GentleAir Reviews

  Copyright © Netflix, Nickelodeon Movies Title : Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie Director : Liza Johnson Based on : Characters by Stephen Hillenburg Release Date : August 2, 2024     Since the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise is currently active for twenty-five years, a new movie for the sponge just released this year. Its movie series already consists of three movies which are part of the main lineup. Starting with this movie, Nickelodeon will make spin-off films that will be released for streaming. Today's review will talk about Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie , the latest SpongeBob movie, as it takes its achievement of being the first movie of the franchise to be a character spinoff. Entirely what it says on the tin, this movie is shining the spotlight on Sandy Cheeks as she goes on a high-stakes quest with SpongeBob himself. The reception consisted of mixed reviews from both critics and audiences alike. On Rotten Tomatoes, it got a Tomat...

Copyright © Apple Studios, These Pictures, Columbia Pictures Title : Fly Me to the Moon Director : Greg Berlanti Release Date : July 12, 2024     While Apple did not do any good with Argylle , this film showed their second chance at their theatrical promotion. Surprisingly, the trailer for this movie showed in a few showings for family movies, like for IF , because of how this is a tame PG-13 movie. Many movies about the Apollo 11 mission, using Netflix's Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood   as an example, are well liked for their historical accuracy. Does the new Apple film do the same level as good as the Netflix one did? This review will be about Fly Me to the Moon , the new film starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum! As part of the AMC Screen Unseen program, it was first promoted in the July 1 spot. Additionally, it gained an early access screening on July 5 a week before its official theatrical release on July 12. Albeit being a box office flop for grossi...

Copyright © Universal Pictures, Illumination Title : Despicable Me 3 Director : Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda Sequel to : Despicable Me 2 (2013) Release Date : June 30, 2017     Unlike the previous two Despicable Me reviews, this did not require a rewatch due to how the sequel could be easily memorized in a flash. Even from the first time watching the movie in the theater, its story is more straightforward to remember. Personally, this is the first time reviewing a movie straight ahead thanks to the basic understanding. As the revisit series returns to its current work, the film reviewed for today is Despicable Me 3 , the threequel to the Despicable Me franchise by Illumination! Back in June 2017, the movie received a mixed recognition but it also included a lot of financial success, thanks to the said franchise being the highest-grossing animated film franchise ever. Worldwide, the gross is $1.035 billion which places the film at #4 of the highest-grossing films of that year....

  Copyright © Toho Animation, Trigger, XFLAG, 3DCG Title : Promare Director : Hiroyuki Imaishi Release Date : May 24, 2019     Something funny about reviewing this movie is that it is two months after its Tokyo release. However, The Lion King did the same recently, as it did release in theaters about a month after its actual 30th anniversary date. So, this would still work in some way. Plus, the movie's USA anniversary lands on September. Today's revisit will focus on Promare , an anime film by the anime studio Trigger, which has turned five years old this year! Back in May 2019, it released in Tokyo on the 15th. Nine days later, it got released generally on the 24th. In Japan, it grossed 1.5 billion yen, marking it on #23 out of the highest-grossing Japanese films in 2019. With its international grosses added in, the movie made a total of $17 million worldwide, which makes this movie a box office success. Along with its box office gross, the reception is very positiv...

    Copyright © Sony Pictures Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, DNEG Animation Title : The Garfield Movie Director : Mark Dindal Based on : Garfield by Jim Davis Release Date : May 24, 2024     Judging on how Chris Pratt is part of the voice cast, this did not convince everyone. This was supposedly an animated version to prove that Sony would make a better Garfield movie than 20th Century did twenty years ago. Back in 2004, Garfield: The Movie  performed well commercially but also did not perform well with critical reception. For this review, this will be about Sony's version, The Garfield Movie , which is the customized cinematic take on the comic strip. At the box office, it received a solid $232 million worldwide, showing that this is a decent start for a non-SPA animated film. On the dark side, it performed negatively with critics. However, most audiences loved the movie. The Rotten Tomatoes scores are 36% for critics and 80% for audiences, unlike the 20...

Copyright © Universal Pictures, Illumination Entertainment Title : Despicable Me 2 Director : Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin Sequel to : Despicable Me (2010) Release Date : July 3, 2013     This is another one of Illumination's successful animated movies with bonus points thanks to an original song. One of the originally-written songs of the soundtrack, "Happy" by Pharrell Williams, became a largely successful song in 2014. Now is it time to talk about the upcoming movie, Piece by Piece , again? The answer is no because it's time to review Despicable Me 2 , the sequel to Despicable Me , which is the second installment of its own movie line up. When it got released in July 2013, it was given a positive reputation, just like almost all of the other movies in the franchise. The box office gross is $971 million worldwide, an even higher number than its predecessor, which put the movie up in third place for the highest grossing films of 2013. Again, both critics and audien...

  Copyright © Netflix, Netflix Animation, Tsuburaya Productions Title : Ultraman: Rising Director : Shannon Tindle, John Aoshima Release Date : June 14, 2024     This year, Netflix did not seem to be doing that well with their animated flicks for the most part. To put it, they were not that bad but they still did not give the streaming service any good luck. Their previous animated film,  Thelma the Unicorn , did not perform the same as The Bad Guys did which is surprising because of how they are based on books by the same author, Aaron Blabey. Making things somewhat worse, their two original anime films, Maboroshi and My Oni Girl , both getting mixed receptions. However, Netflix's most recent animated film, Ultraman: Rising , finally gave Netflix much more luck. Both critics and audiences gave the movie positive reception for its animation, writing, and voice acting. On the site Rotten Tomatoes, it has a high critic score of 83% and a higher audience score of 9...