Jan_Rus
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An interesting idea of the series, about which the ruthless skating rink of a mediocre script rode.
There is very little funny in the series, for 1 successful moment there are 7-8 flat jokes or stupid or downright stupid moments. The plots of the episodes at the beginning show great promise, watching them becomes no less exciting than a series about spies or science fiction of those years (2002-2006), but in the middle or towards the end (depending on the series), the scriptwriters themselves ruthlessly destroy the entire architecture of the narrative and the whole meaning of the story. Moreover, this is not a cinematic method of «turning» the plot upside down or deliberately introducing absurdism to achieve a humorous effect, no... It's just draining the story and the efforts of the characters down the toilet. These are not isolated cases, it happens over and over again.
There is no evolution of the main characters. They not only do not progress, but on the contrary degrade as the series progresses.
Lydia Weston's scenic arc is disgusting. 0% humor, 0% instructive conclusions. 0% charisma, although actress Andrea Parker played on 7 balls out of 10.
I'm not a prude or a moralist, but the series is rife with insults on sexual, racial, and religious grounds. In the first season, 3 episodes at once portray African-Americans in a bad light, as mean, greedy, arrogant, uncouth and sorry («but from the song words not throw») dirty people. The response to white chauvinism from the black actress of the series turns out to be just as scandalous, at the end of the first season, Sherri Shepherd in the role of Ramona Platt calls her colleagues «white pigs».
In the second season, race relations fade away, replaced by inappropriate comments about religion and vulgar sexism. Throughout the first two seasons, viewers were assured through the plot and the actors' lines of respect for women, but in the most recent episode of the second season - «Claude On One Knee», Claudia Casey performed by Sara Rue, is treated like a harbor prostitute.
I understand that any show needs an outrageous, fake scandal to arouse public interest and increase audience views, but there have been quite a few comedy series shot in the USA (Scrubs, Married... with Children, Last Man Standing), where issues of gender or race were ridiculed, but they were NOT offensive, humiliating, inciting hatred or reinforcing prejudice. The scriptwriters of Less Than Perfect decided that off-screen laughter and approving shaking of the crowd's head would solve all the problems. But they were wrong. Cinematic techniques do NOT negate the fact of direct insults to people.
The last «cherry on the cake» of a failed, unfunny SitCom (and as Jay Leno correctly pointed out «there's nothing worse than starring in an unfunny SitCom») is an inflated ego, encouraged by the creators series the megalomania Patrick Warburton as Jeb Denton. The series is simply drowning in an absolutely inexplicable (it is clear that Patrick Warburton set a condition for PR of his person) narcissism and contemplation of Jeb Denton to the detriment of the entertainment and intrigue of the project.
To be fair, I must also say about the actors' performance. Amazing job was done by Zachary Levi as Kipp Steadman, 10 out of 10. Good performance by Sara Rue and Andy Dick as Owen Kronsky, 9 out of 10 and 8 out of 10 respectively. But... But unfortunately, this did not save the series from secondary, boredom and despondency.
There is very little funny in the series, for 1 successful moment there are 7-8 flat jokes or stupid or downright stupid moments. The plots of the episodes at the beginning show great promise, watching them becomes no less exciting than a series about spies or science fiction of those years (2002-2006), but in the middle or towards the end (depending on the series), the scriptwriters themselves ruthlessly destroy the entire architecture of the narrative and the whole meaning of the story. Moreover, this is not a cinematic method of «turning» the plot upside down or deliberately introducing absurdism to achieve a humorous effect, no... It's just draining the story and the efforts of the characters down the toilet. These are not isolated cases, it happens over and over again.
There is no evolution of the main characters. They not only do not progress, but on the contrary degrade as the series progresses.
Lydia Weston's scenic arc is disgusting. 0% humor, 0% instructive conclusions. 0% charisma, although actress Andrea Parker played on 7 balls out of 10.
I'm not a prude or a moralist, but the series is rife with insults on sexual, racial, and religious grounds. In the first season, 3 episodes at once portray African-Americans in a bad light, as mean, greedy, arrogant, uncouth and sorry («but from the song words not throw») dirty people. The response to white chauvinism from the black actress of the series turns out to be just as scandalous, at the end of the first season, Sherri Shepherd in the role of Ramona Platt calls her colleagues «white pigs».
