 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another movie review. Today I'm talking about the 2021 reboot remake, sequel, tie-in, whatever you want to call it, of Candyman, directed by Nia, DeCosta, and produced by Jordan Peele and others. I want to preface this review by saying I don't care about the political discussion about this movie. People seem to forget how political the first film was, or how Clive Barker's story in The Flesh, I believe it was, how political that was. I'm very confused by people just automatically being upset at the movie for dealing with social topics and things that actually happen, not of course Candyman, but the police shootings, police violence, things like that. I know I'm opening this up to alt-right trolls and everything, but I don't really care. You guys can say what you want to, but I'm not going to fight with you. I'm here to talk about what I liked and didn't like about the movie. If you would like to have respectful discussion down there in the doobly-doo, I'm all for it. So right off the bat, this is nowhere near as good as the original. I don't see what some people are saying that it is better than the original, because Tony Todd was utterly terrifying as Candyman. This new guy, I didn't think he was menacing whatsoever. There was definitely a stronger sympathetic feel for him. I don't know. Probably because they showed what happened to him, whereas they just not eluded, but they just told the story in the original, what happened in the original Candyman. I've heard complaints about how they changed the whole mythos. No, they didn't. It seems funny to me some of the complaints, when there are actual valid things to be complaining about here. The number one thing is the new Candyman, who's Candyman for the majority of the movie, is not menacing. He's not scary, which brings me to the reason why he's not, because for the majority of the film, we don't see any of the deaths. It's all off screen. Now, I'm not a gore hound. I do like gore in my horror movies and my slashers and things like that, but it took away some of the terror, not seeing the aftermath, not seeing the murders, not seeing the brutality that this entity was capable of. The first film, I think, did the brutality very, very well. It was a very beautiful, disturbing piece of art, and this movie is gorgeous. I loved watching it, but my problem is that everything was kind of just lost over. I don't know if they were trying to make it scarier by doing the alluding to what happened, but I just couldn't find that. The scene in the bathroom with the teenage girls fell flat for me. The art critic fell flat for me. I don't know, and I'm normally not the type of person who has to see everyone die and torn apart, but I think that was the draw of the first film, was seeing the brutality that Candyman was capable of. It wasn't just like, oh, yeah, give me all the murder, give me all the gore possible. It had a lot more to do with showing you what he was capable of. Another slight criticism I have is I'm not 100% sure. Someone brought this up on Twitter, and at first I disagreed with them, because it seemed after the main character started rotting, basically, after the beasting that no one noticed. I watched it twice so far. He goes into a reclusive mode, and even his wife, they end up separating because she thinks he's gone south, that kind of thing. But his mother doesn't notice when she's talking to him, and his head is only slightly turned, but his hand is right there. So I guess I'm going to actually agree with them. It's rather odd that no one mentioned that this dude was literally rotting before their eyes. Now, I liked everything else about the film. I'm going to give it four stars, but I truly wish that either they had brought back Tony Todd for the entirety of the film, or gotten someone who was a little more menacing as Candyman, because this is not a horror movie that unsettled or scared me as much as it was almost an art house film. I guess it's the best way I could put it, because, like I said, it's very, very, very pretty to look at. Of course, I'm a damn dirty liberal, so of course I liked all the messages and everything like that. But also, it's about a reality. These things happen, these things, these terrible crimes are committed by people in power, and they get away with it. I just, I feel like this movie could have been better. It is not, for me, it is definitely not better than the original, but D'Costa did an amazing job with the film as far as the look and quality of it. My only complaint, my only big complaint really is that the main focal, the focal point of the whole movie, the titular bad guy, is kind of boring this time around, and that was a very odd choice to make. But other than that, I did enjoy it. I can't really think because I did enjoy it so much, I can't really, I don't know, I can't really say too much more about it. It's always been easier for me to review something if I, if I hate it, because I have a lot more, I have stuff to complain about, but when I, when I enjoy something, you know, it becomes this where, you know, I just, I just mentioned maybe minor criticisms and then move on. But I would love to hear what you think about the new Candy Man down there in the doobly-doo, and yes, this is a super short review, I apologize, but I don't really have much else to say. But if you want to let me know respectfully, please, I don't, I don't care about your political affiliation, I don't care to hear about, oh my god, there's nothing political advertisement. No, I don't care. It's, it's silly, it's annoying, and I'm sure I'm going to bring people in just saying that, but they probably already clicked away anyways. Anywho, so let me know down there in the doobly-doo whether or not you loved it, you hated it, you felt meh about it. But if you felt any of those things describe in detail, try to keep politics out of this if you can, describe in detail why you felt that way so that we can have a discussion. But until next time, I have been E, you have been U, this has been another movie review, I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye!