@@SeanChandlerTalksAbout modern audiences dont understand because most of the modern heroes act just like the villains and are certainly just as narcissist Case and point: wandas convo at the end of wandavision: she gets told that basically everyone should be greatful for her letting them go. Dont worry about the fact she kidnapped and entire town for months, separated people from their kids who we have no idea what happened to them as their parents didnt even remember them, and mentally tortured them for months. Don't worry at all, because she did it for kids that exist only in her own mind, so its totally fine eh....
Yeah I'm not big on the Sonic lore, but even I know Shadow and Maria's relationship was solely a deep friendship and nothing more. Now there is that time a human girl kissed Sonic...I know it was a sleeping beauty like situation, but still kinda weird.
@@DeuteromisThe Shadow The Hedgehog manual states that Maria was like a big sister to Shadow. So I wouldn’t say it was a "deep friendship," but it certainly wasn’t… *that*.
"Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. The rest of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same person yet in some ways nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever about their Friendship. Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest. Above all, Eros (while it lasts) is necessarily between two only. But two, far from being the necessary number for Friendship, is not even the best. And the reason for this is important." - C.S. Lewis
That's how I've always felt when people in a fandom ships two characters in a story and see every interaction those characters have as the author alluding to love. Nah man, sometimes friends are just friends.
Slanders shadow without proof? He shows interest in a random young girl. And is voiced by an old man.... If he is supposed be the same age as her the movie did a bad job of that by making him not be voiced by an actor the same age as her. Whatever shadows interests are in her, its not appropriate and its weird that they went this direction with the choice of voice actor. They could have at the very lest made him young at the beginning and then voiced by keanu after the 50 year time jump.
@@ge2719 shadow is a child, in the games he is created by Gerald. Maria is the one who take care of shadow as her little brother. Why shadow looked up to Maria as his older sister. Also he created using alien dna from immortal race of ancient aliens. Though in this movie adaption shows he came from meteorite egg. Showing he still a young child. Why they experiment on him. As for his voice sounding older is because in games Gerald aged him up older in his creation before waking shadow up. But he still mentally a child when he first meets Maria.
@@ge2719 yeah it was without proof, Shadow wasn't born naturally and grew up normally like Sonic, he was created to be a definitive weapon so they made a body for it, he gets attached to Maria because she was the first being who didn't see Shadow as a weapon but as a living being and treats him As one, the actor's choice of voice does not change the nature of the characters' relationship. The choice of a deeper or more mature voice for Shadow is a stylistic issue to portray his dark and introspective character, although Shadow appears to be an adult, he is an artificial being with a mindset shaped by his creation and his purpose. Comparing him to a normal human being or trying to attribute human intentions to him is to disregard his unique nature as a character, since you and her found their relationship inappropriate certainly also found the other platonic relationships in fiction like obi-wan/anakin and luke skywalker, joel and ellie in tlou, maui and moana, etc. This is quite common in fiction but this is your interpretation and even though i think its strange and distorted, i have to respect it.
Maria was one of the few who treated Shadow like a person instead of a weapon. When she died his sense of humanity died with her and was sent on a vendetta against humanity for taking her away from him. But he failed to understand Maria's way of life of living life for others instead of seeking vengeance against people who never wronged him.
That was the entirety of Shadow’s character. He experienced the best and worst of humanity. It was just the worst that traumatized him and made him have that hatred for humans
@ToxicVex267 Expect shadow isn't evil just misunderstood which was why sonic can't kill him because he understands what shadow went through. I feel bad for Maria because I know there friends but that's how shadow story went tragic.
Yeah that line that was dubbed in after test screenings, definitely proves it. Keanu Reeves sounds exactly like a child. So obviously the haracter who's age we don't know, and the scientists don't know, because they say he "seems like a child", again, in a dubbed over line. Proves they don't know. If they wanted shadow to be a child at the start he should have been voiced by a child at the start, and then by keanu after the fifty year time jump. That wood have made perfect sense and fixed the weirdness of having an old man voiced character be interested in a young girl. You guys must be seriously socially inept if you don't see how weird this aspect of the movie was.
@@ge2719 Stop trying to sexualize what has none. He only looks and sounds like an adult because he was formed that way, he wasn't formed to go through growing up physically, mentally he was a child. The entire reason they saw each other as siblings was because to him, those were his formative years.
Yeah, that is what they try to say about the original He-Man being Gay coded which if you actually watch the whole show, you see that it is not. It is mostly conjecture. They think it is for the most immature reasons. They also do this with Batman and Robin and Doctor Quest and Race Bannon.
For real all these terms like "Black-coded" "Queer-coded" "Trans-coded" If you think about it, it's just politically correct way of stereotyping. If something meets all the checkboxes for a particular minority, it's must been designed to represent that minority. If you say a black man would eat fried chicken, watermelon, and grape soda, it would be racist, but if YOU eat fired chicken, watermelon, and grape soda, you're "black coded" (ಠ_ಠ)
I used to watch her religiously 10-15 years ago or something? Loved her content. Then she became delusional and insanely unreasonable by this clown ideology
She said the "Super Mario Brothers Movie" was "promoting furries," just because Mario wore a cat suit in one scene, and she didn't even know/understand it was a power-up items from the video games, even though the movie explained how power-up items work. It takes effort to not understand a movie this much. She should stay away from video game movies, as she obviously never picked up a game controller in her life.
Strange isn't the word I'd use. She's an annoying idiot. She finds a feminist problem in everything. A woke feminist to her core. That's what she became fairly quickly to me. Stopped listening to her several years ago. Listening and seeing her review something is like waiting for the good part in something that doesn't actually manifest and all you get is a predictable sh*tfest.
In Grace Randolph's defense, the actor who does the voice for Shadow the Hedgehog is a 60-year old man. So maybe that's why the character doesn't feel so young for Grace.
@ : No I think it's great that Grace Randolph naturally wants to protect children from predators. But I think the reason why Grace finds Shadow a little weird is because he's voiced by a 60-year old man pretending to have a relationship with a character voiced by a 15-year old girl. Grace is allowed to find that a little weird.
@@LindseyDisney Kid Goku was voiced by a now 88 year old woman in Japan and a 50+ woman in the EN dub, he still had a relationship with ChiChi as a kid and it wasn't weird then. I just don't understand the american mindset, like sure, if you want to apply real laws to characters ages then go for it. But applying those laws to their voice actors? Tell me Sniffany, what must one be on to go that far to find conflict where there doesn't need to be any?
Mayb That's because Hollywood has been in charge of portraying villains not as villains but as "misunderstood"....Cruella de Vil, Maleficent, Scar...etc...she saw Bowser and thought "why is that misunderstood being says or does bad things.😂
Yeah she clearly understand he is the villain. she said the specific way he was being the villain wasnt appropriate for kids. And she's not wrong. Forced marriage probably isnt an appropriate plot line for young kids. They can learn about that when they're a bit older. They should have just had bowser kidnap her for a ransom, or to get to be king without having to marry her, or some other reason that didnt involve the lizard man being in love with a human woman and wanting to force her to marry him. That was never really in the very early games. He always just kidnapped her for reasons like her having magic powers that protect the mushroom kingdom, so kidnapping her allowed him to invade the kingdom. Or he hated Mario and wanted to take her away from him and have Mario have to run through his traps. Only a few time was it because of him wanting her affection, and it was weird in those cases and it was weird in the movie.
@@ge2719 You’re just as weird as she is. No one is thinking of these things in the strangely adult and sexual way that you two are. Strange people have a way of outing themselves and congratulations you just did.
"... not appropriate for children!" Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame: "Am I a joke to you?" Don Bluth's The Pebble and the Penguin: *In Tim Curry's Voice* "Yes, you are a joke." Don Bluth's Thumbelina: "You really shouldn't be talking, you know that?"
They said he seemed like a child, and if you actually watch the movie you'll notice those lines were dubbed in after the fact. Meaning they likely test screened the movie and someone asked "why is shadow, voiced by an old man, interested in a young child?". So they added those lines in to try and fix that issue. Rather that what they should have actually done, and had going shadow be voiced by a kid, and shadow 50 years on be voiced by old man keanu Reeves. Did you miss the fact that shadow was voice by an old man? Did you even watch the movie?
@@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778 yeah, because its just normal for a random 50+ year old man to be friends with a random child. Totally normal... nothing weird or suspicious about that at all.... You people just really have no common sense at all do you.
She’s the first media personality I’ve seen that probably needs some sort of PR team. If you go down the Grace Randolph rabbit hole one day, you truly will be amazed at how she’s been able to manage upsetting groups from all walks of life and every political spectrum, due to profoundly unnecessary and irrational spur of the moment comments. She’s the definition of some that speaks before she thinks 😂.
