@@bearerofbadnews1375 It's not as visually bad as Ice Age and Marmaduke and it's not entertainingly bad as Pinocchio. It's just an uninspired bland animated film.
Monsters Inc. had a message beyond "monsters collecting screams", and that's why it worked. "Laughter is more powerful than fear" is a great message for children to learn. Still can't figure out what Luck's message is.
Yeah, I felt he did Monsters Inc. a bit dirty in this review. The message and how it was presented at the end basically solidified my love for Pixar as a child!
"Still can't figure out what Luck's message is." That, despite abuse apologists clutching their pearls about imaginary "CaNcEl CuLtUrE," rich white cishet men can be outed as absolute monsters and still be handed hundreds of millions of dollars for doing the barest minimum?
honestly the machine wouldve worked great if bad luck is more a byproduct of good luck. it would make sense to distribute the bad luck as well because why would you hold unto that in on concentrated pile.
I feel like this is a really wasted opportunity to talk about how the adoption system *actually* screws people over. Kids who never get adopted don't just get a free apartment and a shiny new job handed to them, they gotta figure a lot of shit out on their own and it's scary and hard. If you're going to have an orphan character with the entire premise being that she's incredibly unlucky... maybe show the actual bad parts about being orphaned?????? idk. strikes me as kind of an odd choice.
Yea I was wondering about that, cause that seemed a bit bullcrap to me that she was given a free apartment and got a job so easily even if she has really bad luck?
You can't expect much as they can't even show alcohol n stuff anymore in movies it's been watered down this generation of movies is hella weak so I can't expect much and neither should you
There's a fable about determining the nature of "luck", which begins when a farmer's horse runs away. The village sympathizes, saying it's "bad luck." The farmer replies "Maybe." Eventually, the horse comes back, and brings two horses with it. "What good luck!" the village cries. "Maybe," the farmer replies. When trying to break the new horses, the son falls off and breaks his leg. Bad luck? Maybe. While the son is healing, the army comes through looking for recruits, but the son is passed over due to his condition. Good luck? Maybe. Good and bad luck may feel as such in the moment, but only time will tell how these passing instances actually affect our lives. I just feel that if you're going to make a film literally about luck, there's so many avenues to explore about how luck manifests, and for creators so renowned for elaborate storytelling and world building, there were a lot of missed opportunities.
This reminds me of that scene in Zootopia where Judy first gets to the city and is tricked by someone she was trying to help, is bullied at work, eats gross microwave carrots, and gets stuck in wet cement. THAT was a well done, kid friendly presentation of real bad luck and when Judy just keeps going to work despite everything, it makes her so much more relatable and interesting to follow. I haven't seen Luck yet, but it sounds like something like this could have done alot for the story and character growth.
Yes !! Zootopia is underrated as a movie because people just went "lmao furries" and ignored it. It's a super good movie and it has a MUCH better message of endurance without trying to, especially when it deals with like the concept of racism and stuff (i say concept because they're animals not people). This movie feels kind of hollow cuz it just doesn't talk about like real struggles like poverty and stuff and how actually shitty the foster system and growing up is, it's just like "whoops dropped my sandwich ://" it sounds like someone who's been upper middle class their entire life wrote this lmao. My family's low class and I think they could've been so deep with the implications of good and bad luck and enduring and it wasn't ://
You want a great film that has a female protagonist, a black talking cat sidekick, and she has to endure through bad luck and keep pushing forward and has an actual MESSAGE? Kiki's Delivery Service
NGL, I totally thought you were going to say _Coraline_ . With that said, why is “female protagonist” something special these movies have in common? Women make up roughly half the population, so there’s nothing particularly special about them - it’s like lumping _SpongeBob_ and _Harry Potter_ together just because they both have a male protagonist.
@@ARCtheCartoonMaster Because despite about half of the population being female as you said the vast majority of media, especially popular media, has a male main character and if there's a woman in the main cast at all then a good chunk of the time she's a love interest for another character.
the adoption system and what happens to kids at 18 is such an important subject, and i was hoping when you mentioned her story that they'd dive into that more but.. yeah. disappointing
Hang on, so we've got a movie that... - Features a young woman, disenchanted with her "terrible" life that is actually quite good - Meets a talking cat - Falls into a magical world - Struck with a magical malady - Returns to her normal life, with newfound appreciation for it This is the Wal-Mart brand of Miyazaki's "The Cat Returns".
Luck kind of feels like that one movie you forget in like 3 days and when someone brings it up it’s just like “oh yeah I’ve watched that” and you continue whatever conversation you had before like normal
The facial expressions were so dulled compared to the excellent voice acting. The voice would be filled with emotion and the face of the character would be giving NOTHING. I’m so glad you reviewed this movie. I felt the exact same way about it.
I'm so happy I'm not the only one who noticed that!! It was soooo emotionless even the "emotional" scene , you can brly tell she is crying and that feels fake. The expressions are non existing
@@lilac3266 Makes you wonder if the movie originally was going to have a different main language. There has been some movies recently that were pretty decent, but were mostly made by chinese animators and the lipsync fails.
It wasn't just the facial expression, it was *all* of the character animation. The movements were so subtle and bland, and a ton of shots just had the characters standing there and doing nothing with their bodies. Animation like that is supposed to be exaggerated.
@@CesarinPillinGaming it’s also weird because if it had a small budget I wouldn’t mind that so much but 140 MILLION DOLLARS BUDGET and you cant even make it look like she’s saying her lines??
My biggest issue with this movie honestly was how ungrateful she seemed for the things she DID have. Like all the good things that she did have didn't matter because she only focused on the negative, and while that could've been the point they didn't expand on that at all. Granted I watched it with my little sister while half asleep so I may have missed a few things, but even my little sister who is 14 years younger than me said "at least she's not homeless, at least she has friends". When an 8 year old calls your movie out on the bs, there's a problem.
Honestly, I wish the film didn't have the whole "mc transports into a fantasy realm revolving around this one specific theme" plotline and had the whole film take place in the real world. The most engaging parts of the movie to me was the cat-chasing scene and watching her deal with her unluckiness in her day-to-day life. You can still keep the talking cat and the lucky coin plotline, you can still have her realize that life is less about luck and more about how you react to the events that happen to you. It would have also made it easier to develop the relationship between the mc and the little girl, something I felt was a bit undercooked in the actual movie.
Yeah have the first act focus on how bad her luck is, maybe even show how she is so use to minor bad luck she plans around it (sidesteps a falling plant or something) but that it doesn't stop her from suffering big things (application to college did send due to glitch or not having enough money after her luck breaks something expensive). Have her find the cat and coin, gain good luck but have to make a deal with the cat on who gets the luck each day.... Yada yada yada, they lost the coin during a hand off and slap stick adventure of two unlucky characters tracking down and losing the coin over and over (probably lose it in an old ladies lose change because of course). Find the penny and have good luck again only to find out they didn't actually have the real lucky penny when it shows up again at their doorstep. They realize they need a better outlook on life not a lucky penny and that they have overcome through hard work. Hand penny to girl, girl finds parents. END
I felt the same way. When I saw the trailer I was interested in seeing how her day to day was playing out and when they introduced the luck world I was disappointed and felt right away it would be a lackluster viewing experience. The fantasy world takes a lot of focus off the characters, at least in this film :(
There was a Lindsey Lohan movie called "Just My Luck" that dealt with this same concept in a really interesting way. I haven't seen it in years but I remember it was sort of two people who had extreme luck/unluckiness and they kept swapping and trying to get the good luck back. It was really cute and a part of it was accepting bad luck when it comes and facing the good and the bad as a couple which was really sweet
Your right! This movie did a better job at showing how important luck is while this one failed. I'm saying that and haven't watch the movie yet, just a few reviews and the trailer two times. Just my luck has a good message like you said. I can't find what this film's moral/ message is 🤔
We watched this movie with my kids, and we enjoyed it thoroughly. There was nothing me or my kids did not quite understand and they would love some toys based on luck, and I made the whole thing up. I have no kids neither apple tv.
I'm glad you brought up Eugene from "Hey Arnold" as an example of a 'bad luck' character. Considering all of the crazy stuff he dealt with in that show and hearing how mildly inconvenient this movie's lead's bad luck is (haven't seen the movie yet btw), I don't see why they didn't go all out with the latter. Although, I wouldn't mind somebody editing clips of this movie to have Eugene's scream in it.
@@Brigeb20 What about the scene from "Eugene's Bike" where after his bike gets destroyed, he starts to scream bigly and looks like a Peanuts character as the camera pans out.
I think Luck would have worked better as a children's novel, since runtime is not an issue with a book and you can cram in more exposistion without dragging down the story.
Dang it, when I saw the black cat, I thought it was clever that they used it as a lucky cat. Because black cats never get adopted because of the negative association, so I thought this could be a turnaround for a commonly colored type of cat that's been done dirty by society for so long. But nope
When Saber started talking about the cat and the penny, I thought "oh cool, a matagot maybe? that's going to be interesting" but no... they couldn't even bother with digging into parts of the history and lore surrounding black cats and maybe give it a nice, happy, kid-friendly twist with a "hey, actually, this cat isn't unlucky nor evil but it's the way the people treat them and talk about them that makes them seem that way". It could have been great if we had some kind of adoption for the black cat at the end, seeing how it seems to be the source of the plot (with the child at the beginning).
@@hybrid09 That'd be so sweet; the kid and the cat get a happy home together. Kinda makes me think the MC isn't even necessary or maybe they should've aged her down and gotten rid of the kid. Though MC just muddling her way through her new adult life with her newly adopted cat while finding her found family sounds ten times more interesting and less messy. I like the idea of the talking cat and then the Luck Dragon just being a new pal who helps her realize that she's just as lucky to have a different network of support and she's much luckier than she realized which isn't to say she can't have bad days but maybe MC also helps out at the local soup kitchen and the cat shelter to give back. IDK. Sounds like the problem is they handled luck the same way a lot of media tries to handle clumsiness...
Unfortunately many people around tye time of Halloween, kill black cats as they believe it will bring them good luck. This is so sick and I am happy to see some people saving these cats by adopting them because of these sick beliefs
We had a very gentle, intelligent black cat named Lucky for nearly 19 years. Silly superstitions do nothing but harm, and the distraction of them masks actual problems.
I get the feeling there probably was an earlier draft that had Sam go through hell in order to endure as you said. However, since Lasseter is in charge at Sundance now he probably said "no please change it " since he said something similar during the early production of Zootopia
Zootopia is a good movie but the earlier drafts used to be REALLY dark it had a strong concept but I think toning it down may have been a wise choice However with Luck, it was a very poor choice. Especially since it is ABOUT luck, that is the capacity for good and bad things to happen, they should have leaned into it and taken full advantage Wasted concept, really a shame
With full respect to the artists who worked hard on this film, unfortunately the overly-safe aesthetics just couldn't bring me to care, personally. We're so far into the age of CGI animated movies that shooting for the "classic" Disney/Pixar-esque look tends to feel generic now. Which is kind of ironic, considering at least 3 out of the 4 recent Pixar films (haven't seen Lightyear yet) tries to break from that with their attempts to push character designs and visual aesthetics. ...And then you have The Bad Guys, which is still probably one of the most impressive executions of aesthetics for a mainstream film release in recent years. High fidelity 3D is nice in some regards, but animation is so much more fun and memorable when it pulls elements from its 2D roots.
I also love how The Bad Guys managed to make a Snake have human characteristics without giving him arms and legs. Like scenes where he's using his tail as a hand and even managed to play the guitar in one scene, which I still find entertaining.
I loved watching the scene of that lucky world thing just because of how easy it is to mock on how boring the world is, despite this clearly trying to be framed as the stereotypical sweeping, grand introduction of this fantastic new world. The juxtaposition was fucking hilarious to me.
You know this is one of those movies that I was actually wondering about. It made me think of back in the days of Nightmare Before Christmas, where every holiday had it's own unique world, but we only ever got to see two of them.
@@suspiriorums would love to see some shorts were Jack goes through the other doors. I understand why they decided to stick to mostly Halloween town to keep the plot more structured
Thank you. I'm glad someone acknowledged this. Luck is my movie of the year because that part of Sam's life, almost perfectly reflects my own. And personally I think Saber is a dick for thinking Sam didn't have it that hard.
@@shaniachevarie2780 Saber isn't a dick my Guy But how was Aging out of the system, did you get any type of resources or housing or they just tell you to leave and just figure it out
@@murderman8578 You have to go to University or College in order to continue receiving support after ur 18th birthday. Sometimes they also ask you to work and contribute to rent but not in every situation. Personally they paid half of my rent, and expected me to work at least 30 hours a week and attend part time schooling that also took up to 30 hours per week.
They also like to limit you on with who and where you can live if they're offering any support. I wasn't allowed to get a regular apartment and was rushed into a room and board situation that put my safety in danger because they didn't look into it enough and almost took my funding when I moved out and into an apartment with my boyfriend, even though I was following their rules regarding school and a job.
@@shaniachevarie2780 more like it's the writers fault for not actually depicting her life as that hard. Besides being in the system her whole life and aging out, there really isn't anything that happens to her or that she feels that really shows the audience that it's been hard. It's just meh. They have the concept, but they did almost nothing with it.
While hearing the "Why not just give the whole world good luck?" thing, something came to mind that I think would've been way more interesting, and actually help a lot with world-building. So, if you give good luck to everyone, that means even bad people will get good luck. Bad people will be able to accomplish bad things by getting lucky during bad moments. So you have to give bad luck to them, right? Well what if they can't do that? And that's where the randomization comes in. They can't choose who gets what. They can only choose whether it's good or bad luck. It'd be better if it isn't just relegated specifically to "persevering through to bad luck" but rather "how you react to luck" as a whole. Because someone isn't quantified by how lucky or unlucky they are. It's how they react to the good and bad luck in life that makes them who they are. Bad luck is not needed to appreciate good luck. Luck as a whole is unfair. There is no reason that you were chosen, it just happened. There are infinite things you can explore with the topic of luck. Heck, I think just destroying the entire luck dimension as a whole would be a better ending. There are these magical beings that are dealing bad luck to the people of the world. Even if they're dealing good luck as well, it's not worth the pain and suffering they are inflicting upon people. Give the protagonist a chance to get rid of her bad luck and only have good luck, but then over the course of the film, let her realize the bad luck that others are going through as well. And when she finally gets the chance to get rid of her bad luck, have her decide to say no. Have her step up and tear down the luck machine. Luck will always exist as a part of life, but she can at least stop these magic creatures from inflicting more luck on the world. I just keep rambling on and on, and I would develop my thoughts further, but I'll stop here. Man it sounds like there was a lot of missed potential to craft an actually interesting story here, but it just... came out really generic.
Actually, that would’ve made a much better midpoint of the movie. All bad luck is removed when the option is presented, so when the main character goes back they immediately realize the value of bad luck existing. Then the dragon who suggested the idea goes rogue with the “but it’s for the greater good” mentality and the mc has to go back and stop them to bring order to the world or something along those lines. Maybe have the “good luck” for the little girl be not ideal (like a bad family comes along and takes her in) and so the mc has to bring bad luck back to help her somehow. Maybe the main character (if you haven’t noticed I forgot her name) weaponizes/uses bad luck to her advantage in the climax of the movie to really hone in the “but she perseveres” idea.
I agree with your concept because it makes sense for the world building. We know about how luck is distributed and where it comes from but, what makes it different for how the audience views the subject of the movie, obviously one would have to be an older child in order to keep interest in the concept of luck. (Most kids are just told when something is lucky/unlucky and don't necessarily "see" it for themselves.)
It's a contradiction, because not every crime is victimless. And if you're the victim of a crime, then that's pretty unlucky. But getting away with crimes is pretty lucky. Perhaps the dragon was wrong in her assumption that we didn't need bad luck, otherwise the universe would have actually imploded. Paradoxes like that are unsolvable. Or, maybe, luck is subjective.
In terms of her having privileged bad luck, let’s also not forget to point out that she must have a lot of baggage to deal with that could affect her perspective on the world and therefore can make things a lot harder for her. She seems to be psychologically normal, not any signs of complex PTSD or anything else you can get from not having consistent and trustworthy caregivers your whole life. Like I know what kind of trauma I’ve run into with a conventionally relatively decent family life that I’ve been trying to recover over the past 10 years or so I can only imagine what kind of crap someone like her would have to go through. But nope, she is pretty much mentally healthy and clean
She is a innocent optimistic person. Which is one of the rarest type of person. You can be a optimistic you can be innocent but both is really hard to fine in people. Most become bitter through experience. Most people harden their hearts so they won't get hurt again. Some become greedy in their selfish because of how the world has taken from them.
Or you could make this premise around a character that's essentially Ferris Bueller, somehow getting out of situations by the skin of their teeth, and the luck people go after them because they're causing some kind of imbalance. I find that way more interesting.
When I first saw the ad, I was struck by how similar to the modern Disney female faces looked, and was extremely confused by the fact that it WASN'T Disney.
@@lucamckenn5932 ehhhh I wouldn’t say that, but facial designs Disney does are pretty basic a lot of the time. There are a few instances of originality, but the overall style is always the same
@@lucamckenn5932 I wouldn’t say that. Disney has always had the same style since the little mermaid and it’s their staple. It feels bland now because other studios are copying the style because of its popularity. Disney made the style
What suprised me was that Sam never questioned her own bad luck and lack of good luck. In the movie universe Sam is the most unlucky person, she then finds out that there is a place that produces good and bad luck, yet she never questions why she never have good luck? As for the good luck and bad luck I though there would be some ''good luck would loose its meaning without bad luck'', like if everyday you found 1000 dollars it would at one point not be good luck anymore it would just be the norm.
