Animated Atrocities 197 || Wonder Park [2019 Film]
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Imagine if Up ended with Ellie showing up and saying "Guess what? I'm back. I got better somehow."
I could excuse that as Carl hallucinating while passing away
@@christosgiannopoulos828 Oh gosh, like the ending of Hachi: A Dog's Tale?
@@Vaajraath I haven't watched that one but I can guess from the info you gave me
The dead speak!
*sigh Somehow, Ellie returned.
The Rise of Skywalker is basically this kind of story but with the parent returning out of nowhere being the big bad himself, Palpatine.
Sounds like a How It Should Have Ended video.
Alternate ending to the Lion King. Mufasa comes back right before the final battle to tell everyone that he is not dead, he was just resting. Simba is happy, Scar sheepishly apologizes, and the film ends with everyone singing Hakuna Matata.
I remember seeing this movie, the fact that the mom ended up being perfectly fine as soon as the kid got her imagination back rubbed me the wrong way. It felt like the movie telling all the kids who have terminally ill parents that it’s their fault their parents are still sick, they’re apparently not BELIEVING hard enough.
Very good point.
That's fucked up.
Reminds me of that terrible Golden Films movie, "Magic Gift of the Snowman".
Reminds me of Nostalgia Critic's review of Pokemon: The First Movie. Doug called out how fucked up it is for kids films to show that, "If you cry hard enough, you can bring people back from the dead!"
It then has the implication of, "You didn't cry hard enough? Guess you didn't love them enough."
Tell me about it. Just like these insipid films I saw that show the kids’ parents getting back together just because the kid and his/her sports team won the championship.
Never make the ending feel like the rest of the movie is pointless
Rule of thumb to any story based media.
@TheMysteriousMrEnter Do you agree with Animat / ElectricDragon505 that Chicken Little helped saved Disney, I’m just curious.
"Never make the ending feel like the rest of the movie is pointless"
I never forget how angry i was after one french movie, based on "le petit nicolas" - The entire movie, nicolas was observing his parents behaviour, and thought that his mother was pregnant...
And at the end, they revealed that she isn't pregnant and that they just were talking like a typical married couple the entire time...
And yeah, later, she does in fact have a baby... but i felt like i lost 1 hour and around 30 minutes of my life, and most of the movie felt just pointless
This even applies to sequels that render the original finale pointless in hindsight.
This is why some people (including me) have a hard time liking the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy.
Return of the Jedi had a clear grand finale for the George Lucas Star Wars films, but a Sequel Trilogy just had to be made where Return of the Jedi’s well-earned happy ending was made pointless.
I love The Last Jedi but I found The Force Awakens to be mid while The Rise of Skywalker was hilariously awful.
This is why I personally don’t want a Phantasy Star V, even if some people want it. Phantasy Star IV was made specifically to be the ultimate ending to the main Phantasy Star games, and making a sequel would just make the grand finale of IV pointless in hindsight.
This is also why I have a hard time accepting Metal Gear Rising’s premise (though I love the game and how insane the story is). Making a sequel set in a dystopian future after MGS4’s perfect and well-earned happy ending where the dystopian rule is no more just seems to rub me the wrong way. I would’ve preferred Metal Gear Rising if it were an interquel between MGS2 and MGS4 like what was originally planned. This is why Kojima doesn’t accept Rising as canon, and why it’s officially considered a side-story spinoff if you chose to believe that it is indeed canon.
This is also why I prefer grand finales to stick with said finales instead of making post-finale sequels or seasons. I would want a minor epilogue side-story or two showing where the characters are now
Why would the ending of Wonder Park make the rest of the movie pointless in this case? Because June Bailey's mom being alive does not - or _should not_ take away from anything June Bailey learned about...keeping the positive light of creativity inside her shining when she has to learn how to keep Wonder Park alive without her mom. At the end June Bailey learned how to keep her sense of wonder for Wonder Land alive on her own, regardless of if her mom survived or died out. Seeing her mom alive does not just make her forget what she learned.
They could have kept the mom alive if they used Wonderland as June’s crutch of a coping mechanism. Maybe she actively didn’t want to see her mother sick in a hospital so she would go to her fantasy land instead. If the pacing was fixed she could go back multiple times and not see her mom while the rest of her family did. It would make the quote of the chimp even more impactful.
