Bionicle: The Legend Reborn | The Bad Bionicle Movie | Scarfulhu
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- Опубліковано 5 лис 2021
- Bionicle movies? I got you covered. After the Miramax trilogy came 3 years of nothing... and then... a Legend is Reborn. And it's not that good.
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I watched this movie as a kid religiously despite having no knowledge of bionicle.....
Idk, it still holds a place in my heart.
Bro same! I used to love the hell out of this movie at 6 years old
Everyone has different tastes, you like what you like, I gotta watch this movie, I remember seeing some parts of it, and I liked it
Same, then I watched all the others hoping to find out what happened next, only to learn they were not the next part of this movie. Was disappointed when they never made another. Lol
I remember this movie.
me too ashdifo
Its always ironic that the character designs in this movie look so mechanical in comparisson to the original 3 meanwhile in the story the inhabitants of Spherus Magna are actually biological unlike the biomechanical inhabitants of the matoran universe.
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Yeah, that really bugs the hell out of me, more than anything else in this movie: they _JUST_ look like the actual plastic figures.
Like, of _course_ they'd choose to make the character designs toy accurate for a film set in the _one part of the franchise_ where that decision only works to the film's detriment.
Just makes me think of what could have been. Can you imagine what getting a Bionicle 4 from Miramax would have been like? Getting to see what they'd come up with for the designs of the Agori and Glatorians?
I can't, because my brain is an oily mass of curdled milk and memes, but we both know it'd probably be fantastic.
@@helpitscolduphereandtheres4836
The slavish toy accuracy gets _waaaay_ more of a pass than it should.
Some people are crazy enough to call it a highlight.
@@APinchofBazel Oh, I have _no_ doubt.
"WHY WOULD YOU WANT CREATIVE BIOMECHANICAL DESIGNS", they scream, "WHEN YOU'VE GOT SPINNING LEGO TECHNIC PINS!"
Like, what, the creepy teeth-lips get a pass, though? That's the one creative liberty they won't scoff at, the weird-ass segmented mandibular lips??
The Miramax version of Legend Reborn would have had less slapstick and a more serious tone, a more coherent and charming art style, better pacing and better plot, engaging characters AND A THREATENING TUMA!
"why does lizard creature sound like horse" is one of my new favourite quotes
I had to stop and check the comments to make sure someone mentioned it.
I am happy to have done so. XD
Cuz it’s called a Rock Steed lol. Seriously that what they’re called. And I bet the film makers made them sound like horses because of that name
As creepy as they are, the Agori and Glatorian are supposed to be organic creatures, so the teeth do make sense, lol.
Ironic how they look more mechanical than the toa and matoran in the other movies
They weren’t robots to? I live a lie
Their eyes are light bulbs. Organic?
@@Fernandoman-zv2ow Nahhh, Glatorian, Agori and Skrall are all mammalian beings, but the matoran (that we all know n love) are like... natural cyborgs
Yeahhh true however Mata Nui is more or less a full blown robot so I don't think it applies to him
I kind of liked the forced laughter for Mata Nui because this is the first time he's ever been mortal or had friends so he's probably never laughed before.
Weird when everyone else does it
None of it seemed awkward to me because I've just been watching it for so long I love them all unconditionally :')
I assumed the mask itself thought cursing people was funny
Michael Dorn did so amazing as Mata Nui rest his soul
“I am going to enjoy. Tearing that fancy mask. *FROM! YOUR! FACE!* Easily one of my favorite lines from this movie.
I always loved that line, they really nailed it with Mata Nui being a foreign entity, I loved it when characters commented on that (In this case Tuma referring to Mata Nui's Kanohi, which Agori and Glatorian do not wear)
It's strange that a lot of people on that planet seems to be interested in the mask despite not knowing of its power and importance.
@@InitialPCReally? Huh? Neat.
Mans really did just brushed over Matoro's, death as "some characters died" , Matoro made the ultimate sacrifice, to save the Matoran universe.
also some the points you made are very fair, especially to new watchers for the first time, or new the the Bionicle universe. But if you get into the lore it starts to make more sense, like why the Agori have teeth, its because they are cyborgs. and they have slowly turned them selves into more machine than what their original form was. The matoran, are the opposite they are more machine that living creates. :)
@@0066. i see chirox is still mad that he lost his eyesight to one selfless boi B)
@@blackholeparty1340What? Okay.
Matoro was the Jesus Christ of Bionicle with Mata nui being God. I'm not even religious it's just a good comparison
WRONG STORY ARC
I gotta say, the graphics aged really well.
