Ugh.
This is yet another bad script carried over the finish line into mainstream recognition by a Coppola. This is where the nepotism thing comes in. None of us could get an idea this vapid, routine and untrying out of Final Draft, let alone financed and cast with star performers. Neither would we get a significant distribution deal for a film that is visually often out of focus, groggy and seemingly composed on the fly without a thought. The three…
So, this viewing ended my feud with Dumbo. While it isn't as good as the other films of its era, I have been unduly harsh toward it for too long. There is some incredible work here, even if the story could really do with a proper third act.
Still in contempt is much of the pink elephant sequence. For a film that is already quite short, padding the runtime with the silly and sometimes outright lazy animations of this sequence…
It's gonna be hard for a funnier movie to come out this year. The unhinged liberties taken with the worldbuilding and characters within the Dune universe are better processed with laughter than rage, I've decided. The extreme, stunning kidification of everything helps, as does the completely unsurprising, awesome revelation that Rebecca Ferguson hasn't even read the book now five years in. It gets you guessing about the level of initiation among the rest of the cast when the performances go…
What's crazy about this is that I was talking to my bestie and it came up that this is actually the first truly respectable female character in the Disney canon. Like, just think how Lady's teeth come out for that fucking rat and how she's a fairly emotionally balanced character overall. It's pretty incredible to think about her in comparison to the earlier Alice and Snow White characters (never mind Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck) as well as the later…
