"Elemental didn't do so hot, sorry that wasn't a pun. Ruby Gillman *tanked.* " Apologizes for accidental pun, immediately makes pun after.

Most of the movie does seem pretty mid, but on the note of Ruby being "stupid" for not seeing the betrayal, the lies, for being anxious and sucking at socializing... she's actually a lot closer to written as autistic, I think. If you think of her as an autistic teenager, it immediately makes a lot of sense that she would latch onto the thin pretense of friendship from the more popular peer and not recognize that she's being used, it makes sense that it's easy for her family to lie to her since she just accepts whatever they say at face value, etc.

I think the main issue with this film is it's proximity to Turning Red. A quirky girl "discovering herself" and a coming of age story. BUT WITH KRAKENS!

Dreamworks releases an 11/10 that is beyond amazing and reaching Heaven. Then it releases generic teen with super powers and literal "fish" out of water tropes. From Perfection to By-The-Numbers. Dreamworks is an interesting company.

The reason why movies aren’t making as much money isn’t really because of quality, but because of streaming services. Many people don’t feel like going to the cinemas unless they want to support the project that they are interested in. Which is why they will go to watch Oppenheimer, because they want to support Christopher Nolan. It’s like how Blu-Rays work in Japan.

Saber deserves a lot more attention. He has brought a lot of awareness to the most obscure forms of animation from across the world. Nux should watch watch some of his reviews like the one about Noah’s ark but with anthro animals.

i like how nux said he hates that the one spiderman sound is everywhere, and his editor proceeds to put it in almost every video

I only found out about this movie after it came to theaters. Marketing failed.

Imagine if Saberspark and Nux meets up and does a video together.

I'd gladly watch this over any of the crap Disney is churning out.

You should watch more Saberspark. He has a series called "What the Hell..." where he reviews weird obscure animated movies. He's more scripted there, and pretty furry... I mean funny.

I thought is was just titled “Kraken”. It looked like a reverse POV to “The Little Mermaid”, like a what if story about a character like Ursula going through a coming of age experience. Would have preferred that being what it looked like from the first trailer.

I think what Saber meant was to take more time to flesh EVERYTHING out more so it just doesn’t feel as forced or be more like the Last Wish and Spiderverse while also being just as original at the same time.

I will say, it’s not bad or a abomination or anything, but i enjoyed it! It was really enjoyable

At least with Elemental despite having similar reasons for flopping, it was still fairly talked about and more well known both good and bad which at least manage to give the film a decent recovery, but with Ruby Gilman aside from the trailer and reviews I barely heard a lot of people talk about it. And you can make the argument that Dreamworks is a hit-or-miss studio but they have not flopped this badly and nowadays we expected better because we know they could do better.

I love watching Nux watch all the things I've already watched, makes me feel like we're really sharing a braincell 😆

It’s sad the standstill animation is experiencing with creativity. And the different industry situations are wild. Nested in the idea nostalgia works best, AI getting into the mix, undermining the gravity of certain roles behind the scenes. I hope things improve.

Honestly ruby gillmen had just such a predictable plotline, that even without the revealing af trailers it still just... totally gave itself away.

Nux is so energetic whenever he saw big companies flop. 😂

I think when animation was hand drawn they put more thought and effort into the stories. Now it’s much easier to mass produce animated movies.

The moral of this movie is: "racism is a good, thing, actually. At least against mermaids."

movies now need to be good enough for people not wanting to wait for it to be on streaming.

Now that's a crossover I never thought I'd see

I will say it: Both Dreamworks’ Ruby Gillman and Pixar’s Elemental didn’t deserved to flop. They are fun enjoyable movies 🎥

8:48 There's this thing called the Pacific Northwest Rainforest, a part of the U.S. that is, in places, very far from the sea, yet ALWAYS MOIST.