Right?? Even re-watching the movie it's surprisingly not bad!
Even though it was made in 2009 it’s still holds up pretty goddamn well
Not gonna lie, Mata Nui and his bug are actually cute af. It sets the tone for Mata Nui's character even if this entire arc was forgettable af
Fun fact the bug wasn't originally supposed to be in there but a random artist was like "what if he had this bug thing?" And the director was like "aw, that's cute. Ok let's do it"
@@googleyoflolz9930So that is the origin of my favourite part of this movie
Yup, he's basically the famous disney sidekick lol
@@googleyoflolz9930they should give the person who come with that decision a raise
@KaminoKatie They probably don't work for LEGO anymore. It's been too many years :(
Funny thing is, when I first watched Mask of Light way back when, I was kinda weirded out by the biomechanical redisigns of the characters, and wondered why they didn't look more like the the actual figures. Seeing the more true-to-form models in this movie makes me appreciate the creativity involved in the original trilogy's attempts to portray the forms the toys were meant to represent.
Foodfight:
"It's RAW!"
Ratatoing:
"The lamb SAUCE!"
Bionicle:
"It's DRY!"
Chef Scarfulhu at your service.
My reaction to this comment:
"IT'S FUCKIN' FROOOOZEEEEEEEEEEN!!!"
Fun Fact: In the lore Tahu was created in the image of Ackar. The Great Beings took Ackar as the blueprint for the Toa of Fire and later transferred it to Artakha, the creator of the Toa Mata.
This is at least a major improvement over Food Fight, looking at it doesn't make me want to barf.
This came out before Food Fight.
I think the reason why the mask of life is able to upgrade their weapons was kind of explained in the movie. Most of the weapons are made of bone or from animals, so just like what happened to Mata Nui's improvised stinger knife being upgraded into a proper sword, he upgrades his allies weapons into something much better. Although don't ask me how they get elemental properties, I guess "Life" also extends to the elements???
They said "things that are or once were alive"
The Ignika itself is very unusual in general. Much like Energized Protodermis, it is capable of simply upgrading, destroying, but most importantly transforming based upon “Destiny.” Which in hindsight, now makes sense, considering that the Ignika’s sole purpose is to restart the life of the giant robot powered by Energized Protodermis.
Bionicle really got done dirty towards the end. The Legend Reborn was lack-luster and the Stars line being the last sets...
Shit made me mad we never got Mata Nui or Makuta in giant robot form.
Mercy be, I forgot about the STAR sets, even after I bought them all when I was a kid.
At least the giant Mata Nui construct set was the best one worth getting.
At least the Remake models were cool, wierd though they are in the grand scheme of things.
LACK LUSTER??? Boi the graphics in that movie still hold up to this day! It's one of my favorite movies! OF ALL TIME
@@ZylethXenociantechnically speaking the last Titan was of Toa Mata Nui. It costs the most and is the largest one ever made.
The weird combiner of Terradax and the mask of light is as close t a big Makuta as we are gonna get
When I first watched this as a nine year old on Nickelodeon, I had my Mata Nui and Metus toys on standby and the twist at the end with Metus made me sad. I remember that more than anything in the film
The guy who voiced Metus was really good. It was good casting to get the guy who previously did fake car commercials or whatever, but he also did a surprisingly good sinister voice. He could have probably had a more versatile acting career.
Michael Dorn is perfect casting for Mata Nui IMO. He did well here and even better in the Mata Nui Saga (there’s a wonderful YT video somewhere that has it chronological, higher-res, and with the Tahu actor’s voiceover at the end).
Jim Cummings as Ackar was pretty much perfect.
I think other voice actors’ performances were “bad” because they were directed to play the voices in a goofy or stupid way. They executed that specific direction well, and probably would have done a good job if they were directed to play the roles less cartoonishly.
About a year and a half ago, my partner and I marathoned all 4 movies back to back. It wasn't her first time watching them, but it was her first time really understanding them if that makes sense. We both found The Legend Reborn so hard to sit through, and I think you hit the nail on the head at the end of this video when talking about the tone. Bionicle took itself pretty seriously and while Miramax's films have some really goofy moments, they could be dark when they wanted to be. The Legend Reborn really couldn't.
The other thing we both agreed was severally lacking was the mystery. The atmosphere of the first three was so cool, you always got this idea that you never really knew enough about the world and that there was more to uncover. The Legend Reborn though? Everything just exists, it's so straightforwards and bland. I think the one scene that feels like Bionicle is the secret lab portion. That's actually cool and hints at that wonder and awe that made Bionicle stand out, but then it's immediately over and back to more straightforwards boring stuff.
