@@TamWam_omg I remember my aunt took me and some cousins to watch it at the cinema when I was a kid. I remember I cried when the spaceship or whatever landed on Oh and I thought he died lmao. And when the mom flashback happened.
rihanna does this movie, drops one of the most highly praised albums of the 2010’s, disappears for 6 years, then comes back to making music for black panther and perfoms at the superbowl interesting career
Yepp but I do dislike the changes between the gorg; I think if they had kept the gorgs issue with maintaining resources instead of making them misunderstood would've been a bit better. Plus smek is still the villain, they make it very apparent that the leaders in the boovian government are inherently messed up but the same way real governments work. Or keeping the system that the original boovs had when it came to jobs such as "oh" being a boovian repairman and accidentally sending a signal to the gorg while repairing the tower still would've worked
I ended up reading Smekday because of the movie. It's genuinely fantastic, I would reccomend it to both kids and adults. I still remember some of the jokes. Like that the human girl goes by Tip cause her mom named her Gratuity without knowing what that actually meant.
The most significant impact of this movie was the creation of those Twitter accounts that act like Oh, Smek and Kyle the boov, and the erased him scene.
I wouldn't mind it honestly, I think one of the first videos of his I watched was the original video he did for Middle School's movie adaptation, so it's a nice sort of full circle moment. Wouldn't be shocked if he ends up doing a similar thing to his Grinch and Wimpy Kid videos for HTTYD when the remake comes out
9:05 They actually do explain in the first Minion Movie that they get banished to the arctic by Napoleon Bonaparte and don't make it back to Europe until the 1960s, dodging both of the World Wars.
I like how that plot point was most likely in the movie precisely to prevent outrage with the idea the Minions might have worked for mustache man and then people memed about it anyway
DreamWorks can't make cute, ad friendly plushies of characters who do evil things. Meanwhile, Pixar has a lot of Lotso merchandise available despite the fact he is seen as one of the most evil Pixar villains
Didn’t Dreamworks make a bunch of merchandise on those frogs from Flushed Away who literally tried to flood a whole underground city of living creatures?
I remember buying a book at the bookfair when I was in 6th grade. It was about the the end of the world, a girls dad died. She goes out to find something, can't remember what, and gets turned into a work slave. Plot twist at the end was she was an android the whole time. There was violence and blood in it but not overly so. Blew my mind as a kid and I probably still have the book somewhere, it never scared me. In fact it inspired my creativity more and I'm trying my own hand at writing as an adult since I enjoyed writing and reading so much as a kid. So yeah, kids can absolutely handle more serious dark stories.
I read The Watsons Go to Birmingham at about that age and was able to handle it and understand the story it was trying to tell (not just the textual story, but in general how things were in the 1960s as well). I'd say I'd have been able to get the idea then, too.
In my opinion, Home fails where Lilo & Stitch succeeded in making interesting yet somewhat marketable alien characters. Like Stitch may be marketable beyond belief but he did have a profound character arc of not being what everyone thought he was: a weapon of mass destruction. He learned that by experiencing the meaning of family through Lilo and Nani’s story and ultimately learning his place.
The part where Oh licked something from a urinal, mistaken it for a lemonade is the scene that carved into my memory to this day. Movies like _Home,_ _Ruby Gilman The Teenage Kraken_ or _Boss Baby_ shows that DreamWorks isn't perfect when it comes to inconsistencies, regardless of making great animated films.
I'm probably one of the few people who actually read The True Meaning of Smekday before Home came out. I never forgot nor forgave this movie for how much it squandered the fantastic book.
No, I can’t recall a time where a movie didn’t leave an impact on me. …probably the reason why I don’t remember it. …because it wasn’t worth remembering.
Ok, i thought Zootopia trying to fit the racism allegory was rough and not well thought out. This one is straight up upside-down because they actually had something to go off of but didn't. Like i could care less if they watered it down, but making them immigrants is a really bizarre and loaded choice.
@board-qu9iu it would work had they not realized that they made the prey in the movie were right all along. Hence, why there exists this curveball where the predators are being mind-controlled to be feral because they knew it'd be really hard to justify the actions of the predator animals as is. Now, the mind control aspect might allude to the earlier concept when Zootopia did focus on the aspect of animals needing to use shock collars to keep themselves in check, so Nick Wilde would make this "pleasure island" theme park around animals being able to remove their collars and roam free. It's likely that they wanted to keep this concept in the movie in some way, shape, or form despite other story beats being in the way.
@ isn’t the whole mind control thing meant to be an analogue to drugs and stuff? Like it think it’s a bit obvious that’s the metaphor (plus the government backing would make it obviously once sided)
@board-qu9iu I didn't notice that until you pointed it out. I felt like there was a lot of messaging going on in the movie, but one message/allegory was more dominant than the other, and the 2nd dominant message kinda trumps the 3rd one. I can see what they tried to do, but it does feel like it was missing in some aspects because of it.
@ I do have my issues tbh like I think the villain is weak and does hurt the movies later third as well I also do think the movie is a bit nebulous with its allegories (probably making it open ended and for it to apply to many situations of prejudices and bias)
Bro made a poll for the video title, used what the audience voted for, then got yapped at by the audience for using that title, like what is he supposed to do 😭
Yeah. People praised DreamWorks as some kind of paragon of creating masterpiece of cinema (like Kung-Fu Panda 1-3, Puss in Boots 2, How to Train Your Dragon trilogy, Bad Guys, and recently, Wild Robot), ignoring that Shrek The Third, Boss Baby, Home, and Shark Tales exists, which shows that DreamWorks' track records can be a mixed-bag sometimes, and that's okay. No animation studio is perfect.
was looking for someone to say this. I don’t get all his hate with it.. I loved it as a kid and my nephew loves it now and i watch it when he watches it
Actually the minions didn’t serve anyone in 1933-45 as they spent the entire time inside an ice cave, you should feel ashamed for not knowing this huge detail in minions lore smh my head
Yeah, I never knew this was an adaptation, but I'm not surprised that the source material is WAY deeper and more meaningful than the movie. Because this is something they do a lot with adaptations of books/comics meant for kids. They smooth out the edges because they don't want kids thinking, either because they don't think the kids can handle it or because they don't agree with the meaning. That's one of the reasons why I love One Piece so much. Sure, the anime does smooth out some things (usually the more graphic depictions of violence), but the theming remains intact. Like, it's meant for kids, but it has some really dark stuff in it. It tackles themes like cycles of violence, genocide, human trafficking, slavery, the way racism is taught to younger generations, starvation, unfair persecution based on lineage, multiple interpretations of justice, and systemic oppression. Like, you'd never realize it by looking at it from the outside, but underneath the quirky art style, the world of One Piece is a straight up horrifying dystopia for the normal people that live in that world.
