VS. THE MACHINES
(2021 dir. Michael Rianda) Date Seen: May 3 2021
Right off the bat I dug the goofy CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE-style character designs mixing with the stray neon strokes & jagged surface textures; but boy howdy, how the movie's humor fluctuated like crazy between hit or miss for me. Authentically funny bits one second, then the most obnoxiously loud "look how wacky I am" gags the next.. That tonal unevenness in the comedy department ultimately made it difficult for me to emotionally connect to the core familial drama. Also (this might be nitpicking): Did these dude writers really think having the little girl be artsy & awkward would somehow automatically designate her as some type of LGBT representation? I'm really hoping I just missed some character breadcrumbs, because that's kinda lame if true. Young characters having to be ambiguously queer-coded definitely counts for something, but ffs. The world isn't going to end if we depict adolescent characters who are explicitly not heteronormative.
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