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Tbh, when I first heard about that, I kind of thought it was a reference to him no longer being Megamind's minion, but his equal, but no, that wasn't it lol
Fun Fact: For Son of the Mask, Jack Black and Ryan Reynolds both turned down the role of Tim Avery. Michael J. Fox was also considered for the role of Loki.
My least favorite part about Uprising is how terrible the Jägers move and are filmed. In the first movie, the Jägers movement was slow, always felt a little delayed and when they wanted to make a fast motion, they had to build up the speed to do it first. Plus, they were always filmed from an angle that complimented their size. Most of the shots feel like they could've been filmed by a bystander on the street, on a rooftop or from a news helicopter. They FEEL gigantic In Uprise, they move as if they're Transformers. Sure they feel sorta big, heavy and slow but not nearly to the extent that their size and weight would suggest.
it make sense in universe wise, but i still hate it so much. i don't care if the Jaeger is faster or slower, but they could've complimented the size with good cinematography. even if the Jaeger is fast, they still can feel gigantic. and my problem is not only the faster jaeger, but the movement felt like it's a motion captured. the first one feel mechanical. to make it worse, i don't give a shit about the pilot. sure, even in the first one the character is paper thin, but man do they feel iconic. the Russian, the Chinese triplet, even Rayleigh is iconic af.
I feel that in uprising, they feel like just people in suits, like some power rangers type stuff. I don’t like how they’re using wips and giant swords and doing acrobatics and kicks
Fun fact: I watched Son of the Mask as a kid without knowing what The Mask was and actually enjoyed it. Then I tried rewatching it recently and couldn't finish it.
My biggest issue with Pacific Rim Uprising was how they completely changed the aesthetic, Del Toro has a unique grungy style of set dressing and lighting that makes the world feel actually lived-in. Meanwhile, everything in uprising just gives off a cheap sterile vibe, which kinda makes sense since it's the future and all that, but it just makes everything look artificial, like a disney theme park. I MIGHT have been able to excuse the mediocre plot if they had kept the look and feel of the first movie, but as it is now, I don't ever feel like watching it again, which is rare for someone who likes dumb monster movies as much as me. Btw, you're not nitpicking when you say the jeagers moved better in the original. Pretty much everyone who's seen both movies agrees the sequel would have looked infinitely better if they had that sense of weight.
agree to that. Uprising was really missing those cinematographic touches the first movie had to sell you how big the robots are. It's quite lacking that sense of scale to make you believe you are witnessing the Jagers move from your point of view
Honestly pacific rim uprising had one of the biggest missed plot because of the drone kaiju being able to open a portal. If they were still present for the battles, it would felt so hopeless there would be an army of kaiju and Jaeger kaiju against 4 Jaeger they would have to find the best plan because they literally had no choice but no that whole thing was destroyed in a matter of seconds causing 3 kaijus to get out when a lot of them could have shown up
It's kind of funny how Megamind is a big presentation junkie to where it's a big moment in the movie's climax that that's the difference between a villain and a super villain, but now they can't use that part of his character because the budget for the presentation in the sequel is crumbs.
4:48 Alright, as a member of the HTTYD fandom, I’m here to say we as a community hold this first two shows dearly, they are the only ones that matter, Rider/Defenders of Berk and Race to the Edge, we don’t care about rescue riders and we’ve burned Nine Realms at the stake
@@thebakeosaurusrex8361Jesus you don’t need to be so harsh about the show for young children mate. All you have to do is ignore it, it’s harmless 😅 that would be their introduction to the franchise before they’re old enough to watch the movies 😶 I haven’t seen nine realms but um yeah i don’t understand what’s up with this hatred 😅
@@gracekim1998 yeah, fair enough, I didn’t mean to come off as harsh for the kid show, it’s fine really for an introduction, and the hate for nine realms comes from the poor dragon designs, characters and just lack of what the original story had
6:07 it would’ve been a lot better if instead Megamind said something along the lines of “ y’know Minion, minion sounds like an evil underling kind of name that doesn’t do you justice for being my best friend. So how about we come up with a new name? “ “ how about ol’ chum? “ “ No, never that. “
Honestly from what I've heard of Jamie Kennedy's behind the scenes story of son of the mask, I genuinely feel bad for him and how poorly the film was treated at the studio, hopefully someday we the orginal cut of the film with concepts they initially had for it .
When it comes to what happens after a movie like Pacific Rim, my mind always goes to "humans have wiped out 80-95 percent of wildlife after the one thing that could keep them in check was stopped." Probably because that's how humanity is in real life, thanks to their god complex.
The biggest issue with Uprising is the fact that Del Toro didn’t make it. He has this specific vibe that he puts into his movies that’s just impossible to replicate. And you’re also right about the Jaegers being way too fast and not being different enough from each other. They move like they’re Gundams that are a fraction of a the size. It’s just one of those things that should’ve waited until they were able to get the right people aboard.
