Rumble (2021)

Movie was enjoyable (Kaiju WWE with a innovative Salsa dancing fight technique), but animation was not top tier, especially with simplistic human designs and animation, and inferior fur :-(. Nevetheless, there were some funny pop references to LeBron/Cleveland and Creed/Rocky, among others :-)

Fmovies: RATED 4/10 Language: English

Run off the mill story and the whole movie is looked like patch up of multiple hit animation into one.... the animation is also not upto the mark of 2021 standards... Nothing original and easily skippable one...

I don't really know what to say about this Paramount animated movie, other than saying the trailers didn't give me any hopes for it being good.

After watching I found it at least a bit better then what I thought it was going to be. It had pretty good animation, the voice acting was good, and it can be funny at times.

I did like Will Arnett as the main monster and found him funny when given funny lines to say, there were funny scenes and I did lightly laugh at them even if some of the jokes were bad.

The monster fighting was cool seeing and how the monster fights effect the people of the town. But even the entertaining parts don't save the whole movie.

The jokes and scenes are hit and miss and I couldn't see myself liking some characters when they are shown. But That's just what I think

I'm not going to say see it immediately, but I am going to say check it out when you have the free time.

Rumble fmovies. Rumble is a monster fighting C. G. I. Animated film.

The story is about a town whose only source of income, a monster fighting stadium is about to be closed down. Winnie whose father was a monster trainer must track down and find a worthy monster to train in order to save the town.

The movie has plenty of good humor and it's suitable for people of all ages. I would call this a family movie.

The voice-acting, script, direction is very decent for a film of this type and I would recommend this one.

I can see somewhat of a good story in this film. But honestly, the script could have gone through some extra drafts. Most plotpoints are loosely connected at best, and this comes at the expense of investment in the film. So all in all, it was decently made and executed. But the foundation was quite lacking.

6/10: not that much to write home about.

Set in a world where mankind and giant monsters live peacefully side by side, the entire world follows the competitive sport of Monster Wrestling wherein a town's monster alongside a human coach engage in matches with monsters from other towns. The town of Stoker-on-Avon was once home to the greatest monster and coach team of Rayburn and Jimbo Coyle before they were tragically lost at sea and presumed dead. Sometime later Avon's new monster, Tentacular (Terry Crews), becomes the world champion only to announce immediately afterwards he's abandoning Avon for a lucrative deal with the town of Slitherpoole. With no monster to justify the upkeep and maintenance of the Jimbo Coyle Stadium the town reluctantly decides to sell the stadium to be demolished for a parking lot which doesn't sit well with monster wrestling fan and Jimbo Coyle's daughter, Winnie (Geraldine Viswanathan), who sets out to find an unknown she can coach in the hopes of saving her father's stadium. Following many rejections, Winnie eventually stumbles across childhood friend and Rayburn's son Rayburn Jr.(Will Arnett) who is now taking dives for low rent matches under the name Steve the Stupendous. With Rayburn Jr./Steve now in debt for a large sum of money for winning a fight he was supposed to lose, he reluctantly goes to Avon with Winnie to train as a serious monster wrestler with a massive uphill journey for the both of them.

Loosely based on the graphic novel Monster on the Hill by Rob Harrell, Rumble comes from Paramount Animation, Reel FX Animation, and WWE Entertainment who've for the past 10 years have tried to branch out to younger skewing audiences with endeavors like the short lived TV show Saturday Morning Slam, and several animated direct-to-video productions usually involving Hanna-Barbera characters like The Flintstones, Jetsons, or Scooby-Doo. Originally intended as a major film for the 2020 Summer movie season, Rumble like many other films found itself pushed around the release calendar until much like Paramount actioneer Infinite, the film's theatrical release was cancelled and instead the film was repositioned as an exclusive for Paramount+. The end result is certainly a colorful and energetic animated film and is probably Reel FX's best looking feature to date, but it also has a very banal by the numbers story and doesn't have the charm, humor, or creativity necessary to overcome its familiarity.

The movie's worldbuilding is virtually non-existent with an ESPN style info dump opening that sets up monsters appeared and then they started wrestling for sport. That's basically all the info we get in regards to this world and aside from the wrestlers being monsters, they pretty much behave and are treated like everyday people except bigger. The world more or less looks and feels like our world but there's no effort giving as to how this society of humans and monsters operates with us never seeing where the monsters live when they're outside of the ring, if the monsters are involved in activities outside of monster wrestling, or even what and how they eat. When you compare this movie to something like How to Train Your Dragon or Zootopia, the amount of thought and creativity that goes into making those worlds feel like tangible living places really puts Rumble to even greater shame because the movie doesn't have even a tenth the creativity you saw in those films. Some of the monster designs do occasionally look a little interesting, but they also often feel like leftover asse