@Chaki21 I honestly disagree. I think it's ABSOLUTELY made for kids. But with the caveat that it's meant for older kids (like the 9 to 14 range), and that it's meant to challenge them. Because a lot about One Piece on the surface level (goofy characters, weird designs, and the main casts wholesomeness), I really don't think it's meant to appeal to teens, and most teens that do watch it started when they were kids and just stuck with it. Like, the art style and tone of something more like Bleach or Yu Yu Hakusho are meant for teens IMO because they take themselves more seriously as a whole and look more like something I'd see a 15 or 16 YO reading. And since you mentioned the 4Kids dub, their bungling isn't just a horrific crime against art, it's also a shining example of how Japan has a culture that has very different ideas of what constitutes a kid show. So even if those of us in the West don't generally consider something like One Piece appropriate for children, don't forget that Japan had people legitimately getting threatened with actual guns in the Pokemon anime, which is ABSOLUTELY meant for kids. I'm not looking to argue with you or anything, but this is just my opinion on that matter, so unless reading this changed your mind, we're just gonna have to agree to disagree.
@MoostachedSaiyanPrince I mean I guess so, but tbh the anime is still tagged as a shonen and the manga still shows up in a shonen magazine... so yeah it looks more childish then, say, bleach or yu yu hakusho, but it still appears in the same demographic, so it is still technically considered a teenager manga/anime at least officially. But yeah in practice it's up to us to decide what is made for kids or not and just be glad it isn't brainrot (the anime itself, not the community)... though honestly I find the "every animation is for kid" stuff to be so extreme nowadays to the point where I've seen kids with CHAINSAW MAN merchandise... I SINCERLY HOPE the parents didn't think it was for kids because animation
I was vaguely aware that Home was based on a book, but I had no idea how much the original book had to adapt that Home just completely ignored/rewrote.
Its funny how while Disney pick classic fairytales to adapt DreamWorks just pick random children's books from the modern era to work it, either it is something faithful like the captain underpants or they make a whole different thing that is even better than the source like Shrek and how to train your dragon or something really bland like this movie
Boss Baby, The Bad Guys, Over the Hedge and the upcoming Dog Man movie are also adaptations! Over the Hedge was an adaptation of a comic, and the others are also book adaptations! Also, The Prince of Egypt and Joseph: King of Dreams were adaptations of Bible stories.
Making it a whole different thing kinda defeats the point of being an adaptation though. Like I'd say the ones that do that are bad adaptations (not necessarily bad _movies_ though)
@@gooeydude574Does Dog Man technically count as a sequel since George & Harold directly started making new Dog Man comics after they were done with Captain Underpants?
I remember really liking The True Meaning of Smekday when I read it as a kid, and when Home came out it was so dramatically different in tone and style from the book that I couldn’t even recognize it was an adaptation.
The True Meaning of Smekday was a book everyone in my middle school friend group loved (it was assigned reading for the gifted program and then spread to everyone else). So when a movie was announced, I was excited! Aaaaand then it wasn't faithful. I don't remember much of the movie itself, but I very much remember how annoyed at it I was.
I kind of feel the same way for Skunk Fu. Yeah, I'd didn't last long and has some silly dumb stuff, but I definitely thought that it had originality to it. Part of that probably has to do with how tragically few action cartoons/not mostly comedy cartoons get made here in the west these days. It's also probably one of the first times that I saw a western cartoon have an action girl character be unashamedly girly rather than a tom boy, but also without treating it like some weird conflicting character traits.
Jim Parsons’ career is one of craziest roller coaster rides in life. For every “The Normal Heart” and “The Boys in the Band” there’s a “Home” or “The Big Bang Theory”.
You know, the most interesting thing about Home for me was the Netflix show had Seteth himself, Mark Whitten, voice Oh. Seeing Dreamworks fumble Home’s source material is baffling since they were willing to give us stuff like How to Train Your Dragon, Prince of Egypt, the Shrek films, etc. A faithful if compressed adaptation of The True Meaning of Smek Day would’ve fit Dreamworks very well. Hell, if they were to make the Boov into Immigrants, they should’ve had the Gorg be the colonizers, forcibly relocating humanity into smaller homes. Have the first act dedicated to the Boov moving to Earth as refugees, showing how they handle it, and then have the second and third acts focus on the Gorg invade Earth forcing Tip and Oh on their quest. But again, they could’ve done a faithful adaptation of Smek Day instead. 9:07 Not gonna lie Braxton. If the Minions really did serve you know who. They would’ve gotten him killed and made the Allies job much easier.
The Netflix show was, ironically, some of the most unhinged, balls-to-the-walls, they had no restrictions, what the hell did I just watch, wait that wasn't a fever dream I had when I was 8, insanity ever
As for how I might've handled it, make the Boov be sorted into multiple states with the one which takes over Earth being a rising power with its leaders trying to find opportunities to gain wealth that other states haven't taken advantage of yet. In the place of the Gorg could be a rivaling state who sees how successful the takeover of Earth has been, financially and resource-wise, and decides to take their slice of the pie.
@Asher-oo4bb I dunno about that... I did watch the Netflix series a few years ago & remembered thinking it was just a bog-standard American Cartoon (aka, Not Bad, but also Not Very Special)! Then again, I say this as Someone who grew up with MANY of Nickelodeon & Cartoon Network's Shows + Countless 30's - 50's Theatrical Animated Shorts (Betty Boop, Popeye, Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, etc)...
As kids me and my sister could watch through any animated movie no matter how bad it was, This however alongside turbo was the few exeptions duo to how boring it was. I think we stopped about 20 minutes into the movie.
That's just what I find both fascinating and frustrating about DreamWorks as a whole: They can both create great movies and some VERY terrible ones as well While I think Home is leagues better than Trolls, Boss Baby, Shrek the Third, etc., it's nowhere near the levels of How To Train Your Dragon, Shrek, Madagascar, Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, Megamind, etc. They are so inconsistent, which sucks because when they hit, they're freaking incredible! But these types of movies that they've made are baffling and frustrating. Had the movie been more like its source material, it could've been great! As is... Home is a movie that exists
Not even a matter of personally liking it despite what the replies say lol. It's pretty clearly poorly written, particularly due to how cheap it is in regards to its payoffs.