You are a genius, Eddy! Perhaps this is why we have to wait an extra 3 years for Adventures in Wonder Park after production was completed; Wonder Park's writers saw the big writing problems with their movie when it was poorly received and realized they rushed the movie's production when they did not think of how to rewrite the story better to establish these things about June's character. If they had to delay Adventures in Wonder Park this long and air it on Paramount+, then they most likely needed to rewrite episodes and then spend even more time reanimating it so the series can have much better writing than the movie before it. Adventures in Wonder Park is tasked with the extra burden of showing us what the character dynamics between June Bailey and the Wonder Land/Park animals are normally like when she has her sense of wonder that created Wonder Land, because the movie seems to expect us to already have that in mind when we watch it, even though it was made BEFORE Adventures in Wonder Park! If the people who wrote this movie want to use that excuse, it only means something in the end if the series Adventures in Wonder Park can introduce and establish the personalities of the Wonder Land animals and the character dynamics between them and June in the way the movie before it forgot to do.
That's what the underrated film I Kill Giants did.
Right?
I didn't play much of it, but I felt like Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch was trying to communicate this when Oliver cried onto his lantern, turning him into Drippy and bringing him into the other world
“And the villain is darkness. How Disney Channel Original Movie of you!” ~CellSpex on this movie
So basically (And speaking of Disney).
The main villain is that darkness force thing from Kingdom Hearts.
Just minus the darkness creatures like The Heartless or Nobodies or whatever minor enemy the game decides that you can fight.
And minus all the magic darkness powers.
But hey. What do I know?
Or like the Emptiness in "The Neverending Story". Which was also about an over-imaginative kid with a dead mom.
But even then, it wasn't (just) a metaphor for depression.
@@fermintenava5911 That was actually called The Nothing In Never Ending Story.
Not the emptiness.
Darkness! No parent! (Until the end)
What a pity that the review was copyright-striked.
It was pretty damn funny.
Well, you see, Mr. Mr. Enter, Jun's mother never wears a ponytail that rests on one of her shoulders, so she's safe from the sudden maternal decease syndrome that plagues all animated mothers.
Are there any non-anime examples of that? Cause I've only seen that happen in Japanese anime specifically.
@@thelastwindwaker7948 It's originally from Disney; Bambi's mom, Nemo's mom, Quasimodo's mom, Tarzan's mom, Koda's mom, and Elsa's mom.
@@thatguyonyoutube989 I meant moms that wear the over the shoulder ponytail.
@TheMysteriousMrEnter Do you agree with Animat / ElectricDragon505 that Chicken Little helped saved Disney, I’m just curious.
@@thelastwindwaker7948 the kid has already got giant eyeballs like anime
You can sorta tell "Wonder Park" was a last-minute name change because Wonder Land would've been confused for a Disney trademark.
Even though Alice In Wonderland was not originally Disney's Property.
And was property of the Lewis Carroll estate.
But what do I know?
Since Alice In Wonder Land is in the public domain.
If they had gone with that, the movie would have almost definitely gotten a new title in Canada, since Wonderland is already the name of a large theme park here in Ontario
@@aaa1e2r3 Ah, so they were trying to avoid a Zootopia/Zootropiis situation? Yeah, that checks out.
Also, there’s a Dutch Wonderland in Pennsylvania USA, so that’s another legal can of worms.
@TheMysteriousMrEnter Do you agree with Animat / ElectricDragon505 that Chicken Little helped saved Disney, I’m just curious.
@@dylansmith5206 Disney literally tried to copyright the phrase "Day of the Dead", A FUCKING REAL HOLIDAY
I still remember the controversy about the film's director. It resulted in this being one of the very few feature films to not have a director credit.
It was the first animated film since The Pebble and the Penguin to lack one.
Wtf happened!?
@@strange_0ne535 The director was fired due to sexual assault and harassment allegations. It occurred a few months before the film's release.
@@nyanpirethecat2257 shit :(
“Did the film just direct itself?”
-Billy Crystal
This movie seems like it has the “animated kids movie” disease where it has to be light, soft and the edges shaven off to be palatable for children. It befalls a lot of really good concepts.
