What The Lego Ninjago Movie Gets Wrong
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The movie felt strange, unnecessary, and I genuinely feel so sad knowing ninjago won’t get an actual theatrical gilm
tbh they shouldve instead had march of the oni as the film like it would be so much better i mean imagine season 10 with a thetrical budget (and a slightly better story)
it would be alot similar to how animes these days have a bunch of seasons and then a movie
@@zayedkadir3285 they should have done the pilot, because it's a self contained story with room for expenssion and you don't need prior knoledge
This movie pisses me off so much with its charcterization that I'm consirdering making a feaute length 3D "fan movie" myself. Im already learning 3d Modeling so in 3 years I should be able to make the movie I wanted to see myself. Or I could make a video game about it in unity engine.
@@Yoza_ DO IT, like honestly we need more ninjago games but also more fan movies would be awesome too
Gilm
My biggest problem with the movie is they made Zane more machine than man (I know he's a ninjdroid but he was more human than a lot of people) they really empathize Zane being a robot in the movie and that kinda bothers me
Right- in Titanium Ninja I think they said it best “but Zane was the perfect balance between us and technology!” And they just- undid that.
And the fact that they made him like... Always smiling and really happy? To the point of being weird. He was my favorite in the show because he was more calm and reserved so I related a lot to him. The movie one doesnt even feel like the same character
@@S33rofv0id oh totally agree
they sorta grabbed the characters and downgraded them into their lowest common denominator
And they made jay a wimp
The first time I watched this movie as a kid, the entire time I was thinking:
“WHY ARENT THEY KICKING BACK, WHIPPING AROUND AND SPINNING?!”
Me, watching the movie fight scenes: ninja go, ninja GO! Come on, COME ON! Let's do the weekend whip!
@@Someone-or8tpthe ninja in the movie: *nah ima stay here and watch the world fall apart*
me the first time I watched this movie:
what the hell is going on
the whole spinjitzu would confuse newer audiences
@@blue_ig1 they mentioned spinjitzu directly though
I still recall being a 10 year-old watching the reveal of Llyod being the green ninja and considering it peak cinema. The beautiful irony of a destined battle between father and son captivated me, and had me constantly revisiting the franchise for it. It was dear to my heart.
And of course, accordingly, the movie left me feeling greatly disappointed. Sure, it's a ninja show for kids, but it was clear as day even to me as a child that the writers cared about it and its characters... it's a momentous shame how little respect the movie afforded them.
Yea, it is so good that even star wars coppied it
the fact that it wasn't kai and was instead this random kid is what made it so great.
Kai was the POV and obvious choice for green ninja, everything felt tailor made for him, until you realized it was Lloyd, but instead of him just being handed it on a silver plater, he had to work and grow into his role and become a mature ninja.
@@GeekNewz I'm gonna assume your joking.
@@ultrashadow9551 And your gonna assume correctly
Cole really turned into a ghost to get that airjitsu scroll just for them to never use it again
Also as a Cole fan, Cole being a DJ makes no sense. One of his character arcs is dealing with his dad who is disappointed in him for not pursuing music.
Coles dad wanted him to dance not music
They did use airjitsu until season 8
In one sentence: The movie fails because it's not a cinematic Ninjago adaptation, it's a LEGO Movie spin-off about Lloyd who appeared in one scene in the LEGO Movie.
Not to mention the movie ruined my interest in watching the later seasons 😮💨
The original idea of the movie was a time travel plot where the ninja would go back in time to stop garmadon from being bitten by the great devourer, there even is a deleted scene where Lloyd interacts with young Garmadon. Despite keeping the comedic tone you can tell there qas a lot more earnesty in that scene.
The Lego NINJAGO movie is a fun comedic take on the show but it saddens me we never got a movje which was actually canon to the show
Heyyy do you happen to have a link or source to that Lloyd and Garmadon deleted scene?? 🥺🥺
@@garmadonthesensei59 The time travel plot is mentioned a lot in the Making of the Movie book. I think the scene is in the DVD release.
if it was canon it would’ve made like 2 million dollars only because most people didn’t watch ninjago so only people who’d watch it are people who have previously watched ninjago
I will never understand why people were expecting a cannon theatrical movie.