To me they look very off putting, but there's a charm there, reminds me alot of tim Burton, which ngl, i feel like should've been making this movie instead
I'm pretty sure Dreamworks back in the day was known for having edgy movies with compliex topics. Shrek was an outcast because people were generally racist against ogres, and the Fairy Godmother even says with huge prejudice that ogres can't have a "happily ever after" because they're ogres, even though Shrek already married Fiona who was once human and a royal, and proved that Ogres can have one. In Madagascar, Maurice and Mort, two of King Julians assistants, are concerned about Alex because he's a lion, a predatory wild cat even more dangerous than the foosa, their natural enemies, even though Alex was a good friend to the herbivores at the zoo he interacted with, and he goes feral due to entering the wild, and he's scared of himself, believing the lemurs preconcieved notion about him being a monster worse than the foosa, and Marty has to remind him he isn't a monster, despite him being a zebra, and Alex being a lion, that hasn't stopped them from being friends, and they also did a reasonably faithful adaptation of the story of Exodus, a story about slavery, and an oppressive monarchy that Moses was adopted into. So I think they could tell the story of the book Home was based on faithfully, maybe censored a little bit, but still told the way it was in the book.
As someone who hadn't read the books at the time the movie came out, or even knew it was based on a book, I honestly enjoyed the movie for what it was: a goofy turn-off-your-brain animated flick to pass time. Tips name bugged me a lot (like for real, who names their kid Gratuity?) but now, after reading the book and finding out how much a mess her mom is, it makes sense. The book is indeed way WAY deeper and the message more intense than the movie, but I still think they can both be enjoyed for what they are.
Honestly, while I don't hate the film, I feel like Home was one of the few Dreamworks films that was significantly worse than the book it was based off of. Still is a better adaptation than the Netflix version of the Electric State so far.
@@officesuppliezz i genuinely think a lot of people on this site just start the video, go right to the comments, type a comment and leave without watching the rest or bothering to edit or delete their initial comment. boggles my mind
I read this book when I was a kid and I always found it frustrating that no one knew about it. Worse when the book got adapted it reminded me that sometimes you don’t want your childhood faves adapted because it leads to heartbreaking disappointment.
To be fair, I don’t think they could make a “family friendly” movie with the original plot, but on the other hand with that being the case, dreamworks should’ve never touched the true meaning of smekday
I remember I didn’t enjoy Home when I saw it and was subsequently glad I didn’t finish a school reading challenge because the reward was getting out of school to go to the movies and see it.
I wouldn’t call True Meaning of Smekday “children’s literature”, it’s more “young adult”. Also, in a high school class we read Smekday and watched Home right afterwards, we all agreed that Smekday was better.
If I hadn’t watched this video I wouldn’t have known that Home was not only an adaptation but a terrible adaptation of a fantastic novel that I’m now aware of, so sincerely thank you for that
13:02 To be fair, the "colonizers" didn't do that, O did when he sent a message out to them. Otherwise they would have never found the planet. The movie is about a coward species that rightfully sees O as a liability. They go to Earth not to save it, but to seek a safe place for themselves. The error in their ways lies in the treatment of O and dismissal of the human race, both of which are resolved by the end.
1:15 "To someone who's never seen anything before, Johnny Test looks freakin' sweet" Yeah no, I was the prime demographic when that show aired and I did not think it was sweet even then 😆
Great video as usual, the book you mentioned really reminded me both aesthetically and story wise of another movie adaptation called Landscape With Invisible Hand that I think handled the themes of colonization using uncanny alien designs exceptionally well with a lot of poignance. One of my favorite films I've ever watched.
adaptations like this are also so much more harmful because now no one will ever adapt smekday again and now a good book will never get the advertising advantage of a movie adaptation it deserves
I mean this movie came out in 2015. The same year as Sponge Out of Water, The Peanuts Movie, Inside Out and Resurrection F came out. So what you said could be a possibility
After finish your video, when you in depth with the book with the themes, Tip’s character arc and you talk about the movie making colonizers aliens look less bad. Oh god, say that makes me think of illumination’s Lorax. This video makes me think about that *Pixar movie, Elio.* Like everyone saw the first teaser of the movie. Along with the premise, about a timid and imaginative kid who gets abducted by aliens who mistaken him be the ambassador of earth. If you saw the new recent trailer of Elio, he is now an alien fanatic and he wants to be abducted by aliens. And his mom was change to be his Aunt. Odd. Why can’t Elio have a living parent? Onward, turning red, Luca and Soul have one and more living parents. Seriously, compare these two Elio teasers it feels like two different movies. It feels weird when Alien Fanatic Elio said Uh…Earth. It doesn’t feel real. It is more natural when Elio original teaser said uh earth, it fit better for a timid kid. 18:54 That somewhat how I feel about The New Elio . It feels like generic weird kid and okay to be different. I know the Elio movie got delayed due to the writers’ strike and they change directors. But I feel like The original plan Elio, would have of an edge with character having to grown, while the rewritten Eilo movie would play it safe. That the feeling I got. Who knows. We have to wait and see until Elio comes out.
This movie is like if you took Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee and replace the slavery and the slaves becoming possible food with "The Glukkins just need to learn about the power of friendship!"
“Home” is like an AI prompt. It takes data from multiple modern movies and shows and somehow makes the most generic version of it. The difference is, ChatGPT writes it better.
the funniest part of watching this movie not knowing it was an adaptation was the fact i had read the book a couple years prior and got to explain all the lore to my parents and why the book was so much better than the movie
An animated company being spineless and not wanting to talk about a topic my goodness why is this so relatable to some companies we can think of that don't want to tackle the proper subjects so they decide to water them down and make them pathetic
The original interpretation of the Boov reminds me of the Oankali from Octavia Butler’s Dawn. The Oankali genuinely feel like their saving humanity from themselves (which they technically did by keeping them alive but demolishing human culture) and see the unity of Oankali and humans as a good thing.
Nah. Books are way better. Admittedly, the plot only really begins towards the end of Book 8, which is what puts most people off (they read the first book and think there isn't much plot here), but, fortunately, you don't need to read the first 7 books to understand what's going on
so you're telling me the studio that started off its career by unflinchingly retelling how oppressive the Egyptians were to the Hebrew people, making the main villain not only someone you hate but genuinely synpathize with despite the horrific actions of his empire, one of the most complex relationships with him and the main character ever put to film...did this...
@emperortethysusdacertified8175 . And the worst part? That was his act, for some justice league talent show/audition. And his even done that into wonder woman's face!
this is like adapting MAUS and turn the "cats" into cute misunderstood adorable cat meme "oh, they're just hungry and they had nothing to eat!" if i were the author of Smekday and Home outshine my book i would go crazy
I had an obsession with funny Bazinga Man and Rihanna when I was younger, so I'd watch this movie like TWICE a day and still forgot about it until I came across floptok edits of Home on TikTok. I'm kind of disappointed I never heard of the book - I'm sure I would've been hyperfixated on it lmao 😭
This is like if you made the movie adaptation of "I have no mouth and I must scream" about a robot just trying to make friends
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as a kid i actually loved this movie, it made me cry lmao 💀
@@TamWam_omg I remember my aunt took me and some cousins to watch it at the cinema when I was a kid. I remember I cried when the spaceship or whatever landed on Oh and I thought he died lmao. And when the mom flashback happened.
