It was dark. I was expecting cartoon fun. I watched an animated shoe get executed.
I had a good laugh. You’ve got me there, it does get really quite brutal.
Honestly, I think the gumshoe is the protagonist and noir is the genre, and I think Hoskins nails it in that context: a hard-boiled 40s private eye struggling with the weighty awfulness of the world, in a world whose weighty awfulness happens to be the result of getting mixed up with cartoons. But yeah, if you’re expecting a muppets comedy instead of film noir, it’s a hard rugpull.
It’s definitely a film where, in hindsight, I still go “they rated that PG? That should’ve been PG-13 easy”
Bob Hoskins was fine, but I feel that the script did him dirty, in light of the execution scene.
Me the viewer found Valliant doing a funny slapstick vaudville performance to stop more executions felt sickening. I don’t actually recall the timing of this specific plot point relative to his performance, so don’t know if he was knowingly hamming it up in front of the toon that murdered his brother.
I wouldn’t be fixating on the word execution, if the antagonist didn’t drive home the existential point. To further enhance what I’m getting at, think of the specific actions committed by that shoe that cost it its life.
I had a good laugh. You’ve got me there, it does get really quite brutal.
Honestly, I think the gumshoe is the protagonist and noir is the genre, and I think Hoskins nails it in that context: a hard-boiled 40s private eye struggling with the weighty awfulness of the world, in a world whose weighty awfulness happens to be the result of getting mixed up with cartoons. But yeah, if you’re expecting a muppets comedy instead of film noir, it’s a hard rugpull.
It’s definitely a film where, in hindsight, I still go “they rated that PG? That should’ve been PG-13 easy”
Bob Hoskins was fine, but I feel that the script did him dirty, in light of the execution scene.
Me the viewer found Valliant doing a funny slapstick vaudville performance to stop more executions felt sickening. I don’t actually recall the timing of this specific plot point relative to his performance, so don’t know if he was knowingly hamming it up in front of the toon that murdered his brother.
I wouldn’t be fixating on the word execution, if the antagonist didn’t drive home the existential point. To further enhance what I’m getting at, think of the specific actions committed by that shoe that cost it its life.