Historical accuracy: 6?
Acting: 7 Camera work: 7 Editing: 5 Budget: 7 Story: 6 Theme: 3 Pure entertainment factor: 6 Video quality: 8 Special effects: 7 Pacing: 6 Suspension of disbelief: 5 Non-cringe factor: 5 Lack of flashbacks: 2
I will explain why the movie seemingly didn't do as well as one may have expected. The trailer is fun. The movie has some great actors and actresses and it looks colorful and fun. It has a lot of going for it. Unfortunately it has one huge glaring issue: the thematic story is forced. This is an interesting story as such. The Beanie Babies craze was one of the thousands of burst bubbles we have experienced. But this one is used as an example of a bubble because well-off adults would take part in collecting fluffy teddy bears and fight over them like small children. The photos of it makes it iconic. Because you see how silly it is. It's basically like the monkey NFTs crashing, but with children's toys you can actually touch. And the story overall is quite curious. The founder Ty starts his business and hires a woman he starts dating. Later he starts dating another woman from outside the company and a third woman he hires for menial work is put in charge of the internet marketing. Meanwhile they want more while he doesn't want to give them top leadership positions as he has other plans in mind. All 3 women start hating him and leave him and become successful. The story here is subdued and realistic. Yet the movie made it into a The Social Network type of story with a mean business creator is trampling on all women in his life. That's a forced theme and storyline. The actual stuff they show doesn't have an evil man behind the scenes here. The actual story is deeper, smarter, and more interesting. Instead they let all women have a voice while Ty is this stupid manchild and while we understand the deeper subdued plot we are hit in the face with very direct feminist pro-women moral messages to a degree where it becomes cringe. If you really support women in the workplace and women empowerment you would want to show a realistic scenario of this not make it into a one-sided gag no one will ever take seriously. At the end I do not blame Ty for their problems even though they do. I don't even see any problems.
For example, we see him give all 3 women a chance and all 3 women are waaaaaay better off with him and get ultra rich from it. They worked for him or dated him and got happier and more successful afterwards. But in this movie they constantly whine about him and attack him. And there are scenes making it clear that women/minorities are overlooked and treated unfairly by men like him. This is not what the story shows. Sure he's an egotistical joke at times, but he's never mean or fully broken. He seems like an average faulty dude who made a successful business. And he's at times wrong about relationships and business yet he's doing his best and did become one of the richest men alive. This little hurt caused by getting this rich? I think most viewers would gladly take it. We know how other billionaires often act. Ty is an angel compared to them. And he did indeed spread success. But in the movie he has no narration voice. We just see this clown figure make mistakes while the women get to explain why they created the business and why they are the actual geniuses. Ty is seen as a guy who lucked into it while the women are helping him out for basically nothing and making it all happen for him.
I can't help but notice how these 2 women he hired and made ultra successful are claiming they did much of the work growing the company. A company like this with thousands of people surely had other women AND men doing some work. Yet the movie makers sought these women out and they could tell their own story. Doing the same thing they claim Ty did to them, overlooking other people who did much of the lifting. They are here seen as individual powerhouses who always have amazing ideas and never fail except when they trust him too much and he doesn't promote them. Keep in mind they are adults. Whining about not getting or keeping a top position later on without a contract seems childish. They know how business works. It's not about fair or unfair. It's about signing contracts and making clear deals. One woman whines about not becoming his right-hand woman. While making $12 an hour! She's utterly deluded. She's way underqualified and she has not written agreement. Yet when a guy from the outside gets this job she breaks down and quits. If she was actually smart she would slowly rise in the company. Slowly getting more responsibility and a higher wage and then try to become the second in command by learning everything over 10-15 years. Not suddenly out of nowhere demand a 10 time wage increase and then quit when she didn't get it. Similarly his first girlfriend is seemingly dumped by her boyfriend before she starts dating him. I'm sure she told this to the movie creators. But Ty on the other hand is constantly seen cheating and sleeping around and being desperate for love and attention. Why are all women here so perfect? I get what they tried to show and they even say it directly 10 times over: Ty is a sleazebag and they deserve more. Yet what we see on screen is clearly fake characters. If these women had no faults they would also be smart enough to demand contracts. If Ty was such a giant clown he would not be able to outtrick them at any point yet here he is outsmarting them time and time again. The movie is taking a great story and then forcing a theme into it so hard that the characters stop making logical sense. Why would a serious business woman proclaim herself as the equal founder of the company with the same rights as Ty when clearly she has no document anywhere showing this to be the case? Either she is ultra stupid or the movie is mistelling a few things.
It's a fun movie to some degree. I never really hated any scene. But the flashback storytelling is irritating. And at the end I do feel like it's a giant failure in storytelling even though the fresh style is appreciated.
