The Loud House Movie

The Loud House Movie is an 2021 American animated fantasy adventure comedy film that released on Netflix. It was directed by Dave Needham in his feature directorial debut and is based off of Chris Savino's Nickelodeon television series, The Loud House and the film follows the Loud Family traveling to Scotland. It released on August 20, 2021.

Netflix claimed the film was going to be released in April 2021 but they haven't done it. On April 27, 2021, a teaser dropped for the movie, which received positive reviews from critics and fans of the Nickelodeon show, then another teaser was released on June 10, 2021, along with the official release date. Multiple clips dropped along with the official trailer between late July-Early August 2021.

Plot
In Nickelodeon's The Loud House Movie, the biggest family on television goes on the biggest Loud family vacation ever! The adventure follows the Loud family to Scotland where they discover that they are descendants of Scottish royalty. The family quickly indulges in the most wish-fulfilling high-life ever when they discover their ancestral home is a castle.

Whimping Qualities
Note: Some of the problems were carried over from Seasons 4-present of the show, although this takes place during Season 4 of the Nickelodeon series.
 * 1) Much like Doug's 1st Movie and Hey Arnold! The Movie, this feels like an extended special rather than a film based on the cartoon, as it is not very cinematic and big at all considering that it was originally going to be released in theaters, but got shoehorned into being a Netflix film instead, which is somewhat a short example of the movie being executive meddled at the last minute.
 * 2) While the lighting was a great upgrade from the cartoon, the animation feels very restricted for a theatrical release, especially because that’s where the movie was going to be before the pandemic came.
 * 3) *Most of the CGI looks uncanny, especially the scene where they arrive at Scotland.
 * 4) *Not to mention, that in some scenes, the animation is just about the same as the show and the next scene it's trying too hard to be a cinematic film which looks kind of inconsistent and choppy.
 * 5) *Also, because of the animation, the characters look lifeless, low-budgeted and constantly off-model for most of the film.
 * 6) *Also the poles that hold the roof up in The Loud House is different.
 * 7) The Scottish setting, while good, isn’t explored enough, most of the movie is either in the castle or in a small spot of the town. It also doesn't go well with the original plot or the film.
 * 8) The Loud family (except for Lily) were all flanderized in this film as they went from being a normal family to becoming celebrities who everyone love and adore which never happened in the cartoon.
 * 9) *Speaking of Lynn, it overall restarted her flanderization.
 * 10) *Lincoln was also flanderized in this movie as he became a selfish brat who tries anything to become the duke of Scotland and also tries to take all the spotlight to himself.
 * 11) The plot of Lincoln was heartbroken over being stuck in his sisters' shadows is rather forced, bland and painful to follow, and not explored enough given how the opening never showed him being overshadowed by them. And while they didn’t fully go for the cliché "don't tell yourself that, you are special" ending, they still kind of did it, which can get frustrating, and the plot has been used in better movies, almost exactly like Barney's failed film. Not to mention, its a rehash of Season 1's "Making the Case".
 * 12) While the songs aren’t completely bad, they obviously weren’t written by professionals:
 * 13) *“Ordinary Me”, “I’m Gonna Be The Duke” and "The Duchess I Must Be" have too much autotune.
 * 14) **"The Duchess I Must Be" might be worst song of the movie and it has way too much autotune, and the song sounds like slamming fists on a keyboard.
 * 15) *“It’s Now or Never”, while catchy, has pretty generic lyrics and feels like it is being screeched.
 * 16) **The songs instead feel more like generic songs that are something to do with Scotland, because they're mostly part of the show, with the conclusion of them being too similar to The Lion King, Mary Poppins, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie and Fiddler on the Roof. It's even worse when they use autotune or pitch correct it.
 * 17) When the show was created, it was acclaimed for capturing childhood and  slice-of-lifeness so well , not to mention it was supposed to be aimed for the family, meaning this is another moment at jumping the shark, as there are ghosts, magic, and dragons, considering how unrealistic modern The Loud House has become and how it's trying to attract an young audience. This also insults the show.
 * 18) The advertisements showed the Louds in a painting with Scottish outfits, however it turns out that they were just ancestors of the Louds, which is just dumb.
 * 19) plot holes:
 * 20) *If the ancestors died young, how could the Louds be born?
 * 21) *Why did Morag admitted to the entire town that she got the Louds out.
 * 22) *In the climax, she easily could’ve pushed Lincoln off a cliff that they were right next to. Lincoln later fell off the cliff anyway because it broke, so why couldn’t it just be from Morag pushing him?
 * 23) *It was also stupid how her ancestor wrote everything in a diary, the show even made fun of that in previous episodes.
 * 24) *Rita said her family was from Royal Woods, though areas like that in the US didn’t exist until the 1600s, and that’s where the Louds ruled Scotland, plus one of them looks like Rita.
 * 25) *Why couldn’t they elect another Duke in the time between the movie and the Louds' ancestors?
 * 26) *Why are there dragons and ghosts in the Loud House universe? Because That is what Loud House is nowadays
