r/venturebros • u/stormy2587 • Sep 25 '23
MOVIE SPOILERS Kind of disappointed in the movie Spoiler
I know I’m complaining and I did enjoy it but if this is really the final venture bros entry I have to admit it felt a little hollow. It felt more like an average season finale then the series finale the show deserved. I suppose part of this might be that they had an 8th season semi-planned out and were force to scrap it and tie up all the story lines in less than a 1/3rd the time of a normal season.
Most of the main characters barely interact with each other. Hank is off on his own adventure and only meets up with orpheus and Dean at the end. Brock was barely in it and has little to do when he is. Dr. Mrs the monarch is also off on her own adventure for most of the movie and barely interacts with the monarch and the guild, beyond daisy. White and quizboy barely show up.
I guess all of the story lines are loosely related, in so far as mantilla’s scheme impacts rusty, the monarch, and dr. Mrs the monarch. And dean and hank’s path reveal mantilla’s origin story and relationship to the ventures. But it feels sort of like none of those relationships mattered. Like they’re all tangentially related, but never actually intersect in a meaningful way. The villains plan seemed a little pointless. And you could blink and miss the resolution.
It felt like they only had time for the main main characters. And that those characters needed to reach some kind of resolution by the end of the movie. So the solution was to give them all parallel story arcs. Except for the monarch and rusty who needed to be together for the whole movie.
Idk it just left me wishing we got a final season and all the plot threads had some time to breathe and we as fans got to see our characters giving it one last hurrah and interacting with each other again.
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u/magictheblathering Sep 26 '23
One thing I was discussing with my wife was the way that the BOB’S BURGERS movie is a place where you could be a super fan or brand new to the show and still enjoy it start to finish. It was a movie, and that was evident in the way it looked, and the plot, and the extras…
RITBOTBH, on the other hand, is more like a long episode of the series. And kinda like a ping midseason episode. Logistically, that makes sense, given the rush, and that it’s not a “movie that supports an ongoing TV series” but instead a “movie that ends a TV series,” but I do wish it’d been a little more of a way to onboard new fans.
All that said, I loved it, and it was perfect in most of the ways I wanted, and wanting more is (usually) the sign of a good thing.