Fantasy Island is DUMB (2020) - Ending Explained 

Fantasy Island did not live up to the "fantasy". Horrible room service, breakfast was "meh", and concierge didn't have the answers to any of my questions. Would not visit again. 1.5/5 ⭐

amanda thirsting after lucy hale for almost 13 minutes

Lucy's desire was revenge so you could argue the bully thing is consistent. She wished for revenge, the island gave her revenge by delivering her people she wanted revenge on.

Every year movie studios try to make the next Final Destination or Saw or Paranormal Activity and it just turns out to be a hilarious misfire instead

Stay home and watch the real Fantasy Island it had some horror centric episodes sometimes.

This move is a hard pass for me: I'm getting tired of everything getting an edgy Riverdale style reboot. What's next, a Gilligan's Island reboot that's a mix between Lost and Lord of the Flies?

And now Lucy Hale stars as a lead role in Riverdale spin-off, those are not the best career choices... (no hate on her tho, I wish her more luck in the future)

Looking forward to the next installment in the Blumhouse Lucy Hale cinematic universe

Me, having never even heard of Fantasy Island: ooh yeah it is dumb, tell me why Amanda!

“Based on an ollllllllld show ...” Me: “I used to watch it as a kid ...” >sad< And >old

Let’s get her in a video game. “Until Dawn 2: Lucy Hale Boogaloo”

Honestly I think the Director deserves my money just for the fact he managed to make a movie like this THAT CHEAP. Freaking Medea movies have budgets around 20mil.

I saw this in theaters at the start of the year with my now girlfriend. It was our first official date, and we had the whole theater to ourselves, not a single other person viewing. We got to spend the whole time cracking jokes about it. Was definitely worth seeing in that scenario.

Not the worst way to spend a Saturday afternoon - also I said ‘one of the press and industry dudes’

Honestly, props to blumhouse. They don't always make good movies, but they make professional looking movies with no budget, and sometimes they hit it out of the park. Considering they're making get out, happy death day, the invisible man, ect, each for less than ten million, I'm shocked. Like dollar for dollar, you can get either "get out" or two hallmark movies.

And this director is set to reteam with Blumhouse for a Magic 8 Ball movie. (not joking)

Some day I hope someone whispers my name the way you whisper Lucy Hale's 😂

You're one of favourite RU-vidrs because you're content is consistently good 👌

Maybe Lucy's one wish was vengeance on all of those who wronged her, and in order for it to accomplish this wish to her satisfaction it made her aware of who these people were and how they wronged her, so technically she may not have even remembered her childhood bully... As much, but in order for her to truly understand and gain from this wish she's shown how each of these people altered her life's course for the worse.

I love films where it's canon that what you want gets twisted in a monkey's paw sort of way, and the characters still make wishes that could so obviously be twisted

Lucy Hale deserves so much better, she could do so much with her acting.

Horror Gilligan's Island would've been better.

I'm so glad you're actually honest about the quality of a lot of horror releases. As a huge horror fan, sometimes I feel like expressing my real opinion is less valued in the community than just liking the same things everyone likes. I appreciate your critique!

OH! That’s why Lucy hale ends up dealing with her old bully, and being genuinely surprised about it... what you said about Michael rooker? How the island twists EVERYTHING ... so even though she planned the whole thing out... she probably assumed since that was what she wanted by bringing them there and getting her revenge... that the island wouldn’t key in to her next kind of revenge wish. I was confused by that too bc I was like why did she pretend all that alone... but if she didn’t expect it then she would be lost and going along . Even though that’s still 2 things for her instead of 1, but just a thought lol

Now I'm just going to be whispering "Lucy Hale" to my cat for the next six hours. Thanks Amanda. I wasn't sure how I was going to spend my evening.

I feel like the whole torture thing could have been fine but they revealed the twist in the goddamn trailer

The only way I see for Lucy's fantasy makes sense its that she desires revenge on all the people that, in her mind, hurt her, that way she gets her bully and the people indirectly involved in the fire. What doesn't make sense its how the island knew who those people were.

It's Fantasy Island meets The Monkey's Paw. Who asked for this?

One day a judge shall instruct Amanda the Jedi not to go within 150 yards of Lucy Hale.

Man, i was not expecting listening to someone rant about movies to be so entertaining. I dont know, you're just so charismatic and theres something in your wording and tone of voice and expressions/gestures that really captured my attention. I'm gonna start binging like, all of your videos now.

