How to Make an Awesome "Loud House" Movie Sequel
With the release of the trailer for The Casagrandes Movie, I think now is a better time than ever to talk about how to make a good Loud House Movie sequel. Now, full disclaimer right up front. I have not seen The Loud House Movie before writing this. I just know word of mouth, and what other people have said about the movie, and what I've read about it on Wikipedia. I know the basic plot of it.
I know that it takes place in Scotland 🏴 and that it's about the Loud family going to Scotland 🏴 because Lynn Sr. learns that he has familial ties to Scotland 🏴 and his ancestors were Scottish 🏴, and he basically wants to go there and take the kids with him to learn about their family history. It's what that PBS show, Finding Your Roots is all about, learning about your heritage. Not only that, but the Loud family discovers that they're Scottish royalty 🏴, and heirs to this castle 🏰 run by this lady ♀︎ who hates kids and hates the Loud family in general, and this lady ♀︎ becomes the main villain of the movie. I also know that the movie's a musical 🎵.
It's kind of hard not to know that it's a musical 🎵 since a lot of the clips of the movie on YouTube are of the musical numbers 🎵, the singing scenes where the characters break out into song. The most prominent of them is the scene where we see Lynn Sr. and Rita's backstory. How they met, how they fell in love 🥰, and how they started this huge family and raised all of these kids together. It's shown in a montage essentially. The fact that movie's a musical 🎵 kind of makes me wary of it because I don't like musicals 🎵. Never have, never will.
It's why I don't like Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 🍫🏭, it's why I haven't seen the majority of the Disney Renaissance era animated movies, it's why I haven't seen Tangled or Frozen 🥶 or any of the other more contemporary Disney animated films. It's why I've never seen The Prince of Egypt, or The Road to El Dorado, or Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. It's why I've never seen any of the High School Musical 🎵 movies. It's why I never really got that into Anastasia. That wasn't the only reason, but it was one of them. It's why I never got that into VeggieTales and why I don't really care for Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie. Okay, that's a little harsh and little untrue. I did like Jonah and I did like VeggieTales, but I always skipped past all the singing parts whenever I watched that movie or whenever I watched any of the episodes of the series, and I only liked the non-singing parts of it.
It's why I don't like that Fairly OddParents TV movie, "School's Out." It's why I've never seen Les Misérables. It's why I've never seen Cats 🐈. I mean, there are plenty of other reasons not to watch Cats 🐈, but the fact it was a musical 🎵 at all was one of them for me. It's why I've seen any of the Sing movies. It's like why I don't like the first Rugrats movie all that much as the other two. And it's like I don't like the Season 5 premiere of The Loud House, "Schooled." I just don't like it when characters in movies break out into song, and start singing all of a sudden, and I don't like the idea of singing being used a storytelling device instead of just regular dialogue. Like, characters in musicals 🎵 sing about things that can easily be conveyed and conveyed better in dialogue. Like, just talk, don't sing.
The musical genre 🎵 has never been a genre I've been able to get into. The actual singing aspect of musicals 🎵 (which is the foundation of the genre) just breaks my immersion, and makes it difficult for me to suspend my disbelief because the characters sing when they could easily just talk. And they do these really elaborate musical numbers 🎵, with even the background characters participating, and then it's just never acknowledged or brought up again. Like, no other character is like, "Why did you just sing, when you could've easily have just talked?" or "Can you sing to me again, it makes feel better?" It doesn't matter how good the singing is, it doesn't matter how good the instrumentals or the melody is, it still doesn't make sense to me, and it doesn't appeal to me.
That's why I liked Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure because it called out this sort of thing, and poked fun at it when Billy has that whole musical number 🎵 with the pirates 🏴☠️, and then Mandy and the other characters ask him why he was doing that, and Billy just answers with something to the effect of, "This is an animated movie, it has to have singing in it." That's is an excellent point, like why are so animated movies musicals 🎵? Why do these animators feel that just because they're making an animated movie, it has to be a musical 🎵? There was no reason for why The Rugrats Movie or The Loud House Movie had to be musicals 🎵, especially since a lot of the episodes of both shows don't have singing at all. It's only when they do movies or when they do TV specials that they all of a sudden have to have singing. I am of the opinion that animated movies don't all need to have singing, and even the ones that do probably would have been better off if they didn't have singing in them at all.
The only kind of music that I like in movies is the actual music score, like the music that's used in the background, or so-called "needledrops," using pre-existing licensed songs in movies as part of the soundtrack, as the background music. That's why I like the Guardians of the Galaxy movies so much because their soundtracks are exclusively musical score and needledrops, characters listening to songs that exist in real life, and either dancing to it or beating up and killing bad guys and having action scenes to. Rather than characters breaking out in song and having elaborate musical numbers.
Even though I don't really like Quentin Tarantino's movies all that much, and I think he's a pretty overrated director, I do like the music in his movies, the needledrops in his movies. Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, and Kill Bill (Volumes One and Two) all have great soundtracks, and use the music quite well. Death Proof had a couple good songs in its soundtrack too. Even Once Upon a Time in Hollywood had a few good songs within its soundtrack.
I haven't seen that movie because I'm against its very existence, and I don't like the way it portrayed Bruce Lee, and I don't like the things that Tarantino has said about Bruce Lee. Especially when you consider that Tarantino went to such lengths to portray Sharon Tate with such care, respect, and dignity, and yet he didn't afford any of that to Bruce Lee, instead insisting that he was just an arrogant prick and everyone who worked with him secretly hated him. And he told anyone who complained about his portrayal of Bruce Lee in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to "go suck a dick." Seriously, fuck that guy 🖕. It's even more messed up when you consider that Sharon Tate and Bruce Lee were actually good friends, like they were close with each other, they respected each other, and Bruce Lee even taught Sharon Tate a few martial arts lessons. People have propped that guy up as being one of the greatest filmmakers in history for far too long, I'm sick of it. He's not that great.
Speaking of which, it is more Tarantino's more historical movies that lack in good needledrops. Like, Inglourious Basterds, Django: Unchained, and The Hateful Eight. None of those movies have particularly memorable soundtracks, and don't have great songs that you want to listen to. The only memorable song from The Hateful Eight was that Roy Orbison song they used at the end, "There Won't Be Many Coming Home." That was the only worthwhile song in that movie's whole soundtrack. When it comes to Tarantino, and his use of preexisting music, that's pretty much all he ever uses in his movies, including the music score. Very few or none of his movies have original scores at all. I think the only one that does is The Hateful Eight, but even then it was just Ennio Morricone using or remixing his old work. Like, that movie's soundtrack was pretty much just Ennio Morricone's greatest hits.
The same sort of thing applies to Wes Anderson, another overrated auteur director who people give way too much credit to, and undeservingly prop up to monumental levels. I don't like his movies all that much, but I do like the music within them. Like, I absolutely hated The French Dispatch 🇫🇷, I despise that film, but I liked a lot of the songs that were on the soundtrack. I didn't see Anderson's movie from last year, Asteroid City ☄️ for the simple reason that I didn't like The French Dispatch 🇫🇷, but I still bought the soundtrack to Asteroid City ☄️ on iTunes, and I still like a lot of the songs on that soundtrack. Tarantino and Anderson may not be great filmmakers, they might not be my favorite filmmakers, but they do at least have great taste of music. Or at least, their music supervisors do. Edgar Wright is an exception to this because he makes good movies that I actually enjoy and he has a great taste in music. The soundtrack to Baby Driver alone is excellent, and can easily stand toe-to-toe with any of Tarantino or Anderson's movie soundtracks. In fact, it's better than some of the soundtracks for some of their movies.
Anyway, I'm way off track with this. The point is that I haven't actually seen The Loud House Movie for myself, and I haven't formed my own opinions about it. So, this isn't going to be from the perspective of someone who has seen The Loud House Movie and has their own opinions on it (good or bad). This is more me talking about things that I would like to see in a Loud House movie. This is also from the perspective of someone who is a relatively new fan of this franchise. I just barely started getting into The Loud House last year. So, I haven't seen every single episode, I wasn't there at the beginning, and there are a lot of things about this show and the world it's set in that I don't know about yet. So, if I get something wrong, if I don't understand a certain thing about the series and its characters, that's why.
