(Blows dust off Movies section again)
Okay, so Disney's latest has been racking up box office dollars like crazy, and I got to see it before the US since I live in one of those early-release countries
Thoughts in the box...
- Best use of animals as social allegory since
Watership Down (And probably most viewer-friendly
)
- As with Frozen, BH6, and IO, I saw this film in 3D, and the 3D visuals are especially good, especially with the train ride and Little Rodentia
- This film is populated with lots of memorable characters... Sure, Nick and Judy have great chemistry together, but don't forget the likes of Clawhauser, the yak, and the sloth
- Nick telling his story reminds me a lot of Flynn at the campfire in
Tangled (Not so surprising, since some of that film's writers helped write this one too
)
- When I saw this in the cinema, most of the audience laughter was at the sloth scene, with the Godfather parody running a close second. Didn't seem that many of the viewers got the Disney meta-references, or "Jesse and Woolter"
- Between Chief Bogo here and Shere Khan in the "live-action" Jungle Book a few weeks later, Idris Elba must have been living in the voice recording booth for a good while