The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians (1970)

Originally I was going to review the Wacky World of Mother Goose, but there’s no complete film of it available on youtube and in stores.  So I exchange a collection of different stories to a collection of comedians and their “stories” with The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians. 

There are about five short stories, and I mean short for less than 4 minutes in a 25 minutes project.

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Flip Wilson tells a looser story of Christopher Columbus, as looser as the Magic Voyage.

Jack Benny and George Burns have a conflict with a cop at the tollbooth. This is about on par with Fox and Crow at a tollbooth.

Groucho Marx of The Marx Brothers is the emperor, Napoleon and his empress Josephine. She’s cheating with Alfredo (played by Chico), Francois and Gaston (played by Harpo).

Paul Frees as W.C Field and Rich Lady at a snow ski with a snow dog.

The Smother Brothers are at the medieval time to sing to the maiden in a castle.

Henny Youngmen and Phyllis Diller did a scene that went nowhere as Jackie Leonard and Georgie Jessel appearance as it mostly chat to segway to the performers.

Perhaps I can get some good stuff from these skits, and there’s a few to name.

This is the first time in this review order for three things in this film. The first is Mushi Studios. This was a major step up from the previous traditional animation, The Tale of the Wizard of Oz and Return to Oz. While it’s not as good as most of the best animated tv shows, but it still looks great to look at, even at times they are considered Awkward Animation. The earlier films the production did were Frosty the Snowman, which I couldn’t review due to Holiday deal of the review.

The second is Paul Frees. Paul Frees is known to play certain quack of both meanings. He would become a staple for Rankin Bass films as he started in Cricket on a Hearth as mostly side characters and/ or villains. Him playing W.C Field, the rich lady, the royal caller, and the cop (who I swear is the same cop from Frosty the Snowman) sound distinct with each other. Why W.C Field in this film? I don’t know, maybe they were going to bring him back as an unknown playing him forever since the real one is dead since 1946, just like how Henry Calvin played Oliver Hardy as Dick Van Dyke played Stanley Laurel, or they needed to test Paul to see if he can do impressions for more than two characters. Strange that Rankin Bass had a W.C Field impressionist with the Wizard of Tales of Wizard of Oz, voiced by Carl Banas. Maybe he was busy with other Mushi Studios animated films around the time.

The third is Joan Gardner. This is her first role in Rankin Bass, and she does decent as the straight woman to Groucho. She’s best known as side female characters in a few other Rankin Bass films such as Tanta Kringle in Santa Claus Comin’ To Town in months later after this special, and Bonnie the Bonnet from a better film I’ll review next. She had experience voice acting, including Tiny Tim/ Ghost of Christmas Past in Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol.

Now to talk about the negatives and boy there’s so much it’s simply obvious.

Stand up sketches in TV or movies are either a hit (Caddyshack, most of the original MAD TV and Wayne’s World) or miss (Master of Disguise and most SNL movie), but The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians is definitely a miss.

Animated films based around comedians are mostly misses with films such as Rover Dangerfield and 8 Crazy Nights, and this film is one of them. It’s one thing to include laugh track; it’s another to literally draw attention to laugh track. Including Popeye? For TV animated comedy at the 70’s, there’s no chance for any of the comedians to use their “A” Game with the swearing or roasting, or good slapstick without easily offending the censors /parents/ soccer moms at the time. Tom and Jerry in the 70’s has suffered badly when they lost their best traits of slapstick, and only got some of it back in Tom and Jerry Kids in the 90’s.

Now let’s to judge the comedians in this film and not in general, and sadly they’re not close to mad. Flip Wilson is very annoying with his high pitch impressions. He can redeem himself with his own show shortly after this special. Jack Benny can work as the straightman as he has experience including in Looney Tunes, but George Burns isn’t quite the funny man to balance off. Maybe he needs to be older than 60 to be funny, or maybe the script or writer.

“Buh-Buh-Buh, Oh the sunshine on my old Kentucky home. Buh-Buh-Buh! Trust me, it’ll be funny when I’m an old man.”

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W.C Field, Smothers Brother, and the rest are just there and not funny. The only actors that can be funny are Groucho Marx. Groucho is one of those few actors that can be both sophisticated and (lack for a better word) Mad, along with actors such as Jerry Lewis, Mel Blanc, and too little to name a few.

