So long as you’re busy ripping off Pixar, did you ever consider thieving personality features as well? “What’s the ripoff?” you ask. Well, our main character is playing a video game with a spaceman interactive hero named “Captain Lightspeed” which is nothing at all like Buzz Lightyear. Then the video game introduces super-powered babies, nothing at all like Jack-Jack from The Incredibles. I almost feel sorry for the Fearless people; when you rip off something that badly, you ought to have a bigger payoff; this film is little more than colorful junk.
Our “hero,” for lack of a better tern is a shiftless tween named Reid (voice of Miles Robbins), a kid with the work ethic of a lethargic sloth. While Reid has no tolerance for studyin’ or book learnin’, his online persona “Fe@rless_” is an expert at the video game “Planet Master,” where he “controls” Captain Lightspeed (Jadakiss). This part is confusing because it sure seems like Cap’n Lightspeed is acting on his own as he fights a giant bug. As the battle rages on, Cap’n Lighthead suddenly shows up with three babies, which aren’t great accessories when you’re battling to the death.
Points for originality, I guess? Who could have foreseen a video game climax where the hero pulls out three infants for no discernable reason?
At the end of the level, Reid drops the kids off at the local space daycare center, where they are promptly stolen by Cap’n nemesis, Tennille, er, Dr. Arcannis (Miguel). Dr. Arcannis –a standard megalomaniac- wants to harvest the powers of the children so that he can become a super, which is same jealousy as Pixar’s Syndrome. This is getting boring, fellas.
Here’s where the magic happens: the superpowered babies escape Dr. Arcannis and come to Earth. Like, our Earth. And Reid 
suddenly becomes their sitter. None of this makes any sense. Luckily, Reid’s lab partner Melanie (Yara Shahidi) shows up about this time so that we have one character in the film who just might make an adult decision.
Is it breaking the fourth wall when a video gamer meets his real life alter ego? Does this mean that only one person in the world can play “Planet Master” at any given time because the hero is genuine? Does the hero really “die” in game play? How does that work? None of these questions are asked, let alone answered. I suppose this makes for a mildly intriguing plot – would you want to meet Sonic or Mario or Lara Croft? And yet, it also makes for a really stupid plot: Why is there a video game with real life interplay? What was the purpose of designing such a “game?”
Those aren’t the biggest quibbles. What haunts Fearless the most is that none of the people in it (with the possible exception of the babies) says or does anything you’ll remember for more than half a minute. For animations, these guys are exceptionally bland. Do you really want an animated baby sitter? How fun is that on film? Exactly as fun as it sounds. Even the triplets, while adding spice to an otherwise dull screenplay, all seem to have the same personality. We distinguish them almost entirelyby their powers, not their actions. Maybe your kids will enjoy Fearless; for most of act iii, I was awakeless.
A hero film that just doesn’t quite
Seem as unique as it ought or might
The mood will turn cheerless
Netflix better be Fearless
For their upcoming battle with copyright
Not Rated [read: G], 89 Minutes
Director: Cory Edwards
Writer: Cory Edwards, John Paul Murphy
Genre: Teaching the kids lessons better taught by Pixar
Type of being most likely to enjoy this film: The head animator of Fe@rless
Type of being least likely to enjoy this film: Pixar executives
