Nostalgia Critic Doesn't Understand Rango
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- čas přidán 8. 04. 2024
- Here in the Mojave Desert, animals have had millions of years to adapt to the harsh environment. But the Nostalgia Critic? He is going to have his review of Rango torn to shreds.
DRINKING GAME
-Take a shot for every "Finally!" in the comments section
-Drink every time Doug complains about tropes
-Take a shot every time he pretends to care about an "offensive" joke; take two for ones he has no business making given his own track record
-Take a sip every time he undercuts dramatic scenes because he needs constant action to stay focused
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You were 15 in 2011, old ahhh mf
Sorry, but this seems like yet another person trying to leech off the success of another person by hating on them.
I just think it's hilarious because so many of you clowns make it *incredibly* obvious by your low subs and views.
All because you guys are jealous and too lazy to make actually good content of your own.
Sie Note: Doug Walker DID once watch another show. He watched Adventure Time. Spoiler: It went CATASTROPHICAL! Even worse (in terms of cringe) is that he watched it with a non-youtuber friend of his and the amount and severity of Doug Walker not getting points of roughly 11 minute episodes right next to someone that is not a professional about reviewing stuff and gets it is... is just baffling.
The guy he watched it with was more then once stunned by how Doug did completely miss the point of an episode.
Nitpicking is not criticism and I'm tired of so called "film critics" pretending it is.
They’ve also created the reverse-atmosphere where any criticism can be discounted as “nitpicking” at any time. Just a really bad effect on the whole review genre caused by people like Doug and CinemaSins and it sucks when creators I like (many of them former CA members) get written off as part of the same review culture when all of them (even in their exaggerated anger early days) were actually TRYING
@@Cdr2002 Honestly, it’s hard NOT to resort to nitpicking.
Pointing out what makes no sense isn't nitpicking, it's what a good writer board should have done and failed to do properly. And calling criticism "nitpicking" is a way of gaslighting itself.
@@kregorovillupo3625 When a story makes no sense in the way it delivers its message/emotional beats (being contradictory, not understanding cause and effect, etc) and you criticize it for that, that's valid criticism.
When a story's in-world logic makes absolutely no aparent sense and the plot seems to be ilogical for no good reason in a way that affects the film's credibility, and you criticize that, that's valid criticism.
BUT when you point out a background detail that has absolutely no effect to the plot or the characters or the emotions being transmitted, and use real-world logic to dismantle it and call the writers lazy, that's nitpicking.
Could the writers and designers have gone over every single detail out of love for their movie? Sure. Does that affect the movie at all for any common viewer? Absolutely not.
@@protastudios "BUT when you point out a background detail that has absolutely no effect to the plot or the characters or the emotions being transmitted, and use real-world logic to dismantle it and call the writers lazy, that's nitpicking"
No. What you're suggesting is settle for mediocrity, being superficial. I instead advocate this, keeping in mind we are often talking about multi millionare investment in the art: that particualr I'm "nitpicking" about, using your fallacious term, could have been doctored and thought of, to show care. But it didn't, and pointing it out is an educational tool on how to do better. If you want to settle with mediocrity be my guest, I am convinced EVERY criticism is valid criticism, also because the line between a nitpick and what you consider a valid criticism is totally drawn by you, and I don't trust you to do it for me.
Doug Walker: "Wow, this movie's actually kinda awesome, by doing edgy stuff to actually *earn* its PG rating, and not talking down to the kiddies!"
Also Doug Walker: "Maannnn, why's this movie talking about boring grownup stuff that kids won't like?"
He also complained about blood being green for a bacteria to “nurf a rating”
I guess he can't tell the difference of being dark and edgy from being mature
I think Doug walker just demanded endless action scenes instead of storytelling and character development, which ironically, he hated any Michael Bay films for the “Bayness”.
@@prehistorichero2755 which he only does to movies that he likes
I remember little baby me, around 10-11 years old walking into the movie theatre and being shocked a kids movie said "hell".
Good times.
This is so weird. I'm native and the joke from the movie was cute as it was a pun of the slur, the character realized he had said that, and apologized. Doug just, said the slur.
Dang, I just now realized that. I thought the only pun with Wounded Bird was him being a literal Crow Indian, I never would've caught that one. Also since I don't have the full list of terms that can be considered such, there are going to be some slurs I don't know about and I definitely encourage people to inform me so I can take note.
@@MagmaPaint India is halfway across the world homie
@@LegoGoblin "american indian" is a term that originated from a mistake, but is a legal term, and it is preferred by at least some first nations organizations as far as I am aware
As an artist, I feel like crying hearing that marobot was allegedly paid only ten dollars for a fully colored big pieces like that. Their skills are amazing and drawings inspiring. The colors, the expressions and the movement. The art depicts everything loud and clear. If that is true I feel really awful for them and hope that the exposure got people to commission them and actually pay properly
Still, over 60 sucks is overprice lol
@@MasterAlpha1000 yeah if you're an art karen
@@MasterAlpha1000Dawg with these drawings, 60 dollars is underpriced
@@MasterAlpha1000 To put this into perspective, I've shopped around for art commissions before.
$30-$35 is a pretty good deal for a quick gig.
Oh wait, I misspoke. $30-$35 was what I was paying for an image of just one character. This guy's creating entire scenes with multiple characters doing actions with visual gags and stuff!
Like maybe I'm spoiled for good choices or out of touch, but I really feel like Doug could have easily been paying 4-5 times what he was already and it'd actually be pretty reasonable.
@@petergriffinatethegenevaco8777 have you drawn professionally? If not, stfu
As soon as I skipped ahead in Doug's review by accident and heard him say that Jake was a "written as dull as a rock", without even explaining why, especially when he's arguably one of the liveliest, fiercest characters in the movie, I knew I was in for something.
