Wednesday, 8 August 2018

FILM: Teen Titans Go! To The Movies (dirs: Aaron Horvath and Peter Rida Michail, 2018)

"A MOVIE!"

This was my first experience of the Teen Titans, and once you have seen the team riding time tricycles and witnessed a space-dolphin-unicorn, it is difficult to know what to think.  Best described (possibly) as a meta-anime-musical-superhero movie, taking wannabe teenage versions of lesser superheroes and sidekicks and giving it an overtly-knowing spin results in a lot of amusing self-aware banter and ideas on the superhero genre and Hollywood itself, and the lo-fi stylings coupled with off-the-wall moments is bizarrely entertaining.  It is inconsistent, e-numbered-kinetic, completely silly and therefore oddly and curiously enjoyable.

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