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There is such a category of movie characters – sketchy characters. From time to time they reach peaks of popularity, turning into the kind of our old friends: few people know, but Bruno, Ali G. and Borat themselves were once such personalities. It was probably these gentlemen, under the authorship of Sacha Baron Cohen, who created the fashion: the highest award such a hero could receive was his own movie. The era faded before it had even begun, but as soon as the screen comes out with any new, original comedy, these characters-sketchy immediately come to mind. We’ve seen it with “The Fire Saga Band Story,” and now it’s time for “Barb and the Star Goes to Vista del Mar.” This story is about a couple of forty-something bazaar chicks and is a full length non-existent sketch show: the film is vivid, absurdist, but still quite modest compared to other humorous examples of contemporary cinema.

Barb and Star are two ladies you probably know. There are similar types in any enterprise: sometimes, though, they evolve into women who look like blimps. They also treat work like a second home, because Barb is a widow and Star is divorced. Their conversations are something with something: an onslaught of banality. They will talk about all sorts of nonsense and not get tired of it! The prim and cautious women find themselves out of work due to the closing of a furniture store. Before looking for work, the ladies decide to relax on the Florida coast in a place called Vista del Mar… where, by the way, a mysterious supervillain is entrenched.

The ridiculous storyline and all the situations the main characters get into is enough. The story goes straight for broke, and the characters bear the burden of the bizarre plot. The problem is that the narrative here is emotionally weak. Yes, Barb and Star are unwittingly involved in the plot, but the characters are rather unconvincing. The real purpose of their screwballs seems to be to stretch screen time. The characters are laughable not because they are constantly getting into trouble, but rather because of their philistine lifestyles. It’s witty, but the creators haven’t struck the right balance, so when the script enters into a spy movie parody theme, the homemade humor finally bogs down and it’s time for a stunted action-adventure.

Certainly the film deserves points for originality and, although at times “Barb and the Star” lowers the bar with its skinny sexual humor and the way romance is presented, it’s still a pretty funny picture. At least the film’s most important moments are catchy, and the script avoids the rhythms of formulaic romantic comedy. Nevertheless, this interesting approach is trapped by its own conception: as characters, Barb and Star are more interesting than the circumstances in which they find themselves.

There is a sense of cartoonish unpredictability about the film: it is even surprising that “Barb and the Star” is not based on any pre-existing material. This keeps the film from becoming monotonous, but if you think about it, there is little imagination for the script here: except that the talking crab parodying the wise Morgan Freeman is something daring; the rest of the action moves by inertia. Perhaps best of all, “Barb and the Star Go to Vista del Mar” is characterized by a repeated joke about the culottes (as the opening plaque says, “a popular garment for women of a certain age”), which never really formed into anything coherent.

Info Blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265 (78.0 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Audio
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: Dolby Digital 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 2.0

Subtitles
English SDH, Spanish.

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The hardest review of my life, because a few weeks after watching the new animated Disney movie, I could not decide whether I liked it or not.

On the one hand, I am still impressed by the thoughtfulness of the world where events take place. It can be seen that the artists were inspired by the works of Osama Tetzuki about Astroboy and Metropolis. At the same time, they considered it simply too easy to copy the Japanese city of the future and, combining the Eastern style with American life, created something of their own, unlike anything else. The result is obvious, the city is the first to catch the eye. All streets, neighborhoods, restaurants and other places catch their eye and are imprinted in memory for a long time.

And the design of the characters, as well as their characters are also on top. Unless Hani Lemon, a bit like Rapunzel and Anna from the latest studio work, turned out to be a bit of a passing hero.

Of course, the Beimax robot is the most memorable character, since the entire advertising company was built on this cute, good-natured character so similar to the panda and Totoro.

But with all these pluses, I just could not understand what was stopping me from saying: “It’s just super! And then I came across a concept art, exhibited on the network. Among all these unrealized ideas like the geisha minions of the villain, many scenes showing how close the brothers were, all their inventions and other scenes, it finally dawned on me that I did not like the cartoon – its incompleteness.

A lot of ideas, marked at the very beginning, now and then pop up because of the plot bushes. The story of the villain does not fit in with the story of a boy who knew the bitterness of loss. The story of the protagonist is told at the very end, and despite the fact that I already knew his name in the first scene of the appearance of a masked man, the motivation is revealed at the very end. Hence the main problem of the film – we are not allowed to empathize.

A few strong and catchy scenes, the scriptwriters too abruptly replace the unreasonable humor. In the best traditions of the transition from the death of Bambi’s mother to singing birds, mourning is instantly replaced by a scene of a race for a clumsy robot, the disclosure of the death of a villain’s own man is a sudden scene of salvation. Is it really so bad to give children a moment to sympathize with the heroes ?!

And here it is also striking that all the bright characters do not in any way contact the robot Beimax. And judging by one single scene of a conversation with the butler, such scenes would be much more interesting than the eternal stuffing of the poor fellow in all kinds of cracks and kung fu lessons.

Bottom line: A good overall film, which did not have enough completeness to become a genius.

Info Blu-ray

Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265
Resolution: Upscaled 4K (2160p)
HDR: HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Audio
English: Dolby Atmos
English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
Spanish: Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
French: Dolby Digital Plus 7.1

Subtitles
English SDH, French, Spanish

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