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"Chimp Crazy" made me feel all the emotions - happiness, sadness, anger. I have a lot of mixed feelings about how this docuseries was presented to the viewers. I don't know who their target audience was and who you were supposed to be rooting for during the short span of 4 episodes. There were valid arguments from both PETA and Tonia Haddix, addressing their concerns to of why Tonka should be placed in a sanctuary vs being kept confided in a small room.

Aside from the protagonist (Tonia or PETA?) there is a bigger picture to be seen here - people should NOT own exotic pets. HOWEVER, this is a two sided coin I think. On one side you have obvious exotic animals who just cannot be domesticated and will forever have animalistic instincts/behaviors, and in the other side you have humans who have had said exotic animals since they were babies. So I think there is a valid argument for both sides - one being: everyone and their mother owns a dog. Dogs can rip your face off, just like a chimp can. But dogs have become domesticated and not everyone owns a chimp. If you have a 200 pound dog there comes a point where that dog cannot be controlled. If it wants to one day kill your baby sitting in its stroller, it'll do it. But it's LESS likely than a chimp.

This show is an eye opener for the exotic pet world and at times was honestly hard to watch. I think both sides were pretty narcissistic. I couldn't stand the attorney for PETA (Goodman) you can tell that dude is a prick. I agree with Tonia that PETA is not for the animals well being always. The way they manipulate the situation to make her out to be some evil pos monster was absolutely disgusting. Tonia I think has some mental health issues but she loved that damn Chimp. So I'm a bit torn on all of it. She clearly didn't learn her lesson once you find out what happens in the last 5-10 minutes of episode 4.

Hard to watch but it's a good watch. Pretty educational as well.

Immediately when I saw this on Paramount, I had low expectations, simply because the theatrical 2018 PS was hot garbage. This one somehow surpassed that. The first act had a lot of promise and I was actually enjoying it. The gore was good, it had some action in it, the dog was very adorable. But after the protagonist sort of catches on to what is happening, it falls short. By the time the climax happens you begin to think "is this over yet?" The ending was poopoo, closing out with "sometimes things are better off dead". Grrr so cheesy and weightless.

I cannot STAND horror movies that cut right when someone is being killed. It's lazy, it's stupid and it seems to be a way to save money on special effects. Why do directors do that??? The movie just made absolutely no sense in both story, cinematography and wardrobe. The locations were great, but whoever was in charge of costume design should have been fired. This takes place in the 60's and the ONLY thing that was even in that era was a VW Beatle. Maybe some outfits in one scene, but eh that's about it.

Every character in Bloodlines seems to have zero personality or depth. It's like they are all stoned and depressed, having a monotone voice. There's no character development for any of the leads. It just seems like it was a very corporate film with where they wanted to push a new Semetary movie out as quick as they can. Paramount as been successful with stream released movies. Not this one!

Give it a go if you have time to waste or it's a rainy Sunday. If you love fun kills, a plot or any depth in a horror film, skip it. I promise it's NOT good.