IMAGINARY is the Dumbest Movie of the Year | Explained 

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I for one am sick and tired of the bratty teenager trope, it's like the people who wrote the characters have never interacted with a teenager before, perhaps never was one themselves, maybe they came out the womb as adults.

Honestly, I figured a world that was meant to trap children would be colorful and fun. Not a dark depressing environment.

Wait a minute. An entity that drives people insane if they look into their eyes, true form is a spider, preys on children in particular? All that's missing is for Chauncey to be voiced by Tim Curry or Bill Skarsgard and we got "We have Pennywise at home!"

I work at a cinema and had like an actual teenager come and get a refund because it was too scary. They looked about 16 or 17 lol.

My "haunted" three-foot-tall handmade antique French clown doll, Chauncey, is peeved that they stole his name for this movie. SOMEBODY owes him a new stuffie for this indignity. (his "haunted" nature is...if I lose something, I ask him where it might be, the next morning I find it just right in the open, I shake his hand and tuck a stuffed toy under his arm and that's that) He is clearly the superior Chauncey.

why would you trust anyone named Chauncey anyway

All things considered, that “should we try the next hotel?” line would’ve killed in a better horror-comedy

the only bit that kinda freaked me out was the whole ''chauncey isn't actually there'' thing the therapist said, but i was immediately taken out of it when they played a montage showing EVERY SINGLE TIME the bear was on-screen like brother I GET IT. the acting was also laughably disney channel-esque i was trying not to giggle in the theatre 😭

The critics tore this movie apart, and said "This film gives us a different kind of pain and suffering that will last us for years to come." Ouch! 😂

"Has Alice taken up any new hobbies lately? Like ventriloquism?" deserves an Oscar in itself.

I have to watch this video again just to catch all the places Amanda put the stuffed bear. It took me an embarrassingly long time to notice that, tbh... 🧸

maybe it's just the edibles but I fucking lost it at "Chauncey think why use lot word when few do trick?"

HAVE YOU NOT COVERED WARM BODIES?! That’s one of the most “Amanda the Jedi is deeply disappointed in heteronormative YA cinematography” movie I can imagine.

I wish this movie was imaginary.

the main character's old babysitter plotline was wild

Oh yeah, as an older sibling and older cousin I can confirm that No One is allowed to mess with my family but me. I can talk shit as much as I want, but the moment someone else is a dick to them I go into attack mode. lol

That was not a dumb bit, that was a great bit to end on. The bear hanging off your Spider-Man cutout legit jumpscared me at one point where I was listening then glanced up & Spidey's foot made it look like the bear had a weapon.

1. You wouldn't like Sting 2. I would love to see a "Warm Bodies" video

Neil Gaiman: "Yeah, you can copy my homework, just make sure to change stu..."

How does a world of imagination look so unimaginative?? How “childlike imagination” of you to make the place look like a really dark labyrinth of hallways. The only whimsy in this place is the maze like feel and checkered floor and even that’s pushing it!

That Mama movie honestly managed some of these themes and plots points so much better

I’m going through a huge depression these last few moths and I watch a lot of your videos because your entertaining energy makes me laugh and smile a bit through the hard times and for that thanks and keep up the great work

I thought this movie was better as a dark comedy - when the bear turned into a giant scary bear me and my friend burst out laughing in the theatre

I prefer millipedes over the other bugs that sometimes enter my home. Despite all their legs they're actually pretty slow and easy to catch. And when you do pick them up they just curl into a ball, making it easy for me to just release them outside.

PLOT TWIST: the movie itself is imaginary.

My dad and I almost saw this. Then, we saw it didn’t even have an audience score the Saturday after it came out, and we decided to see beekeeper instead(for some reason, it was still playing at our theater). I think we made the right choice

With all the consumption themes surrounding the bear they should’ve leaned into him being a gluttonous beast and could’ve even incorporated organs and stomach stuff for the monster design, I think it had a lot of potential.