In the second season, race relations fade away, replaced by inappropriate comments about religion and vulgar sexism. Throughout the first two seasons, viewers were assured through the plot and the actors' lines of respect for women, but in the most recent episode of the second season - «Claude On One Knee», Claudia Casey performed by Sara Rue, is treated like a harbor prostitute.
I understand that any show needs an outrageous, fake scandal to arouse public interest and increase audience views, but there have been quite a few comedy series shot in the USA (Scrubs, Married... with Children, Last Man Standing), where issues of gender or race were ridiculed, but they were NOT offensive, humiliating, inciting hatred or reinforcing prejudice. The scriptwriters of Less Than Perfect decided that off-screen laughter and approving shaking of the crowd's head would solve all the problems. But they were wrong. Cinematic techniques do NOT negate the fact of direct insults to people.
The last «cherry on the cake» of a failed, unfunny SitCom (and as Jay Leno correctly pointed out «there's nothing worse than starring in an unfunny SitCom») is an inflated ego, encouraged by the creators series the megalomania Patrick Warburton as Jeb Denton. The series is simply drowning in an absolutely inexplicable (it is clear that Patrick Warburton set a condition for PR of his person) narcissism and contemplation of Jeb Denton to the detriment of the entertainment and intrigue of the project.
To be fair, I must also say about the actors' performance. Amazing job was done by Zachary Levi as Kipp Steadman, 10 out of 10. Good performance by Sara Rue and Andy Dick as Owen Kronsky, 9 out of 10 and 8 out of 10 respectively. But... But unfortunately, this did not save the series from secondary, boredom and despondency.
PLUSES: an interesting preface to the story;
Ease of narration;
The entertainment of the artistic action (1 hour flew by unnoticed);
In rare moments, there is a beautiful design of objects.
MINUSES: annoying and intrusive (right in the face of the audience) advertising by the cartoon's sponsor, SberBank. Foreign viewers naively believe that this is an unfortunate example of native advertising. No, this is a manifestation of the «genius» of Senseless and Ruthless russian marketing. Advertising is like an unsuccessful attempt to carve a wooden swan with an axe from a log - very rude, very head-on;
Ugly and OUTDATED computer graphics (stuck somewhere between the very end of the 2000s and the beginning of the 2010s), a number of scenes were shot on a Two-dimensional background, as there were no resources for a full-fledged 3D image (or he «sawed up», let foreigners not be surprised, corruption in the field of cinematography and animation in the Russian Federation reaches such proportions that after the «effective mastering» cash resources, the creators remains a change in the form of a cheese sandwich.), 30% of the computer cartoon was subjected to ugly and cheap BLURRING, this was done in order to hide unfinished work - sharp POLYGONS sticking out;
The weak musical accompaniment and disgusting songs, sung TORN, as if the executor is not singing, but reading the text, stretching it after the melody (very cringely and strangely);
A primitive plot, 80% of the material is created from banal script cliches borrowed from the very «Decaying West» (who are so fond of criticizing and exposing, hypocritical propagandists on russian Zombing TV) with their cloying, fake and wretched moralizing that has always caused irritation and boredom.
4 points out of 10. I don't recommend it.
Ease of narration;
The entertainment of the artistic action (1 hour flew by unnoticed);
In rare moments, there is a beautiful design of objects.
MINUSES: annoying and intrusive (right in the face of the audience) advertising by the cartoon's sponsor, SberBank. Foreign viewers naively believe that this is an unfortunate example of native advertising. No, this is a manifestation of the «genius» of Senseless and Ruthless russian marketing. Advertising is like an unsuccessful attempt to carve a wooden swan with an axe from a log - very rude, very head-on;
Ugly and OUTDATED computer graphics (stuck somewhere between the very end of the 2000s and the beginning of the 2010s), a number of scenes were shot on a Two-dimensional background, as there were no resources for a full-fledged 3D image (or he «sawed up», let foreigners not be surprised, corruption in the field of cinematography and animation in the Russian Federation reaches such proportions that after the «effective mastering» cash resources, the creators remains a change in the form of a cheese sandwich.), 30% of the computer cartoon was subjected to ugly and cheap BLURRING, this was done in order to hide unfinished work - sharp POLYGONS sticking out;
The weak musical accompaniment and disgusting songs, sung TORN, as if the executor is not singing, but reading the text, stretching it after the melody (very cringely and strangely);
A primitive plot, 80% of the material is created from banal script cliches borrowed from the very «Decaying West» (who are so fond of criticizing and exposing, hypocritical propagandists on russian Zombing TV) with their cloying, fake and wretched moralizing that has always caused irritation and boredom.