The rewrite would be absurdly easy. Make him a longtime boyfriend or fiance of Lucy Hale, first of all. Start out with them all winning the contest and do have the sort of "host" be more ambiguous as to how real he is. Let all the fantasies play out and go wrong, and Lucy seems to be at each one, trying to help but failing miserably. Up until the girl who accidentally started the fire who is a little more clever, maybe even a bit of a survivalist. She could even get out of something easily if Lucy just does one simple thing but Lucy won't lift a finger for some reason. And then maybe she laughs maniacally and is like "don't you get it? This is my wish!" Exposition exposition... Turns out Lucy had discovered the island on her own because it was more like a legend and she was looking for anything to bring her boyfriend back but instead the island showed her she really wanted REVENGE. So now the last one standing has to struggle to escape on her own and Lucy is doing all that she can to prevent it, but somehow the last girl prevails and reaches the room where the boyfriend was and helps him out. Somehow Lucy got separated but she jumpscare appears after the other two got outside and she's sobbing because he's there and alive like she really wanted. But as soon as she goes to hold him he starts to burn, because he was never real, and Lucy burns with him. If you want a moral it can be like the final girl got the wish because it was selfless while all the others were selfish. Final girl leaves the island and tries to warn away everyone she can, but no one believes her of course. Like. It's a really obvious fix?

I just love Michael Peña's evil death stare he gives in this movie. I know he tried but, come on....

The most important question about this movie hasn't been asked, "Is there a midget named Tattoo in this?"

This reminds me of an obscure crossover fanfic on wattpad that crosses over two completely different universes that are in different time periods and are completely different genres, and none of the characters are the same relative age.

You should watch “horse girl” on Netflix! A very different, interesting horror film Edit: I guess it’s horror? Maybe just suspense...

lmfao the press industry guy laughing and walking out of the theatre

I like how Lucy Hale’s eyes are so big. Idk, it’s cute

4:18 I always like to imagine the reviews Psycho's Bates Motel would get. "Felt like someone was watching me while I was in the shower in one of the motel rooms. Slightly uncomfortable." Or "Heard the motel owner and who I guess is his mother shouting at each other up at that creepy old house on the hill near the motel."

I barely even watch RU-vid anymore besides like Joe rogan and the occasional programming video for school. I don’t even remember how I found your channel but I click on every video and it’s genuinely entertaining. I hope you continue to make content because I see this channel blowing up.

found your channel recently and honestly its hard to stop watching, your content is genuinely very enjoyable. i'm also happy that you post more often than i thought (unlike some other great youtubers *i'm looking at you eddy burback* ) that without counting the twitch channel. the fact that you seem to like making this content is even cooler!

More like final fantasy island, amirite fellas?

I saw this movie at the cinema with a bunch of friends. After it was over we were all like "hmm it was good", but when we started to talk about it more we realised how much doesn't really make sense. Me and my best friend talked for a good hour about how bad it was and how out of left field the twist was.

The only way I can see that Lucy got both the bully fantasy, and the fire fantasy is if her fantasy was "To hurt everyone that ever hurt me". But yeah...her acting like she's in the dark when no one's around is either dedication to a bit, or bad screenwriting

Kudos for mouth organ J-park, haha. In the mood for spoilers for this one for sure, go!

I guess this is somewhat darker but I did think that "You get your one wish on Fantasy Island, but it has a monkey's paw twist!" was the general jist of all the Fantasy Island TV shows too.

Just found this channel and I'm officially a HUGE fan. Love the 100 thieves merch, gonna have to check out the stream. Killin' the commentary game, sis!

"And maybe that's the key, catching it at home, on the comfort of your couch and not in a theater." Little did you know, that only a couple weeks later...

This was the last movie I saw in theaters pre-pandemic. If only i'd known....

This would be funny if the put a post credit of Luis from Antman waking up and talking about this movie.

Yo you had me at that cheesy Jurassic Park theme song

What sucks the most is it has three of my favourite actors starring in the movie, and the movie falls really flat.

"The Lucy Hale Cinematic Universe" that gave me a chuckle

I swear, ever since I read The Monkey's Paw, I have this lawyer-reviewing-a-contract mindset when it comes to wishing for shit. Now that I think about it, wouldn't that make a great protagonist for that kinda story - a lawyer who lost his/her/their parents to a Djinn because they made "poorly-worded" wishes, so the kid grows up to be a lawyer (forgetting everything about the Djinn by that point) when eventually the Djinn returns for some reason - maybe to collect the kid's soul (whatever, I'm spitballing here); at which point, the movie would kinda become a courtroom drama where the lawyer loopholes his way out of the deal or whataver. Sorry, I'm very tired lawl.