I saw this movie with my 12 year old nephew and I think he was a perfect audience for it. He was scared but not too scared and he thought the special effects were cool. I came in blind but quickly picked up on the fairy tale vibes. Watching the movie from that perspective, it was pretty fun. I was reminded of watching the movie Troll(1986) when I was a kid, and another movie with my baby cousin when he was about 13, called Fear Of The Dark(2003). It was a good time.

Film makers really need to stop doing that thing where the scene is set in the dark so the picture is really dark. TV and movies are a visual medium. What good is it if I can't see what the hell is happening?

I saw this in theatre and I kind of felt like I wasted my money. They didn’t even show any slashing or anything to make it entertaining. 😭 So tired of PG13 horror.

I do recommend Totally Killer. Another Blumhouse film that was surprisingly entertaining. Time travel slasher movie that handles the nostalgia of the 80's really well.

I loved Happy Death Day. The sequel could've been better. Slight spoiler Her resolve for going back to the correct dimension/timeline could've been different.

I knew this was going to suck absolute donkey balls when I first saw the trailer and how Blumhouse labeled it as "a concept-driven horror movie". As if calling it "concept-driven" somehow makes it higher quality or them smarter.

I'm probably reaching here but I swear this is like the second or third video where Amanda has said "barely an inconvenience" and that just makes me hope for a Ryan George crossover.

The scene of the family hoofing it away behind a toy bear in the foreground was pretty fantastic though. But I can imagine it’s not worth going through the whole movie to see that visual gag

10:26 That dad I think was in the Netflix Stephen Kings film “In the Tall Grass” that was actually quite scary and disturbing.

I’m actually upset about *both* IF and Imaginary because IF has Blue in a practical puppet suit and Imaginary has a good idea on paper, like the Never Ever and the - just the whole plot about the therapist and the dad going nuts from the imaginations of kids and the weird voice possession shit, but it just ends up being used in a slow Teddy Clubberlang is Evil movie. Also, is it just me or is the imaginary friend genre of movie ironically dead because of Hollywood? Plus the whole back half is just Coraline again!

I didn't understand how they could say that the bear never existed and only her and the kid could see it...But the psychologist clearly talked like she saw it when she asked if the girl knows how to throw her voice and the ridiculous boy was seeing bear shapes under things.

15:06 I'm so confused. If the scavenger hunt says 'something that hurts', and she believes the scavenger hunt and knows that it's going to have to hurt, then why is she saying "promise it wont hurt"? If, on the other hand, she is seeing a flower and believing her eyes that it IS a flower, then (AGAIN), why is she saying "promise it wont hurt"? Why would a flower hurt? That statement is illogical for BOTH of those possibilities.....

Imaginary friends were seen as a very US thing when I was growing up in latin america

I have an actual friend named Chauncey and when I first heard about this movie and how awful it is I immediately told him he will be forced to watch it with me.

This movie didn’t deserve Dewanda Wise as the lead, it was barely scary. Like, only one person died 😂

the unhinged ranting during the surfshark plug was actually so funny omg 😭

Watching this video, I'm telling myself that the best horror story about an imaginary friend is the comic "Panther" by Brecht Evens, where the imaginary panther is a representation of children's sexual abuse (charming a sad little girl who just lost her kitty cat, telling her to keep his existence a secret, gaslighting her, etc). It's a great comic, both beautiful (it's very colourful) and chilling (there's an awfully creepy scene at the end). That's just a random rec from me ! Thank you for the video Amanda !

If anybody wants to watch a good version of this movie, the Babadook would scratch that itch

4:53 the very hungry caterpillar wants to know your location

The plot sounds a little like if Stephen King wrote Coraline, which sounds pretty cool actually. Too bad it didnt stick the landing.

"Warm Bodies" is a delight! My friend and I got The Giggles at cinema, after one of us (I can't remember which) made a "Romeo and Juliet" connection.

The thing that looks the worst about IF is that it just seems like it’ll be a crappy ripoff of Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends

I dunno, I just sat through Rebel Moon Part II and that's a strong competitor for the prefrontal lobotomy in terms of potential for causing brain damage.

Don't worry, Amanda, the upcoming kids film IF will be more cuter and funnier than this trainwreck.