The movie really deserved better. It was a unique take with monsters being the heroes and flipping the script of mermaids actually being the bad guys which is factually correct. I mean there was even an animated kaiju fight and they still messed it up! Heck even the art community was loving the animation style, though a lot of human designs could've been a lot better. Chelsea was by far my favorite character but they made her bad in the end by making her Nerrisa(the mother). Many are saying that the reason the movie was so bad was because it was being worked on since 2017 and they just wanted to finish it just to be done with it. Proof of this is when in the original storyboards Chelsea WAS the daughter of Nerrisa. I don't know why they didn't just leave her as that but hopefully there will be some light shed on that issue. Overall I'm hoping for a TV series of this because this was wasted potential and it needs to be fixed.

idk what you're on Nux, i LOVED Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken, it's already 1 of my top 10 DreamWorks movies, & it's far better then some of the other stuff coming out

The only movie I'm currently hoping and expecting to see in the future is Iron lung to be honest.

He's putting his Nux all on saberspark

Wouldn't it be wild if they just ship the Kraken Girl and Mermaid Girl then actually show how both of them working their ways to make both of their family accept them despite their gender and race. But nah, they just make them boring and make the Mermaid the bad guy instead.

I'm not sure if I've ever heard Saber sound so damn tired lol. This movie took a lot out of him.

You hit the nail on the head at 2:08. I saw the trailers and I always thought 'I've seen this a thousand times, and this one seems more passé than most.' Combined with 'she was hiding as a normal girl' with BLUE SKIN AND NO NOSE AND ONLY THREE FINGERS? Wombo combo of old-hat plot combined with bland storytelling and immediate failure of suspension of disbelief. I had 0 interest immediately.

15:46 the heroes it shows are shown earlier because they were at his wedding which hits harder when you know that

Saberspark just sounds so DONE

I saw Ruby Gillman and honestly... I saw the mermaid being the bad girl from a mile away. Then they subvert that expectations by using the plot of the mermaid befriending the kraken and I was like "are they going to flip it and ACTUALLY surprise me with something nuanced that made the title and the marketing a misleading for all the right reasons?"... and then they went with exactly what was expected... Sad, they were doing pretty good until that not surprising at all plot twist...

On the topic of Simplicity, I'm reminded of what my friend who does cosplaying said about her first Cosplay, which was something very basic... and she said it was the biggest mistake she could make. When you do something simple, it can be hard to really stuff it up, but any mistake you do make is magnified to a much larger extend then something, as it's a lot more noticable then something that is more complicated. This is true even if Complicated is more difficult to do, as you can hide or brush over them, were something simple it's just nothing else to hide it in. This is the same with Movies(and other media) with stories, sure Simple might be "Easy" but like those simple cosplays, any mistake are like a lightning rod to audiences attention, and it's only the good bits that can potentially save it

16:53 Top fish. Bottom Human. Change my mind.

Everyone needs to switch to Anime and Korean/Japanese period series while Hollywood gets their act together. They also repeat tropes, just like Hollywood, but at least they do them well most of the time (Kirito characters are an exception).

The only thing I will remember from this movie is how high the bland love interest guy looked. Everyone else has normal cartoony eyes but for some reason his pupils are the size of Saturn and he looks like he just took a couple hits of acid.

20:44 Unless your Blumhouse or A24 where you have low budget horror movies, that people will always watch enough to make enough money in the box office even if it is bad. Pixar, Disney, and DreamWorks need to have cheaper budgets for their films, and try something different and good.

i know this is an old video but Nux Im so glad i found this channel I think everything you say about movies and shows is correct

I've been a long time fan of Saberspark and I just recently started watching Nux's videos, so its a nice surprise to see this lol

“It’s not about the money Spider-Man”

I thought ruby gillman was the primarch of the ultramarines.

"Time marches ever onward" "all we do crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see" time will bury you if you can't keep up it always has.

Hey bud you should do a how to write a villain video similar to your how to write a female character

The second I found out Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken was coming out I was like sound interesting but my first thought was there's going to be so much Rule 34

How TF did the same Dreamworks that gave us the mater pieces that were TheBadGuys and PussInBoots2, crank out this pile of crap? YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DESTROY THE DISNEY, NOT JOIN THEM.

Movie writers are missing the point. It feels like they’re writing the plot first, and when it feels just good enough THEN they write the characters, just enough so that they fill the roles. Writing the characters to be good and engaging should be #1.