I actually really like the movie. It's not a faithful adaptation of the series but to be fair, it was never trying to be. It's its own thing and I will at least say this, the movie forced a time gap and plot points (the return of Garmadon and a time skip) that allowed Ninjago's writers to make Sons of Garamadon, aka the best season of Ninjago ever made and one which ranks amongst the best seasons of animation EVER made.
You get it: The Humour, The Visuals, Lloyd and Garmadon's character arcs, Koko is just amazing, the voice casting is almost perfect and the animation is fantastic.
I see your point but the new seasons are just bad. They undermine EVERYTHING the show has done up to that point. I would have been ok if it was a remake but trying to make it a new season for the same story is just wrong
@Edubot for some people it is, it's just their opinion
Finally, another person who likes the movie
@Edubot nice I repesct that
I found it odd that the movie tried to make Zane more Nindriod then human. Now, obviously he is a Nindriod, but his whole storyline was about how he was different, that he could feel emotion and have actual stable relationships with people. His biggest fear was being seen as more of a technology than a man and this movie made his biggest fear come true.
It also felt like all the ninjas were dragging him along. Sure, there might be some witty banter here and there, but they never really talk to him without him saying something along the lines "I am an average human and not a robot", its almost as if Wu brought them together and now they just forcibly hang around each other.
My biggest problem with the movie is that if you change the names and character designs a little bit more, then there's nothing that makes it related to Ninjago other than it being Lego, neither tone, humor, character dynamics or even the ambient feel familiar to me as a long time fan, it's almost as if they used the IP to cashgrab Ninjago fans into watching the movie, but that's such a weird thing because the series doesn't have a fandom big enough to make it worth cashgrabbing
If it’s a cashgrab, then it’s a damn elaborated one
Um you can say the same about the Batman film. Only difference is Batman is iconic so it has a lot of material to pull from, (movies, cartoons, silly golden/silver age shit), and parody. Ninjago only has the show, which mostly takes itself seriously.
@@trashboat5388 Except the Batman movie is in line with the tone of the older comics? I would even argue it's less goofy than the Adam West show
Modern Batman and Joker films have ruined the perception of Batman ad made people think he's an edgy hero when in reality he was one of the goofier supers out there, just looking at his villain gallery tells you that much
It's sad with a lore-rich and action-heavy story such as Ninjago, the creators managed to boil it down to a teenager/high school-focused story with characters that were originally adults (and a technical preteen that got transformed into an adult). Which makes it suck more since they could have created a cool new story with or without the characters and made it stand out by it being a Lego movie. Just hearing about this movie makes me mourn a bit for what we could have gotten, but either way great video about the movie and you managed to capture my feelings about it to tee!
The ninjas were always teenagers, they were confirmed to be in their late teens by Hands of time
... this is literally the same issue the live action Thunderbirds movie had.
The issue i had with Modern Ninjago and the Movie is Lloyd's extremely unlikable attitude
@@firewarrior8298 they were still late teens in hunted
@@firewarrior8298 it is also confirmed, both by tommy anreasen and hinted at by jay calling him a "teenager" and kai having to remind him they were also technically teenagers, that lloyd didnt change age he just.. got a teenager body, i guess?
They didn't even have to adapt anything to make a cinematic Ninjago movie, they could've just made it something similar to Day of Departed or the pilot episodes if you put them together, where it's in the continuity and just feels like an extended episode.
They could have just rebooted the pilot, it's movie length, doesn't require prior knoledge, and is a perfect entry point
@@GeekNewz
True dat
day of the departed is great and would perfectly fit as a movie. Hell its got all the past villains so its kinda like a all star movie.
all you'd need is to extend it a bit and give it a bigger budget.
@@ProjektTaku it has too many characters and new veiwers will be confused
@@GeekNewz I think it balanced all the characters pretty well even in its short runtime of 44 minutes, but yeah, not very new viewer friendly like a rebooted pilot could be.
Kinda similar to one piece: stampede in that way.
It felt like the writers didn’t know what ninjago was and were given a high school au fanfiction to go off of
The lack of airjitzu was apparently explained in a book where it was discovered that it slowly unwrapped reality or something like that.
That book isn't canon
@@craigpeoples9883 Than what explanation do you have?
@@ASMroleplay737The events of hands of time probably caused them to forget since the time stream was messed with or they just forgot season 11 shows the ninja got weaker and haven't trained so that's probably where the issue lies
@@craigpeoples9883 I could see that. But until you prove the book is not cannon, I'm going with the book.
