as a neurodivergent person i had a lot of obsessions with things as a kid- especially certain movies that i really liked !!! i would rewatch these movies all the time, sometimes every day. the list is pretty long, but here are some of the most iconic...
tangled: i LOVED this movie. i have a video of little me singing 'when will my life begin' with a guitar that im just strumming randomly.. cutest thing ever btw. still my fave disney princess :)
zathura: this was like my favorite movie for YEARS. i havent watched it in forever, and whenever i mention it nobody knows what im talking about.. it totally feels like a fever dream but i stg it exists !!! look it up its actually rlly cool i promise!
alvin and the chipmunks: chipwrecked: yeah.. im just gonna leave that one riiiiggghhht there!
mr. popper's penguins: this movie was so good idec shut up and leave me alone. penguins 4ever. best part of zoos AND aquariums.
teen beach movie: this is like. THE best disney channel orginal movie EVER. forget highschool musical and camp rock. forget all of them okay? ONLY this movie. forever. the plot: AMAZING. the soundtrack: SUPERIOR. the acting: FANTASTIC. i had TWO teen beach movie backpacks for two CONSECUTIVE years in elementary school. I AM A TRUE TEEN BEACH MOVIE FAN.
frozen: i love frozen TO THIS DAY. the songs are SO GOOD. the plot??? YES. sisterhood and girlhood and trauma and true love and reindeer. best movie ever okay? when i was in the first grade me and my best friend at the time Claire acted out the entire movie at recess. she was elsa and i was anna and we got three random boys to be hans and olaf kristolf. i do not recall if we made anyone be sven but i wouldnt be surprised.
and last but not least, the one movir needing NO EXPLAINATION: the live action cat in the hat movie.
thank you and goodnight. i hope you all liked this episode of julia lore. see you next friday night. (the crowd applauds)
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"She-Hulk is the dumbest thing on Disney+."
Edit: Okay so I stand by calling this dumb. But now that I've watched it...
There are so many weird and confusing decisions mixed together here, strapped into a made-for-8-year-olds straight jacket, that...it's kind of amazing?
Let's be clear: this isn't an ironically funny movie. This isn't Neil Breen in a fake beard he thinks looks fine. This is a Disney-branded property of the baseline average corporate product variety. Professional people made this and it is acceptable. The worst thing about it is how edgeless and predictably dull most of it is, just like all the other new Disney / Marvel / Star Wars stuff. It is branded as a Disney Channel Orginal Movie, and it is exactly what those are and have always been, for good and ill.
And yet...
The premise is so bizarre and complicated, and it feels so much like someone trying to get away with something subversive, that it is compelling. There is something going on here, or there was, before someone stopped it. I don't know. This is a dumb mess of confused allegories and pop-trend references and weird callbacks to stuff only people my age (effin' 40) would understand or appreciate. Like some angry off-off-off Broadway playwright who came of age in the late 90s wrote a joke script to pitch to Disney, and someone whose mom used to work for Kathleen Kennedy stole it and got a meeting with Reena Singh. And she greenlit it, so long as it was a hip-hop musical.
This is Edward Scissorhands, if there were a race of him and Wynona Ryder was a blonde cheerleader. This is the movie adaptation of the children's book adaptaion of Romero's Day of the Dead. This is the G-rated musical version of the 2005 video game Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse, a game filled with gore and sex references, made in the original Halo engine by ex-Bungie employees as an eff-you to Microsoft after they bought the studio. A game so old and unsuccessful I might be the only person who remembers it, and the fact that it released with an album of the game music, which was big indie bands covering 50s / early 60s rock 'n' roll hits.
This children's musical by Disney is suspiciously similar in its abstract plot to that game. Like...really suspiciously. And as I recall, that game was already based on the premise, "What if Walt Disney had built his original vision of EPCOT - a utopian 1950s futurist planned community for his workers, powered by chrome pneumatic tubes and robots - but then zombies attacked it?"
Disney turned THAT into a musical. A High School Musical, specifically. And the zombies only eat cauliflower now. And all look like bad Jared Leto Joker cosplay.
I don't think this is good. I don't even know if I like it. But it is certainly more entertaining than the tired shrugging that is most everything else The House of Mouse drops now.
If only they had used the music from the original game. Seriously. Go find that album. Good stuff.