I've already done something similar with video games. If you're unaware, and this is the first time you're reading something on my blog, I wrote a post about my ideas on how to create a Loud House video game, since The Loud House has never really had a true video game like SpongeBob 🧽, The Fairly OddParents, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, and Rugrats have. That whole post was essentially just a wishlist of things that I personally would like to see in a Loud House video game if one was ever made. That's what this will be essentially, only with movies instead of video games. The only difference with this one is there already is a Loud House movie out there, and that Loud House movie received a lot of mixed reviews. There were a lot of people (fans and non-fans) who didn't like The Loud House Movie. Most of the reviews you'll see of the movie on YouTube are negative.
Most of the criticism towards the movie seems to be towards the plot and the animation. The animation one surprised me at first, but after seeing clips from the movie, I can see why the animation in that movie was criticized. The animation in the movie oddly looks a stiffer than the animation in the show. I mean, The Loud House doesn't have the most fluid animation out there. There are moments where the animation is a bit stiff, and the characters move a bit too mechanically, like they're animated puppets in one of those digital animation programs like Flash or ToonBoom.
I don't know for sure if The Loud House or The Loud House Movie were animated in ToonBoom, but there are moments in the show and likely in the movie too where it doesn't look hand drawn. Like, it doesn't look the way hand drawn animation looks. I'm not even just talking hand drawn animation drawn on actual physical paper with pencils ✏️, I'm talking animation that was drawn on drawing tablets with digital drawing pens, which is how most animation is done nowadays. That's still technically hand-drawn animation since you're still drawing it by hand. It's just that you're drawing it on a tablet instead of on paper, and you're using a digital touchscreen pen instead of a pencil ✏️.
But, there are moments where the animation in The Loud House and The Loud House Movie doesn't look like that. It doesn't like hand drawn and doesn't have any of the subtle messiness or subtle inconsistencies that hand drawn animation, where you can tell it was drawn by a human being, and instead looks like one of those digital puppets that you rig and move around in programs like ToonBoom. It doesn't look as good as hand drawn animation, which tends to have a more fluid and naturalistic feel to it rather than a mechanical one.
But, that's not only the issue with the animation in the movie from what I've seen. The animation is oddly too shiny. Like, the characters all look like they have this glossy finish to them that they just don't have in the actual show. The skin on the characters in the show looks like actual skin, but not in the movie. For some reason, they decided to make all the characters look super glossy. Like, at points, they look like they're covered in clear nail polish or something. They also kind of overdo it with the shadows, like they add shadows where they didn't really need to.
It's like because they had a bigger budget than they had on the show, they wanted to show it off, and have more unique lighting and colors, but they overdid by having everything look too glossy or too shadowy or both. It actually makes the movie look way cheaper than the show even though the movie obviously had more money 💵 behind it since it's a movie and not a TV show. From what I saw in the trailer, it seems like the animation in The Casagrandes Movie has a lot of these same problems, only worse. Like, Bobby in the last shot of the trailer looks way too glossy, and I'm just talking about that photo that Carlotta takes of him with her phone 📱, and does all those filters on it. Actually, he looks less glossy and less shiny in the photo than it does in the "real world."
So, a lot of people don't like The Loud House Movie all that much, and thought it was a disappointment. But, what about me, what are somethings that I would like to see in a Loud House movie or a Loud House movie sequel more specifically? Because any new Loud House movie would be a sequel by default, since it's a new entry after the first one. Unless they specifically said it was a prequel, which is always a possibility. Even though, I'm not sure what you could even do with a Loud House movie prequel since we already know so much about the Loud parents and the other adult characters in the show, and there's always the risk of introducing contradictory information and making the worldbuilding convoluted.
It is kind of tough to come up with a story for a Loud House movie that isn't just them going on vacation or traveling somewhere. They've already done so many episodes and specials within the show that were about the Loud family going on vacation. Even the movie kind of pushed it by having the plot be about them going to Scotland 🏴. The Casagrandes Movie went with this sort of plot line too. It's about the Casagrande family driving across the southern border and going to Mexico 🇲🇽 because they're Mexicans 🇲🇽, Mexican-Americans 🇲🇽🇺🇸 to be exact. Meaning that the majority of that movie's going to take place in Mexico 🇲🇽. It's as generic and basic as you can get.
My guess as to why they keep returning to the vacation/road trip plot in this franchise is that it's easy. It's easy to have a movie where the characters are on a road trip or they travel to a different location, like a different state or a different country entirely, and make that seem cinematic. The characters are literally going on a journey, they're going on an adventure, they're traveling somewhere else that you don't normally see in the day-to-day of the episodes of the show.
Characters traveling from one place to another, and going from point A to point B is as basic cinematic as you can. That's why the first SpongeBob 🧽 movie, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 🧽 and even the third SpongeBob 🧽 movie, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On the Run 🧽 were both road trip movies. More so the first one than the third one, but the third one still counts. And that's why The Loud House Movie and The Casagrandes Movie are both vacation movies. It's easiest way to come up with a story for a movie based on a TV show, especially a cartoon TV show. It's the shortcut.
Even The Simpsons Movie kind of did this too by having the Simpson family flee to Alaska after they escaped from Springfield after being chased out by an angry mob 🔥 after the townspeople learned that Homer was to blame for the town getting put under a dome by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). The only difference is that there's a lot of stuff going on in that movie to where it's just a pure road trip movie. We don't really see them actually traveling to Alaska. The movie just cuts to them already being there, and crossing a checkpoint to get in.
In fact, now that I think about it, The Simpsons Movie and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 🧽 have a few things in common. Both movies have plots involving the main characters traveling somewhere, while the town they live in (or used to live in) basically goes to shit, forcing the main characters to come back and save their town from total destruction. In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 🧽, the main threat threatening the town of Bikini Bottom was Plankton's tyranny. He put a bunch mind-controlling bucket helmets on everyone's heads and established a dictatorship with him at its head, and he basically enslaves everyone in the town that has bucket helmets on their heads, forcing them to build statues of him and build temples for him.
He even renames the town to Planktopolis, though I'm not sure if this detail was just something from the video game or it was in the movie itself. I'm leaning more towards it only being something from the game, though it is perfectly in line with Plankton's character. It is something he would do if he did succeed in getting the secret Krabby Patty formula 🍔 and taking over Bikini Bottom. So, I'm going to consider it canon that he does rename Bikini Bottom to Planktopolis when he takes it over.
In The Simpsons Movie, the main threat threatening the town of Springfield is the EPA, or more specifically, Russ Cargill, a new villain that was created specifically for the movie. They put a giant dome over the entire town in response to the awful pollution in Lake Springfield caused by Homer's gross negligence and blatant disregard for the environment. This throws the entire town into chaos as they start running low on food, water, fuel, supplies, and electricity ⚡️ due to being cut off from the rest of the world. Then, the EPA threatens to blow up Springfield by placing a bomb inside of the dome that would completely wipe the town off the face of the Earth 🌎 and just leave a giant crater in its place. Which they plan on turning into a tourist attraction akin to the Grand Canyon.
They never say if it's a nuclear bomb ☢️ or not, but it's a really powerful bomb that's capable of wiping out all of Springfield in one single blast 💥. It's only when Homer comes back to undo his mistake and redeem himself that crisis is averted. He and Bart throw the bomb onto the outside of the dome, causing it to blow up the dome instead of the town. That of course causes the entire dome to collapse and free Springfield from total isolation. The locations that the main characters travel to is different and their motives for going to those place is also different. SpongeBob 🧽 and Patrick go to Shell City in order to retrieve King Neptune's crown 👑 so that he'll free Mr. Krabs 🦀 and won't kill him. Yes, he was going to kill him. Neptune even tells Krabs 🦀 at the end, "It is time for you to die," those were his exact words.