4 points out of 10. I don't recommend it.
Farce Express will deliver an interesting, underground story straight to the withering sun of a controversial script and amateurish direction.
PROS: the aesthetics of the animated film echoes the series of computer games Mass Effect (2007, 2010, 2012), animated cartoons Animatrix (2003), Fire and Ice (1983);
An unconventional approach to «camera work», we were pleased with the third-person views and panoramas, in the modern era of dull, uniform plans, this immediately catches the eye and causes a favorable emotion, which is even more IMPORTANT - a better immersion in the atmosphere of the picture and an increased sense of verisimilitude for the viewer;
At the right moments in the story, the artistic action on the screen accelerates, in a measured rhythm, and keeps the viewer in suspense;
Spectacular chases and shootouts;
In some cases, a deep atmosphere and high realism of what is happening on the screen are observed and felt;
There is a limited number of beautiful and thoughtful design of buildings and vehicles;
The balance between physical violence and eroticism is very French, and the scenes of murder and hedonism are carefully shown without the cynicism and shocking cruelty inherent in Anglo-Saxons and Asians;
There are references to European philosophy, especially in the scene with the «Golden Unicorn», as an allusion to a hedonistic and degenerate society;
The authors tried to make the main character through everyday scenes as natural and lively as possible;
The plot forces us to analyze the mistakes of the main characters and draw conclusions;
Towards the end of the story, natural, human, dramatic emotions are beautifully shown.
CONS: weak musical accompaniment;
The average level of graphics, sometimes degraded to primitiveness;
A deliberately prolonged plot to fill in screen time, which causes boredom;
The presence of annoying, banal cinematic cliches from science fiction;
The overall low level of design;
Technological anachronisms are often encountered, which are gradually disappearing in our time and are even more absurd in the rather distant future - in the year 2200. It hurts the viewer's eyes and strikes at the atmosphere of the animated film;
The frequent presence of cinematic blunders (the heroine sees a reflection on an object that is turned sideways to her, but the protagonist standing in front of the object does not; video cameras are mentioned in the picture, in the form of eye pupils, thanks to which androids can see the surrounding reality, but they are absent during anatomical autopsy, so how do robots see?; a red box appears on the left from the heroine, near the stairs at the entrance to «The End» bar, although he had not been there before; an elevator appears from somewhere in the two-story store, which lifts passengers to high floors; an ordinary car CAN WITHSTAND a hit by a cruise, anti-tank missile with homing; protective foam miraculously does not pour passengers to death when heated; the same protective mechanism reacts differently (and absurdly) when the car door lock is damaged, but without damaging the car body, and so on);
Emotional degradation of the main characters - the protagonists at the beginning of the story evoke more empathy than at the end;
The frequent inconsistency of the plot and the scrapping of their own script rules;
Improbability, falsity of everyday scenes and misunderstanding of the psychology of the characters due to the authors' small life experience;
The main disadvantage is the general illogic, stupidity, dampness of the script and the destruction of the main plot plot on which the intrigue and tension of the whole story were based. Which causes the viewer to be disappointed and devalues the animated film Mars Express.
BOTTOM LINE: an honest 5.6 out of 10, I do not recommend it to the general public, but fans of underground animation (Animatrix, Fire and Ice) who are looking for something stylistically similar to Mars Express will do;
The film was clearly created for the Cannes Film Festival in order to announce to the whole world that French animation, after the success of such visual masterpieces as Les Enfants de la pluie (2003), La Reine Soleil (2007) and the albeit not beautiful, but innovative Kaena: La prophetie (2003), which were ruined by the World economic crisis (2009-20??), «still alive!». Alas, the French multipliers are not moving beyond this manifesto, as confirmed by the box office receipts, with a budget of 9,000,000 euros, Mars Express earned a modest 1,455,000. The French are plagued by the same problem as their colleagues 20 years ago - they create beautiful and unusual stories, but incomprehensible to the general public, and therefore commercially disastrous and ruinous for any studio or animation union. The French are just one step away from global success, but they don't know where to step in order to achieve it. All this makes me sad and sincerely wish not to give up and hone my screenwriting skills. It's always good to watch a weak alternative to French animation, which stands up to such intrusive MONOPOLISTS and financial market sharks as Disney and DreamWorks.