@@craigpeoples9883it is canon
I used to hate the Lego Ninjago Movie because I thought it was suppose to continue the storyline but now I realize it was trying to be its own movie and now I regret hating it especially when Season 8 came out. I thought the redesigns were going to be awful but I was immediately shook by how good it was.
@@Br35eakingBa56d they don't even have pockets
SAME
Like with Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
It took a while for me to get used to the redesign but now I like both og and new
The redesigns are awful.
Finally someone else pointing out the airjitsu thing
And its not like they forgot the existence of airjitsu either since jay and nya knew what it was in s12
Well my guess is that when the ninja got lazy they forget how to do it
It's confirmed that the show writers thought the ninja were too powerful and decided to write it out of the show
@@LiterallyFireyeah, they nerf the ninjas a lot in the show.
@@Nobody-rf3bm I agree with you. The elemental dragons are gone too. And both Nya and Cole can no longer create their element and only use what is already there. Why did they do this?
Something my friends used to be confused about was y they gave Cole a thing for music
I found 2 reason
One being his music skill was a reference to his father in the original series being a singer and dancer and assuming he had a similar father Cole would’ve picked up so musical skill in his own way and becoming a decent DJ (always felt like this was a stretch but I found I still made it make sense)
The second reason was simply how else could they’ve done his mech, the other ninja were easy to make themed weapons for- nya (water ninja) her strider walks on water and shoots pressurised water from it’s cannons, jay (lightning ninja) his jet fires lightning blasts, zane (ice ninja) his tank shoot ice, Kai (fire ninja) give him flamethrowers instead of hands, even Lloyd who has no powers has a green dragon that breaths green fire also with the most overcompensating shit load of missile. Cole who is the earth ninja has no way of using earth while in a mech unless the mech itself was geokinetic which would be over complicated, the reason they gave him sonic speakers is it would be the closest to mimicking the shockwave causing the damage emitted by an earthquake
it’s funny how in season 13 they do end up giving Cole a geokinetic mech (Stone Mech) but it could only operate using Cole’s elemental energy, it could’ve worked but not in the movies case
i always thought it was because they just wanted to make him the big strong chill guy who's the head of the party or smn
@@jaxmc3547 it works both ways
i honestly i agree with everything you said for the most part, this whole thing just felt like they could have done so much more with the original material. a movie more focused on the relationship between the ninjas would have actually made me watch it in theaters
my issue is with how they did Zane
its funny because when i saw the trailer for the first time all i remembered from the show was that it was good (as i haven't watched it in a long time now) and was willing to give it a try, but the moment they introduced Zane as this goofy "blip bloop i am a robot" character right away i felt this anger rise within me, as a young autistic kid, the journey that Zane goes through the show of self discovery and self worth meant so much to me as a kid. the way that Zane was considered to be the most philosophical one among them, some might say that he was considered the most "human" out of all of them, willing to be the glue of the group, and reminding them always about the goodness in the world and gives them a reason to keep going, and then to be reviled to be a robot?? ie a man that was never human but lived among them until he learned to be almost the most human of them all?? it really gave me hope and happiness as a young autistic kid that learned about society through tv shows and movies, having to try and live in a society as one of them "regular people" that i could never see myself as (i went undiagnosed for a long time) (i am of course aware of the robot autistic stereotype, but what can i say i was a kid and i do think this troupe was actually shown amazingly with show Zane and actually works against the stereotype as a whole, and i honestly could do a whole video essay on this myself) so seeing him being reduced to the robot who sometimes omg he said something important here sometimes!! really grind my gears in a whole new way i didn't know was possible, but then again, the one good thing this movie did for me was making me re watch the show again so there's that.
i do agree that they did Lloyd pretty well here though, and his new voice really fitted him so much better.
thanks for this video!! it really showed most of my feelings towards this movie and now i can just navigate to this video whenever someone asks why i didn't like it as much as the rest of the lego movies.
Right? They did Zane so dirty
Bro as someone who was diagnosed with ocd in my junior year of high school, Zane is a dear comfort character to me. It warms my heart that so many neuro divergents can see themself in him!