While the Simpson family goes to Alaska in order to start a new life there after they were ostracized and exiled from Springfield after everyone in Springfield blamed them for their misgivings, while the town was trapped inside of a dome. I mean, they were right, the townspeople were right in the sense that Homer was the one to blame for everything bad that happens in that movie. The main events of the film are set in motion by his stupid mistake, for his stupid horrible decision. He literally doomed the entire town over donuts 🍩.
The reason why he dumped that silo in the lake so that he could rush over and get donuts 🍩 since the local donut shop 🍩 is closing down and he didn't want to miss it by disposing of his and his pet pig 🐖's poop 💩 the right way by taking it that waste disposal center, and instead dump it all in the lake to get to the donut shop 🍩 as quickly as possible. But, it's not for them to target his wife and kids too. The rest of the Simpson family shouldn't be collectively punished for the sins of Homer Simpson. That's where townspeople went wrong in my opinion.
If you want to kill Homer for what he did, fine, but don't also kill Marge, Lisa, Bart, or Maggie, they had nothing to do with his mistake. Lisa was the one trying to address the problem of Lake Springfield's pollution, and was the one who got that waste center built in the first place. Why should she get blamed and get killed over what her father did, since her father went against everything she worked towards?
Oh, and both movies have a scene where one of the main characters gets naked. In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 🧽, Patrick is the one who gets naked, and he does it in celebration of SpongeBob 🧽 getting the manager job at the Krusty Krab 2, or so he thinks. It turns out that SpongeBob 🧽 didn't get the job, and that Squidward 🐙 actually got the job. So, Patrick's little naked hang gliding stunt was premature. In The Simpsons Movie, Bart is the one who gets naked, and he does it after Homer dares him to skate 🛹 around Springfield while naked.
I think he said skate 🛹 to and from Krusty Burger while completely naked, not even any underwear. That's another similarity that SpongeBob 🧽 has with The Simpsons, they both have fast food restaurants in them that have the word "krusty" in their names, spelt with a "k" no less. Anyway, Homer dares Bart to do this, believing that it would be too embarrassing for him that he would never do it. But, to his surprise, Bart not only does the dare, but he also makes it to Krusty Burger, only to be caught by the police, and handcuffed to a flagpole or a sign outside of the restaurant for indecent exposure.
In addition to this, the naked scenes in both movies were huge parts of their respective marketing. They showed the Patrick naked gliding scene in the trailers for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 🧽, and I'm sure in the TV spots, as well as in the video game tie-in. And they showed the Bart naked skateboard scene 🛹 in pretty much all of the major marketing for The Simpsons Movie. It was one of the main things they focused on in the marketing, in all the trailers and all the TV spots. It was one of the big jokes that they really wanted to highlight to get people excited to see the movie. It's funny how many similarities those two movies have despite one of them being a kid's movie and the other being more for adults. Even the Loud House TV special, "Save Royal Woods" has similarities with The Simpsons Movie as well as similarities with Hey, Arnold!: The Movie.
When you have the movie take place in the same location as the show normally does, or if you don't travel that far away from where the show normally takes place, then it's hard to come with unique plots for the movie. You have to be more creative, since you can't just resort to the character traveling somewhere far away like to another state or another country. That's one thing that I did like about The Rugrats Movie is that they didn't go that route with it. They didn't just have the characters travel some place for a vacation.
The movie's about the Rugrats (the babies and also Angelica) getting lost in the woods 🌲, and trying to find their way back while the parents try to search for them. Sure, they do travel to a different location in a sense, but they didn't go there on purpose. It happened by accident. And they aren't even that far away from home. It's not like in the second movie, Rugrats in Paris, where they travel to Paris, France 🇫🇷 or in the third movie, Rugrats Go Wild, where they go on a boating trip in the middle of the ocean.
They all thought they were going on a luxury cruise 🛳️ run by Lipschitz (the same Lipschitz that Didi and the other parents except Betty get their parenting advice from), but Stu kind of tricked them all because he just rented a rinky dink fishing boat and didn't get them tickets on the Lipschitz cruise 🛳️. So, they're all mad at him for deceiving them essentially, and renting this crummy boat for them stay on.
But, then get stranded on a deserted island 🏝️, and they all blame Stu for it because he was the one who put them in that situation in the first place. But, it's okay because they meet the Thornberry family who are there for one of Nigel and Marianne Thornberry's routine expeditions to document the local wildlife, specifically they're there looking for a clouded leopard. They do eventually help them escape from that island 🏝️, then they all celebrate surviving their ordeal by going on the Lipschitz cruise 🛳️ for real this time. So, it all works out in the end.
I did have this idea of a Loud House movie that involved the Loud family being in a reality TV show, like their lives at the home 🏠 gets turned into a reality TV show by a TV producer and TV network. And I imagined that it would've been like a parody or a satire of those reality TV shows that you see on TLC that are about those huge families with dozens or close to a dozen kids. Like, Jon & Kate Plus 8, or 17 Kids and Counting, and Table for 12. Like, the movie would deliberately be evoking those shows, and also poking fun at them, and commentating on how fake they are, and how fake reality TV is in general. Reality TV truly is an oxymoron.
And the stress that comes with being in a reality TV show, and having to fake certain things or exaggerate things for the camera like creating artificial conflict ends up tearing the Loud family apart. And the whole movie would be about the Loud family coming back together, making up, and going against the TV producer and TV execs that did this to them. So, as you could imagine from that description of what I envision the movie to be, I would have it be a darker film, like my pitch would be a straight up dark comedy compared to the movie we ended up getting. I also imagine it having a bit of social commentary obviously.
But, I think that this sort of thing would've been for a better first movie than a second movie. Like, instead of the first Loud House movie being about Scotland 🏴 and the Loud family secretly being royalty 👑 with their own castle 🏰, the first Loud House movie could've been about the Loud family being in a reality TV show and that causing them to turn against one another, and the family to break apart, and them having to come together again. You'd think that this would've been the first thing that would've come to mind when trying to come up with a story for a Loud House movie, but it wasn't.
Instead they chose Scotland 🏴, and decided to make the Loud family descendants of Scots 🏴. Essentially making them Scottish-Americans 🏴🇺🇸. I imagine that a lot of the writers on the show, and a lot of the other people who worked on the show weren't on board with the Scotland story 🏴, and thought it was weak. Certainly, even though I've never seen the movie, I still think that the Scotland story 🏴 was weak, and that movie shouldn't have been set in Scotland 🏴. So, I think having the movie be centered around reality TV and be about how being reality TV stars affects the Loud family would have been a better choice for the first movie.
But, what about the second movie? What would do for a sequel or even a couple of sequels? Make this a trilogy. Well, since the movie was set in Scotland 🏴 and this upcoming Casagrandes movie is set in Mexico 🇲🇽, and I've made the point that these animated movies based on TV shows overuse the vacation or traveling plot line, I would want the sequel to be much different from the first one. I would not want to have it just be the Loud family traveling to yet another country because that was already done in the first one and it would just feel like a rehash.
If the second one still had to involve travel, if it still had to be about a vacation, and if it still had to be set in a different country, then I would choose Japan 🇯🇵. I think it would be fascinating to see the Loud family inside Japan 🇯🇵 and see how they would grapple with that. I would especially like to see what they would do with Lucy, since she's the spooky and supernatural one of the family. Maybe, they could have her hunting for yōkai, and then have some actual yōkai appear at the end for the climax of the film. You could have Lisa create little translators for the Loud family that they could wear around their necks, that would translate Japanese into English and Japanese to English.
So, they could talk to Japanese people 🇯🇵 while they're in country, and the Japanese 🇯🇵 can understand them, and they can understand the Japanese 🇯🇵 without any of them having to actually learn each other's languages. It'd be a nice workaround, a nice in-universe explanation for why the Japanese characters 🇯🇵 speak perfect English in the film if we were to have the Japanese characters 🇯🇵 speak English the whole time like in most American animated movies 🇺🇸 set in Japan 🇯🇵 usually have them do. You could have it be this thing where it looks like dubbing when they talk, how the lip movements don't always match.