The worst part about Megamind 2 was finding out that the director was Eric Fogel, creator of The Head and Celebrity Death Match. Finding that out was me seeing his EP credit from another reviee, and then saying 'No no no no' out loud for 30 seconds until I got to the Wikipedia page for the movie. I think I died a little inside after that.
It's not Megamind 2. It's not a sequal, it's a TV spin-off. Just like the Shrek Halloween special is not a sequel to the Shrek movies (alto it is arguably better than the 3rd and 4th movies)
Im still surprised not many people talked about how similar the plot and writing is for both Pacific Rim 2 and Independence Day 2. Glad diamondbolt mentioned it at the end.
Mr. Bolt, I must say that the Turbo show is actually pretty peak. Like, I don't know how but they managed to make the humor and world seem better than it should.
They should have just made Minion’s name change a character development moment. Megamind could have realised that he wasn’t a lesser but an equal, a friend, a chum. Like why make a joke about a legal dispute?
14:58 I think I know what you're talking about. (I'm going to plagiarism this from somewhere I don't know, likely some review of Uprising) You see, the original Pacific Rim's cinematography was grounded. When they're filming a giant robot, they always have the camera act like it's on a helicopter or something because it makes it feel more real. They could have the camera go wherever they wanted because it was all CGI, but they chose not to because it made it more grounded. Uprising does none of this. It just moves around however it wants without any form of groundedness. Same thing with the Jaegers; they don't have the same weight anymore.
I'm not kidding when I say that a lot of the models from the backround characters of the Megamind show and 2nd movie are literally reused models from the boss baby show
I love how you actually took the effort to explain each movie’s circumstances instead of just tearing into them. It made the moments where you cut loose on them that much funnier. On an unrelated note I now want you to talk about The Exorcist 2 because you made it sound like the best worst movie ever made
I agree about the new jaegers looking the same. In the first movie we got Gipsy Danger, Striker Eureka, Cherno Alpha, and Crimson Typhoon. In Uprising we got Gipsy Avenger, Obsidian Fury, the woman jaeger, the one with the mace, and the one with a whip.
The worst part about Son of the Mask is the fact that the original Mask comics continued on with new characters and stories. They may have been more violent, but I don’t think it would’ve been impossible translating them to a movie.
Fun fact: if toro actually made a sequel, nothing would have been changed btw (same plot, same dumbass villain plot, same black MC) but you know what would be different had toro made a sequel? 12:14 it would be future humans, they looked alien because we destroyed the world so we have to wear alien hazmat suits, and they send kaijus to get our resources so they can do it again, moral of the story? Humans are the monsters. In hindsight it’s best if there is no sequel to giant robots punching giant monsters, ever.
@@playstation.e7703 funny how articles from all over the internet belongs to one specific guy on the internet because he's the only who read it *amazing right?*
The issue I have with the “Don’t judge Megamind too harshly because it’s for kids” thing is that if they weren’t depending on fans of the movie to watch it then why make it Megamind to begin with?
The fact that Guillermo del Toro did not return to director's movie should speak volumes as to why it did not work as well as the first film. Was even worse, is that there was actually plans to tie this thing into the monster verse to make it a sort of Supergirl arrowverse thing. But because Pacific rim 2 happened, those plans were quickly trashed and there is no interest in continuing the story. If they ever do makeup Pacific rim 3, I think it'd be best off to just make a movie that completely ignores Pacific rim 2 and acts like it is the real Pacific rim 2 in its place. I miss it when movies did that.
To be fair they likely did it because universal who owns dreamworks also owns illumination and minion is also the name of a despicable me character so they probably wanted to distance it so parents looking up toys for mega mind wouldn’t get toys of minions
@@thedman1754 it somewhat makes sense though since less educated parents who haven’t heard of the og mega mind will likely see the name minion and think despicable me
15:14 no, character designs and being distinct from each other is a perfectly valid thing to critique, especially when the fighting styles/looks are part of what you like about the first movie. It’s more fun that way, right? It’s more valid than most the things cinemasins has probably “critiqued”
One thing that I’ve been thinking about is why am I excited for GVK despite it looking and feeling like Pacific Rim 2, and I think the reason why GVK works where Uprising fails is Godzilla as a franchise has already established a sillier more fun tone with the Showa era movies, and GVK is essentially a tribute to those past films. A buddy-cop film with Godzilla and Kong as our main characters is so ridiculously stupid that you can’t help but not to love it. Pacific Rim 1 made such an incredible effort to make the Jaegers feels like real, working machines, with plates shifting and gears clanking, Uprising doesn’t do this and it suffers as a result, and punches don’t have the same impact without that buildup. Or maybe Kong riding Godzilla into battle is just fucking awesome
Correct. You can clearly tell that these are guys in suits on a miniature set. So obliviously, they won’t have any weight. Despite Haruo Nakajima being a fucking juggernaut in his prime.