Fun fact: they fired the director for this movie early on in production and then just never hired another.
So is that why the second half was so much worse than the first half of the movie?
@@aaronfield7899 Well, not not necessarily, because you don't really make a film in order, per say. But it probably didn't help.
I'm guessing a producer or someone must've overseen the movie after that.
@@billybarnett9518 Well, yes, that would likely be the case, but a producer has a different skill-set from a director. There's a reason why films need a director. You can get by with minimal input from a producer, but a director is invaluable.
I feel this MIGHT'VE worked if June's mother was in a coma with slim chances of survival.
Or terminal with a shortened life expetancy, and June being encouraged to make the most out of the time she has left with her mother.
Like a sort of touch and go situation. Then her mother could be okay in the end (albeit only functional after long rehab sessions).
Or if June was so terrified of the prospect of her mom dying that she was too scared to visit her in the hospital and instead regressed into some kind of "my mom is fine everything is fine" imaginary world, the movie was about her learning that wasn't healthy, and it ended with her visiting her mom in the hospital and it ending on a bittersweet kind of ambiguous "maybe she'll live maybe she'll die" kind of thing.
I watched this movie in the cinema with my family. Here’s what I remember from that screening:
1) My then 14-year old sister fell asleep when June’s mom got taken to the hospital, but woke up when the mom turned out to be fine like nothing happened.
2) I got headaches from the fast camera movement, which was not helped by my family sitting in front of the screen.
3) I noticed a family behind me that disappeared about halfway through.
4) The only laughter I heard from the audience was when Boomer was on the rollercoaster, which apparently the executives were so proud of that it appeared in every trailer.
This was definitely a waste of a good concept, and it shows that both Paramount and the director had no idea how to use it correctly.
If only there was a good movie about a girl(s) struggling with the stress of a sick/absent parent, while also entering a fantastical world with whimsical creatures that helps heal their problems?
Oh wait, we do!
It's called My Neighbor Totoro!
This movie shows why it is good Totoro does not talk.
Yup!!
or, alternatively, infinity train
Good old Ghibli
A more cynical ending would be her mom only returning in her imagination. Which in itself isn't too bad, it would be like saying those who pass remain in our hearts.
Honestly, I keep looking at that scene and, the way the lighting is, it really does feel like it's a dream.
If you change the mom's dialogue to something like, "everything will be okay." They absolutely could've had the mom die and have June dream about her coming back and comforting her.
Now that would have been an ending worth crying over
You know how to do a fake out death right? Even though they’re still alive, don't let them go out unscathed. Like how in telltale walking dead, even though clementine had a fake out death, she lost her leg. It leave a bittersweetness in us.
As far as the implied "OCD" thing, this was also way more heartbreaking with Lilo. Probably because...her parents were ACTUALLY FUCKING DEAD.
"Lilo, why is this so important?"
"Pudge controls the weather."
And how did her parents die? While they were driving on a rainy day.
This belief is even solidified. Because you can see storm clouds moving away from the island.
They did? I thought Lilo's parents died from a zombie outbreak or something.
@@otaking3582
……….what?
@@SonicPlayer2004I think oatking was being a sarcastic.
Sounds like bargaining as well
Apparently, the 1st season of Wonder Park is completed and ready for air - but Nickelodeon prefers to bury it with Made By Maddie - never to be aired.
No fair! Why do they suddenly not want anyone to see it? Do they need more money to broadcast it, or are they also afraid that they will not make enough money from viewership because there might be some reason not enough people will care to see it? Was Made By Maddie also this bad?
@@adampkalb I'm pretty sure it's because of the incident with the film's director having sexual allegations
@@adampkalb Because the controversy with the film's director.
@@adampkalb Made By Maddie was shelved because of the risks of a lawsuit or cease & desist by the people who made the short Hair Love, because the characters looked too similar.
@@digiblader1 Not even just that, the reception of the promo was a general blazing hot fire, and even the Hair Love director responded with literally "🧐🤔". But yeah, the similarities are painfully obvious. They just knew what they were doing.
Remember “The Fox and the Hound”? Chief was supposed to die after getting hit by a train, which made more sense explaining Copper’s anger against Todd. But the veteran animators rebuffed the idea, causing Don Bluth and the younger generation to quit the studio. I really hope something similar happened here where anyone with balls up and left this turkey.