   

The rest shows how unfunny they are, and show why mostly audio from live performance are a dead art, as 2010 animated Alice In Wonderland proved it won’t work now. I would most of the sketches a “Boo!”, or in George Burns’ case, a “Boo-urns!”

Now I can’t be a complete expert of comedy, but what makes me laugh shows they’re doing comedy right or drama wrong enough to be unintentional comedy. Even I did something funny, but more on physical comedy and timing. I’m not going to write anything funnier as I focus on the film to review.

If you have little kids, they might laugh, but mostly about anything on the screen. If not, this is one of many comedy shows I can change the channel away from.

Ballad of Smokey the Bear

Many of us are aware of Smokey the Bear with his slogan of “Only YOU can prevent forest fire!” He has made his brief appearance in commercials and in cartoons. His own film, Ballad of Smokey the Bear is where to review from here.

His older brother, Big Bear (voiced by James Cagney of Yankee Doodle Dandy) tells the Ballad of Smokey the Bear from his childhood. Smokey as Sonny (Original young voice I swear is Billie Mae Richard, but later he's voiced by a young Barry Pearl, who would later be Doody in Grease.) was a naive little bear with a girlfriend, Delilah. In a peaceful forest, he had neighbors of bees, beavers, foxes, a turtle, rabbits, and all those cute animals. One day, a fire happened in the forest as it scarred Smokey, including his mom and the assuming that Delilah died as we never see them after the forest fire. (Where his father went? Who knows? Maybe he’s dead, out further in another acre, or scaring people of Kidsville.) After physical recovery, they discovered footprints of a threat to the animals and forest. It’s not man, but its close in the animal kingdom, yet rose by it, which you’ll have to see for yourself.

The song was written by Johnny Mark, who wrote the music for Rudolph. Where in Rudolph, the music either moved or expressed the story.

The music numbers are nice to listen, but is pointless and stops the film too much. When it does move the story, it does sound better. My favorite is the opening theme as it sounds legendary as folklore could be in musical form. Either the older brother is singing in his story for padding, or his kids listen to the story are dosing off thinking a musical number for fun.

The story is less about Smokey and more about the brother, Big Bear, since little Smokey was mostly scared and brooding in the second act of the film. Much of an ego, but it makes more or less sense since he witness most of it. Though how he knows what happened when he wasn’t around was more connections to the other characters in the story. Otherwise, it wouldn’t make sense.

The side characters are generic, but purpose to show some life in the forest. Beavers are kind of annoying with the constant snickering at the beginning of their sentences, the fox is sort of Comet the Reindeer, and the turtle is generally wise and old.

I don’t get into the environmental films, since majority is the same with nature or man dooming the world as the main characters try and will survive, as proven with Ferngully, Power Rangers Wild Force/ Gaoranger (the most of the series that tackle the environment, with Power Rangers Megaforce/ 2^nd part of Goseiger, and few episodes of Mighty Morphin as runner up.), CGI Lorax, Captain Planet, Cars 2, Once Upon Forest, and Norm of the North. It’s usually more effective when the world starts as damage, but over the course of the film and series will find ways to bring the world to peace. This can be done right in Avatar: The Last Airbender (not James Cameron’s Avatar), Sonic SAT AM, Wall-E, and Power Rangers RPM. This film fit somewhere close to the middle.

If you want to know the history of Smokey the Bear, this is a close film to know the basic of him, while there could be some documents about him. There’s an animated series with Smokey, but that’s another Ballad of a review for another time.    

The Daydreamer

Following Willy McBean is another film involving different stories we explore with a male lead, this time it’s tied to an author’s story than different timeline. With that said, let’s read into The Daydreamer.

  

A young Hans Christian Anderson (or Chris to the film) lives with his shoemaking father in Odense, New Yor...I mean Denmark. His father tells the legend of the Garden of Paradise. Inspired by him and the Sandman (voiced by Cyril Ritchard), he ran away to seek the Garden. On the way, he meets characters he would loosely write.

He got drowned at the North Sea as the Little Mermaid (voiced by Haley Mill) saved him. She risked her life to revive his with a potion from a sea witch, in exchange that if he doesn’t love back, she’ll never return back to the sea.