Rattlesnake Jake is one of the most underrated animated villains ever and the comparison to Death from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is apt.
@@MagmaPaintJake is one of the greatest characters in all of fiction, he’s so effortlessly cool and menacing
He has a GUN for a tail. Lets be real, he could be a dull, poorly written villain and he'd still be cool.
@@Ce13stialBunny He look cool, he sounds cool thanks to Bill Nighy, but he dialogue isn't good enough for the critic.
@@MagmaPaint I'm pretty sure both of those characters are inspired by Sentenza/Angel Eyes from "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly".
Omg him not getting the mariachi owls joke about Rango dying is literally the dumbest thing. How did he not get it? it's a reocurring, simple joke to break the fourth wall every so often. literally HOW.
The shear irony of considering this a kids movie because it came out of nikolodeon whilst one of his favourite shows was avatar the last airbender is kinda insane to me
He doesn’t understand anything
And there's a whole genre of CZcams videos dedicated to laying him bare
Actually he dose know how to protect rapists
@@Grey8270 Ooh, there's a good BURN!
@@MagmaPaintyep the change the channel movement and especially the Wall video opened the floodgates for response videos
@@MagmaPaintthanks
I would like it to be known that functional miniature guns are very much a thing. There is a whole market for them.
That sounds awesome, I want one
Yeah but they're not that small tho. Also I don't think they'd be able to kill or even injure anything unless like, you hit an eye. They just don't have much power cuz they bullets are simply too small. It's still stupid to bitch about cartoon logic tho.
Even then it's such a wild thing to point out as unrealistic/uncreative in a movie with sentient plants that move, walking talking animals, moles riding bats that explode like fighter jets, and a snake with a gatling gun tail
Can confirm. I believe The Slow Mo Guys even did a video using one
@@Magosspud, correction: moles riding bats that explode like fighter jets and play Ride of the Valkyries on the banjo.
Saying Polar Express looks better than Rango is a claim I can barely comprehend. Criticizing Doug Walker is like a sport to me it’s just so easy and never gets old, I’m glad to see someone still calling out his bs lol
Also geeked out when you shouted out IllWillPress I love him, criminally underrated!!
It's like when he claimed he liked the new "live action" version of Under the Sea better than the original animated version. There's just no way that's possible, even as delusional as he is. He _has_ to be lying to trick people into engaging in the comments... right?
"Ya don't get to hear the first half of Rangos story!"
That... thats the point. That's literally the point. We as an audience don't know what rangos full story is, and frankly neither does Rango. When rattlesnake Jake shows up later and questions rangos tale, we don't even know where it realy BEGAN. To emphasize and help us understand that rango is making this up as he goes.
TL;DW: Doug doesn't know ______, Doug doesn't want to know ______. He is, in his own words, "Comfortably Dumb."
Ah, I see you have also watched Dan Olson's response to The Wall video
One think that really made me dislike Doug's review of Rango (thou his whole video is garbage) was right at the begining when we get the introduction to Rango himself and Doug points that he looks completly out of place compared to the other characters. Even thou that's kinda point of the movie that he doesn't belong in Dirt at first. Even other characters like Priscilla point this out, only for him later once he becomes the new sheriff he blends in with the rest of the town folks.
It’s like that Doug forces artists to not acquire their freedom as he’s trying to be as overly negative by trying to sound smart and charming because he thinks his audience is completely stupid to follow it blindly. What a manipulative backstabbing hypocrite!
@@prehistorichero2755 he sounds like what almost every Reddit user wishes they were (which ofc isn’t a good thing for reasons that should be obvious to anyone w/ common sense, but I digress)
Of course he fucking looks out of place compared to the others. He's a chameleon in a town of desert animals. He's meant to stand out as a fish out of water. A child can understand that. Does he really now get it????
@@prehistorichero2755 I get that it's an overused cliche frequently misapplied, but in this specific instance, I genuinely don't think Walker is clever enough for that. I've always gotten Big Dipshit energy from him, like a dog easily confused by where the ball goes when you hide it behind your back and then shocked when it reappears in your other hand.
How does Doug not know it's Vegas? He literally criticized the city in Hercules for looking like Vegas in the Disney-cember videos!
Which was a sticking point for the Oney Plays guys
3:15- He admitted he had no idea why people found his Ducktales thumbnail creepy, so I guess he saw no problem with this either.
Though when it comes to his problem regarding this film using the liar revealed trope, this is very similar to when he reviewed Chicken Run and somehow failed to notice that the film did something different with it. In the case of Chicken Run, no one pushed Rocky away when they discovered the truth. They also didn't discover it on their own. He left, assuming they would be mad at him after revealing the truth himself. And when he returned, yes, Ginger slapped him, but she did it because he left, not because he lied, and somehow, Doug didn't pick up on this even though the film kinda spells it out. In this case, no one really seemed to resent Rango when they found out the truth. They already saw him do enough heroic acts that it didn't entirely bother them that he lied, and sure enough, when he returns, they're all happy to see him. And like you mentioned, Rango himself had started to believe his own lie, which again is something different. Again, Doug somehow didn't notice this.
If anything, it wasn't about Rango lying to the people, but lying to himself, and it takes someone who IS the guy he says he is, who is an ACTUAL killer, to make him realise that he's nothing like the typical hero. He's only able to lie to himself for so long because he puts himself above others, but as soon as he's faced with something that's actually at his level, or at least his imagined level, he cracks under the pressure. It also works better than the typical liar revealed plot because at this point in the movie, we as the audience are like Rango and are starting to believe in the lie, at least in the sense that we are seeing him become more brave and heroic, whereas other liar revealed plots typically keep the lie festering in the viewer's heads until it inevitably comes crashing down.
