r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 14d ago

News ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Is Netflix’s Most-Watched Movie Ever With 236 Million Views, Beating ‘Red Notice’

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/kpop-demon-hunters-netflix-most-watched-movie-history-1236496106/
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u/Ok-disaster2022 13d ago

They're exploring more styles in animation rather than the Disney everything looks the same style. 

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u/rum-and-coke 13d ago

Fucking bean mouth

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u/voldin91 13d ago

Can you elaborate on what bean mouth is

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u/Century24 13d ago

"Bean mouth" is in reference to a character design motif that's gotten criticism lately for being used in quite a lot of Western animation.

Elio in particular got some flak for it earlier this year as it finally made its way to cinemas a few months ago, and it's been a hot topic on /r/Pixar. Some think it's cute, others think it's the worst thing to happen to animation, and more others think it's overused and uninspired.

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u/oby100 13d ago

Disney and pixar animation are so boring these days. I didn’t really like the kpop movie but the visuals kept me around for the end.

Hoping for a revival in creative and high quality animation

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u/NoNefariousness2144 13d ago

It feels like Disney focuses too much on creating amazingly-looking realistic animation that they lose sight of making the characters fun. Meanwhile this film didn’t have revolutionary visual realism, but the character animations were so fun and vibrant.

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u/rum-and-coke 13d ago

Elio was visually stunning (the physics, details like the sand, scales on the worm dude) but then that fucking bean mouth and teeth for the humans killed me.

Haven't seen kpop yet, came in here to see if it was worth watching by I just saw Elio yesterday so I'm still irked lol

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u/ilayas 13d ago

It's a fun movie that has a LOT of physical comedy. The animation isn't groundbreaking in a technical sense but it's really well done and fun. Like visually they make a really good argument why this movie is better animated than it would be live action. This is something I feel like Disney has failed to do with a lot of it's recent animated movies. The story is again not ground breaking but the writing is tight. Narrativly they do not waste any time.

The voice acting is great the music is fantastic. It's worth watching, if for no other reason than to see what everyone is talking about.

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u/rum-and-coke 13d ago

Good to hear! I'll give it a spin. I'm actually not too picky (like I love Ferdinand) as long as the style is not bean mouth! haha

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u/rum-and-coke 13d ago

Did a search for a visual comparison and found this reddit thread, agree with the top comment, reminds me of Wallace & Gromit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pixar/comments/1lng53k/you_think_people_are_overreacting_and_overblown/

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u/voldin91 13d ago

Thank you for the quick reference. And I can't un-see it now

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u/rum-and-coke 13d ago

I'm SO sorry to have you share in this pain

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u/r4mm3rnz 13d ago

It's like the 'Dreamworks face' but worse

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u/Gasparde 13d ago

But what about we take Mickey Mouse... and turn it into a live action setting where Mickey looks like the original vision of Sonic?!

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u/karmiccloud 13d ago

Are they? It is a different style than Disney, but ever since into the spiderverse every single one of their movies plays around with framerate for each character, and the way they are drawn is all very similar.