Hey Diamondbolt, I'm a long time fan of your channel and I just want to leave some criticism. As I didn't enjoy this one much as your other videos, and I think it might be helpful if I can bring in somethings that might help you to improve. Keep in mind the overall video isn't bad, it's still entertaining like your other ones. Yet there were a few problems I have, and I guess problems I been having with your recent videos; which became prevalent with this one. I thought sections of explaining the sequel-films' predecessor went on a bit too long. Especially the segment on the first Megamind. I felt there could've been some things cut out, like the mention of the celebrity voice cast (using the segment of Megamind 1 again, for this example). And it will still leave the video to be the same. Another problem is sort of the editing. I'm aware you got a new editor and I will say they are doing a great job. I love their style and I think it's a good replacement to yours (not saying yours were bad, it was very much the opposite. I saying I think they were the right option to choose, whoever will handle your videos). Yet, I think they might be overediting a bit. The constant meme sound effects every 2 seconds just feels like an ADHD nightmare to me. So maybe, can they reduce it a bit please? I'm not a fan of your new thumbnails, very much. Your thumbnail are regularly crowded with a lot of things, but I think this video's to the one on Rise of the Beast, are a complete eye sore (especially the SSU video). They are so busy and the added website reviews just makes them worse. I suggest you go back to the still crowded, but simpler thumbnails. They were a few thoughts I hope you appreciate. As a mentioned-before long time fan, I think it's good to point at areas you could improve in and carry on making great content. Really hope this helped, and I'm happy if it did.
I know people complain about Ralph Breaks the Internet, but as a child who survived the Direct to DVD sequels era of Disney Ralph was nowhere near those levels, and if you say it is, you haven't watched Hunchback of Notre Dame 2
Dude I just realized that no sequel to a "we're bringing the fight to them" ending was ever made. Predators, Pacific Rim 2, Independence Day 2, none got a sequel.
I unironically like Pacific Rim uprising. I hate that you're right about the doom syndicate looking like Miraculous villans because now I can't unsee it
you know what could've been a cool pacific rim sequel idea? FASCIST YEAGERS! Hear me out, the common goal of protecting earth is gone, and niw the pacific nations got these giant mechas doing nothing, just imagine, a caste of elite trained soldiers with enough power to kill planet destroying kaijus gets a charusmatic rebellious dude who is a veteran and thinks he should get to govern all of the earth because he helped save it. Now Mako can be a counterpoint to his worldview and challenge him. He gets all the new robots that look exactly the same and Mako gets the older ones and prototypes from the timeskip, they barely win by some new tech using kaiju magic shit, and then break all of the mechas down because it would be a Huge tax money waste on super robots that may rebel.
The situation of Megamind reminds me Aladdin situation. After Aladdin 2 came animated series. Only Al and Jasmine were couple who had amazing adventures and villains (especially “goth”villain).
The Mask was originally a comic book series made by Dark Horse Comics (the guys behind Hellboy, Sin City, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the Star Wars comics), so if you want the lore behind it, that's a good place to start. It'd be cool to see you review some wild comics like the Mask or that one superhero parody comic about a prostitute superhero :D Or the Boys comics, they're absolutely wild and very different from the show, playing out more like a gorey parody than a serious thing.
I get that DreamWorks Television Animation making Megamind stuff a decade after the original movie is baffling, but they did that beforehand with Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron & that resulted in a genuinely fantastic TV series for girls & it resulted in DreamWorks Animation themselves to make an equally fantastic movie adaptation after it ended, so I don't think the long gap is worth complaining.
The sidekick girl was just another mary sue can easilly hit Minion's mech suit with her stick or use her smartphone as radar what a joke they complety ruined Megamind
So the little girl in the Uprising built a Jaeger, it took her 10 years, she says... she's 15 in the movie... so she started when she was 5... 5 years old with a decent handle on advanced aeromechanics and engineering... I will always hate this movie...
6:26 just because something is for kids it doesn’t need to be bad We have Ben 10, Generator Rex, Avatar the last airbender and even Teen Titans And heck Tom and Jerry and sonic boom and even the Amazing World of Gumball are hilarious for both adults and kids
I remember watching Pacific Rim 2 when it came out. I remember it sucking. I did not remember a single thing that was discussed in this video, like genuinely the only scene that triggered any memory whatsoever was the fossilized kaiju from the start. I didn't know a movie could be so bad that I would forget literally everything that happened in it.
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The true sequel to Megamind will always be The Button of Doom!
The Mega-Megamind was epic.
As was the Spee-Yider bot.
You got that right
Agreed “HOW DARE YOU BROW ME?!?”
the most violent kids movie
Yes!
The whole renaming Minion was useless anyways, since Universal owns both Dreamworks and Illumination. Plus, the word minion isn’t a trademark
Oh yeah
Imagine if Illumination pulled a Fine Brothers and copyrighted/trademarked the word “minion.”
Truly a Comcast moment
@@carter_lovejoy me chocking Universal & illumination studios CEO: WHY YOU LITTLE!
