Fe@rLeSS

Fe@rLeSS This film is anything but fe@rless. Genre: Action/Adventure Directed By: Cory Edwards Produced By: Robyn Klein John H. Williams Danielle Sterling Patrick Worlock Written By: Cory Edwards John Paul Murphy Starring: Yara Shahidi Miles Robbins Miguel Jadakiss Photography: Color Distributed By: Netflix Vanguard Animation Release Date: August 14, 2020 Runtime: 89 minutes Country: United States Language: English

Fe@rLeSS (or simple known as Fearless) is an animated, family, fantasy, comedy Netflix film made in 2020.

Plot

Reid, who goes by the username "Fe@rLeSS_" is a teen video gamer who is an expert at the superhero action-adventure video game Planet Master. While battling in the second to last level, the game's protagonist, Captain Darius Lightspeed, reveals he has three children, Kira, Xander, and Titus, all of whom he brought to the battle with him. In-game, Reid decides to drop them off at a daycare before he plays the final level of the game, where Lightspeed attaches an "interplanetary communicator" to one of the babies so the daycare workers can call Lightspeed in case of emergency. While in daycare, the game's antagonist and Lightspeed's nemesis, Dr. Arcannis steals the babies and imprisons them on his spaceship in order to attempt to steal their superpowers so he can conquer Earth.

While in captivity, the babies accidentally use their powers to escape, and end up mistakenly walking into an escape pod and launching it towards Earth in the real world. The United States Armed Forces, headed by General Jayne Blazerhatch, detects the aircraft which entered American airspace. The escape pod ends up crashing in front of Reid's home. Meanwhile, Melanie, Reid's school partner, arrives at his house to complete a science project together. Melanie and Reid are both shocked to discover the babies who have entered the home, and after a debate on what to do, Reid convinces her the babies came from the game, and they decide to take care of them. Meanwhile, Arcannis has tracked the babies' whereabouts to Reid's home, and the military brainstorms ideas on what to do.

The following morning, Reid discovers the interplanetary communicator, and gets a call from Lightspeed, who explains that those are his babies and that he will track their location to retrieve them, also explaining that Arcannis is after them; one of the babies however throws down the communicator, breaking it and making Lightspeed unable to finish the location tracking. Melanie suggests to Reid that they have to get away from their home in order to stay safe, and the two do so. Arcannis arrives at the home after they left, vowing to find them. The military later captures Reid, Melanie and the babies, believing the babies to be dangerous aliens. Arcannis proceeds to arrive, and after defeating the military, steals the babies and transports them to his ship.

Reid steals a motorcycle from the military in order to follow Dr. Arcannis' tracks, and Melanie fixes the interplanetary communicator by wiring it to a military handheld transceiver, and they manage to successfully contact Lightspeed, allowing Lightspeed to track their location, also informing him that Dr. Arcannis has stolen the babies. Reid and Melanie then successfully stowaway on Arcannis' ship. The ship lands at a major city, where the military awaits, and Melanie and Reid escape from the ship with an escape pod taking the babies with them, landing near the ship in the same city; Arcannis transforms into a larger and more powerful form of himself, and unleashes his robot airforce which the military is unsuccessful at stopping. As he approaches Melanie and Reid, the babies learn to control their superpowers and fight back, destroying the robot army and defeating Arcannis by destroying an electric device on his neck which gave him the power to become larger. Lightspeed arrives after the battle finishes, and is relieved to find that the babies have learned to use their superpowers, also hailing Reid and Melanie as heroes. Lightspeed and his children then return to the video game world.

Why This Film Is Not Fearless

1. The overall plot is incredible basic and nothing more than a generic "protagonist must take care of babies while also having to deal with the villain" cliché, not helping by the fact that movies made previously had similar plots.
2. Really confusing who the main protagonist of the film is, while Reid is the main protagonist, some of it also focuses on Captain Darius Lightspeed.
   1. Kira, Xander, and Titus also feel more like protagonists due to how they're the ones who defeat the villain.
3. The conception of the video game Planet: Master, while really interesting, feels incredibly dangerous, should the player(s) play the final mission, it actually happens in real life, so if the player attempts to play anymore of it, wouldn't that endanger the world?!
   1. To be fair, that could be a reference to "The Neverending Story" Trilogy, in which the person who reads the book are in an adventure.
4. Very few locations, with the first-third of the film taking place at Reid's house.
5. Bland, unlikable and uninspiring characters.
   1. Reid is a lazy teenager who does nothing but play games, and shows no concerns about his School Project.
   2. Captain Darius Lightspeed is a generic Super Hero-Of-The-Day that is seen in almost every media, he's also a complete rip-off of Buzz-Lightyear from the Toy Story series.
   3. Melanie is basic female protagonist that is seen in almost every media, and is also a rip off of Charlotte from Henry Danger.
   4. Dr. Arcannis is a lazy "I want all the power to rule the world"-type villain.
   5. General Jayne Blazerhatch is a basic bland general, not to mention unlikable as she captures Reid, Melanie and the babies, believing the babies to be dangerous aliens, and even after realizing her mistake during the climax, she never apologize to Reid, Melanie and the babies for capturing them in the first place.
6. Weird voice acting for some of the characters, one of which is Dr. Arcannis, who sounds like a normal human man then an alien.
7. Odd design choice for Pop-Culture references, it's one thing to make a few Pop-Culture references, but making multiple references though out the entire movie(E.G Mary Poppings and The Grince) goes overboard, they even call back to Red Lobster, which has nothing to do with the film.
8. The film's final battle/climax is a blatant rip-off of 3Below: Tales of Arcadia's climax in the final battle, in which the heroes' final battle is agents a giant alien, Dr. Arcannis after absorbing Kira's, Xander's, and Titus' powers, which takes place in a city during night.
   1. Speaking of which, General Jayne Blazerhatch, the chef of the military, is also a complete rip-off of Kubritz from said show.
9. Plot-holes:
   1. Why would anyone create a game that could endanger real life?
   2. Why doesn't Reid nor Melanie of that matter just call their parents to help them?
10. No real ending, we don't even know what happens to Dr. Arcannis after his defeat nor do we know what happens to General Jayne Blazerhatch and the babies after they been reunited, it also feels like sequel baiting due to how it ends with Reid and Melanie fighting a random alien.

Redeeming Qualities

1. Its animation is solid.
2. The soundtrack is decent.
3. There are a few funny moments, such as the scene were after hearing a noise, Reid gets off the couch to investigate, he sees nothing, then proceeds to sit back on the couch, only to be fling off by one of the babies.
4. The front of the Poster looks excellent, and does give off a space movie-like impression, the background also looks fantastic.
5. Kira, Xander, and Titus are cute.