People expect media literacy in someone who covers media. If the media commentator blatantly misses things most audiences picked up on the first watch or read? They have every right to be pissed. Critics are allowed to have shit opinions, but only pretentious shit opinions that go over most people’s heads and sound convincing to the laymen. Because then they can still find you entertaining even if you’re ultimately wrong. Having opinions that literally no one would have because they were actually paying attention while watching the movie? Those sorts of shit opinions are the kind that just make someone unsuited to even be trying to comment on fiction. People watch media commentary to hear things they wouldn’t have otherwise thought of yes. But not in the sense that they would never think those things because that’s the dumbest thing they’ve ever heard. For some reason Grace is confused about this.
That one is pure mean girl haters club, party of one: population - Grace. All based on her usual thoroughly vetted sources and tireless fact checking drive for truth, all done with Grace's trademark uncompromised workplace integrity and professionalism in her signature style of uncurruptable hard-hitting journalistic credibility ahh, who am I kidding, Grace goes all in on Jessica, no holds barred, full-savage Karen, hold my Michelob Ultra, craziest b*tch in the Kohl's parking lot, leveled-up ice-princess, to the petty queen bee throne of basic b*tch beef that has to crawl ten miles to reach mid. Or as Grace calls it: Tuesday.
To be fair, some other high profile TH-camrs were saying that Last Blood was hard for them to watch and accusing it of being racist and/or anti-immigrant completely ignoring who the people who were like family to Rambo in the film were.
@@waterbeauty85 Of course they did, Instead of seeing a real problem showcased in a film they want to cover it up and act like its not happening and just put a non sense label on it because they think it makes their side look bad to address the problem.
Ignoring that the first Rambo movie is about abusive white cops in his own country. God forbid any other demographic be accurately depicted to have bad guys...
Bowser is like any villain, force captured Princesses to join him so he takes over the land. Hundreds of stories like that. Then there's Shadow. He was dark and foreboding, but Maria brought the good side of him out. Plus he was recently created. So technically Shadow is a child. Plus he's a little black hedgehog. By the way, it's a movie! Can't people just let their minds go into the fantasy and just escape the turmoil of life and enjoy what your given? I enjoyed Sonic 3 and the Mario movie cause it was both faithful and fresh on new ideas they did. I apologize for the rant, I just hate how the negative of society constantly likes to find and criticize something so wholeheartedly. I loved the scene of Shadow and Maria bonding, it's what kids would do.
Thank you!!! I mean seriously how many movies have we seen where children and their innocence brought out the good in any creature. It has been a movie trope for as long as anyone can remember
It's baffling for her to say that Super Mario Bros shouldn't be appropriate to kids because Bowser was doing Bowser things. I mean, by that logic, the Hunchback of Notre Dame shouldn't be appropriate to kids because Judge Frollo was willing to burn Esmerelda for not loving him. XD
How can shadow be a child predator? That doesn't make absolute sense. He's an alien who became emotionally attached to Maria because scientists experimenting saw him dangerous. Bumblebee Movie was literally a kids show to me because it was a bond between human and alien robot. Explain to me how Grace is so dumb to say that about a kids movie.
I hate it when people have stupid takes like this. The audience is not dumb and neither are children. Children are actually a lot smarter than people like to give them credit for. A character labeled as a bad guy who looks like a bad guy, acts like a bad guy, and is a foe to the good guy in a CHILDREN’S movie….A child can understand that just fine 💀
Naw Bower was totally railing Peach. Didn't you see that music video "Save me Mario" ? But all jokes aside Super Mario Sunshine did introduce Bower Jr who claimed Peach was her mother and she didn't question it at all. I never thought Peach was a complete airhead, but that game seemed to lean really heavy into that.
The fact Shadow is biological the same age as Sonic makes his story even more tragic because his only friend and honorary sister was killed in front of him and then he was frozen for 50 years not aging during that time
Oh yeah Ralph and Vanellope shows that, friendship between people with that age difference, but there was a trashy video bashing that movie (as well as Pocahontas, The Truman Show, and dunno what else but people in the comments were hating on Stranger Things and Harry Potter so...)
Ralph and Vanelope in the first movie, the relationship felt like a father/daughter relationship in a way. But the sequel. They ruined it so dang much!
Not only was Shadow's relationship with Maria not creepy at all but there is also the fact that during the time that they knew each other Maria was older than Shadow. In other words it's impossible for Shadow to be the creep in this scenario because compared to Maria, Shadow was basically a new born (as weird as that sounds).
Yeah he's like 1 year old infant created by somewhere with the body of a young teenager NOT AN ADULT who couldn't comprehend certain things and was still learning. She just kept saying things and makes it weird.
But at the same time that Shadow is supposed to be younger than underage girl, Shadow is being voiced by a 60-year old man. Maybe Grace couldn't not hear that fact as Shadow spoke to the little girl.
@@LindseyDisney That's a personal issue and she needs to work on that, even IF you were correct about that it still doesn't change the fact that she is essentially calling a (then) minor some sort of creep for becoming friends with another minor who approached him first. He literally didn't do anything wrong and his voice is a weak argument for making serious allegations for.
Never thought Shadow was an adult because even though he is smarter he often gets into rival bouts with Sonic who is also a teen. Yeah he's a lot more mature than most of the mobians but that's because of the tragedy he's been through.
According to overall Sonic lore, or at least what I gathered as a non fan, Shadow is meant to be around 15 years old *physically*. That definitely puts things into perspective.
@@Probably_CLOUD chronologically, yes, but that’s like saying Aang is actually 112 in Avatar the Last Airbender. Both statements are true, but the characters were in some form of suspended animation that kept them from aging physically or mentally.
... Shadow the hedgehog- he is a child. Not only is he 15(all media) but in the MOVIE the gun soldier literally shouted "Those are kids!" KIDS! To Maria AND Shadow, as in, plural! Is Grace brain dead?💀
Just liked to point something out, Shadow starts as a kid in all of his stories at the time when Maria dies and when he knew her but then is put into the tube thingy (I forget the name at the moment), and than becomes an adult bc it’s been decades. So idk how she got it twisted that he was always an adult, did she forget that in order to be an adult you had to have been a kid. Also Shadow and Maria are like brother and sister, it’s how they’ve always been described. How would any of that make him a pred!!?!? Did she watch the movie or is she trying to cater to someone?
@@adu1991 in other thread it was mention that he is in the same situation as AAng from TLA. You can say Ang is technically 112, but phisically and mentally hes 12 since he was himself suspended in time.
Grace is OBSESSED with James Gunn and recently began muting the comments of anyone who told her that her bashing of Gunn’s upcoming projects was relentless and borderline unhinged.
@@SoulStylistJukeBox Some of that is she became a paid up members of the Cult of Snyder to gain clout. She needs Gunn to fail despite the fact that as someone with a background in comic books she should want Gunn who seems to understand the source material to succeed rather than than ZS who showed he either knew nothing or let his own ego get in the way of not just his movies but the other movies that as head of the DCEU he was overseeing
Even IF shadow was 'adult-coded'. There's still the big fact that in most of the scene of the two, Maria is usually the one initiating the relationship while Shadow just follows along. The entire thing even starts with Maria getting closer to Shadow while he was still on the fence.
@@ge2719 Have you seen the relationship between Carl and Russel from UP. Those two basically mirror Maria and Shadow friendship, minus the floating house
She also kept calling the Florida bill the “don’t say gay” bill after it had been overtly proven wrong that it was called that or had anything to do with it. She does this often with different topics. Very dishonest
@@Just-a-dude789 Movie Math is tough to resist. I wonder where Screamboat will fall. I know it seems crazy for something like that to be in the top five but I mean the biggest movie of January, Dogman, does not come out until a week after it.
She never said he did. Just that its weird that he's voiced by an old man, making it seem like it was a relationship between an old man and a random young girl. Which isnt appropriate in any form outside of family. They should have just had him be voiced by a young kid, and then by keanu after the 50 year time junp. Would have solved all the weirdness of it, rather than just the two ADR lines they dubbed over to try and claim he was a kid too. Which didnt change the fact he seemed like an adult who lost his memory.
@@ge2719 All the Sonic characters are voiced by adults and they have always been voiced by adults in other media, nothing new. You are just kissing Grace her azz. Her review doesnt make sense and its obvious she is working for Disney under the table. Shadow didnt age in those 50 years, he is still around sonic's age or maybe a bit older.