Tbh, when I first heard about that, I kind of thought it was a reference to him no longer being Megamind's minion, but his equal, but no, that wasn't it lol
There is no Easter Bunny, there is no Tooth Fairy, and there is *no* Megamind vs The Doom Syndicate!
i honestly wish Titan would just shows up again and ficking obliterates everyone in the show, a start again kind of deal
Finally someone who Don’t call it a Megamind 2 (Not trying to be rude)
And there is no Megamind TV show
There are no Megamind streaming shows in Ba Sing Se
Fun Fact: For Son of the Mask, Jack Black and Ryan Reynolds both turned down the role of Tim Avery. Michael J. Fox was also considered for the role of Loki.
They all dodged a bullet
Wise choice
Son of the Mask is a terrible movie, but I did enjoy Alan Cummings as Loki. He's always good though.
My least favorite part about Uprising is how terrible the Jägers move and are filmed.
In the first movie, the Jägers movement was slow, always felt a little delayed and when they wanted to make a fast motion, they had to build up the speed to do it first.
Plus, they were always filmed from an angle that complimented their size. Most of the shots feel like they could've been filmed by a bystander on the street, on a rooftop or from a news helicopter. They FEEL gigantic
In Uprise, they move as if they're Transformers. Sure they feel sorta big, heavy and slow but not nearly to the extent that their size and weight would suggest.
I actually like how the Jagers move in Uprising
it make sense in universe wise, but i still hate it so much. i don't care if the Jaeger is faster or slower, but they could've complimented the size with good cinematography. even if the Jaeger is fast, they still can feel gigantic. and my problem is not only the faster jaeger, but the movement felt like it's a motion captured. the first one feel mechanical. to make it worse, i don't give a shit about the pilot. sure, even in the first one the character is paper thin, but man do they feel iconic. the Russian, the Chinese triplet, even Rayleigh is iconic af.
@@ilhamadigunawan5264 I feel you
I feel that in uprising, they feel like just people in suits, like some power rangers type stuff. I don’t like how they’re using wips and giant swords and doing acrobatics and kicks
@@joshchernenko1295 The Super Sentai vibes are my favourite part of Uprising
These sequels are proof that some movies are better off as just stand-alone films.
They forgor to cook
Most movies don't really need sequels lmao
@@GlaceonFan1997 Especially Monster House
@@Guilty-Gearer-Does-ThingsMonster House has a sequel?
@@giovanniluke3882 No
Woman Defeats a demon with Gangnam Style, what happens next is shocking.
That’s definitely gonna be Dhar Mann’s 2024 Halloween special, mmw. 😂
Lmfao
Lmao
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@@theceoofbasedandlitswagger2456 MICHELLE, DO SOMETHING!
Michelle : whoppin gangnam style
There is no Megamind 2 or Pacific Rim 2 or The Mask 2 or war in Ba Sing Se.
Come to think of it, there are a LOT of things that aren’t in Ba Sing Se…
Can I come onto Ba Sing Se please
I meant into not onto
I guess Ba Sing Se isn't all that good if it has a lot of stuff missing 🤔
@@elementalt4nickthe earth king has invited you to lake laogai
And there is no Surf's up 2
You either die a villain or you live long enough to see yourself become the hero..........then become the villain again😕
Something I heard from pointlesshub is that Pacific rim 2 is the perfect sequel because it shows how bad they could've messed up the original movie
Good thing its just a fan concept, not a movie that actually exists
yeah imagine the squeal was the first it would be those movies that had a good idea but poorly executed
@@kasio7993pacific rim the black was actually pretty good. I mean its depressing and traumatic but still pretty good
@@blupyro3098not enough Australians
And I know we’re it’s set in
Cars 2 is still 100x better than Megamind 2
cars 2 fkn slaps they not even comparable
At least I can watch Cars 2 just for the sheer absurdity of it, I'm there to witness the chaos!
All Megamind 2 does is put me to sleep.
@@nordicohahah It's pretty bad ngl, but it's better than all the movies on this list.
Cars 2 goated movie
Definitely. It's terrible, but very fun in my opinion. Megamind 2 is not fun at all.
As British person, I can say responding with Megamind memes towards the Queen’s death was the right response.
I mean there were only two correct responses
*add a
Fun fact: I watched Son of the Mask as a kid without knowing what The Mask was and actually enjoyed it. Then I tried rewatching it recently and couldn't finish it.
Megamind Rules is practically Sonic Boom but if Sonic Boom wasn't self aware
hop off Sonic Boom
My biggest issue with Pacific Rim Uprising was how they completely changed the aesthetic, Del Toro has a unique grungy style of set dressing and lighting that makes the world feel actually lived-in. Meanwhile, everything in uprising just gives off a cheap sterile vibe, which kinda makes sense since it's the future and all that, but it just makes everything look artificial, like a disney theme park. I MIGHT have been able to excuse the mediocre plot if they had kept the look and feel of the first movie, but as it is now, I don't ever feel like watching it again, which is rare for someone who likes dumb monster movies as much as me.
