The entire tone of the thing...it's off.
"From Royal Encounters, to Royal Rooms!" - *cuts to dad reading "Beauty and the Beast" to his kids...while mom folds laundry in the background.*
"From Pirates to Paradise" - *cuts to a dwarf ventriloquist pirate screaming "AYE!" while firing a cannon and not moving his lips*
What's worse is how this poor fellow's head slumps forward. Sure, he's supposed to be firing a cannon....but my god, he's so damn depressed about it.
And what the heck was up with that PotC "ride through" shot? Was that an actual ride through of actors that they filmed? Because it totally looks like they borrowed the same set that Captain Morgan used last year, but digitally inserted the Wicked Wench.
Either that or they DID film it on the actual ride, and then CGI'd the ever-loving crap out of it, adding the bright night stars and removing Barbossa. (does Geoffrey Rush have a "no advertisements" clause in his contract? Or are they operating under the assumption that nobody likes Barbossa?)
*Pirates splash morphs into Kid jumping into pool, causing a splash*
*Mom is sitting on the lawn chair and watching the kids play. Dad is in the pool with the kids. Dad decides that it would be sporting to splash Mom, even though it's obvious that Mom doesn't want to be wet, otherwise she would have joined them.*
WHAT A JERK. Seriously, first he hogs all the time with the kids...and then he pulls THIS crap? And poor Mom just smiles and takes it.
"Book now and discover how close the Magic can be!"
*cuts to a completely different family watching fireworks over Cinderella Castle, apparently standing right in front of the castle....and a quick smartphone cut reveals that this family is actually watching the fireworks from an invisible platform hovering over Seven Seas Lagoon somewhere between Contemporary and the Monorail Stat--OH MYGOD WHAT DID THEY DO TO SPACE MOUNTAIN?
LOOK at it! Go to 0:28...where Space Mountain is supposed to be is a vaguely Space-Mountain-shaped pile of rubble. They blew it up.
Or rather...they CGI'd something that didn't need to be CGI'd and made it look like crap.
They CGI'd the rest of the park, too. The castle is surrounded now by trees, Space Mountain Rubble, a few nondescript buildings, and a strange mist covering the whole park.
Which brings me to this conclusion: the commercial takes place in a post-apocalyptic future. A massive mega hurricane rolled over Florida for and for some reason just stopped in place. Acid rain formed in this hurricane and millions upon millions of gallons of acidic rainwater gushed forth over Walt Disney World. It caused some minor damage to a few of the buildings (Cinderella Castle is missing a few spires), but the damage was catastrophic to the limestone just underneath the soil....Space Mountain, and most of the rest of the Magic Kingdom, caved into giant sinkholes that formed. BTMRR survived mostly intact, while Pirates was operable but diminished. Epcot and DHS are both kaput. Animal Kingdom has been abandoned and the animals escaped, resulting in a rash of lion and tiger attacks across central Florida. Avatar Land fell into a sinkhole that looked surprisingly like a human sphincter when viewed from the air.
So Disney is rebuilding. They want you to know that while the parks are going through a transitional period, the MAGIC is still there.
Kind of.
"From Royal Encounters, to Royal Rooms!" - *cuts to dad reading "Beauty and the Beast" to his kids...while mom folds laundry in the background.*
"From Pirates to Paradise" - *cuts to a dwarf ventriloquist pirate screaming "AYE!" while firing a cannon and not moving his lips*
What's worse is how this poor fellow's head slumps forward. Sure, he's supposed to be firing a cannon....but my god, he's so damn depressed about it.
And what the heck was up with that PotC "ride through" shot? Was that an actual ride through of actors that they filmed? Because it totally looks like they borrowed the same set that Captain Morgan used last year, but digitally inserted the Wicked Wench.
Either that or they DID film it on the actual ride, and then CGI'd the ever-loving crap out of it, adding the bright night stars and removing Barbossa. (does Geoffrey Rush have a "no advertisements" clause in his contract? Or are they operating under the assumption that nobody likes Barbossa?)
*Pirates splash morphs into Kid jumping into pool, causing a splash*
*Mom is sitting on the lawn chair and watching the kids play. Dad is in the pool with the kids. Dad decides that it would be sporting to splash Mom, even though it's obvious that Mom doesn't want to be wet, otherwise she would have joined them.*
WHAT A JERK. Seriously, first he hogs all the time with the kids...and then he pulls THIS crap? And poor Mom just smiles and takes it.
"Book now and discover how close the Magic can be!"
*cuts to a completely different family watching fireworks over Cinderella Castle, apparently standing right in front of the castle....and a quick smartphone cut reveals that this family is actually watching the fireworks from an invisible platform hovering over Seven Seas Lagoon somewhere between Contemporary and the Monorail Stat--OH MYGOD WHAT DID THEY DO TO SPACE MOUNTAIN?
LOOK at it! Go to 0:28...where Space Mountain is supposed to be is a vaguely Space-Mountain-shaped pile of rubble. They blew it up.
Or rather...they CGI'd something that didn't need to be CGI'd and made it look like crap.
They CGI'd the rest of the park, too. The castle is surrounded now by trees, Space Mountain Rubble, a few nondescript buildings, and a strange mist covering the whole park.
Which brings me to this conclusion: the commercial takes place in a post-apocalyptic future. A massive mega hurricane rolled over Florida for and for some reason just stopped in place. Acid rain formed in this hurricane and millions upon millions of gallons of acidic rainwater gushed forth over Walt Disney World. It caused some minor damage to a few of the buildings (Cinderella Castle is missing a few spires), but the damage was catastrophic to the limestone just underneath the soil....Space Mountain, and most of the rest of the Magic Kingdom, caved into giant sinkholes that formed. BTMRR survived mostly intact, while Pirates was operable but diminished. Epcot and DHS are both kaput. Animal Kingdom has been abandoned and the animals escaped, resulting in a rash of lion and tiger attacks across central Florida. Avatar Land fell into a sinkhole that looked surprisingly like a human sphincter when viewed from the air.
So Disney is rebuilding. They want you to know that while the parks are going through a transitional period, the MAGIC is still there.
Kind of.
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