From: lalbert1@aol.com   
      
   On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 08:15:33 -0700 (PDT), Bob    
   wrote:   
      
   >My friend and housemate Don wanted to see this award-winning movie at last   
   night's   
   >outdoor showing in Memory Park in Newton NJ, so we went.  Less than an hour   
   into it   
   >I found myself doing astronomy, as it was a beautiful clear night and the   
   field lights were off.   
   >The first 20 minutes gave me the impression (which was not dispelled by the   
   >rest of it) that the makers wanted to sell it for people to buy and rewind   
   often to watch in slow motion.   
   >You can't follow the computer-animated action, it's so fast and visually   
   spectacular, with very fast operatic   
   >monolog to music.  So it's dazzling but incomprehensible.  That's OK, except   
   for one main point, it's irrelevant anyway.   
   >Although it keeps distracting you, where it's all going is telegraphed very   
   shortly after the opening.   
   >What semblance of plot is discernible is trivial, and one you've   
   >seen many times before and may well know from real life, minus the allegoric   
   magic: a well-meaning but insensitive   
   >and controlling matriarch.  The conclusion avoids the predictable-but-good   
   idea which would've been, now we'll live   
   >like normal people, what's wrong with that, huh?  Instead it presents the   
   also-predictable-but-evil Disney idea that   
   >all the magic is restored, magically.   
   >Oh, and the setting, if you can figure it out, appears to be a rehash of   
   Hanuka.   
   >It's people restoring their lives after some delay after an invasion, with a   
   flame that inexplicably keeps burning,   
   >symbolic of miracle.  But that too seems like a distraction from the main   
   action in the movie.   
   >Bob in Andover   
      
      
   I have not seen the movie so I can't say if your review is good or   
   bad.  But I am puzzled by your statement above, "Instead it presents   
   the also-predictable-but-evil Disney idea that all the magic is   
   restored, magically.".  Why is that an evil idea?   
      
   Les   
      
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