Post by The Matthew on Dec 2, 2018 18:25:46 GMT
I didn't enjoy this anywhere near as much as I'd expected or hoped.
It starts out well and looks promising, reintroducing the universe and setting up the main problem for our protagonists to deal with. I loved reacquainting myself with the world of one of my most rewatched films. But once the story moved out of the arcade and into the Internet as a whole I felt the entire thing became too bogged down in its own cleverness and most of the heart went out of it. What emotional story there was was so heavy-handed that it became awkward and slightly embarrassing. Many jokes, but no real substance.
From another studio this would have been a decent product but this is Disney's main studio and I expect better than topical jokes and references that are going to seem painfully dated or just plain incomprehensible a few years from now. This is like the "tweeting" joke from Moana stretched out to feature-length. In Pixar terms, I expected Toy Story 2 and got Cars 2.
The mid-credit and end-credit scenes are great, but a film's funniest scenes shouldn't be after most of the audience have gone home. (Seriously, stay for them, although they too will date horribly.)
On a personal level I was also disappointed by the modelling of the princesses; particularly Rapunzel, Tangled being my favourite film. I know there are sound technical reasons why models from older films can't just be copied into the latest software, but they could at least have made some effort to recreate the same appearance of their recent princesses. The whole group felt generic, as if they'd skimped on the details, and that isn't something I expect from Disney. (Unless this was a wry comment on their total inability to create film-accurate merchandise, but I don't think it was.)
It starts out well and looks promising, reintroducing the universe and setting up the main problem for our protagonists to deal with. I loved reacquainting myself with the world of one of my most rewatched films. But once the story moved out of the arcade and into the Internet as a whole I felt the entire thing became too bogged down in its own cleverness and most of the heart went out of it. What emotional story there was was so heavy-handed that it became awkward and slightly embarrassing. Many jokes, but no real substance.
{Spoiler - click to view}I was far more moved by earlier scenes where a desolate Taffyta and Candlehead looked at their broken game, and where nobody wanted to take in the homeless Sugar Rush racers. And honestly, I think their story is the film I'd rather have seen. Felix and Calhoun looking after fifteen children? That has potential.
From another studio this would have been a decent product but this is Disney's main studio and I expect better than topical jokes and references that are going to seem painfully dated or just plain incomprehensible a few years from now. This is like the "tweeting" joke from Moana stretched out to feature-length. In Pixar terms, I expected Toy Story 2 and got Cars 2.
The mid-credit and end-credit scenes are great, but a film's funniest scenes shouldn't be after most of the audience have gone home. (Seriously, stay for them, although they too will date horribly.)
On a personal level I was also disappointed by the modelling of the princesses; particularly Rapunzel, Tangled being my favourite film. I know there are sound technical reasons why models from older films can't just be copied into the latest software, but they could at least have made some effort to recreate the same appearance of their recent princesses. The whole group felt generic, as if they'd skimped on the details, and that isn't something I expect from Disney. (Unless this was a wry comment on their total inability to create film-accurate merchandise, but I don't think it was.)
