 What's going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here So this would be a spoiler for review for pet cemetery bloodlines, which is a prequel to the 2019 remake Not the film that we got back in the 80s This is a prequel to the most recent adaptation that we got in 2019 It again is of course based off of Stephen King's iconic novel pet cemetery. This is directed and written by Lindsey Anderson beer It's also co-written by Jeff Bueller. It is starring Jackson White, Forrest Goodluck, Jack Muller, Henry Thomas, Natalie Linde Samantha Mathis and a few other people. This is revolving around Judd Crandall who you know is one of the most prominent Characters known from the pet cemetery lore the pet cemetery book and the two adaptations that we've gotten Set in 1969 50 years before the events of the previous film the plot follows a young Judd Crandall as he discovers a local cemetery where the dead can live again without Imagining the horror that will affect his life Now pet cemetery bloodlines It is unfortunately one of those prequels that justifies the argument of prequels being unnecessary Sometimes prequels aren't better. No pun intended The problem especially if you're someone like me who is familiar with Timmy Baderman and his backstory is It doesn't help when this film solves its own mystery in the opening and then wants you to sit around waiting for all of these other characters to catch up Something's wrong with Timmy and our characters slowly learn this but there's no suspense around this topic It's just frustration and impatience that's swelling because I already know what's wrong with Timmy And I'm growing impatient with these one-dimensional characters trying to catch up with me Any effort to bulk up your mystery is falling on deaf ears when you're placing your audience 10 steps ahead of your characters making the characters absolutely dull and Centering it on a character like Judd who I know will survive because if he doesn't you have a giant plot hole on your hands So the story is written in a way that's forcing itself to take losses as it's progressing the lore surrounding the cemetery is Explored further through flashbacks and exposition dumping which also made no impact given the film failed to justify its own Existence within five minutes. It also seemed to be undoing any type of Windigo connection fans would expect which felt like an odd writing choice Judd Crandall again being our main Protagonist our main character. He's hoping to leave Ludlow with his girlfriend and join the Peace Corps He's just ready to get life started and that's about all we get from his character We know he's going to survive of course since he's in the sequel to this We do also of course find out that he used to be close friends with a other another young man named Manny along with Timmy before World War two for those of you who know Timmy Baderman story I'm just trying to get not to get into too many spoilers Problem is again with the concept is that Lindsey Beards screenplay Offers little reason to remotely care about Judd Manny and we sure are not gonna care about Timmy Manny and Timmy have qualities about them that can make them relatable But they just aren't since the story keeps them one-dimensional Timmy being a participant in World War two should have led to a compelling story But no, he's more like a poor attempt at capturing Timmy Baderman to be honest Nothing about him made me think that this was someone possessed by a Wendigo spirit It was more like a boy who just got up on the wrong side of the bed or Someone who has severe depression or maybe just has a maybe just has something stuck up his ass I don't know. He just seemed like he was in a bad mood or suffering from severe depression Manny is mad that his friends left him in Lutlo and his sister is about to do the same thing So like that's all we learned about Manny. I want to feel sorry for this guy because he has no direction in life That's made apparent But not enough is done with this material to warrant my investment as a protagonist Judd also isn't unlikeable He's just undercooked and barely relevant despite being the main character. He's here But most of the material that is semi-compelling it's coming from his father played by the talented Henry Thomas check him out In my Flanagan's latest mini-series when it drops next month The dialogue mostly consists of cryptic wordplay that comes off more ironic than anything when you hear this line Over and over again the line sometimes dead is better the irony being that this concept should have stayed dead or at least Trapped in development purgatory There's a line that sums up my entire feelings about this movie because it all seemed like 80 minutes of a duh moment So a character literally says this world is old and filled with good stuff and bad stuff And we don't know where it comes from and I'm sitting there like are we serious right now? Because the delivery of the line is laughable because it's delivered in a breaking news sort of way But most people already know this as a harsh reality about any aspect of life The kills are very quick and uneventful and the best gore sequence by far comes from someone's flesh falling off their foot The themes of generational trauma are apparent But they're barely explored in any sort of profound way for me to care about any of these people or their reasoning for staying in Lutlo Pacing wasn't that great while I was watching some stuff It went on for far too long and other encounters that could have been used to To build suspense and savor whatever was lacking Overly watching this movie it has really no terror to it whatsoever and a lot of the scares do come from jump scares immediately Some of them aren't as formulaic as what I've been seeing in past projects like the none and the none too they're just The suspense the efforts to build suspense in the pacing. It's it's terrible They're all just they're all just done in the blink of an eye if you blink you'll miss it There's just a very bland and generic atmosphere to the whole project that 2019 prequel It's not perfect, but it's a superior adaptation Compared to this for sure acting wise Henry Thomas and Natalie Lynn They're my standouts. We don't even learn that much about his girlfriend who was portrayed by Natalie Lynn She's again just someone who's there for the ride when you have characters who are undercooked like this and a lot of their personalities are Coming off dry from the performances You're not going to be invested in anything happening on your screen. That's what's happening with this film Jackson white's performance here made it difficult to connect with Judd. Honestly Judd's worst actor Sadly goes to his youngest depiction youngest depiction to date I think this mostly just spoke to also how poorly directed this film was at times because he's apparently a great actor Or so I've heard because this was the first thing I've seen from him and it was quite bad When he's delivering his lines, there's nothing that's changing in his tone Give it no matter the context the tone is the same and it's like bra. Are you okay? But again, I'm not really gonna knock him because I haven't seen too much from him all in all This is a prequel that you could have just kept in the drafts. We didn't need this not at all Let me know what you think about this down the comment section below I'm gonna give this a four out of ten if you haven't already, of course Make sure you subscribe turn on post notification in this video any description. I have links on my social media accounts I'm on Facebook Twitter and Instagram. 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