I know that Pacific Rim tried to do something like that with the Mako character when she went into the Drift with Raleigh Beckett (Charlie Hunnam's character) because she's Japanese 🇯🇵 and he's supposed to be American 🇺🇸; he's not, the actor, Charlie Hunnam, he's not American 🇺🇸 in real life, he's British 🇬🇧 (English 🏴 to be exact). The idea was when they Drift, since she's Japanese 🇯🇵 and could only speak Japanese and didn't speak English, it would translate what she was saying in Japanese into English for Beckett so that he could understand her.
But, when she talked in English, her lip movements didn't match what she was saying because she was still speaking Japanese technically, the Drift was just dubbing over her essentially. But, it didn't really work, and that idea was dropped early on in the scripting process, and they just had Mako speak English as well as Japanese. Meaning that she's bilingual, and goes in and out of both languages throughout the film.
She oddly chooses to speak Japanese to her adopted father, General Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba's character), even though he's supposed to be an American 🇺🇸 (the actor who plays him isn't), and I don't even think he speaks Japanese, or he's not fluent in Japanese. Like, he's less fluent in Japanese than she is in English. Not only that, but she only starts speaks in Japanese to him when she's upset at him, as if she can't exactly express her anger or disappointment in English, so she has to switch to her native language, Japanese.
But, maybe we could do it here in this movie since it's an animated movie and it's a comedy. There are so many interesting things that you could do if set the movie in Japan 🇯🇵 like you could have a Japanese family 🇯🇵 in the film that meets with the Loud family and interacts with them, and has sort of a parallel story with them. It could truly be a bilingual film.
But, if I really had my way, I would just set in Royal Woods. I would not want it to be just be yet another vacation movie or traveling movie. You can still have it be a big movie, and still have it be cinematic without the characters traveling outside of Royal Woods or traveling outside of Michigan or traveling outside of the US 🇺🇸. I was thinking that the sequel could focus on a different Loud sibling or a couple of Loud siblings since the first movie was mostly centered around Lincoln and also Lily to certain extent.
They have an entire scene where just the two of them interact, and I think have a song together, and then later on, they're ones who save the day. They're the ones who defeat the main bad guy, that woman ♀︎ who was like the groundskeeper or the maid of the house (I don't know what her actual job was). So, for the sequel, you could have the plot or the emotional core of the film center around two different Loud siblings. I was thinking Lisa Loud (not Lisa Simpson) and Leni Loud, since those are two of my personal favorite characters, and they're opposites.
Lisa is a genius, she's the smartest Loud sibling and is capable of building all sort of crazy inventions, kind of like Jimmy Neutron from The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron and Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory, or AJ from The Fairly OddParents, or like Johnny's older twin sisters in Johnny Test. Leni is dumb, she's the dumbest Loud sibling, and she's really into fashion. She works as clothing store at the mall, she has a strong fashion sense, and she's capable of designing and sewing all sort of different clothing, from dresses to pro-wrestling costumes to vests. She's also the most kind-hearted out of all the Loud siblings as she will go out of her way to help anybody and show them kindness and compassion, even complete strangers. These two characters contrast well with each other, and they have great on-screen chemistry with each other. Having them as the two protagonists of the second movie would be great to see.
You could have this dynamic with the two where they learn to respect each other and learn to appreciate a lot more by having to work together and depend on each other. More so, Lisa since she still looks down on Leni and dismisses her because she just sees her as an idiot who has little to offer, and has little to contribute, and she sees herself as being above her. Leni already loves and respects Lisa. She loves everyone in her family, and doesn't look down on anyone. So, she doesn't need to learn that lesson.
Lisa does because she still kind of views Leni the same way, and still kind of treats her the same way, even after that episode where Leni helped her survive in space, and helped bring her back home. I also thinking that Lisa could do the narration for the film and talk to the audience instead of Lincoln since Lisa would be more of the main character instead of him, and he's usually the only one who does that. It'd be a great way to show how different this movie will be if Lisa does it.
Speaking of home, I was thinking that since the sequel wouldn't be set in a new location and it would just be set in Royal Woods, it could still introduce a new villain. I was thinking that since Lisa and Leni would be the main focus and be the main protagonists of the film, the villain in question would be more of a close rival of Lisa. Lisa doesn't really have a rival in the actual show. There's no other character in the show like her that can match her intellect or her invention building skills. In a way that does make her seem more special, but still, it would've been cool if she had a rival of her own. Kind of like how Dexter had Mandark. And how knows, maybe this new villain could even become a recurring character in the series. A recurring villain who shows up to cause trouble for Lisa and the rest of the Loud family. Because make no mistake he wouldn't just a threat for Lisa or even Leni, he'd be a threat for the entire family.
And he would a he because what better way to contrast Lisa with this new villain character than to have him be a boy ♂︎? You could even kind of add a sexist tinge to him having look down on Lisa for being girl ♀︎ and him thinking that he's smarter and better than her because he's a boy ♂︎ and she's a girl ♀︎, and that being apart of his inflated ego and strong sense of superiority. That's kind of thing I'm thinking of with this new villain character is having him be a dark mirror of Lisa. Like, he has all the flaws that she has only several times worse, and he's basically what she could become if she went down the wrong path.
Lisa is very egotistical and has a really bad superiority complex. She likes being right, and she feels that she always is in the right, and everyone else is wrong and stupid, especially her family. There are numerous times throughout this show where she talked down to her siblings, and basically said they were stupid and that she was smarter than them and she knew better than them. She's also very cold, and has a tendency to view everyone around her as potential test subjects in her science experiments. She doesn't even view them as human beings sometimes, but as meat that she test on however she wants. Take that sort of attitude and mentality, and amplify it even more, and add vindictiveness to it, and you got yourself a pretty dangerous bad guy.
I was even thinking that the villain could have contrasting colors to Lisa. Like, Lisa's main color is green. She wears a green shirt (a green turtleneck to be exact), her room is green, and when they show her doing experiments, they use a lot of greens; green steam, green chemical solutions, green electricity and green lighting? Even like her inventions themselves have green coloring, like green screens, green text, or even green paint on some of them.
So, for the villain, I was thinking they could the contrasting or complementary color to green, which is magenta. It would be an interesting idea to have a scientist character whose main color is magenta, and see how that color manifests in what they wear and what they make. To further contrast the two, I was thinking this villain character could wear glasses with square frames instead of circular ones like Lisa does. Or the character could just not wear glasses at all, that'd be good too.
How these two characters would meet, how they would cross paths, and what would trigger their rivalry I'm not entirely sure. I still haven't quite figured out that detail myself. I was thinking since both characters are scientists that they meet at a science fair or a science convention, and Lisa does something to do this new character makes him resent her and want to seek revenge. Like, maybe she beats him in the science competition or she says something to him that offends him or she accidentally destroys his invention or destroys something he loves.
But, since he's very vindictive and is unwilling to let grudges go, and takes things too far, he goes after her entire family, and destroys everything that she loves, including her robot companion and assistant, Todd. It would add a real emotional weight to the story if Todd were to "die," since it would motivate Lisa to defeat the bad guy. Since she does actually love Todd. She cares about him, and see him as more than just an invention. He's her friend, and he's always there for her. Losing him would be a huge blow to Lisa, she would take it really hard.
And it would help us the audience hate the bad guy even more and want to see him be defeated and get his comeuppance. I was thinking of having destroy the Loud house itself, like he blows up the house 💥 or melts it or something, leaving the Loud family homeless essentially. It would be another way to make the audience hate the bad guy and want to see him get destroyed, and it would give the story more urgency as now the rest of the Loud family is being affected, and now they have to defeat him.