PROS: the aesthetics of the animated film echoes the series of computer games Mass Effect (2007, 2010, 2012), animated cartoons Animatrix (2003), Fire and Ice (1983);
An unconventional approach to «camera work», we were pleased with the third-person views and panoramas, in the modern era of dull, uniform plans, this immediately catches the eye and causes a favorable emotion, which is even more IMPORTANT - a better immersion in the atmosphere of the picture and an increased sense of verisimilitude for the viewer;
At the right moments in the story, the artistic action on the screen accelerates, in a measured rhythm, and keeps the viewer in suspense;
Spectacular chases and shootouts;
In some cases, a deep atmosphere and high realism of what is happening on the screen are observed and felt;
There is a limited number of beautiful and thoughtful design of buildings and vehicles;
The balance between physical violence and eroticism is very French, and the scenes of murder and hedonism are carefully shown without the cynicism and shocking cruelty inherent in Anglo-Saxons and Asians;
There are references to European philosophy, especially in the scene with the «Golden Unicorn», as an allusion to a hedonistic and degenerate society;
The authors tried to make the main character through everyday scenes as natural and lively as possible;
The plot forces us to analyze the mistakes of the main characters and draw conclusions;
Towards the end of the story, natural, human, dramatic emotions are beautifully shown.
CONS: weak musical accompaniment;
The average level of graphics, sometimes degraded to primitiveness;
A deliberately prolonged plot to fill in screen time, which causes boredom;
The presence of annoying, banal cinematic cliches from science fiction;
The overall low level of design;
Technological anachronisms are often encountered, which are gradually disappearing in our time and are even more absurd in the rather distant future - in the year 2200. It hurts the viewer's eyes and strikes at the atmosphere of the animated film;
The frequent presence of cinematic blunders (the heroine sees a reflection on an object that is turned sideways to her, but the protagonist standing in front of the object does not; video cameras are mentioned in the picture, in the form of eye pupils, thanks to which androids can see the surrounding reality, but they are absent during anatomical autopsy, so how do robots see?; a red box appears on the left from the heroine, near the stairs at the entrance to «The End» bar, although he had not been there before; an elevator appears from somewhere in the two-story store, which lifts passengers to high floors; an ordinary car CAN WITHSTAND a hit by a cruise, anti-tank missile with homing; protective foam miraculously does not pour passengers to death when heated; the same protective mechanism reacts differently (and absurdly) when the car door lock is damaged, but without damaging the car body, and so on);
Emotional degradation of the main characters - the protagonists at the beginning of the story evoke more empathy than at the end;
The frequent inconsistency of the plot and the scrapping of their own script rules;
Improbability, falsity of everyday scenes and misunderstanding of the psychology of the characters due to the authors' small life experience;
The main disadvantage is the general illogic, stupidity, dampness of the script and the destruction of the main plot plot on which the intrigue and tension of the whole story were based. Which causes the viewer to be disappointed and devalues the animated film Mars Express.
BOTTOM LINE: an honest 5.6 out of 10, I do not recommend it to the general public, but fans of underground animation (Animatrix, Fire and Ice) who are looking for something stylistically similar to Mars Express will do;
The film was clearly created for the Cannes Film Festival in order to announce to the whole world that French animation, after the success of such visual masterpieces as Les Enfants de la pluie (2003), La Reine Soleil (2007) and the albeit not beautiful, but innovative Kaena: La prophetie (2003), which were ruined by the World economic crisis (2009-20??), «still alive!». Alas, the French multipliers are not moving beyond this manifesto, as confirmed by the box office receipts, with a budget of 9,000,000 euros, Mars Express earned a modest 1,455,000. The French are plagued by the same problem as their colleagues 20 years ago - they create beautiful and unusual stories, but incomprehensible to the general public, and therefore commercially disastrous and ruinous for any studio or animation union. The French are just one step away from global success, but they don't know where to step in order to achieve it. All this makes me sad and sincerely wish not to give up and hone my screenwriting skills. It's always good to watch a weak alternative to French animation, which stands up to such intrusive MONOPOLISTS and financial market sharks as Disney and DreamWorks.