 * 27) *Leni falls in love with a guy from Scotland even though she already has a boyfriend back at Royal Woods.
 * 28) Most of the humor is unfunny, childish, or immature:
 * 29) *The "duking" scene.
 * 30) *Leni calling everyone Scott because it's "Scott land" which is the most obvious and basic joke to make about the country.
 * 31) Many characters from the show like Lincoln's friends, the Casagrandes family, and several animals (most notably Cliff, Walt, Geo, Cleopawtra, and Nepurrtiti) also don't appear, have small lines, are mentioned or make cameos, which adds on more to it feeling like a show episode rather than a movie.
 * 32) Rips-off South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and Rugrats in Paris: The Movie and Garfield: A Tale Of Two Cites.
 * 33) The pacing is as poor as the show, as mentioned here. No scenes feel earned and natural and everything seems like it was put in for the sake of keeping the story going.
 * 34) There is a pointless subplot about Bobby going to Scotland because he thought Lori was breaking up with him, he only ever comes in towards the end.
 * 35) David Tennant, while good as Angus, sounds exactly like his Scrooge McDuck voice.
 * 36) *He even says, "Blow me bagpipes" in some instances, which is an obvious rip-off of Scrooge's “Bless me bagpipes” catchphrase.
 * 37) There's a scene where Lincoln cries over being in his sisters' shadows is pretty annoying, and Asher Bishop's delivery only adds on to the cringe. The same clip is reused when Lincoln is bawling his eyes out when the civilians of Scotland shame him because they're under the false deduction that he destroyed the town.
 * 38) The posters aren't any better, as both just look like fanmade posters ripped straight from DeviantArt:
 * 39) *The main poster has so much empty space, and is just completely baron as far as posters go. They actually took still shots of the characters from the film, and just slapped them into random parts of the "poster". Half of the characters are just standing there blankly, not even looking at Lincoln; such as Morag, who is shoved off the side, looks like she's gazing into thin air. Angus behind her stares in thin air too. They even took a frame of Lincoln (with a parachute) from the film, and slapped him onto the duke's chair. And his sisters in the poster just use the faces they made when looking at the dragon Leah. Speaking of Leah, they even took a still of her and added a drop shot on, while it has a completely separate angle of placement, She is also shoved to the side too.
 * 40) *The second poster isn't even better. It's just the heads of Lincoln and his sisters. If released on physical media, that is what it would look like.
 * 41) The film is likely gonna age worse than the people who enjoyed the movie thought, much like with Teen Titans Go! to the Movies, as well as its sequel Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans. This movie was announced when Loud House reached a peak in popularity, but on 2019 when it was announced on Netflix, the show's ratings and viewers started to go down alongside the decline of cable television.
 * 42) *An example is Left In The Dark had 2 million viewers while Time Trap had 310,000 viewers
 * 43) *Maybe it is a good thing this wasn't released on theaters, because of it going though a troubled production history and it could be a Box Office Bomb.
 * 44) The actual ending: Angus saves Morag. Just… why?
 * 45) The sisters have not really anything to do in this movie, they are just used as plot devices. Just because Lincoln is the main character doesn't mean he has to appear in almost every second of this film and almost every scene as well.
 * 46) It's okay to create a movie for fans, but that doesn't mean it can't be aimed for General audiences.
 * 47) *What is even worse, at one point in the film, Angus and Morag reference the theme song which means they are aware that the show is too fantasy based but wont do anything to stop it because they can't handle criticism.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The beginning was very wholesome with “Life is Better Loud”, which is a good song that shows the family through the years.
 * 2) *The first 10 minutes were good.
 * 3) Mr. Grouse and Flip do make cameos in the "movie".
 * 4) There were nice SpongeBob SquarePants and Rugrats references where Reptar was seen in a newspaper in the beginning of the movie, and SpongeBob's pineapple was seen in the Scottish bathroom.
 * 5) Angus is a likable character.
 * 6) *For example, he always cared for Lincoln and his family throughout the movie, especially when Lincoln and his 10 sisters defeated Morag.
 * 7) *Morag, despite being a terrible villan, is a sympathetic character as she gets a lot of torture by the Louds and is also understandably annoyed by them.
 * 8) *Lincoln, despite being unlikeable, was sympathetic before he manipulated his family.
 * 9) *The Sisters (despite their flanderization), Lily, Clyde, Sam Sharp, Ronnie Anne, Bobby and the Scottish Loud Ancestors are also likable characters.
 * 10) David Tennant and Michelle Gomez's performances are decent, even if they are terrible at singing.
 * 11) It's an slight improvement over Seasons 5 and 6.
 * 12) *It's also considered to be much better than the live-action Christmas film that came out 3 months after this movie came out.
 * 13) Good ending: The sisters apologize to Lincoln for overshadowing him and then tells him that he is special for taking care of them every day which they consider him "the most special brother ever" and that they'll always love him no matter what happens.
 * 14) *The ending has Lincoln showing maturity, where he has Angus be the Duke because he knows a kid can’t take the role very good.

