"Penguin" reminds me of DreamWorks' 2011 spinoff "Puss in Boots," and while "Penguin" is mediocre, at least it's better than "Puss" in terms of viewing. And next year Universal will also launch the spin-off film "Minions" from "Despicable Me". It seems that the Hollywood animation industry is also unanimously exhausted in creativity and loves to fry. However, it also reflects Hollywood's accurate control of the audience's needs, and it is their responsibility to satisfy the audience's various "eccentricities", "obscenity", and "hunting for curiosity". The audience can shoot whatever they like; It is a job", and maximizes the commercial potential of works and characters. At this point, they are the most formidable opponents.
However, now it seems that Hollywood animation has regarded "selling cuteness" as the only way, and "DreamWorks" has gradually become a "cute factory".
Ugh.
This film continues and enhances the "Madagascar"-style funny, tossing, and nonsensical, with a lot of laughs, and the rhythm is super fast, even to the point of being overwhelmed; in the blink of an eye, a plot point has passed. Many viewers must spend the 85 minutes of joy (the length of the feature film), but maybe after two days, they will forget most of the content in it. Because the big plot of the story is extremely "popular" (that is, the stinky villain is jealous of the cuteness and is determined to make them ugly), and the small plot is extremely trivial and mostly just to simply show the Penguin Gang's "too funny youth" , there are very few plots that relate to or advance the mainline. The cheap penguin gang may only be suitable for making jokes as a supporting role in "Madagascar" or making a TV animation short series to attract popularity on TV and the Internet, just like the squirrels of "Ice Age", the audience may also not. Wouldn't want to watch it keep doing bad luck for an hour and a half. Aesthetic fatigue, even the smile is stiff. "Penguin" shows off cliche after cliche from beginning to end. DreamWorks' anti-classic penguin shape is as always, and the monotonous and rigid brotherhood is even more vulgar. Children may think it is "clear at a glance", but adults can only sigh that the director is useless. .
At the end of the film, it is quite obvious that (chao) respect (xi) the paragraph in "Despicable Me 2" where the minions were blackened into little monsters. It can only be said that the writers and directors are too careless, too lazy and too jumpy.
Treating this kind of assembly line animation, the main line of the whole film is clichéd and stereotyped. Fortunately, the expectations are not high, and it is still easy to be poke at the point of laughter by various spoofs and unscrupulous bridges. Walking out of the theater after the film ended, at least not in a bad mood.
The biggest regret is that the laughs are all in the trailer.
plot?
Go fuck the plot.
I had to console myself and say: Fortunately, there is still the charming voice of BC, although it is only a supporting role.
DreamWorks has three animated films released on the mainland this year. Although "How to Train Your Dragon 2" has no improvement compared with 1, it is relatively balanced in all aspects of production, and there are no obvious shortcomings. "Penguin" is the most fun and the most "cheap", but the story is the worst, and it's ridiculous and nothing new. The other one is "Genius Spectacled Dog", alas, let's not mention it, it's a mess.
BTW, as an American animation, "Penguins of Madagascar" was released in China 12 days earlier than in the United States; every time I think of this, my heart is filled with a sense of superiority and happiness.
Hey, "superior" and "happiness", come here often.
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