BlakeIsHere: The Movie

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BlakeIsHere: The Movie (also known as BlakeIsHere: The Adventure Begins internationally except in the Americas and Japan) is a British-American-Japanese live-action/2D/3D animation hybrid comedy crossover film based on the BlakeIsHere-verse and various pieces of media, based on what BlakeIsHere likes. This movie was distributed by BBC Films in the UK & Universal Pictures elsewhere, to mixed-to-negative reception. It was the first movie he fully directed and the first to receive a wide release.

Plot
BlakeIsHere and his friends, to promote anti-fascism and anti-communism, decide to go on a trip across North Wales, visiting Wrexham, Rhyl, Holyhead, Bangor, Porthmadog, Barmouth, Llandudno, and many more. However, an unknown neo-Nazi villain plans to destroy the vacation with the help of Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Donald Trump, Kayne West, and many more, and someone must stop him before he succeeds.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) The animation may be great, but it can be stiff sometimes.
 * 2) The main plot is pretty confusing, the same thing goes with the subplots but they aren't as confusing as the main plot.
 * 3) The movie is way too long, it goes on for 510 minutes, or in other words, eight and a half hours. This leads to some of the problems mentioned below.
 * 4) Just about nobody in this movie is likeable, having been subject to toxic doses of Flanderization and character derailment.
 * 5) *Blake himself is a very selfish egocentric jerk. He's also a sociopath and gambling addict.
 * 6) *As per usual for most crossover depictions of them, Azure Sauber embodies every negative stereotype of non-binary people in the book.
 * 7) *Mario, although tolerable, is now an Italian stereotype that is obsessed with pasta, spaghetti, and pizza.
 * 8) *The National Tyres & Autocare characters have also been flanderized.
 * 9) **Tyreman is now a Satanist cult owner and does satanic stuff.
 * 10) **Exhaustman is now an idiot.
 * 11) **Brakeman is now addicted to her smartphone and only cares to use it.
 * 12) **Batteryman, like Brakeman, is now addicted to their smartphone and only cares about the said phone. they're also now transmasculine, even though they were originally a cis man. (please note that the National Tyres & Autocare characters do not have official genders, as neither National, Axle Group, Halfords, nor the designers ever revealed their genders, so all of the characters have fan genders)
 * 13) **Oilman is now an arsonist and continually commits arson in the movie.
 * 14) **Shock Absorberman is now a filler character.
 * 15) **Racing Tyreman barely gets any screen time, probably because they were the least used of the characters.
 * 16) *The World Cup mascots that do appear in this movie have also gone through Flanderization:
 * 17) **Ato, much like Blake is an egocentric jerk.
 * 18) **Ciao, although still likeable, much like Mario, is now an Italian stereotype that is obsessed with pasta, spaghetti, and pizza.
 * 19) **Naranjito has been Flanderized as well and mainly uses the Fox News Liberal and Straw Misogynist tropes. He's also a Mexican stereotype, despite being Spanish.
 * 20) **Zabivaka, while likeable, is the movie's main punching bag, all because he's Russian. Even the main villain feels bad for him.
 * 21) **La'eeb is now very anti-Western for reasons unknown.
 * 22) *Willibald Leo von Hahn, the main villain, is just a clichéd generic doomsday villain. Although he improves and becomes much more menacing in the second half.
 * 23) Throughout the film, we see a truckload of filler scenes that aren't related to the story or sub-plots, which include:
 * 24) *The scene where Blake and his friends are exploring the Pets at Home store serves as nothing but product placement for the store and copies the Smyths scene from United Kingdom: The Movie.
 * 25) **Exhaustman acts like Spud the Scarecrow in that scene, and much like Spud the Scarecrow, he uses his leafblower to mess around with and causes accidental destruction to the shop.
 * 26) **There is also a scene where Mercat gets locked in one of the fish tanks in the store, which leads to Blake using a hammer to smash the glass to let her out. Then one of the secretary guards finds out and Blake blames it on Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
 * 27) There are too many subplots and characters to the point where the movie feels unfocused.
 * 28) There are a large handful of mean-spirited moments in the movie such as:
 * 29) *Luigi screams Mario's name trying to look for him, and then Ciao gets annoyed and throws him down a hill.
 * 30) As mentioned in some places, there are some very disgusting, violent, and inappropriate scenes. Examples include:
 * 31) Some scenes make little to no sense, even with the proper context. It's a comedy movie, yes, but that doesn't help explain any of these scenes, most of which are never brought up again.
 * 32) There are a few plot holes and plot points not given a detailed explanation, some from the previous pointer. Thankfully the video game and later media and adaptations fix this issue for the most part.
 * 33) *How did Bob the Tomato come back to life if it was said earlier in the movie that he committed suicide? The same thing applies to all of the historical figures shown in the film.
 * 34) The movie not only portrays political ideologies in a negative light but other media, people, and even entire countries and ethnic groups.
 * 35) Throughout the film there are major shameless placements for stuff like Pizza Hut, KFC, Netflix, Pets at Home, Boots (the pharmacy chain), McDonald's, Youtube, Nintendo, Sony, Apple, Amazon, Suzuki, Ford, Kia, Cheetos, Doritos, Pringles, Walkers, Microsoft, Nike, Adidas, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Fanta, 7UP, Burger King, Starbucks, Twitter, Facebook, Nokia, and more.
 * 36) *There are even dedicated scenes based on advertising for these companies and products, such as the Pets at Home scene.
 * 37) The first part of the ending is just a generic dance party ending. Even Blake lampshades this!
 * 38) The plot twist is both pointless and underwhelming.
 * 39) The movie is littered with pop-culture references, some of which are of obscure media or make no sense.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) As mentioned before, despite being stiff sometimes, the animation (both 2D and 3D) is quite impressive for 2020s standards.
 * 2) The movie does teach a good moral that authoritarianism is bad.
 * 3) Some of the LGBT elements are well-written.
 * 4) Despite a few plot holes and plot points without a detailed explanation, the worldbuilding is pretty solid, with backstories and other information about the characters from other media being revealed in this movie. The sequels keep this up too.
 * 5) A few characters are likeable.
 * 6) * Zabivaka is still likeable and you can feel bad for him for being the punching bag of the movie.
 * 7) At least the movie is correctly rated R (or 18 in the UK) this time, unlike other movies such as KennyRosenberg: The Movie.