She convinces Lisa to hand Flip over to her and Incognito Labs for further study, and Lisa agrees. But, only a day or so later, Flip calls for help from Lisa, as the people at Incognito Labs are holding him captive, abusing him, and experimenting on him. This disturbs Lisa in such a way, that she decides to talk to Dr. Linnaeus and convince her to let Flip go. She refuses, leaving Lisa with no other choice than to bust him out. She enlists the help of both Lincoln and Clyde to break into Incognito Labs, and free Flip from his cage before Dr. Linnaeus launches into space. This screenshot is from the scene where Lisa confronts Dr. Linnaeus in her car, and tries and fails to convince her to let Flip go.)
I was also thinking that he could be tied to Incognito Labs, that evil science laboratory or institute that one character, Carol Linnaeus was apart of. They're like the STAR Labs of this world. Maybe, this new villain character could be the son of Dr. Linnaeus, especially if they were to give him square framed glasses since Dr. Linnaeus had squared flamed glasses and was also a character who was sort of like dark mirror of Lisa already. Or maybe, the new villain could just be a scientist at Incognito Labs, or is even the leader of Incognito Labs. That would explain why he has such a grudge against Lisa and is so determined to take her down because she humiliated Incognito Labs and stole their test subject, Flip.
She also launched Dr. Linnaeus into space, in the same rocket 🚀 she was going to launch Flip into space with. But, I don't really want to go that route with that character. I don't want the new villain to be tied to a preexisting character or a preexisting organization, and instead be an entirely new and fresh character. That way, people who haven't seen the show don't need to do all kinds of homework to understand who this character is and which organization he's apart of. I also don't want the universe to feel small by having the new characters be tied to characters we've already seen before in the show. I want the universe to feel large and expansive, and have characters who have no ties to preexisting characters.
But, I suppose he could still be tied to Incognito Labs. That could still work. But, not be Dr. Linnaeus's son, I'm not crazy about that idea. Especially since she didn't even really seem like the type of woman ♀︎ who would have a kid. Maybe, a clone child in an artificial womb, but not a kid the natural way. It would also potentially raise questions like, why didn't mention him before when she met Lisa? Why wasn't at the presentation when Lisa was showing off Flip as her science experiment, and why wasn't he working at the lab when Flip became one of their test subjects? It'd be better to just avoid those kinds of questions altogether by just having the villain be a completely new character with no ties to characters from the show. But, we could have him become a recurring character in the show after the movie.
When it comes to the animation, this is an important factor because the animation was one of the things people complained about with The Loud House Movie. For the animation, I would make it more like the show instead of the overly glossy, shiny, and shadowy look that the first movie had and The Casagrandes Movie has. You can get creative with the lighting and the colors to make it look more cinematic, but don't go overboard with it where everyone looks as shiny as Mr. Clean.
I would also make the animation look more fluid, since we'd have the budget to do more fluid and naturalistic animation, and avoid the stiff moment the animation in the first movie and The Casagrandes Movie have. So, make it look like the show, but on a bigger budget, and make the moment more fluid and naturalistic. As for the budget, I wouldn't go with something crazy big, but definitely more money 💵 than what the show is usually made on. I was thinking a $50 million budget 💵, that'd be good enough for a 2D animated movie, and for the kind of things I would want to do in the sequel.
Given that this sequel movie would involve two scientific geniuses who build extraordinary inventions going head-to-head with each other, you can probably guess from what I'm pitching that this sequel movie would have a lot of sci-fi elements. I know that some Loud House fans would probably be against that sort of thing. One of the complaints that a lot of Loud House fans had towards the movie and towards the newer seasons is that they have too many fantastical elements. They have too many supernatural or fantasy elements, and even sci-fi elements.
Season 5 of The Loud House had the episode, "Ghosted 👻," where Lori is being haunted by a ghost 👻 at her college, Fairway University, and she hires her sister, Lucy and her friends in the Mortician's Club to get rid of it since they're ghost hunters 👻 and exorcists as well as being morticians, mystics, and vampire fanatics 🧛. But, then once she realizes that the ghost 👻 was actually helping her out, she tries to get the ghost 👻 to come back. There's another ghost episode 👻 in Season 6 where the Mortician's Club are once again shown to be mini gothic ghostbusters 👻🚫 for lack of a better word, as they try to raise enough money 💵 to go to a coffin convention ⚰️. They even scam people by having one of the ghosts 👻 they already capture haunt people so that they can capture them again. Sort of like the plot of The Frighteners.
The multipart "Road Trip" special or miniseries, whatever it is, in Season 7 had an episode where Lincoln accidentally puts a curse on the family, and Lucy has to use her own supernatural abilities to remove it. There's been straight up time travel ⏱️ in the show on two separate occasions. Most notably, the double-length or full-length episode (whatever the proper term is), "Time Trap! ⏱️," where Lisa turns the family vehicle, Vanzilla into a time machine ⏱️ to steal a vase 🏺 from their parents' wedding reception in the past to avoid getting in trouble for breaking that same vase 🏺 in the present. The Loud House Movie itself had a bunch of supernatural and fantasy elements. It not only had the main villain, who sort of had magical powers, you had the Loud family's Scottish ancestors 🏴 coming back as ghosts 👻 to talk to them, and you had a dragon, an actual dragon that flies and breathes fire 🔥.
I'm surprised that they didn't show the Loch Ness Monster and have the Loch Ness Monster be real since the movie's set in Scotland 🏴. Maybe, they did, I don't know, I haven't seen the movie yet, just bits and pieces of it here and there. If they didn't feature Nessie in the film, I'm sure they probably talked about featuring that cryptid in film given the setting, and probably decided against featuring Nessie because it was beyond the scope of the story they were telling with this castle 🏰 that the Louds had inherited from their Scottish ancestors 🏴.
If it did get past the writing process, and was even voice acted and had animatics, I wouldn't be surprised if it was cut out of the film and is a deleted scene somewhere. Such a scene probably would've messed up the pacing, and the flow of the story they were telling since you're diverting attention away from the whole story involving the castle 🏰 and the lady ♀︎ trying to get rid of the Loud family to claim the inheritance, and also because she just hates them and wants to do away with them to live in peace and quiet, by focusing on the Loud family meeting Nessie, or seeing Nessie. I doubt that it would've been that crucial to the story to have them encounter the Loch Ness Monster, unless they had the climax take place in Loch Ness, and the final battle involve Nessie. I'm sure that idea was probably tossed around because it's way too obvious, this is Scotland 🏴 after all. Until they decided to have the climax take place at the castle 🏰, on one of the rooftops, and have a dragon instead of Nessie.
The Casagrandes has even more supernatural elements than even The Loud House does. Like, they really doubled down on the supernatural and fantasy elements in The Casagrandes. There's an episode of that show where Ronnie Anne's friend, Sid Chang and her family have to face against these Chinese warlords or Chinese bandits who traveled through time ⏱️ from the past during the dynastic era of China (Han Dynasty or Ming Dynasty or Shun Dynasty or Qing Dynasty, one of those) to the present day.
There's an episode where the character, Carl Casagrande steals this ancient Aztec-looking statue that has magical powers and is actually a god I guess in order to make it snow 🌨️ outside so that he wouldn't have to go school. The Casagrandes Movie is a straight up fantasy movie, like they aren't even trying to hide the supernatural or fantasy elements in that movie. It's right at the forefront. The movie's literally about Ronnie Anne having to face off against a demigoddess who's an angsty preteen like her, and has the power to destroy the world 🤯. That is pretty far from realism or groundness.
And a lot of fans don't like that. They don't like the more supernatural and fantastical direction that the entire Loud House franchise has been going in. Not just the main show, but the movies and the spin-off show (that's no longer airing because it was canceled). But, I have never really had a problem with it. Most because I have watched a lot of stuff from Season 1, maybe not full episodes, but a lot of clips, and this show really wasn't all that grounded or realistic in the first place.