I honestly think the reason why most of these films are flopping isn’t due to quality, but just the Cinema experience is dying. You’ve got so many blockbuster films coming out now that the prices start to add up, especially if it is a film designed for families where you have to buy tickets, food and drink and all that stuff, it’s too much to justify going frequently. But thanks to streaming services, they don’t have to. People are now willing to just wait a month or two for a film to come out in streaming and only watch a couple films in cinemas every year, which led to only a few select films actually making good money. Whether it’s a franchise or a new ip, people don’t care for the most part, they’re just not willing to go to the cinema as much anymore, so these films are either flopping or barely scraping by.

So how many likes do we need to get to have Nux watch it.

so…. Illumination Pikmin movie based around Pikmin stuff and things in between 2 and 3 with the start of Pikmin 3 being in the credits with some basic gameplay with story elements being part of said credits. Like it easily follows a Minions styled formula where it is entirely focused on the Pikmin doing things. like it could even be to show how much things have changed since Olimar granted them the importance of Teamwork and Violence after the first game and to show how much has changed and how much time passed since Olimar left, because we don’t know how far hocotate is to PNF-404 (the main location and planet of focus of the games)

Ruby Gillman teenage kraken sounds so familiar🤔🤔🤔 Oh wait, Randy cunningham ninth grade ninja.

- Give us some evil people! - -Nux

the funniest part of this is that some people were saying this would be the last nail in the coffin of Pixar, yet after the first critiques of public and critics over elemental that movie had a constant and regular viewing and have more than recovered the money. and no one had quit for overworking over elemental... movies are kind of fucked in general it seems.

Well Sound of Freedom did well in the box office despite no big advertisements and being 5 years late. $40 million opening week and cost $14.5 million to make. Just need a good story and a reasonable budget to succeed.

Nux finally fixed his input and output audio bro I was getting tired of raising the volume to actually understand what he's saying only to get ear ®@p€d by the original audio 😂

You are, like, the only KZfaqr I know who reacts to other KZfaqrs.

The title says teenage kraken, I keep hearing teenage crackhead.

Think they have all these pitches and past ideas in a folder waiting to be used and to see the light and instead we get mid, safe, lazy, or just plain bad. It’s like new super Mario. We had the same game from the same cloth with a new cooler background and everybody wanted something new and different. Not the same game with a new gimmick for ten years and that’s what we’re seeing here now!

Evey time they said “teenage kraken” I heard “teenage cracker” 😂

Gellmerio del taro’s Pinocchio was the goat of modern day animated movies

1:25 What's wrong with "Kraken?" 4:29 Right HERE. Ruby Gillman was... 4:51 not part of a pre-existing franchise. 5:10 "Yes, PREACH!" 8:59 *If only.* 19:42 This seriously _is not the context for this_ *carp.*

I thought you said. "Imagine going to the theatre by watching teenage crackhead"

the sound of freedom is the original movie you’re looking for

Unpopular opinion but I'd rather watch something that's part of a franchise than something original. Original movies spend the whole movie setting up the foundation. There are things that need to be included in original stories for it to be a competent foundation, things like character introductions and worldbuilding. It leads to a lot of original stories feeling similar since they have to cover these same subjects. The advantage of franchises is that you already have that foundation, so you have more freedom to explore interesting concepts and ideas. Puss in Boots 2 works as well as it does because Puss is a pre established character. We know what he's normally like, so we understand how much the idea of death is troubling him. We understand that something is very wrong when he isn't acting like his usual self and are elated when he regains his lost confidence. It's the same with SpiderVerse. It uses it's audience's pre existing knowledge of who Spider-Man is to deconstruct the idea of being Spider-Man. It takes the two different halves of Spider-Man and has them fight against each other. The responsibility to save everyone that they can and the desire to protect those closest to them. You really just can't get a deconstruction of a character like that if it's something original. Not to say that original movies are bad, there's just only so much that they can do in their runtime, so they can't explore more complex ideas.

The movie "Jules" is coming out this summer and seems pretty original

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Why do i get the feeling that the same thing will happen to the Barbie movie, but much much worse?

When too big to fail burns, there's more space for indies to grow so I'm right there with you with the popcorn Nux. You want butter with that?

I saw the movie last night and I liked it. it was well worth paying the theater money to see

You know what was a good Twist Villain? The one in, and this is spoilers so Paragraphing this mother fucker. Rourke in Atlantis: The Lost Empire. And, this is important to note, you can pick up on it pretty early, in fact the movie leaves some clues for the audience to figure it out, so while he's a twist villain, it's not out of nowhere.

