In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father's sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday.
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You won't be disappointed!
Such a frustrating disappointment
There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
You know the behind-the-scenes story. And if you don't, then look it up or something I am not in the mood to explain it, as I doubt I ever will be or ever have been; while some may find this behind-the-scenes story more compelling than the film itself, I only find it to be mildly interesting in general and it pales in comparison to the level of fascination I have towards the actual film itself. 'Escape from Tomorrow' has a lot going on in it, a lot going for it, and a lot going against it, and all this equates to a trashy, disgusting, horrible mess of a movie I enjoyed very very much. It's trashy exploitation coated in serious artistic merit that is undercut by a ridiculous and super successful sense of black humor that helped save various elements of the film for me. It is a film that is admittedly super cynical and ironic and deliberately unpleasant, and while all of these elements can be very problematic when it comes to their utilization in an actual work of art, the right execution can help enhance these qualities and produce something that is provocative, bizarre, and all around good, or even great. 'Tomorrow' is a hard film to praise or explain w/o some kind of repetition or over-the-top verbosity, but I'm going to attempt to describe how exactly I feel about it and why I do even further. O, it's very difficult. Firstly, secondly, thridly, I mean I've already given reasons. Do I even recommend this? O, I don't know, to some people definitely, to some people definitely not, but when it comes to most "movie buff" types I don't know how or why or even if to recommend such a film at all. It takes so many concepts and genres and styles and images and smashes them all together and it comes out being undeniably memorable and arguably masterfully haunting and disturbing. I felt almost nauseated at various points, even while I was laughing. It's humor is the type of humor that helps add to the unpleasantries and uncomfortabilties of the overall atmosphere. It is surreal and gross and twisted and didn't I already mention how damn disturbing the whole thing is? The characters are weird and mostly unlikable, they are somehow complex caricatures, if that makes any sense. This review is stitching itself together w/various contradictions and similarly wild descriptors and I guess that works when it comes to something like this. The performances aren't very good, but they are perfect for this specific movie. One of the reasons I feel that this film has so often been referred to as "Lynchian" is not only the fact that it is extraordinarily surreal and absurd throughout every last scene, but also b/c, like some of Lynch's work, it contains performances that are so odd and enigmatically out-of-touch that they add so gloriously and richly to the world the man behind the camera is attempting to create, despite being otherwise poor performances that wouldn't at all work in any other type of film (of course, there are many exceptions in Lynch's case; e.g.: Sheryl Lee in 'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me', John Hurt in 'The Elephant Man', Isabella Rosselini in 'Blue Velvet', Naomi Watts in 'Mulholland Dr.', and I could go on and on), and the same goes for some of the visuals (I am mostly referring to the visuals in 'Escape from Tomorrow', although it can be argued that Lynch's new season of 'Twin Peaks' also falls under this "category" of sorts). Satire, surrealism, sick dark humor, this film's got so much going on and off and on and off again, I'd definitely recommend it to...somebody.
This movie basically plays with all the legend Urban's myth of Disney world.From the robots humans to the demons employees to the mysterious deaths to the ghost kids...I mean to all that creepy things that we all hear of Disney.i like the movie creepy ambient and the way they put all things together.The acting is average for this kind of movie and the movie never boring and catch you since the opening.Is glad to see a very different kind of horror movie...see this movie and go inside the "dark and cruel world of Disney".
