There's a difference though. The child does it because it's fun and besides buying the toys its free and not being sold as a product. The business does it because it's cynical, it's done to revive IP or brag about it, and it's being sold as a product.
The first is fine.
Can't say I've watched it. I was annoyed that they changed the conceit from games to internet memes and it didn't help that the emoji movie was still fresh in my mind at the time.
Once again, there's nothing wrong with crossovers or IP blending if you can implement it right. There's a reason why Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is still widely liked even today.
Does that make it soulful now? I need a calculator for this shit.
It's all about the ratio of IP promotion to entertainment value you get from seeing the different characters and elements from different worlds interact. Some like Roger Rabbit and the first Wreck it Ralph do it well, some like this film, the Emoji Movie, and something like Scoob not so much. They're so soulless and unentertaining that there's nothing to distract you from the IP promotion element, so it's easy to see these movies as shitty advertisements.
I was honestly so disappointed in Wreck-It Ralph 2, because I actually quite liked the first one. The idea of Ralph becoming too attached to Vanellope was good, and him learning to let her journey off to do her own thing could have made for a great story. But why did it have to be set in the internet, and why did Disney have to shove every IP they own into it? I would have liked it a lot better if they stuck with video games, but maybe they shifted from the arcade era, to the console era. Maybe Vanellope sees newer versions of Ralph and Felix starring in platformers, or more open-world type games, and, sick of racing around the same tracks every day, she sets out to find a new genre of her own, and star in her own adventure. I don't know, it sounds like a straight to DVD sequel idea, but what we got was shit, and I'd prefer almost anything else
Honestly only three films have really done this IP blending well which was the first Wreck it Ralph since the world is inside of an arcade and some of the video game characters add to Ralph's character (mainly the other video game villains), Who Framed Roger Rabbit since the cartoon characters help the world and they aren't used to compensate for a garbage story like in Space Jam 2 and RP1, and the Lego Movie (and perhaps the Lego Batman Movie) since the characters in the movie are literally controlled by a child's imagination so it makes perfect sense they'd bring in other characters as well.
Technically they can't re-use the Monstars... they only looked buff after they stole the other NBA's "essence" or powers or whatever. At that point it would just be a re-boot rather than a sequel if they just told the first story again except its in the future.
True enough, but from the crapped-out logic of this movie, the original Space Jam is now just a movie within a movie in this setting, and everything's digital, so nothing stopping Don Cheeto from just dragging the Monstars from out of a clip of the original movie and giving them updated powers or get the little guys in the present and give them new celebrity NBA powers from some website's data or some bullshit because fuck it. Its dumb as fuck, but at least it sounds more interesting than what we got and the little Moron Mountain aliens being evil again would make sense since they've been ignored by the Looney Tunes since their first appearance. Honestly, this villain team and Don Cheeto are just really bad, to the point where I actually regret talking shit about the /tv/ team... almost. Just replace Leto Joker with literally any other Joker and nu-Pennywise with classic Curry Pennywise or better yet fucking Beetlejuice who is almost Looney Tuney himself.
The Broadway version of Beetlejuice was on Teen Titans Go! at one point (with the guy who played him in the show) so it's not too far fetched of an idea.
The difference is a child doesn’t know better, care, or have unlimited creative options. You’re supposed to eventually grow out of everything and the kitchen sink “crossovers” and maybe at best do two at a time.
This. It's going to be a dumb popcorn flick for kids like the original was.
We’re not seething. We’re calling it crap trying to bank on the nostalgia factor as an excuse to do YET ANOTHER cinematic universe, only this time it’s even lazier because it’s literally “movies we own IPs to” as the logic for why they’re all there.