Btw, you're not nitpicking when you say the jeagers moved better in the original. Pretty much everyone who's seen both movies agrees the sequel would have looked infinitely better if they had that sense of weight.
agree to that. Uprising was really missing those cinematographic touches the first movie had to sell you how big the robots are. It's quite lacking that sense of scale to make you believe you are witnessing the Jagers move from your point of view
Honestly pacific rim uprising had one of the biggest missed plot because of the drone kaiju being able to open a portal. If they were still present for the battles, it would felt so hopeless there would be an army of kaiju and Jaeger kaiju against 4 Jaeger they would have to find the best plan because they literally had no choice but no that whole thing was destroyed in a matter of seconds causing 3 kaijus to get out when a lot of them could have shown up
8:30 in the US the "mask seed" clip was cut off tv airings understandably like on CN. Imagine being the animator responsible for that.
Just finished his videos and he does specifically remember this scene lolololol
The sperm scene from Son of the Mask also THANKFULLY wasn’t in the theatrical cut, while it’s a Deleted Scene on DVD
Even the intro of Pacific Rim The Black alone had more effort put into it than Uprising
The Black clearly tries to ignore Uprising but has to lightly acknowledge it, which is funny to me.
@@alexkogan9755it only does enough to maintain continuity but is its own thing.
The black was alr imo, they just had god tier plot armour
@@alexkogan9755yeah fortunately you only need to watch the first movie and not the second movie thank fuck
The last thing I wanted in a Pacific Rim sequel was a “Get in the EVA, Shinji” moment
The Doom Syndicate do be looking like runaway Miraculous villains indeed.
That ad transition was crazy. Adam Diamondbolt really cooked with that one.
Cooked just like you can with Hello Fresh
It's kind of funny how Megamind is a big presentation junkie to where it's a big moment in the movie's climax that that's the difference between a villain and a super villain, but now they can't use that part of his character because the budget for the presentation in the sequel is crumbs.
and funnily enough none of the new villains had a good presentation like literally NO ONE and there's a ton of them
It's not a sequel
It's a direct to streaming spin-off with a TV budget, so it obviously shows
4:48 Alright, as a member of the HTTYD fandom, I’m here to say we as a community hold this first two shows dearly, they are the only ones that matter, Rider/Defenders of Berk and Race to the Edge, we don’t care about rescue riders and we’ve burned Nine Realms at the stake
Are any of the shows good?
@@waffle6376 Race to the Edge is the best and pretty solid, Rider/Defenders is alright and has some good stuff, the rest I don’t care about
@@thebakeosaurusrex8361Jesus you don’t need to be so harsh about the show for young children mate. All you have to do is ignore it, it’s harmless 😅 that would be their introduction to the franchise before they’re old enough to watch the movies 😶 I haven’t seen nine realms but um yeah i don’t understand what’s up with this hatred 😅
@@waffle6376it’s best to just try it out yourself 😅 and not listen to the toxic person hating on children shows for no actual reason
@@gracekim1998 yeah, fair enough, I didn’t mean to come off as harsh for the kid show, it’s fine really for an introduction, and the hate for nine realms comes from the poor dragon designs, characters and just lack of what the original story had
Unlike these movies, Diamondbolt was cooking with this video. This was the most diverse editing I've seen from you. Keep up the good work.
6:00 I love how they just re-use background characters from the boss baby tv show.
5:51
Megamind? More like nevermind!!!
BOSH ahhahaa
No way lol
Megamind without the letter N.
HAHAHA😂
bro, this is absolute gold, in its purest form
6:07 it would’ve been a lot better if instead Megamind said something along the lines of
“ y’know Minion, minion sounds like an evil underling kind of name that doesn’t do you justice for being my best friend. So how about we come up with a new name? “
“ how about ol’ chum? “
“ No, never that. “
I know this joke has been made before but "There is no Easter Bunny, there is no Tooth Fairy, and their is no Megamind 2"
Honestly from what I've heard of Jamie Kennedy's behind the scenes story of son of the mask, I genuinely feel bad for him and how poorly the film was treated at the studio, hopefully someday we the orginal cut of the film with concepts they initially had for it .
Original cut? Does Jamie Kennedy talk about this in one of his UA-cam videos?
@@wisconsinking323 yeah, he says the director has it on him.
"Let's have a film festival. The theme could be Movies-That-Killed-Their-Franchises: Jaws 4, Indiana Jones 4, Deardevil 1...!" -Raj
Bruh, Indiana Jones 5 is even worse
Jaws 3-D was worse than The Revenge.
@@alivebacontgm2 I don't think either is bad.
Michael Caine: "I don't remember Jaws: The Revenge, but I do remember the house I bought with the money."
Add on every the land before time movie, and you’re set!