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anyway TIL that Ejen Ali is streaming on Disney+ Hostar Indonesia—just the two seasons, but not the MOVIE, like i was hoping for, even though all the AniMy movies are available on Disney+ Malaysia—simply while i was browsing the platform bc they didn't actually advertise it anywhere on their social media. to rub salt in the wound, the only available dubs for streaming there are the Disney English dub and the Indonesian dub, both of which i mildly despise. weirdly enough, there are Malay subtitles but they couldn't provide for the orginal Malay dub? anyway here are some of my thoughts on them:
English Dub
i've actually heard this one before on disney channel, but i skipped ahead to season 2 bc i was deathly curious about the young agents' voices
Jet: rich boy voice, it suits him ig
Roza: yeah her voice is deep but at first i didn't think it suited her that much, but in later episodes she actually sounds pretty good
Mika: 0/10. her voice is too high and nasally; bro it's supposed to be androgynous. at least they knew she's a girl and casted accordingly but i hate her english voice hhh
Chris: as the token White Character, he does sound like a white boy, and that's good enough for me. it suits him, but it sounds vaguely british. all the white characters in Ejen Ali sound british but Chris is like, the least british even though he's like a slice of white bread amongst all his malaysian classmates lmao
Iman: her voice suits her! i like it
Bulat: PERFECT. flawless as always. i love my son
Khai: love Khai's voice, it's nice
Moon: she sounds adorable. love it
Rudy: i heard from foreign fans who watched EA on disney channel that his voice was attractive, and they were right. holy shit. what a great day to remember i'm bi
Leon: for some reason he has a british accent JFBSJDBJ???? i thought he was malay, did the casting director think he's white? was he actually white and i just didn't notice???
Geetha: not...soft and motherly enough, but it's tolerable.
Bakar: i like it enough, he's jovial enough to fit the part
Karya: he's pretty good too! he's as suave as his malay counterpart
many of the OG malay VAs were brought in to reprise their roles in the english dub so of course the voices fit, i'm just reviewing the voices i haven't heard before
Aaron/Nueve: FULL ON BRITISH ACCENT, and he sounds great! grade A casting
Sies and Siete: they do sound sleazy, i give them that. they're a meh for me.
Sinco: 8/10, i don't have much to say except his voice fits.
Also they translated "teras" as "core" JFNJD i'm DYING, the official translation from Wau staff is "pillar". IT'S PILLAR GODDAMMIT
Indonesian Dub
Ali: he sounds adorable. i think he's voiced by the same VA who did Indonesian Naruto, he sounds a lot like him
Alicia: her voice is okay tbh but her acting needs a little work. she's too expressive for Alicia, who always sounds controlled and menacing. also the indonesian VAs pronounce her name as "Ah-lee-see-ya", which throws me off
Bakar: his VA nailed it! he's fantastic
Rama: to his credit he has the gruff general tone down pat. what REALLY bothers me is how the script writers decide to tamper with his quote, even though it's literally the same in Indonesian and Malay. in this dub, they switched it around and made him say "segera bertindak", it sounds so off
Uno: i think he fits, almost like the OG VA, 9/10
Jenny: this one was surprising. Her voice isn't as high-pitched as Meirysha's, but still fits Jenny. however, Meirysha was directed to voice Jenny so she sounded cold and flat no matter how friendly she was, and this didn't translate into the indonesian dub. 8/10
Rizwan: very similar to Azman?! wow. also the acting is good (good enough for the dialogue, which is stilted and formal). 10/10
Jet: HE SOUNDS LIKE A JAKARTAN AJDBJDNF okay but legit expected him to break out into english the way rich jakartan kids do, he sounds like a radio personality to some extent jxjfjf
Roza: her voice isn't deep enough, and doesn't suit her
Mika: OKAY THIS ONE IS FUNNY SJBF they first thought Mika was a boy so they casted her with this really manly voice in her first appearance. they rectified this in the later episodes, where, like in the Malay dub, she had an androgynous voice that was MARVELOUS, but i was still distraught hearing a teen boy's voice come out of her mouth. congrats
Chris: i was half-hoping they would give him a Minang accent but he sounds just as city-boy rich as Jet.
Iman: she has the opposite problem to Roza's; her voice is TOO deep. i feel like their VAs should've been switched and it would've sounded better, though neither of them suit their characters that much
Bulat: they got his voice down nicely. see? my son sounds great in any dub. he shines regardless of the circumstances
Khai: he sounds exactly like Khairul holy crap, 10/10
Moon: this is the opposite to Alicia's problem; her acting isn't expressive enough, but her voice sounds cute.
Rudy: it's meh. he really could've been better, he doesn't sound sullen enough either.
Geetha: now THIS is good casting. actually sounds motherly and i like her acting
Leon: he doesn't sound gruff enough :(
Karya: love this guy's voice, i think Karya's character shines through with his acting
Dos: it's like. adjacent to Dos' malay voice. it's good enough
Tres: Tres is easy to cast for, since he sounds so typical, so of course he sounds identical to the OG voice
Aaron: he has the same tone as the OG Aaron, god bless his VA. 10/10
Sies and Siete: they sound like the guys who degraded me in middle school, eugh. in other words, perfect casting
Sinco: i like how he sounds, and i think his acting is okay
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