Red One (2024)

This was a cute movie.  It piled on every Christmas sayings.  Santa Clause was probably CGI'ed because he looked too ripped.

This was more for Math Teacher than me.  He really liked the movie, an afternoon easygoing, no-brainer movie.

For me, the movie went on for too long.  The scene with Krampus could be cut at least five minutes.  The scenes with Jack's family were also too long.  Actually, all the good parts were already shown in the trailers.

I was surprised Jack was only a normal human.  From the trailer I thought he'd be Jack Frost.  So that was kind of a let down for me.

⭐⭐⭐

Venom: The Last Dance (2024)

I really liked Venom 1 and 2.  I was really looking forward to the end of the threequel.  However, I was disappointed.

Tom Hardy looked like he was phoning in to finish his contract.  I think he even gained weight.

The scientists were annoying.  The hippie family added nothing to the story.

In fact, there was barely any plot.  The studio had a bunch of great ideas, and they strung them up with nonsense.  For example, why did they need to go to New York?  They probably wanted a road trip movie like Logan (2017).  Then they wanted Venom and Eddie to have a sense of family, like Logan and Professor X did in Logan.  But then the studio had no guts to kill off the family, like Logan.  So the hippie family just hung around, being annoying, too.

And then Mrs. Chen was popular in the two previous movies, so the studio brought her back.  She suddenly appeared in Las Vegas just to have "the last dance" with Venom.  I mean, it was cute, but added nothing to the plot, either.

I LOVE the tag line:  'Til Death Do They Part.  That's the title of my book 4 of The Wedding Vow series.  I guess that was why I was so hyped for the movie.  Venom and Eddie were perfect bromance partners.  Then I was let down.