Review of Collider Witching Hour - HOT TAKE and Review

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“First of all, I wanted to say that I've really been enjoying the podcast, and to keep up the great work,. I just went to see Coco this week, and I thought it was fantastic! An excellent return to form for Pixar. And it's a good thing that it was so fantastic, because otherwise, it might have been completely ruined by Olaf's Frozen Adventure, the insipid 21-minute-long animated "short" that ran before it. I've been racking my brain and I'm pretty sure that Olaf's Frozen Adventure is the worst piece of entertainment media I've seen in at least a decade. First of all, how can anyone possibly think it's a good idea to take a crappy made-for-TV Christmas special and turn it, seemingly uncut, into an animated short to play in front of a completely unrelated movie? Even if it had been good, it would've been way too long. But it was decidedly not good, making it completely unbearable! When I go to see a Pixar movie, I expect one of those charming animated shorts that they produce and put in front of all their movies, and at best is really good (Day and Night, For the Birds, Presto) but at worst is completely harmless and over in five minutes (Boundin'). Instead, what we got was a Frozen animated short, which is already pretty irritating just in general. Then on top of that, even in the first few minutes before I knew how long it was, it was just awful! The songs were terrible and the plot was utterly pointless, even for an animated short. But at about the 5-minute mark, when it started to make my friend and I want to knock each other unconscious just to make it stop, he looked it up on his phone and saw that there were 15 MINUTES LEFT. I literally almost fell out of my chair! It was such a painful viewing experience that at least one person in my theater left and I'm pretty sure didn't come back (if they did, it was well into Coco). A little girl sitting behind me, who looked to be around 8 years old (bullseye on the Frozen demographic target, in other words), said to her mom, "Wow Mommy...this is really bad, isn't it?" I can't imagine why Disney thought this was a good idea. I realize they're trying to get people excited for Frozen 2 or whatever, but all they've succeeded in doing, I'm pretty sure, is making nobody want to see it. What sense does it make to advertise for your new movie by keeping people from watching the movie they actually want to see for almost an additional half-hour? I'm not sure I've ever seen anything that felt so long in all my life...it literally felt like I was watching a Titanic/Return of the King double feature! I'm pretty sure there were as many songs in this 20-minute animated short as there were in the entirety of Frozen. So if I'm going to extrapolate, I'm guessing that Frozen 2 will be over three hours long and feature 100 songs. No thanks on that! It really is a testament to how great Coco was that I was able to sweep Olaf's Frozen Adventure aside in my mind within five minutes and actually get into the movie. Next time, Disney, how about actually putting the dumb Christmas special on ABC like you were going to to begin with and accompanying the movie with an animated short that actually gets audiences in the mood for the movie to come, like has always happened with Pixar movies! Anyway, keep up the good work, guys!”Read full review »

JAbbey10 via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 12/02/17

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