Blog:Kirby The Movie (Fake Movie Collab)

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"A Kirby movie could have had so much potential, it could have been a god damn masterpiece with care and charm put into it! But instead, you decided to make a laughing stock and a terrible, generic family movie with Kirby plastered onto it, congratulations Illumination, you have disappointed all of us…"

- AntDude

Kirby: The Movie is a 2023 computer-animated science-fiction comedy fantasy film directed by Michael Bay and distributed by Illumination, it is based on the Kirby game series by Nintendo and Masahiro Sakurai.

It stars Makiko Ohmoto as Kirby, Sarah Anne Williams as Tiff, Tara Strong as Tuff and Lololo, Rodger Bumpass as King Dedede, Seth MacFarlane as Escargoon, Hank Azaria as Chef Kawasaki, Kath Soucie as Lalala and Neil Morrissey as Meta Knight.

Plot
One day, Kirby and his friends are enjoying life in Dreamland, but one day, a mysterious alien ship visits from outer space and plans on taking over the universe and destroying Planet Popstar. It is up to Kirby, the residents of Dreamland, Meta Knight and King Dedede to stop them.

Why It Sucks
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 * 1) Much like the 2022 Super Mario movie, the movie was infamous for using stunt casting for the main characters (with exception of Kirby, who was voiced by his original voice actor), as most of the voice cast is voiced by random celebrities and famous actors rather than the original actors from mh:besttvshows:Kirby: Right Back at Ya!.
 * 2) * Whilst most of the cast do their jobs right, Neil Morrissey doesn't all too great as Meta Knight, as he makes him sound a bit too much like Bob from Bob the Builder but at a deeper pitch, not helping by the fact that Neil Morrissey is the same voice actor for Bob in Bob the Builder.
 * 3) One of the main problems with the movie is that the story is all over the place, it cannot decide whether it wants to be a sci-fi movie or a fantasy movie, as it has tons of moments where it takes place in Dreamland and also moments where it takes place in space.
 * 4) * It doesn't help by the fact that Masahiro Sakurai had no involvement with the making of the film, which suffers a similar problem to the 1993 Super Mario Bros. film.
 * 5) Horrible direction from Michael Bay, not helping that he did not know that much about the Kirby games prior to working on production with the movie, even the writers' Brad Copeland, David N. Weiss and Jon Vitti, who all had a little bit better knowledge of the Kirby games, did not do great at writing for the movie either.
 * 6) Lots of the main characters were mostly flanderized and do not act like how they were in the original video games:
 * 7) *Kirby is now way more idiotic than he originally was and only cares about eating food rather than helping Dreamland.
 * 8) *King Dedede, despite being less evil than he was in the anime, is now way more of a psychopath here and is at his absolute worst too, as he literally threatens to kill Tiff and Tuff!
 * 9) *Tiff is now a whiny brat who cries over little things and is very snobbish and selfish.
 * 10) *Meta Knight is just a Batman clone who always acts like his life is dark and depressing, and always appears to be extremely bipolar throughout the entire movie.
 * 11) There are tons of pop-culture references and random jokes that only make references to other movies, most of them are very out of place for the Kirby franchise and they feel very forced in, some examples include:
 * 12) *An entire scene where King Dedede sang the mh:greatestmovies:Star Wars theme song, which was ridiculously long and was only there to pad out the runtime.
 * 13) *Three entire scenes dedicated to being a parody to mh:greatestmovies:2001: A Space Odyssey, this includes:
 * 14) **The scene where King Dedede and Escargoon bash open the trap door in their castle while making monkey sounds, which is a parody to the Dawn of Man scene, it even plays "Also Sprach Zarathustra" while the scene happens.
 * 15) **The scene where Meta Knight says "I'm sorry Dedede, I'm afraid I can't let you do that".
 * 16) **The scene where Kirby transports from one dimension to the other, in a portal that resembles the stargate scene.
 * 17) ***Even the trailers weren't free from making parodies to 2001: A Space Odyssey, as the first teaser trailer starts out with planet popstar being shown in space and it plays "Also Sprach Zarathustra" as the sunrises over it, in fact, the trailer starts out very similar to the intro of this video.
 * 18) *There is a completely unnecessary scene where Tiff comments that "Kirby way cuter than Pikachu and Hello Kitty combined!", which serves as nothing but just references to other popular Japanese icons.
 * 19) *An abysmal joke where Tuff tells Kirby to "Kirb his enthusiasm", and then it plays a song that is very similar to the theme song from "Curb Your Enthusiasm".
 * 20) *Escargoon claiming that the stuff that Kirby does is less offensive than anything on Family Guy.
 * 21) *Kirby dancing to "Gangnam Style" by PSY at the dance party segment near the end of the movie, there was even a scene where he did the floss.
 * 22) *Adeleine singing a cover of "Good 4 U" by Olivia Rodrigo during the post credits scene
 * 23) The aliens are very annoying and often repeat the same boring jokes over and over again, although they are well-written characters when it comes to their motives and backstories, they are abysmal when being used for comedy.
 * 24) There are so many poor attempts at trying to be funny, with most of them being really unfunny and disgusting fart and burp jokes and immature toilet humour, this includes:
 * 25) *One entire scene where Kirby burped really loudly after eating three cans of beans, causing everyone in Crappy Town to get distracted and disgusted by the horrible smell of the burp.
 * 26) *King Dedede calling Kirby "a big fat poopy stinky head", which is a really corny and ridiculous line of dialogue.
 * 27) *King Dedede farting on Kirby's face, causing him to get really dizzy and to pass out from it, which is just downright disgusting and out of character for Dedede to do.
 * 28) The ending is downright pathetic; Kirby destroys the alien spaceship, but he sacrifices his life in doing so, everyone in Dreamland starts out sad about it, but gets over it very quickly since Dedede tells everyone to "party down at my castle!", that is not how you follow-up to a sad moment in the film!.
 * 29) *What makes it even more insulting is that the sad scenes use emotional manipulation to make you think that Kirby died, but it actually reveals that he survived all along. The reveal that he survived also suffers from numerous plotholes and raises more questions than answers too:
 * 30) **How did Kirby survive the massive explosion in space? Realistically, he should have actually died from it because there was no possible way that anyone would survive an explosion that big in space.
 * 31) **Kirby's warp star also got destroyed in the explosion, so how did he get back to Planet Popstar without it?
 * 32) In a similar manner to how Seed of Chucky, Shrek the Third, Cars 2, Ice Age: Collision Course and Minions negatively affected their respective franchises, this film heavily damaged the reputation of both the Kirby franchise and Illumination, and although Illumination and Nintendo will be making a sequel to this movie and the Kirby franchise is far from dead, the movie did effectively cause the reception of the games in the Kirby franchise to decay.

