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nimrod1138 t1_j220a7i wrote

We just finished it. It wasn’t bad… but it dragged. It was visually stunning, but I don’t think it was well-written, compared to others in the Disney canon. And it was just weird, like something happens to a character (admittedly a very minor one) and it’s just ignored? There’s a weird heel turn followed by a face turn spurred by almost zero evidence? Pando (and how the $&%# did that name came up?) exists but… ugh, should have written this on my laptop, I don’t want to spoil anything. Let’s just say I have a lot of unresolved questions.

It was OK. Just A-OK. But not deserving of hate due to a mixed race couple with a gay son.

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zupancia t1_j268uug wrote

Pando is the name of a giant tree thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)

Also Clade is a great name for an explorer because it's a reference to evolutionary biology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clade

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nimrod1138 t1_j276okx wrote

I caught the Clade reference, having done research in that area myself. It also just sounds like a cool name.

I did not know about pando though. Granted, I had heard of the concept of super-organisms like pando (I think there’s also a fungus that’s similar)… but didn’t know pando. And again, why pando (but not directed at the film but at the scientists who named a quaking aspen that)? I have to say though, I appreciate that aspect of the story more knowing about the real-life pando.

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Fortherebellion72 OP t1_j221mhw wrote

Yeah, totally, it wasn’t up there with the best of them.

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nimrod1138 t1_j222ps8 wrote

I think you could probably lay the lack of marketing of this film to the previous Disney regime, I don’t think they knew what to do with the finished product. Could this have been one of the last films that Iger green-lit when he first tenure as Disney CEO was ending (I have no idea about the production timelines of animated films)?

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