Acting: 7 Camera work: 7 Editing: 5 Budget: 7 Story: 6 Theme: 3 Pure entertainment factor: 6 Video quality: 8 Special effects: 7 Pacing: 6 Suspension of disbelief: 5 Non-cringe factor: 5 Lack of flashbacks: 2
I will explain why the movie seemingly didn't do as well as one may have expected. The trailer is fun. The movie has some great actors and actresses and it looks colorful and fun. It has a lot of going for it. Unfortunately it has one huge glaring issue: the thematic story is forced. This is an interesting story as such. The Beanie Babies craze was one of the thousands of burst bubbles we have experienced. But this one is used as an example of a bubble because well-off adults would take part in collecting fluffy teddy bears and fight over them like small children. The photos of it makes it iconic. Because you see how silly it is. It's basically like the monkey NFTs crashing, but with children's toys you can actually touch. And the story overall is quite curious. The founder Ty starts his business and hires a woman he starts dating. Later he starts dating another woman from outside the company and a third woman he hires for menial work is put in charge of the internet marketing. Meanwhile they want more while he doesn't want to give them top leadership positions as he has other plans in mind. All 3 women start hating him and leave him and become successful. The story here is subdued and realistic. Yet the movie made it into a The Social Network type of story with a mean business creator is trampling on all women in his life. That's a forced theme and storyline. The actual stuff they show doesn't have an evil man behind the scenes here. The actual story is deeper, smarter, and more interesting. Instead they let all women have a voice while Ty is this stupid manchild and while we understand the deeper subdued plot we are hit in the face with very direct feminist pro-women moral messages to a degree where it becomes cringe. If you really support women in the workplace and women empowerment you would want to show a realistic scenario of this not make it into a one-sided gag no one will ever take seriously. At the end I do not blame Ty for their problems even though they do. I don't even see any problems.
For example, we see him give all 3 women a chance and all 3 women are waaaaaay better off with him and get ultra rich from it. They worked for him or dated him and got happier and more successful afterwards. But in this movie they constantly whine about him and attack him. And there are scenes making it clear that women/minorities are overlooked and treated unfairly by men like him. This is not what the story shows. Sure he's an egotistical joke at times, but he's never mean or fully broken. He seems like an average faulty dude who made a successful business. And he's at times wrong about relationships and business yet he's doing his best and did become one of the richest men alive. This little hurt caused by getting this rich? I think most viewers would gladly take it. We know how other billionaires often act. Ty is an angel compared to them. And he did indeed spread success. But in the movie he has no narration voice. We just see this clown figure make mistakes while the women get to explain why they created the business and why they are the actual geniuses. Ty is seen as a guy who lucked into it while the women are helping him out for basically nothing and making it all happen for him.
I can't help but notice how these 2 women he hired and made ultra successful are claiming they did much of the work growing the company. A company like this with thousands of people surely had other women AND men doing some work. Yet the movie makers sought these women out and they could tell their own story. Doing the same thing they claim Ty did to them, overlooking other people who did much of the lifting. They are here seen as individual powerhouses who always have amazing ideas and never fail except when they trust him too much and he doesn't promote them. Keep in mind they are adults. Whining about not getting or keeping a top position later on without a contract seems childish. They know how business works. It's not about fair or unfair. It's about signing contracts and making clear deals. One woman whines about not becoming his right-hand woman. While making $12 an hour! She's utterly deluded. She's way underqualified and she has not written agreement. Yet when a guy from the outside gets this job she breaks down and quits. If she was actually smart she would slowly rise in the company. Slowly getting more responsibility and a higher wage and then try to become the second in command by learning everything over 10-15 years. Not suddenly out of nowhere demand a 10 time wage increase and then quit when she didn't get it. Similarly his first girlfriend is seemingly dumped by her boyfriend before she starts dating him. I'm sure she told this to the movie creators. But Ty on the other hand is constantly seen cheating and sleeping around and being desperate for love and attention. Why are all women here so perfect? I get what they tried to show and they even say it directly 10 times over: Ty is a sleazebag and they deserve more. Yet what we see on screen is clearly fake characters. If these women had no faults they would also be smart enough to demand contracts. If Ty was such a giant clown he would not be able to outtrick them at any point yet here he is outsmarting them time and time again. The movie is taking a great story and then forcing a theme into it so hard that the characters stop making logical sense. Why would a serious business woman proclaim herself as the equal founder of the company with the same rights as Ty when clearly she has no document anywhere showing this to be the case? Either she is ultra stupid or the movie is mistelling a few things.
It's a fun movie to some degree. I never really hated any scene. But the flashback storytelling is irritating. And at the end I do feel like it's a giant failure in storytelling even though the fresh style is appreciated.