I Was NOT Prepared... THE FORGOTTEN ISLAND Out of Theatre Reaction!! Dreamworks Animation

Really cool way to get to experience a movie like this, and, uh, just, you know, give yourself that little added layer of immersion.

This is a movie that definitely, once you're headed to Nicali, you know, you're gonna wanna feel like you've got that extra bit of magic going into the experience.

So anyway, shouts out to them.

And yeah, I found this movie to be a real pleasant surprise, honestly.

I mean, the trailer, I, I don't remember doing all that much for me, I gotta be honest.

However, I was intrigued by the fact that this was apparently drawing so heavily from the culture, the traditions, and the folklore of the Philippines.

We got a lot of Pinoy pride here at the Reject Nation, obviously via Greg and Little John.

Shouts out to them.

I gotta imagine if this movie does well enough, you may even, uh, live to see their thoughts on the matter as well in one form or another.

Not making any promises, just saying it's possible.

This is a movie that really seems to delight in its cultural textures, and its place amid the just continuum of the stories that we pass down, and the stories that we make in the present, and that we imbue our lives and the lives of the people around us with.

And, you know, the totems that we use to mark, you know, significant moments in our lives.

Same time, this is also an ADD brained energy drink [laughs] soaked tribute to the '90s.

Uh, again, not, uh, an insult.

[duck quacks] You have at the center of the movie a very familiar sort of coming-of-age tale about two best friends, Ryza and Jo, voiced by Filipino actress Liza Soberano and musical artist H.E.R., respectively.

This is about two kids who bond over being outcasts, but sharing a unique joie de vivre, so to speak, and a love of the folktales that, uh, particularly Jo's, uh, grandmother, off the top of my head, passes down, you know, to them.

And, and, you know, they kinda have their own little world that is represented by this dream of Nicali, this forgotten island where various demons and creatures of myth live, and where so much of the bedrock of their friendship has sprang from.

You see them as kids.

They vow to one day find that forgotten island.

And then they grow up, and they're tight, but they're also facing change.

And, you know, one of them is looking at heading off to school.

The other one doesn't have as many prospects as the other.

There's, like, a little bit of a Bill and Ted meets Sean and Ed in this for me, at least to go with a couple movies that I love that k- kind of were in the soup here.

We see a little bit of their lives, uh, when they first meet as children, and then we kind of spend the main bulk of the movie with them as teenagers.

This is a more, like, teenage skewing movie in terms of DreamWorks.