@@D00M89-jq7ym hiiiii
"Kyle, what happened to the allegory!?"
"I - erased him." 🍾
*SUSHES HIM TO THE SHADOW REALM*
peak comedy imo
"Whacks him with a stick"
Bonk ★★★★𖧷𖠇
rihanna does this movie, drops one of the most highly praised albums of the 2010’s, disappears for 6 years, then comes back to making music for black panther and perfoms at the superbowl
interesting career
movie so mid it put rihanna in stasis
You could have made a helluva boss season two review and INSTEAD YOU MAKE THIS SHIT COME ON MAN WHAT THE HELL
@@SERGEY.TABORITSKY-y7g helluva trash is left pocket dog shit
@SERGEY.TABORITSKY-y7g what did Mason do to deserve this???
Nah she’s a billionaire she just likes the quick money now
The way I see it is Home was told from the perspective of the boov and a true meaning of smekday is from the perspective of humans.
This is probably the only interpretation which _somewhat_ holds up the movie artistically
so like the difference between Howl's Moving Castle the book vs the movie ecept in this case one is bad?
You know what yeah I could easily imagine Home being in-universe propaganda
Yepp but I do dislike the changes between the gorg; I think if they had kept the gorgs issue with maintaining resources instead of making them misunderstood would've been a bit better. Plus smek is still the villain, they make it very apparent that the leaders in the boovian government are inherently messed up but the same way real governments work. Or keeping the system that the original boovs had when it came to jobs such as "oh" being a boovian repairman and accidentally sending a signal to the gorg while repairing the tower still would've worked
@@happyswife427 Completely agree! After seeing the gorg in the book I wanted them to be that way in the movie!
I ended up reading Smekday because of the movie. It's genuinely fantastic, I would reccomend it to both kids and adults. I still remember some of the jokes. Like that the human girl goes by Tip cause her mom named her Gratuity without knowing what that actually meant.
The most significant impact of this movie was the creation of those Twitter accounts that act like Oh, Smek and Kyle the boov, and the erased him scene.
Huh, I wasn’t expecting to see you.
Holy crap it's the loogi fella
Weegee, Mama Luigi?
That and the "I erased him" scene
Don’t forget, the man, the myth, the legend, Captain Smek
Braxton slowly transitioning into a book reviewing channel in front of our eyes
Braxton reviews the railway series : coming out in 2079
I wouldn't mind it honestly, I think one of the first videos of his I watched was the original video he did for Middle School's movie adaptation, so it's a nice sort of full circle moment. Wouldn't be shocked if he ends up doing a similar thing to his Grinch and Wimpy Kid videos for HTTYD when the remake comes out
I know I noticed it happening way more often then I thought it was but I don’t mind it what so ever
I'm here it
9:05 They actually do explain in the first Minion Movie that they get banished to the arctic by Napoleon Bonaparte and don't make it back to Europe until the 1960s, dodging both of the World Wars.
Minion propaganda. I do not believe that story
Imagine if they didn’t take refuge, they could’ve briefly aided Hitler in his plan of seizing control of Europe.
not canon.
Thats minion propaganda i fought in the war and Bob killed my whole platoon i barley survived
I like how that plot point was most likely in the movie precisely to prevent outrage with the idea the Minions might have worked for mustache man and then people memed about it anyway
Pretty self explanatory title
I never knew home was an adaptation
And an adaptation of something I didn’t even heard
That's me when I find out stuff like shrek and httyd are loose book adaptations
Hilariously I read the book and watched the movie as a kid, but didn't realize they were connected until way later
@@fittedurge4763 yeah I guess dreamworks are good at doing stuff like this
@@fittedurge4763 Yeah. I read the How To Train Your Dragon novel in the bookstore about 5 years ago, and I didn't knew that Toothless is that small.
Tbf i didn't know httyd was a book until like 3 months ago
DreamWorks can't make cute, ad friendly plushies of characters who do evil things.
Meanwhile, Pixar has a lot of Lotso merchandise available despite the fact he is seen as one of the most evil Pixar villains
Didn’t Dreamworks make a bunch of merchandise on those frogs from Flushed Away who literally tried to flood a whole underground city of living creatures?
kinda disappointing Dreamworks didn't take that risk. I was OBSESSED with this movie and would've eaten that shit up ngl
that's crazy because i saw LOTS of LOTSO merch, to figures too!
Honestly I'm not shaming anyone who thinks LOTSO is cute. But I'm just surprised because people say he's an antagonist character.
@@zeldagameryt4018 There where a LOT of frog toys on happy meals.
iirc there where like 2 toys of mice and 3-4 toys of the frogs.
What's funny is Amazon lists this book's age rating as 8 to 11. So older children can absolutely handle stories about colonization and its horrors.
THIS
I remember buying a book at the bookfair when I was in 6th grade. It was about the the end of the world, a girls dad died. She goes out to find something, can't remember what, and gets turned into a work slave. Plot twist at the end was she was an android the whole time. There was violence and blood in it but not overly so.
Blew my mind as a kid and I probably still have the book somewhere, it never scared me. In fact it inspired my creativity more and I'm trying my own hand at writing as an adult since I enjoyed writing and reading so much as a kid. So yeah, kids can absolutely handle more serious dark stories.
@@Rokume BOOK NAME, I BEGGGG
@@elkowasaki
I just found it lol, went looking after I commented. I'm going to reread it.
It's Frost by M.P. Kozlowsky
I read The Watsons Go to Birmingham at about that age and was able to handle it and understand the story it was trying to tell (not just the textual story, but in general how things were in the 1960s as well). I'd say I'd have been able to get the idea then, too.
Shrek was also an adaptation and was completely different from the book.
DreamWorks has a thing for making movie adaptations of books that aren't even close to being like the book
Prince of Egypt is directly from the Bible, and it still took some creative liberties.
I think How to Train Your Dragon is another good example of this
@@Cure_HanaDreamWorks has a good record for making book adaptations
@@patrickthehenchman2679 ya toothless was tiny and Vikings already ride sragons
Canonically the minions lived in an ice cave so despite the many war crimes and murders caused by the minions they did not server y'know who
That's what they want u to think
@ I thought they only serve for bad guys
@@ratatouillenut693 *serve
@@LucasChun-d3r I wish minions were real
@@ratatouillenut693 just like your dad
In my opinion, Home fails where Lilo & Stitch succeeded in making interesting yet somewhat marketable alien characters. Like Stitch may be marketable beyond belief but he did have a profound character arc of not being what everyone thought he was: a weapon of mass destruction. He learned that by experiencing the meaning of family through Lilo and Nani’s story and ultimately learning his place.
