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The visuals don't remotely pay any kind of homage to the late singer who's providing the audio. Like the visuals don't even match the music. It just tells the story of some kids who become animals. They start off playing in a playground (which is the only time the music matched the visual), but missed an PRIME opportunity to nod to Mac's "Blue Slide Park". Which tells me there a pretty glaring disconnect between the musical artist and the visual team. And (don't get me wrong) the visual story isn't terrible...but it's not even remotely or metaphorically related to the music. The pacing is even wrong. They have times where they make transitions between songs sync up with the visuals...but for the most part I feel like I'm watching like chronicles of narnia or Stewart Little with the mute on, and a Mac Miller album on in the background. Which would be fine if I were blitzed out of my mind.

And that would ALL be negligible if I knew Mac Miller had some say in the creation of it. But knowing this is all just some art project for a studio...just seems like exploitation of a dead guy. No tip-toeing around it.

I watched it in hopes of something cool to pay homage to one of my favorite rappers, but this isn't it. This is like someone said "hey we still have creative rights to Mac Miller, what can we do with it?" And someone said "oh, well he rapped about being a kid a couple times. We could probably do something with that" and then proceeded to make short fantasy with 2 minutes of vaguely related material.

I didn't care for it.

It's like a novel idea for a short film. But I grew out of the whole ACME slapstick routine when I was like 7. It's a weird thing where these low budget productions kind of rally around some egotists machismo. Like the premise is supposed to be that like the protagonist is down on his luck and he has to survive the North American winter wilderness...and yet dude is mostly naked and flexing 20 mins in. Which isn't even really that bad, but it just seems like a "look at me" move.

I don't know if I'm going to finish it. It's awesome to incorporate elements of cartoons in your film...like Ryan Johnson tends to do in his action sequences. And plenty of others. But to make a whole movie essentially a Wile E. Coyote bit...is just, not creative or entertaining. And that brings me to my next point.

Why is this movie getting good reviews? The animation is the best thing about this movie...and honestly, that's not very good. The plot is...beavers. Or more specifically people in beaver suits. Or really people in animal suits.

If someone I knew made this, I'd be like "omg! This is awesome" but just knowing that this was a group effort...with like funding... to like come together and rip off loony toons with animal suits, I can't really get excited about it.

Looks like they might have had fun making it though, so right on.

I loved this movie. Mostly because I love the Onyx character, and I think the way he is incorporated as a main character in this horror/comedy is fantastic.

This is a grade-A b-movie. Like, it's not good. But I think they knew it wasn't going to be a fantastic movie when making it, so they were able to lean into the punches a little and I think it worked really well.

What are you going to do with a film where the protagonist is viscerally awkward and weird? You're going make it weird and fun as possible! So that's what they did. Decent storytelling, decent acting, good world building, consistent effects, and some clever writing.

Like this is the best outcome anyone can expect from an internet meme character. I'm happy they made this and I want to see more from them. I would casually watch this in show form.

On-par with Tucker and Dale vs. Evil.