Description from IMDB:
In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an
epic battle begins when an unemployed father's sanity is challenged by a chance
encounter with two underage girls on holiday.
Before I talk about this, let's watch the trailer again. Because the trailer is amazing.
You know what that looks like? It looks like a terrific psychological horror movie filmed (illegally) in Disney World. You can read what I said about it the first time I saw the trailer here.
I was excited. You were excited. I tried to temper my expectations, but I couldn't help myself. I mean, look at that trailer? For someone who went to Disney World quite a few times as a child, I couldn't help but be excited for this.
Sadly, it wasn't very good. Most of the great moments can be found right there in the trailer. What I thought would be a movie about a man slowly losing his mind at Disney World (complete with lots of horrifying takes on familiar images) turned out to be a movie about a married man with two children lusting after every woman he happened to cross paths with. Underage French girls. A nurse. A fallen Disney princess. Current Disney princesses.
And that is what drove the story forward. They easily could have made this movie revolve around horrific Disney imagery, but instead chose to drive the story based on the libido of a middle-aged man. Not the best choice.
Some of the imagery was great. The fact that it was shot in black and white really helped. The acting may not have been great, but it wasn't terrible. I loved the music. It alternated between whimsical and dark, and it fit the mood of the film very well.
There was a decent amount of green screen, and it was terrible. However, since they shot the bulk of the movie on location at Disney World, any added shots (as well as any scripted scenes featuring more than a couple of people) needed to be filmed in green screen. It looked awful. But, given the limitations of the film, I give the green screen a bit of a pass. It was distracting, but they had to work with the limitations they set for themselves. It was bad, but not the worst part of the movie.
Within the next week, I'm sure to have some better formulate thoughts and opinions on this. As it stands now, I'm just disappointed. And tired. But mostly disappointed.
Rating: 1.5/5
2 comments:
Great review, thanks.
I actually thought the film was quite good -- watched it twice through, and it improved on the second viewing. I think the poor quality of the green screen sequences may have been intentional; it occurs at particularly surreal moments in the film and heightens the weirdness a bit.
But, yeah, not a perfect film, but a pretty wild ride.
Good review, I am surprised at how much praise its getting probably because of the gimmick behind it.
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