Also Stitch have a VERY iconic, interesting, and unique design
Stitch works because he is the only one of his kind, so he has no proper things to fit into so the found family is better
@@naganut9718Exactly. While Stitch can look somewhat intimidating with the four arms and back spikes, he can also look cute and harmless.
the thing is Stitch only had a doctor who created him. He was made for one purpose in a lab. Oh was just the weird kid in his hood
@ And even then Gumba was still out to kill him throughout the movie even going so far that it ends up destroying Lilo and Nani’s house
Guys it’s been nearly 10 years and my mum still quotes ‘can I come into the out now’ at least once a week
The part where Oh licked something from a urinal, mistaken it for a lemonade is the scene that carved into my memory to this day. Movies like _Home,_ _Ruby Gilman The Teenage Kraken_ or _Boss Baby_ shows that DreamWorks isn't perfect when it comes to inconsistencies, regardless of making great animated films.
Ruby Gilman is probably the only outlier in my opinion.
Didn't care much for Home or Boss Baby.
Ruby Gilman did have potential, it just sadly needed more production time and definitely better marketing that doesn’t spoil a major twist.
What makes it worse is that the joke was actually funny in the book.
@@stegosaurus555What was the joke in the book?
I think the other reason for this... The cooyright for the book is owned by disney.
I'm probably one of the few people who actually read The True Meaning of Smekday before Home came out. I never forgot nor forgave this movie for how much it squandered the fantastic book.
Heck yes on that. Loved the book. Thought it would be a great book for Dreamworks to adapt.
Monkey's paw curled on that one.
You do you, I guess, imo the movie is better
(Edit: Then again, I haven't read the book, so I don't really have a leg to stand on)
@@georgeandrews1394I disagree
@@jamesplayzreviews Bruh how are you gonna say "imo the movie is better" if you haven't read the book
@weathermansam2 From the description he gave of the book I prefer the movie
No, I can’t recall a time where a movie didn’t leave an impact on me.
…probably the reason why I don’t remember it.
…because it wasn’t worth remembering.
This is a great advertisement for the "True Meaning of Smek Day"
The character was named Jay-Loh, and then DreamWorks hired Jennifer Lopez to play the mom.
Ok, i thought Zootopia trying to fit the racism allegory was rough and not well thought out.
This one is straight up upside-down because they actually had something to go off of but didn't. Like i could care less if they watered it down, but making them immigrants is a really bizarre and loaded choice.
Idk what’s wrong with the Zootopia racism allegory tbh. I think it works alright enough
@board-qu9iu it would work had they not realized that they made the prey in the movie were right all along. Hence, why there exists this curveball where the predators are being mind-controlled to be feral because they knew it'd be really hard to justify the actions of the predator animals as is.
Now, the mind control aspect might allude to the earlier concept when Zootopia did focus on the aspect of animals needing to use shock collars to keep themselves in check, so Nick Wilde would make this "pleasure island" theme park around animals being able to remove their collars and roam free. It's likely that they wanted to keep this concept in the movie in some way, shape, or form despite other story beats being in the way.
@ isn’t the whole mind control thing meant to be an analogue to drugs and stuff? Like it think it’s a bit obvious that’s the metaphor (plus the government backing would make it obviously once sided)
@board-qu9iu I didn't notice that until you pointed it out. I felt like there was a lot of messaging going on in the movie, but one message/allegory was more dominant than the other, and the 2nd dominant message kinda trumps the 3rd one.
I can see what they tried to do, but it does feel like it was missing in some aspects because of it.
@ I do have my issues tbh like I think the villain is weak and does hurt the movies later third as well
I also do think the movie is a bit nebulous with its allegories (probably making it open ended and for it to apply to many situations of prejudices and bias)
Bro made a poll for the video title, used what the audience voted for, then got yapped at by the audience for using that title, like what is he supposed to do 😭
He's supposed to have a secret 5th option that wasnt on the poll!!!🤡
@@bazzfromthebackground3696🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤣
Find a middle ground ?
Core audience vs wider audience
Still can't believe this is the same studio that made Prince of Egypt and Road to El Dorado
And Puss in Boots: The last Wish, The wild robot, and Shrek! ( ╹▽╹ )
Dreamworks has an odd track record. They’ll make either the best or worst animated movies with no in between.
I mean, the same studio that made spider verse also made the emoji movie.
Yeah. People praised DreamWorks as some kind of paragon of creating masterpiece of cinema (like Kung-Fu Panda 1-3, Puss in Boots 2, How to Train Your Dragon trilogy, Bad Guys, and recently, Wild Robot), ignoring that Shrek The Third, Boss Baby, Home, and Shark Tales exists, which shows that DreamWorks' track records can be a mixed-bag sometimes, and that's okay. No animation studio is perfect.
didn't know Home was an adaptation, but this movie was genuinely one of my favorite movies for a long time, and i still like to watch it occasionally.
was looking for someone to say this. I don’t get all his hate with it.. I loved it as a kid and my nephew loves it now and i watch it when he watches it
I loved the movie as a kid too and still watch it from time to time, I love the music and it just reminds me of my childhood.
Let's take a book titled "The Forgotten Gods of Gimok" and just name the film adaption "Food"
Actually the minions didn’t serve anyone in 1933-45 as they spent the entire time inside an ice cave, you should feel ashamed for not knowing this huge detail in minions lore smh my head
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@@elkowasakibro it’s literally in the first 10 minutes of the movie this is basic knowledge
While true... there's nothing to say what they WOULD have done in that time period had they not been in said cave.
god put them in an ice cave cuz he knew what they would do if they found the reich
It’s funny how a good chunk of Dreamworks library were adaptations, and most people were completely unaware of that
All I care about Home is that it has a banger soundtrack, the funny Bazinga man in it, and Captain Smek
Bazinga
@@unn50Bazinga
Bazinga
Zimbabwe
@@fryguy9704 Bazinga(my first comment saying this got deleted)
the most this movie has given us is a meme about getting hit with a baseball bat
WHAT ABOUT THE PART WHERE THEYRE DRIVING THE FLYING CAR OVER THE AUSTRALIAN SETTLEMEN LIKE ???