Also, I think the liar revealed trope is different here because Rango's lies could've killed people. He made them think he could take on Rattlesnake Jake
I’d take more issue with “Emotion capture” if it was one of the animators pretending this was some new thing when rotoscoping and other similar techniques have existed for years. Instead, it’s the actor who’s been in enough animated stuff to have an interest in the art form, but probably doesn’t know every exact technical term, so he came up with a cute little term for the technique based on another existing technique.
Thank god they didn't give him a chameleon credit card
“THEY GAVE ONE OF THE GREATEST LEGENDS OF THE WEST A CHAMELEON CREDIT CARD!!!???!??”
Doug's comment about the music coming from 'Rango, Arizona' is literally answered in the clips provided. He's calling to the music from Raising Arizona, which had a lot of mariachi yodeling music.
I don't think she is literally misunderstanding the "joke" he is making, I think she's more like flabbergasted that he's making the assertion that mariachi yodeling music sounds like mariachi yodeling music. It would kinda be like pointing out that the anime Aggretsuko's music sounds like death metal.
31:25 GOD FORBID an academy award-winning movie have adult themes! Doug, if you can only stomach Cocomelon level discussion, then stick to ACTUAL childrens media instead of being annoying about an incredibly mature and generally fantastic film. Like, people don't crucify him for this video because Rango is a very little known movie; imagine if he was talking about Spirited Away or something.
He did a DisneyCember on _Spirited Away_ (as, for the longest time, the American dubs of the Ghibli films were produced by Disney), and he actually quite enjoyed it, his only real gripe being that Yubaba and Zeniba didn’t have enough distinguishing features, which he even acknowledged as a nitpick.
He can only watch baby movies like Ralph Bakshi's Fritz The Cat.
Doug Walker doesn’t respect animation at all let alone anime. He has no knowledge of animation as a genre but he sees it as a kids show, he’d be much better off giving up as critic and try something other than animation critic
I disagree, he CAN respect animation. But it's exclusively nostalgic related stuff. Beauty and the Beast, Ducktales and Samurai Jack.
Anime and cartoons are completely different, cartoons are money laundering scheme, Anime is something only people with over 160 IQ can produce.
I find it ironic that Doug didn't respect animation as a medium in this "review", but then he respects it as a medium in his Puss In Boots: The Last Wish review? Since when, Doug? Since when do you respect animation? He does this so many times in his reviews and it makes me mad. He had the fucking nerve to point out the fact that the Disney remakes completely miss the point of the original animated classics they're based on, until Doug Walker decided to remake Pink Floyd's The Wall without understanding the source material. Are you really this out of touch, man? Who do you think you are? I also noticed that he gets production history for Foodfight! wrong by saying "Wow. Absolutely outstanding detail. Surely they must have asked Pixar to do this breath-taking work of genius! Actually, they did. And after reading the script, not only did they send this terrible animation as a joke, but they attached a hand-written note that said 'Go fuck yourselves!' signed by John Lasseter. But the director was so lazy, he used the clip anyway." What are you talking about? He also wrongly credits Zach Braff as the voice actor playing The Once-ler when it's actually Ed Helms. He even made an inaccurate comparison between The Grinch and The Mandalorian in his The Grinch 2018 Nostalgia Critic review. He went out of his way to say in his Troll In Central Park review "Yeah. This is what happens when you let your five year old write the screen play." After one of the characters from the movie say "I'm a bad troll. A very bad troll." And I'm just like "Dude, did you even look at your script for these reviews. Because it's you who sounds more childish."
I’m… pretty sure he meant the bit about Pixar and _Foodfight_ as a joke. Granted, it was completely unfunny and cringe, but it was exactly that - a completely unfunny and cringe joke.
@@ARCtheCartoonMaster I feel like I could've mentioned his DisneyCember Ghibli movie reviews, because when he talks about my favorite movie The Tale of The Princess Kaguya, I lost my shit. He said the movie was stale and that there are a lot of scenes that drag on forever. He says that the animation style is simple and you can't get sucked in as much. He doesn't understand it at all. Even Schaffrillas talked about the movie in his Every Studio Ghibli Movie Ranked and he ACTUALLY UNDERSTOOD THE MEANING OF THE MEANING OF THE MOVIE EVEN BETTER THAN DOUG FUCKING WALKER! Oh and by the way, I know that Disney doesn't release the American versions of the Ghibli films anymore, because they have a new American distribution company called GKIDS Films.
But the Disney remakes DO miss the point of the movies they're adapting. They never even manage to justify the existence of the remakes.
@@vetarlittorf1807 True.
@@vetarlittorf1807 Dougie's point is that Doug Walker is a hypocrite on the matter. If he's going to rightfully criticise the Disney live-action remakes for completely missing the point of the source material, he shouldn't do the same to _The Wall._
Rango got labeled for kids because its animated, that's sad especially when so many adult comedies exist and are accepted as adult media but almost certainly because of how garish the jokes usually are, but Rango is different. Rango is a real western about animated talking animals shooting each other with guns.
It’s still a family movie if not a specifically kid-oriented one. Personally I think we should be celebrating nuanced family/kids media. The attitudes that animation and family/kids media are lesser are ultimately one and the same and I feel they should be combatted together instead of separating the issues
I don’t know how animation really works. But unlike Doug here, I wouldn’t criticize anything as unnecessary, at least not without doing research and hearing from animators.
Animation is quite the time consuming, detail oriented process, indeed. And it most certainly pays off when it's done well.