After ditching the mermaid, he came across to the crooked tailors (skinny one voiced by Victor Borge, and the fat one voiced by Terry - Thomas), as they meet the emperor of the Emperor’s New Clothing (voiced by Ed Wynn), who hated these clothing from his tailors, yet love Beer Run or Tea Run every time they have a clean cup. The crooked tailors convince the emperor with they’re the best not with hypnotism (no, none of that!), but with a violin to move his mood about the invisible cloth.   

He got caught by the game warren for “kidnapping” an ugly duckling, as he chained in the middle of the woods. He stumbles upon Thumbelina (voiced by Patty Duke) as he shrank to her size from a tulip seed to be free (something that anyone can have access yet won’t). They travel until it became winter as a rat (voiced by Boris Karloff) cares them in his hole in the ground. The rat had an idea, an awful idea. The rat has an wonderful awful idea to arrange Thumbelina to marry the mole (*shutter* that Barry Manilow terrible music. Anyway, the mole is voiced by Sessue Hayakawa). 

Will Chris reach to the Garden of Paradise to get smarter?

I really love the opening with the cast of characters with their drawing of the actors’ presents to show and music to look forward to be something unique in each of them. Why repeat the credits after you just did the credits is just padding when they could of show the second half of the opening, but would cut Robert Goulet’s music.

This film is loaded is big name stars with some big simple scenery. Most of them are perfect in their respective role. I do love Patty Duke as Thumbelina as so far is the better version while the rest range from forgettable (Tale of Hans Christian Anderson, and Tom Thumb & Thumbelina) to annoying (1993 anime version and Don Bluth’s version). Though there are some who’s not great enough, nor terrible in performance or design to name a few.

The Sandman might be a bit lazy as he’s just a paper ghost on par with that spirit from Red Sonya, yet it’s so mysterious and his haunting voice.

Ray Bolger as a Pie Man is pointless, unless he was essential to Demark, as Margret Hamilton is essential to be Miss Gulch in this film. 

Burl Ives as King Neptune is mostly “there” as he tells the mermaid about death, despite they never question where all the seafood goes when they eat them. Funny he went from Sam the Snowman to Neptune the Oceanman.

The biggest problem is Chris himself. He does looks like teenage Stewie Griffin, but that’s just a microscopic problem of the major part of the cover than some details and pages we turn to. He’s not good in live action and animated. Usually in most live action transferred to animation, the live performance are less active while their animated counterpart have so much expressions since the animators are usually the better actors than the actor. While this is the only live action film Rankin Bass that’s tied to the story, as they’re one of many people that can work better with animation than live action. He has about two expressions (smile and stoic for live action, as shocked and smile in animated) and monotone voice & singing voice in both versions.

On top of that, he’s a dull jerk. He abandon the little mermaid and Thumbelina to be stranded just to get to the Garden of Paradise after they saved his life. Granted, Thumbelina has the bird to fly to, unless he breaks his wing after flying and then leaving her stranded. Next time a Little Mermaid sees Hans Christian Anderson, she’ll let him drown in his submarine. Then again, he did write that she have to give up her tongue for legs. He doesn’t deserve the Garden of Paradise. Any other Hans Christian Anderson would have done better to get there. Unless he’s played by Danny Kaye that he found the Garden of Paradise and will convert into the Garden of Surprise.

Speaking of which, there are better films starring Hans Christian Anderson. One with Danny Kaye that’s so good, that the Muppet Show used one of his music, Inch Worm. In fact, he’s good enough to star in one of the stories in the film with the Sandman voicing the emperor, but that’s another to tell. The other is an animated film of The World of Hans Christian Anderson where this Hans is focused as a young likable story teller and actually daydreams. This film he spend half the time asleep, which is more Dreamer than Daydreamer.

If you’re interested to see this film, there are some decent scenes in it. Yet to negative scenes is the Daydreamer himself. We can’t have a Day dreamer-less version, otherwise we can simply split this film into three shorts and change Chris’ hair color. I would choose this film over Screen Gem’s edited version of Little Matchstick and Golden Film’s Little Mermaid any day. It’s a give or take with this film.

Let’s start with the very first non-holiday and the first of its kind as a completely stop-motion feature length film since Hansel and Gretel, Willy McBean and his Magic Machine.

Originally I was going to review The Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy Show, but video of it doesn’t exist yet, and only exist of Black and White stills.