I feel like a better way to have told this story would be to start with like 5 minutes of the mom and daughter building wonderland and the daughtee imagining them there. Like they go to a water park, add some water rides to the model, then you go in the imagination where there's loop-de-loops and an ocean sized wavepool. Then the mother gets sick and has to leave, and the next time the daughter is in wonderland there are a couple small hiccups with rides. Nothing major, just one is closed and a carnival stall doesn't work right. The rest of the movie is split between scenes of the mom talking to the daughter giving status updates, the daughter showing signs of grief and things in the real world, and the daughter trying to escape to wonderland where things are getting progressively worse. Then, when there's some complication with the mom and she needs to get emergency surgery, that's when the park is in it's worse shape, but the daughter finally starts fighting back, repairing rides and things that are implied to be her fixing her relationships (like she makes friends with a science kid, wonderland gets a spsceship ride, and then when the daughter fixes that ride you should show or imply she's apologizing to that friend and making things right). Finally everything is just about right, and you can say there's still a little darkness, but it's over that way so instead I'll focus on these rides, away from it. And then the daughter and dad go to the hospital where they see the mom is still alive. And that's where it ends, maybe the mom will get better and come home, maybe this is only a short spell, but either way the daughter is just happy to have some more time with her mom and now has some tools to help the next time there are problems.
I think you just described the plot of omori but happier
This sounds a lot better.
It’s fitting they set this in a theme park because the tone in this movie keeps zigzagging like a roller coaster but not in a fun unexpected way just in a confusing and stressed way.
Never has something been so obviously rewritten. My theory is that the mom was originally dead, but it bummed out test audiences and made the kids cry. So an additional scene was added, and a few lines were changed, so the mom wasn't dead anymore.
You know I watched this movie. Twice. I was quite enjoying it the first time up until the end with the mother still being alive. The second time to see if it was better knowing that. It wasn't.
(sigh) Am I the only person in these comments who actually liked Wonder Park's ending? However, I will still not deny Wonder Park's story has a huge problem regarding the way it does not go far enough with how serious and sad it wants June and the audience to be. If this movie had better writers who knew how to revise things after their director was fired, Wonder Park could have started to take on a more serious tone in the next scene after June's mom went away, and her aunt and uncle visit to try and cheer up June before she goes to Awe Sum Camp.
@@adampkalb You might be. And if so, that's nothing to be ashamed of. Hell I love the Cars series.
@@adampkalb , saying that June’s mother being alive is perfectly fine with the narrative of the film is like saying Sabo being alive is perfectly fine in the long ongoing narrative of One Piece, and you can’t the faults of Sabo of being alive in that series, but being totally fine with June’s mother being alive in Wonder Park.
This is about the most fucked up thing to show someone especially a kid that also went through grief because a parent that past. Imagine the kid relating to what the main protagonist was going through heavily and then be greeted at the end by the fact that the main protagonist's parent is still alive.
I’d say this film feels directionless but the funny thing is
_it is!_ this has no credited director
really says a lot when you think about it
Thats because the director got fired early in production
they never got a new one
It’s humorous to think the film did so badly, that they pretty much threw the cartoon in the bin .
😱 They did? Where did you learn about this? 😭 I wanted to see Adventures in Wonder Park! Was it no better than the movie? Was it actually worse? Gee, I am amazed the movie Barnyard was not this badly-received in 2006.
@@adampkalb Blame the director
@@nyanpirethecat2257 or lack there off
@adamphibiakalboo Barnyard didn't get much critical love but it was a box office success.
@@billybarnett9518 Well, I know Barnyard got _some_ more critical love than Wonder Park, since Nickelodeon still cared and dared to air its follow-up animated series.
Bridge to Terabithia is a much better version movie of this movie because it actually kills a major character but still keeps the fantasy world alive.
Now that you mention it, Bridge to Terabithia is basically this movie done right.
You could easily make this make more sense by having the mother's condition be highly...touch and go. Perhaps some sort of severe infection that they don't deal with often, and it's gotten bad and done a lot of damage. So from day one the doctors are uncertain. "This is highly rare. If we caught this earlier...well, hindsight is 20/20, we're going to treat it aggressively."