The fact that I'm enjoying this while eating a burrito and nodding along to a lot of the points feels strange to me. The good kind of strange. Great work as usual sis! Glad dad and I could help with some pointers for this.
Muchas gracias both of you lol There'll definitely be some expansion on those in the Q&A
The Nostalgia Critic doesn't understand a lot of things.
What I don't understand is why people still take him seriously
Or why people resort to flimsy defenses like "He's mostly joking, stop taking him seriously".
@@MagmaPaint that excuse never works for cinemasins and it certainly doesn't work for Doug.
When you amass a huge audience who hangs on your word, you don't have the luxury of joking around.
@@GanonGhidorah THIS. How does Doug's fandom not understand THIS.
I mean you do though. I fond Doug Walker to be the most cringey man in the world and extremely unfunny but that's about it. You lot get way too upset about some nerd on the internet.@@GanonGhidorah
Why does he takes things seriously?
The amount of Twitter arguments Doug tries to start is actually insane
18:21 Also, even removing animal behaviour from the equation, I've actually met someone who has seizures that function this way. So yeah, a bit insensitive on Doug's part.
Did you also know that Doug had trouble with animals? No really, he is terrible with animals. It had been acknowledged from his third error video, and obviously, he didn’t get any better. I mean, come on, he can’t tell apart real animals, especially extinct ones.
@@prehistorichero2755 Yeah, I’m aware - he very much acts like a walking stereotype of how neurotypicals appear to us autistic folks, not knowing Jack about “nerdy” fields of knowledge because they think taxes are more important.
@@ARCtheCartoonMasteryou think neurotypicals are obsessed with taxes...?
@@msjkramey Google “mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell” sometime.
@@msjkramey Look up “mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell” sometime.
That Doug thumbnail should be the star of it's own analog horror
I remember being a big Nostalgia Critic fan back like 8-9 years ago and I kinda forgot about him for awhile. Now for the last couple years, I've heard about all his terrible opinions like his hate for The Wall, and how he treated his costars on those terrible movies he made like To Boldly Flee. Now his apparent narcissism makes everything he's done make so much more sense.
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, there's no putting it back.
40:32 there an actual reason why those gaps are there. Those are meant to be where an add would play, which he has been doing in some of his recent videos. In other words, those edits were actually intentional.
I guess it's because he used to host his videos on BlipTv, which also had ad spots or whatever you call them. Redlettermedia used Blip too back in the day and they still do the black screen for ads to this day.
You know, I recall in the review for Quest for Camelot, Doug Walker crapped himself over the lack of explanations. Yet, he wants more things, like the Spanish daggers moving, to not be explained. Just something I couldn't help but notice.
Also, in the Alien vs. Predator review, he somehow missed the fact that one of the predators got an egg laid inside em by a face hugger and actually asked why the chest burster looked like the predator, instead of doing the research so he doesn't need to ask it.
Like... does he just refuse to do research? Does he not watch a movie he's reviewing twice, so he don't miss anything? Is he blind to obvious scenes that weren't hidden in the slightest? I was a kid when I watched this movie, and I noticed what a critic, who does this for a living, missed!
Oh, he does the same thing with Freddy vs Jason. The moment he kept his "rants" going instead of researching on both behind the scenes, and the characters turned me off from his "work"
For one thing, when I watched him and Rob watching the actual movie, I know why he missed that part because he looked down at his iPad while the Facehugger attacks Scar, and Rob didn't bother to tell him that. Another thing that really bothers me is Doug claims that explaining is a "big problem" just to "allow audience to figure out", which is complete bulls***! Don't get me wrong, on one hand, exposition can be a problem when it showhorns in, but on the other hand, it allows audience to understand the details, or you don't need to explain something as long as you tell a story, much like how HP Lovecraft have written his monsters and deities to build sense of mystery and ambiguity in a setting. The only quote end quote "explanation" from Doug is saying "the alien and the predator, they don't like each other", which means they despise each other for no reason, and the Yautja would have even exterminate all of them without risk disrupting their rite of passage like they're supposed to for the survival of their species! Also, he also questions (with unfunny toliet humor and cringe name calling) why didn't the Yautja plant Ovimorphs on Earth and wait after a year to turn the whole planet into a hive world for them to hunt as a "tourist attraction", the only explanation is it only breaks their honor code when they commit so much genocide to an entire indigenous population they want to hunt when there are some species that are dangerous and armed, and would render extremely difficult for them to hunt a whole population of Xenomorphs from the ground hiding in plain sight. This is what only Bad Bloods, like the Killers from the AVP 3 comic, would do. In fact, not all Yautjas are hunters as there are civilian and military ranks. This isn't a bad thing to critisize exposition as long as it doesn't tie in to the story, but, Doug, if you want to know what's going on that you clearly missed, stop acting like explananation is automatically a "bad thing" just because it's "boring"!
It honestly makes me depressed to hear all of Doug's opinions on this movie, lambasting it in the way he does, and even has the *nerve* to say kids wouldn't understand this movie. While not every theme will be understood from a kid's perspective, it's still entertaining and easy to follow along. This is speaking from experience since *I* used to be a kid absolutely ENAMORED by this movie. It is still genuinely one of my all time favorite animated films and growing up with a better understanding of things I missed makes it all the better.
It also boggles my mind that he said certain things were left unanswered that were LITERALLY. EXPLAINED. IN THE MOVIE. It makes me question if he even WATCHED the film in the first place or paid attention to it.
Thank you for calling it out and making this essay in general. I would've never known he had this bad of a take on the film without it and I can only hope people who might've been spurred off seeing the film due to his video watch yours, or just watch it in general, to appreciate this movie better.