Big companies are too afraid of risks so they try to make super safe movies that are guaranteed to profit. Because of this any new creations feel bland cause they need it to be safe and not offend anyone. Because it's bland it doesn't do well cause it has no soul. A flop makes the companies more scared so they even less likely to take a risk cause they see their latest "risk" as proof they shouldn't take risks so they are most strict. More reliance on proven material and even tighter reigns on new ideas causing a spiral.

I love how they blame marketing. When I bet marketing is like "what you expect me to do with the pile of shit?" 😂

The Director in Nimona, yeah does she have a name other than Director, was a good new villain

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I hated watching Ruby Gillman I have never before walked out of the theater more disapointed than I did after watching it

I watch Saberspark a lot, so I've already seen the video, but I honestly had no idea this movie even existed before watching the vid. At least for Elemental I had seen 3-4 ads for it

Sound of Freedom? Considering the subject matter, I sure hope that one doesn't become a franchise. That would sort of be like Schindler's List becoming a franchise.

I only found out about this movie from a trailer I saw that played in the movie theater before my showing of across the spiderverse. Then after the movie I completely forgot about it.

when The little Mermaid came out and everyone was bitching about it, there was a screenshot of chelsea being like "even dreamworks can do a better ariel". That the only thing i EVER heard or saw about this movie until videos started popping up akin to this video.

Do more south park, for the graphics, we all know how important graphics are.

I've actually never heard of this movie until I saw Saber's video about it. First thought it was a low budget movie like most movies he covers but this was a legit DreamWorks movie.

Honestly it bothers me that there isn’t a lot of original Contant, since companies are way too afraid to try something new.🐱

jesus... nux needs to normalise his mic audio. it goes from whisper quiet to earrape all the time

Meanwhile, Nintendo and Sony: We're in the money! We're in the money!! $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

10:10 I'm honestly so tired of this trope. The "Popular pretty girl being the bad guy". The moment you see the character you can tell the story from that point on. Can we subvert THIS instead of good tropes and and ideas?

Woah. Not every box-office is showing the same things... It's because everything is too expensive 😔😭😢😅 I'm broke, I'm just a helper while being helped 😅😢🙁

Is it just me... but every time I hear: *Ruby Gillman* I keep thinking: *Roboute Guilliman* Glory to the emperor!!

Thanks ESG!

why the main love interest mofo look like a mix between flint lockwood and earl the cop tho

Saber has such awesome movie reviews, especially bad movie reviews and indie youtube animations, I watch him when I wanna find some obscure stuff when youtube is being a youtube

if the kraken form was hot maybe it wouldn't have failed

teenage crack head was all over the internet a few months ago because its the movie with the mermaid that looks like ariel but didn't think it looked particularly bad or anything.

That brings the question: are movies dying?

the whole fucking film was summarized in the 3 minute trailer 😂

I really hate that Dreamworks has kinda taken the Illumination route lately. Extremely average kids movies that border on insufferable. I hope the Shrekverse comes in and saves them. Puss in Boots The Last Wish was the best movie they've made in a LONG TIME.

Hopes and prays when the new Ghibli movie doesn't bomb when it comes to the west since its original and Miyazaki's last. The clips I've seen look stunning and so far the people in Japan said good things about it and is big at that box office

5:28 to say the same thing from a different perspective. Look at like speeches... now a lot of people find those boring but some also litsen to em. I absolutely refuse to litsen to a speech I've heard time and time again. When my family shows me speeches I've seen before all I can think is "wow amazing wow, really omg just like me for real for real" *with the heaviest dose of Scarcasm in my life!* Like I don't care I've heard it before. A message of a film or a troupe is just like that but far more palatable because it's entertainment... but eventually you have to do a lot more to make people still want to see that story. Different ways of telling different metaphors that aren't as obvious and in your face. The more obvious it is the more it becomes like a speech, you may as well tell it to the audience. 🤔 if you wanna tell a story that's been told before you gotta mix it up and do other things to make it stand out.... and clearly higher budgets and better graphics is not enough.

You know the marketing is bad when I didn’t even know the title for the movie until watching this video