as_williams
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I get why people like this, I get what Disney was trying to do. But by modern story telling conventions, this film is excruciatingly boring for 90 percent of its run time. I don't need some art critic explaining what is about to happen. I don't need an overture. I don't need 10 minutes of musicians getting up and coming back. I'm glad the film exists but it's just not fun to watch in any sort of sense.
Clearly they weren't going to put Lady and the Tramp in theaters because everything that made the original fun and inventive obviously embarrassed the hell out of the people who made this. It's like a bizarre Twilight Zone episode where they dropped 2019 society in 1909.
Set the movie in in the 1970s-2010s and all these problems go away, easily.
On the entertainment level, it's boring. Nothing exciting, nothing to make the film memorable in any way whatsoever. The voice casting is all wrong for Lady and Tramp. Tessa Thompson just doesn't have the same tonal sound as the original which is not her fault, it's just bad casting. Theroux as the Tramp doesn't feel as vibrant as the original. I'm not going to even get into the cats or other characters because that's like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic with the foundational problems.
One good quality, if you've ever been to Savannah, Georgia, you can see how its beauty permeates the film. But that makes it even more jarring because American society didn't look like this in 1909 Savannah Georgia, obviously.
TL;DR: Watch the original and be happy you didn't burn $50 at the theater watching this.
Set the movie in in the 1970s-2010s and all these problems go away, easily.
On the entertainment level, it's boring. Nothing exciting, nothing to make the film memorable in any way whatsoever. The voice casting is all wrong for Lady and Tramp. Tessa Thompson just doesn't have the same tonal sound as the original which is not her fault, it's just bad casting. Theroux as the Tramp doesn't feel as vibrant as the original. I'm not going to even get into the cats or other characters because that's like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic with the foundational problems.
One good quality, if you've ever been to Savannah, Georgia, you can see how its beauty permeates the film. But that makes it even more jarring because American society didn't look like this in 1909 Savannah Georgia, obviously.
TL;DR: Watch the original and be happy you didn't burn $50 at the theater watching this.