It genuinely deserves so much love and more.
40:27 this is actually SPECIFICALLY done as an ad break but for some reason they just dont have the normal NC adbreak intro/outro thing that is supposed to bump the CZcams ad that would be placed there (and for some reason there's no sponsor for that particular video either, probably because people didnt want to sponsor NC lmao)
Thank you for your discussion on animation and the “kids film” stuff. I’ve always hated the argument of animation being for kids. Yes, there are pieces of animation aimed at kids like there are ones for adults, but animation as a MEDIUM and NOT a genre is one that works best when it can be enjoyed by anyone and everyone of any age and demographic.
Meant to say the argument of animation being just for kids (which I still think is a stupid argument)
Imagine MR. ENTER being able to tell the exact same joke as you, but tell it better. Couldn't be me 😂
He has gotten better with his stuff. He's grown as a reviewer. Plus he fired his worst editer.
Your impression of Doug is insanely accurate. Like, it legitimately got the same knee-jerk reaction of irritation and cringe that actually hearing him speak elicits from me. That's a mark of true commitment to the craft right there!
He didn't understand Pink Floyd's The Wall either, so are we really suprised at this point?
Hence the rise of the Doug Walker Doesn't Understand genre of CZcams videos
@@MagmaPaint and I think we can agree he should stay the FUCK away from Yellow Submarine and Kilroy Was Here
@@zackman9230 And Gorillaz. The rage I will have if he does a Gorillaz retrospective would initiate several volcano warnings (flag code red; eruptions imminent)
Yeah the part doug told Floyd to grow up when he was at the bottom
The thumbnails...yeah animators do it better
Well I got some other things to say....it sad that people who would be just audience and fan artists that make a better review than the actual internet critics
How bad is it that Mysterious Mr. Enter, of all people, is better at self-referential humor than Doug Walker?
Huh, this looks like a fun channel.
Wonder if there is a running gag about how Doug lazily says two things are the exact same because one thing, like Rick and Deadpool.
That was his Osmosis Jones review in a nutshell
@@MagmaPaint
Just saw your Sonic OVA, and it also applied to "Sonic is just furry Megaman."
@@Bezaliel13 There's a concerning amount of moments where he's the embodiment of the "They're the same picture" meme. No wonder he played a G.U.N. soldier in that Sonic fan film (SA2 context)
@@MagmaPaint
Confusing Shadow for Sonic would not be the craziest "they're the same, so it sucks" he has done.
@@MagmaPaint doug has 3 joke types he puts into every NC review no matter what:
1: “they’re the same picture”
2: incredibly poor taste sex joke that i swear he outright stated he has a quota for once.
3: (read like sr pelo doing a deep voice [specifically poot from mokey’s show]) THAT IS *SO* CLICHE!
Let's be honest who else forgets Nickelodeon had a movie studio until they make another one? Shit was ehen was the last time they made a movie that was actually good? Key word, good.
You’re completely on point yeah
"The name's... Rango."
6:21 "The smart character only being smart"
Yes, *this.* I'm so sick of people criticising smart characters making dumb decisions because "They're supposed to be *sMaRt!!!!!@#!@#"* Okay, genius, why don't you put yourself in the character's shoes for a sec. Would you be making completely rational decisions? We've all made mistakes like that, regardless of how smart we are, and this kind of reductionist thinking is how we get characters whose sole character trait is having a 456+ IQ and instantly coming up with solutions to problems that most normal people would take a minute to a couple of hours to think up.
For me it's more of a matter of these characters being as boring and bland as an unsalted cracker on white bread. Characters like Brain from Arthur or AJ from Fairly Oddparents were the only characters I had available to look up to when I was put in Advanced Placement classes and I would've killed to have known about Tails or Sailor Mercury a lot sooner.
@@MagmaPaint yeah I feel like is hard to make smart characters without making them be bland or boring or bs dumb
Smart ≠ Wise
I actually hated the Smart characters being idiots cause of SML doing that to Cody and Jacki chu and I hate when show have characters point out the obvious thing that going to happen (HI HENRY DANGER).
@@whitedarkness5508 The only high INT low WIS character I stan is Kronk. Kronk is the GOAT
So glad I didn't make it past that petrifying thumbnail for his review. It's one of the few moments where "judging a book by its cover" is actually valid!
I will say, Rango is a kids movie, as some people say; "A kids movie that can only be enjoyed by kids is not a good kids movie."
A lot of people would use/see the term as an insult, but it's just an accurate description, saying something is a kids movie doesn't change the fact it's a good movie, just like The Incredibles, just like Treasure Planet, and just like Ratatouille
You either die an Ebert, or do you live long enough to see yourself become a Walker.
Frankly how dare you use the cinematic masterpiece that is Over the Hedge (2006) as an example of a bad use of the liar revealed trope.
Okay I'm being a little silly here, but I do genuinely think it's one of the extremely few good uses of the liar revealed trope because there's an actual, tangible, and notably immediate consequence for the lie being revealed. The scene where they all finally had the chance to be mad at him was also both hilarious and pretty well earned, while also lending itself well to the tension in the scene.
Oh that wasn't me who put that there, that was in Doug's slideshow of Liar Revealed plots. But yes, agreed. Over the Hedge is great.
Nostalgia Critic peaked when he fought Captain S and A.V.G.N. in the parking lot.
11:00 Seriously... I can't be the only one who watched the "making of" documentaries at the ends of the Disney VHS tapes, right? Like, Doug - you're older than me, and you're a professional critic, so you have more reason to know this stuff than I do.