It is the best looking looking movie but it definitely lacks the charm and magic the first 3 had
I love your MNOG series you did
Ya that was really awesome
@@cringedefender5264 I think it's the worst looking LOL. I think WoS is the best looking. Yeah, animation is smoother in TLR, and landscapes sometimes have less flat textures, but for the most part said textures are reused everywhere and generic, and the animation look weightless, like they are just plastic beings being thrown through the air, while the Miramax movies have more weight in the animation and they usually move in more realistic ways, not so cartoonish.
@@Luka1180 I probably should have said bigger budget? I mean from a technical standpoint it's better but I do agree I prefer the first 3 over the 4th one the charicter designs and atmosphere. much more colorful and diverse. Also web of shadows was the best looking one
12:00 From what I understand, the small black ones aren't "Skrall-Agori" but actually THEY are the bone-hunters, not the Vorox creatures. A little confusing, I know.
Actually, the Ignika (the name of the Mask of Life) didn't create a more deadly weapon. It evolved the Glatorian to have elemental power. Mata Nui had sensed that down in their evolutionary line, they would eventually evolve to have natural elemental powers - I.E. the ability to harness and manipulate the elements, which are actually fundamental forces of the universe in BIONICLE canon. But it also changed the tools/weapons to be better suited for channeling said powers. The reason it can do that is that they're made of bone and/or claw, which are organic stuff. The Ignika can *only* evolve and devolve beings to stuff stuff that is in the species' evolutionary line. I.E. if their species has an ancestor or a shared ancestor that's a snake, they can be devolved into a snake. Hence what happened to Metus. Why it can do stuff with MUans that defy this, like changing Dekar into a replica of Hydraxon, is unknown. Perhaps it can do WHATEVER it wants with protodermis-based life forms? And then, with real organic lifeforms like those on Spherus Magna (yes, they are organic, not biomechanical, the movie gets that blatantly wrong), it is restricted to what is in their evolutionary make-up or in their future evolutionary line. That's my theory. Anyway, the reason Mata Nui gives Gresh the power of air as opposed to the element his tribe is culturally based around, which is "the Green"/Jungle/plant life, is that it's not actually him doing it. It's the mask itself. It has its own basic, vague sentience. Quasi-sentience. That's why he's also like "Of course, your element is fire!" when Ackar gains the power of fire. What I mean is that the mask recognizes the different colors, most likely, as being tied to specific elements. Yes, Jungle also exists in the MU, but it's less common, and there's also other green beings in it that just so happens to wield air as opposed to Jungle. Greg's said before that it's Mata Nui doing it and that he gave Gresh air powers specifically because *he* associated green with air, but that doesn't make sense. Otherwise, why does he sound like he didn't know Ackar had gotten fire?
This is my favorite Bionicle movie since I was 5 years old.
I respect that. Like I say, my nostalgia for this one isn't as strong as the others, so it just doesn't work for me personally.
@@Scarfulhu oh I get that. I personally can't bring myself to say anything bad about it. Really it is a good movie. It had it's downsides but it was nostalgic and I also happened to have got it on my birthday. I really liked it. You could say I love them unconditionally lol
So, I remember liking this movie when I was younger specifically because of the action and the more toy-accurate designs, but I never loved it as much as Mask of Light or Web of Shadows. My feelings about The Legend Reborn as an adult basically come down to 'it's a movie where not much happens'. It opens fairly strong with Mata Nui's banishment, the introduction of Click (who I also love) and then the fight between Ackar and Strakk to sort of set the tone, but after that... well... what really happens? Mata Nui wanders around the desert in circles, there are a few fights, and everyone learns the power of friendship.
I honestly feel that the story might have worked better if Mata Nui hadn't already started out as a nice guy and needed to learn to rely on others (after being an all-powerful god the last time he was awake). The opening of the movie kind of highlights how far Mata Nui has fallen. Dorn's narration, Mata Nui's stumbling around helplessly when he gets his new body, and the fact that he wins the Vorox fight more or less by accident... all of those are good starting points. But from there... yeah, nothing much happens. Mata Nui doesn't seem to demonstrate any real feelings about his new condition other than wanting to save his people. Which is fine, but imagine the more nuanced character arc that he could have gone through if:
-Mata Nui was still in denial about losing his godlike powers and tended to overestimate his own abilities.
-He didn't immediately hit it off perfectly with Kiina and Ackar (who, by the way, are unusually friendly characters to meet in this kind of 'survival of the fittest' setting) and had to learn to trust/work with others. The Power of Friendship is not an inherently bad trope, and we see plenty of it in Bionicle prior to this point.
