Comments by "Morgan King" (@MorganKing95) on "Top 10 Worst DreamWorks Movies" video.

I constantly DNF'ed "Shark Tale" as a kid because I was completely disinterested, and my friends never talked about the movie in and of itself and instead quoted it. I fell asleep while watching "Monsters vs. Aliens" in theatres, I never enjoyed "Shrek the Third", and I thought "Bee Movie" was incredibly meh There! You got your Kid POV
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Way better than these movies. It just happens to be a prequel to a God send of a movie
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Nostalgia blindness doesn't make a movie good
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@example2844 How is Shark Tale a good introduction to mafia movies? The sharks are just there talking about nothing, while giving out small references nobody will pick on unless they've seen the movies they reference in the first place. We don't even see any kid friendly version of drugs, prostitution, or corruption. "Oliver and Company" of all things had a better portrayal of the mob with Sykes
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@example2844 "All Dogs Go To Heaven" did all that just fine, same with "Oliver and Company" Also, is it really a kid's movie? Practically nothing about the movie is relatable to kids
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@example2844 On what level? The themes and conflicts are really only relevant to adults, the framing and dramaturgy is awful, the characters are flat and superficial (no pun intended), and the Mafia elements are practically just window dressing I also forgot to mention the "Tintin" series when talking about PG portrayals of the mob
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@example2844 No, I'm talking about the 2D-animated Tintin series from Europe, which usually consisted of 40 minutes specials in two parts (sometimes 4). The feature length movie is not DreamWorks btw Also, as mentioned by Schaffrillas Productions in his essay about Shark Tale, pop culture references for the sake of pop culture references are just cheap Easter eggs, as opposed to references that still fit in very well in the narrative regardless. Adults have consistently said that the Godfather references are cheap, and that the movie is too trite for adults
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@example2844 You better do better research, buddy, because pop culture has been a prominent debate since the 80's or something, most notably through Fredric Jameson's view of pop culture and popmodern art as just being pastiche, and Baudrillard's view of popmodernity as just cheap simulation. Heck, Roger Ebert famously criticized Shark Tale for its cheap Godfather references
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@example2844 Your first sentence is just a true Scotmans fallacy, and what does the quantity of pop culture references have to do with whether the pop culture references are cheap or not?
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@example2844 I still don't see how that's relevant when even contemporary critics have viewed the pop culture references as cheap, and pop culture as a problematic phenomenon hasn't really been a discourse since the 80's or 90's
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