ITS A SHUSHER
Yeah, I never knew this was an adaptation, but I'm not surprised that the source material is WAY deeper and more meaningful than the movie. Because this is something they do a lot with adaptations of books/comics meant for kids. They smooth out the edges because they don't want kids thinking, either because they don't think the kids can handle it or because they don't agree with the meaning. That's one of the reasons why I love One Piece so much. Sure, the anime does smooth out some things (usually the more graphic depictions of violence), but the theming remains intact. Like, it's meant for kids, but it has some really dark stuff in it. It tackles themes like cycles of violence, genocide, human trafficking, slavery, the way racism is taught to younger generations, starvation, unfair persecution based on lineage, multiple interpretations of justice, and systemic oppression. Like, you'd never realize it by looking at it from the outside, but underneath the quirky art style, the world of One Piece is a straight up horrifying dystopia for the normal people that live in that world.
Honestly One Piece isn't really for kids ? It's more for teenagers, being a shonen and all (though it changed when 4Kids started translating...)
@Chaki21 I honestly disagree. I think it's ABSOLUTELY made for kids. But with the caveat that it's meant for older kids (like the 9 to 14 range), and that it's meant to challenge them. Because a lot about One Piece on the surface level (goofy characters, weird designs, and the main casts wholesomeness), I really don't think it's meant to appeal to teens, and most teens that do watch it started when they were kids and just stuck with it. Like, the art style and tone of something more like Bleach or Yu Yu Hakusho are meant for teens IMO because they take themselves more seriously as a whole and look more like something I'd see a 15 or 16 YO reading. And since you mentioned the 4Kids dub, their bungling isn't just a horrific crime against art, it's also a shining example of how Japan has a culture that has very different ideas of what constitutes a kid show. So even if those of us in the West don't generally consider something like One Piece appropriate for children, don't forget that Japan had people legitimately getting threatened with actual guns in the Pokemon anime, which is ABSOLUTELY meant for kids. I'm not looking to argue with you or anything, but this is just my opinion on that matter, so unless reading this changed your mind, we're just gonna have to agree to disagree.
@MoostachedSaiyanPrince I mean I guess so, but tbh the anime is still tagged as a shonen and the manga still shows up in a shonen magazine... so yeah it looks more childish then, say, bleach or yu yu hakusho, but it still appears in the same demographic, so it is still technically considered a teenager manga/anime at least officially. But yeah in practice it's up to us to decide what is made for kids or not and just be glad it isn't brainrot (the anime itself, not the community)... though honestly I find the "every animation is for kid" stuff to be so extreme nowadays to the point where I've seen kids with CHAINSAW MAN merchandise... I SINCERLY HOPE the parents didn't think it was for kids because animation
I think some of it is also because there's almost always too much stuff in the book to put it all in the movie (unless you want a very long movie)
I was vaguely aware that Home was based on a book, but I had no idea how much the original book had to adapt that Home just completely ignored/rewrote.
How did they think turning their villains, who steal people's homes, into immigrants was a good idea? What were they thinking?
They should seriously consider a career change!
Talk about a bit of a conflicting message.
Its funny how while Disney pick classic fairytales to adapt DreamWorks just pick random children's books from the modern era to work it, either it is something faithful like the captain underpants or they make a whole different thing that is even better than the source like Shrek and how to train your dragon or something really bland like this movie
Boss Baby, The Bad Guys, Over the Hedge and the upcoming Dog Man movie are also adaptations! Over the Hedge was an adaptation of a comic, and the others are also book adaptations! Also, The Prince of Egypt and Joseph: King of Dreams were adaptations of Bible stories.
@foxtoons1999 yes thank you for adding, i already knew these but i got too lazy to write all of these lol
Making it a whole different thing kinda defeats the point of being an adaptation though. Like I'd say the ones that do that are bad adaptations (not necessarily bad _movies_ though)
Captain Underpants deserved a sequel more than Boss Baby
@@gooeydude574Does Dog Man technically count as a sequel since George & Harold directly started making new Dog Man comics after they were done with Captain Underpants?
26:07 Who else would love to see him make a deep dive into the rest of what the book has to offer
I remember really liking The True Meaning of Smekday when I read it as a kid, and when Home came out it was so dramatically different in tone and style from the book that I couldn’t even recognize it was an adaptation.
The True Meaning of Smekday was a book everyone in my middle school friend group loved (it was assigned reading for the gifted program and then spread to everyone else). So when a movie was announced, I was excited! Aaaaand then it wasn't faithful. I don't remember much of the movie itself, but I very much remember how annoyed at it I was.
0:13 I’m sorry I’m only 13 seconds in this video but are you really trying to disrespect the goated fish hooks right now how dare you
Literal embodiment of a happy fever dream
This guy has no taste,not surprised
I kind of feel the same way for Skunk Fu. Yeah, I'd didn't last long and has some silly dumb stuff, but I definitely thought that it had originality to it. Part of that probably has to do with how tragically few action cartoons/not mostly comedy cartoons get made here in the west these days. It's also probably one of the first times that I saw a western cartoon have an action girl character be unashamedly girly rather than a tom boy, but also without treating it like some weird conflicting character traits.
This guy's honestly just looking for things to complain about, I stopped caring about his opinion long ago
Mid Hooks.
Jim Parsons’ career is one of craziest roller coaster rides in life. For every “The Normal Heart” and “The Boys in the Band” there’s a “Home” or “The Big Bang Theory”.
Or Michael Jackson's Halloween.
You know, the most interesting thing about Home for me was the Netflix show had Seteth himself, Mark Whitten, voice Oh.
Seeing Dreamworks fumble Home’s source material is baffling since they were willing to give us stuff like How to Train Your Dragon, Prince of Egypt, the Shrek films, etc.
A faithful if compressed adaptation of The True Meaning of Smek Day would’ve fit Dreamworks very well.
Hell, if they were to make the Boov into Immigrants, they should’ve had the Gorg be the colonizers, forcibly relocating humanity into smaller homes. Have the first act dedicated to the Boov moving to Earth as refugees, showing how they handle it, and then have the second and third acts focus on the Gorg invade Earth forcing Tip and Oh on their quest. But again, they could’ve done a faithful adaptation of Smek Day instead.
9:07 Not gonna lie Braxton. If the Minions really did serve you know who. They would’ve gotten him killed and made the Allies job much easier.
The Netflix show was, ironically, some of the most unhinged, balls-to-the-walls, they had no restrictions, what the hell did I just watch, wait that wasn't a fever dream I had when I was 8, insanity ever
As for how I might've handled it, make the Boov be sorted into multiple states with the one which takes over Earth being a rising power with its leaders trying to find opportunities to gain wealth that other states haven't taken advantage of yet. In the place of the Gorg could be a rivaling state who sees how successful the takeover of Earth has been, financially and resource-wise, and decides to take their slice of the pie.
@Asher-oo4bb I dunno about that... I did watch the Netflix series a few years ago & remembered thinking it was just a bog-standard American Cartoon (aka, Not Bad, but also Not Very Special)! Then again, I say this as Someone who grew up with MANY of Nickelodeon & Cartoon Network's Shows + Countless 30's - 50's Theatrical Animated Shorts (Betty Boop, Popeye, Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, etc)...