Actually, that last statement isn't true, since I actually studied visual effects and animation at a prestigious college on Grenfell Street, but even prior to then I knew more about this stuff than Doug does.
In his review about that Shyamalan elevator movie, he has Malcolm, playing their rendition of the devil, make a joke about making more Republicans.
I still have no idea how nobody on the production team or whatnot thought that making that "joke" might have been a shit idea.
Unlike South Park, which has those kinds of jokes down to an art, Doug and his crew don't have that level of talent and it's exacerbated by his philosophy of comedy needing to be based in misery (or more accurate to his level, cruelty) in order to work.
@@MagmaPaint To be fair, it’s a common philosophy that all comedy is based in suffering. The problem with Doug is that he takes that mantra too literally (because of course he does), and assumes that comedy involves people suffering physically, mentally, emotionally etc., when “suffering” in this context simply means anything going wrong, even something as simple as lame-ash puns. Granted, there is a time and a place for actual misery-based comedy - _Tom & Jerry_ and the aforementioned _South Park_ are fine examples of this - but Doug thinks that just because he personally favours that style of comedy, that must mean it’s *the* defining style of comedy there is, and others pale in comparison. It has the same energy as the _Family Guy_ writing staff thinking that today’s kids can’t enjoy books just because computers exist, ignoring that it’s possible for kids to have *multiple* hobbies, speaking as someone who was very much into books *and* computers as a kid.
Not to mention, those franchises do dark comedy *far* better than Doug.
You know it's bad when Mr. Enter writes a better version of a joke than you
41:41 Also, what about those small-ash cacti that people keep in pots? That was the first type of cactus I was introduced to, as it was used for the entry on _cactus_ in _My First Dictionary._ (Did anyone else have that growing up?)
I wouldn't know without any qualifying descriptions. There are small barrel, prickly pear, and Christmas varieties of cactus that can be grown in pots, there's aloe plants, and there's various succulent plants.
@@MagmaPaint I think it was a small barrel.
16:26 Reminds me of how my sister used to say "drowneded" when she was, like, 5.
I'm learneding!
I don't understand Doug. He wants mature themes in animation, yet he doesn't like it when mature themes are in animation? He respects animation as an art medium, yet he expects animation to be all slapstick and wacky comedy? He says that kids shouldn't be talked down to, yet he doesn't like it when a movie doesn't talk down to them? Either he really needs an editor to look over his scripts, or he needs to review something else other than animation.
I still kind of like Nostalgia Critic because he clearly has SOME talent and SOME of his jokes are actually funny. And he does have SOME knowledge because I found his commentary on certain movies actually quite useful.
But I won't deny it, he's an incompetent hypocrite who knows less about movie analysis than CinemaSins. Speaking of which, you kinda remind me of Th3BirdMan.
So yeah, his flaws are plenty and they're all clear as day, but I just can't bring myself to hate him. That much.
To quote Brok from God Of War: "Even a blind pig farts up a truffle every now and again."
the fact that people still watch his stuff and talk about him is the most surprising part about all of this imho
Just because I didn't see anyone else point it out in the comments, "Rango Arizona" is a reference to the 1987 Coen Brothers movie Raising Arizona whose soundtrack uses a similar vocalization to this movie. Not that it makes his joke any better for the reasons mentioned in the video (Also, they don't sound THAT similar upon further examination. Raising Arizona's score was more '50s Western-influenced, whereas the song from Rango featured there was more of a mariachi style), but I just thought I'd point it out and if nothing else, inspire a few more people to watch Raising Arizona, which is a very fun movie.
I know Nostalgia Critic only through the memes lobbed against the kind of people who get performatively angry about tv shows and internet media while missing pretty obvious bits of sarcasm and subtext and going on proportionality long nitpicky tangents, which is the archetype this review gives off too. Kind of a bizarre watch.
The Emotion capture part was one I did actually take a lot of issue with as I love how they took all those extra steps to make those scenes feel more natural. It was brilliant.
Also, you know, the thumbnail is...meant to be awkward. It's meant to be that way.
I really dislike the NC, and that goes all the way back before I watched and read about the crap that went on with the Channel Awesome folks and their associates.
His reviews stink of infantile observations and jokes, and not in the way that would please a kid, just in a way that rage baits adults. I can see a 12 yr old find him funny, but 12 yr olds have a still developing brain and are obviously not even able to process every bit of information given to them efficiently. They're not dumb, they're just susceptible to accepting someone else's opinion as fact very easily, especially someone they're seeing on a screen.
But aside from everything annoying thing he does in his videos, this thing of continuously considering animation as a medium through which where stories are told to kids just enrages me to no end.
The entire body of work of people like Satoshi Kon proves beyond a doubt that animation is not exclusively for kids and that it simply serves as a completely open space for translating the human mind and its processes when dealing with complex emotions. Kon is the one who comes to mind, but honestly, even (the often very cranky) Miyasaki defends that kids should not be coddled throughout their entire childhood and should be taught to deal with the real world early enough that it doesn't traumatize them later when adulthood hits - which is why he hates Disney and anything that follows their model (there could be a middle ground there, Mr Miyazaki, ease up won't you).
But going back to Doug, it's surprising how he still gets any views at all, when you compare his stuff to much, _much_ better channels that examine this kind of media and back up their opinions with some solid arguments and serious research. You mentioned Schaffrillas as one, but you get other great people like Steve Reviews, Johnny 2 Cellos, Jay Exci and Super Eyepatch Wolf, to name a few, who do actual work to make their videos, and not just say "but I've watched a lot of cartoons!".
Doug's work is lazy and misses the point 99% of the time. As for the Twitter bait jokes, how else is he supposed to remain even slightly relevant when others have surpassed him so long ago?