One of my guilty movie pleasures is watching Blumhouse films. Don't care if they suck or they're good, and quite a few of them just blow, I know. Waiting for Blumhouse to just say fuck it and reveal that all of these movies are in the same universe or some kind of BCU.

literally i secretly want the zombie apocalypse to happen, if i was on this island it would literally be dead island

I saw Fantasy Island as a kid. I think there was one fantasy that had a horrible (not horrific) ending. Fantasy Island as a horror movie should work. But not as torture porn.

I watched this yesterday. I thought it was okay. I enjoyed trying to figure out the mystery and liked some of the characters but the ending sucked and was pretty cliche with the answer to why they were there

I did like the line about Lucy Hale only getting coffee with him ONCE. The film didn't take itself too seriously, while in itself acting like it was taking things seriously. It's a strange film but I was entertained throughout the whole thing, and will never watch it again.

Amanda, When your first take on Fantasy Island was not totally negative I was waiting to hear more (I didn't think it was totally horrible either). Interested in your opinion on The Invisible Man.

i was so mad to hear who was making this and starring in it because they came up with an interesting idea and from the first trailer you knew it was gonna be bad. Cant wait to see invisible man though and see you video about it, if you make one. Love hearing you opinion on movies.

It feels like most horror/thriller movies get so caught up in having twists, that they really shoot themselves in the foot. I mean, an island where you get to live out your fantasy, but then everyone starts slowly realising that the fantasies turn dark somehow/have serious real world consequences would be a perfectly good story on its own. It doesn't need a hundred twists and revelations

Blumhouse is a brilliant concept, though. It's like Troma that doesn't mind being a little more corporate. Personally, I think the few gems are worth keeping this machine in operation.

Could you do a video on "The Royal Tenenbaums"? Because I recently saw it for the first time and I just can't stop thinking about it. ( I really loved it )

This movie is an insult to the original Fantasy Island...

Not gonna lie I unfortunately did see this movie and watching/listening to Amanda thirsting over Lucy Hale is so much more entertaining 😂

This doesn't have anything to do with anything but that melodica cover of the jurassic park theme song you used for 2 seconds in the intro is probably my favorite RU-vid video ever.

The vengeance over everything makes sense because the fantasy could've been to punish everyone involved in her heartache and the bully would've been involved because she feels bad about herself which causes her to latch onto the guy she only talked to once.

I didn't know this movie existed till people posted that it wasn't a good movie.

I really thought this movie started off decently strong using the original's show's premise to good effect as a horror set up, but then that "Twist" just undid all of that. I think it could have been passable without that.

There was a Star Trek Original Series episode with that premise too. It was a mystery.

Amanda The Jedi Just found your page today and it's awesome. Have been watching about 5hrs of videos. (Cats,Sonic,Twilight,50Shades [1-3 and fan fiction], You ....) love your work.

I was going to watch this in theaters but the timing didn't work out for that night. After watching some trailers and this video I can confidently say I have absolutely no idea what is going on in the movie

Taking a television show nobody remembers so you don't have to come up with an idea, taking a genre so popular the movie only has to exist to get people in to see it, slap a blue filter on it, get the computer people to do their computer people thing, and bam. Free money.

I have never seen this movie but just from the description it sounds like if they had just made the bully Lucy Hale’s friend that also bullies her then it would make sense that she’s on the island. Then if Lucy Hale’s character wanted to kill her/punish her because she set her up on a date with someone who died and Lucy Hale’s character in her grief stricken mind saw that as just another act of bullying by the friend. Then as the fantasies are playing out and hurting people she realizes that even though her friend is mean to her in some part for staying friends with her she kind of bullied herself and is in some part to blame for her own pain and therefore maybe not all of the blame shouldn’t be laid at the feet of that friend and with that decides to save the bully friend. Plot twist on plot twist the bully friend was the one actually having the fantasy and she wanted her friend that she bullies to grow a fucking spy and so her fantasy concocted this entire elaborate story tell force her friend to stand up for herself. That would have been fucking hilarious!🤯

I just saw this at a drive in movie last weekend and laughed out loud at the "twist" ending. It was so terrible - I loved it.

