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The Freak Brothers (2020)
It's Not Exactly the Comics, but it was Entertaining.
So at first upon hearing about this show,I was excited. Then I was reluctant after seeing the first teaser. As an avid buyer and reader of the Freak Brothers comics in my youth snd young adult life, I could hear this wasn't going to be what my mind's ear heard when reading them. Fat Freddy was all wrong, Phineas was ok, and I thought they came the closest with Freewheeling Franklin. I pretty much ignored any further updates on this series after that.
That said, I decided to give the series a watch, not expecting much. I was mildly surprised when I found myself laughing at a few parts in the 1st episode. Sure, the premise of Rip Van Winkling for fifty years, and having several houses built over their basement over that time is stupid, but it's a comic. It works to get them into the modern age. They do a fair job of having the brothers interact with the new original characters, and they toss out some Easter eggs in every episode.
It seems many of the negative reviews like to focus on the cat. No, it isn't 'Fat Freddy's Cat', it's 'Kitty', and is presented as such. It seems to really get under the skin of a lot of fragile males that the cats gender was changed. It's not a big deal really.
Is this show exactly like the comics of old? No, and anyone going into this with those expectations will be severely disappointed as seen by the severely negative reviews here. I had my doubts, but I found it to be quite entertaining, and it presented itself better than I expected. I loved the dynamics between the sisters, and I have a new favorite cartoon character! Gretchen!
Kings Go Forth (1958)
A good film, but...
it loses something in this day when someone with the same racial profile as Monique is a nominee for president. The whole assumption by the southern guy (Brett) that it would be impossible for a "white" guy to love and marry a "black" woman, let alone have children just doesn't sink in like it did in the 1940's. Are there still people that believe this today? Sure, but they are such a fringe now that they are irrelevant. Still, a worthy watch for the acting alone. Advertised as a world war 2 film, its really more a romance film in a world war 2 setting with a couple moments of 'action'. The feel of Southern France is captured well, being that it was actually filmed there. The screenplay could have been presented better for as it is, there are some points where it loses the audience. One of the best scenes is when Loggins finds out Brett didn't intend to marry Monique, but was just 'playing' her.
As been mentioned by a couple others, a modern re-make using Joe David Brown's dark book ending would really work well.