-He knew or made any kind of reference to what had brought him to this point. Anger at Makuta for taking his power. Guilt over Matoro's sacrifice. Recognition (or confused lack of recognition) of the Mask of Life. The Legend Reborn pretty much just exists in a vacuum compared not only to the previous movies, but the entire eight or nine years of story which came before it. I understand that in-universe Mata Nui might not have had perfect knowledge of these things, but the movie might have been better if it had felt more like a genuine follow-up to the Matoran universe arcs.
I absolutely loved the Glatorian sets, and I think my feelings towards the movie when I was younger were influenced a lot by my excitement at seeing Bionicle characters have swordfights. As an adult, the story is just too bare-bones to really appreciate that much. I wonder if my opinion might have been different if, as was likely intended, The Legend Reborn had simply been a setup for larger reveals about the world of Bara Magna, the nature of the Great Beings, and so on. Oh well.
One thing will never change, though, 'Bye Bye Babylon' is a jam. :P
What I find disturbing about the movie cliffhanger is. You learn all the likable charakters within the first 3 movies. And at the beginning of this movie, they all are trapped in a big, now evil robot and we never get the to know, what happened to them in this movie. If you only know the movie, this is truelly disturbing.
right?? so much wasted potential
13:30 I mean, bone and claw were once parts of living beings and the Mask of Life probably has this effect because it can manipulate... well, life. Just like it transformed Dekar into the second Hydraxon, equipment and all, in the Mahri Nui arc.
Edit: Also, while I generally find the movie okay, the thing I hated the most was actually the shift in designs from the Miramax trilogy to this movie. Yeah sure, the characters looked more accurate to the toys, but ironically the designs make even less sense in this story arc than they would've in the previous films. The Toa, Matoran and Turaga are supposed to be kind of like cyborgs who are machine than organic, while the Makuta are practically robots controlled by a substance called Antidermis (their true form), so those designs might have made sense for them.
The Glatorian and Agori on the other hand, were supposed to be mainly organic. They are actually completely organic at first and only get cybernetic enhancements if they want to.
And, as much as I would've liked to see the fight between Teridax and Mata Nui in movie form, it still wouldn't be the end of the saga. The story was still added on to even after the toyline was discontinued and then it just "ended" on a cliffhanger with countless open plotthreads. The story would've focused on the Elemental Lords next and, in a twist that came out of nowhere, one of the great beings was right under our nose the entire time in the form of a random Matoran that was released as part of the Voya Nui arc.
so what you're saying is it SHOULD'VE ended at the giant robot fight
Well spoken!
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I forgot about the cliff hangers and the Red Star part... makes me sad that they never finished all that proper.
I remember liking that the characters looked a bit more toy accurate than in the previous films, but aside from that, I can't really recall anything else about The Legend Reborn. Twenty-two minutes and twenty-five seconds later, I see why.
Problem is, though, that canonically, the denizens of the Matoran Universe _are_ supposed to have fleshy, organic bits, but I do also think that they're suppose to be more set-accurate than they are in the Miramax movies. Another problem is, though, that the beings on Bara Magna (and Spherus Magna) in contrast are _not_ biomechanical but _fully organic._ 100%. Most of them get implants later in life, though, making them 85% organic and 15% mechanical (while MUans are basically 85% mechanical and 15% organic - where the organics bits are muscles knidding together the mechanical parts, lungs and some other organs - but we don't know what other organs beside lungs). And in this movie they somehow look even more robotic than the Matoran at the beginning LMAO. Makes no sense. They're supposed to be humanoid beings with skin and blood and such. The toys are just an approximate, even for the Matoran, Toa etc., but I do think the the MUans are supposed to look more like the toys than the Agori and Glatorian are to their toys. Also, the muscles on the Agori and Glatorian in this movie look super flat... or is it wires??? And a lot of it makes no sense when you look where it's placed, what direction they run etc. Look at the arms and shoulders for intance... just flat bit of muscle running horizontally, and then there's a bunch of gaps? Where would the muscle go? What is it doing for the being there?? I also just noticed, too, that a lot of the textures do look pixelated and flat in TLR too, and the models are very jagged and low-poly in some places... Even on characters. Just jagged, low-poly stuff combined with high-poly smooth stuff. Looks awkward.
I really liked the movie as a kid. I remember really hoping for a sequel. But this was also around the time that transition to Hero Factory was happening.
I still don't know how or why they would throw away Bionicle for hero factory 😭
I liked it and all but it was kinda bland and flavorlrss. You're average "beat up the bad guy and go home until the next episode where we will do the same thing again" kind of show.