@SAsaiyajin go back and watch sonic one. He has a childs voice in the scenes of him being younger, so you're intentionally ignoring facts here. Shadow wasnt born, he was created, and has no memories, but he was clearly created and aged up to an adult. Stop trying to justify a weird choice.
Shadow did not grow, though. That's just what his voice sounds like from the onset. You seeing something weird in that when nobody else did says more about you @@ge2719
@@ge2719Shadow wasn’t in Sonic one?? That was Sonic as a child, and Sonic doesn’t have that kind of biology as Shadow does so that’s why HE was a child. Also you literally can just go to the games they confirmed Shadow’s supposed to be physically 15, a teen, with some form of immortality as one of his abilities. My god.
@gersonencarnacion3744 "I'm not sure of this, but I'm gonna pretend it's true, since I need a reason to hate her, even if it's a made up reason. Because the dudebros of Geek and Gamers told me she was a bad person, so she must be".
I fucking hate that. Liking that movie is a massive red flag for me no matter the circumstances. A movie discussing the sexualization of little girls can be made, but actively sexualizing the underage cast to make that point invalidates it.
4:45 She said that! What a noron! Bowser is the bad guy! He does bad things! We teach kids through parable and fable all the time so that they'll know the "bad guys" when they see them!
"You can't just look away from this person." Ohhhhh YES I CAN!!! Her voice makes my ears fold back like a cat's. Can't stand her commentary and her voice is the stuff of nightmares.
When I saw her criticize DC characters in a shallow way then praise them suddenly when it became popular to not insult them, I realized she was a sheep.
A couple of years ago Grace INSISTED that James Gunn cast Logan Lehman as Superman. She later even went as far as saying that Gunn changed his decision and chose Cornsweat to make her look foolish for saying it was Lehman.
Not only does Grace deliberately say strange things for attention, she also says lots of unnecessarily mean things about various actors and directors. Which is pretty funny when you hear her constantly moaning about Gunn going after her. Each week she unsuccessfully attempts to bait Gunn into a Twitter fight. Grace is a very silly person.
I found it hilarious that she basically indirectly called shadow a creep for hanging out with Maria even though both of them are labeled as kids in the movie TWICE. Also her review was bad but Matt Walsh was worse.
EXCUSE ME? While Shadow's relationship with Maria wasn't always clearly established, both because of his amnesia and they were both very young when she died, it was ALWAYS clear that why Shadow wanted and needed to remember what he could about Maria was because she and her grandfather were his entire home, his FAMILY. And like many juvenile delinquents in the real world, when he loses them to violence, he loses his sense of self and feels the only way to make sense of this injustice is to repay it in turn. Until, that is, he finds new meaning in the example his family set for him in his life.
Grace Randolph is a great barometer. If you disagree with her, you're probably doing alright (about the media itself, she's solid at business analysis)
I disagree because her reviews are so absurd that I can’t trust her business analysis, especially when I can find the same or better information elsewhere.
@@DarthBobCat i even think her business analysis is flawed in many ways. Whenever there’s a box office flip, it’s like she always places most of the blame on the lead actors. Stars don’t even really sell movies like they used to now and I don’t think she takes that into account
I used to watch her back when i was a teenager in Nigeria, and just getting into the MCU and comic books. This was back during her Indi Mogul days but I don't know what exactly happened to her😕 She just went off on toxic identity politics and kept going more deluded with it.
I mean, Grace Randolph used to always run the watcher which was a thing Marvel did that told you about each comic that came out every week. I mean, she even was a comic book writer. She is just a bad take machine is the thing
@Karessertin103 Not to mention, Shadow and Maria have always been protrayed as being like a brother and sister to each other, and thier relationship is purely familial based, with most continuties having Shadow made specifically to help find a cure for Maria's chronic illness. He was made specifically to be her brother, her friend and her protector. I haven't seen the new movie yet, but I'm sure the bones of that aspect are still there. More recent games heavily imply that he was much more innocent and curious, even childlike at times, while on the ARK, and the shift in personality is due to his trauma. He's just a kid who lost his sister because she chose to give him the escape pod at the last moment before he had a chance to react, and it's haunted him ever since. 😭
Reminder that shadow was also (at least chronologically, mentally, and socially, since he has no apparent physical age) a child at the time, with gerald saying "come children". They also DO NOT have any romantic hints towards one another, they're just besties, brother and sister even. Also, Bowser is supposed to be a weird obsessive villain. Literally in the games shes either captured by him, or beating the crap out of him along side mario and his friends. I understand how shes thinking. Shes being creepy herself by calling ANY male character with ANY friendly or romantic moments with a character as a creep. Shes a creep herself for not letting friends be friends, especially of one of said friends is an anthropomorphic alien animal.
She's the woman who said Mario in a cat suit was an insult to his dignity. I hope no one told her he's getting taller by eating mushroom. I mean, she said Sonic 3 was bad because the movie is talking about death and grief. Has someone told her that the Lion King showed us Simba watching the death of his father ? To me, the scene where he tries to wake up is heartbreaking. How is Bowser behavior terrible when scare manipulated and tried to kill his nephew ? The're villain, that's the point.
Wait a minute... looking at an innocent wholesome friendship between an animal and a human and thinking it's romantic for literally no reason... Is Grace a shipper?💀
Grace Randolph: I’ve learned from my mistakes from May review about the Super Mario movie. And how I called Bowser a stalker. Also Grace Randolph: Hey why is Shadow a little too close to Maria in the movie. Kinda giving Child predator vibes? Also also Grace Randolph: You know what would have saved Percy Jackson and the Olympians? If they got an actor to play a super hot 14 year old boy.
"[the cat suit] ... just really robbed him of his dignity, you know?" Yes, yes it did. That was the idea (in the film's context). It was also a power-up in the games (3D World), so please be quiet.
You know she was quite normal back like 12 years ago. I like her review of Maleficent when it came out. But all I hear about her now is her taking L after L. Edit I'll give Grace this Mildred Pierce is a fantastic movie.
I'd argue Shadow is not an adult man (as you put it), but that he is, in fact... well, an animal. Nothing wrong with cozying up with an animal at any age, whether your a child with an elderly cat or an adult with a puppy. Because it's an animal. The relationship is not the same as if it were two human beings. Also he's a cartoon character, so I would technically describe him as ageless, neither young nor old. He just kind of... is.
Ah yes. The kids movie where a big fire breathing dragon threatens to destroy a woman's kingdom and kill all her people because she won't marry him is incel energy post "Me too" and is inappropriate for children... Even though he's the bad guy and is doing bad guy things and children aren't as dumb as we typically assume them to be and would understand that those are NOT good things to do. Very insightful. Congratulations. You did it. Proud of you. What next? Water is wet?
"children aren't as dumb as we typically assume" I kinda feel bad at how hard I laugh when somebody says this because I immediately think to myself "Tell me you don't have kids without telling me you don't have kids" 🤣
The biggest reason why i don't like grace is that she admits in her videos that when she votes in the critics choice awards that if someone has already won an award she will often vote for one of the other nominees even though they were worse. I'm not okay with that. Whoever was the best should win the award.
she also has said some things that are kinda racist, in review of the new superman trailer she said something like: "mr terrific looks too black with his afro" and when green book won best picture she said spike lee needs to make a "feel good" movie if he ever wants to win an oscar
She is the result of someone always looking for “problematic behavior” everywhere, context be damned. If you simply look for offensive things without weighing why they were included in the context of the story, you end up making silly think pieces like these. She can’t see the forest for the trees when it comes to anything even a little complex or nuanced. It’s like she has so,e type of legitimate neurodivergent thing where she misses subtlety.
Same people who go back to old movies and like to think theres some kind of romance there, usually gay. People went back and said in The Lost Boys(the vampire movie)David wanted Michael in the group because he was hot for him when if they paid attention, its clearly said by the head vampire Max, he wanted Michael then he could get his mom so they could literally have a big vampire family. These people love to see what they want to see even though its totally wrong..its amazing. But seeing predators everywhere, i cant count the number of comments ive seen accusing men of being predators when theres nothing there to support it
@@robbieracer3294 Exactly! And you make another excellent point. In this day and age where women are independent girlbosses and hetero relationships therefore are "so last century", people see gay couples (in movies) everywhere. And yes, if a man is even in the same room as a child, or god forbid has fun with the child, they are accused of being grooming predators. Meanwhile women are totally safe, because as we all know women can't be predators. It is only men because we are horny devils 24/7 who bone anything that has a pulse.
