Since I know Ryan and maybe Moon were interested in my thoughts on the latest Disney and Amy Adams extravaganza ...
Honestly, I was disappointed. I thought it was going to be more of a satire of Disney classics. Instead, it's really more of a riff on them. There are several moments (several? make that lots and lots and lots) and numbers throughtout the film where you think, oh that's the update of X, or oh, that's shot just like Y. So if you are a Disney fan, you'll love this. Hell, you might well worship it. But for the rest of us it's pretty typical Disney, if still very well made and easy to like Disney. Amy Adams is as enchanting as she should be, James Marsden continues his habit of late of playing his roles just right (be it this or Superman Returns or Hairspray or Heights), the chipmunk is cute and funny, and Patrick Dempsey is an appealing leading man/straight man (this is very much his movie and Adams', the other players get much less screen time). It's all well done, the production design, the acting, the songs - I was just expecting something with a bit more bite. But this is a film where irony is explicitly the enemy. Oh, and a film about New York looking really good in the summer.
So is it worth seeing? Eh, sure I guess, if you are in the mood for sweeter than sweet. And it is well crafted. It's just not the divergence from the Disney canon that I was expecting. Hopefully I'll like The Golden Compass more.
Posted by armand at December 6, 2007 11:08 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Movies