If they’re doing it to help gorillas, they’ve failed. Punishment is not the same as justice, and those who confuse the two would do well to examine the motives behind their supposed fury. Maynard may have defended the decision to shoot Harambe, but you don’t get to be a director of a zoo without years of proven dedication to animals and their wellbeing and their future. All that hacking Zoo Director Thane Maynard’s Twitter account did was take time and resources from one of the good guys. While I don't mind simple designs, it just looks lazy when compared with the other two monsters in the movie.None of this Internet “activism” brings Harambe back. He doesn't have any other crazy attributes that would make him stand out like Ralph and Lizzie. He is just a giant albino gorilla that knows sign language and has super crazy strength. George's design is the most simplest out of the three. As for George, I wish that they did a lot more with him in terms of design since he is suppose to be the main hero of the movie. While it may look like a giant wolf, it has porcupine like quills that he can fire at his opponents with and has the ability to glide like a squirrel. What I like about Lizzie's design is that she has all of these different attributes going on such as gills, spiky armor, tusks, and a club like tail as well as being able to climb. Even though Lizzie was changed from a giant lizard to a giant crocodile, Lizzie's design is my favorite design with Ralph in second, and George in last place. Lizzie is a powerhouse of a monster packing with a club like tail to smash buildings and her opponents and one hell of a bite that can chomp anything into pieces. The fight scenes are brutal and out of the three monsters, Lizzie really proves how much of a threat she really is compared to Ralph and George. The movie's story is boring, but watching the monsters coming together to cause destruction and the final act where it's a three way free-for-all fight between George, Ralph, and Lizzie was very much needed after being bored for half of the movie. After a while, all I cared about was seeing all the monster mayhem and Rampage at least delivered on that. At least it didn't rely on memes for jokes, but that doesn't make the funny scenes in this movie any funnier when done two or three more times. At times though, the humor in Rampage does dry up and gets beaten with a stick making me role my eyes a few times. Even when the characters are being over-the-top and cartoonish, I now see it as more of a parody poking fun at the genre. The movie follows the same concept as well by being a mindless fun movie about monsters causing havoc and mayhem and nothing else. A fun game about monsters destroying buildings and causing mayhem. The video games didn't take itself seriously either and it is one of the more well known video games. Even though Rampage has its flaws, the flaws are not to be taken too seriously. Yet, I also had fun watching this movie as a mindless action packed film. When I looked at this movie as a serious movie I was only disappointing myself and I was hating it (This was coming from months of being disappointed with the earlier movies of this year). It was almost like watching a parody, but even at times I was not even sure if the movie was meant to be a parody or if it was actually trying to be serious. You have your usual cliches such as the dumb military not knowing how to fight monsters and an evil corporation, but they make these cliches so over the top that the movie doesn't take itself seriously. I found myself bored wondering when will the movie get better. Then half way through the movie after seeing George and Ralph growing bigger, the movie goes down hill. The beginning of the movie starts off really good by starting with a dark scene on a space station of an experiment going awry and seeing how George and Dwayne Johnson's character, Davis Okoye, interact. So trying to come up with any kind of story for a movie based on a story-less game is going to be difficult. In the video game, there isn't much of a story to begin with. There are parts of the movie that I did enjoy, but Rampage falls flat in the story as it is kind of weak. Rampage is no exception and I didn't expect it to be a good video game movie, however this was a fun monster movie overall. Ever since the movie, Super Mario Bros., movies based on video games suffer a curse where they are doomed to fail.
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