TMAuthor23
Joined Feb 2019
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...Can make a terrible meal.
Oof. This is one bad puppy.
And although I roll my eyes when people ask, "Was this written by AI?" I have to say, that could be true here.
Lots of good actors struggling through an awful script that seemed like a blended combo of "Christmas Vacation", "The Family Stone" and "Dan In Real Life". Ugh.
Even those films had weak spots. The problem here is that they magnified the bad, and undercooked the good.
This movie jumped the shark so many times that I lost count.
What a waste.
Oof. This is one bad puppy.
And although I roll my eyes when people ask, "Was this written by AI?" I have to say, that could be true here.
Lots of good actors struggling through an awful script that seemed like a blended combo of "Christmas Vacation", "The Family Stone" and "Dan In Real Life". Ugh.
Even those films had weak spots. The problem here is that they magnified the bad, and undercooked the good.
This movie jumped the shark so many times that I lost count.
What a waste.
Despite the fact we were execited to see a new short film featuring elves Lanny and Wayne, we found this not just disappointing, but inferior in several ways.
The animation feels "off", looking cheaper and making the characters look less like their original selves. In the first three films the animation is consistently 3D, here it shifts into 2D for close ups where a character is talking. Chalke, Richardson and Foley turn in their familiar great voice work.
The storyline, telling lies and keeping secrets (what are we teaching here?), tries to segue into a parable about friendship with little success. The confrontation with "The Big Guy" goes flat, partly because Wayne never reveals to Santa the disastrous mission that caused him to invoke the Snowball Protocol.
And...we have Disney's now consistent protocol to insert gender identity images into kids programming where they don't belong.
So, in a nutshell, poor visually, disappointing story, and inappropriate.
Those are three things Disney used to not have trouble with. Sadly, those days are over.
The animation feels "off", looking cheaper and making the characters look less like their original selves. In the first three films the animation is consistently 3D, here it shifts into 2D for close ups where a character is talking. Chalke, Richardson and Foley turn in their familiar great voice work.
The storyline, telling lies and keeping secrets (what are we teaching here?), tries to segue into a parable about friendship with little success. The confrontation with "The Big Guy" goes flat, partly because Wayne never reveals to Santa the disastrous mission that caused him to invoke the Snowball Protocol.
And...we have Disney's now consistent protocol to insert gender identity images into kids programming where they don't belong.
So, in a nutshell, poor visually, disappointing story, and inappropriate.
Those are three things Disney used to not have trouble with. Sadly, those days are over.
As happens with many streaming shows, and stuff written by Rian Johnson, the quality got shaky the further it went along.
And didn't improve with the last two episodes.
What started as an updated Colombo, with grit and real stakes, turned into a lot of camp and shenanigans that, while not hard to watch, wasn't excellent.
Had the series not attracted lots of strong acting talent the stories would have appeared as bare and predictable as they truly were.
Don't get me wrong, there were good episodes (3?) in season two (apparently the last season, at least with Lyonne in the lead role). Just not many.
It'll be interesting to see whether the Peter Dinklage led recast of the series finds a home.
And didn't improve with the last two episodes.
What started as an updated Colombo, with grit and real stakes, turned into a lot of camp and shenanigans that, while not hard to watch, wasn't excellent.
Had the series not attracted lots of strong acting talent the stories would have appeared as bare and predictable as they truly were.
Don't get me wrong, there were good episodes (3?) in season two (apparently the last season, at least with Lyonne in the lead role). Just not many.
It'll be interesting to see whether the Peter Dinklage led recast of the series finds a home.