How to train your dragon was a very different story from the book tho and I remember being disappointed watching it when I was a book fan
As kids me and my sister could watch through any animated movie no matter how bad it was, This however alongside turbo was the few exeptions duo to how boring it was. I think we stopped about 20 minutes into the movie.
At least Turbo was a good movie tho 💀
That's just what I find both fascinating and frustrating about DreamWorks as a whole: They can both create great movies and some VERY terrible ones as well
While I think Home is leagues better than Trolls, Boss Baby, Shrek the Third, etc., it's nowhere near the levels of How To Train Your Dragon, Shrek, Madagascar, Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, Megamind, etc.
They are so inconsistent, which sucks because when they hit, they're freaking incredible! But these types of movies that they've made are baffling and frustrating. Had the movie been more like its source material, it could've been great! As is... Home is a movie that exists
Shark tale is a masterpiece I won’t hear otherwise
Well maybe it’s because they give the creators creative freedom
Finally, someone else in my generation agrees.
Home was ass. Yall are just nostalgia talking.
@@giantpinkcat hm
Maybe
But I do think nostalgia talking is a problem
sorry for liking a movie you didn't personally like
@@lancable842exactly.
Not like we can enjoy something you can't or get something out of it that you don't. It's not like people can have their own opinions.
Not even a matter of personally liking it despite what the replies say lol. It's pretty clearly poorly written, particularly due to how cheap it is in regards to its payoffs.
This movie took a story about evil alien colonizers and made them evil alien illegal immigrants in an attempt to "not offend anyone." 🤦♀️
Oh yeah because illegal immigrants surely are not the bad people and they are not trying to steal our country
ikr that sucked.
*invaders
In either case they are that, as evil as they can be.
invader zim
@@MarxistMomentum bruh you’re literally a commie your opinion is invalid
Yo lil thing, the minions were in an ice cave from 1812-1968
thats what dreamworks wants you to think lol
@@GreenyYogurtMusic illumination 🤓
Just don't think about why they shoved them into an ice cave over that time period. We all know what they would have done
The original aliens look so much better and cuter to me. The smaller eyes are better
I love how unconfident the old designs looked. They just truly feel like a fish out of water.
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Yeah, the new designs to me is like beanie boos making the eyes big and sparkly because big sparkly=cute
@@De_anthey look like aquatic fishes that got insight they are very skrunkly much better than kid slop
To me they look very off putting, but there's a charm there, reminds me alot of tim Burton, which ngl, i feel like should've been making this movie instead
I'm pretty sure Dreamworks back in the day was known for having edgy movies with compliex topics. Shrek was an outcast because people were generally racist against ogres, and the Fairy Godmother even says with huge prejudice that ogres can't have a "happily ever after" because they're ogres, even though Shrek already married Fiona who was once human and a royal, and proved that Ogres can have one. In Madagascar, Maurice and Mort, two of King Julians assistants, are concerned about Alex because he's a lion, a predatory wild cat even more dangerous than the foosa, their natural enemies, even though Alex was a good friend to the herbivores at the zoo he interacted with, and he goes feral due to entering the wild, and he's scared of himself, believing the lemurs preconcieved notion about him being a monster worse than the foosa, and Marty has to remind him he isn't a monster, despite him being a zebra, and Alex being a lion, that hasn't stopped them from being friends, and they also did a reasonably faithful adaptation of the story of Exodus, a story about slavery, and an oppressive monarchy that Moses was adopted into. So I think they could tell the story of the book Home was based on faithfully, maybe censored a little bit, but still told the way it was in the book.
As someone who hadn't read the books at the time the movie came out, or even knew it was based on a book, I honestly enjoyed the movie for what it was: a goofy turn-off-your-brain animated flick to pass time. Tips name bugged me a lot (like for real, who names their kid Gratuity?) but now, after reading the book and finding out how much a mess her mom is, it makes sense. The book is indeed way WAY deeper and the message more intense than the movie, but I still think they can both be enjoyed for what they are.
Honestly, while I don't hate the film, I feel like Home was one of the few Dreamworks films that was significantly worse than the book it was based off of.
Still is a better adaptation than the Netflix version of the Electric State so far.
Honestly one thing I do really like about this movie is that the Main Protagonist is not the human. That feels rare in movies.
did you not watch the video do you not understand how this erases so much of the meaning of the original story
@@officesuppliezz i genuinely think a lot of people on this site just start the video, go right to the comments, type a comment and leave without watching the rest or bothering to edit or delete their initial comment. boggles my mind
@@officesuppliezz Let someone have a different opinion, damn.
@@pinkfakecheezdick rider
@@pinkfakecheez I watched the whole thing but I sometimes do comment as I’m watching so sometimes my comment gets outdated or whatever.
I wanna know how many species the boove sent into extinction. There’s gotta be at least one right?
Better yet, at least FIVE.
if the boove are anything like us then, well...
lets just say quite a few
I read this book when I was a kid and I always found it frustrating that no one knew about it. Worse when the book got adapted it reminded me that sometimes you don’t want your childhood faves adapted because it leads to heartbreaking disappointment.
To be fair, I don’t think they could make a “family friendly” movie with the original plot, but on the other hand with that being the case, dreamworks should’ve never touched the true meaning of smekday
I remember I didn’t enjoy Home when I saw it and was subsequently glad I didn’t finish a school reading challenge because the reward was getting out of school to go to the movies and see it.
Your description of the book playing over slightly related footage of the film, really shows how much potential was wasted
For me the movie that I don’t ever want to rewatch is the good dinosaur
I'd say this soundtrack is probably the best thing about it but yeah. The netflix cartoon was unironically better
I wouldn’t call True Meaning of Smekday “children’s literature”, it’s more “young adult”.
Also, in a high school class we read Smekday and watched Home right afterwards, we all agreed that Smekday was better.
1:00 This is what video essayists live on, dude. You of all people shouldn't peel back the curtain.
Always thankful for another upload from you
All modern media is about making you feel good, not about challenging your thoughts.
If I hadn’t watched this video I wouldn’t have known that Home was not only an adaptation but a terrible adaptation of a fantastic novel that I’m now aware of, so sincerely thank you for that
The book j-lo design is absolutely terrifying though
IMO its way more cute!
Ultimate Showdown in the background was the ultimate nostalgia
What game was it idk lmao
@@bandu3567 it's not a game, it's the song he used at the start. it's a classic newgrounds video
@@davidklassen5791 lmao a little too late to the internet then probably I swear a game has a song by the same title I think
@@bandu3567You might be thinking of The Ultimate Show, the final boss theme of Super Paper Mario
@DarthMolgy yeah that one I was kinda thinking the song was from there. should have made sure but I didn't
13:02 To be fair, the "colonizers" didn't do that, O did when he sent a message out to them. Otherwise they would have never found the planet.