And thus it makes sense that the mother can't always talk to them and the dad might be standoffish. He's thinking "I'm about to lose my wife", and the mom has to spend long hours in tests or on dialysis. Some staff at the hospital are more optimistic, "no this is a really good sign! And we have this highly powerful new antibiotic that the survivors of this condition got!" and others are highly pessimistic "Honestly the dialysis can be dangerous so we'd rather not do this...." and this could influence her imagination world.
This movie almost feels like June is just sad that her mother is away, like a spoiled child, rather than that she is dead.
Well, being separated from a parent for a long time can still be traumatic. Like Enter said, if they’d shown all the important events she missed, like birthdays and school events, it would’ve worked better.
I do have to agree that the movie chickened out at the end. It's difficult enough to tell a story about grief and moving on, but they should've at least committed to it. Even Mr. Magorium committed to the bit, and that's Mr. Magorium.
Essentially this movie was gaslighting a child into thinking her mother was dead when all it could have taken is someone to tell her that her mother is alright. Yeah you want to see a good kids movie about a child's mental health? Watch Inside Out.
I remember people REALLY hating this film back when it came out in 2019. Like even the general audience hated it. I haven't seen it but from the reviews I don't really think I want to
I always took the "darkness" to be an allegory for her depression/trauma. Sometimes those dont go away, even after the inciting incident is over and done with, depression lingers or comes back, and somes traumas are there for life. Like her paranoia about her parents health. Thats something that unless she gets good therapy, would linger for years. Parent health scares really shake kids up bc at that age their parents seem immortal/immune and a major source of security and stability. And a huge health scare rocks the foundation of that security.
This is probably one of the most tragic development stories of all time.
It turned what could have been one of the best animated films of all time into one of the worst.
While it wasn't perfect, the movie "Over the Moon" tackled themes of loss and grief way better, primarily because unlike Wonder Park, that movie ACTUALLY KILLS OFF THE MOTHER.
Just out of curiosity, what do you think removes 'perfect' from Over the Moon?
@@SuperSwordman1 Does it matter?
June: did you die?
Mom: sadly yes, BUT I LIVED!
Imagine OMORI, but Mari was actually alive the whole time. That's basically this.
Fun fact: The warthog is voiced by Megatron Griffin from Family Guy.
Did you know writers of this movie are the exact same who previously wrote Michael Bay TMNT duology bet you didn't see that coming.
I pity the writers, who would seem to have a major harsh reality message, only to get everything subverted with a tacked on happy ending.
This movie is like a Disney fakeout death, but dragged out to an entire movie.
“I am not a psychiatrist. Please do not take my word over a mental health professional.”
Trust me, from someone who knows quite a few of these “professionals” you have a better grasp on the human psyche than they do.
Better than the snakes who’re part of BetterHelp
@@avalasialovewhat I meant was that therapists are too afraid to actually state people’s problems and instead want to such say nice sounding cliches like “mindful awareness”, “being grounded” or “positive affirmation” rather than “You’re lazy, unmotivated, selfish and kind of pathetic. Develop useful skills.”
It’s harsh but helps out in the long run.
@@dylanbuchanan6511 eh, therapist aren't suppose to judge, which I'd say would be for the best for a lot of people that actually have the confidence to go
Give Bridge to Terebithia this, even though the fantasy/imaginary world parts were pretty drawn out and didn't contribute that much to the narrative, at least they weren't a majority of the movie's run time. And that one deals with the grief and loss part better.
It's like somebody wanted to make her die, but the Paramount executives surrounded them and said, "No, if we have to reboot *everything* from the '80s and '90s, that means the crappier movies about parent resurrection, too!"
Speaking of time being a factor here, the fact they fired the director might have something to do with the plot basically being a rehash of Where the Wild Things Are/I Kill Giants and the villain being The Nothing from the Neverending Story.
Who was the director and why was he fired?
@@uprising4c19 The director was Dylan Brown, but was fired due to sexual harassment accusations.
@@nyanpirethecat2257 And they never hired another.
@@eatatjoes6751 wait what? Then how did this was made?
@@ironmaster6496 They sent out the movie uncredited.