5:30 HOLY SHIT Megamind Pissed On The Moon!
BABE WAKE UP NEW DIAMONDBOLT JUST DROPPED 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
LOW EFFORT COMMENT 🗣️🗣️🗣️
@@adamshafeeq8685 REAL 🗣️🗣️🗣️
5:22 not once in my entire life have I seen an image where absolutely nothing looks like it belongs together
Bolt I’m 100% surprised you didn’t mention Alfie watching transformers armada in son of the mask especially since you used that footage
Also in that one scene in Son of the Mask, was that CGI Demon baby watching Transformers Armada?
Yep. Cyclonus is so goated he made a cameo appearance in a completely unrelated movie
8:12 Hey I didn't know Son of the Mask was also a live action Punch Out movie!
When it comes to what happens after a movie like Pacific Rim, my mind always goes to "humans have wiped out 80-95 percent of wildlife after the one thing that could keep them in check was stopped." Probably because that's how humanity is in real life, thanks to their god complex.
The biggest issue with Uprising is the fact that Del Toro didn’t make it. He has this specific vibe that he puts into his movies that’s just impossible to replicate. And you’re also right about the Jaegers being way too fast and not being different enough from each other. They move like they’re Gundams that are a fraction of a the size. It’s just one of those things that should’ve waited until they were able to get the right people aboard.
15:45 THANK YOU! I felt like I was the only one who noticed the endings' similarities when no one else pointed it out!
8:58 MOTHER
The worst part about Megamind 2 was finding out that the director was Eric Fogel, creator of The Head and Celebrity Death Match. Finding that out was me seeing his EP credit from another reviee, and then saying 'No no no no' out loud for 30 seconds until I got to the Wikipedia page for the movie. I think I died a little inside after that.
It's not Megamind 2. It's not a sequal, it's a TV spin-off.
Just like the Shrek Halloween special is not a sequel to the Shrek movies (alto it is arguably better than the 3rd and 4th movies)
8:50 I will never get over the fact that cyclonus from armada was in this movie
THAT WAS ARMADA WHAT
Im still surprised not many people talked about how similar the plot and writing is for both Pacific Rim 2 and Independence Day 2. Glad diamondbolt mentioned it at the end.
Mr. Bolt, I must say that the Turbo show is actually pretty peak. Like, I don't know how but they managed to make the humor and world seem better than it should.
Wait, people hate Turbo?
They should have just made Minion’s name change a character development moment. Megamind could have realised that he wasn’t a lesser but an equal, a friend, a chum. Like why make a joke about a legal dispute?
Been really struggling with sleep and these videos help me chill out so much 😂❤
14:58 I think I know what you're talking about. (I'm going to plagiarism this from somewhere I don't know, likely some review of Uprising) You see, the original Pacific Rim's cinematography was grounded. When they're filming a giant robot, they always have the camera act like it's on a helicopter or something because it makes it feel more real.
They could have the camera go wherever they wanted because it was all CGI, but they chose not to because it made it more grounded.
Uprising does none of this. It just moves around however it wants without any form of groundedness. Same thing with the Jaegers; they don't have the same weight anymore.
13:17 "alien cancer" 💀
I'm not kidding when I say that a lot of the models from the backround characters of the Megamind show and 2nd movie are literally reused models from the boss baby show
I love how you actually took the effort to explain each movie’s circumstances instead of just tearing into them. It made the moments where you cut loose on them that much funnier.
On an unrelated note I now want you to talk about The Exorcist 2 because you made it sound like the best worst movie ever made
9:14 He looks like a rejected Lazy Town character
Minion having to change his name because of a c&d is kinda funny tho
MegaMind was chosen to get a sequel because it became a cult classic and the memes ressurected the popularity of the movie
I agree about the new jaegers looking the same. In the first movie we got Gipsy Danger, Striker Eureka, Cherno Alpha, and Crimson Typhoon. In Uprising we got Gipsy Avenger, Obsidian Fury, the woman jaeger, the one with the mace, and the one with a whip.
one with a whip is a mean jaeger that he bullied a bully xd
7:49 just so you know, my uncle’s cousin is very close to Jamie Kennedy because they grew up in the same area. Cool right?
i literally bought the first pacific movie dvd a couple of days ago and the cashier warned me not to watch the second one
The worst part about Son of the Mask is the fact that the original Mask comics continued on with new characters and stories. They may have been more violent, but I don’t think it would’ve been impossible translating them to a movie.
I was shocked that Megamind had a video game, but at least it’s better than the sequel.
There is no sequel, only a pilot to a spin-of TV show.
3:39 Everywhere I go, I see his face
I miss him.
Max steel is the only movie that has 0% rotten tomatoes and 0% on audience score
Worst Mattel movie ever!
