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Muppet Babies (2018)
Great songs and imaginative play
The music is great and it is refreshing to see a show that focuses on imaginative play rather than the normal analytical edutainment shows for this age group tend towards. Not that there is anything wrong with the occasional counting and shape identification sidebars, but it's great to have a show focus more on imagination and emotions. And the do it very well with beautiful animation and music.
Tomorrowland (2015)
Fun piece of a bigger puzzle
My review may be a little bias. I have been anticipating this movie for years. I played along with the alternate reality game, the Optimist, they did a couple of years ago about the concept. That was incredibly intriguing. I was at the D23 expo when they went through the "dusty box" of artifacts. The tomorrowland exhibit and app was by far the highlight of the expo. I also read the book "Before Tomorrowland" before watching the movie.
Such a deep world that they created through other sources of media, well before the movie, sold me. It is such an ambitious and captivating project. And this was all years before the movie came out.
Then the movie came out and I heard it was such a financial flop. I thought I was going to be disappointed after years of waiting based on some reviews. But I definitely was not. It added to this world that I already was sold on. It was fun and left me wanting to see it again.
I realize that a vast, vast majority of those who see it will not have read the book, or tried to piece together the clues from the app. Asking that type of commitment is ambitious for the casual moviegoer and that probably made people walk away from the movie like they missed something (because they did). But I applaud this type of original concept, unique marketing, and positive story. I HIGHLY recommend seeing it. I also recommend doing you own exploration into Tomorrowland with the app or book. This type of creative ambition should be supported and does not deserve to be a flop.