I wish they didn’t try to make a “Oh plot twist he’s actually telling the story as an adult to his daughter” and then completely ruin everything by confusing the story, nothing he said actually happened and another “double plot twist! The daughter has a kid and Orion married his crush!” Like it was so confusing and I wasn’t able to relate to the characters anymore 🤦🏾‍♀️

IT LITERALLY WOULD'VE JUST BEEN BETTER IF THERE WAS JUST A REGULAR STORY WITHOUT ORION TELLING IT TO THE GIRL.

What angers me the most is how they just targeted the dark and not the other fears of orion, really messed up there

I was so excited for this movie when I saw the trailer but then that- DAMNED SCENE OF HIM AND HIS DAUGHTER HAPPENS AND it just feels like all the magic the film was setting up just gets totally washed away 😭😭

The whole idea of him telling his daughter the story would have been fine if it was real. It did happen and he's telling his daughter about his experience to help her.

I thought this movie would be bad after the reveal that it's a story but at the end it's a family passing a story down until the last kid used his child wonder and makes a bad ending but good for a kid, it's beautiful

THE BEGINNING WAS SO GOOD UNTIL THE FRICKIN SELF INSERT. WHY DREAMWORKS???? WHY??????? MOM IM FAMOUS

the second the daughter appeared i knew the movie was gonna go downhill, i havent even watched this but i know we are thinking the same thing

They could have fixed this in one of two ways... 1. Have a scene at the start of the movie that establishes the fact that he's telling the story to his daughter, or 2. Wait to reveal that its just a story until the very end of the movie. The premise of the story just kinda shifts halfway through so they could have this new meta storyline. They tried to have their cake and eat it too.

It sounds like this movie's biggest flaw is that Orion telling his daughter a bedtime story about conquering one's fears, was written as a mid-point twist. If the movie had begun with Orion telling the bedtime story to his daughter, the movie would probably be more cohesive.

I fully agree with you. The minute they showed this was a fake story, that kind of ruined it for me. But I tried to give it a chance thinking that once the story ended Hypatia would still be scared of the dark. Only for Dark himself to show up a few minutes later, and have her realize the story her dad was telling really was true. But no, they decided to keep it fake, and add a disoriented story plots that didn’t make much sense. I think I would’ve actually liked this movie if Hypatia and later Tiko hadn’t interfered in the story, and adding themselves into it as well. That just didn’t sit well with me.

Onion and the dark

I feel like it would be so much better if he told his daughter it was a story, but at the end scene when he’s really old and he’s sitting all alone on the balcony, I wish dark popped up it was like “hey kid, it’s been a while”. And then Orion just smiles in the movie ends! That would have been so good!

the ending felt like a kid version of Rick and Morty

if they never added the old orion part and hypatia and the random time boy then this movie couldve been a 7.7 out of 10

The things that could inprove and fix in this movie 1.The story 2.the plot twists 3.the ending 4.the other entities 5.a magical land 5.cool dark entity vs light entity lore Thats it,thats how i fix this movie

I think that adult Orion is saying “it’s not real” is because he doesn’t want his daughter to try to go on the same goose chase of facelift fears that he has been on. And I also think that the reason why he’s still “afriad of the dark” is because he is still a bit unsettled by it but is not as scared of dark and the others anymore or, atleast not as much as before.

Over the past 10 years i ended up learning to never have much expectations with DreamWorks movies...

Brooo, I agree so much!!! I loved the movie until the ending. The ending ruined it so much…

This story could've been AMAZING! To be fair though, it depends what happens in the actual book (since the movie was based on a book). Still, really a shame how it turned out. Devastated.

i like to think that the girl introduced and weird time travel never happened and the movie went along with orion and the entity's just came for him and the rest of the movie happens also why would the story not be real!?!?!?! i hated that part too where he says the story is not real to

That ending was comedic genius

I started it and thought everyone who said it was trash was wrong, then I got to the grandson part and agreed with everyone

This movie probably could've got 80-90% on rotten tomatoes (audience score) if they literally just removed "the story's not real" and the part where she just jumps in the story like that makes any sense whatsoever

I honestly can't believe how they messed this movie up so badly 💀. Like bro, there is no way they got someone to watch this before releasing it to the public without someone mentioning how the story just falls apart due to everything not being real in the plot

saw the movie not too long ago, it was alright but it was kinda disappointing seeing the movie being told as a fictional story through the perspective of a grown orion, they could of potentially expanded the universe with a sequel if the night entities were actually real

At first I was so happy seeing the start of the movie bc I have *extreme* paranoia just like child Orion so I can relate to him, but the ''everything is made up'' indeed ruined everything!!

I thought it was onion and the dark tbh

Oreo and the duck

For the first half an hour of this movie, i was HYPED. Netflix was teasing me with trailers coming out everyday, and when it finally came out, when it was revealed that it was just made-up? I just dropped the movie as soon as i could. when the flying turtle scene and the daughter self inserting came on, i turned the tv off.