You hit the nail on the head! I too love watching her for her “Movie Math” box office breakdown, but when it comes to her reviewing movies she seems completely disconnected! Here is a word I have never heard her use in ANY of her reviews: “Plot”
People who cry about things being “too disturbing for kids” don’t understand kids. To a child, the Mario and Sonic movies are just fun adventures; it is only once a person gains the nuances of adulthood is when they look back and realize how “dark” certain things actually are. Also, controlling what kids media is allowed to show to children is like wrapping a kid up in bubble wrap to protect them- it isn’t going to work. Even if a kid doesn’t rebel and watch things on their own (me at 10 watching Watership Down), then they’ll just be stifled of experiences and won’t be as emotionally-prepared for the world. A kid raised on nothing but Cocomelon will not become well-rounded. Oh yeah, and let’s not forget our old friend “conservatives using kids as an excuse to erase diverse stories and drive forward nothing but simplistic Christian-leaning narratives”.
15 year old non-human hanging out with a 12-ish year old girl is inappropriate, but a guy in his 60s (Magneto was around 10 in WW2) in a romantic relationship with a teenage girl (established "years" before X-Men '97, when Rogue is in her early 20s) is good.
I don’t know what the movie logic is but Shadow The hedgehog would maybe be one or two years old He’s 50 yeah because he’s been asleep for 50 years Maria’s been dead for at least 50 years
Wait.... Bowsers didn't have a healthy relationship with Peach? The villain was behaving in an inappropriate manner? WHAT?!!?!?!?
How could a villain ever represent a negative quality?!?!!? It’s just so unacceptable!!!!!!!!
Oh, hey Sean 👋 😁
@@SeanChandlerTalksAbout modern audiences dont understand because most of the modern heroes act just like the villains and are certainly just as narcissist
Case and point: wandas convo at the end of wandavision: she gets told that basically everyone should be greatful for her letting them go.
Dont worry about the fact she kidnapped and entire town for months, separated people from their kids who we have no idea what happened to them as their parents didnt even remember them, and mentally tortured them for months. Don't worry at all, because she did it for kids that exist only in her own mind, so its totally fine eh....
I just got to that part of the video where she explained that. I thought you were joking?!
What, indeed.
Grace is an odd duck. She feels like your aunt trying to get into your interests so she can score with your friends.
That is, strangely, one of the most specifically accurate statements I have ever heard about her or anyone in ages.
Joke’s on her; I have no friends!
Wow that is a PERFECT way to describe her vibe lmfao
@@thedukeofchutney468Like Jada Smith
😂😂
Shadow and Maria having a wholesome and cute friendship.
Grace: "I take that personally"
Yeah I'm not big on the Sonic lore, but even I know Shadow and Maria's relationship was solely a deep friendship and nothing more.
Now there is that time a human girl kissed Sonic...I know it was a sleeping beauty like situation, but still kinda weird.
@@Deuteromis
I forgot about the kiss thing...
@@DeuteromisThe Shadow The Hedgehog manual states that Maria was like a big sister to Shadow. So I wouldn’t say it was a "deep friendship," but it certainly wasn’t… *that*.
I sense that Grace is projecting unexplored " feelings "
Not to mention she calls shadow adult coded even though in the movie both he and Maria are labeled as kids TWICE.
What makes Grace Randolph great is that she thinks like a Hollywood exec. What make Grace Randolph awful is that she thinks like a Hollywood exec.
Accuracy alert
this very well explains her personality lol
@@velky_reedsit’s not a personality we don’t know her personality because we don’t know her personally. Her mindset is that of a Hollywood Executive.
"Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. The rest of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same person yet in some ways nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever about their Friendship. Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest. Above all, Eros (while it lasts) is necessarily between two only. But two, far from being the necessary number for Friendship, is not even the best. And the reason for this is important."
- C.S. Lewis
Man, do I love C. S. Lewis. I love this quote
As usual, there's a Lewis quote that applies.
C.S. Lewis, truly an awesome man
That's how I've always felt when people in a fandom ships two characters in a story and see every interaction those characters have as the author alluding to love. Nah man, sometimes friends are just friends.
@@Frank-zv4up Agreed
The fact Grace didn't even research, and started slandering Shadow without proof. Shows what kind person she is.
Fact
Oh no, she insulted my favorite fictional character, what a terrible person she is! 😱
Slanders shadow without proof?
He shows interest in a random young girl. And is voiced by an old man....
If he is supposed be the same age as her the movie did a bad job of that by making him not be voiced by an actor the same age as her.
Whatever shadows interests are in her, its not appropriate and its weird that they went this direction with the choice of voice actor.
They could have at the very lest made him young at the beginning and then voiced by keanu after the 50 year time jump.
@@ge2719 shadow is a child, in the games he is created by Gerald. Maria is the one who take care of shadow as her little brother. Why shadow looked up to Maria as his older sister. Also he created using alien dna from immortal race of ancient aliens. Though in this movie adaption shows he came from meteorite egg. Showing he still a young child. Why they experiment on him. As for his voice sounding older is because in games Gerald aged him up older in his creation before waking shadow up. But he still mentally a child when he first meets Maria.
@@ge2719 yeah it was without proof, Shadow wasn't born naturally and grew up normally like Sonic, he was created to be a definitive weapon so they made a body for it, he gets attached to Maria because she was the first being who didn't see Shadow as a weapon but as a living being and treats him As one, the actor's choice of voice does not change the nature of the characters' relationship. The choice of a deeper or more mature voice for Shadow is a stylistic issue to portray his dark and introspective character, although Shadow appears to be an adult, he is an artificial being with a mindset shaped by his creation and his purpose. Comparing him to a normal human being or trying to attribute human intentions to him is to disregard his unique nature as a character, since you and her found their relationship inappropriate certainly also found the other platonic relationships in fiction like obi-wan/anakin and luke skywalker, joel and ellie in tlou, maui and moana, etc. This is quite common in fiction but this is your interpretation and even though i think its strange and distorted, i have to respect it.
Maria was one of the few who treated Shadow like a person instead of a weapon. When she died his sense of humanity died with her and was sent on a vendetta against humanity for taking her away from him. But he failed to understand Maria's way of life of living life for others instead of seeking vengeance against people who never wronged him.
That was the entirety of Shadow’s character. He experienced the best and worst of humanity. It was just the worst that traumatized him and made him have that hatred for humans
Which is why it annoys me when people like her and Matt Walsh call shadow nothing but an evil hedgehog.
@ToxicVex267 Expect shadow isn't evil just misunderstood which was why sonic can't kill him because he understands what shadow went through. I feel bad for Maria because I know there friends but that's how shadow story went tragic.
@@valkyrie4855 good luck telling them that. Cause according to Matt Walsh sonic 3 is basically Sonic the good hedgehog vs shadow the evil hedgehog.
So you are telling me Shadow is the inspiration for Riolu in those two Pokemon Ranger episodes of the Galactic Battles season of Pokemon.
Literally a quote from the movie: “What are you doing these are children.” Literally confirmed Shadow is a kid the same as Maria
Like it's obvious they're both CHILDREN but she ignores that part.
that was such a sad scene.
Yeah that line that was dubbed in after test screenings, definitely proves it. Keanu Reeves sounds exactly like a child. So obviously the haracter who's age we don't know, and the scientists don't know, because they say he "seems like a child", again, in a dubbed over line. Proves they don't know.
If they wanted shadow to be a child at the start he should have been voiced by a child at the start, and then by keanu after the fifty year time jump. That wood have made perfect sense and fixed the weirdness of having an old man voiced character be interested in a young girl.
You guys must be seriously socially inept if you don't see how weird this aspect of the movie was.
@@ge2719Just say you don’t understand Sonic lore
@@ge2719 Stop trying to sexualize what has none. He only looks and sounds like an adult because he was formed that way, he wasn't formed to go through growing up physically, mentally he was a child. The entire reason they saw each other as siblings was because to him, those were his formative years.
Grace: The Mario Movie isn’t appropriate for children
Me: It’s 2 plumbers fighting a turtle dragon to save a princess
I hate how the word "coding" has been used. It just for people who dont care much about a product use to justified their weird headcannon.
Fr
That’s exactly what it is.
Yeah, that is what they try to say about the original He-Man being Gay coded which if you actually watch the whole show, you see that it is not. It is mostly conjecture. They think it is for the most immature reasons. They also do this with Batman and Robin and Doctor Quest and Race Bannon.
For real all these terms like "Black-coded" "Queer-coded" "Trans-coded" If you think about it, it's just politically correct way of stereotyping. If something meets all the checkboxes for a particular minority, it's must been designed to represent that minority. If you say a black man would eat fried chicken, watermelon, and grape soda, it would be racist, but if YOU eat fired chicken, watermelon, and grape soda, you're "black coded" (ಠ_ಠ)
Like calling Piccolo from DBZ "black coded". He's a friggin alien.
