Cringy leftist "comic" about how those '90s movies you loved weren't woke enough
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Which is a shame because he is quite talented even still and for the most part has kept his politics out of his works.
Or maybe I'm just making excuses because Sonic the Hedgehog was unironically one of the best movies in years and most of it was him.
I'm going to disagree because I feel like its strongest comedy scenes would be great in any climate. Nearly all of which are from Carey.
Its weaker character and emotional scenes I'll agree on. They are average, but that's leaps above most movies recently for sure.
Plus the movie was almost completely re-worked due to the backlash. Very few movies come out even just "okay" after such an overhaul. The fact they were able to reach a 6 or 7/10 from a place of -3 is an accomplishment in of itself. I'm genuinely excited to see what they can do having people like Hesse on board from the start, instead of bringing them in to clean up their messes.
See, I'm still gonna disagree as I laughed far harder and often enough to say it was a better comedy. But we are probably getting into tastes and subjective enjoyment at this point.
Remember the whole thing with Kick Ass 2 a few years back? After making the movie he said he couldn't support it because of how violent it was because Sandy Hook happened.
Luckily, a couple years before that I had went down a rabbit hole of watching old clips of him on YouTube (fire marshal Bill and when he is a barbarian woman) and then went and re-watched a lot of his old movies that I had loved as a kid. And yes, GP was right, Ace Ventura was hilarious. I even laughed my ass off thinking about how people would get triggered by the humor in modern times (and this was several years ago before things had gotten as bad as they are now). He was very talented and made some very funny stuff back in the 90s. Nowadays though it's just sad. I would have a hard time laughing because of how he really is. Still haven't watched Sonic. I want a morbidly obese HAES Robotnik even if he is a cis white man.