![]() ![]() Maybe it’ll play better on the couch with a warm blanket and a cup of cocoa. The bad news is that it may just turn out that Winnie the Pooh (and Tigger too) is not the kind of character whom audiences consider worthy of theatrical attendance. The good news is that it’s Disney’s last release until The Nutcracker and the Four Realms on Nov. Home Movie Reviews The Nutcracker and the Four Realms Review: An OK Disney Holiday Film The Nutcracker and the Four Realms Review: An OK Disney Holiday Film By Molly Freeman Published The Nutcracker and the Four Realms has all the elements of an earnest holiday movie with family-friendly fun, but is less than the sum of its parts. Disney’s newly independent princesses haven’t lost their taste for glitzy frocks just yet but Helen Mirren. ![]() That was back when almost any old studio toon could expect to make a few bucks.Įxisting as just one family flick in the marketplace alongside Hotel Transylvania 3, Teen Titans Go! to the Movies, Incredibles 2 and Ant-Man and the Wasp, to say nothing of “safe for kids” stuff like Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Christopher Robin has an uphill battle. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms review a festival of winter schmaltz. Anderson (the duo behind Meet the Robinsons, so you know it’s great) earned just $50 million worldwide on a $30m budget. The fully 2D animated flick directed by Don Hall and Stephen J. Walt Disney struck out with Winnie the Pooh back in 2011, a John Lasseter pet project that opened against Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part II. This movie was greeted with skepticism and derision upon announcement three years ago. Even as the trailers warmed the hearts of hardcore fans, the middling reviews did little to change the narrative.Ĭouple that with iffy overseas prospects (it won’t play in China, allegedly due to Winnie the Pooh’s passing resemblance to the current Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping), and this may be a merely okay start for Pooh and friends. Features General ‘The Nutcracker and the Four Realms’ Review: Disney’s Ballet-Inspired Blockbuster Is Hollow to the Core It's hard to imagine that the kids of today will ever grow up to be. IP doesn’t matter if audiences either don’t care about the IP or are unhappy with the results. But anytime the IP-driven flick performs worse (or not much better) than an original or relatively “new-to-you” sell (think Storks out grossing LEGO Ninjago), that should give us pause. Disney makes plenty of money off the Winnie the Power empire. To be fair, this was an (estimated) over/under $75 million-budgeted period-piece character drama with CGI characters in key supporting roles. That Christopher Robin, technically a live-action Winnie the Pooh movie, may (using the more pessimistic comparison) sell about as many tickets than Pete’s Dragon is not great. Christopher Robin had a more beloved IP but mixed-positive reviews (which surprised me, as I was… not a fan) even with an embargo that dropped after the movie had started its Thursday preview showings. That David Lowery-directed flick had the disadvantage of lesser-known/lesser-loved IP but the advantage of rave pre-release reviews (it’s the best of these Walt Disney live-action fairy tale flicks by a mile). When Claras mother leaves her a mysterious gift, she. It’s a laboriously escapist backdrop that, without the clear visual identity of, say, a Hogwarts or a Narnia, looks like a collision between a steampunk convention and one of those demented Christmas shops that hawks festive tat all year round.Pete’s Dragon, another low-key live-action fairy tale flick that opened in early August, earned $6.9 million on Friday and $21.5m over its opening weekend. About this movie arrowforward From Disney, the studio that brought you Beauty and the Beast, comes the reimagined tale of The Nutcracker. A gift from her late mother leads her, with the help of her benevolent billionaire godfather (Morgan Freeman), to a magical kingdom where the realms are at war and the mice are terrifyingly well organised. The film introduces Clara (Mackenzie Foy) as she demonstrates her latest invention – some kind of Rube Goldberg mouse-ensnaring machine – and then broadens to waltz and whirl through a vision of kitsch Christmas Victoriana. But the bones of ETA Hoffmann’s original story, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, have been stripped down and reshaped, with grim efficiency, to fit the template of the Disney princess narrative. ![]() It also contains a dance sequence featuring Misty Copeland, a principal at American Ballet Theatre. T his sparkly, spangly fantasy shares a name and some musical motifs with Tchaikovsky’s ballet.
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