Post by Vits on Jul 3, 2019 20:25:50 GMT
In WONDER PARK, the (few) scenes that take place in the real world are actually more interesting than the ones that take place in the magical amusement park that for some reason has a different name than the movie's title. A big portion of the plot manages to be simultaneously convoluted and simplistic. The animal characters' bodies may have different colors from each other (and from their real-life counterparts), but they're far from colorful. They're quite forgettable. The human characters somehow are a little more memorable than them. Brianna Denski's performance is very good. Mila Kunis' isn't bad, but she was miscast. No, not every cartoon boar has to sound like PUMBAA, but her delivery and intonations don't match the character's expressions. A lot of the frames are awkward. Not in an experimental film kind of way; in a bizarre cinematography that doesn't match the scene kind of way. How can this happen in an animated movie? Steven Price's music score is a little too similar to the one in JURASSIC PARK, especially when JUNE BAILEY (the protagonist) arrives to the park. Speaking of, she gets there after wandering into the woods because her camp counselors apparently didn't check that all the kids were on the bus. That actually could've been turned into a joke, but it's not even alluded. They... just... take off. In the opening scene, GUS & COOPER (2 of the animals) yell "Beaver twin brothers, activate!" It's a reference to the WONDER TWINS from SUPER FRIENDS. You'll notice that they omitted the word "Wonder," even though this scene already had a bunch of puns with that word. What are they even activating? They're not using super-powers in that scene; just their animal abilities. Man, what a weird gag.
4/10
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At the beginning, there's a happy montage that turns sad as the dialogue-less images allude that JUNE's mom will die. It wouldn't be the 1st animated movie to have a young protagonist without 1 or both of their parents. She then says that she's sick but not in a terminal way, and that she'll travel to receive treatment. Predictably, she returns at the end of the movie all cured. I actually wished she had died. Sorry, but it would've been proof that Josh Appelbaum, Robert Gordon and André Nemec have balls script-writing-wise. However, she should've died in the last part. As I said, starting the story with a dead parent has been done already. Doing it like this would've been more original and mature. It would've been a way for JUNE to be struck by tragedy and learning how to use her creativity (the one she used to create the magical world) to move on. Isn't that what the movie was already trying to do? To contrast her reality with her adventure? As it is, it doesn't really work. Her reality isn't that harsh (she's still in a constant good mood) and her adventure is too over-the-top and silly to convey the idea that the experience is teaching her a life lesson.
4/10
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