KPOP Demon Hunters - My duty as a millenial parent is unfortunately to take my kids to this

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Thank christ my Niece is still a toddler or odds are she would be forcing me to watch this shit with her like she did Frozen after over a decade of me successfully evading it
 
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Holy moly does this movie look like a pile of AIDS!
mindlessobserver said:
Properly. In a theater. With other people
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Theaters are almost never worth it, especially not for Gay-Pop Animu Slop: In 3D. Enjoy hooting niggers, $30 popcorn and an hour of ads before the stupid thing even starts, stalker child.
 
Boy_Blunder said:
Chicks dig it. If you look like that, you can get laid. If you look like 80s Arnie, which is what I'm going to assume you want male cartoon characters to look like, you will struggle to get laid because only men like men that look like that. I'll let you decide which of those situations is the gayest.
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I'm not saying that's what I prefer. I acknowledge that women are into that shit. I'm just reinforcing that the whole aesthetic for men in kpop is faggotry and infantilizing them.
 
This is gonna be Frozen for 2025, middle-aged moms will be forced to listen to their zoomer kids sing the songs from it over and over until they lose their MINDS.
 
Movie's good, music is good and extremely earwormy, the fandom REEEEing and coping over none of the girls being gay (especially Mira, the tall pink-haired one they love to claim is a lesbian even though she's shown attracted to the male characters) is lulzy.
 
Sweet teriyaki titties this thread is bad.

Half of the posts are spergs unfunnily memeing about hating kooks or how it's another example of how the west has fallen. The other half are users saying their brief opinion and moving along. There's nothing here! And I wouldn't have minded if the thread OP was just "A thing to watch. Discuss." as usual and not "I didn't watch this thing and have collywobbles about seeing it with my crotch goblins. Discuss????" This is Multimedia, not Mass Debates.

@mindlessobserver take a note from your namesake and ACTUALLY mindlessly observe this thing now so you can bond with your kids for a while. But if you're so adamant on keeping your viewer virginity for this flick, my advice is to load up your jacket with your numbing vice of choice (flasks, editables, etc.) and have it ready when "Sound of Silence" starts playing in your head. I don't care what you wind up doing just make better threads.
 
You VILL eet ze bigs
You VILL live in ze pod
You VILL watch ze technicolor gookslop

Edit: just read the wikipedia summary and it sounds like zombie land saga but gayer
 
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Make America Dumb Again said:
I hope this becomes a containment thread with spergs who like/dislike the movie, so the rest of us can surf around this site in peace
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Honestly aside from a handful of turbospergs I feel the sentiment is generally just extreme wariness of something that appears out of nowhere and is suddenly inescapable from how much its being hyped all over the internet, with the quality of the work in and of itself being incidental.

For most of those feeling wariness its likely the result of witnessing so fucking much artificially hyped slop over the past decade whose "hype" was largely if not entirely the result of active shill marketing/PR campaigns which combined "THIS IS THE MOST STUNNINGLY BRAVE AND AMAZING AND FUNNY THING EVER!" with some variant of "YOU ARE A DISGUSTING NAZI FOR NOT LIKING THE SLOP!"

For those with longer memories...well...lets just say we remember the first time an overly colorful animation centred around a "traditionally girly product" went viral enough to become low-key popular among certain segments of the shitpost demographic and how this led to it mass infecting online autists into becoming utterly fucking obsessed with it, until we all realised far too late the horror that had been birthed
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The Fair Lady said:
Movie's good, music is good and extremely earwormy, the fandom REEEEing and coping over none of the girls being gay (especially Mira, the tall pink-haired one they love to claim is a lesbian even though she's shown attracted to the male characters) is lulzy.
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Lmao, I haven’t been a paying a lot of attention to the fan reception, but I should’ve guessed they’re coping about them not being lesbians.
 
Myself, I quite liked the film, though I do not find 'Soda Pop' the hit others orgasm over.

The animation really shows how CGI had eveloped up to now, hough the girls ate food a little too gross. Otherwise, this goes far beyond the Bechdel Tes: this fil manages to have female protagonists that are their own characters, even if a little archetypal. I feel that Mira should have been explored more, though. I also like how they integrated old and new culture from Hanguk, which surprises me on how this film got international renown.