Now let’s hear a little backstory. Before this film came out, majority of stop-motion (in America) were mostly used in 7 minute shorts such as the Puppetoons and Gumby (both of them processed by Video Craft) or effect for creatures in films such as Lou Bunin’s Alice in Wonderland or Jason and the Argonauts. Just like with every medium of art will have their first film, for hand drawn with Snow White, for CGI with Toy Story, or for flash animation with Magos y Gigantes or Golden Blaze that we’re better off forgetting about. Technically the first is Hansel and Gretel, but that film was rarely brought up, and this is the first not based on fairy tales.

Any who, let’s get on with the synopsis.

Rasputin VonRotten created a magic machine (two words that doesn’t work together than science babble, but I digress) to travel back in time to replace the iconic figures to become the replacement. His caged Mexican Monkey named Pablo escaped from his castle to warn to the nearest person to stop him, which is a little boy named Willy McBean.

Willy happened to be a young inventor and able to build an exact magic machine thanks to the plans from Pablo. They time traveled to many time and place, including the Olde West with Buffalo Bill, Spain with Christopher Columbus, Camelot (Patsy: Tis only a model) with King Arthur, Egypt with King Tut, and assuming Africa with a specific caveman.  

Willy is an innocent kid, yet being an inventor and happens to have mostly the exact parts for the machine just sound too convenient. What other invention he was going to make with those parts is beyond me, or he got them as part of the My First Science Kit (now with your Dr. Insano goggles). It does sound a bit distracting that we’re hearing Billie Mae Richard’s Rudolph voice coming out of Hermy’s body with Rudolph’s fur color for his hair, as Pablo is voiced by Hermy’s voice actor, Paul Soles. So yes, Rudolph in Hermy’s body is talking to a monkey voiced by Hermy. While I’m aware this film was released six months after Rudolph, so few of the characters had to be reused for the films with different parts, even the same voice actors. Especially Alfie Scopp voiced a dragon in Camelot, who you may know him as Jack.

Charlie In the Box: No, Charlie!

The villain, Rasputin is a riot. That’s Larry D. Mann voicing him, the same actor who voiced Yukon Cornelius (Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer) and he has the same enjoyment and the same laugh only manically. It’s a shame it’s the last time we hear his voice in that range until the extent of Filmation’s Snow White’s Christmas as the Magic Mirror. His plan isn’t bad, and execution on executing is kind of sneaky. Though if he had made a time machine to travel any time exactly, couldn’t he just kill them while they’re in a crapper or otherwise?

He at least has ways to outshine the icons such as trying to shoot first, or loosen the rust, or disguise as a Chinese man to trick Columbus.

Yeah, as much as I don’t want to talk about stereotypes, there’s about a few of them in this film. There’s Mexican, Native American, Chinese, maybe for the dragon, and less extent of Egyptians. I could say Italian or Spain, but I wouldn’t say much since the story of Christopher has a bad reputation with Magic Voyage. Maybe this is part of the reason why there wasn’t a DVD release in this film in this PC world. If that was the case, then why is the Puppetoon Movie on DVD including the Jasper In A Jam and other Jasper episodes in the special feature? I don’t want to understand this world. This is part of the reason why the very first feature length stop-motion isn’t widely known much today compare to Snow White, Toy Story, and even Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer in terms of holiday tv special.

Do I recommend watching this film? Yes, just for watching an historical piece, as a completion to seen every Rankin Bass films, and for fun entertainment. The only people who wouldn’t watch this is those who’s too sensitive on stereotype, knowing better time traveling films, or just not a fan of Rankin Bass films.

                        If you have a time to spare, check it out!

Introduction to Rankin Bass Review of 2017

After I reviewed films for Chinese Cinema, it was some time to review what I’m interested in. It has to be a group that not many have reviewed before in its entirety. Pretty tricky to review a company’s or creator’s work that’s still pumping new films to this day. So it’ll be easier to go through a thorough search of a film group that’s mostly inactive for years, as well as something as part of majority of our childhood.

The many animated shows I had in my childhood were The Simpsons, Batman: The Animated Series, Looney Tunes, Animaniacs, South Park, Beast Wars, Pokemon, Digimon, Futurama, Popeye, 80’s Gumby, Nicktoons, and ones that’s been around in most of the time in holidays is the Rankin Bass.