Warning: This review may be strongly opinionated.I did not like this film as a Disney fan, or even a horror fan. I was sort of expecting him to imagine this all out machine-uprising in the middle of one of my favorite parks, but instead it's just some weird cat based, sexual mental illness? I'm not even sure I understood exactly what this movie was about.And I was heavily annoyed by the constant unclear cuts between shots filmed in DISNEYLAND and shots filmed in Disney WORLD. This may be just because I've got autism, but I am very particular about anything involving my Disney...I was also very upset by the mother having such an issue with her man even so much as touching her arm in front of the kids, and I became really enraged with her as an annoying character when she denied her little girl just one freaking balloon and then slapped her across the face in public. I know she was anxious because she knew her husband was eyeing another girl, but still... What the fudge?? Why, just because of that, yell at your kid at a Disney park and tell her she can't have a Mickey balloon before hitting her? It's not her fault. At this point, the mom was BEYOND help for me, and I felt sorry for the kids when I saw their father died and they were left with mommy. The dad, even with his issues, seemed to be a way better parent. He knew when to be more firm, and when not to be, and he was really trying to make this vacation the best one his kids ever had. He was even willing to wait in the longest line ever for his son to ride Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin. The mom DID take the daughter on the Teacups and Dumbo, but that was about the most fun she ever allowed either kid to have with her around at the parks. Everything else almost was her controlling everything. (Except on the Three Caballeros, I could understand her making them look at things they weren't looking at already there.) Also, this didn't bug me really but I would be curious to ask the daughter why she thought Queen Grimhilde was so scary??? I wasn't afraid of her at that age. :/ As a matter of fact, I really liked her as a Disney villainess from a young age. I'm really glad they still made her go on the Snow White ride though- because in watching this movie I got to "go with them" on my favorite "deceased" ride once again, this time in a really cool looking black and white tint palette.Anyway though, I'll give it to the movie directors for trying to make something bold. Maybe this movie just isn't my cup of tea. But I certainly won't recommend it to my fellow Walt Disney fanatics- the EPCOT ball catches on fire and explodes in an ugly vision, the mother forces the family to go to the non-classic fireworks that are not featured at Cinderella Castle, for the love of god if you love It's A Small World do not watch this movie, and if you're a die-hard fan and you know about Walt's issue with names... You may have mixed feelings about them referring to him as "Mr. W". He ASKED to be called WALT. Not "Mr. Disney", not "Mr. Walt", not "Mr. W". Just WALT.Also, try not to let it annoy you that the Princesses at the parks are NOT wearing official Disney Parks Cast Member Princess gowns, if things like that do annoy you.Looking at this movie from a horror genre point of view, the black and white was a nicely suspenseful item, but it did nothing to hide the fake special effects and makeup. But since this is a fairly new movie, I'm guessing those things were a deliberate move. Maybe for comedy relief. I often never realize it when a black comedy bites me in the rear end. The only time I've ever realized it was with Sweeney Todd... And maybe Beetlejuice. Tim Burton's been the only man ever to be able to help me know a black comedy when I see it. In that case, this movie is pretty bold, if it is a black comedy. It's a good try, and for the horror fans, worth at least one watch, maybe. But it is definitely not an award winner.
DisneyLand, the land of dreams to come true right in front of your eyes, and your nightmares too.The film is about a middle-aged American husband and father of two learns that he has lost his job. Keeping the news from his nagging wife and wound-up children, he packs up the family and embarks on a full day of park hopping amid enchanted castles and fairy tale princesses. Soon, the manufactured mirth of the fantasy land around him begins to haunt his subconscious. Escape from Tomorrow is one of those films that you have to wait about two days after seeing the film, to get all my thoughts of the film to come together it's basically like solving a jigsaw puzzle. I tried my best to dissect the hell out of this movie by it's story, it's different and new style and the movies uncomfortable tone. I found out a lot of interesting things of this movie and the fact that they didn't have Disney's permission to film and get away with it, blows my mind how they pulled it off.I enjoyed Escape from Tomorrow, I enjoyed it in a way that it feels like a guilty pleasure for me and overall I think this movie is weird, messed up, but still a well done film from a first time director. What the movie does so well is putting you in the main character shoes and showing you the anxiety and what it can do.The cinematography in this movie are some of the best and perfect shots I have seen in a movie. I love the black and white look to it, it made the movie more sinister and nerving to watch, which worked so well. I kept thinking to myself of how they didn't get Disney's permission to film but still got away with shots that I have no idea how they got away with, Moore you are a genius. Randy Moore first time film and straight away I want to see him doing other films, because he went for it and it didn't back fire on him.Some people may be put off by the weirdness of the film and it's style and it's laughable moments, which is fine because people can like what their want to like, but what the movie dose so well and I think so people might agree on and that is Randy Moore made DisneyLand look like a place to avoid.Overall I enjoyed watching Escape from Tomorrow and I'm not going to give it the perfect rating, because I don't feel that this movie is "amazing" or "the best movie of century", no but the movie is still worth checking out.