Maybe the reason they never talked to the mother is because she was dead _to June._ She feels slighted that her mom suddenly got some disease that may or may not exist, and so she pretends like her mother is no longer on this mortal plain to justify her behavior.
Ya know, I originally thought of this as a joke, but now it seems like the only rational explanation...
I mean you could easily justify it by having it be clear that June is freaking out...and like, she thinks her mom will drop dead at any moment and so she's acting like "no I must ignore feelings, she won't be here soon so I must throw away childish things and become an adult and protect what I have left because I know she's going to be gone..."
Seems more like the intent was portraying a kid dealing with neglect, with a studio mandate to not demonize parents.
A Helga Pataki type thing.
Then damage controlling the plot to a dead parent. Then not even being allowed to do that.
You know, what you say about June and her parents reminds me of how I feel about Rowena and her family especially her parents in the DCOM film "Christmas...Again?!". Like Her family especially her parents have somewhat of a disregard for her feelings, not bothering to sit her down and at least talk this over.
It's simple. Jun's mother met John Coffey, and he used his power to heal her by sucking the cancer out. (RIP Michael Clark Duncan)
😂😂😂
Crap, now I've got to watch Green Mile for the 100th time!
It’s amazing how poor writing can completely wreck a movie that I see really tries to be down to earth and meaningful. I get that they wanted to end this heavy movie with a spark of hope and relief, but they needed to connect the points between. Tell June about her mother, show the mother recovering, have the father show some concern about his daughter. And I think June should also tell the animals about what brought her the grief so they can sympathise with her and be there for her instead of attacking her like that. Yeah, that boar came off as a true jerk here. I mean, come on. Just a little bit more checking before releasing the movie. It really isn’t that hard… 😔
Mr. Enter gave Wonder Park rubbish for being made as two movies - and he was right. It wanted to be a fantasy movie about a kid discovering a hidden place where her imaginary carnival turned out to be real, and a serious movie about teaching children grief and how the trauma of losing a parent at a young age can affect their kid. If he watches Sponge Out of Water now, I really hope he does not also criticize _that movie_ for somehow being written as two different movies the way Patbacknitro and 24 Frames of Nick already have, especially after he has already dealt with Shark Tale, Norm of the North 2, Ralph Breaks the Internet and Wonder Park when they all share the same problem of trying to make two different movie plots in one and miss the mark.
@@adampkalb Yeah, that is also something that they should have connect the dots with.
I usually hate it when a mom in an animated movie gets killed off for no reason, but I think this will work here. If the mom really did die, it will make june's outbursts more understandable and more helpful to treat. They should also have the dad and animals be more helpful too
I guess I made the right call by seeing Us instead. I never thought Wonder Park would be THIS bad, but it came as a shock when it did.
I was watching this movie with a bunch of friends and their kids and we were so confused on wherever her mom was actually dead or not lol
2 things screwed this from the beginning: one is the TV show, so they probably didn't want a melancholic tone around the wacky hijinx of the show.
The second is the director being a creep and the studio deciding to move forward with the project without him or a replacement. What we're watching is the first draft of a script that they were told to animate without deviating from that plan. And because it was going badly, they refused to put any more money into this, which means even less marketing, leading the movie to bomb, sending the show into limbo.
I wonder why no one recommend to June that she should see a therapist or at least try to talk to someone she trusts about her grief.
I would be fascinated to be able to go and see the whole process of this movie's creation. How did the original script look? When were certains things changed? Because you're absolutely right about there being some kind of meddling in there. Possibly some shenanigans with "test audiences" not liking the original ending. Maybe some executives thinking the movie needed more jokes and whacky animals than was originally called for in terms of comedic relief (which you absolutely can, and arguably should, use in a tragedy, but it takes a lot of skill to use properly).
I think there’s a good movie in there somewhere. Shame it’s buried under a tonally inconsistent mess of dull characters.
This movie would've been better if it was like Bridge to Terabithia, that movie does something similar to what this movie did but much better
I forgot this movie even existed.
This movie is like if Hiro’s brother Tadashi died, but turns out his micro bots saved him and he was completely fine. But I honestly can’t tell which movie is worse.
