THE MEAN ONE TRAILER - A GRINCH HORROR MOVIE?!
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- 2022
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The Monster or the Screenwriter?
Mildly amusing Xmas horror "comedy" slightly more predictable than dropping a hammer on your bare foot. Well paced at an hour and a half while gory in parts with a couple decaps and strewn body parts, its not excessive for the genre.
Most of the comedy is *very* derivative of referencing the Dr. Seuss story while avoiding direct invocations of it.
The most irritating thing is the notion that the heroine could go from merely athletic to a competent fighter in the course of a couple days is more than a little preposterous to anyone who knows anything about martial arts or firearms; Had the screenwriters worked in an excuse to have her take a year in training then it could have worked. Almost equally annoying "the mean one" at least the green one, at least in what it supposedly was and where it came from is never really explained or accounted for.
The ending is likewise almost nauseatingly saccharin as well as predictable. And the attempt at moral closure simply doesn't work. Sorry but if being called a monster can make you a monster, then you were a monster from the get-go; you were named, not mis-understood.
The best part of the move was almost also cliche, how people too often take their own good motives and genteel cowardice to the point of themselves becoming part and parcel of perpetuating monstrosities.
In sum, i'd (barely) give it two stars in five for being tautly paced and fairly tightly done. You might even say that its predictability was part of keeping the f you enjoy this film type, you probably won't hate the waste of an hour and a half over this, but there's nothing exceptionally stand out in it.
Most of the comedy is *very* derivative of referencing the Dr. Seuss story while avoiding direct invocations of it.
The most irritating thing is the notion that the heroine could go from merely athletic to a competent fighter in the course of a couple days is more than a little preposterous to anyone who knows anything about martial arts or firearms; Had the screenwriters worked in an excuse to have her take a year in training then it could have worked. Almost equally annoying "the mean one" at least the green one, at least in what it supposedly was and where it came from is never really explained or accounted for.
The ending is likewise almost nauseatingly saccharin as well as predictable. And the attempt at moral closure simply doesn't work. Sorry but if being called a monster can make you a monster, then you were a monster from the get-go; you were named, not mis-understood.
The best part of the move was almost also cliche, how people too often take their own good motives and genteel cowardice to the point of themselves becoming part and parcel of perpetuating monstrosities.
In sum, i'd (barely) give it two stars in five for being tautly paced and fairly tightly done. You might even say that its predictability was part of keeping the f you enjoy this film type, you probably won't hate the waste of an hour and a half over this, but there's nothing exceptionally stand out in it.
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- terrencewzellers
- Dec 18, 2022
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