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Mutafukas is a movie I went into knowing almost nothing about, and I didn't know exactly what to expect. As I watched it, I was having a difficult time understanding what the entire storyline was trying to play because the filmmakers were mushing so many different things together, but since the voice acting was energetically performed, the action so explosive and intense, the characters/narrative so off the wall, and the ideas so crazy, it was very difficult not to enjoy MFKZ 😂 After the credits, it felt like something really funny but fairly forgettable, but after an hour or two, I craved to watch it again 😂😂😂 The movie ends on a cliffhanger, so fingers crossed for a sequel! In closing, I recommend this film if you love crazy Animes and if you're infatuated with street culture and just pop culture in general.

This movie was incredibly animated. Dynamic camera angles, incredible color palate, the works. The action scenes were brutal and bloody, but also didn't sacrifice the reality of the universe of the film. The only star i didn't give was because of the love story. I feel like that part was a little forced in the ending scenes and it would have been better if the movie ended on a different note.

I saw the movie poster and was immediately interested. I thought this might really suck and was completely blown away. Great action great script and some great voice actors and actresses. I would actually watch that again. And I hope we get a second one based on the ending.

As a person that keeps up with Gkids new releases, I was excited to see this movie, it looked like a sleek gta movie, which for the most part it is. Let me break it down a bit

Characters: The main character Leon is a little bland but he gets the job done, Vinz voices by rapper Vince staples does a good job of being a likable cool best friend.......and the characters kinda end there, the girl is just....there, she's really just there to be the savior angel at the end. The villains? I really couldn't care about them, the main villain with the golden gun is fine. I'm not really gonna talk about Willy because he was just comic relief

Art: French art and animation proves to be unique and sleek, it's fun and engaging to watch

Music: a mixture of west coast hip hop and dubstep keeps the energy up

Story: Now, as much I like the fun bits of this movie, the story? We start off solid, you want to know more about the world, but man does it dip in quality sometimes. The fun chase scenes or fighting scenes are great, the moments of banter between Leon and Vinz, cool. But it has moments like the introduction of the wrestlers, that are skippable. I had a lot of fun with the first half, but I actually turned the movie off during the second half because it got too serious and fake deep for its own good. I did come back and just skip until Vinz and Leon were back to doing their thing. There's really nothing too special here with the story and some plot points feel unneeded. But if you just watch the fun parts of the movie then it's a nice watch

Verdict: it's always nice to see fluid 2d animation so I'm a little more lenient with this movie. The story isn't the best, it really drags at times. But! The fast paced gta like moments is what keeps this movie from bombing. I would recommend that when you watch this movie, to skip the wrestler intro and when Leon is at the secret organization.

The first half of the movie had me, but the second half and the other plotlines just dragged it down. The luchadores and Luna, the most underdeveloped character in any movie ever, just made it not that good. It couldn't decide if it wanted to be a hood, sci fi, or evil corporation movie and decided to cram 15 hours worth of story into 1 hour and 30 minutes of movie. I recommend if you like good animation, but the story sucked big time.

Really cool soundtrack and action (ice cream truck scene), both of which were elevated by the quality art. Everything looked really nice, from the colorful main city area, to the hood, and even the monochrome moon base had grown on me by the end of the scene. I cant extend praise to the story, however, which is riddled with cliches: chosen one, annoying cowardly friend, love interest with no character beyond "she's attractive". Certain scenes certainly were fun, but the story overall was way too weak compared to the sound and visuals.

Adult Cartoon. Possible spoilers.

Lino lives in DMC (Dark Meat City) New California. He shares a place with Vinz who has a flame on top of his head. After a head-on collision with a truck, Lino becomes Roddy Piper in "They Live" and has the ability to make out aliens among us.

The aliens are after Lino who has developed some skills. He also has something that resembles the WWE on his side as well as his legion of pet cockroaches. BTW Global Warming is caused by aliens who want to terraform the planet for their liking and kill off mankind.

Different.

Guide: F-word. Brief nudity.

Arstyle - Gave me serious tekkonkinkreet vibes and brought me back to when I first saw it. Each environment gave you a certain indescribable feeling and you could feel the effort that went into it as well as the characters.

Characters - Supported each other really well and had their own fleshed out personalities. Loved the unique designs and the fact that they acknowledged little things about themselves. It fit their environment really well.

Plot - Now this is where it goes downhill. Plot is kinda generic with the whole main character has special powers and must be captured. All the action scenes felt like I was lightly being punched in the arm, they didn't hit like I hoped they would. His inner potential came out for a split second and caught my interest but not by much.