@@SlapstickGenius23at least Barbie is better than this film
they had some angry comments on Dumbville's Max Steel review and I feel sorry for him
Kudos to the editor for making the sponsor so interesting and funny to watch
Fun fact: if toro actually made a sequel, nothing would have been changed btw (same plot, same dumbass villain plot, same black MC) but you know what would be different had toro made a sequel? 12:14 it would be future humans, they looked alien because we destroyed the world so we have to wear alien hazmat suits, and they send kaijus to get our resources so they can do it again, moral of the story? Humans are the monsters.
In hindsight it’s best if there is no sequel to giant robots punching giant monsters, ever.
You stole that from pointless hub didn’t you?
@@playstation.e7703 funny how articles from all over the internet belongs to one specific guy on the internet because he's the only who read it
*amazing right?*
i love how you added megamind characters three times in the thumbnail
The issue I have with the “Don’t judge Megamind too harshly because it’s for kids” thing is that if they weren’t depending on fans of the movie to watch it then why make it Megamind to begin with?
Megamind 2 villains in a nutshell: miraculous ladybug villain reject, bomb voyage, the Yu-Gi-Oh lava golem card, and your average DnD warlock.
It's not Megamind 2
It's not a sequal, but a TV spin-off
Bolt can you please cover Turbo Fast (the Turbo spinoff show)? That was one of my favorite shows ever and it’s actually really fire
5:15 *He’s not wrong*
7:15 you could say that Jim Carrey “Carrey-d” the movie
7:28 as good as this movie was nothing will Top Jim Carrey's performance as the Grinch
The fact that Guillermo del Toro did not return to director's movie should speak volumes as to why it did not work as well as the first film. Was even worse, is that there was actually plans to tie this thing into the monster verse to make it a sort of Supergirl arrowverse thing. But because Pacific rim 2 happened, those plans were quickly trashed and there is no interest in continuing the story.
If they ever do makeup Pacific rim 3, I think it'd be best off to just make a movie that completely ignores Pacific rim 2 and acts like it is the real Pacific rim 2 in its place. I miss it when movies did that.
Pacific Rim’s main theme sounds awesome. It’s a level of epic that fits a world where big robots beat the crap out of big monsters.
THAT HOME TIP AND OH SHOW WAS FIRE 🔥
And so was Croods and Boss Baby
they changed minion's name to old chum 😭😭😭😭
0/10 - ABSOLUTE GARBAGE
To be fair they likely did it because universal who owns dreamworks also owns illumination and minion is also the name of a despicable me character so they probably wanted to distance it so parents looking up toys for mega mind wouldn’t get toys of minions
Blame illumination for that😅
@@gracekim1998 But Universal own Dreamworks and illumination tho
@@sk8terboi2005 that's quite possibly the dumbest reason i've ever heard
@@thedman1754 it somewhat makes sense though since less educated parents who haven’t heard of the og mega mind will likely see the name minion and think despicable me
15:14 no, character designs and being distinct from each other is a perfectly valid thing to critique, especially when the fighting styles/looks are part of what you like about the first movie. It’s more fun that way, right? It’s more valid than most the things cinemasins has probably “critiqued”
One thing that I’ve been thinking about is why am I excited for GVK despite it looking and feeling like Pacific Rim 2, and I think the reason why GVK works where Uprising fails is Godzilla as a franchise has already established a sillier more fun tone with the Showa era movies, and GVK is essentially a tribute to those past films. A buddy-cop film with Godzilla and Kong as our main characters is so ridiculously stupid that you can’t help but not to love it. Pacific Rim 1 made such an incredible effort to make the Jaegers feels like real, working machines, with plates shifting and gears clanking, Uprising doesn’t do this and it suffers as a result, and punches don’t have the same impact without that buildup.
Or maybe Kong riding Godzilla into battle is just fucking awesome
Correct. You can clearly tell that these are guys in suits on a miniature set. So obliviously, they won’t have any weight. Despite Haruo Nakajima being a fucking juggernaut in his prime.
Hey Diamondbolt, I'm a long time fan of your channel and I just want to leave some criticism. As I didn't enjoy this one much as your other videos, and I think it might be helpful if I can bring in somethings that might help you to improve. Keep in mind the overall video isn't bad, it's still entertaining like your other ones. Yet there were a few problems I have, and I guess problems I been having with your recent videos; which became prevalent with this one.
I thought sections of explaining the sequel-films' predecessor went on a bit too long. Especially the segment on the first Megamind. I felt there could've been some things cut out, like the mention of the celebrity voice cast (using the segment of Megamind 1 again, for this example). And it will still leave the video to be the same.
Another problem is sort of the editing. I'm aware you got a new editor and I will say they are doing a great job. I love their style and I think it's a good replacement to yours (not saying yours were bad, it was very much the opposite. I saying I think they were the right option to choose, whoever will handle your videos). Yet, I think they might be overediting a bit. The constant meme sound effects every 2 seconds just feels like an ADHD nightmare to me. So maybe, can they reduce it a bit please?
