Monthly Archive: April 2021

Willy’s Wonderland (2021)

Willy’s Wonderland (2021)
Directed by Kevin Lewis

Sometimes a movie shows up with a premise so amazing that, without knowing anything else about it, you know that you need to see it immediately. All I needed to see was one teaser image of Nicolas Cage squaring off against an evil animatronic to know that I wanted to see Willy’s Wonderland more than anything. The idea of scenery-chewing legend Nicolas Cage murdering evil Five Nights At Freddy’s knockoffs is so brilliant and perfect that I have no idea how it even took them this long to come up with it, especially because Five Nights was huge a couple years ago, not so much anymore. Then I watched it. Full disclosure, I had planned to publish a review for a different movie today, but after seeing Willy’s Wonderland I was so furious at how terrible it is that I bumped the other movie to next week so I could get this all out while it’s still fresh in my head. I played my hand a bit early here, so if you want to know why Willy’s Wonderland is awful, please keep reading.

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