The first episode, the very first episode of the entire show, "Left in the Dark," literally has Lisa giving Luan a cookie 🍪 that makes her glow in the dark, and then there's a little flashback scene where we see Lisa experimenting Leni and inflating her head like a balloon and causing her to grow a bunch of red bumps like chicken pox or smallpox, but not that. Her head literally looked like one of those spiky balls that you can squeeze. Then later on in Season 1, in the episode, "Snow Bored ❄️," NASA has the ability to control the weather, and make it snow 🌨️ by "cloud-seeding," and Lisa has such deep connections with NASA that she can just pick up the phone, call them, and tell them to make it snow 🌨️ in Royal Woods. In that same episode, Lisa builds all kinds of invention that can launch snowballs and launch multiple snowballs at once, and even a snow machine that makes it snow 🌨️ indoors.
So, even back then in Season 1, they were still doing crazy ridiculous shit in The Loud House. People who complain that the show's too unrealistic now or that it has too many fantasy and supernatural elements, and that they'd rather it go back to its grounded and realistic roots are kidding themselves. This show was never realistic to begin with. It was always silly and cartoony, and always bent reality, and was never a perfect representation of the real world. It always had a heightened reality. It's in its own little world that plays by its own rules.
They just took it to its natural conclusion by doubling down on all the supernatural, fantasy, and sci-fi elements. I never had an issue with this. It opens the show (and by extension, the movies) up to more different kinds of stories, they can do so much more when they aren't tied down by having to be grounded and realistic. If you want a cartoon TV show that's actually grounded and realistic, watch As Told by Ginger, or Rocket Power, or The Weekenders, or any of the shows in the Rugrats franchise.
So, having a Loud House movie sequel with sci-fi elements or even be a straight up science fiction movie, wouldn't be an issue for me. And if it's issue for you or any of the fans of the show reading this, then I don't know what to say. Come with your own idea for a Loud House movie sequel that's to your tastes and specifications. You want a Loud House movie that's grounded and realistic? Then brainstorm one like I brainstormed my own ideas for a Loud House movie. The first idea I talked about here, the reality TV one was fairly grounded, much more grounded than the second one I came up with. But, as I said, that reality TV idea was more for a first movie, not for a second movie.
As for the third movie, I really don't have that many ideas on what you could do for a third movie if you even got that far. The only thing I have an idea for is what the main focus should be, and who should be the main protagonists. Since the second movie would have Lisa and Leni as the main leads, the third movie could have Lucy and Lola. Why those two? Because they're another great duo, they contrast and complement each other quite well because like Lisa and Leni, they are opposites.
Lucy is a goth girl ♀︎ who wears all black, has black hair with bangs that cover her eyes, her skin is so pale and grey that she looks like a cadaver or like vampire. Speaking of vampires 🧛♀️, she's really into vampires as well as anything and everything to do with the supernatural and the macabre. She has ability to communicate with ghosts 👻 and spirits, she has the power to see into the future and see the past through a magic ball 🔮, or accurately read people's fortunes by reading them on fortune telling cards. She can cast spells using a spell book that she and the other Mortician's Club members use.
She's fascinated by death 💀 and wants to be a mortician, and kind of already is a mortician since she does a bunch of funerals for people in town, including funerals for dead goldfish. And in addition to all that she's also a poet, and writes all kinds of poetry, except haiku since her friend in the Mortician's Club, Haiku specializes in that. Some of her poems are dark, some of them are light-hearted, some of its lovey-dovey 🥰 since she writes a lot of poems for Lori to give to her boyfriend, Bobby. But, a lot of the time, her poetry is her expressing herself and writing her inner thoughts. She has a lot of different interests and skills, and it's all tied to her gothic nature and gothic attitude. She's quite monotone and quiet, she's introverted a bit, and she has a dry sense of humor to her. A really great character indeed 👍, I can see why she's the most popular character in the show.
Lola is the complete opposite of that. She wears pink, she has blonde hair, she likes makeup, and she likes dresses. She has as typically girly as you can get. She likes princess stuff and beauty pageants. She wants to be a pageant queen and have to be her career. She likes having tea parties 🫖, especially her stuffed animals. She values cleanliness, sophistication, and etiquette. She really likes being a "lady ♀︎" whenever possible. She has a bit of an ego to her, and is a bit self-absorbed, and she can be temperamental sometimes 😡.
She is definitely a girl ♀︎ who you don't want to upset and get on her bad side, because she will mess you up. She can be quite scary 😨. She often gets to conflict with her other siblings because they're too loud (pun intended), too rowdy, too messy, or too gross, especially in the case of her twin sister, Lana and also Lynn Jr., who's the one who farts a lot and always stinky socks and stinky clothes from all the sweat she accumulates from her sports activities.
I thought that Lucy and Lola had a really great dynamic with each other in the episode, "She's All Bat 🦇," where Lola joins the Mortician's Club because the school's rules require all clubs to have at least six or seven members (I don't remember what the number was). And Lucy gets all jealous of Lola and feels insecure because she's hogging the spotlight from her and overshadowing her with her charm and talent. I really like the moment at the end of that episode where Lucy apologizes to Lola for trying to scare her away and make her quit the club, and two make up after Lucy explains to Lola why she felt the way she did about her. That made me want to see more episodes focused on those two, and really show and develop more of their dynamic as they grew to respect one another.
But, if we can't have episode centered around Lola and Lucy, why not a movie? Why make it the third film in the trilogy if this thing manages to become a trilogy. What the story would actually be, I'm not sure. I haven't really thought about it beyond that. Maybe, it could be a haunted house movie about Lucy and Lola being trapped in a haunted house somewhere, and trying to escape while dealing with all the ghosts 👻 and ghouls that lurk within that house. But, that's kind of a bit too much like the first movie which had them go inside a castle 🏰 and had them meet ghosts 👻.
Maybe, one of Lola's beauty pageants gets haunted by a ghost 👻 or some evil spirit, and Lola asks Lucy (and maybe the Mortician's Club) to come help. Or maybe, they have to face against vampires, or face against an evil god or goddess. Or make it could be like an Epic Mickey type of thing where the plot is about Lucy writing poems with magical ink that makes what she writes come true or come to life, and her having to deal with the consequences of that. That'd be interesting. I don't know.
A lot of Lucy's plots involve the supernatural and the macabre, so I'm thinking that movie involving her would have supernatural stuff and would be more a spooky horror movie. Not necessarily scary, but a bit spooky. You could potentially have the third film be that Japan movie 🇯🇵 I was talking about earlier, and have most of the plot focus on Lucy and Lola hunting for yōkai and actually meeting some. But then, it'd be a vacation movie, and I'm trying to avoid that these ideas.
So, I'm not as solid on the ideas for the third film as I am for the second film. There's a lot of stuff that's yet to be determined. I just have the basic idea of it centering around Lucy and Lola somehow. If the movie side of the franchise continued on with a fourth movie, maybe they continue on with this idea of focusing on a different sibling duo for each film. Maybe, the duo for the fourth movie could be Lana and Luna or Lynn Jr. and Lori or Lincoln and Luan, even though the first movie already focused on Lincoln and I feel like the sequels would be an opportunity to focus more on the sisters. But, while the sequels would center around these duos, they would still be ensemble pieces. The other Loud siblings would still get plenty of screen time and get their moment to shine. But, the main plot would be centered around the main duo. The main duo would be what the movie focused on for the majority of the run time.
As for what these movies would be called, as I said before in other posts, I would just go with The Second Loud House Movie for the second one, and The Third Loud House Movie for the third one. The Fourth Loud House Movie for the fourth one (if there ever is a fourth one), and so on and so on. It just cuts to the chase, without having to add a ridiculous subtitle at the end of it, and it sounds a lot better than The Loud House Movie 2 or The Loud House Movie 3.
Besides, a lot of people are just going to call it the second Loud House movie anyway, so why not just have that be the title? I advocate the same thing for the sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which is probably going to happen no doubt. The movie made over a billion dollars 💵, of course they're going to make a sequel to it. I think they should call it, The Second Super Mario Bros. Movie. But, if they don't go that route for the title for the second one, then maybe The Loud House Movie can go that route with its sequel. I even have a few ideas for the posters.
One of the posters for the second one, you could have the tagline, "Make room for seconds." And one of the posters for the third one, you could have a tagline that says, "Third time's the charm." If there's a fourth movie after that, maybe one of the posters for that movie could be, "Quadruple the fun." I know it's cheesy, but you know what? The Loud House has a lot of cheesy jokes, so it would fit.