Reception
Despite being a success, the movie received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics and moviegoers, mainly criticizing the unlikeable and inconsistently portrayed characters, confusing plotline, having too many sub-plots and being unable to balance them, inappropriate & mean-spirited scenes, plot holes, unanswered plot points, and way too much filler while praising the animation & worldbuilding.

Since the movie's release, Blake himself has regretted making this movie and stated that he "rushed the film out for release" and the movie "should've had more time in the oven" and considers the movie mostly non-canon to the franchise. He has also buried its existence and has removed it from the official timeline. Azure Sauber's voice actress, H.S. Robbins, has also stated they regretted being in the film claiming that this film's depiction of Azure is "not the Azure I know", and removed it from their filmography.

The movie was banned in Russia because it criticised President Vladimir Putin and the Russian government, though a Russian dub was made and Russian fans managed to get their hands on the dub through piracy. The movie was also banned in Belarus, Syria, and China for criticizing the countries' governments and leaders. The movie was also almost censored in Germany for featuring Nazi symbols uncensored, though they later came to an agreement that the film would show them uncensored.

Despite this, the movie has gained a "so bad, it's good" cult following and has become quite a popular source of memes.

Box Office
The movie ended up being a success at the box office, making 234 million pounds and over 4 times its budget. It was Blake's first box office hit, as his first movie, The Only Thing Wrong With Me (an intentionally lousy movie that was meant to fail), which he co-directed, was a box office bomb.