That part about her complaining how creepy and inappropriate Bowser kidnapping Peach is...
HE. IS. THE. BAD. GUY.
HE'S SUPPOSED TO DO BAD THINGS!!!
@@wchan39 guess she doesn't know the definition of a bad guy.
Grace Randolph has been strange for years.
I used to watch her religiously 10-15 years ago or something? Loved her content.
Then she became delusional and insanely unreasonable by this clown ideology
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
She said the "Super Mario Brothers Movie" was "promoting furries," just because Mario wore a cat suit in one scene, and she didn't even know/understand it was a power-up items from the video games, even though the movie explained how power-up items work.
It takes effort to not understand a movie this much. She should stay away from video game movies, as she obviously never picked up a game controller in her life.
Understatement
Strange isn't the word I'd use. She's an annoying idiot. She finds a feminist problem in everything. A woke feminist to her core. That's what she became fairly quickly to me. Stopped listening to her several years ago. Listening and seeing her review something is like waiting for the good part in something that doesn't actually manifest and all you get is a predictable sh*tfest.
She gives off a "I'm offended for you" and "You can't say that" vibe.
@@Lucario4thewin she had cringe elements that explains her behavior.
In Grace Randolph's defense, the actor who does the voice for Shadow the Hedgehog is a 60-year old man. So maybe that's why the character doesn't feel so young for Grace.
@@LindseyDisney so? 30 and 40 year olds have been voicing teenagers since forever now. stop trying to give her an excuse for being stupid
@ : No I think it's great that Grace Randolph naturally wants to protect children from predators. But I think the reason why Grace finds Shadow a little weird is because he's voiced by a 60-year old man pretending to have a relationship with a character voiced by a 15-year old girl. Grace is allowed to find that a little weird.
@@LindseyDisney Kid Goku was voiced by a now 88 year old woman in Japan and a 50+ woman in the EN dub, he still had a relationship with ChiChi as a kid and it wasn't weird then.
I just don't understand the american mindset, like sure, if you want to apply real laws to characters ages then go for it. But applying those laws to their voice actors?
Tell me Sniffany, what must one be on to go that far to find conflict where there doesn't need to be any?
She does realize Bowser is the villain right... RIGHT....🤦♂️
Mayb That's because Hollywood has been in charge of portraying villains not as villains but as "misunderstood"....Cruella de Vil, Maleficent, Scar...etc...she saw Bowser and thought "why is that misunderstood being says or does bad things.😂
Yeah she clearly understand he is the villain. she said the specific way he was being the villain wasnt appropriate for kids.
And she's not wrong.
Forced marriage probably isnt an appropriate plot line for young kids. They can learn about that when they're a bit older.
They should have just had bowser kidnap her for a ransom, or to get to be king without having to marry her, or some other reason that didnt involve the lizard man being in love with a human woman and wanting to force her to marry him.
That was never really in the very early games. He always just kidnapped her for reasons like her having magic powers that protect the mushroom kingdom, so kidnapping her allowed him to invade the kingdom. Or he hated Mario and wanted to take her away from him and have Mario have to run through his traps.
Only a few time was it because of him wanting her affection, and it was weird in those cases and it was weird in the movie.
@@ge2719 You’re just as weird as she is. No one is thinking of these things in the strangely adult and sexual way that you two are. Strange people have a way of outing themselves and congratulations you just did.
This make me appreciate Don Bluth even more. He believed that kids could handle dark themes as long as their was a happy ending.
@@ge2719 I guess The Princess Bride is inappropriate for kids then. And Aladdin. And Brave. Also Encanto. Oh! and Avatar: The Last Airbender.
I don't know if Grace is doing rage bait or being unhinged.
Why not both?
Drugs. I say she is doing drugs.
Her Disney check must have been cleared.
@@little_dandelionyour absolutely right
The answer is yes.
"... not appropriate for children!"
Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame: "Am I a joke to you?"
Don Bluth's The Pebble and the Penguin: *In Tim Curry's Voice* "Yes, you are a joke."
Don Bluth's Thumbelina: "You really shouldn't be talking, you know that?"
Grace Randolph said something dumb!? Well color me shocked!
@sammysstopmotionoas1996
And a manchild got offended by it, and came here to cry about it?
Collor me shocked!!
@@UkaranNot working pal. Nice try 😂
@@Ukaran you dont need to denegrate yourself like that)
All she says is dumb shit. lol
She's a living joke.
@@Ukaran Simping for Grace Randolph. Never has that happened till now.
Just remember: Commander Walters and Gerald Robotnik called Shadow a child in the movie. Like Grace, did you pay attention to the film?
@@dee_dee4640 guess grace is predator herself.
She did not.
@@OwO377 You would have to be to actually think that shadow and maria are in THAT type of relationship
They said he seemed like a child, and if you actually watch the movie you'll notice those lines were dubbed in after the fact. Meaning they likely test screened the movie and someone asked "why is shadow, voiced by an old man, interested in a young child?". So they added those lines in to try and fix that issue. Rather that what they should have actually done, and had going shadow be voiced by a kid, and shadow 50 years on be voiced by old man keanu Reeves.
Did you miss the fact that shadow was voice by an old man? Did you even watch the movie?
@@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778 yeah, because its just normal for a random 50+ year old man to be friends with a random child. Totally normal... nothing weird or suspicious about that at all....
You people just really have no common sense at all do you.
She’s the first media personality I’ve seen that probably needs some sort of PR team. If you go down the Grace Randolph rabbit hole one day, you truly will be amazed at how she’s been able to manage upsetting groups from all walks of life and every political spectrum, due to profoundly unnecessary and irrational spur of the moment comments. She’s the definition of some that speaks before she thinks 😂.
People expect media literacy in someone who covers media. If the media commentator blatantly misses things most audiences picked up on the first watch or read? They have every right to be pissed. Critics are allowed to have shit opinions, but only pretentious shit opinions that go over most people’s heads and sound convincing to the laymen. Because then they can still find you entertaining even if you’re ultimately wrong. Having opinions that literally no one would have because they were actually paying attention while watching the movie? Those sorts of shit opinions are the kind that just make someone unsuited to even be trying to comment on fiction. People watch media commentary to hear things they wouldn’t have otherwise thought of yes. But not in the sense that they would never think those things because that’s the dumbest thing they’ve ever heard. For some reason Grace is confused about this.
Let’s not forget about her strange beef with Jessica Chastain.
Beef is an understatement. She has a severe hate boner for her for some reason. 🤣
and Chris Pratt ( for having a traditional marriage by Hollywood standards - nothing to do with performing... )
That one is pure mean girl haters club, party of one: population - Grace. All based on her usual thoroughly vetted sources and tireless fact checking drive for truth, all done with Grace's trademark uncompromised workplace integrity and professionalism in her signature style of uncurruptable hard-hitting journalistic credibility ahh, who am I kidding, Grace goes all in on Jessica, no holds barred, full-savage Karen, hold my Michelob Ultra, craziest b*tch in the Kohl's parking lot, leveled-up ice-princess, to the petty queen bee throne of basic b*tch beef that has to crawl ten miles to reach mid. Or as Grace calls it: Tuesday.
@@eduardoalvarez7546 beef is an understatement.🤣
@@stevebc957 The Chris Pratt is more forced then the hate for Witcher IV.
Grace also had a bizarre take on Rambo: Last Blood where she said the movie was racist because it shows sex trafficking in Mexico.
To be fair, some other high profile TH-camrs were saying that Last Blood was hard for them to watch and accusing it of being racist and/or anti-immigrant completely ignoring who the people who were like family to Rambo in the film were.
@@waterbeauty85 Of course they did, Instead of seeing a real problem showcased in a film they want to cover it up and act like its not happening and just put a non sense label on it because they think it makes their side look bad to address the problem.
I mean, the movie he is dealing with a Mexican drug cartel, like what did people expect???
Goes to show how much of a bubble she lives in...
Ignoring that the first Rambo movie is about abusive white cops in his own country. God forbid any other demographic be accurately depicted to have bad guys...
Bowser is like any villain, force captured Princesses to join him so he takes over the land. Hundreds of stories like that.
Then there's Shadow. He was dark and foreboding, but Maria brought the good side of him out. Plus he was recently created. So technically Shadow is a child. Plus he's a little black hedgehog.
By the way, it's a movie! Can't people just let their minds go into the fantasy and just escape the turmoil of life and enjoy what your given? I enjoyed Sonic 3 and the Mario movie cause it was both faithful and fresh on new ideas they did.