To conclude this, I'm subscribing. Liked your style.
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A wise man once said "Doug wants to make art but he's a fundamentally incurious person who doesn't care much for what other people think or feel and all his ideas boil down to "What if Batman met Mario?"
My only problem with Doug reviewing style he will go into a movie making pointless jokes and not giving any real thought As I feel that reviewing style along with others that do it has become outdated as a real review is keeping it short and sweet but also making Honest and Understandable point something Steve reviews and even AVGN and his Friend mike have done
26:19 OH, you don't remember the side-characters from a movie you probably watched while scrolling tiktok? Weird how you don't remember things from a film you didn't care enough to watch genuinely.
34:34 that's just make it more annoying by the whole "get it!?get it!??!get the joke?!" Bit
And that's how I made fun of his joke
@@MagmaPaint well you're not the first to do that,like even other reviewers done this before but I say I prefer your way of making fun of it than everyone yelling out on how the movie is trying make you get annoyed by the joke
I don't think the opening sketch having a black man play the CEO instead of an Iranian woman really matters? Most similar sketches don't attempt to or really need to be accurate to the real people in charge of companies
Remember, kids: "Tropes are Tools!"
The “Rango Arizona “ joke was a reference to the movie Raising Arizona, which features a score in which yodeling is used. He features a scene where the yodeling music is played to contrast the music in Rango because he didn’t understand that mariachi music uses that kind of vocalization and just thought Rango was trying to imitate Raising Arizona.
44:25 I think that’s why I didn’t get into this movie I was 9 when I saw it in theaters and while I liked it the themes went over my head.
It's one of those movies that gets better as you get older and understand it more
Yeah, so do I.
Not to play Devil's advocate for Doug here, but if you seriously think that him saying that "this movie would be cancelled in 2022 lol" was an endorsement of cancel culture or him "baiting Twitter" to come cancel the film, you probably misunderstood him just a little bit imo
Why is the NOSTALGIA critic talking about a movie he has no nostalgia for?
It started with the emoji movie review, then he just became more of “the critic”
@@guyferrari8124 but unlike the show The Critic, he’s not insanely funny
3:08 He looks like that freaky-ash Papuan mask at the South Australian Museum.
And for those not from Adelaide, said mask basically looks like that angry guard-dog grasshopper from _A Bug's Life_ if he were a mosquito. It used to freak the h€££ out of me as a kid, especially since it hung in the foyer at that time, instead of being in the actual exhibit like it is now.
Um that an’t a crucifix. That’s a giant wheel.
BUBUBUBUBUBUBUBUHUH- A BAT CREDIT CARD!?!?!
Linkara already killed that joke
Okay, that Thesbians joke was good. Not Doug's, the movie's. That got a good chuckle out of me. Points to Rango, and I'm going to be real, from Southern rural-style Western movie, that's probably only going to age better and better with time.
ngl that thumbnail tells alot of a story.
Which one
@@MagmaPaint This one. The one you have.
I don't really have to explain why. (im not saying this in a bad way.)
Oh my god 10$ per thumbnail??? Im legitimately raging, the amount of time and skill that goes into the old drawn thumbnails by MaroBot deserves so so much more, I definitely agree 60-75 minimum per thumbnail, especially considering the revenue Doug makes from his videos.
Nah, 60-75 is ludicrously overpriced
Any thumbnail artist who charge you THAT much is a greedy piggy dumbass
As a Native American, it’s funny seeing rango apologize for accidentally saying smth and then Doug straight up say “injun” not 10 seconds after ☠️
Your vid inspired me to rewatch Rango, I hadn’t watched it since I was a kid and I remember being bored by it. I really loved it this time around! I’m not sure why Doug kept bringing up the “liar revealed” trope, I don’t feel like it’s very important to the overall story. And him repeatedly calling it a kid’s film got on my nerves.
Another big issue I find with westerns, the older the better for this, is the depiction of Native Americans and the glorification of violence against them. As time passed, people fell out of love and into hate for this particular style of american historical revisionism. Like, there are western inspired movies I ADORE - the Mandalorian is a show that plays a lot up well - but the actual history? COvering it in a way that should be tolerated isn't something at least half of America would even tolerate, much less pay to see.
nowadays Doug strikes me as the type to look at Helldivers and either think that it's trying to be subtle about it's themes and failing, or completely miss the fact that it's satire.
He was one of the first big lovers of the themes and satire of starship troopers so I doubt it
9:09 "Rango Arizona" was a reference to the movie "Raising Arizona" and that's what the clip he showed was from. The music seems to be an homage or dupe of the iconic song from that movie (Raising Arizona Theme: Way Out There by Carter Burwell). It is not mariachi music.
That song is also inspired by old westerns, so the similarity may be unintentional. Only so many ways to yodel, I guess.
"The side characters are forgetable and generic" Bruh Doug did we watch the same film?
This account is like the nostalgia critic reviewing himself
I still love Doug and Nostalgia Critic, but sometimes his boomer age really shows in not completely understanding Gen Z nostalgia and only understanding nostalgia he grew up with in the 80’s-90’s
33:00 I really agree. There's actually literally a line in the movie I think by the mayor who says something along the lines of "We have no need for gunslingers anymore. It's a new Qest. We're businessmen now." Idk if I'm reaching, but it seemed relevant
nostalgia critic is the game theory of movie critics
I rage quit his content ever since his review of Pink Floyd's the Wall.
