thejohnscott

I'm glad to see musicals are not dead, it warms me to see new brilliant artists and singers getting music out there and identifying with modern culture.

My favourite musicals I love to sing along with, every time I hear the songs it builds rapport. There are sing and dance alongs with these sort of films, they capture and enchant. This film fails in this respect. Very poorly.

If you've seen the film just hum a tune from it in your head. Prove me wrong. See?

It's a brilliantly produced film that lacks musical cohesiveness. Forgettable as run of the mill pop song, which is highly disappointing as the performances were absolutely amazing. It could have been so much more

Watch it, enjoy it, try and remember it, if you can.

I'm surprised to see the heavy negative reviews for this film as I enjoyed watching it thoroughly. It was light hearted and entertaining throughout, visually pleasing and full of magic and wonder. Plenty of humour and gags to go around, and the human like weaknesses and strengths of the characters are far more life like than other 2 dimensional cartoon feature characters.

Not only is the animation exemplary but the voice acting is excellent as well. The creators have gone out of their way to create something unique.

People who went into this film expecting it to be the same same as a 1960's tv show forgot to check the calendar before sitting down. Same as people who expected US made politically correct and dim witted children's tale. There's no objective to attain any moral high ground, it's just a fun story of "ordinary" toys overcoming great odds.

After the first Borat being hilarious I really wanted to like this. The issue is though that everyone knows who Borat is now, compared to some weird dude causing chaos like back in the day. It just wasn't to be, Borat pulled a fan club almost everywhere he went and the subtlety of the gags in the places he wasn't recognised were pretty slim.

The political agenda was disappointing as well. I wish everything wasn't about politics during the last presidency term, I'm so glad that nonsense is over. This film is another victim of that mania.

Sure I had a few laughs, it wasn't a lost cause, but I won't be watching it again. I rate it mediocre at best. I understand why Sascha has said he won't be doing any impersonation films in the future, the party is over.