I apologize for the rant, I just hate how the negative of society constantly likes to find and criticize something so wholeheartedly. I loved the scene of Shadow and Maria bonding, it's what kids would do.
Thank you!!! I mean seriously how many movies have we seen where children and their innocence brought out the good in any creature. It has been a movie trope for as long as anyone can remember
It's baffling for her to say that Super Mario Bros shouldn't be appropriate to kids because Bowser was doing Bowser things.
I mean, by that logic, the Hunchback of Notre Dame shouldn't be appropriate to kids because Judge Frollo was willing to burn Esmerelda for not loving him. XD
How can shadow be a child predator? That doesn't make absolute sense. He's an alien who became emotionally attached to Maria because scientists experimenting saw him dangerous.
Bumblebee Movie was literally a kids show to me because it was a bond between human and alien robot.
Explain to me how Grace is so dumb to say that about a kids movie.
I hate it when people have stupid takes like this. The audience is not dumb and neither are children. Children are actually a lot smarter than people like to give them credit for. A character labeled as a bad guy who looks like a bad guy, acts like a bad guy, and is a foe to the good guy in a CHILDREN’S movie….A child can understand that just fine 💀
Naw Bower was totally railing Peach. Didn't you see that music video "Save me Mario" ?
But all jokes aside Super Mario Sunshine did introduce Bower Jr who claimed Peach was her mother and she didn't question it at all. I never thought Peach was a complete airhead, but that game seemed to lean really heavy into that.
The fact Shadow is biological the same age as Sonic makes his story even more tragic because his only friend and honorary sister was killed in front of him and then he was frozen for 50 years not aging during that time
Shadow kinda reminds me of Gordon Freeman.
If you have to google anything about Mario, let alone Bowser’s deal, you know you are behind on the times in pop culture.
Definitely sad since Mario is very old.
People don't bring up the fact that Grace victim blamed the child that Roman Polanski assaulted nearly enough. That should be a much bigger deal.
I'm surprised by her own logic that it doesn't apply to Lilo and Stitch. Or worse, Ralph and Vanelope.
Oh there’s a reason for that.
Oh yeah Ralph and Vanellope shows that, friendship between people with that age difference, but there was a trashy video bashing that movie (as well as Pocahontas, The Truman Show, and dunno what else but people in the comments were hating on Stranger Things and Harry Potter so...)
Ralph and Vanelope in the first movie, the relationship felt like a father/daughter relationship in a way.
But the sequel. They ruined it so dang much!
@ the 2nd movie was borderline uncomfortable.
@@thatexcalifornian6124 true even thou it had some good, the rest feel mediocre truly different to previous movie.
Not only was Shadow's relationship with Maria not creepy at all but there is also the fact that during the time that they knew each other Maria was older than Shadow. In other words it's impossible for Shadow to be the creep in this scenario because compared to Maria, Shadow was basically a new born (as weird as that sounds).
Yeah he's like 1 year old infant created by somewhere with the body of a young teenager NOT AN ADULT who couldn't comprehend certain things and was still learning. She just kept saying things and makes it weird.
But at the same time that Shadow is supposed to be younger than underage girl, Shadow is being voiced by a 60-year old man. Maybe Grace couldn't not hear that fact as Shadow spoke to the little girl.
@@LindseyDisneyThat's a skill issue on Grace's part
@LindseyDisney i mean if where going of off this logic isn’t it weird for stitch to be lilos friend after all he’s voiced by an older man as well.
@@LindseyDisney That's a personal issue and she needs to work on that, even IF you were correct about that it still doesn't change the fact that she is essentially calling a (then) minor some sort of creep for becoming friends with another minor who approached him first. He literally didn't do anything wrong and his voice is a weak argument for making serious allegations for.
Does Randolph not remember in the movie that Shadow is quite literally described as a "child" when he met Maria?
she would think that makes it worse
She probably ignored that part
Exactly. I know he's voiced by Keanu Reeves but dude is fresh out of a comet 🙃
She didn't watch the part she went to the bathroom
@@williamfoxx3277
How convenient.
Bowser is a stalker...that's why he's the VILLAIN and not the hero.
Never thought Shadow was an adult because even though he is smarter he often gets into rival bouts with Sonic who is also a teen. Yeah he's a lot more mature than most of the mobians but that's because of the tragedy he's been through.
He was 1 year old when he met Maria so he was technically a infant and Maria was like a big sister playing with her little brother.
According to overall Sonic lore, or at least what I gathered as a non fan, Shadow is meant to be around 15 years old *physically*. That definitely puts things into perspective.
He is a 50 year old, immortal, hedgehog-alien hybrid in the games. He’s technically 50 years old after being sealed away for 50 years.
@@Probably_CLOUD yeah i get that but I always thought mentally he's just a kid
@@Probably_CLOUD chronologically, yes, but that’s like saying Aang is actually 112 in Avatar the Last Airbender. Both statements are true, but the characters were in some form of suspended animation that kept them from aging physically or mentally.
... Shadow the hedgehog- he is a child. Not only is he 15(all media) but in the MOVIE the gun soldier literally shouted "Those are kids!" KIDS! To Maria AND Shadow, as in, plural! Is Grace brain dead?💀
Just liked to point something out, Shadow starts as a kid in all of his stories at the time when Maria dies and when he knew her but then is put into the tube thingy (I forget the name at the moment), and than becomes an adult bc it’s been decades. So idk how she got it twisted that he was always an adult, did she forget that in order to be an adult you had to have been a kid. Also Shadow and Maria are like brother and sister, it’s how they’ve always been described. How would any of that make him a pred!!?!? Did she watch the movie or is she trying to cater to someone?
@glitchhoffe1293 Ah yes thanks for the reminder. I don't think she watched the movie at all nor did any research on his character tbh
He's a child when he's with Maria, and basically grandfather age when he meets Sonic.
Grace doesn't know.
@@adu1991Accept he ISN'T?
His age was COMPLETELY suspended for 50 years. He didn't age in any capacity within that time.
So he is still 15
@@adu1991 in other thread it was mention that he is in the same situation as AAng from TLA. You can say Ang is technically 112, but phisically and mentally hes 12 since he was himself suspended in time.
I remember she made a big deal about Mario wearing white gloves and how that wasn’t realistic. Pretty sure it was the last video of her’s I watched.
Funny how that was pointed out in the movie itself as a joke (Mario’s uncle makes a comment about being a plumber using white gloves).
theres literally a full joke about this in the film lol
Grace is OBSESSED with James Gunn and recently began muting the comments of anyone who told her that her bashing of Gunn’s upcoming projects was relentless and borderline unhinged.
@@SoulStylistJukeBox Some of that is she became a paid up members of the Cult of Snyder to gain clout. She needs Gunn to fail despite the fact that as someone with a background in comic books she should want Gunn who seems to understand the source material to succeed rather than than ZS who showed he either knew nothing or let his own ego get in the way of not just his movies but the other movies that as head of the DCEU he was overseeing
Even IF shadow was 'adult-coded'. There's still the big fact that in most of the scene of the two, Maria is usually the one initiating the relationship while Shadow just follows along. The entire thing even starts with Maria getting closer to Shadow while he was still on the fence.
Ah thats okay then,....
Are you by any chance a judge, or a police captain, in Rochdale?
@@ge2719 Have you seen the relationship between Carl and Russel from UP. Those two basically mirror Maria and Shadow friendship, minus the floating house
She falsely accused Gina Carano of antisemitism. She's defnitely a liar.
antisemitism is real. but let's watch out for grifters like Grace.
Did you see her doing it, or did you hear it from someone else?
She also kept calling the Florida bill the “don’t say gay” bill after it had been overtly proven wrong that it was called that or had anything to do with it. She does this often with different topics. Very dishonest
Grace is like something akin to the Financial Times. Good for numbers and the business side, not the artistic merit or actual reviews lol
Exactly! I like her movie math and her gossip stuff because her sources almost do her right 100% of the time. Her opinions and reviews tho…
@@Just-a-dude789 Movie Math is tough to resist. I wonder where Screamboat will fall. I know it seems crazy for something like that to be in the top five but I mean the biggest movie of January, Dogman, does not come out until a week after it.
Somebody better hide the movies "Mac and Me" and "ET" from Grace, or she might get the wrong idea from those films, too. YIKES!
@@thewolfofwallstreet627 the fact that you listed Mac and Me BEFOFE ET is more disturbing than her takes.....😦
@@OrthoLou handicapped kid for the win!
I guarantee you that Grace hasn’t seen any non-Disney product made before she was born.
I refuse to believe she's an actual person.
Lol, what do you imagine 🤣 her to be?
