Welcome back everyone it's charlie this is going to be my marvel new mutants
movie review that is right i had a chance to see an actual movie
in a theater of sorts it was a drive-in theater so i'll explain what that was
like but no joke i was actually able to see
the new mutants movie amidst all the release dates that we've
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to see these characters come back in a new marvel mcu movie during marvel
phase 4 marvel phase 5. what i'm going to do in this video is
i'll start with the non-spoilery part and then i'll give a spoiler warning
later in the video when i talk about more specific things about the ending of
the movie and i know some of you will ask me so i
will rank this compared to some of the other
last big x-men movies towards the end of the video
overall it was a much smaller horror version of a marvel
x-men movie so don't go into it expecting the same thing that you would
expect from a mainstream giant 150 million dollar marvel mcu
or x-men or even avengers movie it's more of a mid-budget
logan wolverine style movie but you've posted all the memes about all the
release dates they even started to make fun of themselves
would this movie ever get to see the light of day finally they just decided
that screw the virus we're going to release it
no matter what the box office is so i went to see it at a drive-in
theater it was perfectly safe i didn't feel like there were any issues with
that the experience was fun i'd never actually been to a drive-in
movie before i listened to the audio from the movie on my car
speakers so even though that was a little bit weird all the music the
dialogue all the sound design the jump scares
everything still worked just fine the speakers in my car were pretty
normal but we could spend an entire video just talking about the history of
this movie and how it eventually wound up on screen
but it is one of marvel's first horror movies in general in the first horror
x-men movie that i can think of even though there's some horrific elements
in other marvel movies but as i talk about the movie you'll start to notice
that there are various points through the film where it's not quite sure
whether or not it wants to be a horror film
or if it wants to be a more mainstream x-men film josh boone the director
pitched the movie as a rubber reality mixture of one flew over the
cuckoo's nest meets a nightmare on elm street with a bunch of characters not
being sure what is real being trapped in this asylum
what's happening in our minds what's happening in the real world but because
this is a comic book x-men marvel movie the metaphorical terrors of their
psychic space their minds also become real things in
the real world they have to face the movie paints its themes in very
broad strokes and is very easy to follow which was kind of disappointing for me
usually i like a more complex film like i'm thinking more christopher
nolan's tenant which you kind of need a bunch of graphs and charts to be able to
follow it's only 90 minutes long which is very
very short for a marvel movie and even though the director avoided a total
reshoot situation and fox trying to overhaul the movie completely
there is still a lot of x-men marvel movie crossover elements connecting the
movie to other big marvel movies i don't want to get into too many big
spoilers about that in the video i will do a separate video for the ending
the marvel phase four of it all and how they're going to handle these characters
inside the mcu now that marvel has control of all the
x-men fantastic four characters but overall i just gave the story of the
movie a passing grade it's a solid setup they're putting the team together for
the first time and the movie was originally intended to set up a trilogy
we actually know what the story is for that entire trilogy now that the
director's come out and told us because he doesn't think that he's going to be
able to make the other films but the story of the movie is based on
the very first new mutants comic book story the demon bear
saga in that danny moonstar is trying to defeat demon bear a very powerful mutant
that killed her parents in most of her tribe
the movie makes a lot of changes to their comic book backstories of the
characters i didn't mind some of the changes given the circumstances around
the making of the movie in the overall current state of the fox
x-men marvel movie universe i know we're all kind of hoping that deadpool 3
is giong to be titled deadpool kills the fox marvel universe
and that's how they handle all that continuity in the mcu going forward
but i have to say one of my biggest issues with the movie is that danny
moonstar is the main protagonist the pov
character that you follow through the whole movie
she opens the film she ends the film but she's arguably the least
interesting character in it probably the shining star to come out of all this
is magic played by anna taylor joy she did a great job
performing her character and her character is written really well too
all the actors did great jobs with their characters in general i'll talk about
them in more detail in a second but just danny moonstar by herself as a
character felt underwritten and her arc felt more like a cw version
of an x-men character arc she even narrates the opening of the
movie and narrates the ending like they do
on cw tv shows and it's not a spoiler to say that they also used some buffy the
vampire slayer tv show clips in the movie at various points just a comment
on what the action of the movie is in that show aired on the network that
became the cw but magic was great in the movie like i
said probably one of the standout stars that they absolutely have to bring
back in the future mcu marvel movies at some point now you
understand why so many of the trailers that they release
focus on her scenes her powers and the big record drop moments involving her
the way she's written and performed though by anna taylor joy it almost
feels like magic is in a completely different movie from all the other
characters in the movie probably should have been
about her even her backstory as they explain it during the movie is way more
compelling than danny moonstar's backstory
that also gets into a lot of the crossover elements the easter eggs for
other big x-men and mcu marvel movies that they have in
there maisie williams was great as wolfsbane she plays her as scottish so
it was kind of funny listening to her deliver all of her dialogue with a