I'm gonna push the point that this movie could say something actually meaningful if it didn't pull punches: in a story about luck and how bad luck hypothetically matters, why can't this explore the concept of a meritocracy? Case in point, there **are** people in the world who fail upward and get by on nothing but their incredibly good luck, and very often those people are the absolute **worst** ! I can totally see an alternate version of this idea where the antagonist is Sam's polar opposite: someone born so lucky that they have no reason to self-examine or learn how to be a decent person. You don't need to go the extreme of "oh well its good that some people are so unlucky that they get cancer actually" to see the point that if you want to improve yourself in a meaningful way, you need a lot more than just good luck on your side. Privilege as a concept is entirely about the advantages of being born in the right circumstances, how is that not about luck? Nobody wants to be unlucky, but how we deal with our hard times is what builds our character - something that this movie seems to have a concerning lack of, because it's too busy trying to justify its existence.
Yeah, like Gladstone Gander in the recent Ducktales series was handled much better, I think. Edit: And you're absolutely right, the fact they sidestepped privilege is a huge disadvantage to nuance and the story itself. Ducktales also kinda does this but I'd say overall their stories are more fully developed (which admittedly they have a whole series to do that in but when we're first introduced to Gladstone and then the episode when he lost his good luck, that covers most of it in one hour when combined.)
An excellent idea. And this is the problem with almost everything in Hollywood: ALMOST NO ONE IN THE ESTABLISHMENT CAN WRITE A GOOD STORY ANYMORE. Even when the technical aspects are perfect, a lazy or bad story DOOMS it. A clever addition to your idea: Sam defeats this lucky antagonist by redirecting the consequences of her own bad luck via Rube-Goldberg-like domino effects.
@@Alondro77 the writers in Hollywood make me believe they're legit so disconnected from reality. Like, severely. All they can do is superhero movies with the same plot or dumb brain rots like boss baby and minions number 532786.
That sounds like a really interesting premise to a movie in general. Luck would have definitely benefited from a more focused narrative/theme that didn't feel a bit too generic
Everyone who's faced anything hard in their life (serious illness, losing someone, losing their house to natural disaster) is rolling their eyes so hard at Sam's "bad luck"
Oh man, this is super weird cause I made a character years back cursed with bad luck. But it was BAD luck (burning her town down) to comedic bad luck and her story is about her ability to keep smiling and keep being a kind, optimistic person despite that.
Same with me. My story had a similar character design and a talking black cat. She remained positive too. I have a dream about someday working with an animation studio and turning it into a movie, but now that this movie is out I don’t think I can achieve my dream.
Honestly the original idea for this movie was WAY more interesting. Origninally it was pitched as Bad luck and Good luckl being at "war" with each other and Sam being the one to stop the war and broker a peace treaty. Then Jon Laister (or however u spell his name) came in and changed it completely.
Even if he didn't create the original idea. I don't understand how a man can make toy story and cars (Even though cars isn't all that great in my opinion it's still billions of times better) and then make THIS, I don't know a bigger or more spectacular way to spell the fact at your washed up then this movie
@@Chloe_thefoxstudios it proves that one person whos amazing cant just make a movie all by themselves with a few other not so amazing people. it takes a whole bunch of amazing people
@@Chloe_thefoxstudios Well, to be fair, that's why generally the story for a movie, or series, is not made by a single person, but by a team behind it (who generally don't even have the merit they deserve) helping to create the story, to avoid things like this. The other thing is that maybe he is not as creative as before, and now he is more for the money than for creativity and story telling, I think it could be several things
I like the concept of bad luck as I love the show Milo Murphy's Law. That's enduring bad luck. Things literally fall apart around him and get set on fire but Milo's backpack has everything to figure it out, and he is one of the most positive characters in the show in terms of attitude.
How tf could they do absolutely nothing with a character based around having bad luck. There’s so many ways that bad luck can affect a character’s appearance, like not being conventionally attractive or if they’re accident-prone, they might have bandages. Their personality can reflect their situation by being cautious or pessimistic, or it can be inverted and be optimistic in the face of adversity. Instead, Sam has just absolutely nothing that stands out. It’s the key issue with the film’s dogma, there’s a complete lack of strong direction other than it superficially feeling like a Disney/Pixar film. I can still see a great deal of potential in manipulating a world of luck, but they had very little idea on how to tap into that potential with this film.
A main character with a prosthetic arm. That alone would instantly convey her story, to a devastating degree. She's upbeat and perseverant, but... she's tired. She wants to stop surviving, and start thriving. She's *literally lost a piece of herself.* But hey, Sam's design is also good, because she's got MeSsY hAiR! Because bad luck is sooooooo qUiRkY!!1! 🤪
@@starryeyes999 - I can't even tell what you're trying to say. Did you somehow assume that I'm saying that "All disabled people are always unlucky"? I'd like to have a more in-depth discussion on this topic. But I can't do that if you don't articulate your point.
IMO, it might've worked better if the world hadn't been divided - if it was just 'luck'. Cos the thing is, luck is subjective and many different cultures have different opinions on what is lucky and unlucky; For example, the black cat is seen as *lucky* in some parts of the world where white cats are unlucky. They could've had it more vague and IMO with Sam, maybe having her jsut be kicked out of the orphanage might've made the 'determination' message stronger cos being *homeless* is truly B A D luck. And when she goes to the luck world, she might've learned that it isn't *luck* that will save her, but determination and community spirit (aka, finding support and suchlike). I think that would've been more impactful.
Or perhaps the luck world itself is weirdly, irrationally culturally segregated even though all the stuff they're making is the same stuff. Purple stuff? Blue stuff? Just different unrelated crystals grown around the same actual metaphysical luck which is random and uncontrollable. The luck world has its own good luck / bad luck culture, its own luck racism or whatever, where what they're making doesn't make a difference the way they think it does.
The Danganronpa video games did a great job of tackling lucky characters as a concept, the character Makoto Naegi embodying the exact example of persevering through bad luck that you mentioned, and the character Nagito Komaeda portraying the extremes of bad and good luck in a really interesting way. Within the universe of the game, there is implied to be such a thing as levels of innate luck by birth, as well as a luck cycle, which impacts how lucky characters are overall - with levels of luck sometimes being really unbalanced. These precedents lend themselves to some very compelling character development in my opinion, and thus I think the games make much more effective use of luck as a concept than this film did
@@juno_yourloveywoof This movie didn't do a good job of utilising the main character's extreme bad luck in an interesting way. I thought that the Danganronpa games did make interesting use of extreme luck as a character trait, so I thought I'd bring up the ways in which Danganronpa made effective use of luck as a narrative tool where this film failed to. Danganronpa overall hasn't much in common with this film, but the concept of luck and a character who is deeply impacted by it it is relevant to Danganronpa, since characters like that are consistently significant throughout three of the main four games. Why shouldn't I make these comparisons, when the entire concept of the main character is very similar to that of Makoto and Nagito?
Can I also just say that I hate that we're in this era of animation where movies look absolutely beautiful and have zero substance? I'm looking at you, Lightyear. This seems to have the same problem. Makes me miss Newgrounds. Sure, the animation quality was questionable, but there was so much heart and creativity behind those projects.
I kind of disagree with your point, animated movies lineup this year is extremely epic tho, marcel the shell, wendell and wild (Henry mf selick!!) little nicholas, pinocchio (gdt), but those aren't from disney/Pixar so nobody cares :(
I don't think they look "good" in artistic sense, just technologically well built. The character design behind the characters in Luck is nothing substantial, I could see those characters in any generic animated movie and wouldn't even recognise them. The colours are okay, the lightning is okay.. everything is just "okay" if you know what I mean?
I literally have gotten indie animation jobs in the 2020s thanks to Newgrounds, how dare you imply it’s no longer relevant! Also, check out the more recent animations that tend to get Front-Paged-the standards for the site have definitely improved quite a bit, and arguably help the TH-cam animation scene too since many animators (myself included) upload on both sites.
This sorta feels like a worse version of Milo Murphy's Law. I feel like that show actually had a more understandable premise and a significantly better protagonist that showed off the 'shake off the bad stuff happening and keep going' personality in a much more endearing and well-done way
It's bizarre that they, out of the blue, changed Sam's outlook on life from "Bad luck sucks and life would be better without it" to "Actually bad luck is necessary because yes". Babe is right in that it brings nothing but misery right up until the end, where she's suddenly wrong and the antagonist for trying to make the randomizer pour out nothing but good luck. They could've very easily avoided this issue by showing that bad luck makes people adaptable and resilient, and a complete lack of bad luck makes you unable to cope with even the smallest of inconveniences. They tried to introduce this concept at the very end with the bad luck creatures at the bar, but they don't showcase it properly, nor does Sam have that epiphany moment that would fit this concept.
Reminds me of a short film, "Jinxy Jenkins and Lucky Lou". Its about two people, a man with horrendous luck and a woman with extremely good luck, and the're both miserable! The man is miserable because nothing ever goes his way, and the woman is miserable because *everything* goes her way and she's bored out of her mind! They meet, hijinks ensue, and for the first time both start having fun as things start going well for the man and for the first time the woman has a little excitement in her life. Its on TH-cam, highly recommend giving it a watch!
Wish has the same issue. You can tell the lesson is *supposed* to be that you have the power to make your own wishes come true, but it’s never properly shown until the very end, and even then it’s only shown as a throwaway dialogue exchange between background characters. It’s almost like the moral and purpose of both of these stories is an afterthought.
Since you mentioned that the screenwriters were people from Raya, the same amount of overexposition and too much world building doesn’t seem too surprising.
@@gracekim25 I think Perspective swap would have done this movie better Start in the luck world with the cat get all the exposition out of the way, way faster that way would have done alot to streamline and focus on the more personal conflict later on and the morals would be the unlucky cat understanding why the yin and yang is needed but also have a glitch be found. IE Yeah CEO we got some major bugs the distribution of luck is uneven we got the super lucky and the super unlucky. Its causing problems.
I find this issue with a lot of kids films where they're too scared to deliver on the emotions they're setting up. For example, if they want someone to get to a super low point in their life, they don't actually set it up very well, they just kind of imply that this vaguely bad thing hurt the character in some vague way. I like films such as "UP" that are willing to absolutely bash in a character's emotional state before building a backup through the plot. I think that it is important for kids to watch their heroes get beaten to a pulp because it makes their comeback feel all the much better. Would Luke becoming a Jedi feel as awesome if he didn't lose so hard in The Empire strikes back, even losing his hand? I don't think so. I feel like studios need to stop being scared of what they're showing the kids, and let kids feel emotional damage, because it makes the story feel a lot more meaningful. Another prime example is the first Sonic the hedgehog movie. We don't actually see Sonic's caretaker die on screen, probably because that would have been a bit too bloody to show kids, but he literally loses his home and only caretaker within the first 5 minutes of the film. That film literally takes his emotions, rips them apart, shakes them, throws them into a blender, and then bashes their metaphorical kneecaps, so it feels all the much better when he Powers up and defeats eggman at the end because you can tell that he's actually fighting for something instead of just fighting because the plot demands it. Every time he looks sad, you feel sad with him. That explosion of rage at the baseball field? That resonated with audiences' souls, because they know that he went through unimaginably hard pain at such a young age. If you want to make audiences feel for a character, show them the character hurting, and then show them the character persevering. Don't just make a bunch of cheap shots of bad luck, and then claim that this is some kind of big character changing moment. The only times I've ever seen an audience cry, get goosebumps, cheer, etc is when they see a character that they care about being put through trials and tests and persevering through them, because that is the centerpiece of the hero's journey. Sorry if this was such a long rant, but I am a very passionate writer and I hate when half baked stuff gets force fed to children instead of studios pumping their time and money into truly awesome stories that can shape a generation's childhood.
I feel so disappointed. This movie could've been so memorable if it actually went full on into the theme of "bad luck happens to us in life, but we can't let it stop us, we have to keep going". This is something that is great to tell to kids, to teach them to be strong as they're growing up. Fight through all the bad times you're going through. But... They executed it so BADLY. The way they executed it is so underwhelming that it legit makes me so mad that it could've been way better. I think the main issue I have with this: They focused way too much on the fantasy luck world. I mean, sure, obviously you can still world build for this place. And I think it's personally cute! But with the serious message this tries to deliver, they really should've focused a lot more on the real world aspects of what's "REEEEALLY" bad luck. And to obviously balance it out would be the cutesy luck world she goes to with the cat. It's just... They didn't get this balance right. It seriously sucks that it all feels unbalanced like that. That being said: I love how cute the kitty is.
Disclaimer that I haven't watched the movie (and don't really plan on it), but if they wanted to do the "what if we only had good luck" thing and have the message be that the world needs balance... Why not show the actual consequences of having a world with only good luck? Like have the luck dragon succeed in removing bad luck from the equation and then show how miserable the world becomes because of that. Great potential for comedy there too, like at first its great but after two weeks everyone is like "ugh I won the lottery AGAIN?!" And then the climax could be a daring mission with the protagonist and the cat and some of the side characters they met along the way going to restore bad luck. Idk just a random thought based on this and other reviews I've seen.
sounds like a scene in Bruce Almighty. where God Bruce is granting everyone's wishes but it turns chaotic. bcs if everyone won the lottery means nobody is winning.
I think to solve the issue of "what is 'luck'?", I think you need to separate the 'actions' and 'results' of luck. The bad luck that Sam has seems more like challenges to her smaller tasks or goals (that would only affect her actions). While the 'everything' she has is more of the result of her affected actions (and everyone else helping her out). Or you know, having many minor bad luck results is not the same as Big bad luck results (fate).
That last bit is really interesting! Imagine if she went on a journey to improve her luck, only to find out she was originally going to suffer the worst fate in history, and they've been helping her all along by doling out the bad vibes in manageable chunks of "bad luck?" Or even on a smaller scale, like stubbing her toe and spilling her coffee are a tradeoff not falling down a manhole later in the day. She complains about her misfortune until learning that she's had this whole network of magic beings frantically helping her however they can. That'd be one way to explore the theme of perspective.
I feel like there should've been some personal stakes involved. Like Sam should've been caught between wanting to use the penny for herself, and using it to help give her friend a better life. Feels like there were no real emotional stakes in the story.
So there's some times when I get worried that a movie I'm going to see has not so good ratings with saberspark. But I do take a chance and watch them to judge for myself. And honestly I thought this movie was very sweet and very wholesome for such tough subjects. I didn't mind that it was "safe". I like the plot, the voice actors were great, and overall story was really good. I really like that black cats are good luck in other cultures such as chinese, irish, and other Asian countries. I like that they played a lot with the good and bad lucks of different cultures. To me that was super fascinating. And honestly, you don't get a lot of stories with kids aging out of the foster care system. To me it was a really surprising element. I hope they do more playing around with subjects like these and in light-hearted fashion.
Sam’s design very much reminds me of what happens when a creator is overly paranoid about making a mary-sue so they try to make the character as plain and generally relatable as possible. But then all you get is a boring, forgettable character.
However, Mary Sues are just as bad as bland characters. Bland characters are boring because they're repetitive due to how often you see characters act like them. Mary Sues are boring because they win all the time with no effort, which is boring. Having a mix of characters like these can sometimes be better than doing an in between as it allows for contrasting.
lmfao, the bar you guys set for female character to look and act to not be label as neither the two can we start applying that logic to male characters, if they look bland and boring - its for the male audience to project themselves into, and no one would have a problem with it because lets be honest, its mostly men who complain about those things, if theyre overpowered or too badass and get all the big titties waifus, there would be no question, and some people even like and consider it its own genre judging by how many "overpowered anime protagonist who hide his power or whatever" compilation on youtube
Dude In Finding Nemo, Marlin losses his wife and all of his children other than Nemo, in the opening act no less. I think they played it way too safe to not have anything really bad happen.
As someone who went through the foster system and never got adopted - when you age out, they do try to help you find housing (usually very low-income housing in a dangerous area, wherever's the cheapest they can find) and try to help you find a job because otherwise, you're literally just a teenager on the street. What are they supposed to do, just toss you on the curb with your backpack and say "Good luck! Sucks to be you!" They do try to help you with basic schooling, and some states will try to help with community college and stuff like that. That's not LUCKY, that's the basics of survival. I'd say she had a lot of bad luck to never get adopted and to be stuck in an apartment that's probably in a dangerous area (of course they wouldn't show the worse sides of this in a kid's movie) and to be entirely without a support system besides what little the government would toss her way out of legal obligation. The apartments aren't free, either - you HAVE to be working, and at least 1/3 of your income will be taken for rent, often higher no matter how crappy the apartment is, usually percentage based on your income. If you lose your job or whatever? Well, better find a new one fast before your rent comes due, if you can't pay it then you're clearly not putting in the effort, so have fun on the streets getting an even quicker ticket to the prison pipeline! You're INCREDIBLY lucky if they give you any kind of assistance for food or anything, either - you're going to be living just scraping by for a long time, and if you're really lucky maybe you can find a better job or qualify for assistance for higher education to get better work or whatever, but chances are that are very, very low. The vast majority of kids who age out of the system without being adopted or having support end up on the streets or in prison within a few years, if they don't just end up dead.
