@eniko Wait. There are landlords that DON'T give you your deposit back?

Where I am that would be considered illegal. Germany has a renting quota of around 60%, but renters here have a whole bunch of protections they don't seem to have elsewhere is the main lesson I've been taking away from renting discourse over these past few years.

Again, I liked this film for a decent part and while I'm not a fan of the whole "kids movies need to be no longer than around 90 minutes" shtick, the length felt appropriate here.

It's not brilliant, but I also don't see it as a pure exercise in corporatism either, and if you're a Mario fan who wanted to see the Mushroom Kingdom come to life as close to the games as possible while also delivering a fun rid, this will be your jam.

a-ha's "Take on Me" during the intro scene to the Kong Kingdom and I'm like... why is this here.

The final scene before the credits is accompanied with "Mr. Blue Sky", again... not a song I hate, but one that has become so prominent in pop culture recently it's pedestrian.

Same for "Holding Out For A Hero" during Mario's training montage and "Thunderstruck" during the Kart select bit.

It's pedestrian and it drags the movie down the most for me.

The use of popular tracks stops being good right after No Sleep Til Brooklyn - which actually fits the scene for a change - but then we move right into "ironic use of Bizet" which in my book was played out by the 2000s.

From here on out, every montage is underlaid with a pop song and the choices are so pedestrian it hurts, even though I like most of these songs.

And it's not even like... cover songs. It's the originals. There's a Bates/Kondo remix of a DK track that's been replace with...