I was even thinking that for the main poster for The Second Loud House Movie, it could sort of be a parody or a homage to the poster for Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, the one with the Gynoid in pieces and Batou's dog, Gabriel. For the poster for The Second Loud House Movie, you can it be Todd in pieces (subtly foreshadowing his death), and have the family pets, Cliff, Charles, Geo, and Walt, or maybe Lana's pet frog 🐸, Hops.
You can even have some of the other Loud siblings' other belong beside the broken up Todd and the pets, like Lucy's Edwin bust, Luna's guitar 🎸, Luan's puppet, Mr. Coconuts, Lola's teddy bear 🧸, Mr. Sprinkles, the head of Leni's mannequin, Tanya, one of Lynn Jr.'s sports equipment like maybe one of her hockey sticks 🏒 or maybe a baseball and baseball bat ⚾️, Lincoln's Ace Savvy costume or Ace Savvy mask, and Lily's Blarney stuffed animal. Something like that. I think that would be a striking poster that would grab people's attention, and it would be a fun little anime reference that only the most die hard anime fans would be able to understand.You could throw a little reference in the second movie itself that acknowledges the mixed reception of the movie, and how this one will hopefully be better.
Speaking of box office numbers, I would want these Loud House movie sequels to be in theaters, and not go straight to streaming. I'm tired of these animated movies based on TV shows going straight to streaming, or being TV movies back in the day. I want to actually see them in theaters. The only ones that do get wide theatrical releases are the SpongeBob 🧽 movies. But, The Loud House is Nickelodeon's second biggest and second most popular shows right now, so any movie that comes out of it deserves the theatrical treatment in my opinion.
I would also want it to get a physical media release with special features and everything. Like, actually good special features, not just a trailer or two, or an interview or a music video or a single animated short. You can still have an animated short on the special features, you could even have a full episode of the show on there if you want. But, it has to be more than that. I'm talking audio commentaries, documentaries and featurettes that give a detailed look at the making of the film, and even storyboard galleries and animatics. Give us some real meat, don't just give us bones and scraps for special features.
The only reason why none of this has happened, and why none of it will probably happen is Netflix. They currently own the distribution rights to The Loud House Movie and The Casagrandes Movie and all new animated film projects that Nickelodeon produces. I even think these films are produced by Nickelodeon under Netflix's supervision and watchful eye, but I'm not quite sure. The only one that isn't getting released straight to Netflix as far as I know is the fourth SpongeBob 🧽 movie. Not the Sandy Cheeks spin-off movie 🐿️, that one's going straight to Netflix. I'm talking about the actual fourth SpongeBob 🧽 movie, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants 🧽. That one seems like it might actually get a theatrical release unlike Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie 🐿️.
It all stems back to this deal that Nickelodeon made with Netflix to release some of their animated movie projects like Hey, Arnold!: The Jungle Movie 🌴, Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling, and Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus. Because remember, Paramount didn't have their own streaming service yet to release these movies on. I mean, they did sort of, but it wasn't quite good enough yet, and they wanted to focus more on their live action content than any of the animated content they had under Nickelodeon. Or at least, that's my speculation.
But now, they have a streaming service that's good enough to handle ALL of the content that they currently own, even the Nickelodeon stuff. So, they don't need to distribute these Nickelodeon movies through Netflix anymore. And yet, they still are from reason. Why would they still allow Netflix to release their movies when they have a perfectly good streaming service to call their own in the form of Paramount+? Why wouldn't renegotiate the deal or end the agreement or whatever? It seems like Netflix is benefiting more from this arrangement than Paramount is.
If I were a Paramount or Nickelodeon executive, I would go up to Netflix, and renegotiate the deal with them, or just tear up the contract 📃, end the agreement, and reclaim the distribution rights to all the movies that are being made out of these shows. Tell them, "From now on, all of the animated film projects made under the Nickelodeon banner will be released on our streaming service, Paramount+. And while we're at it, we'd also like the distribution rights to the movies you already released on your streaming service, to play on ours. That way they can all be home where they belong. You gotta a problem with that? Tough luck. These are our properties not yours." That's what I would do.
This whole arrangement with Netflix makes no sense, and I don't understand why Paramount and Nickelodeon are continuing it. It's holding these movies back from getting theatrical releases and also physical home media releases, since Netflix doesn't care about movie theaters and physical media. They're against those things, and are trying everything they can to get rid of them once and for all by having everyone glued to their TVs and computers and just condition them to watch everything on streaming instead of going out to a theater to watch a movie or buying a Blu-Ray 💿.
Netflix wants to create a world where streaming is the only way you can watch a movie or a TV show. Where you personally don't own their copy of these things, but where you can watch it on their platform, and they have the power to decide whether a movie or a TV show stays on their platform. Netflix is notorious for canceling shows and removing stuff from their platform. If the movie or show was a Netflix exclusive and didn't have a physical media release, then it's gone forever if they remove it from the service. Patrick Willems didn't mention that specifically, but he did talk about how Netflix is trying to kill the theater going experience.
The case he chose to highlight was of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery 🧅🗡️. He talked about how Rian Johnson had to fight just to get Glass Onion 🧅 a theatrical release, even just for a limited time. He also talked about how Netflix wanted to pull the movie from theaters, despite the fact that it was making a killing at the box office 🤑. He didn't mention that Rian Johnson tried and failed to get a physical media release for Glass Onion 🧅 because he's just as much of advocate for physical media as he is for the theater going experience.
Yet, despite all these troubles and disagreements, Rian Johnson is still sticking with Netflix to make the third Knives Out 🗡️ movie, whatever it will be called and whenever it will come out. I still don't quite understand why he didn't just stick with Lionsgate, and why he went to Netflix to make Glass Onion 🧅. He would've gotten a full wide theatrical release and a physical home release had he just made Glass Onion 🧅 and all subsequent Knives Out 🗡️ sequels with Lionsgate instead of moving over to Netflix.
But anyway, that's what this screenshot is, it's showing a quote from Rian Johnson talking about he had to fight to get Glass Onion 🧅 a theatrical release. Patrick Willems was showing it and talking about it to make a point about how negatively Netflix is impacting the film industry. This whole thing reflects badly on Netflix, and why if you're a filmmaker and you value the theatrical experience or physical media, you shouldn't work for them.)
Rian Johnson had to push real hard to get Glass Onion 🧅 a theatrical release, albeit a limited one. He wanted it to be in theaters, but Netflix didn't want to keep it in theaters for very long, despite how much money 💵 it was making. Rian Johnson also tried to get a physical release for Glass Onion 🧅, but so far has been unsuccessful in securing one, in getting Netflix to agree to allow the movie to be released on Blu-Ray and 4K Ultra HD 💿. So yeah, Paramount, Nickelodeon, end that agreement or deal with Netflix, and get The Loud House and all your other properties back from their dirty little clutches.
I chose this screenshot, and I chose to put it here at the end because it was another shot of the Loud family altogether, including the parents, Lynn Sr. and Rita. It's not perfect because Lynn Sr. and Lisa's eyes are closed, and Lori's obviously not here because she's in college. She does appear sometimes in the show, like when she visits the house, especially during specials. But, this is one of the episodes where Lori isn't home. Leni took her place as the oldest Loud sibling in the house. Now, the household is down to 10 kids instead of the full 11 because of them left the nest. But, this was the only screenshot I could get where they're all on screen at the same time, and there's no text on the screen. Because I took this from a 5 minute condensed version of the episode on YouTube, and this is before the part where it was says "'Doom Service' in 5 Minutes.")
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Here's the trailer to The Casagrandes Movie:
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BTW, I can go off on a tangent about The Really Loud House? Thank you. I really don't see the point in making a live action version of The Loud House. Maybe, years down the line after the animated version has wrapped up, and the franchise is dormant, but not when the animated version is still running and when the franchise overall is still going strong. No body was asking for a live action version of The Loud House, as far as I know.