Wow, I got a lot out of this. And I agree, people's perception of good and bad luck can be pretty skewed. That said, I would have liked to see more of how our protagonist feels about this (like maybe explore how burnt out she is at work or more about wanting to know more about her real family) which would make her question whether she's lucky or not. You can still do that in a children's film just by changing the tone a little. Personally, that is the thing I'm more interested in than visiting the "world of luck". In a way, this kind of reminds me of Kiki's Delivery Service, and it's DEFINITELY NOT because of the cat.
Thanks for the input. When Saberspark mentionned the apartment, job and online education as "lucky" I was thinking "wait, is the US system so skewed that even those basic things are NOT a thing? I feel kinda reassured a little bit that at least those basics are covered somehow.
@@LeSarthois They usually at least make an attempt at them for a couple years, but after a certain amount of time - or if you manage to get an income source at or slightly above the poverty line - you're on your own. Here in the US, if you're on any kind of assistance and you manage to save up a penny over 2000 dollars - maybe saving up for a car to help you get to a better job, or to put a down payment on a better apartment, whatever - your assistance will be cut off, and if you are on assistance, they have a set amount that you get each month for everything you have to pay for. If you're on disability or social security assistance of any kind and able to work any kind of job, you have to send them your pay stubs every month, and whatever money you make from your job, they take out of your next month's payment, so unless your job pays you enough to get off assistance entirely you're literally better off NOT working because of the prices of gas to get to work, clothes for work, ect.
@@notationmusical Oh I agree, and maybe being put in situations with a potential boyfriend or something and really wanting to have someone to talk to about it, but without an adult support system like parents, grandparents, ect. in her life she has no one to ask, or seeing kids playing in the park with their families as she walks to work and having that sadness, or trying to learn how to drive but having no one to teach her - those would be interesting to explore.
Its basically about the same here in Canada for fostercare as I grew up in fostercare myself and aged out got put on disability too though I work on and off but can only make so much a month and it just helps only so much make any more than allowed you get cut off and have to support yourself off that job and like saving up is impossible cant save money up when everything is so expensive now these days.
one of the things i noticed while watching the movie, is that sam has literally no flaws whatsoever. she is entirely unrelatable. like, you're really going to try and tell me that she's given a magical lucky penny, and her first thought is "i need to give this to hazel!"? when her entire character is about how she has bad luck? you REALLY expect me to believe that she wouldn't at least wrestle with the thought of keeping the penny for herself? like, no dilemma of "i could keep this for myself and my life would get better, but maybe this little girl could use it more"? the argument could be made that the whole point of her going to luck world and trying to steal a penny + destroying the bad luck mixer, is the movie's attempt at making her do something 'bad', but it's not a selfish thing she's doing for herself. she's not stealing the penny so she can have it, or giving the whole world only good luck so she won't be unlucky anymore, she's doing it for other people. everything she does in this movie is for someone else, and it's incredibly hard to imagine myself in her situation and go "yeah, i'd sacrifice everything good in my life for other people even though my life kinda sucks, comparably". she's TOO good, it's like she's not even human. just some walking bucket of good morals that can do no wrong.
YES I COMPLETELY AGREE. her only personality trait is “nice person” and it’s boring she is not engaging at ALL. nice people can still have other personality traits and I agree I would be more interested if she took the penny because she’s fed up of the bad luck ruining her life. Like she did nothing memorable in this movie?? did she even get angry once??? i think she had a lil emotional “it’s my fault moment” but I mean it didn’t really hit because she had no consequences and no character actually told her “you ruined this” because it was her fault and she doesn’t even get told off?? but the cat was being arrested 10 minutes ago for lying??? like the audience is not going to engage with your protagonist if the protagonist does nothing. Why couldn’t we see something that actually makes sam realize the consequences of her actions?? why cant we see her arguing with the cat why isn’t she mad that he LIED TO HER AND MADE HER COME FIX HIS MESS. like this girl was so boring istg
I just thought it was really stupid that they didn't even make her think for a moment that "hey maybe I could give this the hazel and once she's adopted I can keep it for myself!' or that even by the end of the movie they don't end up getting a lucky penny to share or keep for themselves they just got to deal with having a I wouldn't say a crappy life but a inconvenient life which isn't exactly the greatest thing to live with
I don't actually mind that she wanted to give the magic penny to her friend, its kind of beautiful (to me, at least) that when someone is given phenomenal cosmic powers and their first instincts are "how can I help people's lives to make the world a less miserable place to be?". But I can see your point for how little of a character Sam actually is.
It could’ve been interesting if you had an opening with her narrating, going “People say I have bad luck. Like, REALLY bad luck. But personally? I don’t believe in bad luck. Or bad luck for that matter. It’s all in the perspective of things and knowing how to deal with the situation you’re in!” *meanwhile a montage of bad things happening to her is playing* And it’s like, that’s her “super power”, in a way? That she’s really actually unlucky BUT she doesn’t let it get her down and therefore refuses to accept that that’s just how her life is. Maybe she’s even like “Okay, so maybe I do believe in luck. Not bad luck, but good luck. And yeah, my life hasn’t been easy, but I believe that all I need, is one lucky break!” And that’s what she’s trying to achieve with the coin. Both for herself but also for Hazel or other people, like, maybe she has another kid who already got adopted who really wants to play baseball well so they can get a scholarship ship but they’re not quite good enough yet, and the moral of that part is that using luck to “cheat” won’t make them a better baseball player, so when they run out of luck, they can’t do as well as they want to, or suddenly Hazel is flooded with adoption offers, and she can’t seem to connect with any of them, cuz they weren’t interested in a child, as much as a doll they could prance around or something? Or that, the black cat is “unlucky” because he thinks he is, so he’s amplifying his own feelings of being unlucky??? I dunno, I guess I’m rambling.
I knew the movie was weak, but I couldn't put it into words until I read the comments and watched the video. The movie pulled ALL of its punches and it's really sad. You really want the theme of needing bad luck to hit home? Make her actually struggle, like Saberspark said. There's also a severe problem of "tell, don't show" with the worldbuilding; they just kept adding more and more things without spending any time on the characters and their internal struggles. Issues occur and/or are resolved not because Sam worked hard for it, but because it's convenient for the plot. For instance, I remember screaming internally for Babe the dragon to use the two good stones just to make Sam struggle, but no, she just gives up over one talk with her. It would've been WAY more compelling to see what would happen if the two good stones were put in place instead of just a dumb talk, to see the world actually go out of balance to prove Sam's point. I don't really mind all the worldbuilding, but if it only serves as an inconvenience rather than a direct attack on the character, there's really no point for it to be there.
I feel like the story would have been fine if the conflict centered just around the cat trying to get the penny back sneakily from sam before she gave it to hazel, and make the cat the main character. Like, take the magical worlds out of the equation, take the quatifying or distributing of luck out of there, make it a simple yet effective plot. Maybe after Sam gives Hazel the penny, a ton of like horrible shit happens to her, and the cat also is like, having a hard time, so the cat's like, "if you just hadn't taken my penny!" and sam's all, "hey, life's just like this, but the bad times make the good times all that sweeter, you just have to let yourself enjoy those good times." and then THAT'S the message of endurance. And then in the end, Sam adopts the cat, is happy, cat is happy, Hazel gets adopted, dance number, freeze frame, roll credits.
Being a black cat, it'd make sense why he needs it back. Maybe he would be like her, naturally unlucky, and they could relate when the conflict de-escalates.
@@puggyboy694 yes! You get it! If the message is about endurance, and black cats are unlucky, have sam tech the cat the message of endurance because they're both naturally unlucky! It would be a better use of the theme than whatever tf they did with it
One of the few animated films I watched this year was Belle. Definitely wanna see Saber watch this one as the animation and music is beautiful but the story and pacing is really weird and the plot definitely didn’t go where I thought it would
The movie was good at the beginning but they really messed up the ending. The “Evil” Dragon wasn’t even evil, they could’ve made the world better. Also the talking cat! Everyone just accepts that it can talk at the end of the movie!?!
@@mparker123 yup. i've gotten those two on my comment and i'm assuming every comment will have them. it gets aggravating because i like to reply to comments and see replies on my own comment but then i see the bots and i'm like "oh boy, more bots that youtube will do nothing about"
@@hexnight I have questions, what are bots and why are they in every comment no matter the video and why is TH-cam not doing a thing about it? Is it because there's so many or they hard to take care of? Is it a scam? Are they traps for people so the user can steal identities and use them? Sorry if some of them are stupid
@@kitieriwhite7758 bots are accounts whose sole purpose is to promote something. my first bot encounter was about a year ago when i kept getting bots for flixzone (i don't know if they still exist). they spam comments/replies on videos in order to get as many people as possible to click on whatever it is. i don't work for youtube, so i can't answer why they're not doing anything about it. my best guess is that there's too many to take care of, as saberspark isn't the only channel who suffers from it. if you see a bot, don't click on the link, as it could take you to a virus, a p**n site, or some weird/random youtube video
If we are going to like actual good examples of luck being used in characters Nagito Komaeda from Danganronpa is the best example cause of how absurd it was done. Good luck disguised as bad luck or vice versa in the most ridiculous and sometimes dark ways possible. Just a fraction of that energy turned down for a general audience would of gone a long way.
@generic branding name yeah basically, his luck determined whoever ‘killed’ him would be the person who was a ‘traitor’. Basically it was a whole setup to where people would need to extinguish a fire with bottles of extinguisher but one of them was a poison gas. But he made the setup look like he was tortured and pierced with a spear cause he wanted to throw everyone off his plan. The person who threw the poison, effectively killing him, was the person he wanted to be tagged as the killer
"Oops! I slipped and fell down in way that caused me to get slightly damp while not getting any injuries whatsoever! I have the worst luck in the world, but I'll endure!" meanwhile in real life there's a person who has been struck by lightning seven times.
Honestly, even though i will admit that Luck had it's ups and downs like all movies do i for one didn't think it was that bad. at least the story was kinda interesting, i mean a world where good luck and bad luck are made that's a world i would definitely explore if it were real.
@@i_draw_whatever18 Speaking of which, i'm surprised that there was an orphanage in this film at all. because in today's society things like orphanages aren't very common anymore.
@Saвеrsраrk 🅥 This movie is damn good and not boring, you crazy. Honestly i liked it better then Disney's more recent efforts(especially Raya) and I wouldn't call it a Pixar rip-off in the slightest.
While I understand that Sam was being incredibly selfless in wanting a Lucky Penny to help Hazel get adopted and find her "forever home", I just don't understand why she needed to be unrealistically unlucky if she wasn't written to want the penny for herself. It just seems like they didn't want to write her to be a selfish character? But she was still incredibly entitled to demand that the cat give her a replacement penny after she lost his original one.
The reason I feel they made her so unrealistically unlucky, was to tie the fact that she hadn't been adopted with her unluckiness in her mind to give her even more drive to help Hazel. Speaking as someone who grew up in care... I know what it's like to feel absolutely cursed and the true meaning behind when it rains it pours, so just another world and character building, but in my opinion, actually a pretty good one.
she was just very bland. like give us a main character with FLAWS. sam is very formulaic she’s nice all the time never stands up to anyone and even though she is the entire reason for the land of luck falling apart she gets 0 consequences from the other characters. Bob however was almost sent away?? even though it’s sams fault they’re in that mess. I wanted to see her get angry lash out do ANYTHING to make me interested in her. I’m not saying nice characters are always boring but usually they have a trait other than just “good person” why couldn’t Sam be selfish? I would have been more interested if the movie she took the penny for herself because she was fed up of her life and wanted a new beginning. The little girl thing is cute but it’s boring. I just wish they actually went outside the box with sam :/
@@shaniachevarie2780 I guess I just feel like the writing could've gone further with it. You can stipulate that the reason for Sam not getting adopted was cos she caused so many issues in those homes by being so unlucky (i.e. constantly breaking things, making a mess, etc.) but they don't blatantly show that so it's only a guess and not a confirmation. And regarding the penny thing, I think I would've liked it more if Sam initially wanted to have the penny for herself but later on, she chooses to give it to Hazel as a selfless act.
Actually, in the US children who end up in foster or who get adopted are given some free college tuition by the government because they don't have parents to save up funds nor can work to make such savings (my friend had two adopted sisters and they got enough funds for an Associate degree) But alot of foster kids who age out of the system don't even get to college cuz they usually flunked out of school..or lose their important paper work (such as birth certificates) which you need to get an ID or driver's license.. and end up homeless Aging out of the system is alot of the time a death sentence (cuz the state basically makes you defend for yourself.. they help a little but after a while your very much alone)
Watching this review is like "Oh, this sounds kinda fun actually, I like the drama, I like the setting, some magical realism--" and then you showed the screens of her in a goddamn leprechaun outfit with some off-brand troll dolls and pink dragons and my interest was GONE
If you want magical realism done in animation, I suggest checking out The Tatami Galaxy and Night is Short, Walk on Girl. Both anime in similar styles with the same director, based off of books by the same guy, and with a couple of reoccurring characters between them and some shared themes.
"The Land before Time" hits hard in the feels, killing off the main character's mom, and showing how he recovers from that and goes on to make a journey he would think impossible without her. My seven-year old brother was obsessed with that movie. We had no way of knowing that just after he turned nine, our Mom would be diagnosed with Cancer and die shortly after that. I really think that "The Land Before Time" helped my little brother (and me) prepare for that trial and eventually get through it. I think people do kids a tremendous disservice by only depicting a world in which the hardest thing that people have to face is their sandwich falling down or not being able to find their lucky penny. Even if they don't have to face significant trials until their adulthood, I think it can help give them compassion to understand that there are real trials in the world. We don't need to give them nightmares, but a hopeful cartoon is just the vehicle for helping kids to start to understand some of the significant challenges that millions of them are already starting to face. I haven't seen Luck, but just going off what you've written, it sort of reminds me of Inside Out, which I thought suffered from having a protagonist who led too privileged a life.
I feel like with the concept of luck there has to be a possibility of something pretty bad happening to the character the luck is happening to or the people around them so I definitely agree. Also I think death shouldn't be a forbidden topic in kids movies, like it doesn't have to even be graphic, if there's some sort of major luck involved there should be a major impact on the main character because of their luck (like other people could get hurt when their luck causes something really bad to happen). There should also be some way they deal with their luck (do they ignore it and try to brush it off as coincidence, or are they aware of it and fear it and try to avoid situations where they could cause major incidents?). If there are barely any steaks then there is nothing to really explore regarding luck.
@Mitch Johnson Something must be wrong with me then because I saw Land Before Time on Cartoon Network when I was 11(I'm 33), and when my mom had a stroke in April of that year, I was angry and distraught. Though in thinking about it, I guess seeing the scene of the death of Little Foot's mother did help because I'm not traumatized, and with my mom at age 70 and with one foot in the grave, I'm more at ease with it than I think I should be. As for doing kids a disservice by depicting softer adversities like losing a lucky penny or dropping a sandwich, or the privileged life in Inside Out? Being a writer myself, I've got a jaded perception on this. Since women and girls are seen as more emotional than men, they're underestimated in how much they can take when presented with adversity in a fictional setting. Hence why films aimed at them pull their punches when presenting adversity to a main character. Good thing I'm writing novels and comics, because I can get away with a lot more.
@@DemonicRemption "Something must be wrong with me then because I saw Land Before Time on Cartoon Network when I was 11(I'm 33), and when my mom had a stroke in April of that year, I was angry and distraught." I hope this was a joke. Of course you were angry and distraught. Obviously, my point wasn't that the Land Before Time made our Mom's death a breeze.
Inside Out had the privilege problem but at least it was a nice movie about relatable teenage issues, even if they're privileged ones. It was well written and entertaining. This one wasn't
This reminds me of an animated music video I saw a while ago. There was a female character that was burdened with constant good luck to the point that she was upset that she couldn't have fun with her life, and a male character who suffers with extreme bad luck and is very paranoid and clumsy. When they meet, their opposing luck balances each other out and it's really sweet. Both characters had fun personalities and designs and weren't too simple, and it was literally just a music video.
This film really dropped the ball in character design. You should be able to look at the main character and see someone with bad luck. Fuzzy hair, broken glasses, band aids, clothes with bleach spots.
Anime like Shikimori's not just a cutie make it better. Main character have all bad luck in the world while his girlfriend have all good luck in the world.
fr character design should be able to tell you about the character. You see someone with perfect hair, clean formal outfit and you’ll know the character is uptight and a perfectionist. You see someone with mismatched shoes messy hair and colourful outfit and you can tell they’re care free and clumsy. Sams design does absolutely nothing it’s basic and boring and u cant tell anything about her
I know a lot of people work on these films. I just can’t help seeing a connection between a head producer with a troubling history with women, and a character design more focused on being attractive than helping tell the story.
Just goes to show that no animated movie can come close to the epic cinematography of “Minions: The Rise of Gru” (2022). Truly the best movie of our time.