Hypacia lowkey looks like a 2d model while orion looks like a 3d model Idk why this is but it looks like this for me at least.

As soon they introduced that it was actually just Orion telling the story to his daughter, i just didn't care about the film anymore

"Hypatia" Subtitles: "HIPAA"

“The Dark” looks like my Profile Picture.

this film has stellar voice-acting!

The ending jumbled my brain like a broken rubix cube

Orion looks like Alberto from Luca in the artstyle of Kevin Temmer's Exposition song short.

To me though: The story is almost fine, even when we see adult Orion telling his daughter a bed time story. Maybe that's a story he didn't made up at that same instance. Maybe earlier he tried and told other stories to his daughter but it didn't work out for her daughter to overcome her fear of the dark, so he thought "i think this, the most personal story of mine about how i became friends with the dark has to be told". So he told *the movie version story* to her daughter and simultaneously telling about his childhood life, his parents, his crush, his *other fears*, how everyone didn't understand his feelings about the fear of the dark, but eventually they'll help him, in their own way, and so so, to her. But wait, it's not a ONE DEAL story. He became friends with Dark that's ok but it took time to actually overcome his fear of the dark. I mean, Dark (as an entity) is his friend but overall he's still a little bit scared of the Dark (the natural phenomenon). Ofc, lots of problems will arise eventually, specially "fear of the unknown". The walking down the street scene in the night with his daughter, it could've been a little more challenging if he could've just walk with his daughter to that park. Ofc his daughter will be scared but that same time he will tell the rest of he story about overcoming his real fear of the dark (the phenomenon). Eventually, it'll be a Twilight. His daughter can experience the meaning of both (Dark and Light) at that frickin same time and understand "it's ok to be scared of dark but sometimes dark can show you something that only be possible of the dark; Dusk and Twilight. They'll hug and shed a tear and go their home. ...and Orion's story will eventually pass on to his daughter and to his grand child. But ofc, not everyone will be impacted the same but eventually it'll. It'll take time to overcome the fear of the dark. and at the final scene, Orion and his wife (childhood crush) gazing at the night sky with glittering stars and then cut to the planetarium scene, they'll touch their hands, slightly. Frickin THE END PS- sorry for too long of a post and grammatical errors. Peace 🕊️ ✌️

The problem I have with going back in time is, how do you know that the kid will still exist?…. because depending on what time it is, his crush could’ve been in a different mood and met another boy

Ooooookay........ I'm gonna create a bit of a balance here and say that. I actually liked the movie and how it ended. Even though a little part of me wishes everything was real in that movie's universe, at the same time, I actually like the route they went with it just being a story the dad made up, because usually in movies/shows, the magical beings are real in the cartoon universe the characters live in. I like the more realistic approach they went. And yes I know, not everything has to be realistic especially in fiction, but I like it when some movies add a bit of realism here and there. And I didn't mind that the daughter added herself in the completely made up story her dad couldn't finish, sure it was weird, but she's was an imaginative and creative kid, I didn't expect it to her approach be totally normal I mean, the whole thing was made up from the beginning, with Dark and the other magical entities. Plus, her son and the whole time travel entry wasn't weird or rushed to me (Keywords: TO ME), just another imaginative, creative kid helping his stuck parent finish the story, it was cute in my opinion. Apparently people find the plot twists of it being made up story a dad is telling to his daughter and then the daughter having her own kid and it being revealed that Orion married his childhood crush confusing and unrelatable? But personally I wasn't confused by any of it and I find the reveal of Orion marrying his crush to be more predictable than confusing. Plus, I was still able to relate to the characters. Overall, I'm satisfied with the movie and it's ending. I may be the only one, but 🤷🏿‍♀️

a quick fix would have been making it a story that orion told himself as a kid to comfort it. that and giving clues that it was just a story. also do you believe in gosts

They should've just cut out the whole "surprise-its-all-fake" and the "time-travelling-elves-and-time-monsters" part

To be honest, I thought it was deeply implied that the story told by Adult Orion was an exaggeration of what actually happened to him; putting a neat spin on his own personal experiences for his daughter to understand.

1:34 SpongeBob Reference? Btw theres a episode where spongebob reads a scary story and he places millions of nightlights

popping off my dude🎉 keep up the great work!

It was fine but I hates all the plot twists I wish it was just a boy who is scared and overcomes his fears what was the whole time travel thing about too 😭

Watching it I was like “wow this is actually good” until the last half where a literal self insert appears and time travel?…monsters?

Idk why this movie gave me 2015-2016 analog horror vibes

“He just like me fr😭”

Dark, darker yet darker

Wait, when was it released? Also, how many movies are DreamWorks releasing in just this month?

I would've been fine with the whole thing if the grandson hadn't shown up and ended the story with time travel.

I usually like most movies I watch but this one, this one.. I really agree with you on the “its everywhere” i just can’t understand some parts and had to rewatch it sometimes. I thought it was gonna be about Orion’s school life and how every fear of his has a lil entity but dark is literally 50% of the entire movie. I don’t like any of the hypatia parts as well it’s out of reach yk? 5/10 since I like movies

I actually thought this was a show😭

I honestly wish they could show Orion transitioning from school to night to build up a world of characters.