"How does one have non-Euclidian eyebrows?"
One needs to worship the Old Ones for 20 years and attend Miskatonic Uni for her BA, in order to gain that boon from our great Azathoth.
or just make shiddy animation
Bruh, have you seen Big Daddy C's brow? It's gorgeous my guy. 😎👌
To be fair, the mask of life does a lot of crazy shit in Bionicle. It cursed Nocturn to steal the life from everything he touches, which I don't think I need to explain why that seems a bit.. odd for a mask of life.
I barely remember this movie and I owned it when I was a kid. Man, can only imagine if they finished bionicle off with a good movie. Godzilla meets Fantastic Voyage or something like that. I don't really remember how the story ended but I do remember Vezon started teleporting between dimensions for some reason.
Lol what? The piraka weren't in that movie 😂
Though they did introduce some portals that they didn't do much with.
Tuma acts so differently in this movie than he does in the Bionicle comics that I'm forced to conclude the two are entirely separate characters.
This was my favourite bionicle movie, it's actually very good
Yes! Idk why people hate it tbh. Sure it was a lot different from the other movies and the first 3 were awesome in their own way but so was the legend reborn! Not to mention I got the legend reborn for my birthday lol
Man I was so excited about it.
Quick question....have you ever played bionicle heroes? :>
@@googleyoflolz9930 never
@@kaicraft8144 damn that's too bad. It was a good game 😞
Honestly, after spending the entire lifespan of Bionicle for the ride (even into the Gen2 fiasco), I'd be lying if I said I still didn't enjoy it to this day. Every so often, I mess around with some of the sets and collections I kept over the years. And from the animated online webisodes to the four movies, I loved them all (the Legend of Metru Nui and the Mata Nui onlin interactive were my top favourites).
Now, having found your review of the movies, I can agree with saying I was nostalgia-blind to how good the movie is. It's not a bad movie as a whole, but I did miss the stock sounds, lack of exciting music and.... "neighing lizards" that I never questioned until this video.
I'm really happy I was able to find these review videos, as you do justice to describe and explain very good points for each of them!
And you sold me with the use of the Bionicle GameBoy Advanced theme at the end of the video. A touch of good life back in the day!
SIDE NOTE: I forgot that they had teeth under the teeth... It makes sense with them being Bio-mechanical, but yeah... the more I notice it, the weirder it gets.
But at least the voice acting and Click were the best parts.
AND DOES ANYONE NOTICE THE CLIPPING OF METUS' SHOULDER IN 17:22?! HOW DID I NOT SEE THAT UNTIL NOW?!
Two things this movie is famous for
1, The models look like the toys
2, showing mata nui's pearly whites or steel whites
I was never able to get the skopio set as a kid because of how expensive it was, now as an adult I can't get it because of how expensive it is
OOOOOOOF
“It’s called nostalgia, idiot.”
Well, yes, but also Christopher Gaze had that Shakespearean _class._ You just can’t compete.
It’s crazy to me just how far this stuff went back, this movie was my first exposure to anything OG in the bionicle universe as a kid before hero factory ultimately took over, all though nostalgia heavily affects my opinion, I sure look fondly back at this movie
For me what kills this movie is not the story, or voice acting or the boring choreography of the characters but at the start, first Mata Nui is still green and brimming with life? The Bohrok did and I quote “Water ripples around the barren island of Mata Nui, stripped of all life and vegetation by Bohrok hoards” they really messed up with the island and there’s also the fact that when the robot after a thousand centuries finally stand up they animated it like he’s just woken up like it’s no big deal coming back from the dead. There’s no impact like the old short animation that might’ve been part of a commercial had, where he slowly moves and breaks the island as he stands up letting the viewers watch in awe as a 40m ft tall machine stands up.
Not to mention there is a montage of the Ignika flying across the entire space before ending up on Bara Magna, while in reality Bara Magna was literally right next to the planet where Mata Nui stood up.
The action sequences in this film genuinely suck the life out of me whenever I watch them.
First Bionicle film I ever watch, when I was a kid and still today. It holds so much nostalgia.
Despite having the trilogy on DVD, I hadn't actually known there was a fourth film until recently. Good review!
This was literally the only exposure i had to bionicles when i was younger, and yes i did love it, haven’t seen it in easy over 10 years tho
Wait really? Damn how-
@@geckals3075 yeh unfortunately it isn't on youtube like the other 3 movies. But I was lucky enough to have gotten the DVD on my birthday.