Honestly I felt like Hazel didn't deserve so much effort from Sam? She didn't care, and was literally rude to her like... Bro, you don't go "yeah but YOU didn't get adopted" on someone who literally spent their life waiting for it? And being disappointed and suffering trauma from this ? It's the main point that annoyed me in the movie... The main goal felt blend and just here to have one?
fr they didn’t even showcase their bond quite well. Like I feel the relationship between them could have been made an interesting dynamic and maybe having hazel show sympathy for sam would have made me actually want the penny for her. A bit of a “I wish you could have a door” moment where you feel for the characters. but hazel is consistently rude and I would have preferred sam just took the penny for selfish reasons because that would be way more interesting
@@lilac3266 Exactly! I saw the scene of Sam and Hazel talking on the bed and Sam trying to assure Hazel and Hazel being like "but it didn't work for you" and thought how it was just doing wrong everything that the parallel scene of Encanto did amazingly. There's really nothing that endears us to Hazel or her bond with Sam like there is with Antonio and his bond with Mirabel. Hazel never shows any sympathy for Sam's plight*, only worries that the same fate might befall _her._ And then repeatedly asks for Sam to help with it. Contrast with Antonio's "I wish you could have a door," bringing empathetic attention to where even Mirabel herself doesn't. (*Not that it's much of a plight. As saberspark mentioned, her "plight" basically boils down to a bunch of inconveniences. Which suck, but she got insanely lucky where it could otherwise seriously damage her: she gets a free apartment, easily gets and keeps a job, keeps up with her schooling, is healthy and conventionally attractive, et cetera. The movie doesn't give us much to pity her for other than "oh man, rotten luck that your sandwich fell")
@@peeblekitty5780 ahh I completely agree and I’m so glad I’m not the only one who seen the parallel between this scene and the scene with mirabel and antonio. Hazel just comes across as rude the entire time constantly saying how “Sam has bad luck” which is true but the movie never really shows why Sam feels so attached to hazel? whereas in encanto we see antonio does worry his fate will end up like mirabel but he actually shows sympathy for her and also doesn’t treat her any different because of it unlike most others in the movie. That’s why their relationship is so endearing, kids are often the ones who don’t see people for their achievements or pitfalls they see them as a good friend who helps out. Hazel doesn’t even seem to like Sam that much and they don’t have any meaningful conversations despite that attempt at one. You summed up perfectly how I feel about their relationship
Well, if they do get lucky to kill eachother, it is also a bad luck since in any way both of them died. The concept of bad and good luck is extremely hard and apparently this movie worked pretty poorly on it, i havent watched it so i cant say much
I just saw a Pinocchio trailer in this video's ad. They didn't even show Pinnochio, and they made the fairy godmother black. Beyond that, the fact that Disney is spitting out another live action remake speaks volumes. I'd love to know how long they think this can last before they're out of classics to reboot, and out of ideas.
Haven’t seen the movie, but was so confused why the girl’s expression on the poster looked so familiar. Now I realize it’s because it looks exactly like Mirabel’s from Encanto. I know Disney animators/designers leave and work around in the industry, but the exact cookie cutter look is so obvious it feels a little too blatant at its desire to be a contender and trying to be exactly them kind of takes away from my trust in what their other content will hold.
they definitely tried to make sam “clumsy and relatable” too. Like it’s her only personality trait whereas with mirabel it feels more natural and she has other attributes apart from it
I mean, Milo Murphy's Law is all about a main character who's got the literal worst luck possible, but he compensates by being super over-prepared for every eventuality. It's a fun show where bad luck is very much a factor, and the MC is optimistic and takes it all in stride by treating it like just something to expect and be ready for. It does the concept really well.
Why did they bring heavy real world problems like never getting adopted into this if they weren't willing to explore those themes properly? Sounds like they should've stuck to the dropping your sandwich level of stuff instead. Then you could've had the lession be, "don't let the little things get to you". Characterize the main character as being in a comfortable position in life but plaged by minor misfortunes. Coworkers jokingly call her a harbinger of doom. Things break when she's around. Etc. She curses her luck and vows to reverse it, whatever it takes. Insert montage of her talking to tarrot readers and throwing coins in a fountain, only to show that the reader is a carnival hack and the coin bounces off the fountain and into a raindrain. Later in the movie, after some stuff I'm not being paid to write about happens, she realizes that with the minor inconveniences of her life came funny stories, bonding opportunities, and unexpected discoveries. She remembers getting all her friends to sign her cast, telling people about her day and making the whole room light up with laughter, her friends coming to cheer her up after a bad turn, etc. When she stops the dragon, she says, "Most of my best moments happened because of my bad luck. Without all that rain, none of those flowers would grow".
I haven't seen this film, but it kinda stings when a character with good housing and a job and schooling and everything a person in modern times needs is suppossed to be the one who's unlucky when some of us are out here dealing with disability and kidney failure and trauma.
Yeah. I honestly think the concept for a movie like this really only work for really young audiences who may not have been exposed to the cruelties of the world, yet.
And just like I said about Saber himself, do not shame others struggles unless you understand firsthand. I'd have given up every single penny I earn in my entire life if it had meant I could have a forever family as a kid. I didn't get one. I know how it feels. If you didn't grow up in care, you don't get to comment on the things the system gives you when you leave to try and make up for the absolute hell you've gone through for between 1-18 yrs at that point. You don't get to judge their hardships, because you don't know. I'd never tell someone with a disability, oh you're lucky cuz you don't have to work, my tax dollars pay everything for you, because I don't know what kind of pain they are in or how me saying that might negatively affect them. Consider that before you comment like you know anything about hardship next time.
Trauma? You wanna talk about trauma? How about being assaulted as an 11 yr old girl by the same man who used to feed ur mother alcohol at 16 when he was 26 so he could assault her as well because the foster care system didn't do proper checks. Shut the hell up, the government owes kids in care every cent that they give them because of the absolute hell some kids go through. You don't know the pain, or definition of trauma, til you've been abandoned by 7 families and told no one wants you at the age of 12.
I was diagnosed with nearly as complex post traumatic stress disorder as war veterans, because of things that happened in care. Don't you ever, EVER, imply that care doesn't cause trauma that can sometimes lead to disability. Or like foster kids have it so cushy, cuz what we didn't see, is the mental health impact on a person what the main character went through has.
I think the problem is that they made bad luck their own thing instead of bad luck just being the absence of good luck, like cold is the absence of heat. And that a person has an amount of luck designed at birth at random or something like that. Then rant about how that's unfair and the dragon saying that "luck was never about fairness" and the character realizing that life is just unfair and that there will always be people more lucky than you but also people more unlucky, but besides that doesn't dictate how bad or good your life is going to be, just that your life is what you make of it.
I noticed just from these clips that Sam seems to always be wearing green (the "lucky color") which is a nice design choice even if the rest of her design is very basic
Why not set it in Ireland and make it about the good people? Not even saying you gotta change the overall plot, but that seems like the perfect setting rather than just making it generic.
Not sure how you'd set it here without offending us. While every people and culture in the world gets stereotyped, the branding that we're stuck with is particularly patronising. Invariably, anything set in Ireland - which never distinguishes between the two nations and radically different cultures here - isn't reflective of people, life, culture, outlook etc here. Just the same old crap.
What would you like to see in a story set in modern Ireland with a narrative that includes its mythos (with the Tuatha De Danan and their descendants in particular but also anything else from the region’s folklore in general)
seconding this ! i would *love* more animated movies taking place in our country ! 🍀💚 celtic mythology/folklore in general is just so woefully slept on. 😭 but if we could get more irish love, i would personally want it from like....a more creditable studio than this, I mean if that isn't too much to ask 😂 (who remembers that cgi "riverdance" movie from a while ago 😅 lol)
@@adora_lovely Oh you saw that too? I gotta be real with you... I think that might have been the worst movie I've personally ever seen. Not for the setting but the plot was pretty boring and the execution was wooooorse! I wish Saberspark would do a video about it lmao
The way you describe this film kind of reminds me of Milo Murphy's Law, I recall you never got into Phineas and Ferb but basically it was the next show Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh made. The premise was around the titular Milo Murphy, a descendant of the namesake of Murphy's Law, who wherever he goes things would always go wrong. He's kind of similar to how you describe Eugene from Hey Arnold: despite facing constant adversity in his life, he always manages to be upbeat and positive about his condition (yes, Murphy's Law is an actual condition here). However, it kind of eventually goes into territory where they start explaining how Murphy's Law works and it's all based on "probability ions" or some shit (they reveal that Phineas and Ferb have similar ions but for positive probability, which IMO just totally fucks with PnF as a show but that's another story, also yeah Phineas and Ferb crossed over with MML and the show basically since then became reliant on PnF, Doofenshmirtz even moves in with the Murphys... anyway as said that's another story). Basically, they kind of started to explain the "logic" of it and it just made things more confusing, and you also had even with the cartoony nature despite things being quite exaggerated Milo and the people around him never end up with anything THAT bad happening for the most part, and if it does it does feel resolvable. It's kind of confusing and messy for me, lol.
I also saw from another review that they had a lot of issues in production cuz of some jackass writer that kept screwing everything up and barely taking it seriously.
This kind of reminds me of a previous Skydance movie called Wonder Park but tried to have this heartwarming message about grief and trying to overcome depression but due to TERRIBLE execution accidentally comes as this callous message of repressing your emotions like the inverse of Inside Out. …honestly I kind of fear that Skydance might had the spiritual successor to the Weinstein Company (at least in terms of animation but either way the only decent one they made was Hoodwinked) right down to the sexual misconduct allegations.
@@gracekim25 Yeah pretty much. And it’s not like hospitalization of a parent can’t be scary especially for kids (hell I’m an adult and my grandfather have to being hospitalized so bad to the point of needing to be placed in a nursing home was one of the factors that contributed to a nervous breakdown) ,but the fact that they pussyfooted around the issue supposedly for trying not to upset kids too much (…I guess?) made the message have way less impact
@@collaterale1 Yeah and again probably not the intention so I’m not gonna go full Tony Goldmark (although his video on it is still great if a bit heated) ,but the film is poorly written so that’s the way it comes across. And like I half joked…are we sure Skydance isn’t the new Weinstein Company is making mediocre to bad animated movies while also being a hotbed for misconduct? LOL
I honestly feel like Wonder Park suffers the same thing Merida did. The movies start out EXTREMELY strong, the ground for an interesting premise is very solid, both have some memorable scenes and the moment the animal side kicks appear on screen, everything becomes forgettable and generic and, somehow, the ending comes to the conclusion that's the OPPOSITE of what they were setting up (Wonder Park -> dealing with grief -> you can be emotional and that's okay -> actually just repress your emotions, Merida -> gender norms -> you don't have to conform as being your own person is beautiful -> actually conform to those standards at least a little, otherwise you were wrong and stupid)
The idea that bad things NEED to happen feels so icky and is an awful message. The world CAN be better, it's just about whether or not people put effort into making it better. But that requires money and empathy, so instead we're fed this "Life isn't fair" myth as a way to cope.
Message of the movie: "People must suffer or they will be unhappy!" Me: "Uh... no? Who made that movie again?" Movie credits: "Apple TV+" Me: "Of course..."
If you want to see this kind of message done well, I highly recommend the short film "Merry Madness" by Dead Sound. It tells far more elegantly that bad things and good things go hand-in-hand and you need both to overcome obstacles, and to truly live. And then its sequel "Scary And Strange" gives the vital caveat that _you shouldn't use the importance of bad things in life as a reason to stand passively by in the face of suffering._ Which Luck completely misses in its over 90 minutes of screentime.
Y'know, a story around good luck and bad luck could've been structured similarly to the 2009 Garfield show's episode on good luck. The protagonist has friends and legit bad luck (not just minor inconveniences). They encounter a luck/unluck citizen that tells them of the luck realm, follows them there and do something (snatch a luck giving mcguffin, change their luck file, whatev's) that gives them strong positive luck when they get home. It works, for a while: they get lucky in a lot of things, but soon they notice those they care about are getting increased bad luck. Moreover, others start getting suspicious of their incredible luck. Eventually, it reaches a tipping point: the protagonist then decides to go back to the luck dimension and undo their previous change. In the climax, they accept that luck is not something you can (or in their case, should) mess with, that sometimes you just can't do much except endure things out of your control, that's part of life. Still, you will get through it and find that things may end up in your favor in the long run. Happy/Bittersweet ending, depending on how cynical you write it.
This is the kind of movie where, if the ending had been just a little different, it would've been a lot better and made more sense. If the ending had been "we need bad luck because if we only had good luck we'd never appreciate anything" or something along those lines, the plot might've made more sense.
When you were talking about examples of BAAAAAAAAAD luck, I thought you were going to go WAY darker. Like war, bombings, car crashes, plane crashes, droughts. If good luck is as powerful as maybe getting a good job, then bad luck is much much more powerful if there's those kinds of forces in play.
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Out of all the animated films I've seen this year, Luck is one of them.
I guess it was “luck” that made you see it.
In terms of ratings for poor quality films released this year where does this rank with Ice age 6, Pinocchio a true story, and animated Marmaduke?
@@bearerofbadnews1375 It's not as visually bad as Ice Age and Marmaduke and it's not entertainingly bad as Pinocchio. It's just an uninspired bland animated film.
Out of all the animated films I've seen this year, Luck isn't one of them.
Who are you?
Monsters Inc. had a message beyond "monsters collecting screams", and that's why it worked. "Laughter is more powerful than fear" is a great message for children to learn. Still can't figure out what Luck's message is.
Yeah, I felt he did Monsters Inc. a bit dirty in this review. The message and how it was presented at the end basically solidified my love for Pixar as a child!
"Still can't figure out what Luck's message is."
That, despite abuse apologists clutching their pearls about imaginary "CaNcEl CuLtUrE," rich white cishet men can be outed as absolute monsters and still be handed hundreds of millions of dollars for doing the barest minimum?
@@SteelWithIt Yeah. Sigh.
honestly the machine wouldve worked great if bad luck is more a byproduct of good luck. it would make sense to distribute the bad luck as well because why would you hold unto that in on concentrated pile.
THe message is misery builds character. you can't avoid the bad stuff in life, you can adapt and over come it though.
I feel like this is a really wasted opportunity to talk about how the adoption system *actually* screws people over. Kids who never get adopted don't just get a free apartment and a shiny new job handed to them, they gotta figure a lot of shit out on their own and it's scary and hard. If you're going to have an orphan character with the entire premise being that she's incredibly unlucky... maybe show the actual bad parts about being orphaned?????? idk. strikes me as kind of an odd choice.
Yea I was wondering about that, cause that seemed a bit bullcrap to me that she was given a free apartment and got a job so easily even if she has really bad luck?
If Luck was just the luck of the foster system-
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Also these movies about adoption kids never actually fully cove the trauma side of it. I would like a movie to do that just once.
You can't expect much as they can't even show alcohol n stuff anymore in movies it's been watered down this generation of movies is hella weak so I can't expect much and neither should you
There's a fable about determining the nature of "luck", which begins when a farmer's horse runs away. The village sympathizes, saying it's "bad luck." The farmer replies "Maybe." Eventually, the horse comes back, and brings two horses with it. "What good luck!" the village cries. "Maybe," the farmer replies. When trying to break the new horses, the son falls off and breaks his leg. Bad luck? Maybe. While the son is healing, the army comes through looking for recruits, but the son is passed over due to his condition. Good luck? Maybe. Good and bad luck may feel as such in the moment, but only time will tell how these passing instances actually affect our lives. I just feel that if you're going to make a film literally about luck, there's so many avenues to explore about how luck manifests, and for creators so renowned for elaborate storytelling and world building, there were a lot of missed opportunities.
Not to mention that Good and Bad are subjective, man-made concepts 🙃
How is the son dying considered good luck?
@@michelleortiz4568
The son was Passed OVER, meaning ignored or not payed attention to.
@@michelleortiz4568 he didnt die???
@@toxicloafy7914 no, "while he was healing", the army didn't consider him for recruiting.
This reminds me of that scene in Zootopia where Judy first gets to the city and is tricked by someone she was trying to help, is bullied at work, eats gross microwave carrots, and gets stuck in wet cement. THAT was a well done, kid friendly presentation of real bad luck and when Judy just keeps going to work despite everything, it makes her so much more relatable and interesting to follow.
I haven't seen Luck yet, but it sounds like something like this could have done alot for the story and character growth.
@our hero I swear these bots are peak comedy.
Omg yes! This is what ths luck movie should of been with the bad luck instead of "bad luck"
It is he just is down playing it you should really watch it
Yes !! Zootopia is underrated as a movie because people just went "lmao furries" and ignored it. It's a super good movie and it has a MUCH better message of endurance without trying to, especially when it deals with like the concept of racism and stuff (i say concept because they're animals not people). This movie feels kind of hollow cuz it just doesn't talk about like real struggles like poverty and stuff and how actually shitty the foster system and growing up is, it's just like "whoops dropped my sandwich ://" it sounds like someone who's been upper middle class their entire life wrote this lmao. My family's low class and I think they could've been so deep with the implications of good and bad luck and enduring and it wasn't ://
@@leonineKelter fr the movie was good
You want a great film that has a female protagonist, a black talking cat sidekick, and she has to endure through bad luck and keep pushing forward and has an actual MESSAGE? Kiki's Delivery Service
YES.
Oh my gosh yes.
I was just thinking about that.
NGL, I totally thought you were going to say _Coraline_ .
With that said, why is “female protagonist” something special these movies have in common? Women make up roughly half the population, so there’s nothing particularly special about them - it’s like lumping _SpongeBob_ and _Harry Potter_ together just because they both have a male protagonist.
@@ARCtheCartoonMaster Because despite about half of the population being female as you said the vast majority of media, especially popular media, has a male main character and if there's a woman in the main cast at all then a good chunk of the time she's a love interest for another character.
studio ghibli is just a massive W in general
the adoption system and what happens to kids at 18 is such an important subject, and i was hoping when you mentioned her story that they'd dive into that more but.. yeah. disappointing
Nah dude, gotta talk about Sam's butt.
Y'all only hate this movie because the protagonist has her hair down 💀
@@Randomness-br2vx what 😭😭😭😭
Hang on, so we've got a movie that...