It only seems like Nickelodeon made it because that live action Christmas movie 🎄 was popular, even though it got bad reviews from critics and the fans hated it. And also so that they could milk the franchise even further 🥛. One spin-off show wasn't enough, they had to do another one, and they had to make it live action to capture that preteen and teen demographic that only likes live action shows and doesn't care for animation. BTW, that Christmas movie 🎄 wasn't the only live action movie they've done. They did another one last year, in 2023, centered around Halloween 🎃, while The Really Loud House was still airing or streaming since The Really Loud House is a Paramount+ exclusive, I think. It might be airing on the actual Nickelodeon channel itself on regular TV, but I'm not quite sure. But, the Halloween movie 🎃 is a Paramount+ exclusive, I know that for sure.
From what I've seen of The Really Loud House, they mostly stick to the same tone and style of humor. They really don't do anything that different from the animated version to really set this new show apart from it. It seems like they want it to be exactly like the animated version, or as close to it, but with live action actors in actual physical sets that had to be built. It's the point where The Really Loud House comes off as a live action cartoon. Like, even though it is live action, it's cartoony as hell and isn't realistic at all. But, if it is going to that cartoony and wacky, then what's even the point of making it live action in the first place? Why would I watch a live action cartoon version of The Loud House when I could just watch an actual cartoon version of The Loud House that's airing at the same time, and is a whole lot better?
If they really had to make a live action version of The Loud House, they should have taken more of a risk, and tried something truly different to set it apart from the original animated version. Like, stay true to the spirit of the show, but do your own thing with it, instead of trying to replicate it exactly in live action. Like, The Addams Family movies of the 1990s by Barry Sonnenfeld, The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values.
Yes, they were different adaptations of the same source material as the 1960s show, and they were heavily inspired by the 60s TV show, and probably wouldn't have been made if the studio didn't want to cash on people's nostalgia for the 60s TV show at the time. Like, I'm sure Paramount went to themselves, "Hey, let's make a movie version of that old 60s TV show with the kooky family that everyone liked." They weren't thinking, "Hey, let's adapt those same comic strips that the 60s show was based off of, but not base it at all on the 60s show. This is a new adaptation of the same source material, we're doing our own thing."
But, regardless how inspired or based off the 60s TV show those movies were, they still did try to do their own thing. They didn't just try to replicate the humor of that show, and try to be exactly like it. Barry Sonnenfeld and everyone else involved in those movies' productions recognized that this was a different medium, these weren't sitcoms, they were movies. Decades had past, people's tastes and attitudes had changed. Doing exactly what the 60s show did was not going to work. So, they did their own thing while staying true to the spirit of the 60s TV show and the original comics.
Even with another live action movie that was based on a cartoon, The Flintstones (1994), while it stick pretty close to the style of humor of the original 60s animated show, and did try to recreate that show's world in live action almost to a T, they still did things to differentiate it a little bit from the original 60s animated show. Mainly the plot, which was elaborate and insane than what you normally saw on the show. The movie had a lot more corporate intrigue and white collar crime than the original animated show did.
Okay, The Flintstones (1994) was kind of a bad example, and doesn't really prove the point that I'm trying to make. But, the 90s Addams Family movies certainly do. And the point is that they should've taken a little more liberties, they should've done more of their own thing with The Really Loud House, instead of trying so hard to recreate the animated show in live action. They even repeated some of the same plots from the animated show. They stretched them out so that they would occupy the full 30 minutes instead of 11 minute segments. The plot structure is very like you would see in a lot of sitcoms where there's an A plot, a B plot, and sometimes even a C plot going on at the same time in the same episode. Sometimes they'll connect, while other times they won't.
Speaking of sitcoms, at least The Really Loud House is a single camera sitcom and not a multi camera sitcom. I think it would've been a lot worse if it were a multi camera sitcom and if it had laugh track. I think multi camera sitcoms are kind of falling out of style, and more people gravitate towards single camera sitcoms these days. It feels more real and immersive, not like you're watching a play.
It's becoming more of the norm now to have a sitcom be single camera and have no laugh track, and you hardly see multi camera sitcoms anymore, except for on Nickelodeon and Disney Channel. Multi camera sitcoms (with laugh tracks) for adults are much more rare these days. But, for whatever reason, they chose not to make The Really Loud House a multi camera sitcom with a laugh track, and instead made it a single camera sitcom with no laugh track, and I think was probably the wisest decision they could've made with a show that lacks so many wise decisions.
Some of the casting of the show is pretty spot-on, like the actors they got to play Lincoln, Clyde, Luna, Lucy, Lisa, and Lola and Lana are pretty good and do fit with their roles quite well from what I've seen, even if Lincoln is kind of more annoying in this show than he is in the animated version. I also liked that they had the voice actor who voices Lynn Sr. in the animated version reprise his role in the live action version. So, it's more seamless and you feel as if he's the same character because he's essentially played by the same guy.
BTW, the guy who voices Lynn Sr. and plays him in both The Loud House and The Really Loud House (and also occasionally in The Casagrandes when the character appears) is in the first Michael Bay Transformers from 2007. He's one of the Sector 7 guys, he's the one that tells Simmons that he already called backup because he had his cellphone on speaker. Also, the guy who plays Flip in The Really Loud House also played Bertram in Jessie. That actor was also in Die Hard With a Vengeance BTW, isn't that crazy?
He was the bomb expert who knew how those liquid bombs that Simon Gruber was using worked. He went from being in an R rated action movie in the 1990s to being in a Disney Channel sitcom for kids in the 2010s. And while we're at it, the guy who plays the dad in Good Luck Charlie, Bob Duncan (that's the character's name, not the actor's name) was in True Romance, that Tony Scott directed action crime romance thriller movie that was written by Quentin Tarantino. He played a goon in that movie that gets killed in the final shootout in that movie's climax.
But, besides those actors that I mentioned earlier (before I talked about all the actors that were in PG-13 and R rated action movies before starring in sitcoms for children), most of the other cast of The Really Loud House aren't that great, and don't fit their roles all that well. That includes the Bertram guy who plays Flip. He really doesn't fit that character that much at all in my opinion. Flip I mean, not Bertram, he fit Bertram very well. Bertram was easily the best character in Jessie.
Ultimately, The Really Loud House is a really pointless show that doesn't really need to exist, and it never should have been made. It was a complete waste of time and money ⏱️💵 that could've been spent elsewhere. Personally, I would've preferred it if they had made a CGI 3D animated version of The Loud House sort of akin to the Rugrats reboot series or the animated series adaptation of Big Nate instead of doing a live action version. Yeah, it would've still been pointless, but at least it would've still been animated, just in a different style. At least, with a CGI animated version, the cartoony humor would've still kind of worked and not felt as jarring as it does in The Really Loud House.
Alright, tangent over, let's get back to main topic at hand. The only times that Leni has ever actually worn her sunglasses 🕶️is when it's played up for a joke. Like, in one episode, her sunglasses 🕶️ went over her eyes, and she was all confused, and asking why it was so dark, and then asked if there was an eclipse. You know, your typical "Leni is dumb" kind of joke, but with her sunglasses. Other times, she briefly puts on her sunglasses, and doesn't really make that big of a deal of it.
But, for the movie, the sequel movie, The Second Loud House Movie as I'm proposing it, maybe we could make Leni's sunglasses 🕶️ more significant. I was thinking that maybe we could have Leni don her sunglasses 🕶️ when she's in serious mode, like when she's ready for battle, and ready to take down whoever messed with her siblings, in this case, Lisa since she'd be like her companion or her bodyguard in this movie. Sort of like how Bumblebee 🐝 always puts on his visor and mask whenever he goes into battle in the live action Transformers movies (both the Michael Bay ones and the non-Michael Bay ones that were made afterwards). I think that would be a cool idea that would make Leni seem like more of a badass, and someone who you wouldn't mess with. Like, if she puts on those sunglasses 🕶️, then you know you're in deep trouble.
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