This review isn’t one... it’s just gushing about representation, but provides zero critical analysis or reasons for why someone who isn’t an Asian-Canadian looking for representation might enjoy the film.

Didn’t watched the movie but i would like to point out that “quirkily polite criminal underworld” has been a common thing in mangas and anime for a while and it would be cool if most critics could discuss this.

Today in things nobody wants or needs

I agree with the review: this episode was meh and lacked payoff.

Just some context on this “funny story”

Yes

I read the original thread back in the day, and i am very unconfortable how the reality behind it seems it be framed both by the movie, the original twitter user, and this reviewer.

This is the kind of nihilistic, high-octane, high-concept, sci-fi nonsense i expect from Rick & Morty so i enjoyed it a lot.

Rick’s greatest nemesis is Rick himself. How the show did not actually come to that conclusion is shocking.

Prety sure the child with blue teeth was a girl but i don’t want you to stop having fun shaking those epileptic trees.

Gonna admit i don’t know the source material but this looks very very bad, full of pretty people delivering stiff perfomances as uppity aliens.

Short answer: No

Listen now that we have modern medecine, natural selection has to find other ways to cull the herd one way or another.

This went viral on French twitter like 4 years ago, because it looks like a photoshop montage.

Is this supposed to be satire?

I won’t deny this about the brands they brought, because frankly it has always been the case with their Marvel and Star Wars products.

The issues with that movie’s trailer is that this kind of action-comedy with cartoon-physics-powered martial art and *wink wink* type of humor has been done everywhere. It felt incredibly generic from the get-go, and not only different asians cultures are mixed together, but story elements as well. Like the scheming…

Don’t they do the same thing in all their movie inspired by European Folklore tho? Mix elements (architecture/clothing/names/flora and fauna) from differents times and places, not really looking for accuracy in the depiction of the culture as much as a sort of flavor.

Every single profession has those guys and those stories.

That piece by Kotaku seems like a good read in the continuity of this one