- Features a young woman, disenchanted with her "terrible" life that is actually quite good
- Meets a talking cat
- Falls into a magical world
- Struck with a magical malady
- Returns to her normal life, with newfound appreciation for it
This is the Wal-Mart brand of Miyazaki's "The Cat Returns".
Also Coraline
@@XxPanda6 yeah that
this is so true it hurts xD
I'd RATHER watch The Cat Returns.
@@ZeldaSam1 yep
Luck kind of feels like that one movie you forget in like 3 days and when someone brings it up it’s just like “oh yeah I’ve watched that” and you continue whatever conversation you had before like normal
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@CipherRage0909 the luck world was actually a cool idea ngl, I feel like it could have done better with it
Fun fact: Saberspark has more subscribers than the official Apple TV TH-cam Channel
That's awesome, if it's true.
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@Saвеrsраrk 🅥 porn
Bruh don't tell me this is actually going to be the top comment of the video
@@somerandolad
It's true. Apple TV has 1.18 million and Saber has 1.64 or thereabouts.
The facial expressions were so dulled compared to the excellent voice acting. The voice would be filled with emotion and the face of the character would be giving NOTHING. I’m so glad you reviewed this movie. I felt the exact same way about it.
I'm so happy I'm not the only one who noticed that!! It was soooo emotionless even the "emotional" scene , you can brly tell she is crying and that feels fake. The expressions are non existing
fr not to mention the lip sync being off at times like ??
@@lilac3266 Makes you wonder if the movie originally was going to have a different main language.
There has been some movies recently that were pretty decent, but were mostly made by chinese animators and the lipsync fails.
It wasn't just the facial expression, it was *all* of the character animation. The movements were so subtle and bland, and a ton of shots just had the characters standing there and doing nothing with their bodies. Animation like that is supposed to be exaggerated.
@@CesarinPillinGaming it’s also weird because if it had a small budget I wouldn’t mind that so much but 140 MILLION DOLLARS BUDGET and you cant even make it look like she’s saying her lines??
My biggest issue with this movie honestly was how ungrateful she seemed for the things she DID have. Like all the good things that she did have didn't matter because she only focused on the negative, and while that could've been the point they didn't expand on that at all. Granted I watched it with my little sister while half asleep so I may have missed a few things, but even my little sister who is 14 years younger than me said "at least she's not homeless, at least she has friends". When an 8 year old calls your movie out on the bs, there's a problem.
Honestly, I wish the film didn't have the whole "mc transports into a fantasy realm revolving around this one specific theme" plotline and had the whole film take place in the real world. The most engaging parts of the movie to me was the cat-chasing scene and watching her deal with her unluckiness in her day-to-day life. You can still keep the talking cat and the lucky coin plotline, you can still have her realize that life is less about luck and more about how you react to the events that happen to you. It would have also made it easier to develop the relationship between the mc and the little girl, something I felt was a bit undercooked in the actual movie.
We did enjoy having potatoes with this vid
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Can animation just... STOP having Isekai plotlines for like... 1 year? That's all I ask.
@@s.i.m.poster6823 Japan will probably never give up Isekai
Yeah have the first act focus on how bad her luck is, maybe even show how she is so use to minor bad luck she plans around it (sidesteps a falling plant or something) but that it doesn't stop her from suffering big things (application to college did send due to glitch or not having enough money after her luck breaks something expensive).
Have her find the cat and coin, gain good luck but have to make a deal with the cat on who gets the luck each day....
Yada yada yada, they lost the coin during a hand off and slap stick adventure of two unlucky characters tracking down and losing the coin over and over (probably lose it in an old ladies lose change because of course). Find the penny and have good luck again only to find out they didn't actually have the real lucky penny when it shows up again at their doorstep. They realize they need a better outlook on life not a lucky penny and that they have overcome through hard work. Hand penny to girl, girl finds parents.
END
I felt the same way. When I saw the trailer I was interested in seeing how her day to day was playing out and when they introduced the luck world I was disappointed and felt right away it would be a lackluster viewing experience. The fantasy world takes a lot of focus off the characters, at least in this film :(
There was a Lindsey Lohan movie called "Just My Luck" that dealt with this same concept in a really interesting way. I haven't seen it in years but I remember it was sort of two people who had extreme luck/unluckiness and they kept swapping and trying to get the good luck back. It was really cute and a part of it was accepting bad luck when it comes and facing the good and the bad as a couple which was really sweet
Dang, you know it’s bad when a freaking *Lindsey Lohan* film did something better.
@@ARCtheCartoonMaster Lindsey Lohan had a lot of great films in the 2000s.
@@ARCtheCartoonMaster Have you seen Mean Girls?
Your right! This movie did a better job at showing how important luck is while this one failed. I'm saying that and haven't watch the movie yet, just a few reviews and the trailer two times. Just my luck has a good message like you said. I can't find what this film's moral/ message is 🤔
That just SOUNDS like a Lindsey Lohan movie 😂
We watched this movie with my kids, and we enjoyed it thoroughly. There was nothing me or my kids did not quite understand and they would love some toys based on luck, and I made the whole thing up. I have no kids neither apple tv.
Pffff
You had me in the first half, ngl
Lol what
Okay that was funny
DAAAMN
I'm glad you brought up Eugene from "Hey Arnold" as an example of a 'bad luck' character. Considering all of the crazy stuff he dealt with in that show and hearing how mildly inconvenient this movie's lead's bad luck is (haven't seen the movie yet btw), I don't see why they didn't go all out with the latter. Although, I wouldn't mind somebody editing clips of this movie to have Eugene's scream in it.
As someone who has never heard eguene scream, I am excited to make this eventually
@@Brigeb20 What about the scene from "Eugene's Bike" where after his bike gets destroyed, he starts to scream bigly and looks like a Peanuts character as the camera pans out.
I think Luck would have worked better as a children's novel, since runtime is not an issue with a book and you can cram in more exposistion without dragging down the story.
This really does feel like a New York Times Bestseller adapted into a feature-length film
I do like how they animated the black cat and his vocal direction. It’s really hard to animate cats and I love how they did it.
Dang it, when I saw the black cat, I thought it was clever that they used it as a lucky cat. Because black cats never get adopted because of the negative association, so I thought this could be a turnaround for a commonly colored type of cat that's been done dirty by society for so long. But nope
When Saber started talking about the cat and the penny, I thought "oh cool, a matagot maybe? that's going to be interesting" but no... they couldn't even bother with digging into parts of the history and lore surrounding black cats and maybe give it a nice, happy, kid-friendly twist with a "hey, actually, this cat isn't unlucky nor evil but it's the way the people treat them and talk about them that makes them seem that way". It could have been great if we had some kind of adoption for the black cat at the end, seeing how it seems to be the source of the plot (with the child at the beginning).
I honestly love black cats. Their just regular cats as far as I'm concerned
@@hybrid09 That'd be so sweet; the kid and the cat get a happy home together. Kinda makes me think the MC isn't even necessary or maybe they should've aged her down and gotten rid of the kid. Though MC just muddling her way through her new adult life with her newly adopted cat while finding her found family sounds ten times more interesting and less messy. I like the idea of the talking cat and then the Luck Dragon just being a new pal who helps her realize that she's just as lucky to have a different network of support and she's much luckier than she realized which isn't to say she can't have bad days but maybe MC also helps out at the local soup kitchen and the cat shelter to give back. IDK. Sounds like the problem is they handled luck the same way a lot of media tries to handle clumsiness...
Unfortunately many people around tye time of Halloween, kill black cats as they believe it will bring them good luck. This is so sick and I am happy to see some people saving these cats by adopting them because of these sick beliefs
We had a very gentle, intelligent black cat named Lucky for nearly 19 years. Silly superstitions do nothing but harm, and the distraction of them masks actual problems.
“Privileged bad luck” sums it up perfectly
I get the feeling there probably was an earlier draft that had Sam go through hell in order to endure as you said.
However, since Lasseter is in charge at Sundance now he probably said "no please change it " since he said something similar during the early production of Zootopia
Zootopia is a good movie but the earlier drafts used to be REALLY dark
it had a strong concept but I think toning it down may have been a wise choice
However with Luck, it was a very poor choice. Especially since it is ABOUT luck, that is the capacity for good and bad things to happen, they should have leaned into it and taken full advantage
Wasted concept, really a shame
With full respect to the artists who worked hard on this film, unfortunately the overly-safe aesthetics just couldn't bring me to care, personally. We're so far into the age of CGI animated movies that shooting for the "classic" Disney/Pixar-esque look tends to feel generic now. Which is kind of ironic, considering at least 3 out of the 4 recent Pixar films (haven't seen Lightyear yet) tries to break from that with their attempts to push character designs and visual aesthetics.
...And then you have The Bad Guys, which is still probably one of the most impressive executions of aesthetics for a mainstream film release in recent years. High fidelity 3D is nice in some regards, but animation is so much more fun and memorable when it pulls elements from its 2D roots.
It IS generic. The rounded edges of everything, the soft round eyes, that quirky smile oh my lord I'm getting sick of it lol
I also love how The Bad Guys managed to make a Snake have human characteristics without giving him arms and legs. Like scenes where he's using his tail as a hand and even managed to play the guitar in one scene, which I still find entertaining.
This was literally made by Pixar people who left pixar.
the bad guys def took inspiration from spiderverse which was pretty cool
I loved watching the scene of that lucky world thing just because of how easy it is to mock on how boring the world is, despite this clearly trying to be framed as the stereotypical sweeping, grand introduction of this fantastic new world. The juxtaposition was fucking hilarious to me.
You know this is one of those movies that I was actually wondering about. It made me think of back in the days of Nightmare Before Christmas, where every holiday had it's own unique world, but we only ever got to see two of them.
Oh my god that’s a good analogy, worldbuilding is SO important, teasing something so interesting and never building upon that, it’s so frustrating.
The st. Patrick's day world would just be a bunch of people getting drunk under the rainbow
It made sense in that film to mention that other holidays had their own worlds since its a quick way to present an easy to understand premise.
@@thejedisonic67 Yes, and it’s such a cool concept, which is why it was so disappointing that we didn’t get to see them.
@@suspiriorums would love to see some shorts were Jack goes through the other doors. I understand why they decided to stick to mostly Halloween town to keep the plot more structured
Kinda wild they didn't take the more obvious route of "someone's good luck usually results in someone else's bad luck."
Would be cool if her feelings of not being adopted was more explored
Thank you. I'm glad someone acknowledged this. Luck is my movie of the year because that part of Sam's life, almost perfectly reflects my own. And personally I think Saber is a dick for thinking Sam didn't have it that hard.
@@shaniachevarie2780 Saber isn't a dick my Guy
But how was Aging out of the system, did you get any type of resources or housing or they just tell you to leave and just figure it out
@@murderman8578 You have to go to University or College in order to continue receiving support after ur 18th birthday. Sometimes they also ask you to work and contribute to rent but not in every situation. Personally they paid half of my rent, and expected me to work at least 30 hours a week and attend part time schooling that also took up to 30 hours per week.
They also like to limit you on with who and where you can live if they're offering any support. I wasn't allowed to get a regular apartment and was rushed into a room and board situation that put my safety in danger because they didn't look into it enough and almost took my funding when I moved out and into an apartment with my boyfriend, even though I was following their rules regarding school and a job.
@@shaniachevarie2780 more like it's the writers fault for not actually depicting her life as that hard. Besides being in the system her whole life and aging out, there really isn't anything that happens to her or that she feels that really shows the audience that it's been hard. It's just meh. They have the concept, but they did almost nothing with it.
While hearing the "Why not just give the whole world good luck?" thing, something came to mind that I think would've been way more interesting, and actually help a lot with world-building.
So, if you give good luck to everyone, that means even bad people will get good luck. Bad people will be able to accomplish bad things by getting lucky during bad moments. So you have to give bad luck to them, right? Well what if they can't do that? And that's where the randomization comes in. They can't choose who gets what. They can only choose whether it's good or bad luck.
It'd be better if it isn't just relegated specifically to "persevering through to bad luck" but rather "how you react to luck" as a whole. Because someone isn't quantified by how lucky or unlucky they are. It's how they react to the good and bad luck in life that makes them who they are. Bad luck is not needed to appreciate good luck. Luck as a whole is unfair. There is no reason that you were chosen, it just happened.
There are infinite things you can explore with the topic of luck. Heck, I think just destroying the entire luck dimension as a whole would be a better ending. There are these magical beings that are dealing bad luck to the people of the world. Even if they're dealing good luck as well, it's not worth the pain and suffering they are inflicting upon people. Give the protagonist a chance to get rid of her bad luck and only have good luck, but then over the course of the film, let her realize the bad luck that others are going through as well. And when she finally gets the chance to get rid of her bad luck, have her decide to say no. Have her step up and tear down the luck machine. Luck will always exist as a part of life, but she can at least stop these magic creatures from inflicting more luck on the world.
I just keep rambling on and on, and I would develop my thoughts further, but I'll stop here. Man it sounds like there was a lot of missed potential to craft an actually interesting story here, but it just... came out really generic.
Yeah, if they gave good luck to just anyone, then Lasseter would still be getting hired and given power over other people.
Actually, that would’ve made a much better midpoint of the movie. All bad luck is removed when the option is presented, so when the main character goes back they immediately realize the value of bad luck existing. Then the dragon who suggested the idea goes rogue with the “but it’s for the greater good” mentality and the mc has to go back and stop them to bring order to the world or something along those lines. Maybe have the “good luck” for the little girl be not ideal (like a bad family comes along and takes her in) and so the mc has to bring bad luck back to help her somehow. Maybe the main character (if you haven’t noticed I forgot her name) weaponizes/uses bad luck to her advantage in the climax of the movie to really hone in the “but she perseveres” idea.
@@donovanjoseph737 Surely if the good luck is bad, then that's not good luck?
I agree with your concept because it makes sense for the world building.
We know about how luck is distributed and where it comes from but, what makes it different for how the audience views the subject of the movie, obviously one would have to be an older child in order to keep interest in the concept of luck. (Most kids are just told when something is lucky/unlucky and don't necessarily "see" it for themselves.)
It's a contradiction, because not every crime is victimless. And if you're the victim of a crime, then that's pretty unlucky. But getting away with crimes is pretty lucky. Perhaps the dragon was wrong in her assumption that we didn't need bad luck, otherwise the universe would have actually imploded. Paradoxes like that are unsolvable.
Or, maybe, luck is subjective.
In terms of her having privileged bad luck, let’s also not forget to point out that she must have a lot of baggage to deal with that could affect her perspective on the world and therefore can make things a lot harder for her. She seems to be psychologically normal, not any signs of complex PTSD or anything else you can get from not having consistent and trustworthy caregivers your whole life. Like I know what kind of trauma I’ve run into with a conventionally relatively decent family life that I’ve been trying to recover over the past 10 years or so I can only imagine what kind of crap someone like her would have to go through. But nope, she is pretty much mentally healthy and clean
She is a innocent optimistic person. Which is one of the rarest type of person. You can be a optimistic you can be innocent but both is really hard to fine in people. Most become bitter through experience. Most people harden their hearts so they won't get hurt again. Some become greedy in their selfish because of how the world has taken from them.
Or you could make this premise around a character that's essentially Ferris Bueller, somehow getting out of situations by the skin of their teeth, and the luck people go after them because they're causing some kind of imbalance. I find that way more interesting.
That sounds kinda like the plot of binbougami ga/Good Luck Girl.
While I disliked Deadpool 2, the sequence of Domino lucking out on everything was pretty funny lol.
@@LoveMyUnusual funny enough, that is not how her powers work in the comics but it can be seen as "luck". lol
When I first saw the ad, I was struck by how similar to the modern Disney female faces looked, and was extremely confused by the fact that it WASN'T Disney.
And then you find out who worked on it
Disney style is about being milquetoast and uninspired.
@@lucamckenn5932 ehhhh I wouldn’t say that, but facial designs Disney does are pretty basic a lot of the time. There are a few instances of originality, but the overall style is always the same
@@lucamckenn5932 I wouldn’t say that. Disney has always had the same style since the little mermaid and it’s their staple. It feels bland now because other studios are copying the style because of its popularity. Disney made the style
I was also confused I was like cool Disney and Pixar are making a new movie about luck interesting. And then I found out it wasn't from Disney
What suprised me was that Sam never questioned her own bad luck and lack of good luck.
In the movie universe Sam is the most unlucky person, she then finds out that there is a place that produces good and bad luck, yet she never questions why she never have good luck?
As for the good luck and bad luck I though there would be some ''good luck would loose its meaning without bad luck'', like if everyday you found 1000 dollars it would at one point not be good luck anymore it would just be the norm.
I'm gonna push the point that this movie could say something actually meaningful if it didn't pull punches: in a story about luck and how bad luck hypothetically matters, why can't this explore the concept of a meritocracy? Case in point, there **are** people in the world who fail upward and get by on nothing but their incredibly good luck, and very often those people are the absolute **worst** ! I can totally see an alternate version of this idea where the antagonist is Sam's polar opposite: someone born so lucky that they have no reason to self-examine or learn how to be a decent person.
You don't need to go the extreme of "oh well its good that some people are so unlucky that they get cancer actually" to see the point that if you want to improve yourself in a meaningful way, you need a lot more than just good luck on your side. Privilege as a concept is entirely about the advantages of being born in the right circumstances, how is that not about luck?
Nobody wants to be unlucky, but how we deal with our hard times is what builds our character - something that this movie seems to have a concerning lack of, because it's too busy trying to justify its existence.
Yeah, like Gladstone Gander in the recent Ducktales series was handled much better, I think.
