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Johnny lingo1/6/2024 The story? It’s a remake of a short Mormon film from 1969 produced by the church itself and I’ve read it’s pretty popular with Mormon families (which would explain its small but devoted fan base and the lack of substantial reviews). That producer of Jurassic Park listed on the DVD cover? Yeah, he’s a Mormon and pretty much bankrolled this project it would appear. If I had looked more into the movie beforehand, this would have been much more obvious while watching it. The film is designed for those who are already part of the religion, for young kids to learn Mormon teachings. You expect this might be obvious while watching it, but Mormonism is never actually brought up. You see, The Legend of Johnny Lingo is religious film, it’s a Mormon film to be precise. I immediately dug further into the film’s background and my suspicions were confirmed. I avoided any information outside of that, I still wanted some semblance of discovery while watching it.ĭuring my screening I became keenly aware of something that felt oddly familiar, it was falling victim to tropes and problems of a certain genre of film that I’m not too fond of. I’d need a wider array of reviews to properly gauge the quality of the film based on its audience reception. There aren’t many audience reviews for The Legend of Johnny Lingo, so I’m inclined to believe it’s just people who have a sort of personal connection to it. It’s like a lie you tell yourself when you know a film is bad, but you don’t want to fully admit it. Most user reviews I found generally state, “It isn’t going to win any Oscars or anything, but it’s likable and has a good message!” This is a laughably horrible justification for a bad movie, as you can literally say,” Well it won’t win any Oscars,” about any bad movie and it would technically be true, but there’s still a gap between Showgirls bad and Transformers franchise bad. The DVD screams “Made for TV Kids Film Shoved Out On DVD in the Hopes Some Sucker Might Think It’s a Real Movie,” but it does proudly boast it’s from the producer of Jurassic Park and Hook, so maybe it has some sort of value. I don’t even know where to begin with this Johnny Tsunami looking wannabe.
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