Idk there’s just something about growing up knowing you’re different somehow and feeling wrong because “why can’t I just be normal?” Then finally finding answers one day that allow you to better understand and accept yourself
I'm sad about kai
He had so much development and after the movie it's like that never happened
He was maturing but now he isnt
I think this quote applies to the movie decently well: “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.” - C.S. Lewis
It’s good to know that someone still enjoys hero factory, even though constraction is dead I’m glad there’s fans out there. Maybe lego might change their minds.
I used to love Hero Factory when it was still being made!
SOG and Master of the mountain are legitimately one of the best stories Lego will ever do, emotional beats and action scenes work so well, I hope you do more Ninjago videos
Keep the good work
If they ever release part 2 of crystallized I’ll talk about the whole series
@@sKolo843 coming October 5th
SOG is like of the greatest pieces of animated content I have EVER seen. It ranks up there with Spectacular Spider-Man and Avatar, it is that good.
@@Obi-Wan_Kenobi I mean... it's good but debatable...
@@TooSweet353 ye, ninjago hunted is peak animation
Glad to see how someone finally realizes how airjitsu fell off of the face of Ninjago
I thought Cole being a DJ was definitely out of Left field because of the whole thing where he didn’t want to be a music guy like his dad and left to be a ninja
Back before my little brother became a "teenager™" we'd occasionally watch some show together. He has always loved legos, so we watched the first seasons of Ninjago on Netflix, and we were both super surprised at how funny it ended up being. Good times.
11:42 "But I can't imagine someone seeing this and then wanting to binge all 100-something episodes."
That's basically what happened to me, funilly enough. I decided to watch the movie because I had enjoyed the previous Lego movies, and it was alright, but nothing really special. Then I saw some comments about how it was very different from the show, and I had never heard of the show before. So I became curious and decided to look it up and watch some of it. And I was honestly surprised with how much I enjoyed the pilot episodes, so I kept watching...and kept watching... and somewhere along the way I fell in love with the show.
While I've never hated this movie, nor think I will, I do find myself resenting it more and more as time goes on.
The biggest issue for me is how dirty they did the rest of the ninja, even if they had REALLY wanted to make the film focus on Lloyd and Garmadon, it just doesn't make much sense to me as to why they nerfed the others so badly in pretty much every department.
Now, I don't usually like comparing media to others in order to prove my point, but I feel like this is a justifiable one to make.
I recently began to rewatch Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and upon revisiting the FIRST episode...it honestly felt like it could've been a newer one, or at least one that came further down the line of season one. Despite just being the pilot, the characters were VERY much so the ones who I had grown so familiar with, something that not all shows, or evidently, movies, seem to manage so early on within their run.
And maybe it was because I was keeping an eye out for these details rather than just trying to keep up with what was going on, but there were a variety of instances that establish the characters shockingly well. None of these moments were particularly big or took up too much time. The 22 minute run time gave us a clear sample of who these characters were, and what they were going to continue to be, in what can mostly be traced back to one-off lines and small bits of animation.
The Ninjago Movie, a film targeted towards the same demographic, with the similar themes of teenage ninjas who have mythical powers and all protect one city, has no excuse for not being able to do within over an hour of runtime, what the pilot episode for an entire series does within 22 minutes.
And then to not even come close to being as good at establishing characters as the 22 minute pilot episode, one which almost NO ONE had high expectations for at the time of it airing, no less...
To answer the question about where the hell airjitzu (and the elemental dragons) went, is that the writers believed that giving the Ninja the ability to fly, would make them over powered
My headcanon for this movie is that the Ninja sold off their movie rights in-universe. This is why the movie is so different from what happened in the show. Also, Misako refused to sell her movie rights which is why she was replaced with Koko.
That kinda makes sense
OK that actually would be really funny
@@barelyhere7200 Also, my head-canon, Lord Garmadon played himself. He just showed up on set and demanded to play himself and the director was too scared to say no. So they fired the guy who was gonna play him and just gave the role to him. Then he spent most of the movie improvising most of his lines lol.
@@skullton3292Dareth obviously directed this movie
@@skullton3292ha! XD good one X3
1:08 BIONICLE nearly suffered the same fate. They had a high and good ending with '08, tried to milk it with a shitty story in '09, then realized it was probably best to stop while they were ahead.