Edit: And you're absolutely right, the fact they sidestepped privilege is a huge disadvantage to nuance and the story itself. Ducktales also kinda does this but I'd say overall their stories are more fully developed (which admittedly they have a whole series to do that in but when we're first introduced to Gladstone and then the episode when he lost his good luck, that covers most of it in one hour when combined.)
An excellent idea. And this is the problem with almost everything in Hollywood: ALMOST NO ONE IN THE ESTABLISHMENT CAN WRITE A GOOD STORY ANYMORE. Even when the technical aspects are perfect, a lazy or bad story DOOMS it.
A clever addition to your idea: Sam defeats this lucky antagonist by redirecting the consequences of her own bad luck via Rube-Goldberg-like domino effects.
@@Alondro77 the writers in Hollywood make me believe they're legit so disconnected from reality. Like, severely. All they can do is superhero movies with the same plot or dumb brain rots like boss baby and minions number 532786.
That sounds like a really interesting premise to a movie in general. Luck would have definitely benefited from a more focused narrative/theme that didn't feel a bit too generic
@@floranse5205 the heat gets to them lol
The fact that she isn't homeless makes the whole point of being alledgedly "unlucky" non existant.
this the one
Everyone who's faced anything hard in their life (serious illness, losing someone, losing their house to natural disaster) is rolling their eyes so hard at Sam's "bad luck"
Oh man, this is super weird cause I made a character years back cursed with bad luck. But it was BAD luck (burning her town down) to comedic bad luck and her story is about her ability to keep smiling and keep being a kind, optimistic person despite that.
Same with me. My story had a similar character design and a talking black cat. She remained positive too. I have a dream about someday working with an animation studio and turning it into a movie, but now that this movie is out I don’t think I can achieve my dream.
@@eyesfullofstars13 you can. Just a tip: never pitch it for nickelodeon, NEVER.
That kind of reminds me of Milo Murphy's Law, though that's mostly comedic bad luck
@@julianmartinez4719 I wasn’t planning on pitching it to Nickelodeon, but thanks for the heads up 😅😂
@@julianmartinez4719 how come? Lol
Honestly the original idea for this movie was WAY more interesting. Origninally it was pitched as Bad luck and Good luckl being at "war" with each other and Sam being the one to stop the war and broker a peace treaty. Then Jon Laister (or however u spell his name) came in and changed it completely.
man, that original concept sounds like something pixar would do...hard to believe an ex pixar employee was the one who changed it...
Even if he didn't create the original idea. I don't understand how a man can make toy story and cars (Even though cars isn't all that great in my opinion it's still billions of times better) and then make THIS, I don't know a bigger or more spectacular way to spell the fact at your washed up then this movie
@@Chloe_thefoxstudios it proves that one person whos amazing cant just make a movie all by themselves with a few other not so amazing people. it takes a whole bunch of amazing people
@@Chloe_thefoxstudios Well, to be fair, that's why generally the story for a movie, or series, is not made by a single person, but by a team behind it (who generally don't even have the merit they deserve) helping to create the story, to avoid things like this.
The other thing is that maybe he is not as creative as before, and now he is more for the money than for creativity and story telling, I think it could be several things
I like the concept of bad luck as I love the show Milo Murphy's Law. That's enduring bad luck. Things literally fall apart around him and get set on fire but Milo's backpack has everything to figure it out, and he is one of the most positive characters in the show in terms of attitude.
How tf could they do absolutely nothing with a character based around having bad luck. There’s so many ways that bad luck can affect a character’s appearance, like not being conventionally attractive or if they’re accident-prone, they might have bandages. Their personality can reflect their situation by being cautious or pessimistic, or it can be inverted and be optimistic in the face of adversity.
Instead, Sam has just absolutely nothing that stands out. It’s the key issue with the film’s dogma, there’s a complete lack of strong direction other than it superficially feeling like a Disney/Pixar film. I can still see a great deal of potential in manipulating a world of luck, but they had very little idea on how to tap into that potential with this film.
Mylo Murphy’s Law did it better.
A main character with a prosthetic arm.
That alone would instantly convey her story, to a devastating degree. She's upbeat and perseverant, but... she's tired. She wants to stop surviving, and start thriving. She's *literally lost a piece of herself.*
But hey, Sam's design is also good, because she's got MeSsY hAiR! Because bad luck is sooooooo qUiRkY!!1! 🤪
Generic-looking modern Pixar-like character has wacky adventure with Scottish cat lol yeah you are so correct!
@@CheshireCad i dont think using a dissability as a signifier of bad luck is The Most Thing You Could Do, considering disabled ppl can b lucky
@@starryeyes999 - I can't even tell what you're trying to say. Did you somehow assume that I'm saying that "All disabled people are always unlucky"?
I'd like to have a more in-depth discussion on this topic. But I can't do that if you don't articulate your point.
IMO, it might've worked better if the world hadn't been divided - if it was just 'luck'. Cos the thing is, luck is subjective and many different cultures have different opinions on what is lucky and unlucky; For example, the black cat is seen as *lucky* in some parts of the world where white cats are unlucky. They could've had it more vague and IMO with Sam, maybe having her jsut be kicked out of the orphanage might've made the 'determination' message stronger cos being *homeless* is truly B A D luck. And when she goes to the luck world, she might've learned that it isn't *luck* that will save her, but determination and community spirit (aka, finding support and suchlike). I think that would've been more impactful.
Or perhaps the luck world itself is weirdly, irrationally culturally segregated even though all the stuff they're making is the same stuff. Purple stuff? Blue stuff? Just different unrelated crystals grown around the same actual metaphysical luck which is random and uncontrollable. The luck world has its own good luck / bad luck culture, its own luck racism or whatever, where what they're making doesn't make a difference the way they think it does.
But there are a lot of "Secret Magical Realm" books that exist so it would be hard to compete.
Exactly. Delve into the differences of perceived luck would be cool
The Danganronpa video games did a great job of tackling lucky characters as a concept, the character Makoto Naegi embodying the exact example of persevering through bad luck that you mentioned, and the character Nagito Komaeda portraying the extremes of bad and good luck in a really interesting way. Within the universe of the game, there is implied to be such a thing as levels of innate luck by birth, as well as a luck cycle, which impacts how lucky characters are overall - with levels of luck sometimes being really unbalanced. These precedents lend themselves to some very compelling character development in my opinion, and thus I think the games make much more effective use of luck as a concept than this film did
…why did you bring Danganronpa into this, that had nothing to do with this movie
@@juno_yourloveywoof This movie didn't do a good job of utilising the main character's extreme bad luck in an interesting way. I thought that the Danganronpa games did make interesting use of extreme luck as a character trait, so I thought I'd bring up the ways in which Danganronpa made effective use of luck as a narrative tool where this film failed to. Danganronpa overall hasn't much in common with this film, but the concept of luck and a character who is deeply impacted by it it is relevant to Danganronpa, since characters like that are consistently significant throughout three of the main four games. Why shouldn't I make these comparisons, when the entire concept of the main character is very similar to that of Makoto and Nagito?
@@twonio Ohh, ok, sorry for being mean I was just annoyed at the amount of Danganronpa posts in this comment section
@@juno_yourloveywoof That's okay. I can understand why that would be annoying. It wasn't mean of you to ask, don't worry
Can I also just say that I hate that we're in this era of animation where movies look absolutely beautiful and have zero substance? I'm looking at you, Lightyear. This seems to have the same problem.
Makes me miss Newgrounds. Sure, the animation quality was questionable, but there was so much heart and creativity behind those projects.
I kind of disagree with your point, animated movies lineup this year is extremely epic tho, marcel the shell, wendell and wild (Henry mf selick!!) little nicholas, pinocchio (gdt), but those aren't from disney/Pixar so nobody cares :(
Newgrounds is still around, if you feel like going back.
I don't think they look "good" in artistic sense, just technologically well built. The character design behind the characters in Luck is nothing substantial, I could see those characters in any generic animated movie and wouldn't even recognise them. The colours are okay, the lightning is okay.. everything is just "okay" if you know what I mean?
I remember Newgrounds too, so much titties- I mean tenacity
I literally have gotten indie animation jobs in the 2020s thanks to Newgrounds, how dare you imply it’s no longer relevant! Also, check out the more recent animations that tend to get Front-Paged-the standards for the site have definitely improved quite a bit, and arguably help the TH-cam animation scene too since many animators (myself included) upload on both sites.
This sorta feels like a worse version of Milo Murphy's Law. I feel like that show actually had a more understandable premise and a significantly better protagonist that showed off the 'shake off the bad stuff happening and keep going' personality in a much more endearing and well-done way
Man I wish they'd let Dan and swampy come back for more milo Murphy, it was so fun to watch
It's bizarre that they, out of the blue, changed Sam's outlook on life from "Bad luck sucks and life would be better without it" to "Actually bad luck is necessary because yes". Babe is right in that it brings nothing but misery right up until the end, where she's suddenly wrong and the antagonist for trying to make the randomizer pour out nothing but good luck.
They could've very easily avoided this issue by showing that bad luck makes people adaptable and resilient, and a complete lack of bad luck makes you unable to cope with even the smallest of inconveniences. They tried to introduce this concept at the very end with the bad luck creatures at the bar, but they don't showcase it properly, nor does Sam have that epiphany moment that would fit this concept.
Reminds me of a short film, "Jinxy Jenkins and Lucky Lou". Its about two people, a man with horrendous luck and a woman with extremely good luck, and the're both miserable! The man is miserable because nothing ever goes his way, and the woman is miserable because *everything* goes her way and she's bored out of her mind! They meet, hijinks ensue, and for the first time both start having fun as things start going well for the man and for the first time the woman has a little excitement in her life. Its on TH-cam, highly recommend giving it a watch!
@@seasnaill2589never heard of it is it live action or animated?
Wish has the same issue. You can tell the lesson is *supposed* to be that you have the power to make your own wishes come true, but it’s never properly shown until the very end, and even then it’s only shown as a throwaway dialogue exchange between background characters. It’s almost like the moral and purpose of both of these stories is an afterthought.
I did see this ad and thought it looked mediocre
Not a minute and the comment section is bombarded with bots
@@TerrificIvan2017 I KNOW RIGHT?
I saw this add LITERALLY EVERYWHERE it was exhausting
Yep same
@@bumblebeeproductions1673 Ikr
Since you mentioned that the screenwriters were people from Raya, the same amount of overexposition and too much world building doesn’t seem too surprising.
I mean world building is important but I feel like it should be a slow burner and like shown in the landscape too as well as backstory 😅
@@gracekim25 I think Perspective swap would have done this movie better Start in the luck world with the cat get all the exposition out of the way, way faster that way would have done alot to streamline and focus on the more personal conflict later on and the morals would be the unlucky cat understanding why the yin and yang is needed but also have a glitch be found. IE Yeah CEO we got some major bugs the distribution of luck is uneven we got the super lucky and the super unlucky. Its causing problems.
I find this issue with a lot of kids films where they're too scared to deliver on the emotions they're setting up. For example, if they want someone to get to a super low point in their life, they don't actually set it up very well, they just kind of imply that this vaguely bad thing hurt the character in some vague way.
I like films such as "UP" that are willing to absolutely bash in a character's emotional state before building a backup through the plot. I think that it is important for kids to watch their heroes get beaten to a pulp because it makes their comeback feel all the much better. Would Luke becoming a Jedi feel as awesome if he didn't lose so hard in The Empire strikes back, even losing his hand? I don't think so. I feel like studios need to stop being scared of what they're showing the kids, and let kids feel emotional damage, because it makes the story feel a lot more meaningful.
Another prime example is the first Sonic the hedgehog movie. We don't actually see Sonic's caretaker die on screen, probably because that would have been a bit too bloody to show kids, but he literally loses his home and only caretaker within the first 5 minutes of the film. That film literally takes his emotions, rips them apart, shakes them, throws them into a blender, and then bashes their metaphorical kneecaps, so it feels all the much better when he Powers up and defeats eggman at the end because you can tell that he's actually fighting for something instead of just fighting because the plot demands it. Every time he looks sad, you feel sad with him. That explosion of rage at the baseball field? That resonated with audiences' souls, because they know that he went through unimaginably hard pain at such a young age.
If you want to make audiences feel for a character, show them the character hurting, and then show them the character persevering. Don't just make a bunch of cheap shots of bad luck, and then claim that this is some kind of big character changing moment. The only times I've ever seen an audience cry, get goosebumps, cheer, etc is when they see a character that they care about being put through trials and tests and persevering through them, because that is the centerpiece of the hero's journey.
Sorry if this was such a long rant, but I am a very passionate writer and I hate when half baked stuff gets force fed to children instead of studios pumping their time and money into truly awesome stories that can shape a generation's childhood.
It really saddens me about the current status of HBO Max. They're getting rid of lots of good content, the majority is animated
This is why Courage is my last show on the service.
@SML shorts 🅥 Screw off.
I’m so upset that Mao Mao and Infinity Train are being removed.
@@NocturnalNovelist NOOO those are my favorites. 😢
@@NocturnalNovelist Don't forget OK KO :(
I'm really interested to see what films come out of this new studio, what with many talented people having left Disney for this.
Let's be honest we all enjoyed this video by having this: kid named finger
You mean "Kicked out of Disney/Pixar for sexual harassment and assault"?
Cause that's at least why Lasseter's there
Ah yes,
*BOTS*
If the budget doesn't follow, I doubt we're going more than average/slightly above average movie quality tbh
@Saвеrsраrk 🅥 I can’t believe I’ve finally found Saber Fart’s TH-cam channel
I feel so disappointed. This movie could've been so memorable if it actually went full on into the theme of "bad luck happens to us in life, but we can't let it stop us, we have to keep going". This is something that is great to tell to kids, to teach them to be strong as they're growing up. Fight through all the bad times you're going through. But... They executed it so BADLY. The way they executed it is so underwhelming that it legit makes me so mad that it could've been way better.
I think the main issue I have with this: They focused way too much on the fantasy luck world. I mean, sure, obviously you can still world build for this place. And I think it's personally cute! But with the serious message this tries to deliver, they really should've focused a lot more on the real world aspects of what's "REEEEALLY" bad luck. And to obviously balance it out would be the cutesy luck world she goes to with the cat. It's just... They didn't get this balance right. It seriously sucks that it all feels unbalanced like that.
That being said: I love how cute the kitty is.
Disclaimer that I haven't watched the movie (and don't really plan on it), but if they wanted to do the "what if we only had good luck" thing and have the message be that the world needs balance... Why not show the actual consequences of having a world with only good luck? Like have the luck dragon succeed in removing bad luck from the equation and then show how miserable the world becomes because of that. Great potential for comedy there too, like at first its great but after two weeks everyone is like "ugh I won the lottery AGAIN?!" And then the climax could be a daring mission with the protagonist and the cat and some of the side characters they met along the way going to restore bad luck. Idk just a random thought based on this and other reviews I've seen.
sounds like a scene in Bruce Almighty. where God Bruce is granting everyone's wishes but it turns chaotic. bcs if everyone won the lottery means nobody is winning.
@@catkitte Huh I've never watched that, I'll have to check it out sometime!
Executive: "I'm going to release this movie on AppleTV!"
Audience: "So I guess that means you don't want anyone to see it."
07:14 And there's BAD luck, like you just got--
**ad starts**
I think to solve the issue of "what is 'luck'?", I think you need to separate the 'actions' and 'results' of luck. The bad luck that Sam has seems more like challenges to her smaller tasks or goals (that would only affect her actions). While the 'everything' she has is more of the result of her affected actions (and everyone else helping her out).
Or you know, having many minor bad luck results is not the same as Big bad luck results (fate).
That last bit is really interesting! Imagine if she went on a journey to improve her luck, only to find out she was originally going to suffer the worst fate in history, and they've been helping her all along by doling out the bad vibes in manageable chunks of "bad luck?" Or even on a smaller scale, like stubbing her toe and spilling her coffee are a tradeoff not falling down a manhole later in the day. She complains about her misfortune until learning that she's had this whole network of magic beings frantically helping her however they can. That'd be one way to explore the theme of perspective.
@@Whatlander That sounds like a wonderful novel idea
I feel like there should've been some personal stakes involved. Like Sam should've been caught between wanting to use the penny for herself, and using it to help give her friend a better life. Feels like there were no real emotional stakes in the story.
So there's some times when I get worried that a movie I'm going to see has not so good ratings with saberspark. But I do take a chance and watch them to judge for myself. And honestly I thought this movie was very sweet and very wholesome for such tough subjects. I didn't mind that it was "safe". I like the plot, the voice actors were great, and overall story was really good. I really like that black cats are good luck in other cultures such as chinese, irish, and other Asian countries. I like that they played a lot with the good and bad lucks of different cultures. To me that was super fascinating. And honestly, you don't get a lot of stories with kids aging out of the foster care system. To me it was a really surprising element. I hope they do more playing around with subjects like these and in light-hearted fashion.
Sam’s design very much reminds me of what happens when a creator is overly paranoid about making a mary-sue so they try to make the character as plain and generally relatable as possible. But then all you get is a boring, forgettable character.
fr it’s so disappointing especially since recent animated leads have such unique intriguing and MEMORABLE designs and characters
However, Mary Sues are just as bad as bland characters. Bland characters are boring because they're repetitive due to how often you see characters act like them. Mary Sues are boring because they win all the time with no effort, which is boring.