For the longest time, they were entertaining in all the holidays of Easter and Christmas with memorable characters as Rudolph, Peter Cottontail, and Frosty. With the power of the internet, apparently there were a lot more specials and films they did that was rarely seen on TV and stores as Festival of Family Classics, Emperor’s New Clothing, and Mouse of Mayflower. Granted their stop-motion and animation isn’t top notch as today’s standard (compare to vector flash animated shows), but they were a little more important at the time of early TV of the 60’s and crippling time of the 70’s.

     

So from Mid-March to the rest of the year of 2017, I’m going to review all the Rankin Bass films. There’s going to a catch in reviewing them all.

First, all the non-holiday films will be reviewed in chronological order, while the holidays will be reviewed in order of the holidays. So Easter is first, as Christmas is last.

Second, most of the series will be reviewed in whole, not one episode at of time. The only exception is the Festival of Family Classics, as each of their episodes is different story as none of them are tied by the same characters. However, they’re not going to be reviewed first as their two tv shows (New Adventure of Pinocchio and Tales of the Wizard of Oz) will be a review of them later due to scavenger on each episodes available. So whatever none holiday special came first is what to start reviewing.

Third, I’m sadly including the Rankin Bass related sequels, from Frosty Returns to The Miser Brothers’ Christmas. If there’s a remake, I’ll bring them up in the original film(s) themselves as much I bring up other version of that film that exist before and after them.

Fourth, my limit of every review will be around 450 words, so my reviews are going to focus and not short. On top of that, I’m busy with life and drawing for others and even draw for this review when possible. So these reviews aren’t going to be pushed out quickly.

Fifth, most of the reviews are released when possible, while Christmas may have multiple releases since there are more than about thirty-one of them.

Sixth, I’m not reviewing the complete live-action films they did.

Seventh, I’m not reviewing the animated King and I. They may have produced the film, but the film is purely in design and writing of a Richard Rich of NEST film, not Rankin Bass. Granted, Santa Baby is different from Rankin Bass, but the company that made it wasn’t a style on their own, so that count, not King and I.

Eighth, this is my opinion. If you like those films, great.  

So sit back, and enjoy the year of Retahensid’ blogger of Rankin Bass!

           

Zone Pro Site

                                          

                                                     Zone Pro Site

Chan Hsiao Wan is the shy daughter of the late legendary Master Fly Spirit. On her way through train, she met a gourmet doctor named Yeh Ru Hai, as she traveled back to Ai-Fong at her restaurant to get away from the mafia. The Step-Mother named Ai-Fong is a fish saleswoman, and now owner of her husband’s restaurant, but trying to save it, because she lost a bet and business to Master Fly Spirit’s apprentice, Tsai. One day, she was commissioned to do catering for a wedding, but she doesn’t know how to make their specific food, so Wan insist to cook instead. Problem is she doesn’t have a plan and her dad’s cookbook she lost to a bum, so she called the Gourmet Doctor, as he as Hai coincidentally came and make great dishes, so great it became Ai-Fong’s specialty for her restaurant. Luckily, Hai knows some help to cook, as he brings up Hsia aka the Master Tiger Nose. They meet Master Tiger Nose, and tried his famous Fried Rice Noodle. They love the Fried Rice Noodle so much; they cooked it for catering a business meeting. The head of the business meet had an Anton Ego flashback (Ratatooie) after eating the Fried Rice Noodle; he suggested them to enter the National Catering Contest, and to win one million dollars. Ai-Fong spots Master Ghost Head, he tried the special, but didn’t like it as he became a threat, even as Tsai’s secret weapon. Wan’s being trained by Master Ghost Head as his taster, since the Master lost his sense of taste. Wan enters the National Catering Contest in her altered father’s chef uniform, and help of the same mafias, and an expected help. They entered the final round, but desperately needs certain ingredient to win. Will Wan’s team win the contest and million dollars to the mafia, and will the mafia drop the charge since they’re in the team?

