The SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 3 Honest Trailer.

Honest Trailers noted this both in the video and in their blurb: the Sonic franchise is remarkably good, all things considered. I went to see SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 3 with my kids – and while I wasn’t wowed, particularly, I am neither a teenager nor a player of the Sonic games. Even then, I wasn’t clawing my eyes out, or anything. Jim Carrey was funny. There were some good shots. It did its duty.

Which isn’t nothing. Nobody really expected the franchise to get this far. Well done!

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The RED ONE Honest Trailer.

They weren’t fans.

Personally, I thought RED ONE was fine, for given values of ‘fine.’ I’m not surprised Honest Trailers didn’t like it, though. I mean, they have to watch a lot of this stuff. All the time. Me? I can pick and choose my algorithmic homogenized cinematic product. That does make a difference.

The MEGALOPOLIS Honest Trailer.

Is it weird that this Honest Trailer of MEGALOPOLIS kind of makes me want to see the movie now? I originally did, but then I didn’t, and then I did again. Then I heard the reviews and the audience reaction, which just made me appreciate it as a long, involved ‘it’s my money and I can do what I like with it’ exercise on the director’s part.

Now I dunno.

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The GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE Honest Trailer.

I don’t think Honest Trailers was being entirely fair to GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE, though. The movies are not there to be, well, GODZILLA MINUS ONE. They’re there to be big, sloppy fun, and they’re hitting their marks. There is virtue in picking an achievable goal, and striving your best to reach it. Not every film has to try to be the Greatest Movie Ever.

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