That one was the breaking point for a lot of people and it's easy to see why
Okay, also, Id like to point out, the jokes at 28:10 and 29:10 are *wordplay*, and a result of the characters being uninformed or misinterpreting what someone else said. Rango says “no offense” to his use of “ingenuity” because he *wrongly assumes* that the word comes from a westernized, bastardized pronunciation of “Indian” (which is ALSO an incorrect term to use for Wounded Bird), when really it has nothing to do with that. Balthazar mistakes “thespian” for “lesbian”, and he doesn’t even say anything bad about same sex marriage, he just points out that it is illegal in some parts of the setting, which was *true* of America in 2011 IIRC, making it a topical joke. Wordplay and the use of misunderstandings like this is like…… one of THE simplest forms of comedy. Like this is Shakespeare’s clown characters level of basic funniness. The joke isn’t based on a racial stereotype, nor is it making fun of lgbtq+ people. The *joke* is that these characters don’t know what words mean. Doug saying “why hasn’t Twitter canceled this yet” kind of proves he missed the point of those jokes, at least for me? It’s literally *just* wordplay. These are *just* puns. It’s not making fun of anyone, except for the characters who misunderstand the words used. It’s not punching down. There’s nothing to “cancel” here, and baiting a reaction like that is kind of disingenuous on Doug’s part, especially because there *will* be a portion of his audience who decides *whether or not to watch the movie* based purely on his review.
Hopefully that makes some sort of sense, I just think that it’s important as a consumer of media to understand what media is saying, especially in its humor. Misinterpretations of writers intentions like what’s happening here can cause a lot of harm.
Of course, this is the guy who thinks comedy is always supposed to derive from misery.
Has Mr Enter exited his villain arc? I unsubbed him years ago when he started making less and less Admirable Animations vids and focused only on Animated Atrocities, and I then later heard of his weird covid conspiracies and just everything about Growing Around.
His heart always seemed to be in the right place but he just sunk into this hole of negativity so if he's gotten out of that then I'm genuinely happy for him.
Addressed in his top 10 worst videos he's made.
Well Mr enter had made 2 fallout videos out of his former editor, Stargiant productions, and she's way worst than Mr enter
@@1_Helluva_Hazbin_Fella StarGiant is a nutcase
One of the first movies I ever watched was 'A Fistful Of Dollars' with my old man. I have seen nearly every spaghetti western ever churned out, and I can say with my whole chest that Rango is an absolutely fantastic love letter to the genre that I love so much. Also "A Million ways to Die in the West" being called anywhere near a perfect western killed a piece of my soul.
I was trying to convey A Million Ways to Die in The West was the perfect punishment for Doug considering his taste in adult media
@@MagmaPaint Ah, I misunderstood.
"Wow, a powerful person turns out to be a bad guy and a liar gets exposed for the inept fraud he really is? Whoever is writing my life really needs to lay off the tropes."
To be fair he does say in multiple review that there are tropes he likes, he just really hates the liar revealed
@@guyferrari8124 Given how much he lied about, I can see why he hates it when they get revealed.
@@thefrogthatknows5251 I don’t think he really intentionally misinterpreted anything maliciously outside of the context of making a joke
I get that paying for thumbnails weekly can be a pain, but the Critic coming back literally made the job a bi-weekly thing because he only does reviews every other week now.
Sure, that's a healthier structure overall creatively, but Doug HAS to realize he's literally taking one of his employees and cutting their monthly earnings in half by doing that, right? $10 per thumbnail is HILARIOUSLY low and the fact that Doug didn't just double his pay to a stupidly reasonable $20 per thumbnail shows a massive lack of understanding of things on his part.
Seriously, the incompetence on display is just...... What the fuck???
I think $70 for a regular thumbnail expense is a bit high, but $30-$40 is MORE THAN understandable enough considering just how good the quality you're getting back actually is.
Just discovered you, love to see some love for El Tigre. The content is enough to Sub for, but El Tigre deserves a "hell yeah"
Hell yeah
Luchador catboy assured me that everything would be okay
I coulda told you that back when the damn movie came out and he did a Bum Review of it. The man just doesn't know how to take children's entertainment seriously unless he watched it as an actual child.
oompaville does the clickbait thumbnails as satire
I know the internet prone to awful puns but I can say ernestly that Jake really does speak with such venom.
Technically, Rango died it was just the way personality that held him back
17 minutes in and i see mr enter... its already enough that im watching a video about nostalgia critic
I don't know what the connotation is supposed to be but Enter's been getting better and taking accountability.
Why did paramount copyrighted this video
Because Viacom
@@MagmaPaint i thought paramount killed viacom unless, *gasp* the ghost of viacom
@@lastmonarchistproduction_253 It's back now
@@MagmaPaint i saw an minor error in 12:28, you called the studio that made mars needs mother and the polar express maker image while in reality the studio's name is actually ImageMovers
If you think THIS is bad, you should see his Review of Pink Floyd's The Wall.
If you haven't already.
That one has been collectively roasted to ash by the internet so I see no reason to cover it. It's a nuclear dumpster fire. I even made an April Fool's video last year making it clear this one's on my I'm Never Reviewing This List. You couldn't pay me enough or reward me with my wildest dreams to make me go back on my word.
@@MagmaPaint Fair enough. 🙂
Nostalgia Critic > The Critical Drinker
Yeah, I said it.
Wow... I never expected a Nostalgia Critic-Critic Force to be a thing.
First, it was Timey, and now you, Magma.
I like it.
Also, to the point Douglas Funnie made on the E-Motion Capture, Walt Disney himself (when the animators were working on The Pointer) acted out the things he wanted Mickey Mouse to do in that short. They filmed him so they could copy his movements and animate over them. Sure, Walt asked to delete them because cringe, but it says a lot when the reviewer doesn't take into account the medium he is reviewing. Maybe a history lesson here and there couldn't hurt.