I mean... She is pretty much an NPC, so..
@@nathanielbables8652 An AI trained on tumblr.
@@nathanielbables8652 a character that exists only when in front of a camera. Comedy
Her obsession with hating Jessica Chastain was psychotic
Remember kids, if you meet a giant talking hedgehog, call an adult !
"That's no good!"
Shadow never did anything that would be considered “predatory behavior”. This woman either did not watch the movie or wasn’t paying attention
She never said he did. Just that its weird that he's voiced by an old man, making it seem like it was a relationship between an old man and a random young girl. Which isnt appropriate in any form outside of family.
They should have just had him be voiced by a young kid, and then by keanu after the 50 year time junp. Would have solved all the weirdness of it, rather than just the two ADR lines they dubbed over to try and claim he was a kid too. Which didnt change the fact he seemed like an adult who lost his memory.
@@ge2719 All the Sonic characters are voiced by adults and they have always been voiced by adults in other media, nothing new. You are just kissing Grace her azz. Her review doesnt make sense and its obvious she is working for Disney under the table.
Shadow didnt age in those 50 years, he is still around sonic's age or maybe a bit older.
@SAsaiyajin go back and watch sonic one. He has a childs voice in the scenes of him being younger, so you're intentionally ignoring facts here. Shadow wasnt born, he was created, and has no memories, but he was clearly created and aged up to an adult.
Stop trying to justify a weird choice.
Shadow did not grow, though. That's just what his voice sounds like from the onset. You seeing something weird in that when nobody else did says more about you @@ge2719
@@ge2719Shadow wasn’t in Sonic one?? That was Sonic as a child, and Sonic doesn’t have that kind of biology as Shadow does so that’s why HE was a child.
Also you literally can just go to the games they confirmed Shadow’s supposed to be physically 15, a teen, with some form of immortality as one of his abilities. My god.
Im not sure of this , but apparently she praised Cuties which makes her startement of Shadow even more ridicolous.
Hypocrites, are we right?
is she a defender of sneako o god
@gersonencarnacion3744
"I'm not sure of this, but I'm gonna pretend it's true, since I need a reason to hate her, even if it's a made up reason. Because the dudebros of Geek and Gamers told me she was a bad person, so she must be".
She also said the teenage actor for Percy Jackson wasn’t “hot enough” for the role
I fucking hate that. Liking that movie is a massive red flag for me no matter the circumstances. A movie discussing the sexualization of little girls can be made, but actively sexualizing the underage cast to make that point invalidates it.
4:45 She said that! What a noron! Bowser is the bad guy! He does bad things! We teach kids through parable and fable all the time so that they'll know the "bad guys" when they see them!
Bad guys aren't allowed to be bad anymore according to grace
@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778
Get your little kid to watch Silence of the Lambs then.
I’ve never liked Randolph. My IQ dies anytime she speaks.
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😂😂😂
She is autentic and so entusiastic, and that's enough for me.
@@Ukaran She's fake, just like you. She even got punched for it, that's why her lower jaw is wonky.
@@Ukaran Low bar
"You can't just look away from this person."
Ohhhhh YES I CAN!!!
Her voice makes my ears fold back like a cat's. Can't stand her commentary and her voice is the stuff of nightmares.
She's the same girl that didn't understand why Mario has a cat suit. So, saying Shadow is a CP is indeed up her alley. She's cringe.
When I saw her criticize DC characters in a shallow way then praise them suddenly when it became popular to not insult them, I realized she was a sheep.
i forgot what she said about mr terrific and the new actor Edi but it was weird asf
@Wolfhunter5607 She said something dumb like "Mr.Terrific's hair is too political like "black power."
A couple of years ago Grace INSISTED that James Gunn cast Logan Lehman as Superman. She later even went as far as saying that Gunn changed his decision and chose Cornsweat to make her look foolish for saying it was Lehman.
she’s delusional asf and y the hell would Gunn cast a short dude to play superman😂
She’s the first chat bot that got a female body, but just couldn’t evolve as a human.
Not only does Grace deliberately say strange things for attention, she also says lots of unnecessarily mean things about various actors and directors. Which is pretty funny when you hear her constantly moaning about Gunn going after her. Each week she unsuccessfully attempts to bait Gunn into a Twitter fight. Grace is a very silly person.
I found it hilarious that she basically indirectly called shadow a creep for hanging out with Maria even though both of them are labeled as kids in the movie TWICE.
Also her review was bad but Matt Walsh was worse.
EXCUSE ME? While Shadow's relationship with Maria wasn't always clearly established, both because of his amnesia and they were both very young when she died, it was ALWAYS clear that why Shadow wanted and needed to remember what he could about Maria was because she and her grandfather were his entire home, his FAMILY. And like many juvenile delinquents in the real world, when he loses them to violence, he loses his sense of self and feels the only way to make sense of this injustice is to repay it in turn. Until, that is, he finds new meaning in the example his family set for him in his life.
Grace randolph and human being are words I've never seen in the same sentence...kudos.
Shadow? A "child predator"? When the child herself was taking the first step in developing their friendship?
Wow. That's unbelievable.😂
Not to mention they're both kids 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
@@Karessertin103 Yeah lol☺️☺️☺️
I guess Grace missed the part where Bowser is the villain.
Grace once said Mr. Terrific was "militant" because she found that Afros were "political".....Like, WHAT?
When I'm in a poor media literacy competition and my opponent is Grace Randolph:😬😬😬
Old Robotnik called Maria and Shadow "kids" so i dont get her take
Grace Randolph is a great barometer. If you disagree with her, you're probably doing alright (about the media itself, she's solid at business analysis)
I disagree because her reviews are so absurd that I can’t trust her business analysis, especially when I can find the same or better information elsewhere.
@@DarthBobCat i even think her business analysis is flawed in many ways. Whenever there’s a box office flip, it’s like she always places most of the blame on the lead actors. Stars don’t even really sell movies like they used to now and I don’t think she takes that into account
I used to watch her back when i was a teenager in Nigeria, and just getting into the MCU and comic books. This was back during her Indi Mogul days but I don't know what exactly happened to her😕 She just went off on toxic identity politics and kept going more deluded with it.
I only watched one of her reviews and within 90 seconds I knew all I needed to know about her. Never watched her since
Same. Didn't get far before noticing she's nucking futs.
Do people not have crazy-radar anymore, or are they just watching to witness that?
I mean, Grace Randolph used to always run the watcher which was a thing Marvel did that told you about each comic that came out every week. I mean, she even was a comic book writer. She is just a bad take machine is the thing
Seriously, people are still watching this woman? After she had that meltdown on Twitter about Jessica Chastain, I’m surprised.
I'll never forget when she said Viola Davis was going to do a bad job as Amanda Waller because...she wore her natural hair
That's just crazy.
Viola Davis nailed Amanda Waller.
She doesn't like black people with afros lol she said the same with mr. terrific.
@@DeuteromisI honestly think Monique or Octavia Spencer would do just as good if not better but that's just my opinion
@daustin8888 she also said Mr. Terrifics haircut in the new Superman film looked “black power” 💀.
Aren't Shadow and Maria depicted as (adopted) brother & sister in the comics canon?
... Shadow's like... Perpetually 15 tho??
Both Maria and shadow are children what is she on about 😭😭😭
Yep. Thats the whole point of being a galactic edgelord. You never have to grow up in any way xD
@Karessertin103 Not to mention, Shadow and Maria have always been protrayed as being like a brother and sister to each other, and thier relationship is purely familial based, with most continuties having Shadow made specifically to help find a cure for Maria's chronic illness. He was made specifically to be her brother, her friend and her protector. I haven't seen the new movie yet, but I'm sure the bones of that aspect are still there.
More recent games heavily imply that he was much more innocent and curious, even childlike at times, while on the ARK, and the shift in personality is due to his trauma.
He's just a kid who lost his sister because she chose to give him the escape pod at the last moment before he had a chance to react, and it's haunted him ever since. 😭
Reminder that shadow was also (at least chronologically, mentally, and socially, since he has no apparent physical age) a child at the time, with gerald saying "come children". They also DO NOT have any romantic hints towards one another, they're just besties, brother and sister even.
Also, Bowser is supposed to be a weird obsessive villain. Literally in the games shes either captured by him, or beating the crap out of him along side mario and his friends.
I understand how shes thinking. Shes being creepy herself by calling ANY male character with ANY friendly or romantic moments with a character as a creep. Shes a creep herself for not letting friends be friends, especially of one of said friends is an anthropomorphic alien animal.