Trivia
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 * The movie's intro song is a cover of "The Internationale", an international anthem that has been adopted as the anthem of various anarchist, communist, socialist, democratic socialist, and social democratic movements since the late 19th century. The lyrics in this version are a direct English translation from the original French version but with some lyrical modifications. An instrumental alignment is also used as Blake's theme music.
 * Some of the references and jokes were thrown into the movie by the director. Examples include:
 * In one scene, the film references Paint Drying, a 2016 protest film by Charlie Shackleton created in protest against film censorship in the United Kingdom and the sometimes-prohibitive cost to independent filmmakers that the classification requirement of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) imposes.
 * In the scene, they try to make it more interesting by splattering different colours of paint on top of the original white paint.
 * There is a joke in which Blake, Oilman, Mercat, and Ciao are discussing weird movies they've seen, then Blake brings up Alvin and the Chipmunks: War Against the Chip-Offs, resulting in a flashback to when Brakeman (who walked into the room short before) watched a parody of said movie.
 * Several actors either were asked to play the roles of different characters but rejected it, or were going to voice the characters originally but were later recast in either the English, Japanese, or Welsh dubs.
 * Blake jokingly said he wanted Chris Pratt and Charlie Day to voice Mario and Luigi. In the final movie, they were voiced by Charles Martinet.
 * Korean professional footballer Kim Min-Jae was asked to play Ato in both the English and Korean dubs but rejected the offer, this was due to having no experience in voice acting and no knowledge of English. Ben Small was also offered the role but also declined it for unknown reasons.
 * Meanwhile, the Japanese dub had Ato voiced by Romi Park, a voice actress of Korean descent (the 2002 World Cup, for which Ato is one of the three mascots, took place in both Japan and South Korea).
 * Charles Martinet was originally going to voice Ciao, however, he was later replaced as Charles Martinet thought Ciao's voice would be too similar to Mario and/or Luigi's in the final movie. Recordings of his lines were finished though and can be heard in some deleted scenes and early trailers. Keith Wickham was also asked to voice him but refused.
 * Not long after this film was released, a crossover DLC for Miraheze: The Game was released, featuring characters from the movie and a new campaign that serves as an interquel to the movie.

Dialogue from the Movie
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English

 * 1) Lucas Blake Ashton as Himself
 * 2) Cristen Rhiannon Aylmer as Lily May
 * 3) Quentin Darwin as Maddie Cástano
 * 4) H.S. Robbins (Hadley Sloan Robbins) as Azure Sauber (AZU-948)
 * 5) Andrew Chandler as Ato
 * 6) Charles Martinet as Mario, Luigi, & Ciao (original voice)
 * 7) Jeremy Clarkson as Himself
 * 8) Richard Hammond as Himself
 * 9) James May as Himself
 * 10) Nigel Farage as himself
 * 11) Michael Dobson as Zabivaka

Japanese

 * 1) Natsuki Hanae as Lucas Blake Ashton
 * 2) Akemi Kanda as Lily May
 * 3) Marina Inoue as Maddie Cástano
 * 4) Mitsuki Saiga as Azure Sauber (AZU-498)
 * 5) Nobuyuki Hiyama as Tyreman and Zabivaka
 * 6) Hiroki Takahashi as Exhaustman
 * 7) Kaori Shimizu as Brakeman
 * 8) Ryōko Shiraishi as Batteryman
 * 9) Hiroyuki Yoshino as Oilman
 * 10) Yōji Ueda as Shock Absorberman
 * 11) Romi Park as Ato

Welsh
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Soundtrack
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 * 1) The Internationale - Eugène Pottier & Pierre De Geyter (BlakeIsHere cover)
 * 2) Family Guy Theme Song Remix
 * 3) Horrid Henry Theme Song Remix
 * 4) Un'estate italiana/To Be Number One - Giorgio Moroder & Tom Whitlock (1990 FIFA World Cup official theme song, orchestrated remix)