By boringly mediocre, I mean Films that aren't bad enough that they would show up on worst of the year lists or you'd get some ironic enjoyment watching them for how bad they are, but also not good enough that you would actively recommend people go and check the films out. I can't think of a film studio that fits that description more than Illumination for films that all fall squarely in the "Meh" category.
To draw a comparison with other animation studios, Dreamworks certainly have their fair share of stinkers over the years (Like Shark Tale, Home, The Boss Baby films and the ever memed Bee Movies) but they've also had their share of great films as well (Prince of Egypt, the Dragons Series, the Kung Fu Panda series and the ever memed Shrek Movies, minus the third one.) And Sony Animation went from The Emoji Movie one year, to Spiderman Into the Spiderverse one year later, with only a Hotel Transylvania in between. That's a rollercoaster ride of difference in quality.
But compared to Illuminations output?
The only film that you can say of there's that is good to great is the first Despicable Me. If you are generous maybe you extend it to the second film in the series, but certainly not the third or its spin-off, the Minions.
And the only truly bad film in their catalog is Hop, maybe the Lorax as well, especially with all the advertising surrounding that film going against the film's message, and The Lorax film is mostly meme fodder now much like Bee Movie has become.
Everything else just hits that borderline "It won't be the worst thing ever, but you'll probably forget about it by tomorrow" category.
Sing 2 hasn't had all of its reviews come out yet, but initial reviews will probably have it end at an almost similar score to Illuminations other output.
I'm surprised by their consistency really, they've pretty much his that consistent 60% score on RT, with their Metascore almost always being around 50 to 60 as well. It's like an art of not ever making anything truly terrible, but certainly not making anything that's going to be contending for the Oscars either. Ironically enough, with them making a Mario Movie for next year. If they keep their consistent 60s scores. They are going to make one of the top 5 rated video game adapted movies of all time due to how bad on average most video game movies have been (at least as scored by rotten tomatoes that is).
If there is a studio that's hit such a consistently meh score as they have managed to, do post it. I imagine this is going to be hot takes central. So try to back up your suggestion with numbers if you can, if you are going to drive by, you will get called out.
To draw a comparison with other animation studios, Dreamworks certainly have their fair share of stinkers over the years (Like Shark Tale, Home, The Boss Baby films and the ever memed Bee Movies) but they've also had their share of great films as well (Prince of Egypt, the Dragons Series, the Kung Fu Panda series and the ever memed Shrek Movies, minus the third one.) And Sony Animation went from The Emoji Movie one year, to Spiderman Into the Spiderverse one year later, with only a Hotel Transylvania in between. That's a rollercoaster ride of difference in quality.
But compared to Illuminations output?
The only film that you can say of there's that is good to great is the first Despicable Me. If you are generous maybe you extend it to the second film in the series, but certainly not the third or its spin-off, the Minions.
And the only truly bad film in their catalog is Hop, maybe the Lorax as well, especially with all the advertising surrounding that film going against the film's message, and The Lorax film is mostly meme fodder now much like Bee Movie has become.
Everything else just hits that borderline "It won't be the worst thing ever, but you'll probably forget about it by tomorrow" category.
Sing 2 hasn't had all of its reviews come out yet, but initial reviews will probably have it end at an almost similar score to Illuminations other output.
I'm surprised by their consistency really, they've pretty much his that consistent 60% score on RT, with their Metascore almost always being around 50 to 60 as well. It's like an art of not ever making anything truly terrible, but certainly not making anything that's going to be contending for the Oscars either. Ironically enough, with them making a Mario Movie for next year. If they keep their consistent 60s scores. They are going to make one of the top 5 rated video game adapted movies of all time due to how bad on average most video game movies have been (at least as scored by rotten tomatoes that is).
If there is a studio that's hit such a consistently meh score as they have managed to, do post it. I imagine this is going to be hot takes central. So try to back up your suggestion with numbers if you can, if you are going to drive by, you will get called out.