She's the woman who said Mario in a cat suit was an insult to his dignity. I hope no one told her he's getting taller by eating mushroom. I mean, she said Sonic 3 was bad because the movie is talking about death and grief. Has someone told her that the Lion King showed us Simba watching the death of his father ? To me, the scene where he tries to wake up is heartbreaking. How is Bowser behavior terrible when scare manipulated and tried to kill his nephew ? The're villain, that's the point.
I believe she truly just rage baiting, more exposure when people talk about her. It's just how internet is nowadays especially on Twitter
Wait a minute... looking at an innocent wholesome friendship between an animal and a human and thinking it's romantic for literally no reason...
Is Grace a shipper?💀
She's so weird for even thinking Abt this 😭😭😭
Grace wants to be one of the cool kids. But she becomes one of the mean girls when it comes to Jessica Chastain..🤣😂😅
Slanders Shadow.
“So, you’ve chosen death.”
She actually thought Shadow...oh dear god what is wrong with her???!!!!
Guess she had brainrot
Grace Randolph at first said David Corenswet (new Superman) didn't have hunk appeal
Girl, what??! 😂😂😂
He's GORGEOUS
I think later she changed her mind
Funny how his lack of "hunk appeal" is a cause for concern but an attractive female is "Male Gaze" inapropriate isn't it.
She's right about one thing, I would rather watch Joan Crawford movies than Borderlands or a Grace Randolph review.
Grace Randolph: I’ve learned from my mistakes from May review about the Super Mario movie. And how I called Bowser a stalker.
Also Grace Randolph: Hey why is Shadow a little too close to Maria in the movie. Kinda giving Child predator vibes?
Also also Grace Randolph: You know what would have saved Percy Jackson and the Olympians? If they got an actor to play a super hot 14 year old boy.
"[the cat suit] ... just really robbed him of his dignity, you know?"
Yes, yes it did. That was the idea (in the film's context).
It was also a power-up in the games (3D World), so please be quiet.
"So please be quiet".
Or you could just stop watching her. 🤯🤯🤯
@@Ukaran
Why are you simping so hard for her? I've seen you on nearly every comment that says anything remotely negative about her.
@@jovenc4508
Me not being part of your hate bandwagon is not "simping".
@@Ukaran
Lol," hate bandwagon". I don't give a whistling mouse fart about Grace Randolph, much less "hate" her.
@@Ukaran Sure. ) Is white knight more to your liking)
You know she was quite normal back like 12 years ago. I like her review of Maleficent when it came out. But all I hear about her now is her taking L after L.
Edit I'll give Grace this Mildred Pierce is a fantastic movie.
Shadow and Maria's friendship is literally part of his lore in the games
Grace's most famous quote " HE VADERED!!"
I'd argue Shadow is not an adult man (as you put it), but that he is, in fact... well, an animal. Nothing wrong with cozying up with an animal at any age, whether your a child with an elderly cat or an adult with a puppy. Because it's an animal. The relationship is not the same as if it were two human beings.
Also he's a cartoon character, so I would technically describe him as ageless, neither young nor old. He just kind of... is.
Ah yes. The kids movie where a big fire breathing dragon threatens to destroy a woman's kingdom and kill all her people because she won't marry him is incel energy post "Me too" and is inappropriate for children... Even though he's the bad guy and is doing bad guy things and children aren't as dumb as we typically assume them to be and would understand that those are NOT good things to do.
Very insightful. Congratulations. You did it. Proud of you.
What next? Water is wet?
"children aren't as dumb as we typically assume" I kinda feel bad at how hard I laugh when somebody says this because I immediately think to myself "Tell me you don't have kids without telling me you don't have kids" 🤣
Is it safe to assume when someone thinks of sex in a clearly platonic relationship, they're just telling on themselves?
Grace is a vessel for the chaos gods, you're not supposed to understand her.
I'm even more surprised that Grace has people who pay to subscribe to her channel to chat with her.😮
The biggest reason why i don't like grace is that she admits in her videos that when she votes in the critics choice awards that if someone has already won an award she will often vote for one of the other nominees even though they were worse. I'm not okay with that. Whoever was the best should win the award.
she also has said some things that are kinda racist, in review of the new superman trailer she said something like: "mr terrific looks too black with his afro" and when green book won best picture she said spike lee needs to make a "feel good" movie if he ever wants to win an oscar
The inner white knight in her seething seeing Mr. Terrific 😂
She's a low-key racist . I had to stop watching her because of the weird, racist rhetoric she was spewing.
They literally explain it in terms kids can understand in the movie lol Maria was family to Shadow and when he lost her it changed him for the worst.
Yeah, they were family. Her mom slept with a hedgehog. Its all explained in the movie.
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@@ge2719He was made in a lab by her grandfather…
@@ge2719
Family isn't just about a biological connection doofus. Adopted familes are a thing.
@@ge2719 are you one of those hyper sex positives? Is it really the only interraction 2 individuals can have?
@Lidoe he was made as an adult then.
Just because he came out of a pod a day ago doesn't make him a one day old baby.
The Shadow thing in comparison to the Percy Jackson thing, sounds more like a projection on her own ideas to the characters 😂
I remember trying to watch one of her videos, and then I heard her voice. Never again.
for real, my dogs start howling whenever my headset is a bit loud, and her voice comes on!
@Mitzrael-yk3pu Oh no 😂😂
She is the result of someone always looking for “problematic behavior” everywhere, context be damned. If you simply look for offensive things without weighing why they were included in the context of the story, you end up making silly think pieces like these. She can’t see the forest for the trees when it comes to anything even a little complex or nuanced. It’s like she has so,e type of legitimate neurodivergent thing where she misses subtlety.
Imagine Bowser acting like a villain. Crazy!
A villain doing villainy things? *GASP*...Da hell you say?!?! Say it ain't so, Grace. SAY IT AIN'T SO...
I swear people these days see predators everywhere.
Same people who go back to old movies and like to think theres some kind of romance there, usually gay. People went back and said in The Lost Boys(the vampire movie)David wanted Michael in the group because he was hot for him when if they paid attention, its clearly said by the head vampire Max, he wanted Michael then he could get his mom so they could literally have a big vampire family. These people love to see what they want to see even though its totally wrong..its amazing. But seeing predators everywhere, i cant count the number of comments ive seen accusing men of being predators when theres nothing there to support it
@@robbieracer3294 Exactly! And you make another excellent point. In this day and age where women are independent girlbosses and hetero relationships therefore are "so last century", people see gay couples (in movies) everywhere. And yes, if a man is even in the same room as a child, or god forbid has fun with the child, they are accused of being grooming predators.
Meanwhile women are totally safe, because as we all know women can't be predators. It is only men because we are horny devils 24/7 who bone anything that has a pulse.
You hit the nail on the head! I too love watching her for her “Movie Math” box office breakdown, but when it comes to her reviewing movies she seems completely disconnected! Here is a word I have never heard her use in ANY of her reviews: “Plot”
I also like to watch Grace for those WTF did you say moments . Its just Grave being Grace ..lol
God forbid a bad guy is a bad guy.
People who cry about things being “too disturbing for kids” don’t understand kids. To a child, the Mario and Sonic movies are just fun adventures; it is only once a person gains the nuances of adulthood is when they look back and realize how “dark” certain things actually are.
Also, controlling what kids media is allowed to show to children is like wrapping a kid up in bubble wrap to protect them- it isn’t going to work. Even if a kid doesn’t rebel and watch things on their own (me at 10 watching Watership Down), then they’ll just be stifled of experiences and won’t be as emotionally-prepared for the world. A kid raised on nothing but Cocomelon will not become well-rounded.
Oh yeah, and let’s not forget our old friend “conservatives using kids as an excuse to erase diverse stories and drive forward nothing but simplistic Christian-leaning narratives”.
Your mutual dislike of James Gunn will always be something I guess 😅
@@Rockstar-bq5fm James Gunn doesn’t have a miss film or TV wise, I really don’t understand their distain for him but to each his own ig 🤷🏿♂️😂
Both have some weird complaints about his movies if we’re being honest 😂 (besides the humor)
shit can’t please everyone and as long as a majority of people like his content, i think gunn is chillin
Regarding Bowser….. it just show’s how Grace and those like her have no concept of good vs evil.
15 year old non-human hanging out with a 12-ish year old girl is inappropriate, but a guy in his 60s (Magneto was around 10 in WW2) in a romantic relationship with a teenage girl (established "years" before X-Men '97, when Rogue is in her early 20s) is good.
I don’t know what the movie logic is but Shadow The hedgehog would maybe be one or two years old He’s 50 yeah because he’s been asleep for 50 years Maria’s been dead for at least 50 years