An average movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but, since it was on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. To be honest, I wonder how this movie did end up in my queue. Well, anyway, the damned thing turned out to be pretty lame after all. The most interesting thing about this movie was the fact that, just when the movie was getting finished, they fired its director, Dylan Brown, due to inappropriate conduct and the movie was eventually released without a credited director which is actually pretty rare. Concerning the movie itself, for starters, the name was rather confusing. Indeed, even though it was called ‘Wonder Park’, this name was never uttered through the whole duration since the park was called ‘Wonderland’ so why didn’t they call the park ‘Wonder Park’ or the movie ‘Wonderland’ in this case? Anyway, making an animated feature about an amusement park was actually a pretty cool idea. Indeed, when I was a kid, I used to be obsessed with amusement parks so there was definitely some potential. Unfortunately, the approach they took here was so tedious though. On one hand, it was indeed about some park but it was also about a girl basically building stuff in her home but what she was doing didn’t have much to do with an actual amusement park after all and they clearly struggled to combine these two things together. Basically, the end-result was some kind of combination of ‘Narnia’ with ‘Up’ involving an imaginary amusement park and this mix never really worked. About the ‘Up’ connection, they didn’t even go all the way as it turned out that the mother was only ill and not terminally ill after all. It also bothered me that most of the rides were actually not physically possible without mentioning the fact that all the mascots looked so lame and pathetic. Finally, it was one of these typical animated features apparently suffering from ADHD with some action scenes so busy with so many stuff going on and it was sometimes rather tiresome to behold. Anyway, to conclude, even if I have to admit that it was rather harmless, it was still pretty weak though and I don’t think it is really worth a look. 

5/10