Mediocrity is greatness? Sheesh

Rating: 5/10 (23 February 2014)

Lots of good visuals and plot in this film, but the idea that mediocrity is greatness and that the world can be magically changed just by wishing it were so is just so inaccurate and inane. This film tries to manufacture emotional depth without actually having any - kind of an example of the main problem, which is that just by wishing they made a movie with real meaning it could be so. Toy Story and Up and so many other movies actually HAVE emotional depth and real feeling, and the contrast highlights that this facsimile is using pure manipulation. And kids know the difference - my ten year old daughter left shaking her head at the end and wondering what had gone wrong and why we didn't just go see Frozen again, which would have been a better idea.