I'm not a fan of your new thumbnails, very much. Your thumbnail are regularly crowded with a lot of things, but I think this video's to the one on Rise of the Beast, are a complete eye sore (especially the SSU video). They are so busy and the added website reviews just makes them worse. I suggest you go back to the still crowded, but simpler thumbnails.
They were a few thoughts I hope you appreciate. As a mentioned-before long time fan, I think it's good to point at areas you could improve in and carry on making great content. Really hope this helped, and I'm happy if it did.
Honestly a review of kung fu panda legends of awesomeness, penguins of Madagascar and HTTYD riders/defenders of berk sounds like it'd be fun.
I know people complain about Ralph Breaks the Internet, but as a child who survived the Direct to DVD sequels era of Disney
Ralph was nowhere near those levels, and if you say it is, you haven't watched Hunchback of Notre Dame 2
Oh god thank you yes, Ralph Breaks the Internet and Frozen 2 are masterpieces compared to some of the dreck of thr DTV era.
@@myriadmediamusings I'm just over the bashing of RBTI, I'm lukewarm on the movie and I find the reactions to it online really embarrassing
Yeah basically the only good Dvd disney squel is cinderbella 3 mainly bc it's pure comedy.
Rest is just either boring or just bad
@@13thKingMu I say Kronk's New Groove
@@RiderNexus I say Lion King 2
13:01 just realized this but the track is a brand new start which is nice to hear
Dude I just realized that no sequel to a "we're bringing the fight to them" ending was ever made. Predators, Pacific Rim 2, Independence Day 2, none got a sequel.
don't you dare insult Cars 2, it's obviously the best Pixar movie ever made. Cars 1 walked so Cars 2 could race.
And also Cars returned with Cars 3
2:43 oh hey I have that plushie
I unironically like Pacific Rim uprising. I hate that you're right about the doom syndicate looking like Miraculous villans because now I can't unsee it
8:05 What Is Ferris Bueller’s economics teacher doing this
you know what could've been a cool pacific rim sequel idea? FASCIST YEAGERS! Hear me out, the common goal of protecting earth is gone, and niw the pacific nations got these giant mechas doing nothing, just imagine, a caste of elite trained soldiers with enough power to kill planet destroying kaijus gets a charusmatic rebellious dude who is a veteran and thinks he should get to govern all of the earth because he helped save it. Now Mako can be a counterpoint to his worldview and challenge him. He gets all the new robots that look exactly the same and Mako gets the older ones and prototypes from the timeskip, they barely win by some new tech using kaiju magic shit, and then break all of the mechas down because it would be a Huge tax money waste on super robots that may rebel.
5:24 Isn’t that the plot of Despicable me 3?
And still Theo changed minion Name to Chum
The situation of Megamind reminds me Aladdin situation. After Aladdin 2 came animated series.
Only Al and Jasmine were couple who had amazing adventures and villains (especially “goth”villain).
How did the people behind Megaman 2 look at the unused/video game Doom Syndicate designs and decide that a freaking plain Mime was a better choice?
Some movies don’t need a sequel, it’s perfectly good where it’s at
6:49 CANCER
This movie feels like cancer
The Mask was originally a comic book series made by Dark Horse Comics (the guys behind Hellboy, Sin City, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the Star Wars comics), so if you want the lore behind it, that's a good place to start. It'd be cool to see you review some wild comics like the Mask or that one superhero parody comic about a prostitute superhero :D
Or the Boys comics, they're absolutely wild and very different from the show, playing out more like a gorey parody than a serious thing.
I get that DreamWorks Television Animation making Megamind stuff a decade after the original movie is baffling, but they did that beforehand with Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron & that resulted in a genuinely fantastic TV series for girls & it resulted in DreamWorks Animation themselves to make an equally fantastic movie adaptation after it ended, so I don't think the long gap is worth complaining.
Race to Edge (one of the how to train your dragon shows), is one of the best shows and one of the best things to come from the movies
The sidekick girl was just another mary sue can easilly hit Minion's mech suit with her stick or use her smartphone as radar what a joke they complety ruined Megamind
So the little girl in the Uprising built a Jaeger, it took her 10 years, she says... she's 15 in the movie... so she started when she was 5... 5 years old with a decent handle on advanced aeromechanics and engineering... I will always hate this movie...
6:26 just because something is for kids it doesn’t need to be bad
We have Ben 10, Generator Rex, Avatar the last airbender and even Teen Titans
And heck Tom and Jerry and sonic boom and even the Amazing World of Gumball are hilarious for both adults and kids
diamondbolt: uploads
anything else I'm doing: automatically becomes less important
Megamind 2? More like Megamind Poo!!!
I remember watching Pacific Rim 2 when it came out. I remember it sucking. I did not remember a single thing that was discussed in this video, like genuinely the only scene that triggered any memory whatsoever was the fossilized kaiju from the start. I didn't know a movie could be so bad that I would forget literally everything that happened in it.
I'm happy you talked about Uprising so other people can hear how bad it is.
other people should form their own opinion first