It shows how desperate I am when I was actually looking forward to catching this movie. The trailers were reasonably funny (I loved the Harry Potter reference) but I knew this will probably be a waste of time.
Well, it's pretty true. Firstly, the movie is only about 70 minutes long. With most movies, even cartoons, lasting about 90mins, this movie was 20 minutes too short. So, you get less time for the same ticket price. But you see, I guess they had to keep it to 70 minutes coz the movie was just too painful to watch to make it 90mins long.
The directors seem to be very caught up with hip-hop dancing and think that anytime someone breaks out dancing is a funny scene. The effects were poorly done. There's this scene with someone spelling stuff in the snow while peeing. The sad thing is, we actually see a nozzle shooting yellow liquid in the scene. Then there's this fight scene with a lion guy played by some has-been old actor. The directors couldn't even be bothered to try and hide the fact that someone else was doing the fight scenes! At least is old Hong Kong movies they use some wig to hide the face and we don't see the different people. Here, you see this young chinese guy doing the fight scenes and then suddenly this old lion guy shows up in the next scene! Not funny.
I think the scenes they showed in the trailer were probably the funniest. Do yourself a favour and don't waste your money. Go have a Burger King meal instead.
Thankfully, the movie wasn't a total waste of money. I got to watch two pretty good trailers before the movie - The Fantastic Four (with the new Silver Surfer) and Sunshine (new movie about saving a dying sun). So that means I paid $7.50 for about 5mins of trailers. Seems expensive, but that's better than spending $7.50 for 70mins of crap.
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