1/20/2024 0 Comments Mighty vibe googke play![]() ![]() Don’t take my world for it - take theirs. But these boys and girls, many of them ( like mine) COVID babies, were born into an on-demand world with Paramount+ and YouTube, they’ve all seen this very plot line happen to the pups before. To be more than fair to the film, the five-year gap between iterations is a literal lifetime to the kids in the audience. Guess exactly what happens in the 2023 money grab? In the 2018 money-grab spinoff, a meteor crashes into Adventure Bay giving the pups superpowers. But that’s a pretty lazy excuse to just run back an entire storyline already covered by the show’s “Mighty Pups” miniseries. To be fair to the credited trio of Cal Brunker (also director), Bob Barlen, and Shane Morris, like the sugar we personally plied ours with, what little kids crave is repetition. That may not sound like a point for me to pick at, but by the phrase’s fifth or sixth over-the-top uttering, one begins to realize that the film’s writers thought this callback would pack a bigger bite than it does. Seemingly, the scientist’s entire reason for wanting to burn Adventure City (we’re way beyond Adventure Bay by this point) to the ground is because some randos in the past referred to her as a “mad” scientist. Henson’s villainous character, Victoria Vance. What definitely doesn’t work is Taraji P. As it turns out, the character who gets the most laughs throughout the movie is bulldog Rubble, voiced by 12-year-old Luxton Handspiker (“Blue’s Clues & You”). Sure, Chris Rock’s mini-moment is worth a laugh, but beyond benefitting a bit from the comedian’s natural timing, the joke doesn’t actually need to be delivered by Rock to work. Much of this stunt casting may make for better credits, but it doesn’t actually make for a better movie. Delores, voiced by Kim Kardashian, in “Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie” ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection Both North West and Saint West, two of her four children with ex-husband Kanye “Ye” West, have roles in the sequel. Kardashian, who reprises her mini-role as pampered poodle Delores from the original film, takes it a step further - two, really. The process for casting grownups for “The Mighty Movie” is mighty obvious: Hire the biggest stars who want to tell their kids they’re in the new “PAW Patrol” movie. And no, I’m not just singling out Kim Kardashian here. “The Mighty Movie” has a very good adult voice cast that does not necessarily deliver good performances. At one point I remember distinctly feeling that even as a Paramount film, lead dog Chase (voiced by 13-year-old Christian Convery) had no right to quote “Top Gun” with “I feel the need…for super speed!” Am I over-defensive of “Top Gun”? Yes. ![]() “PAW Patrol 2” is not a good movie, and I have multiple bones to pick. According to my family, the critics - meta and otherwise - are wrong. As Meatloaf once sang - and a reference probably only the grandparents in our theater would get - “Two out of three ain’t bad.”Īccording to critics and audiences alike, “ PAW Patrol 2” ain’t bad either Metacritic even has “The Mighty Movie” as slightly better than the original. ![]() Our 6-year-old didn’t need a nap she just needed, in order, 1) attention, 2) junk food, and 3) a good movie. Where to Watch This Week’s New Movies, from ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ to ‘The Pigeon Tunnel’ The showtime was a kid-friendly one for the preschoolers who got a full nap that day with a playdate at noon, ours got all of 5 minutes of shuteye in the Cinemark parking lot. showing on its opening Saturday “PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie” would win the weekend by what IndieWire box-office reporter Tom Brueggemann called a “healthy” margin. The theater was predictably packed for the 4:15 p.m. Averse to risk, my wife and I bought insurance in the form of popcorn, Reese’s Pieces, and Twizzlers. Our trip to see “ PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie” was always going to be a gamble. ![]() That would be perfectly fine with me, except for the fact that “PAW Patrol: The Movie” is significantly more tolerable than “PAW Patrol” the series (and it’s many, many spinoffs.) The little guy ends up OK, of course (this is an animated children’s movie after all), but it caused enough trauma to effectively ban screenings in our house. She loves “ PAW Patrol,” but the franchise’s first feature film (2021) opens on a baby turtle in distress. ![]()
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