I will never forgive this movie for what it did to Lloyd and Garamdon's relationship. In the show they were a father and son who legitimately loved and cared for each other, but because of forces beyond their control were forced onto opposite sides of the war. The constant struggle of each character trying to fulfill their destiny but holding back last minute because they couldn't hurt their family was heart wrenching. The Movie reduced that complex relationship into absente father, which then partially influenced to show for the Oni Trilogy, and then full on defined their relationship in season 15.
I unironically think the video game adaptation of this film has a better plot than the movie itself. The first and third acts are essentially the same, but the quest where they travel to the temple of the Ultimate Ultimate weapon is completely different. The Ninja face different obstacles along the way which, one-by-one, force each member of the team to perform Spinjitzu and unlock their elemental powers.
Also, personal gripe. If The LEGO Batman Movie could have Dick be both Robin and Nightwing, this film could've had Nya be both the Ninja of Water and Samurai X. Give me my giant cyborg mech! I need her!
About this movie, I loved the music, the character designs, the comedy was peak, and the scenery was gorgeous. I love Ninjago series and movie, but I do a free with most of what you were saying.
What bothered me the most was probably how gullible Lloyd’s friends were. Lloyd brought terror to the city once and on accident, and then of course his friends were mad at him. However, Lloyd’s friends easily get along with Garmadon who attacks the city daily. I mean, they were so easily impressed with everything Garm said.
“We are horrible friends.” Yeah, I have to agree with Jay.
Yet, they though it was a good idea to use the movie designs for the following seasons. RIP Kai's cool hair, Kai and Jay's character development, and continuity.
Im pretty sure Garmadon got the four arms while in the realm Wu came to find him after Lloyd got captured by the Serpentine. He did so so he could wield all four weapons of spinjitzu at once.
My fav sentence you said
“Garmadon in this movie is the literal personification of a dad that never found the milk and is also a domestic terrorist but that’s irrelevant”
Comedic gold right there lol
I agree with most of the points you made, this was extremely funny to me but it just didn’t fully feel like a ninjago installment it felt completely different. And yeah the cat thing was funny. But I didn’t like how they handled most of the characters. (Garmadon was funny tho) and I loved this version of Lloyds mom. But again something just felt off about them through the entire thing.
The biggest problem is the cash grab. Fans only watched their favourite characters. Imagine watching the SpongeBob movie and Gary was the main character
Loyd is the most powerful ninja yet he can't break out of a simple bird cage
I'm pretty sure he gets trapped in a bird cage like 3 times in the show
1:55 they removed airjitzu because the writers thought it was too op
Because it was made by a villain that means airjitzu is a dark power
@@TeamStingray_ I guess that's it if we put it in Ninjago logic but tommy actually thought it was too op
@@philzztheblader1767 how, it’s just flying lol
@@TeamStingray_ yep 😶
Yeah we know but I would have liked it if they had mentioned that like within the show itself
they changed the designs for everyone for the movie but after that ninjas stuck to movie designs while almost anyone else got their old looks back. Why? Makes it more confusing to younger audiences, the OG ninja designs will be always my fav, so many great childhood memories.
The real world reason for no Airjitzu is that it is too overpowered and unbalanced. The in-canon reason is that it used dark magic.
How's it overpowered also that reason isn't canon
I watched Possession SkyBound DoTD and Hands of Time and it has never been Say that it used Dark Magic. It is said in DoTD that Sensei Yang inspired himself of Spinjitzu to create Airjitzu.
@@marshupp It was a established in creator and producer of the show Tommy Andreasen's novel Way of the Departed
@@purplef0xx You mean Day of the Departed ? The mini movie of 40 minutes where Cole becomes Human again ? It happens before Season 7 : Hands Of Time and in this season they use Airjitzu
These are all very valid criticisms. You did a good job balencing the good and the bad. While I love the Ninjago Movie, it's nowhere near perfect. Although I'm curious on what you'll think of Crystalized
Ah, a fellow air jitsu questioner. Where did it go?
garmadon is too good of a character its near impossible to fuck him up
The reason Lloyds voice was so high pitched in the seasons before the movie is bc he hadn't gone through puberty.
He’s wearing green he has no father…he’s a dream Stan!!!
