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The title "Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards 2020: Celebrate Together" is certainly fairly telling because in there you got the target audience, the name of the event and also the year. And you have a little addition, two words that I guess are supposed to convince us we can still have a great time and we are watching this together, even if we are not in the same room with everybody. This is of course linked to the corona pandemic. Right now, in late November 2020, we are in the middle of the second wave and back then when this aired, namely over half a year ago, we were in the middle of the first wave. Obviously I live far away from America, but "we" in this case means "us humans". You can read the names of the participants here on the title page and I will not mention most of them. One who deserves the mention, however, is Victoria Justice as she got picked to host this event this time and it basically feels like a webcam broadcast you could say. It's a really short show at under 45 minutes. This way, it even falls into the short film category here on imdb if e arfe looking at the regulations. Or "short show" I should say, even if most of the recipients probably prepared their acceptance speech. This is also what I am referring to in the title of my review. The one massive problem with this show was that they basically announced every winner they go an acceptance speech to show in the opening sequence. What a terrible decision. I mean I can see why people want to know if their favorites will be a part of the show and, as a consequence, decide if they keep watching, but this is an awards show. This is not an interview show or anything else. Seriously. I want the suspense. This is what it is all about really. It's such a pity by the way because other than that I enjoyed the show on several occasions. I don't need the stage performances that always drag this show until at least the 75-minute mark. Just give me the nominees and winners and brief acceptance speeches and I am happy. So this was a somewhat good thing here corona caused because this is exactly how it was handled. Of course, they had to keep the slime out this time because it was not possible organisation-wise to slime these people at their homes or wherever they were when accepting the awards, but at least Justice got a little slime inclusion at the end. Also the slime video from from outer space was a pretty nice idea in fact. So they did a lot right here and I probably would have given a positive recommendation and two more stars if tehy had not messed up the way I explained earlier. How they took out all the fun really. Anyway, as for the winners, the could be worse admittedly. Also obviously I have not seen a lot of stuff that was honored here, but I can live with the overall outcome. Could have been better too, but I take it. Saw way worse winners in the past at these Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. And the little videos were nice too. Well, most of them. The Avengers gang seemed to have a lot of fun. Renner is one cool cat, even looking like a normal guy with glasses, and ScarJo not too shabby either. DeGeneres I will never turn a fan into. Same for Kristen Bell, even if I like Frozen. Josh Gad was so much better and he did not need any pompous costumes. Especially his line about how this little trophy is the closest he will come to aviation in quite some times was hilarious. In a positive way. Ariana Grande apparently likes Spongebob. Okay, she was not as attractive as I remembered her. Same for Dove Cameron. Oh well, everybody gets older I suppose. Camila Cabello is getting more stunning by the day though it seems. Shawn Mendes is one lucky fella. Oh yes, LeBron was featured too. Oh well, never been a big fan of him, not early in his career when I was Team Wade and now neither with his constant transfers and political statements. Oh yeah, another thing finally, they also donated a lot of money to some anti-hunger foundation, but this they could have really elaborated on in a better manner. It felt so rushed and I had no clue what was going on, where the money was going exactly, why there etc. Alright, I shall leave it at that. Summarized most of it. Another flaw that makes it easy for me to give this a negative recommendation overall is that apparently they also did not present every awards live on air. This always sucks. So my suggestion is you skip and watch something else instead. It may not be among the worst Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards ceremonies, but there is definitely a lot of room for improvement and corona was definitely not the (only) reason they came short quality-wise this year. Just too many weak decisions made here.