First 2/3rds of this movie I thoroughly enjoyed. I was honestly going to give this movie a 3/5 and a recommendation for a fun campy horror/suspense movie......BUT THEN THE ENDING HAPPENED. It was like there were two different cuts of the film, they kept one cut but kept the ending of the other and It completely invalidated the movie I just spent 90 minutes watching. I've never seen a movie so betrayed by its ending in my life.

XDDDDDD THE JURASSIC PARK THEME 🤣🤣🤣 PFFFT

If investing 7 mil results in making 35+ mil, I'll sign up for that kind of "failure". This looks like a movie I'd enjoy. I love campy shit. lol

So it's Wishmaster in an Island

Isn’t Blum House the stupid Scott Coffin was/is using for the FNAF Movie

Blumhouse himself is actually kinda a genius he just gives money with minor budgets and earns it back by millions if they turn out good or he loses very little if its a flop

You have really funny mannerisms. I started listening to this video in the background then had to give it my full attention so I could catch them.

I absolutely love Blumhouses idea of giving cheaper budgets than normal Hollywood films but they have got to get better ideas lol

To try and connect a group of relatively random people is such a saw thing to do

Ever notice how in these sort of movies, there's never a character who legitimately screwed up their life somehow and actually would benefit from being able to go back and redo it/get closure/deal with their past trauma?

Would have been better if Michael Rooker's character wanted to be Mary Poppins y'all

I didn't mind this movie. Sometimes I need a movie that I can turn my brain off and just look at the screen and drool due to no brain activity.

gretel and hansel was put in the wrong section

We watched this at my sibling retreat last year. We had an excellent time laughing our way through it.

The beginning part sounds like the start of Luigi’s Mansion.

They really did Portia Doubleday like that

3:05 my les self choked on my soda pop. 3:06 my heart restarted 🤣

That movie 'invisible man' did pretty this weekend. So blumehouse offered tge director Leigh Whannel an "extended deal" locking him into blumehouse for films to come.... seems like a bad move to sign with this sinking ship.

Based on the logic of this movie, my fantasy could be for all pedos to die and Roarke would be all "Oh shit guess we gotta track down and kidnap a couple billion people or my zombie wife dies because we didn't put a cap on this genie bullshit."

Blumhouse: not above making "Fuck You It's January" movies then... 🤔

ok but no one was like "i want a dragon" cause if it was me i'd be like "i want a fucking dragon'

Saw this on HBO PLUS Watched it multiple times cuz I enjoyed it then I remembered after CATS anything became enjoyable to me

Recently rewatched this movie, thinking "wait, I don't think I actually saw this," before realizing the only thing I missed was the opening scene where the bully blondie is actively captured by the henchmen and that's it. Everything after that, I definitely remembered in detail. The greatest hinderance was definitely the setting up of rules that were obviously cannot be broken or disregarded within 20 or so minutes of its introduction. It didn't help that Michael Pena's character repeated it to the woman demanding a redo after having a BIG time skip in her initial fantasy of having an interracial family with a cute dude and her phone having the memories documented with her not experiencing them firsthand. Also that was the ONLY fantasy that wasn't twisted to my knowledge. Dude was never abusive or manipulative, the daughter didn't turn into another "demonic child" cliche. The woman was just unhappy she didn't get to experience the 4 year jump like her hubby and little girl got to. Lucy's character really said she gonna play that game all the way until the end and might as well say she managed to get two for one special that she happened to want a full revenge fantasy on people who technically had little to NOTHING to do with the unfortunate circumstances surrounding the death of the token Nice Guy. I'm kinda shocked she didn't just go the route of having that fantasy of being with him or someone like him over dedicating what probably spanned 3 to 5 days of torturing an apartment building of people she didn't know. We never did know how or why that one jungle man was on that island. Can't even wave it away as a homage to an episode from the old show, because I don't even know if there was a character that got trapped on that island like that. Also adding JD and Brax to the list of healthy male-male friendships in media, especially with it being between a straight guy and a gay guy and ironically the straight guy being clingy to his best bud while dealing with a past romantic relationship before the island. That was nice.

People always bring up get out and whiplash as reasons why blumhoise “sometimes makes good movies” but like if those are always the only examples, doesn’t that just mean they lucked out funding two good directors?

Wait.. is Amanda into girls? Do I stand a chance perhaps?😂