3:48 i didnt realize what it meant till now XD
Ninjago characters after having an op skill now learned "guess I won't ever use this again"
The show does go into how garmadon gets the extra arms in the first season after he escapes the ninja in the pilot episodes he uses travelers tea to go to a realm of complete evil that gives him the power to hold all the golden weapons via 4 arms and he only returns from that realm to sabe lloyd from the serpenten
I remember watching Ninjago on Cartoon Network from the very first season, and it was the first-ever show that I actively watched new episodes of as they premiered (the first 26 episodes felt like 100), though I stopped watching around the sixth season. I was pretty much right in the (narrow) target audience for the movie; I had lots of nostalgia for the show, I knew who all the characters were, and I really liked the theatrical Lego movies, but I didn't really regularly watch Lego TV shows/direct-to-video movies/etc. That's probably why the movie failed, becuase most Ninjago fans wouldn't like the lack of faithfulness to the show, and non-fans wouldn't understand what's happening.
WU: Your element is green
Lloyd: like, nature or poison
WU: no no no your element is called green
The ninja: waaaaa
Zane: do you mean neon?
WU: NO, I MEAN GREEN
Lloyd: oooookaaay
Fun fact in spanish they kept the original voices of the ninja, with some changes of course but that was nice of them, wish the original stayed for the english version
Also in the german dub there were voiced by the same people who VA in the german dub of Ninjago
4:31 alright then 💀
I just found your channel. But I'm subscribing just because I also can't get over what the showrunners did to Kai, he is my favorite, since the pilots and my whole life is fueled by the spite I have against the writters that forgot about him. Great video btw.
2:52 sad all these story plots were removed but good to see the writing wasn't bad. The series was dope tho real creative thoughts there
Fantastic video, I heartily agree. The writers had so much potential to work with, it’s so sad that it was wasted
The problem is you'll only understand things like Zane being a robot if you're a fan of the show, and if you're a fan of the show you know that it's wrong
Airjitzu probably got forgotten when the time twins time traveled
Isn't this movie in a different universe? I thought I heard that from somewhere. I still love this movie ngl.
Of course. There is no possible way you would be able to fit this into the already existing story.
No finale or climax will ever be able to top the golden ninja vs the overlord fight for me
You know I remember being so annoyed that Lloyd didn't actually have any powers in the movie. That is what got me the most upset. I liked and hated the movie at the same time.
I was still watching Ninjago but because they changed the designs to look like the movie I became very bias and instantly disliked the new stuff and I stopped. I know and saw enough to see it was going in a different direction anyways. But... Maybe I should actually give the new seasons a chance, I was harsh on them.
I'll still always love the earlier Ninjago stuff though!!!
I recently binged the entire series and I was getting so passed watching the later seasons because they completely forgot about airjitsu and their elemental dragons
Ayyy, where my Pilot to season 8ers at tho?
Also, no Spinjutsu in a Lego ninjago movie is like a Batman movie not located or a single reference to Gotham.
It’s just ain’t correct no matter how you see it.
There is a special called The Day of The Departed which explains cole turning into a human again and why they don't use air jitzu anymore I think. I am not sure tho. I wished they used it more.
I always associated this show and "Cheema" because they were the things I watched when I was small, so I was surprised when you said it was bad. I will look into both of these shows for nostalgia's sake, and also cause I want to anyway. By the way, I actually like this movie and the show. They are very different, but they are both very enjoyable. Or at least from what I can remember. I think the show is still on Netflix, but I'm not sure bout the movie.
The movie is still on Netflix and so is the show from rise of the serpentine to Seabound but it doesn't have the pilots or Day of the Departed. But I know that it was on Netflix before it was removed
the movie isn't a ninjago movie, it's an lego movie with ninjago characters in it, that's how i see the movie.
“How could I ruin your life? I wasn’t even there”💀💀💀
One of the things that confuses me about this movie is how the other ninja lived. We know how Lloyd lives with his mum, but does Cole still live with his dancing father? Does Jay still live in a junkyard? What about Zane? Or Kai and Nya?
And also are their origins the same or did they just wake up one day and decide ‘Hey let’s be teens with a deep dark secret?’
1:01
As a former Chima fan, I agree a ton with that. It was like LEGO’s way of trying to be like Sonic The Hedgehog but ended up just sucking.
So I’m only 2 minutes into this video and you already brought up my biggest issue with later seasons. They just… forget they can use air jitzu and their elemental dragons! In Crystalised there’s even a line about it and there have been so many moments when I rewatch the later seasons where I say this
YOU CAN FLY!!