scottish broog she also had one of the more compelling
story arcs in the movie too they actually filmed this movie way back
between game of thrones season 6 and season 7 so we're talking a long
time ago but even though all the other actors
look way older now somehow she still seems exactly the same
like she does not age at all pretty sure just like magic
maisie williams also said that she'd love to come back in future marvel
movies but charlie heaton was also pretty
decent as cannonball most of you will know him from stranger things i do think
he's generally better in the work that he does on stranger
things than he was in this movie he plays his character with a strange
southern american accent it didn't bother me that much but it just felt
like it wasn't absolutely necessary for his character
the way they visualize his powers and the special effects are really cool
though sunspot was okay i hadn't seen the actor
playing him in anything before so i didn't really have any expectations for
him but based on what the director said they
just wanted his character to be this spoiled douchey rich kid when the movie
begins who slowly matures as the team comes together
and as written i thought he did a pretty decent job with that
because roberto decosta has bigger ties his father to the hellfire club his
character would have been much bigger in the sequels had they done them there was
a deleted post-credit scene involving his father in the hellfire club that
would have helped set up all that stuff but i'll talk about that in more detail
in a separate video just because it is kind of spoilery
alice braga was great as celia reyes she's the nurse
ratchet of the movie for talking about one flew over the cuckoo's nest
metaphors they did a really good job writing her
as a very complex character she's not necessarily a villain during the film
per se but they do use her character to tie together some of the larger
x-men marvel movie easter eggs and big post credit scenes from other big movies
so i will talk about that in my easter egg video
you also probably just saw her in james gunn's the suicide squad trailer just
this past weekend i've already done a video for that too
playing a dc character no less the movie is coming out next year so it
is funny to see actors jumping back and forth between the marvel
and dc universe david dasmartian from ant-man and the wasp
is also in that same suicide squad movie as polka dot man
overall the special effects the sound design the score were all pretty decent
even though i was listening to the audio like i said through my car's speakers it
didn't lose any of its quality it was a good experience
and the audio is a really really important part of the overall movie
going experience but one of the major things about the
movie that just did not work for me at all
was the ending the way they tie things off with danny moonstar's arc because
she is the main character just feels like something right out of a
cw tv show and it kind of made the movie feel like
an expensive episode of tv more than an actual movie so just
careful for spoilers spoiler warning we'll get into more specific details and
some of the issues that i have with the film
so i felt like the whole demon bear arc was super
underwritten and i did not like how they changed it making him more of a
metaphorical villain quote-unquote than an actual full-blown x-men comic book
villain like the whole message of the movie is
to not let your fear control you and they kind of beat you in the face
with that at various points in the film instead of demon bear being this crazy
cosmic mutant bent on destroying danny moonstar he's
just a psychic projection of her own fears that she
then pats on the head like he's a good boy
and proceeds to just wish him away like i won't let my fear control me
so that was just a little too much for me it didn't completely ruin the movie
for me or anything like that i think the movie would have fared a lot
better if they would have committed to the horror element and just done it
as an r rated film and leaned into all the really scary stuff
because most of the time it felt like it was bouncing back and forth between
mainstream x-men film traditional pg-13 for family audiences
and then a couple of scares that weren't really that scary so it kind of failed
as a horror film but overall the movie did feel like a very enjoyable
rental movie so this would have been a perfect vod
release so my other really big complaint about this is the fact that fox
let it sit on a shelf for a long time there were some people inside fox that
wanted to completely reshoot the entire film
thinking that the cost would be worth it because the budget was so low compared
to the budget of the mainstream x-men films
like them throwing away 50 60 million dollars was no big deal
so when you hear people say that the movie feels like it comes from a
different era of comic book movies and even x-men
marvel movies that's why because the movie was made
years ago when that was all happening and it does feel very weird that it is
the very last fox x-men marvel movie really that
should have wound up being the logan movie
ringing this was some of the other more recent x-men movies i would say it's
definitely better than x-men dark phoenix i wasn't nearly as disappointed
coming out of this as i was of x-men dark phoenix just because i had so many
big expectations for a dark phoenix storyline i always
went into this movie knowing that it would be a really small
thriller horror film but given the current state of the world
and the fact that most movie theaters are closed it was
a lot of fun to go to the drive-in and see a movie like this
so it totally works as a drive-in movie and hopefully they'll release it pretty
quickly video on demand sometime in the next
month or two i don't know how long they plan on leaving it in theaters
so what'll happen is is my video on the ending the easter eggs post credit scene
marvel phase 4 x-men stuff will happen probably sometime this
weekend as long as you have alerts enabled for my channel you should see
that video when i post it once you do have a chance to see the
movie just let me know what you think of it in the comments below
overall like i said enjoyable movie but just very mid-budget just don't have a
lot of expectations going into it while you wait for everything everyone
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