Redeeming Qualities
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 * 1) The animation is fantastic and it manages to keep the style from the video games very well, the animation in this movie definitely has to be the best that Illumination has ever done.
 * 2) *The scenes in space have really good animation as it looks photorealistic and seems like there was a lot of effort put into it.
 * 3) The voice acting for the most part is good and is pleasant to listen to, some of the actors that were used for stunt casting actually sound decent too.
 * 4) *The voice acting on Kirby is still good, as he is reprised by his original voice actor, Makiko Ohmoto.
 * 5) Not all of the characters were flanderized; Tuff and Escargoon weren't flanderized and are still enjoyable characters.
 * 6) The aliens, while annoying, have understandable motives for wanting to take over the world and are actually well-written as villains.

Announcement
When the first teaser trailer dropped, there were a lot of excitement and thrill from Kirby fans about the release of the movie, many users such as AntDude and Nathaniel Bandy both made videos discussing the announcement and claimed that they were hyped to see what's in offer for the execution of the movie.

Nintendo then revealed the cast of the movie on their website, which eventually became an Internet meme, similar to the reveal of the cast of the 2022 Super Mario movie, some were a bit sceptical about the casting of the characters, but they thought it wasn't as big of a deal as the casting for the 2022 Super Mario movie, so fans were still hyped.

Release
When Kirby: The Movie finally released, it received negative reviews from critics and audiences alike, claiming that it was unfaithful to the video games and feels like a bad family film in disguise of a Kirby movie, though it did receive some praise for the animation and the voice acting. The film currently holds a 4.2/10 rating on IMDb, a 9% critic score and a 34% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, the website's critical states "Kirby: The Movie feels like a generic movie from Illumination, but with Kirby copied and pasted over it and with far more pop culture references and toilet humour present then slapstick (which this film also contains) could ever imagine".

Masahiro Sakurai disowned the film after release, claiming that it was not what he wanted the movie to be like, and he openly apologised for the quality of the film, promising that if any future adaptations of his creations ever get in production, he will make sure to be involved with it.

Trivia

 * It is the first movie adaption of the Kirby franchise and is also the first computer-generated movie directed by Michael Bay.
 * The first teaser trailer for the film was attached to the film Super Mario (2022) from December 2022 onwards.
 * Shortly after the release of the first teaser trailer, the cast was later revealed by Nintendo on their website, which showed the cast for the movie, much like the reveal for the cast for the Super Mario 2022 movie, it later became an internet meme.
 * The movie came out the exact same day as United Kingdom: The Movie.