I have an interesting relationship with Bionicle. In many ways they were before my time, which ironically enough I got some Bionicles right around the time they were pulled, and afterwards I ended up seeing a re-run type thing of 3 of the movies I think? I don't recall ever seeing this one as a part of the re-runs. Amazing video as per usual Scarf.
Same tbh. I unfortunately have way more hero factory than bionicle and not that many. I got into because of my brothers. I got a lot of barbies and stuff for my toys btut I let my sister have since I didn't really care about them. My brothers always let me play with their toys like the nerf guns and hero factory. My parents gave my older brother the legend reborn DVD for his birthday but eventually as he lost interest he gave it to me. I love that DVD and have taken really good care of it to this day.
God this movie, got this in a box set with Clutch Powers when I was like 7.
I remember preferring Clutch Powers.
Omg Clutch Power bro 😭
I forgot about that 💀
I actually liked the movie but I hate how the ending left a lot of loose ends that would have lead to a sequel that unfortunately just never came to be. The same thing actually happened to another lego movie that was released the same year and made by the same companies.
It's funny how the Mata Nui rising promo animation blows the intro sequence in this out of the water
This one being most nostalgic for me because this is the era of bionicle I got to experience as oppose to the golden and flashback years trilogy.The first three being less nostalgic for me but I do agree with the fact that there is not a single dull moment in the miramax movies.I always find myself coming back to the first three every once in a while.I keep watching them over and over yet I never get sick of it.Despite all of the fond memories I had of that era of bionicle, I still find the way things turn out in 2010 with the stars to be really depressing.
Damn, they made the Mata Nui a walking Pack-a-Punch
I believe it was explained in the movie the Mask of Life had the ability to improve things that were alive or once living.
It's kind of insane how I also started getting into TF2 around the same time and my interest in Bionicle somewhat faded (though I was still in love with the Glatorian era)
The big problem is that, while the animation is actually great, the choreography is so clunky. Characters literally just wait to hit eachother with their weapons in fight scenes
AND THE FUCKING SOUND DESIGN, GOD IT'S SO BAD
I was really disappointed with this movie as a kid. Especially when I collected the sets, and loved the original three movies. The original music is missed.
I watched both parts of the stopmotion Ignition series and LEGO could have totally pulled it off as the writing is there! It just needed to be adapted, Bionicle could have gotten much bigger if more effort was put into the franchise.
Also I do find it funny how they rebooted the franchise yet learned nothing from the prior films.
Tons of effort was put into the franchise. It was what saved lego. The people who worked on Bionicle were really passionate about their work. They still are! I'm subscribed to some of the writers and devs of the movies. And they still talk about bionicle today. I don't know of a single franchise that was more passionate than bionicle.
The thing that akways bothered the hell out of me concerning this movie was how easily the Skrall are defeated in combat. It is established VERY well in the comics and books that the Skrall are a fanatically dedicated warrior culture that worships combat from a young age, like ancient Spartans, or Elites and Spartan II's from Halo. The Skrall are each nearly unstoppable as individuals, let alone as their own army and nation. The comics littersly open with an Arena fight where Gresh gets his ass absolutely beaten by a common Skrall, and then like a day later the Skrall army raids the Arena and completely massacre EVERYBODY like it's nothing. Theres like 12 survivors. It's shown explicity that they are as one cukture more violent and powerful than every other clan combined (And may be the reason the Vorox's entire culture collapsed and caused them to become devolved mad desert dwelling creatures)
Its made clear - each Skrall is fucking DEADLY and very few Glatorian or even Toa are on their level of combat. Yet the film makes grunting, animalistic, mass desposable storm troopers out of them, even to the point if having them comically incompetent - dont even get me started with how they depict Tuma. It should be a crime, what they did to the Skrall in this. Only the real ones remember who the real lords of Bara Magna are 🖤❤
I never cared for watching the Legend Reborn because it wasn’t the Bionicle I knew, but I always liked how the character models were actually set-accurate this time around as opposed to the first 3 movies.
Nice to see you again man I want to say how much I enjoy your videos and I am realy excited to see what comes next
The problem is…they have two rows of teeth. The inner row is white and looks like normal teeth, which are honestly fine. But there is an outer row of teeth, same colour as their lips/skin, and those teeth move, sometimes individually, and that just looks messed up.
0:36 Foodfight aside, what would a Tetris movie even be about?
Block parties
What's the music playing during credits?
The toy that smiles back
At least it's better than foodfight.
It's not just nostalgia, Valkama's voice is that of an old man telling us, the audience, an ancient tale. Imagine say an elder of a tribe telling those around him, their peoples' old legends.
