I supported the move away from SotS but this is a disaster. It amplifies all of Imagineerings worst tendencies. Perhaps worst of all, it confirms fairly definitively that Imagineering is incapable of producing the kind of rides that made Disney special.
There’s no edge, no tension, no highs and lows. We see the same thing, the same fancy, flailing Tiana figure, over and over. No scenes, no vignettes. Advanced AAs that do nothing, add nothing, punctuating empty space.
The plot, reminiscent of GotG, is an incoherent assemblage of bits with no narrative, tonal, or thematic unity. It feels like a dozen different story treatments smashed together, the whole mess sanitized by corporate censors.
MMRR is vastly superior. I miss Great Movie, but MMRR exists as its own entity in a way TBA and FEA don’t. Characters, even if only on screens, DO things. There’s tonal variety, a fun sense of tension, actual humor. It’s head and shoulders above pretty much anything else modern Imagineering has produced in Florida.
I was right when I said Splash should have been torn out and replaced from the ground up. This is just… sad.