Rumi being rather taken in by Jinu seems a little forced, but make sense in hindsight once you think back after watching the film. In fac, this film seems to have plenty of 'Show, Don't Tell'... rewarding those who repeatedly push 'MEDIA LITERACY!!!!' in Tumblr. /sardonic/

My favourite character is the tiger, though I also like Sussie the magpie. While the hat fits Sussie a lot more, I also wish tha the hat goes to his rightful owner. The 'Derpy' name pretty much screams 'Imperial Nippon should have made comfort women out of us!', though.

I wish tha the previous musical demon hunters could b explored more in their own media, though I am worried tha the 'paint by numbers' plot of the main film could get in the way of those spin-offs. In fac, this whole film is a little flat, pushed by visual splendour and a soundtrack worthy of being a real-KPop soundtrack. Complicating this more is the possibility of this being a big media franchise, which would heavily risk a Franchise Zombie.
 
I took my nieces to see it, and I genuinely enjoyed the movie. The music was well-executed, the art style was unique, and the story was wholesome—no forced messaging for "modern audiences." While I’m not the target demographic, I can absolutely see why it resonates with the kids so much.

I agree with your take, OP. One of my concerns about Gen Alpha has been the lack of original cultural touchstones for them—just rehashed content from older generations aimed at the intergenerational market. Why create something new when you can churn out Shrek 5, COD: Black Ops 7, or "A Minecraft movie" 17 years after the game launched? This film feels like the first real, self-contained cultural moment for them—something that speaks to their world while still feeling distinctly "theirs".

Companies have been milking the nostalgia cycle for so long that culture has become stagnant. Every piece of media aimed at kids must also appeal to Millennials—why take a risk on something new when you can double-dip? Cash in on nostalgic Millennials while also making a kids' movie. The easiest way to do that? Rehashing content from 20 years ago.

Millennials are to culture what Boomers are to the economy—everything has revolved around them for so goddamn long that it’s a shock when a new franchise isn’t explicitly marketed to them.
 
Watched it in the theater. Here is my very autistic review.

FIRST IMPRESSION

First impression is what a breath of fresh air this is from a pure animation standpoint from someone with an appreciation for the art form. Disney has to be shitting a brick over this film, because it is NOT an Anime. This is very much a Western Animation and is an apotheosis of Sony Animation's unique style that blends strong influence from Asia with the Western styles that blend hyper realism and comic book visuals. And its absolutely brilliant. No Cal Arts, no cutsey mass produced slop any mongoloid with a pen can do. You could watch this movie with the sound off and still be able to understand the story. It uses the medium flawlessly to convey the plot, and when combined with the audio it becomes a real spectacle.

The Climactic Song "What it Sounds like" really exemplifies this. What absolute artistry in the colors, lighting and motion and how it combines with the music. It HAS to be watched on a massive screen with a great sound system.

Which on that note, the audio is very good. The story was very clearly built around the songs which is how a good musical should be done. All the major story beats happen in the songs, and plot really exists to get the characters from song to song much like a musical. Which on that note, I am very very glad I chose to go into this raw with the fam at a theater rather then watching it on streaming first. This is a movie made to be seen in a theater, and the passion of the people who made it really conveys. It is clearly a labor of love by the creatives that only exists because the vagaries of Streaming Slop. The premise is patently absurd and would never have been greenlit for any sort of major theatrical release.

This however did end up in theaters in the end. Its like that third rate hitter landing a grand slam in the 9th inning where the stadium has already emptied out because the crowd has gotten bored.


PLOT
The Plot is simple and relies on the basic tropes. Which would normally be a point against it but for the fact that modern creatives have been so desperate to avoid telling stories with the basic tropes of "Girl Meets Boy, There is an ultimate evil, Bad Boy becomes Good Boy in the end because the heroine does that female thing." Which; what a fucking massive breath of fresh air. Rumi is a classical female hero that exists to restore harmony to society and redeem the lost boy. A true RETVRN to tradition, and I am here for it. Why did Buffy the Vampire Slayer have so many seasons and spin offs? This is why. The tropes work because they just work.