Having a mix of characters like these can sometimes be better than doing an in between as it allows for contrasting.
lmfao, the bar you guys set for female character to look and act
to not be label as neither the two
can we start applying that logic to male characters, if they look bland and boring - its for the male audience to project themselves into, and no one would have a problem with it because lets be honest, its mostly men who complain about those things, if theyre overpowered or too badass and get all the big titties waifus, there would be no question, and some people even like and consider it its own genre judging by how many "overpowered anime protagonist who hide his power or whatever" compilation on youtube
At least she's thicc.
@@Freefork You probably think every female character is a Mary sue.
Dude In Finding Nemo, Marlin losses his wife and all of his children other than Nemo, in the opening act no less. I think they played it way too safe to not have anything really bad happen.
As a Scottish person, the "Editor's Note: He's Scottish" is so damn funny AKDKAJDKAKSGA
As someone who went through the foster system and never got adopted - when you age out, they do try to help you find housing (usually very low-income housing in a dangerous area, wherever's the cheapest they can find) and try to help you find a job because otherwise, you're literally just a teenager on the street. What are they supposed to do, just toss you on the curb with your backpack and say "Good luck! Sucks to be you!" They do try to help you with basic schooling, and some states will try to help with community college and stuff like that. That's not LUCKY, that's the basics of survival. I'd say she had a lot of bad luck to never get adopted and to be stuck in an apartment that's probably in a dangerous area (of course they wouldn't show the worse sides of this in a kid's movie) and to be entirely without a support system besides what little the government would toss her way out of legal obligation. The apartments aren't free, either - you HAVE to be working, and at least 1/3 of your income will be taken for rent, often higher no matter how crappy the apartment is, usually percentage based on your income. If you lose your job or whatever? Well, better find a new one fast before your rent comes due, if you can't pay it then you're clearly not putting in the effort, so have fun on the streets getting an even quicker ticket to the prison pipeline! You're INCREDIBLY lucky if they give you any kind of assistance for food or anything, either - you're going to be living just scraping by for a long time, and if you're really lucky maybe you can find a better job or qualify for assistance for higher education to get better work or whatever, but chances are that are very, very low. The vast majority of kids who age out of the system without being adopted or having support end up on the streets or in prison within a few years, if they don't just end up dead.
Wow, I got a lot out of this.
And I agree, people's perception of good and bad luck can be pretty skewed.
That said, I would have liked to see more of how our protagonist feels about this (like maybe explore how burnt out she is at work or more about wanting to know more about her real family) which would make her question whether she's lucky or not. You can still do that in a children's film just by changing the tone a little. Personally, that is the thing I'm more interested in than visiting the "world of luck".
In a way, this kind of reminds me of Kiki's Delivery Service, and it's DEFINITELY NOT because of the cat.
Thanks for the input. When Saberspark mentionned the apartment, job and online education as "lucky" I was thinking "wait, is the US system so skewed that even those basic things are NOT a thing? I feel kinda reassured a little bit that at least those basics are covered somehow.
@@LeSarthois They usually at least make an attempt at them for a couple years, but after a certain amount of time - or if you manage to get an income source at or slightly above the poverty line - you're on your own. Here in the US, if you're on any kind of assistance and you manage to save up a penny over 2000 dollars - maybe saving up for a car to help you get to a better job, or to put a down payment on a better apartment, whatever - your assistance will be cut off, and if you are on assistance, they have a set amount that you get each month for everything you have to pay for. If you're on disability or social security assistance of any kind and able to work any kind of job, you have to send them your pay stubs every month, and whatever money you make from your job, they take out of your next month's payment, so unless your job pays you enough to get off assistance entirely you're literally better off NOT working because of the prices of gas to get to work, clothes for work, ect.
@@notationmusical Oh I agree, and maybe being put in situations with a potential boyfriend or something and really wanting to have someone to talk to about it, but without an adult support system like parents, grandparents, ect. in her life she has no one to ask, or seeing kids playing in the park with their families as she walks to work and having that sadness, or trying to learn how to drive but having no one to teach her - those would be interesting to explore.
Its basically about the same here in Canada for fostercare as I grew up in fostercare myself and aged out got put on disability too though I work on and off but can only make so much a month and it just helps only so much make any more than allowed you get cut off and have to support yourself off that job and like saving up is impossible cant save money up when everything is so expensive now these days.
one of the things i noticed while watching the movie, is that sam has literally no flaws whatsoever. she is entirely unrelatable. like, you're really going to try and tell me that she's given a magical lucky penny, and her first thought is "i need to give this to hazel!"? when her entire character is about how she has bad luck? you REALLY expect me to believe that she wouldn't at least wrestle with the thought of keeping the penny for herself? like, no dilemma of "i could keep this for myself and my life would get better, but maybe this little girl could use it more"?
the argument could be made that the whole point of her going to luck world and trying to steal a penny + destroying the bad luck mixer, is the movie's attempt at making her do something 'bad', but it's not a selfish thing she's doing for herself. she's not stealing the penny so she can have it, or giving the whole world only good luck so she won't be unlucky anymore, she's doing it for other people. everything she does in this movie is for someone else, and it's incredibly hard to imagine myself in her situation and go "yeah, i'd sacrifice everything good in my life for other people even though my life kinda sucks, comparably".
she's TOO good, it's like she's not even human. just some walking bucket of good morals that can do no wrong.
YES I COMPLETELY AGREE. her only personality trait is “nice person” and it’s boring she is not engaging at ALL. nice people can still have other personality traits and I agree I would be more interested if she took the penny because she’s fed up of the bad luck ruining her life. Like she did nothing memorable in this movie?? did she even get angry once??? i think she had a lil emotional “it’s my fault moment” but I mean it didn’t really hit because she had no consequences and no character actually told her “you ruined this” because it was her fault and she doesn’t even get told off?? but the cat was being arrested 10 minutes ago for lying??? like the audience is not going to engage with your protagonist if the protagonist does nothing. Why couldn’t we see something that actually makes sam realize the consequences of her actions?? why cant we see her arguing with the cat why isn’t she mad that he LIED TO HER AND MADE HER COME FIX HIS MESS. like this girl was so boring istg
I just thought it was really stupid that they didn't even make her think for a moment that "hey maybe I could give this the hazel and once she's adopted I can keep it for myself!' or that even by the end of the movie they don't end up getting a lucky penny to share or keep for themselves they just got to deal with having a I wouldn't say a crappy life but a inconvenient life which isn't exactly the greatest thing to live with
I don't actually mind that she wanted to give the magic penny to her friend, its kind of beautiful (to me, at least) that when someone is given phenomenal cosmic powers and their first instincts are "how can I help people's lives to make the world a less miserable place to be?". But I can see your point for how little of a character Sam actually is.
AGREED! no flaws at all. such a mary sue :(
@@ghostcatoftheskylikelol6479 lets be real, you only pull the mary sue label out because she's a female character
It could’ve been interesting if you had an opening with her narrating, going “People say I have bad luck. Like, REALLY bad luck. But personally? I don’t believe in bad luck. Or bad luck for that matter. It’s all in the perspective of things and knowing how to deal with the situation you’re in!” *meanwhile a montage of bad things happening to her is playing* And it’s like, that’s her “super power”, in a way? That she’s really actually unlucky BUT she doesn’t let it get her down and therefore refuses to accept that that’s just how her life is. Maybe she’s even like “Okay, so maybe I do believe in luck. Not bad luck, but good luck. And yeah, my life hasn’t been easy, but I believe that all I need, is one lucky break!” And that’s what she’s trying to achieve with the coin. Both for herself but also for Hazel or other people, like, maybe she has another kid who already got adopted who really wants to play baseball well so they can get a scholarship ship but they’re not quite good enough yet, and the moral of that part is that using luck to “cheat” won’t make them a better baseball player, so when they run out of luck, they can’t do as well as they want to, or suddenly Hazel is flooded with adoption offers, and she can’t seem to connect with any of them, cuz they weren’t interested in a child, as much as a doll they could prance around or something? Or that, the black cat is “unlucky” because he thinks he is, so he’s amplifying his own feelings of being unlucky??? I dunno, I guess I’m rambling.
I knew the movie was weak, but I couldn't put it into words until I read the comments and watched the video. The movie pulled ALL of its punches and it's really sad. You really want the theme of needing bad luck to hit home? Make her actually struggle, like Saberspark said. There's also a severe problem of "tell, don't show" with the worldbuilding; they just kept adding more and more things without spending any time on the characters and their internal struggles. Issues occur and/or are resolved not because Sam worked hard for it, but because it's convenient for the plot. For instance, I remember screaming internally for Babe the dragon to use the two good stones just to make Sam struggle, but no, she just gives up over one talk with her. It would've been WAY more compelling to see what would happen if the two good stones were put in place instead of just a dumb talk, to see the world actually go out of balance to prove Sam's point. I don't really mind all the worldbuilding, but if it only serves as an inconvenience rather than a direct attack on the character, there's really no point for it to be there.
I feel like the story would have been fine if the conflict centered just around the cat trying to get the penny back sneakily from sam before she gave it to hazel, and make the cat the main character. Like, take the magical worlds out of the equation, take the quatifying or distributing of luck out of there, make it a simple yet effective plot. Maybe after Sam gives Hazel the penny, a ton of like horrible shit happens to her, and the cat also is like, having a hard time, so the cat's like, "if you just hadn't taken my penny!" and sam's all, "hey, life's just like this, but the bad times make the good times all that sweeter, you just have to let yourself enjoy those good times." and then THAT'S the message of endurance. And then in the end, Sam adopts the cat, is happy, cat is happy, Hazel gets adopted, dance number, freeze frame, roll credits.
Being a black cat, it'd make sense why he needs it back. Maybe he would be like her, naturally unlucky, and they could relate when the conflict de-escalates.
@@puggyboy694 yes! You get it! If the message is about endurance, and black cats are unlucky, have sam tech the cat the message of endurance because they're both naturally unlucky! It would be a better use of the theme than whatever tf they did with it
One of the few animated films I watched this year was Belle. Definitely wanna see Saber watch this one as the animation and music is beautiful but the story and pacing is really weird and the plot definitely didn’t go where I thought it would
The movie was good at the beginning but they really messed up the ending.
The “Evil” Dragon wasn’t even evil, they could’ve made the world better.
Also the talking cat! Everyone just accepts that it can talk at the end of the movie!?!
Don’t click the links, they are bots
@@mparker123 yup. i've gotten those two on my comment and i'm assuming every comment will have them. it gets aggravating because i like to reply to comments and see replies on my own comment but then i see the bots and i'm like "oh boy, more bots that youtube will do nothing about"
@@hexnight I have questions, what are bots and why are they in every comment no matter the video and why is TH-cam not doing a thing about it? Is it because there's so many or they hard to take care of? Is it a scam? Are they traps for people so the user can steal identities and use them? Sorry if some of them are stupid
@@kitieriwhite7758 bots are accounts whose sole purpose is to promote something. my first bot encounter was about a year ago when i kept getting bots for flixzone (i don't know if they still exist). they spam comments/replies on videos in order to get as many people as possible to click on whatever it is. i don't work for youtube, so i can't answer why they're not doing anything about it. my best guess is that there's too many to take care of, as saberspark isn't the only channel who suffers from it. if you see a bot, don't click on the link, as it could take you to a virus, a p**n site, or some weird/random youtube video
I agree with that honestly. I actually enjoyed the film even though it was a little repetitive and the loss of the Penny seemed to be a plot hole.
If we are going to like actual good examples of luck being used in characters Nagito Komaeda from Danganronpa is the best example cause of how absurd it was done. Good luck disguised as bad luck or vice versa in the most ridiculous and sometimes dark ways possible. Just a fraction of that energy turned down for a general audience would of gone a long way.
Soooo... this movie needed a bomb plot? 🤔
@@a-s-greig chapter 5 just haunts me anywhere i go
ITS ME NAGITO KOMAEDA ON THE NINTENDO DS
Im sorry i couldnt pass this opportunity
@generic branding name yeah basically, his luck determined whoever ‘killed’ him would be the person who was a ‘traitor’. Basically it was a whole setup to where people would need to extinguish a fire with bottles of extinguisher but one of them was a poison gas. But he made the setup look like he was tortured and pierced with a spear cause he wanted to throw everyone off his plan. The person who threw the poison, effectively killing him, was the person he wanted to be tagged as the killer
"Oops! I slipped and fell down in way that caused me to get slightly damp while not getting any injuries whatsoever! I have the worst luck in the world, but I'll endure!" meanwhile in real life there's a person who has been struck by lightning seven times.
Honestly, even though i will admit that Luck had it's ups and downs like all movies do i for one didn't think it was that bad. at least the story was kinda interesting, i mean a world where good luck and bad luck are made that's a world i would definitely explore if it were real.
And it’s the *only* animated film that doesn’t demonize orphanages
@@i_draw_whatever18 Speaking of which, i'm surprised that there was an orphanage in this film at all. because in today's society things like orphanages aren't very common anymore.
I’m sorry, but the “Super DUPER unlucky” line killed it for me
same here, I think both Saber and Animat were overly harsh on this film.
@Saвеrsраrk 🅥 This movie is damn good and not boring, you crazy. Honestly i liked it better then Disney's more recent efforts(especially Raya) and I wouldn't call it a Pixar rip-off in the slightest.
While I understand that Sam was being incredibly selfless in wanting a Lucky Penny to help Hazel get adopted and find her "forever home", I just don't understand why she needed to be unrealistically unlucky if she wasn't written to want the penny for herself. It just seems like they didn't want to write her to be a selfish character?
But she was still incredibly entitled to demand that the cat give her a replacement penny after she lost his original one.
The reason I feel they made her so unrealistically unlucky, was to tie the fact that she hadn't been adopted with her unluckiness in her mind to give her even more drive to help Hazel. Speaking as someone who grew up in care... I know what it's like to feel absolutely cursed and the true meaning behind when it rains it pours, so just another world and character building, but in my opinion, actually a pretty good one.
she was just very bland. like give us a main character with FLAWS. sam is very formulaic she’s nice all the time never stands up to anyone and even though she is the entire reason for the land of luck falling apart she gets 0 consequences from the other characters. Bob however was almost sent away?? even though it’s sams fault they’re in that mess. I wanted to see her get angry lash out do ANYTHING to make me interested in her. I’m not saying nice characters are always boring but usually they have a trait other than just “good person” why couldn’t Sam be selfish? I would have been more interested if the movie she took the penny for herself because she was fed up of her life and wanted a new beginning. The little girl thing is cute but it’s boring. I just wish they actually went outside the box with sam :/
@@shaniachevarie2780 I guess I just feel like the writing could've gone further with it. You can stipulate that the reason for Sam not getting adopted was cos she caused so many issues in those homes by being so unlucky (i.e. constantly breaking things, making a mess, etc.) but they don't blatantly show that so it's only a guess and not a confirmation.
And regarding the penny thing, I think I would've liked it more if Sam initially wanted to have the penny for herself but later on, she chooses to give it to Hazel as a selfless act.
Actually, in the US children who end up in foster or who get adopted are given some free college tuition by the government because they don't have parents to save up funds nor can work to make such savings (my friend had two adopted sisters and they got enough funds for an Associate degree)
But alot of foster kids who age out of the system don't even get to college cuz they usually flunked out of school..or lose their important paper work (such as birth certificates) which you need to get an ID or driver's license.. and end up homeless
Aging out of the system is alot of the time a death sentence (cuz the state basically makes you defend for yourself.. they help a little but after a while your very much alone)
I really loved the design of the dragon lady.
That was all.
Watching this review is like "Oh, this sounds kinda fun actually, I like the drama, I like the setting, some magical realism--" and then you showed the screens of her in a goddamn leprechaun outfit with some off-brand troll dolls and pink dragons and my interest was GONE
If you want magical realism done in animation, I suggest checking out The Tatami Galaxy and Night is Short, Walk on Girl. Both anime in similar styles with the same director, based off of books by the same guy, and with a couple of reoccurring characters between them and some shared themes.
I actually really liked the pink dragon, but only because of the design. Idk, I just like dragons I guess lol.
@@TerraVulture degeneracy spotted.
Just got finished watching this, can confirm, it’s like they forget the entire plot every five minutes and they are like “WeLl LeTs AdD a DrAgOn”
"The Land before Time" hits hard in the feels, killing off the main character's mom, and showing how he recovers from that and goes on to make a journey he would think impossible without her. My seven-year old brother was obsessed with that movie. We had no way of knowing that just after he turned nine, our Mom would be diagnosed with Cancer and die shortly after that. I really think that "The Land Before Time" helped my little brother (and me) prepare for that trial and eventually get through it.
I think people do kids a tremendous disservice by only depicting a world in which the hardest thing that people have to face is their sandwich falling down or not being able to find their lucky penny. Even if they don't have to face significant trials until their adulthood, I think it can help give them compassion to understand that there are real trials in the world. We don't need to give them nightmares, but a hopeful cartoon is just the vehicle for helping kids to start to understand some of the significant challenges that millions of them are already starting to face.
I haven't seen Luck, but just going off what you've written, it sort of reminds me of Inside Out, which I thought suffered from having a protagonist who led too privileged a life.
I feel like with the concept of luck there has to be a possibility of something pretty bad happening to the character the luck is happening to or the people around them so I definitely agree. Also I think death shouldn't be a forbidden topic in kids movies, like it doesn't have to even be graphic, if there's some sort of major luck involved there should be a major impact on the main character because of their luck (like other people could get hurt when their luck causes something really bad to happen). There should also be some way they deal with their luck (do they ignore it and try to brush it off as coincidence, or are they aware of it and fear it and try to avoid situations where they could cause major incidents?). If there are barely any steaks then there is nothing to really explore regarding luck.