Reception
The Loud House Movie had received mixed reviews from critics for its story and humor but received generally mixed-to-positive reviews from audiences and fans of the Nickelodeon series including from people on YouTube, with many of them calling it one of the best movies of 2021. Hours after releasing on Netflix on August 20, the film has an 6.3/10 on IMDb while on Rotten Tomatoes, it has an 79 percent audience rating with fewer than 50 ratings. It also has a 4/5 on Common Sense Media. As of November 2021, it had gotten a 2.5/5 score on Letterboxd, receiving mostly overwhelmingly negative reviews. With one of them saying they felt bad for Yoshi Player.

Trivia

 * The film released on the same day as Paw Patrol: The Movie, making this the first Nickelodeon movie to release on the same day as another Nickelodeon Movie.
 * This is the first Nickelodeon film that does not get a physical media release (though bootleg DVDs can be made), unlike the actual show itself getting separate seasons in 2 volumes each on DVD.
 * This movie takes place before the season 5 premiere episode, "Schooled!" In fact, there should have been a graduation episode of the original show that fans asked for where Lincoln graduates elementary school and Lori graduates high school before this movie and season 5 came out.
 * The film was originally scheduled for an theatrical release in February of 2020 with Paramount Pictures distributing the film under the Paramount Animation brand. However in 2019, Paramount removed the film from its schedule in order to concentrate on their haul of movies in development, where the film's rights were later gone to Netflix and finalized there.
 * The same thing happened to another 2021 film titled The Mitchells Vs. The Machines where it was delayed from an theatrical release in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, though it later released on Netflix on April 30 of 2021. Though the film was not distributed by Paramount as it was only distributed by Sony Pictures Animation.
 * Similarly, fellow Summer 2021 blockbuster Luca skipped its theatrical release and moved to Disney+, even though it was released theatrically in areas where the service was unavailable. This was produced by Pixar and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.
 * The script was completed and revealed in June 2019.
 * Weirdly, this movie uses the same Nickelodeon Movies logo from The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, rather than the one last seen on Wonder Park or the one found on their only two Paramount Players projects.
 * A DeviantArt used named Ruffytoon created a fan made custom variant on February 7, 2020. The proof can be seen here.
 * Originally, this page was going to be on the sister wikis, but due to the controversial meddling by the fans and haters, it was moved here.
 * This is the third time that Lincoln feels overshadowed by his sisters, with the first two were in "Making the Case" and "Kings of the Con".)
 * This film reveals that the Loud sisters always overshadow Lincoln.
 * Because this film was also released on streaming/not given a theatrical release, this is the first film made by Nickelodeon Movies to not have any Paramount logo nor being produced by Paramount, and also their first film to not be given an MPAA rating. The MPAA logo does appear in the closing credits however.
 * This is the first piece of Loud House media to be dubbed in Hindi and Ukrainian, despite the fact that its parent series was not dubbed in said languages at the time of its release.
 * Chris Savino originally intended to produce an episode of the series where the Loud would travel to Scotland to meet their relatives, then known as the McLouds. Although he approved of this idea carrying over into the movie, he disagrees with the inclusion of fantasy elements (such as dragons) that the film introduced to the show's universe.
 * His original envisioning for the film, meanwhile, did not involve the Louds leaving Royal Woods; it was meant to take place mostly at their house. There was also supposed to be a scene where the Loud house exploded.

Teasers
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Trailers
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Reviews
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