It also knows its initial premise is silly and the viewer is going in to watch a movie called "KPOP Demon Hunters." So it introduces the premise quickly and wastes no time on the world building. There is a big bad lovecraftian demon god thing, music keeps it imprisoned, and a trio of songstresses exist in each generation to maintain the barrier. There. Done. Now here is the intro song and a fight scene. Done.

What the plot does that I find clever though is that it is self aware the premise is silly, so it wears it on its sleeve while slowly upping the stakes. Without even realizing its happening, we went from a campy "girl band slays demons" to "And now tens of thousands of people are going to be human sacrifices to an eldritch God of the void and you are going to have to watch it happen." Which on that note, the Demons are not campy punching bags. They are dangerous, and towards the end people are actually getting killed and in the final fight when they uncloak the animation really gets across that these are malevolent and dangerous monsters and the stakes are high.

Example, that shows the stakes escalation of the antagonists, the Saja Boys.

Introduced with "Soda Pop"

Close with "Your Idol"

@ye's Official KF Burner commented that the KPOP boys look like faggots. And I actually agree. The baby faces, and pastel colorings however are a deliberate choice by the animators. The Saja Boys aren't soft and safe, despite wearing pastels and pink shoes. They are actually a group of psychopaths that are trying to lure people in so they can literally eat them. Which makes their two big songs so jarring and shows how the animation escalates the plot. Lots of Pink and Teal in the first Saja Boys song, lots of Blood Red, Yellow and Black in the last one. This was a deliberate decision and it's rather inspired. As was the decision to make the big bad an eldritch "force of nature" that never really shows his face just like Sauron in "Lord of the Rings". He works so much better as a force of nature and it makes the final confrontation more impactful.

The use of the Animation to convey the escalating stakes is honestly brilliant. You don't even really notice it because they boil the frog. The plot still remains predictable with its tropes and cliché, but it is unapologetic about it and still draws you in. Everyone in the theater cheered when the Hero makes her grand entrance to face the dark god. Everyone was hooked from the adults to the little Gen Alpha kids.

THE MUSIC

This is of course a pop musical, so that will require touching on the music. Not really something I listen to if given the choice, but from a practical standpoint it is good. Much like the plot is unapologetic about how it uses tropes, the music is "the three chord song" on steroids. But that is fine. What is interesting though is that since this is music that is part of an overall story it creates more complexity then your usual pop slop. Several of the songs have full orchestral accompaniment and harmonized back tracks that are incredibly complex and the composer should be given an Grammy for it. There is a reason these songs blew up. They are lyrical crack that hit all the pleasing beats designed to appeal to the most people while still being novel in sound. Especially the register of the lead female vocalist. The range is insane. It really is hard to explain why the song "Golden" is such a rare sounding song, but the note at the end of "Born too BE" is not a common one for anyone too hit. Even professional singers.

When combined with the animation its just an entirely different experience. Some of the songs like Soda Pop and What It Sounds Like are real acid trips. The singers are also clearly skilled with impressive range. There may be some nose raising at the pedestrian pop music, but well, again, the movie is called KPOP Demon Hunters. What were you expecting? It is delivering what is advertised. But I am pleased to report that what was advertised really undersold the quality. It is very good pop music.

CONCLUSION
Sony Animation Studios is now unquestionably the best western animation studio with this offering. At a minimum this movie is going to get an academy award in that category. Honestly though, I think it may be a best picture contender from the pure passion that was on display. It is very very very rare to come across a piece of culture these days where when I was done watching it I thought to myself; "the people who made this loved making this for the shear joy of the art." That joy of creation truly shines, even around the rough edges and the simple plot.

Probably why the Corporate Lizard People at Sony farmed it out to Netflix. They had no comprehension of what they had in the palm of their hand. They saw the crown of glory in the gutter and could not see past the mud.

9/10.

This is also going to be Generation Alpha's "Rocky Horror Picture Show." Being in a theater listening to a hundred 8-13 year olds singing along to the songs was quite the experience. Which also affirmed the wisdom of my decision of taking the fam to see this IN a theater with other people rather then seeing it on a dinky little screen. Shared Cultural experiences like this are so rare now in this horrible dark age we are going through. Its nice to see that the kids will have something they will remember fondly when they are adults.
 
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