Bruh I'm writing a franchise around this idea because the waisted potential pissed me off so much

You should cover Warm Bodies, that one's kind of fun

Remember when it was Freddy who was coming for you? Good times.

DeWanda did not deserve this 😭

React to Blumhouse’s Freaky (2020) starring Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton.

I have a cute stuffed centipede from the 80s. Lotsa Lotsa Legs. Okay, technically, they were marketed as caterpillars, but I'm pretty sure some of them had way too many legs for that.

yes! please! warm bodies! my older sister played that (and ✨️Beastly✨️) non stop for well over a year when I was a kid I have in recent years picked it up in a dollar bin and it's so much fun. I don't often hear people talk about it, atleast not in a youtube video

The fact that there was only ONE kill in this movie is insane. And this is supposed to be a horror movie.

The Disney Channel did this better, watch Don't Look Under the Bed for real childhood trauma

You should do a dumbest movies of the year video. Awards for different types of bad cinema.

There's a foreign movie on netflix called re/member about a little girls doll that eats these teenagers that are stuck in a time loop but then they realize that if each of them are eaten by the last time loop there will be no coming back and they have to figure out how to defeat the little girls doll. This reminded me of that. However, re/member is more violent.

I COMPLETELY clicked on this thinking you were about to upset a lot of ryan reynolds fans lmao

I'm not finished the video yet but the "ohh, goodie!" almost took me out. Laptop almost got sprayed in Dr. Pepper as I choked my way through a chuckle. Thanks Amanda 🤣

The only thing that would make two movies better at once is that if IF has a post-credits/easter egg that connects both movies together

Fun and accurate review aside, can I ask where you got the bear plush? It's adorable 🥺

Fantastic video as always the bear bit was a nice touch. Just found out they are going to be showing a sneak peak of the new Wallace and Gromit movie in the Annency Animation and film festival in France in June, would love to hear your thoughts if you'll be there.

So what you’re saying is that Martin Mystery’s episode « Return of the Imaginary Friend » is better and in 22 minutes too. (I know those words were never said, but it’s an episode in which a disgruntled imaginary friend, also a teddy bear, starts to kidnap the girl’s former friends and turns then into dolls, and gets defeated by friendship and musical chairs) 😄

Bear is (should be) short for Bartholomew. Also, this is so disappointing. From the ads on TikTok, I thought it would be a world spanning mass imaginary friend who gets mad that all of his kids grey up and moved on. It'd switch from place to place, person to person, as the population slowly shrinks as a whole generation disappears.

No cuz I swear I've read a creepy pasta with a lot of similarities!! Especially the imaginary friend giving the kid tasks with the reward of showing where they come from, like it's a guy remembering his imaginary friend putting him thru those tests and the last one was jumping off the roof but he refused which made the friend mad. He eventually comes back to the house and finds out the place the friend wanted to take him to was a graveyard full of kids gravestones or something like that but it's very fuzzy, does anyone else remember this? Are shoddy directors snagging creepypastas and changing them just enough to not have to go through the sometimes impossible task of finding the original author?

Pleas Amanda I’m WAITING for your Lisa Frankenstein video 😭😭😭 I know you’ll love it!!!!

Omg you need to cover Warm Bodies! You need to do both the movie and the book!!!

yo amanda where did you get that shirt? as a nightmare on elm street fan i need it

This film kept reminding me of "Benny Loves You"

✨the extra effort of putting your own little Chauncey being creepy in the background✨👀

I'm upset with myself for not noticing the bear in the background until about 17 minutes in 😅

I watched it with my wife and daughters. they got about 10 mins in before they just started playing on their phones.. It literally turned into a live action reboot of Coraline mixed with elements on Labrynth and IT by the end

Blumhouse is the dollar tree of horror now

when Amanda is more excited about the sponsorship than the actual movie.

Amanda the Jedi is so underrated yet she's the hero we all need.

