Some people have said my problems with the movie. Not only are the kids Disney Channel clones and uninteresting, but what have they done to the Disney villains is downright pandering. Jafar is unrecognizable with his weird, racist and fat body figure. Cruella is the stereotypical crazy, black woman (I don't care for Cruella, so w/e). The Evil Queen is really weird with botox and saying this like "BITTER PARTY OF ONE!" Maleficent was just...oh gosh, painful to watch! She's one of the best Disney villains because how she uses her evil. You can't mess with her (she cursed a ****ing baby, for crap's sake), but she's so graceful and elegant in demur. Watching her being a perky, prancing, snorting, Fosse-dancing god-knows-what whose idea of revenge is picking people's noses with wands and removing people's glasses just shows how little Disney today cares about Walt's legacy.
Thinking they can dumb down these villains to appeal to little kids and tweens is ridiculous. They know these characters! What's the point? It also shows how seriously Disney takes their audience.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
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-whatever2
For people in this thread saying this is crap and questioning artistic choices etc, apparently you are not the target audience. Per BWW, the show delivered ratings for Disney! But what a bunch of...lol
Free country they can write whatever opinion they have. Nobody tells then what to say, much less you. Who made you the board police anyways??! What a bunch of...hypocrisy.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
"Some people have said my problems with the movie. Not only are the kids Disney Channel clones and uninteresting, but what have they done to the Disney villains is downright pandering. Jafar is unrecognizable with his weird, racist and fat body figure. Cruella is the stereotypical crazy, black woman (I don't care for Cruella, so w/e). The Evil Queen is really weird with botox and saying this like "BITTER PARTY OF ONE!" Maleficent was just...oh gosh, painful to watch! She's one of the best Disney villains because how she uses her evil. You can't mess with her (she cursed a ****ing baby, for crap's sake), but she's so graceful and elegant in demur. Watching her being a perky, prancing, snorting, Fosse-dancing god-knows-what whose idea of revenge is picking people's noses with wands and removing people's glasses just shows how little Disney today cares about Walt's legacy. Thinking they can dumb down these villains to appeal to little kids and tweens is ridiculous. They know these characters! What's the point? It also shows how seriously Disney takes their audience."
Someone who reviewed the film considered Chenoweth's portrayal closer to the original animated film's than Jolie's.
I just watched this and was laughing the whole time. I think it could have been decent if they took a less cartoony approach to the villains, making them more sinister and regal as they appear in the films, maybe very strict and the land of the good is seen as more laid back and fun? I don't know, there were just a lot of ill-conceived parts.