I like Matanui. He's basically God with a bug companion that turns into a weapon, cool!
I just i had a dream searching for this movie. Woke up and trying to find it in youtube and there nothing.. Anyone know where i can watch this xd
also Kiina, Berix & Gresh are also voiced by the voice actors from StarWars The Clone Wars Series Kiina is voice by the person who voices Asohka Tano
Wrong, Kiina is voiced by Marla Sokoloff while Ahsoka is voiced by Ashley Eckstein. Berix and Obi-Wan share the same voice actor tho!
I really liked this movie as a nine year old getting it from the free movie section at family video
For those still wondering about the whole teeth thing with the Glatorian who aren’t regular fans of Bionicle it’s because unlike the residence of the Matoran universe(I.e. the beings living inside the Mata Nui robot which basically made them all the cells of the body) it’s because the beings on Bara Magna while physically robotic are actually more Organic than techno organic like the Toa and Matoran etc the creator of the series has stated they can eat sleep and apparently even reproduce unlike how the Matoran would just absorb energy directly from things like fruit
Im 18 and this is still one of the best movies i have ever seen, and imo the best bionicle movie, im not saying you have to agree, but if you ask me, this is peak
bionicle deep lore is absolutely nuts, just wait till people find out about the eldritch abomination and that the great beings evolved at the same time as the agori and glatorans in the same way we evolved with monkeys
Could you do The Adventures of Clutch Powers?
Fun fact: The new teeth and core head designs in The Legend Reborn were reused for Hero Factory TV series. (Due to them reusing that same core head pieces as the late Bionicle toys)
after everything the Toa and matoran did, they lost and lost their god. THATS FUCKING BULLSHIT, MAKUTA FUCKING CHEATED
Honestly, I wished that the Glatorian and Agori got the Mirimax design treatment. I mean they’re supposed to be more organic than the Toa and Matoran. So, just imagine how they would look in that art style.
Wilhelm scream is cool because it's used ironically by movies with otherwise cool sound effects, if movie sounds mediocre it doesn't work.
Okay, now I'm sure I prefer the dubbing I watched it with. Polish actors managed to give the movie a bit of a more serious tone.
Never noticed how similar Mata Nui is to the bayformers Optimus Prime with his mouth shield, weird teeth, and distinctive voice
I never thought Id say this but I miss the Miramax designs…
This movie is better than Journey to One that’s for sure
As i was a kid i loved all the movies same way…sounds effects apart…the flesh clap sound👏 is hilarious.
Still watching them sometimes
I just rediscovered this movie after more then ten years of forgetting about it
This was at the time when I was a bionicle fan, so this is actually the only one of the movies I've seen
James Arnold Tayler is in this film, there is also awkward laughing and you didn't include the Tidus laugh from Final Fantasy X? You have more self control than I do.
I just realized that James Arnold Taylors character in this is basically ratchet from ratchet and clank. P.s I know he voices ratchet.
Oh yeah this one, I always felt this movie was unremarkable and even as a kid I felt Mata Nui deserved better. Though I can forgive the movie for its use of stock stingers, since LEGO and stock sounds are nigh on inseparable.
12:06 - Nope, he's accompanied by bone hunters. The difference is kind of small, but bone hunters are shorter in stature than the Skrall.
Yeah that was a misunderstanding I had. You're not the first to mention it, but yeah, my bad. :p
@@Scarfulhu Ah, sorry for the disturbance. Glad that got cleared up.
Interestingly those models they use are rock agori, which are considered to be part of the Skrall society. Bone hunters are a subspecies of the rock agori, that developed some distinctive features. The set Atakus resembles a Skrall Agori and the figure Fero that came with the rock steed skirmix -the red dinosaur- resembles a bone hunter. However, we don't see Feros model at all in the movie. I don't know whether that was intentional by the movie creators. Maybe they liked Atakus' model more because it had slightly better proportions.
@@Makutros My suspicion is that they didn't care.
I immediately noticed that whoever animated this movie animated the old Hero Factory movies as well.
Those heads, rotating pins, and rust textures are unmistakable.
this may just be nostalgia , but this was my favorite bionicle movie
Compared to the 3 other movies this one feels the most forgettable and emotionless.
1. Mask of light. You have Takanuva sacrificing himself for the sake of others.
2. Legends of metru Neui. You have Lhikan sacrificing himself to save Vakama.
3. Web of shadows . You have Vakama turning evil which is a nice twist and fits the edgy vibe.
Nothing really stands out in this movie.
Feels like it’s on rails and not trying to be daring for a kids movie.