Wan has a cute personality & appealing style, and it’s rare to have female starring fictional character to be a chef (except to Queen Latifah in Last Holiday to an extent.), despite she rarely cook compare to her step-mom, Hai, and the mafia. Majority of cooking films usually stars males mostly to follow the father’s footstep. This can be done right in films such as Julie & Julia, Food Wars (not to be confused with Restaurant Wars), and Sweeny Todd, as there’s bad example such as Fighting Foodon, and just about any reality food shows that has 95% of the interviewers and 5% actual cooking. Interesting how she doesn’t want to be a chef at first, but family traditions was in jeopardy, and she need to overcome her fear of failure to her father and fish. Hai’s a good gourmet doctor and cook. Surprisingly there’s such a thing as a Gourmet Doctor, it’s definitely refreshing than the food critics you see identically in Chopped. It’s strange that he’s cooking food opposing to Wan in the contest, but he’s a free-range doctor anyone can hire him.  The foods made in the film are very impressive, and how they’re made that I would like to try them at a nearby Tai restaurant. The film does need trimming down for how long the film is being 2 hours and twenty minutes. Probably cut some of the side characters’ scenes short, while they’re entertaining and useful, we probably don’t need moments of mugging and poker games. The mafia are probably the funniest mafias I seen in films lately, since majority of mafia are usually the boring part in any films as hand-me-downs of Godfather or Goodfellas or Fat Tony from the Simpsons. Some of the comedies are quick to the point visually that it’s funny such as the father coming out of his grave.

Overall, Zone Pro Site is a fun, delectable, and sweet kind of film we do need from the bitter dramas that’s gone oversaturated.   

                                                  

                                                    In Love We Trust (2007)

In Beijing, China, a home investor named Mei Zhu has a 5 year old daughter named Hehe, who’s being sick from cancer and has 2-3 years left to live if she doesn’t have a bone marrow transplant. She needed her ex-husband, Xiao Lu to help their daughter by any means. They tried using donating their blood, but neither is a match to save. Their only option is to be together to mate to have another kid, so they can have a matching blood from the umbilical cord to save their child. However, both Mei Zhu and Xiao Lu have their spouse, and Xiao Lu doesn’t want to cheat on his current wife, Dong Fan (actual name of a person, not a pokemon). Dong Fan was furious from Xiao Lu’s choice until she sees Hehe, and realized how important she is. Mei Zhu’s current husband, Xie Huaicai instantly accepts the condition being with Xiao Lu in order to mate to save the daughter she devoted her life to. So Mei Zhu and Xiao Lu are going through trial and errors to see if they can make another kid in order to save their present kid.

This has the combination problem as another film, the supposedly child focus in Dragon Inn that would be stronger and suspenseful, but instead we focus on the couple to have less suspense. With that said, the couples in In Love We Trust are probably more engaging than Dragon Inn’s couple. They don’t distract away from the story, as they are the core of the story. Despite Hehe barely appeared in the film, thus we couldn’t be as emotionally connected to her whether she lived or died. There’s rarely a film that stars the dying child without focusing the parent(s) or friend(s), as proven with Secret of Nimh, Christmas Carol, Balto, Halloween Tree, and to name a few. Even there was a film that has the story of the dying star child, it’ll mostly show he/ she will be fine at the end, unless they did die as we’ll tear up from how much we knew the child and invested we got. The closest film I know is Hayao Miyazaki’s Grave of the Firefly.    

If this film was fueled by emotions, this movie would be sad in theory. There’s rarely a film that made me sad to tears. There are plenty of films to give different range of emotion. There’s comedy to mostly make laughter, action to mostly make amazement, horror to rarely scare (and Tim Burton’s Mars Attack), a bad film that has horrible visuals and relies on annoyance lead to anger, and a predictably, repetitive, gray, unemotional, wooden, and slow film lead boredom. Sadly, this film is somewhere at the ladder. If this film didn’t spend too long with their slow scenes that goes nowhere. Most of the characters are having around 1 to 3 expression. Mei Zhu has the most expression of sadness, joy, and anger, which understands that her daughter’s sick, but happy to see she’s getting better, and mad that Xiao Lu isn’t trying with the sex. The Spouse has two with happy and sad, while Xiao Lu is mostly stoic. Romance by all variety (boy meets girl, girl meets boy, boy meets boy, girl meet girl, and adult version) is the least interested genre, since they’re mostly the same with them meeting, dating, breaking, or reconnecting, and often get together or apart at the end. It’s no secret that I’m mostly alone in life, not really a romantic cocky kind of man, and has some love to family, pets, and characters in certain films. In Love We Trust has good intention to have a couple to get back together in order to save a child, but with pacing issues and disconnection, this is one love and trust to pass.