The movie is about a coward species that rightfully sees O as a liability. They go to Earth not to save it, but to seek a safe place for themselves. The error in their ways lies in the treatment of O and dismissal of the human race, both of which are resolved by the end.
I love how the first four minutes is just roasting Home
house
Road House.
Yeah that too
Maybe stronger adaptation of the original story will be done
1:15 "To someone who's never seen anything before, Johnny Test looks freakin' sweet" Yeah no, I was the prime demographic when that show aired and I did not think it was sweet even then 😆
Never question what the minions did throughout history before Jesus to the present day
The only thing I remember of this movie was that Sheldon Cooper voiced the main alien.
Great video as usual, the book you mentioned really reminded me both aesthetically and story wise of another movie adaptation called Landscape With Invisible Hand that I think handled the themes of colonization using uncanny alien designs exceptionally well with a lot of poignance. One of my favorite films I've ever watched.
Ah yes, inmigrants bad, colonizers good 🗿
adaptations like this are also so much more harmful because now no one will ever adapt smekday again and now a good book will never get the advertising advantage of a movie adaptation it deserves
Home was one of those movies you bought tickets for so you can sneak into other better movies as a kid
I mean this movie came out in 2015. The same year as Sponge Out of Water, The Peanuts Movie, Inside Out and Resurrection F came out. So what you said could be a possibility
@@zeldagameryt4018 Peanuts Movie mentioned
My dad and his gf were fighting while home was playing on the tv
This movie was so mediocre that even my Gr. 6 French teacher forgot the assignment we had on it.
The ending is if the colonizers healed all the diseases they brought with them that harned the natives
After finish your video, when you in depth with the book with the themes, Tip’s character arc and you talk about the movie making colonizers aliens look less bad. Oh god, say that makes me think of illumination’s Lorax.
This video makes me think about that *Pixar movie, Elio.*
Like everyone saw the first teaser of the movie. Along with the premise, about a timid and imaginative kid who gets abducted by aliens who mistaken him be the ambassador of earth.
If you saw the new recent trailer of Elio, he is now an alien fanatic and he wants to be abducted by aliens. And his mom was change to be his Aunt.
Odd. Why can’t Elio have a living parent? Onward, turning red, Luca and Soul have one and more living parents.
Seriously, compare these two Elio teasers it feels like two different movies.
It feels weird when Alien Fanatic Elio said Uh…Earth. It doesn’t feel real. It is more natural when Elio original teaser said uh earth, it fit better for a timid kid.
18:54 That somewhat how I feel about The New Elio . It feels like generic weird kid and okay to be different.
I know the Elio movie got delayed due to the writers’ strike and they change directors.
But I feel like The original plan Elio, would have of an edge with character having to grown, while the rewritten Eilo movie would play it safe.
That the feeling I got.
Who knows. We have to wait and see until Elio comes out.
2:44 the cat is the best part of the movie
9:06 Actually the Minions were canonically and suspiciously stuck in a cave at that time.
That’s what they want you to think
Your new art on your character reminds me right after a night of drinking and I don’t shave in 2 weeks
This movie is like if you took Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee and replace the slavery and the slaves becoming possible food with "The Glukkins just need to learn about the power of friendship!"
Yeah, bruh.
That alien still watches me in the corner of my room while I sleep .. things have only gotten worse
“Home” is like an AI prompt. It takes data from multiple modern movies and shows and somehow makes the most generic version of it. The difference is, ChatGPT writes it better.
Do not give credit to ai. That slop is way worse than the movie.
@@dhakman8765 Nah. You really give AI way too much credit.
Okay this movie may be generic but you givin to much credit to AI
@@thompast84 ikr
Ai rider detected, opinion invalidated
Checked out as soon as this guy started going on about "far right conspiracy theories" lol
the funniest part of watching this movie not knowing it was an adaptation was the fact i had read the book a couple years prior and got to explain all the lore to my parents and why the book was so much better than the movie
I remember watching this like two years ago and the only thing I remember about it was when it ended and me and my siblings thinking it was stupid.
An animated company being spineless and not wanting to talk about a topic my goodness why is this so relatable to some companies we can think of that don't want to tackle the proper subjects so they decide to water them down and make them pathetic
19:29 You scream BAZINGA!! like Jerry Seinfeld
I love this sentence.
The original interpretation of the Boov reminds me of the Oankali from Octavia Butler’s Dawn. The Oankali genuinely feel like their saving humanity from themselves (which they technically did by keeping them alive but demolishing human culture) and see the unity of Oankali and humans as a good thing.
How to train your dragon was also an adaptation, but it was personally way better than the books
The final three books are peak.
Nah. Books are way better. Admittedly, the plot only really begins towards the end of Book 8, which is what puts most people off (they read the first book and think there isn't much plot here), but, fortunately, you don't need to read the first 7 books to understand what's going on
This is definitely not something I expected to learn today. Thanks for the video! Happy Thanksgiving. :D
we’ve gotten adaption videos in a row. something’s coming
Don't say Johnny Test feels sweet when you're a kid, like Johnny Test isn't fucking awesome.
The design of Boov in the book just makes me think of those little videos with the blue frogs in them. The White's Tree Frog I believe.
so you're telling me the studio that started off its career by unflinchingly retelling how oppressive the Egyptians were to the Hebrew people, making the main villain not only someone you hate but genuinely synpathize with despite the horrific actions of his empire, one of the most complex relationships with him and the main character ever put to film...did this...
Dude even johhny test(especially their earlier seasons)didn't have something equally revolting like beast Boy becoming"Cow And Lactating"!
WH- *W H A T ! ? ! ?*
@emperortethysusdacertified8175 . And the worst part? That was his act, for some justice league talent show/audition.
And his even done that into wonder woman's face!
that part actually made my jaw drop
@SirPigeon420 . And people still defend that show!
Maybe the Loonatics episode brake the camel back?
this is like adapting MAUS and turn the "cats" into cute misunderstood adorable cat meme "oh, they're just hungry and they had nothing to eat!"
if i were the author of Smekday and Home outshine my book i would go crazy
0:20 holy shit skunk-fu mentioned?? I haven't thought about that show in years
I had an obsession with funny Bazinga Man and Rihanna when I was younger, so I'd watch this movie like TWICE a day and still forgot about it until I came across floptok edits of Home on TikTok. I'm kind of disappointed I never heard of the book - I'm sure I would've been hyperfixated on it lmao 😭