Went in with low expectations because I remember being terrified of Wallace as a child… he still gives me the eeps but I was thoroughly charmed by Feathers McGraw and Gromit. The claymation style, which I once viewed as simplistic as a child, was so impressive to me in this age of uncanny valley deepfakes and a very fitting medium for the topics being explored (timeless exploration of technology and its positive and negative impacts).
Some questions and half-baked thoughts:…
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Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo sounded amazing. Truly. The only person that didn’t get completely overshadowed by the two mains was Jonathan Bailey. That man plays roguish, tormented aristocrat roles like no other. Everyone else was okay/meh and more annoying or dull than endearing or funny. (Also, i guess not even a magical place like Oz can escape messed-up fathers… mayor munchkin is an absolute shit(z).)
I enjoyed the costume design for glinda and the ogs, the hair choices for…
Once again, iconic. Short, funny, and with character development that cannot be seen in even some of the theater disney releases. This was a straight to dvd movie people!!!!!!! The experience is best recreated in a 27 part yt playlist thank you 🪀 for having an open mind when i said this ver of prince charming is a top 5 disney prince
The previous Wonka movies flowed like whimsical chocolate waterfalls and fountains… this one tried to do the same and so much more it simply exploded and pelleted us with chocolate hail. I was blinded multiple times by the sudden switch from very dark to blinding light scenes, bamboozled by the dialect choices that must have been some anglophile’s attempt at realizing their dream of all of the previous english colonies (Oompa Loompa land included because why else would Hugh Grant…