Are we? Not gonna mention the fact how there's a mysterious father.Person of the third generation at the end of the movie like we don't know who they are

Dark is depressed

I haven’t even watched the full movie i dropped it after it showed him as an adult 💔💔

I half agree with you, but I liked the movie anyways because I used to make up stories in my head to try to convince myself that my fears were okay, and I used to make characters like the guy does in the movie, so it was super relatable to me because when I realized that I was still scared well it wasn't okay. But in the movie they go past that point and when he says "I _am_ scared, but I will do it anyways" that's the best part of the movie and everything before that is worth it imo.

THANK YOU! I loved the Dark and the Night Entities, and I was wondering why everyone said the movie was mid. And then Hypatia was introduced. Ohhhhh man, words can't describe how much I hate her character and how she's suddenly inserted into Orion's story. She adds nothing to the film, and she had no reason to influence the plot that much.

I hate the scene with his kid in it.

I kid you not when the second self insert happened I shouted out “What is even happening anymore”

This is exactly what I thought when that first scene of them just breaking the story happened, and I was just like, “soo none of this was real or at least a day dream to conquer orions fears?” And honestly when dark died I didn’t really care..

I liked the “story is told in the future” plot twist. What I don’t like is that THEY HAVE 9 BEJILION PLOT TWISTS

Finn from adventure time was afraid of the ocean

onion and the fork

EXACTLY as soon as I saw this scene I verbally said “whaaaaat” and I was disappointed the rest of the movie

This movie tried to do what Umineko did, but it's really really rushed. I belive they could've done better if they had more time to flesh out the meta aspects.

Orion

if you know. Bfdi you know Woody he is scared of everything. And that kid is woody

i still loved it

FINALLY I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE!!!

Boss baby did a better job with the dad telling the movie as a story to his daughter thing than this movie did

I think that the same thing, I really think that the movie would have been incredible if it hadn’t tried to make a storybook type ending

great video!!!

This movie was SUCH a mess. It was going alright EVEN AFTER the first Hypatia scene believe it or not. But they just kept pushing this narrative further and further, and forced the future shenanigans down our throats like they're nagging you to remember that it's all not real. WHATS THE POINT OF THE STORY THEN? A story has to be immersive! but no, they kept poking you like they're trying to grab your attention to the fact that this is all not real. AND they always cut to older Orion in the most terrible moments! not only that, but the did NOTHING with Light's narrative when they were clearly building him up to come back later and do something! Also the night entities seemed like such, insufferable, horrible people. They just immediately backstabbed Dark. I'm so disappointed because I genuinely thought it was going great at first.

What background music is this? The piano in the song is really nice to hear.

Ngl, I didn't even know this movie existed

Tbh I think Orion and the Dark was better than Trolls 3. DreamWorks should have released it in theaters instead of stupid Netflix

I only wish they hadn’t shown them both old.

I’m so glad someone can agree with me that this movie was AWEFUL! The plot line would just go wherever the hell it wanted to go and completely RUINED MY RESPECT FOR IT, they make this into a giant confusing plot line for some reason which makes absolutely no sense, they decided that in the middle of the movie to just tell you it’s fake and expect you to still feel immersive in the story, IM NOT GONNA FEEL IMMERSIVE IN THE STORY IF THE PLOT IS MADE TO SHOW ITS NOT EVEN REAL, I’d rather watch turbo again god damn.

I only really disagree with Orion being afraid. Fears don’t go away completely, they stay there. That’s realistic!

i watched this movie and i turned it off so fast when he was a adult

I kinda just wish that they never introduced the daughter, which probably would just stop the movie from making no sense.

There was no steaks because they made it a story so if Ryan died, no one would care the story really falls apart when the daughter gets added into the story

Ngl when I first read that I thought it said “onion in the dark”

dang this video and movie is good. "dark"

Dark.... Ther you go ....

Dank oreo🥲

I fell asleep after dark took Orion for him to see he's not scary.

It would have been cool if the movie went on and then Hypatia was introduced at the end and then she also meets dark

Orion is literally me 💀

It was good until plot twist he was telling the story and he made it all up

Ok Dark Man Just Don’t Hert Me!

the seen where he wasa telling it to his daughter he couldve been hiding the fact it was true,which couldve been good

this movie was awesome

Tbh....they had only one job....make him face his fears.... realize there is nothing to fear....And just end it there

It was a good movie . I just want something that’s entertaining and it is entertaining.

i'm so glad someone else agrees i recently watched it and i liked it up until the point the daughter joined the story.. even with the time travel part.. it was just.. weird? confusing?? and it killed the whole plot for me.. as a plus i think the dark vs light thingamajig couldve been executed better also there should've been more sally mentions i don't think their relationship was too emphasized oh also dark

Quite is the best character hands down.