shoe stating something about a promise he made when they first met.


The Trail Run of Gypsy Danger 2.0 is interrupted when Herman, as fast as his good leg can carry him, to tell Pentecost that Nuke drifted with a Kaiju Brain. Nuke tells him that he was right. that humanoid Kaiju-these "masters"-have cloned the beasts to colonise worlds. they tried in prehistoric times, but failed, but with ozone depleting and pollution, "we practically Terraformed the Planet for them!"


Pentecost wants nuke to drift again only with a full kaiju, so Pentecost wants his scientist to track down a black market dealer called Hannibal (Ron Perlman)

Meanwhile, back at the Loading Dock, As Expected, 2 people with nothing in common and traumatic lives have trouble controlling the Gypsy 2

Mako is suffering from "Chasing The Rabbit"-a massive and intense jog of memory-She Remembers the day-She lost her family as a child-Carrying around her shoe-When Tokyo was attacked by a Kaiju. Rayleigh still Psychically to Mako tries to reason but the girl activates the weapon systems and starts shooting at the shadows of her past. Luckily the pit-team disconnects the drift manually.

We cut to the Bone Slums on Mainland Hong Kong, as Nuke enters a Chinese Chemist, this time instead of endangered animals, it's the kaiju that are turned into "Medicine". Hannibal is an American Caucasian "Not my real name, of course, in this line of work. my first after my favourite historical figire and the surname after my favourite takeout place back home in Brooklyn" who either has golden shoes or golden plated Prosthetics,  I can't tell, nor does it ever come up!

Chuck gets in Rayleigh's face but when he insults the girl he just met a week ago, a fight ensues. Pentecost grounds Mako and Rayleigh, but he knows about the "debt" she was talking about now: Mako is Pentecosts Adoptive daughter, who he saved from the Kaiju years ago, So naturally he's over-protective of her.

Each Lead confide their fears in a tender moment-BUT FUCK THAT SHIT!-It's the double event Herman warned about!

So all 3 non-American Jaegers set out into the ocean-
I wonder if the make Red Shirts that size?

Back in Hong Kong, Hannibal asks why Nuke wants a Brain, since it's just pure ammonia, when he rightfully guesses that the scientist drifted with a beast-he calls him a moron, and gets his men to rough him up!

Back in the China Seas, it looks like humanity is winning, until the Kaiju do something that no-one expected!

Use an electromagnetic pulse to disable all thing electronic, Hong Kong is now Helpless. China and Russia are killed. And the Commonwealth got the full brunt of the EMP. The Hendrixes are Dead in the The Water, minutes away from just being dead! Heracles, Chuck's dad and co-pilot has broke his arm, But the Gypsy crew are no longer grounded and rescues the Hendrixes.

Back in Hong Kong's bomb shelter the realisation that Nuke may have inadvertently shown the Kaiju how to kill humanity settles in as the other survivors throw him out as a sacrifice. Until the Gypsy arrives and uses a ocean liner as a baseball bat. and freezing it's stinger tail with CO2. But the Kaiju has another surprise, it can fly!

But the new Jaeger has a new feature, one that now has the kendo class scene now make sense. a foldable sword-OH COME ON! THAT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING FROM A ORIGAMI CLASS! If you want to give a robot a convincing giant sword, put a cowcatcher on it's gun arm like a bayonet. Anyway the Pterodactyl like Kaiju takes the robot out of the atmosphere but he cut it in half. But a drop from Terminal Velocity doesn't phase the crew in the suit-What is this Suit made of? Plot Contrivium? The other Jaagers got opened up like Christmas, Striker has a flat battery, but A drop from outer space? Scratched Paint Job!

The Gypsy Pilots return to a heroes' welcome. Mako is reeled by something the audience cannot see. Until the reverse angle shows us Pentecost's Nose bleeding again only heavily this time. On the Mainland Hannibal sends his crew to harvest the Kaiju, with Nuke there waiting for revenge.
YEAH GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!

We time-skip to a black-eyed Nuke and a grinning Hannibal, commending on how the scrawny scientist can take a punch. The Smuggler sends his crew into the bifurcated Creature,when they hear heartbeats. Soon, toxic afterbirth has awashed the street and a Baby Kaiju has being born. it's umbilical cord wraps around it's neck and it dies. Hannibal taunts the creature...only for it to rise up eat Hannibal and then die!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A
At least Nuke has his fresh Kaiju Brain!

Back at the Airbase, Pentecost tells Rayleigh that the early Jaegers had no radiation shielding. He has Cancer And it's terminal, if he ever gets into a Jaeger again, the background radiation alone in enough to kill him.
FORESHADOWING! AGAIN!

With Heracles injured Pentecost becomes Chuck's co-pilot
FORESHADOWING HAS ARRIVED!

Despite their Differences, Herman and Nuke decide to drift into the Kaiju Baby's Brain together.

Heracles says his final goodbyes to his son. The Scientists drift into the Kaiju Brian and see a factory floor of 1000's of Kaiju. The plan to nuke only the breach will only serve to radiate the seas and make it more habitable for the invaders.

The Reason Kaiju can escape the breach is because they belong there genetically and they will always return there now they have being developed to have children, much like a migratory bird. If they can skin a kaiju, the Breach could allow them to enter and attack the breach from the inside collapse the wall's between worlds. So the Jaeger skin 1, losing an arm in the process. The Striker sacrifices itself so the Gyspy can detonate it's nuclear reactor.

So let's Finish this!
Covered With a Kaiju Carcass, A critically damaged Gypsy enters the Breach. Rayleigh Jettisons an unconscious Mako's escape pod and detonates the reactors. The Breach has collapsed.  The pods return to Earth and Mako who thinks she found Rayleigh's dead body, confesses her love, he wake up after playing a joke. All I can say is....KISS YOU IDIOTS!

Oh and this film may not suck!...But why have movie that's not really Godzilla, when you can have Godzilla?

If you are in habit of a movie and pizza night, this is good rental choice for you. That's not a bad thing, this film is quite enjoyable though predictable. Some Hammy acting is here to balance out the United Nations of Funny Accents being shown here. This film loses the human factor with the ending the 2 star-crossed lovers save humanity and all they do is nuzzle? COME THE FUCK ON?

CREDITS
Pacific Rim was reviewed, compiled and Edited by Eamonn Bermingham
With Music and clips from:
in Part 1
"We Got Explosive" by the New Sound Of London

In Part 2,
White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane
Price is Right

Pacific Rim is property of Warner Bros.
All rights Reserved.
NEXT MONTH: THE GRIM GROTTO OPENS UP AS A NEW CELLULOID COAL LUMP LANDS IN YOUR CHRISTMAS STOCKING!
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: MOSHI MONSTERS:THE MOVIE!