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Cool Cat Starts Cyberbullying
This movie is riding a high star rating solely based on an ironic cult following it received after YourMovieSucksDOTorg reviewed it. At the time he made that review, it seemed Derek Savage, the writer, director, producer and an actor in this movie, might be a good guy who had good intentions, but just had horrible execution. It was assumed he was taking the negative reviews in stride. But now Derek Savage has become a cyberbully himself attacking critics who leave negative reviews of Cool Cat Saves the Kids on Youtube, using false copyright claims to have them removed. So it's time real reviews, instead of the mocking 5 star reviews, come out. Cool Cat Saves the Kids offers a few snippets of good advice here and there, such as looking both ways before crossing the street, finding an adult if you see a gun left laying somewhere it shouldn't be, not responding to cyberbullies, and standing up to real life bullies. The real problem is the fact that whatever the movie says to do, it then shows Cool Cat doing the exact opposite of - and with stellar results making it appear what he did was the right choice. For example, minutes after having a whole scene about looking both ways before crossing the street, Cool Cat races out into traffic without looking both ways just so he can chase down a child and have that child arrested. In another scene, Cool Cat responds to online trolling and cyberbullying by telling the person they should be nicer so they'll have more friends, and friends are cooooo-ool! We all know the rule is 'don't feed the troll', but nothing negative comes from this interaction and Cool Cat forgets all about it until the very, very end of the movie (over half an hour later) when he, for no apparent reason, announces the only way to handle cyberbullies is to just ignore them. The movie also has an extended scene of creator self-adulation where Cool Cat goes to Hollywood to be in a parade. He spends about 15 minutes pointing at old cars in Hollywood that most 25 year old adults won't recognize/care about, let alone the intended audience of under-10s. And the production values? Comic sans font on scene transitions - except for one transition that managed to get a normal font - rather ugly and even frightening imagery of a sun and moon rising/setting to show day's changing, excessive use of day changes (day seems to be about 10 minutes long in this world) and all sorts of issues with sound - from muffled, incoherent dialogue to mics getting slapped repeatedly mid-scene to music sounding like it's recorded underwater. The whole movie is the fevered dream of a self-aggrandizing writer/director/producer who doesn't actually understand children at all and just thinks he can capitalize on this niche because he saw a few children's safety classes and happens to have a furry, orange catsuit in the basement. Kids dig 6' tall men in furry, orange catsuits, right?! (And he only has one; Mama Cat is the same suit with some fake lips and a dress added).
November 2015 · Movies and TV
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Cool Cat Saves the Kids
3.8★ · 259 ratings, as of 2023
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