Blog:The Kusakabes: Halloween Hijinks (Fake Movie Collab, YTF43)

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"I guess they are real after all. What a dreadful creation! It makes me want to remove my eyeballs and eat them!"

- Malin after discovering monsters are in fact real

The Kusakabes: Halloween Hijinks is a Japanese-American-British traditionally-animated film produced by Satsuki Film Company, and the second (and to date, last) film based off the animated series The Kusakabes. It was released to theaters on September 27, 2019.

Plot
Satsuki, Mei and their friends face some strange antics while going trick-or-treating on Halloween night.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The idea of Mei having to dress up as a baby and sit in a pram for Halloween makes no sense. An infant is not scary and is a stupid costume idea. Mei is practically still one herself and cosplaying as her former self from less than 3 years ago is absolutely ridiculous. Mei had plenty of other costumes to choose from, so even if she was forbidden from dressing up as a devil, she could have picked something else. Having her parents force her into a costume she did not want is terrible parenting and makes absolute nonsense.
 * 2) There is a scene where they are trick or treating and Mei starts kicking the door because she claimed that the home owners were being slow. This only encourages younger audiences that her behavior is something to be imitated. Her demand for candy was bratty, selfish and disrespectful. Especially when she stole Kanta's Halloween basket to eat. When he made a fuss about it this and tried to take it back, she pushed him into the river, before the gang laughs at his mistreatment and they all share his candy.
 * 3) The random encounters with stereotypical Halloween characters does not make sense. It is clear that they were only there for filler. The scene where they somehow ended up in a forest was another plot point that needed but got no explanation. Since prior where they in a town and nowhere near any trees. Somehow it also was how a full moon despite how up until now, the moon was not seen at all. This was clearly just a poorly created Segway for the Werewolf to come in, which was their first enemy.
 * 4) The werewolf scene was definitely a bunch of nonsense. All he did was make poorly unrealistic attempts to attack the gang. They magically were able to dodge every single one of these, and proceeded to make even less sense by having Mei defeat the enemy by biting him on his behind. Not only does the group fail to care about the unhygienic, unrealistic defeat of it, they all just celebrate by dancing before moving on.
 * 5) The gang actually uses Mei as a weapon during the fight with the Mummy. Somehow, despite Mummies already being dead, he was successfully and brutally murdered by Mei ripping him apart with her mouth. The scene ends with Mei scooping up the blood and putting it into her pocket, and no one questions this.
 * 6) During the scene where the gang encounters Frankenstein, Mei briefly falls in love with him. Fortunately, Satsuki cuts her off just as she begins to kiss him.
 * 7) The whole film lacks any signs of parental guidance as a group of children are allowed to just wait about at midnight unsupervised. The parents of Mei and Satsuki seemed more concerned with Mei's costume demands than whether or not they get slaughtered by a predator in the dark.
 * 8) Dracula at no point shows any interest in blood despite the movie mentioning that he was a vampire at several points of the fight, and earlier in the film when they were discussing monsters.
 * 9) Near the end of the Dracula scene, after killing Mei's friends and threatening to kill Satsuki, Mei gets so angry that she jumping out of the pram and rips open her baby costume to reveal that she had been wearing the devil costume the whole time. Despite her having got her way already did she still spent an unholy amount of the story crying, screaming and moaning about how her parents were cruel for not giving her the desired costume, she literally already had it. This also shows kids that disobeying your parents is perfectly acceptable.
 * 10) Throughout the movie, Malin was sceptical of the existence of monsters. It was only the Dracula fight, being the final battle, that she believed they were real, despite all of the other monsters they had encountered throughout the movie.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The animation itself does resemble the original source somewhat. The music and character voices are also spot-on.
 * 2) The credits have a catchy song along with some entertaining and funny short animations of the gang as the credits roll.
 * 3) Some parts of the film are so awful that they are almost amusing.
 * 4) It thankfully clocks in at an hour and fifteen minutes.

Reception
This film received mixed-to-negative reviews for its questionable and nonsensical plotline and events. It has often been blamed as the reason for the franchise's cancellation.