I generally liked it, many peeves but overall I liked the actors and the quality of the visuals (mmm pretty coach and zeppelin).
The most disappointing thing to me was how they treated the Billy Costa scenes. It didn't come across anywhere NEAR as heartbreaking and horrifying as it should have been! I was dreading that scene, and then we got to it and it fell totally flat. Ooh, pan is kind of scared, and look, Billy is a bit frostbitten! Lame. It should have been absolutely terrifying, and there was no 'fixing' him!
That kind of ties into the whole tone of the movie thing, there was too much happy go lucky, not enough dread and malice. (like making Iorek 'defeated' instead of a murderer! And not indicating that the adults at Bolvagangar had been separated from their Daemons)
I kind of loved Senorita Sparkletits, at least they consistently went with that time frame, not just sticking her sparkley sluttyness in with typical victoriana.
The Roger ROGER roger ending just HURTS if you know what comes next! Harsh.
Generally it felt like they watered down everything, and tried to make it all less frightening and harsh, so it was still good, but way less intense. I understand that they wanted it to be okay for kids, but they just lost so much of the emotion of the thing! Like the total wrongness of the King and the bear court, trying to live like people, and the aforementioned Billy Costa.
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The most disappointing thing to me was how they treated the Billy Costa scenes. It didn't come across anywhere NEAR as heartbreaking and horrifying as it should have been! I was dreading that scene, and then we got to it and it fell totally flat. Ooh, pan is kind of scared, and look, Billy is a bit frostbitten! Lame. It should have been absolutely terrifying, and there was no 'fixing' him!
That kind of ties into the whole tone of the movie thing, there was too much happy go lucky, not enough dread and malice. (like making Iorek 'defeated' instead of a murderer! And not indicating that the adults at Bolvagangar had been separated from their Daemons)
I kind of loved Senorita Sparkletits, at least they consistently went with that time frame, not just sticking her sparkley sluttyness in with typical victoriana.
The Roger ROGER roger ending just HURTS if you know what comes next! Harsh.
Generally it felt like they watered down everything, and tried to make it all less frightening and harsh, so it was still good, but way less intense. I understand that they wanted it to be okay for kids, but they just lost so much of the emotion of the thing! Like the total wrongness of the King and the bear court, trying to live like people, and the aforementioned Billy Costa.