Hello My Beautiful Creatures

30:53 I nearly choked and died on my snack

Wait, this is a musical??!?

SPATUUUULA FOR ME AND YOUUUULA

Definitely my second-favorite film in which Brittney Rae’s character goes into a rage near the end. Well done, Joel and Eric.

I like how no one is really right…
But not everyone is totally wrong…

Erik is such a criminally underrated artist!

I originally thought this would just be a nice movie about some toys that helped a guy out, and what I got was so much better. The plot, effects, original soundtrack, voicelines, and everything else were amazing. Thank you.

This one had a lot of potential but I feel like it went off the rails real quick and just ended up in a toy-based violence nonsense.

I know I should suspend disbelief, but why was Freddy the only way to take falling damage when multiple people and the dog were all thrown from much higher to the floor and never died from it?

Also, it would've been way cooler if there were rules (commandments) from God or some kinda explanation for why they were all so against being nude. It doesn't seem like something that toys that came to life would just suddenly recognize, it has to be taught by God. And having exposition around that would've been more interesting. Though, I did notice how the mayor's suspenders were always slipping and had a feeling it meant he would slip out of them.

There were so many things unexplained. And that can be okay; why are his creatures alive? Where does he get new ones from daily with the suitcase? Why doesn't he realize that the answer to all his problems are right in front of him: he doesn't need a job when he could monetize the sentient creatures that will do his bidding. Easily.

The string fraying also seemed like Chekov's string, but I thought it was gonna snap and a toy was gonna die somehow. The Tug of War scene confuses me because how does it getting tighter suddenly make it go lower towards his neck…?

But overall, I just feel like it would've been a much more interesting movie if the connection between God and his Beautiful Creatures was the main storyline and the conclusion to the plot. Having God die erases that possibility and it just devolves into mayhem. I'm at the last 10 minutes as of writing this, but I don't see the movie redeeming itself in that amount of time. (Edit: Finished it, the reveal that the Dad was behind it all didn't do much for me, don't see why he would want to kill his own daughter, talking about power, but what is power when you killed the God that provides you all your food/water and blow up everyone including yourself? Dumb and pointless).

Overall, I give the creativity a 5/5, but the writing a much, much lower score. Probably 1/5 or 2/5. Dialogue is good as always, so 4/5 or 5/5 there. And just the work that must've went into this is so intensive and unimaginable. That's why I really hoped it would be more in terms of the story; characters that I thought were going to be really important were just randomly killed on a whim and I didn't feel much in terms of the want for revenge or justice, so it was a really long movie that ultimately went nowhere.

You had me in the first half. Every time a scene involved God, I was on the edge of my seat. I wanted to know what he would say next, how his creatures would interpret it, what they would ask him, how he would address them in his daily speech. The connection between him and his Beautiful Creatures was the movie, and the decision to have God fall into a deep depression after losing his job an essentially just lay in bed for the next 30 minutes of screentime until he's ultimately killed felt like the biggest cop-out I never could've expected.

I think I'm not gonna be able to watch it due to how shaky it is

Just watched this again and wow it's so good, even knowing what to expect it sucked me in so deep.

I like to imagine Eric as a Kim Jung Un figure in his world.

There's a lot of violence; I enjoyed every bit

This is the longest north american animated movie

hoooly shit. what a ride. that was fucking crazy