Pretentious, difficult to follow, and frequently prioritizes showing off its CG settings over coherent storytelling or world-building, to the point where most of its running time feels like it’s taking place in a series of disconnected CG tableaux rather than any consistent vision of a cyberpunk future… I think I liked it?
Actual song lyrics from Disney’s Wish:
“So I look up at the stars to guide me / And throw caution to every warning sign”*
“I can't help it / If mirrors love my face / It's genetics! / Yeah, I got these genes from outer space”
“When it comes to the universe, we're all shareholders / Get that through your system (solar!)”**
It’s been thirteen years since Tangled gave us Walt Disney Animation Studios’ last proper villain (as in, not one…
interesting HIV-scare premise makes for an ultimately unsatisfying gay teen coming-of-age flick set in 2011, and which feels awfully like an indie movie that would have been made in that year. strong points are an overqualified ing cast and a cute romance subplot (which ends, well, unsatisfyingly), but found Sivan's character to be an unlikable prick for a large swath of the running time and didn't care much for the ending.
without getting into plot details, it’s also weirdly sex-negative and…