The villain seems kinda weak compared to other 3 films. It’s just some guy.
No wonder I never bothered watching this one particular.
When I was a kid I loved watching old VHS tapes of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes my dad made back in the 80s, so I remember being ecstatic when I heard that Michael Dorn, who played Worf in that show, would be voicing Mata Nui. Even more exciting, Leonard Nimoy who played Spock in the original Star Trek show ended up voicing Sentinal Prime in Transformers 3. Another franchise i was obsessed with. Good times.
I had Kiina and the green Agori as a kid. Fond memories
Can’t help but hear Ratchet here 😂
I remembered renting this movie from blockbuster back then returning my copy of bionicle 3 and watching this and I remembered seeing commercials about this movie on tv
I remember watching this movie a few times as a kid. Even back then I thought it wasn't good for a few reasons:
1) As this took place in the 2009 Bionicle story arc, only half of the relevant characters that year showed up in the film, such as the ice Glatorian who was there for only one fight scene early in the movie.
2) Forgettable plot that started off interesting, but felt like it went nowhere. (Except for when Mata-Nut turned Metus into a snake, that was the most memorable part.)
After seeing the review, I noticed that the animation feels really off. You have almost Pixar quality character designs, and the actual animation feels cheap, making them feel a bit lifeless. The animation could had worked a bit better if they had tried going for the first 3 movie's biomechanical art style instead of trying to make the characters look realistic & made of Lego.
I remember at the time thinking this was really poorly directed, but really liking the textures and art-style. Watching these clips though, I still feel mostly the same - but some of what I'd liked before now just reads as almost TOO much slavish attention to the actual Lego sets (though the textures are still pretty boss).
A nice happy medium would be the little bits and textures ticking away on the actual biomechanical characters, but the approach of the Miramax trilogy - making the most with what little they got. I wasn't really a fan of the direction of those either until Web of Shadows, but there was a heart and a tonal consistency and a feeling they were trying with those!
Mata nui got downgraded from the literal matoran universe to a pack-a-punch with legs.
Also can’t decide what bothers me more, the teeth or the eyebrows.
ah. the scorpion person is a vorix. the one riding those lizards are bone hunters. the skrall are skrall.
that was the first bionicle movie I watched and I had no idea of what was going on. The ending made me think that there was a sequel to it but there wasn't so I was just left with questions. I still love this movie though since the nostalgia hits hard but I can see the flaws
I have just noticed that trumpet sneeze from Dracula 4 & 5 appears in this film too. You can hear it at 16:02.
minor correction but the scorpion guys are called Vorox the bone hunters are the guys riding those red creatures called rock steads
I really don't like this movie all that much... Canonically, the denizens of the Matoran Universe are supposed to have fleshy, organic bits, but I do also think that they're suppose to be more set-accurate than they are in the Miramax movies. Another problem is, though, that the beings on Bara Magna (and Spherus Magna) in contrast are not biomechanical but fully organic. 100%. Most of them get implants later in life, though, making them 85% organic and 15% mechanical (while MUans are basically 85% mechanical and 15% organic - where the organics bits are muscles knidding together the mechanical parts, lungs and some other organs - but we don't know what other organs beside lungs). And in this movie they somehow look even more robotic than the Matoran at the beginning LMAO. Makes no sense. They're supposed to be humanoid beings with skin and blood and such. The toys are just an approximate, even for the Matoran, Toa etc., but I do think the the MUans are supposed to look more like the toys than the Agori and Glatorian are to their toys. Also, the muscles on the Agori and Glatorian in this movie look super flat... or is it wires??? And a lot of it makes no sense when you look where it's placed, what direction they run etc. Look at the arms and shoulders for intance... just flat bit of muscle running horizontally, and then there's a bunch of gaps? Where would the muscle go? What is it doing for the being there?? I also just noticed, too, that a lot of the textures do look pixelated and flat in TLR too, and the models are very jagged and low-poly in some places... Even on characters. Just jagged, low-poly stuff combined with high-poly smooth stuff. Looks awkward.
Thing is due to the agori/glatorian/skrall all being more organic than robotic I think the teeth makes sense, just not so much for mata nui given I believe he's fully a robot.. a supernatural one but a robot regardless
Still the movie is watchable and has good moments
The Mask of Life cause mean Mask of Creation they are like Robots so Creating could mean more then just life he can create things like more powerful weapons
So what happened to the end was it made in something or was is canceled?
I don’t know how to feel after looking up one of my favorite childhood movies and then seeing this be the very first thing that pops up.
Don't listen to him. It's still the best 👌💯