Soundtrack - My taste has nothing to do with this but this music didn't fit at all. It felt like it was for a different movie. I was honestly expecting something similar to "Into the Spider-verse" because of the characters and the environment but we got dubstep instead. Not hugely disappointing just a really strange choice in my opinion.

At a certain point when everything shifts to being on the run, it feels like it rushed. I would've liked a slower build up and maybe more time spent on developing the characters/villains.

I get what they were trying to do with the main character at the end but I wished they would've given more power to him to close the movie. He just gets into a fight and some other minor characters we barely saw saved the day. I get the message I just felt like it wasn't enough. All of it kind of felt like a short story poorly stretched out to 1 hour and 34 minutes.

While I loved Tekkonkinkreet, I'll admit it wasn't perfect either. The style, characters, and environments are all phenomenal but it suffers the same issues with the scattered plot. It almost feels as if the movie is lost and doesn't know where it's going.

Movie starts out slow but, I dig it nonetheless, art work was cool. Characters were somewhat stock but our duo was well developed I feel at one point you may disliked one character but by the end you feel for him

The only piece of smooth animation in this whole film is an unnamed woman playing with her breasts. For it's 93 minute runtime the film throws fistfuls of anime tropes, racial stereotypes, and plot holes bigger than the main characters eyes. The random titles that pop up throughout the film are jarring and the majority of the characters go unnamed. The film makes many attempts to speak on societal issues and global politics but can't even manage character development. The author of the original comic has no experience with what he is attempting to portray and it shows.

Plot Holes Include: What ever happened to Lino's father? The man in the white suit is human apparently but has black eyes, never addressed. Why did he take off his bullet proof vest to fight a small enemy with no gun in known gang territory? The female love interest has 5 scenes and the majority of them she never speaks or is just a flashback, yet we're supposed to believe they had a connection. The world is supposed to be human, so why is there a talking cat and a skeleton? The enemy is defeated by snow but can survive in the vacuum of space. Who put braces on a cat? The Shakespearean gangster wasn't just shot in the eye, the back of his head was blown out. The whole side plot with the MIB agent Lino never confronts his nature, just gives up.

I guess I should have expected such a lack luster main character to end up back in the exact same position as when the film opened; in a tarnished apartment with only cockroaches to comfort him.

(More of a rant than review)

When I saw the trailer for MFKZ in 2019, the animation was what attracted me, as well as the story (though a bit cliche) of a dude having powers and being chased by bad guys, accompanied by his friend who (for some reason) has a flaming head. The movie was a coaster ride from the beginning to the end. The action was high octane and fast paced, but could still be followed, and Angelino and Vinz's character growth was also admirable. The problem I have with MFKZ, however, is that this rollercoaster was going so fast, I could barely look around and see what was happening. I still don't understand the whole Macho race plotline, nor do the good Macho men explain why the bad Macho man went AWOL. When Lino and Vinz leave the Macho men's hideout, they do it for literally no good reason. The Macho men saved them, and it even looked like Vinz was getting along fine while Lino was out, so why did they feel the need to run away? When it's discovered they're gone, the Macho men don't even blink, and go back to building the rocket. If they didn't care about him being there, why save him at all??? That's maybe the only plotline in the movie that doesn't make sense. Next, it's about how weak the protagonist is, despite having powers. I mean, 80% of the movie is either someone shooting, being shot at, or about to be shot at, but NONE of it is Lino or Vinz. They're kinda always being shot at, or about to get shot at. They fight back maybe twice in the movie, and the rest they're running. Lino never learns how to use his powers, which, you know, people with powers should do, and the story never puts him in a situation where he has to. Instead, it has random gang members come out of nowhere to fight the battle for Lino. I expected the movie to end on a high note where Lino faces off against white suit man and uses his powers to defeat him, but I guess the moral of the story is you don't need powers, just be yourself? Idk man. He doesn't even win this battle, the gang kills the bad guy. So to summarize, the main character has powers he never uses unless he loses control, never has to use, and never wants to. We just gonna ignore how he ran down the wall in the beginning? This is a huge gripe with me because how can the man have powers and not even have the tiniest desire to explore them? Wasn't his wish to "be someone"? Now that his powers make him someone, he doesn't want to use them to save Vinz or fight the bad guy? I really hope in the sequel (which I hope there'll be) he learns how to tame the tentacle beast or whatever inside of him.

In conclusion, I love this movie, but Lino and Vinz are just not courageous at all, and Lino doesn't do anything with his powers. Absolutely nothing. Why do they exist? I dunno, you ask the creators, please, because Lino apparently doesn't want them or need them. Thank you for reading this rant, if you read the whole thing.