I remember being so excited to see them use the golden weapons and their powers and then when i saw the movie i was so disappointed since i was a massive ninjago fan for a longgg time and i just wanted them to stick to the plot of the show
I wish we'd gotten a theatrical Bionicle movie :(
My one unanswered wish would be an ignition trilogy movie trilogy.
Your godly roasts were more entertaining than the movie itself 😂
Line - "wanted for everything"
First thing that goes into my mind,
Garmadon is wanted for tax evasion
“What the ninjago movie gets wrong” me:Everything.
I actually like that the movie was more on the "father-son" relationship between Garmadon&Lloyd. I mean we didn't quite seen this in the actual series so this is really nice to see yk
10:27 would've been top tier lego animations of all time
6:13 jay yelling
Kai’s hair looks like soft serve now
I just want to tell you while I agree with you the point you made about it not making people watch the series might not be completely right because I binged watched the entire series afterwards and fell in love with it. Ninjago show has become my comfort show since then and I'm currently rewatching the series for the fifth time now.
1:58 they also forgot about their dragons 💀
I agree with everything on this man’s channel. It’s hilarious in the best moments, sus when it needs to be and he actually backs up what he’s saying with other sources. But I’m just now realizing that he also has an amazing taste in background music (Rooftop Run from Sonic Unleashed).
1:55 i had this question for a while, and its explained in day of the departed that the more airjitzu is used, the more power some evil ancient sensei gets to control the world or something, so they stopped using it.
that zane being a nindroid and lloyd being green ninja and sensei wu & garmadon being brothers are 3 of the best revels that literally shattered my 10 year old lego-loving brain
Season 5 was the peak, I've seen up to 8 and it fell of massively in my mind since 6 it's been getting worse (and all I hate about current Ninjago stems from the movie)
this was a really good vid, keep dis up bro
garmadon got his four arms in the show cause when he was banished to the underworld, while he was there he mastered dark magic i believe to then give himself four arms to possess the golden weapons of spinjitzu.
1:58 bro you can fly!!!!
In the show, garmadon got his extra arms after fusing with the overlord
Loved Ninjago as a kid and have decided to binge the series again after years, which is cool since I forgot a lot of things about it so while watching it I can go "OH! I remember that!!!", but I completely agree with your review. I wish they'd focused on all the Ninja more. Also your memes throughout this video fucking killed me, thanks for a good laugh.
When Lloyd started singing hard knock life I cackled throughout the whole song lmao
I got into ninjago a few months ago and one of my friends who claims to be an OG fan said that I should watch the movie first. How much serpentine venom was she on wtf
They should make an IRL movie and cast FANS to play the roles.
Finally someone made a review and talked about ninjago. This is a very nostalgic topic for me.
1:55 This was all I could think about while I was watching past Season 8
5:10 this is why I hate the movie and s11 onward. Kai and the other ninja, especially kai though, get left out. Lloyd seems to do everything and say everything.
My biggest issue with the movie is the way it disregards all the other ninja, they are side characters at best in this movie and that's not what the shows about, the ninja work together and they all get seasons to build on their characters like Cole in S13, Jay in S6/12 or Nya in seabound. They also strip them of all their original personality, like he said in the movie Nya's one personality trait is the thing she fought so hard in the show to get rid of, especially in Skybound. They made Kai and Coles character forgettable even though Kai and Cole have such interesting self growth stories and they made Zane's one personality trait that he's a robot pretending not to be - that's not what he's about at all and in S11 his biggest fear was being viewed as just a machine with no humanity. And I'm not even going to start with what they did to my favourite of them all Jay. I guess just to sum it all up I was disappointed that they erased all the development and personality that the show gave them because the other ninja are just as important as Lloyd, as Lloyd himself says in the show (in I believe skybound??) "we're equals, our power comes from no-one being more important than the other"
9:12 he got the four arms because he is a oni so is lloyd :/
Finally somebody realised that the nija gained the ability to fly and then forgot for plot reasons. PS I love this franchise and even it's worst episodes are still amazing
I remember everything About the lego movie.
But this movie that came out later, i keep forgetting it even exsists!
1:57 the ninja likely chose to stop using air jitzu as it draws from something called "edo magic" which is a type of magic that slowly rips the fabric of the realms apart more every time it's used
3:13 but like that one scene with zane talking about his mom. and then making whirring toaster noises,,,, that's a part of my soul