@Mitch Johnson
Something must be wrong with me then because I saw Land Before Time on Cartoon Network when I was 11(I'm 33), and when my mom had a stroke in April of that year, I was angry and distraught.
Though in thinking about it, I guess seeing the scene of the death of Little Foot's mother did help because I'm not traumatized, and with my mom at age 70 and with one foot in the grave, I'm more at ease with it than I think I should be.
As for doing kids a disservice by depicting softer adversities like losing a lucky penny or dropping a sandwich, or the privileged life in Inside Out? Being a writer myself, I've got a jaded perception on this. Since women and girls are seen as more emotional than men, they're underestimated in how much they can take when presented with adversity in a fictional setting.
Hence why films aimed at them pull their punches when presenting adversity to a main character. Good thing I'm writing novels and comics, because I can get away with a lot more.
@@DemonicRemption "Something must be wrong with me then because I saw Land Before Time on Cartoon Network when I was 11(I'm 33), and when my mom had a stroke in April of that year, I was angry and distraught."
I hope this was a joke. Of course you were angry and distraught. Obviously, my point wasn't that the Land Before Time made our Mom's death a breeze.
Inside Out had the privilege problem but at least it was a nice movie about relatable teenage issues, even if they're privileged ones. It was well written and entertaining. This one wasn't
there are charcters that have gone through far worse and is something that shouldn't be quantify as oops lost my keys agagin.
This reminds me of an animated music video I saw a while ago.
There was a female character that was burdened with constant good luck to the point that she was upset that she couldn't have fun with her life, and a male character who suffers with extreme bad luck and is very paranoid and clumsy.
When they meet, their opposing luck balances each other out and it's really sweet. Both characters had fun personalities and designs and weren't too simple, and it was literally just a music video.
i watched a GLMM with the same plot as this
It got recognised by disney...
It's a very similar plot to a short film I've heard of
@@Mystic_Pearll Boy with bad luck?
@@Joobayeega yes!
Orphan: doesn't get adopted
Orphanage: gives it a free apartment in the city
Orphan: man I have had luck!
This film really dropped the ball in character design. You should be able to look at the main character and see someone with bad luck. Fuzzy hair, broken glasses, band aids, clothes with bleach spots.
Anime like Shikimori's not just a cutie make it better. Main character have all bad luck in the world while his girlfriend have all good luck in the world.
Yeah, the main character looks very clean and beautiful.
Yeah, that actually seems like it would've been a good idea. Would've made her design stand out a lot more too.
fr character design should be able to tell you about the character. You see someone with perfect hair, clean formal outfit and you’ll know the character is uptight and a perfectionist. You see someone with mismatched shoes messy hair and colourful outfit and you can tell they’re care free and clumsy. Sams design does absolutely nothing it’s basic and boring and u cant tell anything about her
I know a lot of people work on these films. I just can’t help seeing a connection between a head producer with a troubling history with women, and a character design more focused on being attractive than helping tell the story.
Just goes to show that no animated movie can come close to the epic cinematography of “Minions: The Rise of Gru” (2022). Truly the best movie of our time.
It’s Minion time. It like morbin but minion themed.
@@bearerofbadnews1375 you don't say
Unironically though, Minions 2 leaps above Midtier Lightyear and Luck
@@bearerofbadnews1375 I am sure you're a little kid
@@bearerofbadnews1375 The Morbs and Minions did the Fusion Dance and became Super Morbiyans.
To be fair the main character did experience BAD luck when she became an orphan
Honestly I felt like Hazel didn't deserve so much effort from Sam? She didn't care, and was literally rude to her like... Bro, you don't go "yeah but YOU didn't get adopted" on someone who literally spent their life waiting for it? And being disappointed and suffering trauma from this ?
It's the main point that annoyed me in the movie... The main goal felt blend and just here to have one?
fr they didn’t even showcase their bond quite well. Like I feel the relationship between them could have been made an interesting dynamic and maybe having hazel show sympathy for sam would have made me actually want the penny for her. A bit of a “I wish you could have a door” moment where you feel for the characters. but hazel is consistently rude and I would have preferred sam just took the penny for selfish reasons because that would be way more interesting
@@lilac3266 Exactly! I saw the scene of Sam and Hazel talking on the bed and Sam trying to assure Hazel and Hazel being like "but it didn't work for you" and thought how it was just doing wrong everything that the parallel scene of Encanto did amazingly. There's really nothing that endears us to Hazel or her bond with Sam like there is with Antonio and his bond with Mirabel. Hazel never shows any sympathy for Sam's plight*, only worries that the same fate might befall _her._ And then repeatedly asks for Sam to help with it. Contrast with Antonio's "I wish you could have a door," bringing empathetic attention to where even Mirabel herself doesn't.
(*Not that it's much of a plight. As saberspark mentioned, her "plight" basically boils down to a bunch of inconveniences. Which suck, but she got insanely lucky where it could otherwise seriously damage her: she gets a free apartment, easily gets and keeps a job, keeps up with her schooling, is healthy and conventionally attractive, et cetera. The movie doesn't give us much to pity her for other than "oh man, rotten luck that your sandwich fell")
@@peeblekitty5780 ahh I completely agree and I’m so glad I’m not the only one who seen the parallel between this scene and the scene with mirabel and antonio. Hazel just comes across as rude the entire time constantly saying how “Sam has bad luck” which is true but the movie never really shows why Sam feels so attached to hazel? whereas in encanto we see antonio does worry his fate will end up like mirabel but he actually shows sympathy for her and also doesn’t treat her any different because of it unlike most others in the movie. That’s why their relationship is so endearing, kids are often the ones who don’t see people for their achievements or pitfalls they see them as a good friend who helps out. Hazel doesn’t even seem to like Sam that much and they don’t have any meaningful conversations despite that attempt at one. You summed up perfectly how I feel about their relationship
The "there will be only good luck" thing made me think about. What if two soldiers fight... will they be too lucky to kill eachother?
Well, if they do get lucky to kill eachother, it is also a bad luck since in any way both of them died.
The concept of bad and good luck is extremely hard and apparently this movie worked pretty poorly on it, i havent watched it so i cant say much
I just saw a Pinocchio trailer in this video's ad. They didn't even show Pinnochio, and they made the fairy godmother black. Beyond that, the fact that Disney is spitting out another live action remake speaks volumes. I'd love to know how long they think this can last before they're out of classics to reboot, and out of ideas.
They ought to find more literature to adapt.
Let's face it they can go forever adapting old movies they have if they just branch outside of the really old really classics.
Haven’t seen the movie, but was so confused why the girl’s expression on the poster looked so familiar. Now I realize it’s because it looks exactly like Mirabel’s from Encanto. I know Disney animators/designers leave and work around in the industry, but the exact cookie cutter look is so obvious it feels a little too blatant at its desire to be a contender and trying to be exactly them kind of takes away from my trust in what their other content will hold.
they definitely tried to make sam “clumsy and relatable” too. Like it’s her only personality trait whereas with mirabel it feels more natural and she has other attributes apart from it
I mean, Milo Murphy's Law is all about a main character who's got the literal worst luck possible, but he compensates by being super over-prepared for every eventuality. It's a fun show where bad luck is very much a factor, and the MC is optimistic and takes it all in stride by treating it like just something to expect and be ready for. It does the concept really well.
Why did they bring heavy real world problems like never getting adopted into this if they weren't willing to explore those themes properly?
Sounds like they should've stuck to the dropping your sandwich level of stuff instead. Then you could've had the lession be, "don't let the little things get to you".
Characterize the main character as being in a comfortable position in life but plaged by minor misfortunes. Coworkers jokingly call her a harbinger of doom. Things break when she's around. Etc.
She curses her luck and vows to reverse it, whatever it takes. Insert montage of her talking to tarrot readers and throwing coins in a fountain, only to show that the reader is a carnival hack and the coin bounces off the fountain and into a raindrain.
Later in the movie, after some stuff I'm not being paid to write about happens, she realizes that with the minor inconveniences of her life came funny stories, bonding opportunities, and unexpected discoveries. She remembers getting all her friends to sign her cast, telling people about her day and making the whole room light up with laughter, her friends coming to cheer her up after a bad turn, etc.
When she stops the dragon, she says, "Most of my best moments happened because of my bad luck. Without all that rain, none of those flowers would grow".
"She has inconvenience bad luck"
Literal abandoned Orphan, the worst luck she had happened long before the story began.
I haven't seen this film, but it kinda stings when a character with good housing and a job and schooling and everything a person in modern times needs is suppossed to be the one who's unlucky when some of us are out here dealing with disability and kidney failure and trauma.
Yeah. I honestly think the concept for a movie like this really only work for really young audiences who may not have been exposed to the cruelties of the world, yet.
And just like I said about Saber himself, do not shame others struggles unless you understand firsthand. I'd have given up every single penny I earn in my entire life if it had meant I could have a forever family as a kid. I didn't get one. I know how it feels. If you didn't grow up in care, you don't get to comment on the things the system gives you when you leave to try and make up for the absolute hell you've gone through for between 1-18 yrs at that point. You don't get to judge their hardships, because you don't know. I'd never tell someone with a disability, oh you're lucky cuz you don't have to work, my tax dollars pay everything for you, because I don't know what kind of pain they are in or how me saying that might negatively affect them. Consider that before you comment like you know anything about hardship next time.
Trauma? You wanna talk about trauma? How about being assaulted as an 11 yr old girl by the same man who used to feed ur mother alcohol at 16 when he was 26 so he could assault her as well because the foster care system didn't do proper checks. Shut the hell up, the government owes kids in care every cent that they give them because of the absolute hell some kids go through. You don't know the pain, or definition of trauma, til you've been abandoned by 7 families and told no one wants you at the age of 12.
I was diagnosed with nearly as complex post traumatic stress disorder as war veterans, because of things that happened in care. Don't you ever, EVER, imply that care doesn't cause trauma that can sometimes lead to disability. Or like foster kids have it so cushy, cuz what we didn't see, is the mental health impact on a person what the main character went through has.
@@shaniachevarie2780 Feel like you were looking too deeply into what he was saying about a single character in a movie, fam. Chill
I think the problem is that they made bad luck their own thing instead of bad luck just being the absence of good luck, like cold is the absence of heat. And that a person has an amount of luck designed at birth at random or something like that. Then rant about how that's unfair and the dragon saying that "luck was never about fairness" and the character realizing that life is just unfair and that there will always be people more lucky than you but also people more unlucky, but besides that doesn't dictate how bad or good your life is going to be, just that your life is what you make of it.
love the character designs of luck though even if they're a bit generic they have nice expressions, even if the rest of it might not be great.
I noticed just from these clips that Sam seems to always be wearing green (the "lucky color") which is a nice design choice even if the rest of her design is very basic
Why not set it in Ireland and make it about the good people? Not even saying you gotta change the overall plot, but that seems like the perfect setting rather than just making it generic.
Yeah it IS the perfect setting!
Not sure how you'd set it here without offending us. While every people and culture in the world gets stereotyped, the branding that we're stuck with is particularly patronising. Invariably, anything set in Ireland - which never distinguishes between the two nations and radically different cultures here - isn't reflective of people, life, culture, outlook etc here. Just the same old crap.
What would you like to see in a story set in modern Ireland with a narrative that includes its mythos (with the Tuatha De Danan and their descendants in particular but also anything else from the region’s folklore in general)
seconding this ! i would *love* more animated movies taking place in our country ! 🍀💚
celtic mythology/folklore in general is just so woefully slept on. 😭
but if we could get more irish love,
i would personally want it from like....a more creditable studio than this,
I mean if that isn't too much to ask 😂 (who remembers that cgi "riverdance" movie from a while ago 😅 lol)
@@adora_lovely Oh you saw that too? I gotta be real with you... I think that might have been the worst movie I've personally ever seen. Not for the setting but the plot was pretty boring and the execution was wooooorse!
I wish Saberspark would do a video about it lmao
The way you describe this film kind of reminds me of Milo Murphy's Law, I recall you never got into Phineas and Ferb but basically it was the next show Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh made. The premise was around the titular Milo Murphy, a descendant of the namesake of Murphy's Law, who wherever he goes things would always go wrong. He's kind of similar to how you describe Eugene from Hey Arnold: despite facing constant adversity in his life, he always manages to be upbeat and positive about his condition (yes, Murphy's Law is an actual condition here). However, it kind of eventually goes into territory where they start explaining how Murphy's Law works and it's all based on "probability ions" or some shit (they reveal that Phineas and Ferb have similar ions but for positive probability, which IMO just totally fucks with PnF as a show but that's another story, also yeah Phineas and Ferb crossed over with MML and the show basically since then became reliant on PnF, Doofenshmirtz even moves in with the Murphys... anyway as said that's another story). Basically, they kind of started to explain the "logic" of it and it just made things more confusing, and you also had even with the cartoony nature despite things being quite exaggerated Milo and the people around him never end up with anything THAT bad happening for the most part, and if it does it does feel resolvable. It's kind of confusing and messy for me, lol.
I'm not surprised to hear this. Unfortunately, mediocrity tends to be the result of a constantly changing creative team.
I also saw from another review that they had a lot of issues in production cuz of some jackass writer that kept screwing everything up and barely taking it seriously.
This kind of reminds me of a previous Skydance movie called Wonder Park but tried to have this heartwarming message about grief and trying to overcome depression but due to TERRIBLE execution accidentally comes as this callous message of repressing your emotions like the inverse of Inside Out.
…honestly I kind of fear that Skydance might had the spiritual successor to the Weinstein Company (at least in terms of animation but either way the only decent one they made was Hoodwinked) right down to the sexual misconduct allegations.
Mmm Wonder is interesting but it didn’t help that they never say what condition her mother has😅
@@gracekim25 Yeah pretty much. And it’s not like hospitalization of a parent can’t be scary especially for kids (hell I’m an adult and my grandfather have to being hospitalized so bad to the point of needing to be placed in a nursing home was one of the factors that contributed to a nervous breakdown) ,but the fact that they pussyfooted around the issue supposedly for trying not to upset kids too much (…I guess?) made the message have way less impact
Of course the excecution is terrible, because the film has no credited director.
@@collaterale1 Yeah and again probably not the intention so I’m not gonna go full Tony Goldmark (although his video on it is still great if a bit heated) ,but the film is poorly written so that’s the way it comes across. And like I half joked…are we sure Skydance isn’t the new Weinstein Company is making mediocre to bad animated movies while also being a hotbed for misconduct? LOL
I honestly feel like Wonder Park suffers the same thing Merida did. The movies start out EXTREMELY strong, the ground for an interesting premise is very solid, both have some memorable scenes and the moment the animal side kicks appear on screen, everything becomes forgettable and generic and, somehow, the ending comes to the conclusion that's the OPPOSITE of what they were setting up (Wonder Park -> dealing with grief -> you can be emotional and that's okay -> actually just repress your emotions, Merida -> gender norms -> you don't have to conform as being your own person is beautiful -> actually conform to those standards at least a little, otherwise you were wrong and stupid)
The idea that bad things NEED to happen feels so icky and is an awful message. The world CAN be better, it's just about whether or not people put effort into making it better. But that requires money and empathy, so instead we're fed this "Life isn't fair" myth as a way to cope.
"I had to endure the most painful death ever"
The logic in this movie: "you just had bad RNG"
Message of the movie: "People must suffer or they will be unhappy!"
Me: "Uh... no? Who made that movie again?"
Movie credits: "Apple TV+"
Me: "Of course..."
If you want to see this kind of message done well, I highly recommend the short film "Merry Madness" by Dead Sound. It tells far more elegantly that bad things and good things go hand-in-hand and you need both to overcome obstacles, and to truly live.
And then its sequel "Scary And Strange" gives the vital caveat that _you shouldn't use the importance of bad things in life as a reason to stand passively by in the face of suffering._ Which Luck completely misses in its over 90 minutes of screentime.
Must come back here to say something.
@@victorhurwitz5559 ?
Y'know, a story around good luck and bad luck could've been structured similarly to the 2009 Garfield show's episode on good luck.
The protagonist has friends and legit bad luck (not just minor inconveniences). They encounter a luck/unluck citizen that tells them of the luck realm, follows them there and do something (snatch a luck giving mcguffin, change their luck file, whatev's) that gives them strong positive luck when they get home.
It works, for a while: they get lucky in a lot of things, but soon they notice those they care about are getting increased bad luck. Moreover, others start getting suspicious of their incredible luck. Eventually, it reaches a tipping point: the protagonist then decides to go back to the luck dimension and undo their previous change.
In the climax, they accept that luck is not something you can (or in their case, should) mess with, that sometimes you just can't do much except endure things out of your control, that's part of life. Still, you will get through it and find that things may end up in your favor in the long run. Happy/Bittersweet ending, depending on how cynical you write it.
Sounds so much better then the movie. Legit why didn't they do that.
It's weird to see Garfield being referred to with generic terms like "the protagonist" hehe
This is the kind of movie where, if the ending had been just a little different, it would've been a lot better and made more sense.
If the ending had been "we need bad luck because if we only had good luck we'd never appreciate anything" or something along those lines, the plot might've made more sense.
I thought that was the ending, but maybe it was either not clear enough or I was projecting my expectations.
0:04 he is no longer Saberspark, he is *today*
When you were talking about examples of BAAAAAAAAAD luck, I thought you were going to go WAY darker. Like war, bombings, car crashes, plane crashes, droughts. If good luck is as powerful as maybe getting a good job, then bad luck is much much more powerful if there's those kinds of forces in play.
So true