Blog:BlakeIsHere: The Strange Week (FAKE MOVIE COLLAB (BlakeIsHere))

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BlakeIsHere: The Strange Week is a 2021 British-American animated action dramedy movie based on the television series BlakeIsHere: The Animated Series, directed by series creators Afon Glendower & Mervyn Bowen, also known as the Bowen brothers, based on a script by Meinrad Ruedi Messer & Hasso Kai Herzog and was released in cinemas on August 18, 2021.

Plot
The Carlsbergian economy is falling, mainly due to the economic downturn, which causes Blake to lose funding for his secret project.

Cast

 * 1) Lucas Blake Ashton as BlakeIsHere
 * 2) Tawnee Bunker as Lily May
 * 3) Quin Darwin as Maddie Cástano
 * 4) Kate Harbour as Kimyona
 * 5) Leila Birch as Acela the Amtrak Engine
 * 6) Rosamund Pike as Capitalstar
 * 7) Pierre Coffin as the Minions
 * 8) Britt Allcroft as Capitalstar's Computer
 * 9) Adam Sandler as Chris the Toxic Talking Tree
 * 10) Sarah Ann Kennedy as Acela's driver
 * 11) Harley Bird as Peppa Pig
 * 12) Emma Clarke as Lily the Leaf Girl

Bad Qualities

 * 1) This film is inferior to the previous film and the TV series, and it lacks any charm or charisma of them in terms of storytelling, characters, and voice acting, as you will see later. Therefore it’s not a good continuation of the previous film, along with Cars 2 and Shrek the Third. And for good reason because, as That British Reviewer pointed out in his video for the film, it does almost everything a sequel shouldn't to progress the narrative and improve on its predecessor.
 * 2) Just like Halloween III: Season of the Witch, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Shrek the Third, Minions, Cars 2 and Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, the only event or contribution that can be considered important of the film for the franchise is the introduction of Acela the Amtrak Engine, since most of the events that occur in the film can be omitted without any problem. Also, the later films and series has few references to The Strange Week and barely acknowledges the events of The Strange Week, though this may have been done because The Strange Week had a mixed reception by the critics and the public. In the later movies and the shorts, Louie (who was going to be the villain of Lily's Depression, but was deleted), Chris the Toxic Talking Tree and Capitalstar's Computer seem to have never existed and they are never mentioned. The same can be said about Kimyona, who only appears in the credits of BlakeIsHere Forever After, and are never mentioned in the later movies and TV series. In fact, The Strange Week can be overlooked, and literally, nothing is lost, as most of the events of The Strange Week are completely ignored in the later movies and TV series, or suffer almost 80% of retcon. A great example of retcon is the fact that Cadell Glynn is completely different from Cadell Glynn from The Strange Week.
 * 3) Some of the characters were butchered beyond recognition.
 * 4) * Maddie went from a feminist who is very critical, to an absent-minded idiot, and she almost made a train derail, collide with a tree and crash that could have killed hundreds, if not thousands of Minions!
 * 5) * Capitalstar became an annoying, loud, and immature brat.
 * 6) Not even the new characters are good.
 * 7) * Kimyona is the cliched "bad because bad" villain.
 * 8) * Evie is a generic nerdy idiot who is obsessed with Pokémon, in fact, she is even named after a Pokémon.
 * 9) * Louie is defiantly one of the most one-dimensional and boring characters in the franchise's history, as he has no personality other then liking music.
 * 10) * Capitalstar's Computer is an annoying comic relief and is only put in for filler, thankfully she dies during the climax.
 * 11) * Out of all of the characters introduced in this movie, Chris the Toxic Talking Tree is the worst, he is very mean to Blake and Lily, points out obvious information, is put in only to extend the time, and is even voiced by Adam Sandler, and he is arguably the worst character in the BlakeIsHere franchise.
 * 12) The film is all told in short segments but yet plays the same story, which is a huge "no-no" in films, did BlakeIsHere Studios watch Shorts or something?
 * 13) As good as the voice acting may be, there are quite a few questionable roles for specific characters:
 * 14) * Capitalstar now sounds annoying and loud, reflecting on her new butchered personality.
 * 15) * Kanazgr sounds awful, I assume the casting director wanted him to have a calm voice, but it failed miserably.
 * 16) * Some characters sound different or were recast:
 * 17) ** Maddie is now voiced by New Zealand actress Quin Darwin after Kirsten Curtis was fired following false accusations of pedophilia, while she doesn't sound bad, it isn't as good as Kirsten's voice for her.
 * 18) ** Lily now sounds different (in the US version anyway), she now has a western accent, again, it isn't bad, but it can be annoying to some viewers.
 * 19) * Most of the young actors act oddball and strange in this film, which is a common problem with every young actor film.
 * 20) False advertising: The film was marketed as a drama film although barely anything dramatic happens.
 * 21) The film shoves in characters from other media only to extend the time out, examples include Peppa Pig, Lily the Leaf Girl from Alphabest Friends, and various Countryballs.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Amazing 2D animation for the time.
 * 2) Beautiful music by Elfreda Starr, who also worked on the music from the TV series
 * 3) Except for Capitalstar & Kanazagr, great voice acting, although Maddie was re-casted, and Lily (both the stick figure and the Leaf Girl)'s voice changed.
 * 4) Some of the characters are still likeable, like Blake, Lily, the Mayor of Carlsberg City, Danielle, etc.
 * 5) * This film introduced Acela the Amtrak Engine, one of the greatest villains in the franchise, because he a good example of a racist.
 * 6) * Maddie & Capitalstar redeemed themselves in the climax, which is nice.
 * 7) Most of the unlikable characters thankfully die later on in the movie.
 * 8) * Maddie hits and destroys (and therefore, kills) Capitalstar's Computer during the climax.
 * 9) * USSRBall shoots Kimyona with an AK-47 at the end of the movie.
 * 10) * Blake slices Kanazgr with a sword in the alternative ending, despite that, he appears after this movie, which results in a major plot-hole.
 * 11) * Chris the Toxic Talking Tree is chopped in a post-credits scenes.
 * 12) Some funny moments here and there.
 * 13) * There is a funny parody of the Empire Today jingle where everyone dies, it even became a meme.
 * 14) The climax and ending are great.
 * 15) The opening is decent.
 * 16) Despite being cheesy, some of the dialogue are funny (depending on who you ask) such as "What the Karen Hellish fucking shit are you doing here?!".

Trivia

 * The infamous line "What the Karen Hellish fucking shit are you doing here?!" spawned memes due to making no sense at all, and due to that line mostly being out of context.
 * Kimyona is Japanese for "strange".