Awesome “Directed by Wes Craven” shirt, nice reference/tribute

I’m glad someone else was forever scarred by The Butterfly Effect’s “hey teacher” scene 😭

tangeantally related, PLEASE watch the Chucky franchise

Will you do immaculate?? Since you mentioned it :) hilarious video btw, i liked the bear bit 😂

I had that Creepy Crawley Workshop as a kid. We used it once and the house smelled like that burning plastic for months. Later came to find out it was probably good we never used it again. The PlasticGoop put out by Mattel not only stank to high heaven, but gave off some awful toxic compounds to compliment the smell.

When I was a child my mom bought a house in the countryside. My bedroom had a built in vanity table. Underneath the table to the side was a random hole that lead to a small locked door a la coraline. I never opened that s*** up the entire year we lived there! No one in my house did, I don’t understand how kids in movies just be going and investigating random scary s***.

Please cover Warm Bodies!

Why is Nayuta from Chainsaw Man flipping me the double birds?

5:05 I HAD ONE OF THESE!!!!!! omg the memories....of burning my fingers on the metal ass bug molds.

This movie seems to be an attempt at making a new type of chucky. For example, the seeing a new bear everywhere, is very similar to after andy gets rid of one chucky, he finds good guy dolls elsewhere and freaks out. The alternate dimension spooky supernatural stuff possessing a doll, checks that box as well. Unlike other doll movies like Annabelle has a spooky supernatural doll with all kinds of powers, but once defeated the demon doesnt jump from different dolls to another. The entire vibe of the movie really hits like child's play and with bits of the tv series of chucky.

I guess the idea of imaginary friends that have been forgotten and turn evil could be a good horror movie, if done right. It would probably help if its a hard R and ultra violent and the imaginary friends have turned into grotesque twisted abominations from idk something to do with imagination...

You know it's a bad movie when Amanda starts the video about it by saying "at least with Night Swim..."

PLEASE cover warm bodies. i was thinking about that movie the other day and how i wish there was a breakdown from one of my preferred review channels. i dont care if you hate it or love it, id just love to hear you talk about it

My last session with my current therapist is next week and i doing do this next week. "BEC NO NEED MANY WORDS"

No but why was I actually jumpscared by your bear hanging on spidey and then appearing on your chair 😭

Honestly the worst thing about imaginary is that i actually like the concept of having an imaginary friend be the monster, yet they had to go for something boring and confusing. I can even think of a better version of this concept in one comment, have it be where an older kid or teen still has an imaginary friend and when they get bullied for still having one, show the hints of horror like the next day the kids go missing and more things go the kid's way like something as small as a cookie jar on a high shelf they can't reach somehow getting to them or them wanting to see a bird and a bird is brought into the room but was clearly injured by something, and especially don't have the kid be oblivious or encourage it, have them be concerned like "why is the bird hurt" or just anything to show the kid won't just blindly follow them. And if you wanna keep the whole never ever dimension stuff have it be where it just appears in the room rather than something as complicated as drawing a door and most importantly have it look colorful and fun at first, something a kid would actually wanna stay in and have the kid's specific room be the one that's dark and scary like it matches their mental state. And most importantly, show us what the kid sees don't just give us hints of the imaginary friend being a monster until the end show us more instances of the imaginary friend being an actual creature. There, i thought of something at least slightly more interesting than what we got.

I feel like it should be mentioned the just, logical fallacy that the dad character (not the crazy dad the dad of the two girls) just vanished from the movie. He’s like “ok kids have fun in your new house with your stepmom! I can’t be in the rest of this film except for the bait and switch scene later!” And he’s just, gone Jessica doesn’t think to contact him to ask him about his daughters and if their behavior is normal, no one contacts him when his crazy wife escapes the hospital and finds them in their new house. It’s like the writers wanted to write about a step mom taking care of two kids after their dad died but didn’t know how to make that work so just wrote in the dad character to then have him disappear for the movie’s entire run time lol 😂 It also diminishes the bait and switch scene because by then the audience likely has forgotten he exists so him being there doesn’t make a lot of sense since it’s not like he was a constant presence beforehand

I havent seen it.. Mista gg also said it was boring as fuck, and you two are the only movie critics i trust so.... guess what im not wasting time watching😂🎉

I also was deeply disturbed when I watched James and the Giant Peach as a child, good story, but the animation is absolutely haunting.