The people who made this movie really should have listened to a quote from Ron Swanson. "Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing"
I remember hearing that this movie was suppose to get a tv show. Similar to Jimmy Neutron & Back at the Barnyard. But it NEVER HAPPENED
It was supposed to release all the way back in 2020,and we've gotten no news since 2019 so
Good review, Mr. Enter and hope you had a great Christmas! 🎄 I forgot about this film tbh and didn't know that they were going to make it into a TV series. Also, love the new intro! 💗
honestly, sounds like even if her mother needed to be put or was in a coma it would have worked better, cus at least then there is a reason they cant just talk to her, and a ending where she wakes up but still needs treatment would be less terrable (not that it would fix all the problems, just some)
I can actually imagine a scenario where you can actually have a story in which the mother doesn't die and make it work.
It's clearly not the same, but it is possible for a person to grief or cope with the idea of death before someone's actually passing away. Primarily by giving the character the concept of death and having to come to terms with the fact that people die, so they can enjoy life and their loved ones in the present. It is something that can happen to people, especially at a young age, and cannot figure how to deal with it, because it hasn't happened yet.
I don't think this movie does a good job at doing such thing, but i think the idea in it of itself can be done, especially if it's a kids film
Producers, talk to your writers about Unspecified Drama Disease. It's an easily preventable illness. There is no reason for your characters suffer from it.
The villain in this movie is reality itself.
According to this movie, reality can be beaten. :P
It’s like if the gargoyles in Hunchback took over production halfway through
I keep forgetting this movie exists
Right?
Just like the Playmobil movie
@@roboticturtle8822 I guess I only remembered Wonder Park because its animation was much better than Playmobil, and I was a little too excited to see the name of Mila Kunis (the voice of Meg Griffin from Family Guy) in her second animated film after Hell and Back.
The fact the director got fired due to sexual harassment didn't help matters. The film got zero advertisement.
I almost watched this one in theaters because the trailer made it look more weighty and heavy than it ended up being. Basically I thought it was going to be what Lightyear ended up being.
Mr Enter never disappoints
I stopped watching when the wonder gang blamed the girl for being sad. So I can't really say much about the mom. So if this movie is about handling grief, it is god awful. What was the message here? "This is all your fault for being sad, start feeling guilty about it, f you"
So if we add the mom situation, what if she never returned and is actually dead, the message really just is "you weren't feeling guilty enough, that's why your mom never returned"
Like the new style! Also as someone who recently lost a parent, having the mother still be alive is incredibly insulting to me. Oh yeah, the mom just gets over her disease. Well I would've liked for my dad to get over his heart attack, but it didn't happen.
This is the first movie to have no credited director
And it shows
Uh, maybe this film would have worked better if it took a more Bridge to Terabithia like approach to the story. Maybe Wonder land (or what it should be called Wonder Park) could have been how June specifically deals with the grief of loosing her mother or whatever.
Wonder Park is unique because, as far as i know, this is the only movie that the director went uncredited because he is accused of sexual harrassment.
I remember hearing about that before the film's release.
Maybe the fantasy should have been treated as escapism…
A bad coping mechanism.
Wasn't expecting a new background and title screen. Nice!
Unspecified Forced Drama Not-Cancer Disease is a trope that I consider somewhat overused, and it makes a movie like this come off as manipulative. Not to mention that cancer has a possibility of going into remission, which would explain the ending you spoiled.
Nickelodeon has been going to hell since the early 2000s. No more good shows, no more good movies. Hell, the studios at the Universal Studios Orlando Florida park is gone, that was the death knell for Nickelodeon.
@BlueLasagna. fair enough
Reminder that there was no director's credits on this film
These new videos are really great, keep up the work ^^
Nice update on the visuals, writing and presentation!
I think there's an art to having fun wacky shinenigans mixed with darker elements, One way I would do it is to have funny moments start small, slowly, and in a way that's not offensive to the situation, than go to your fun wacky hijinks, same works for the darker moments, you need to ease both of these moments in instead of being sparatic about it, other wise you’ll suffer from mood whiplash faster than Junko Enoshima can change personalities
What makes this tragic is that Wonder Park was a destroyed dream of one Pixar veteran. He was MeToo'd, and the movie was credited without a director, as production was taken advantage by no name producers. The name "Wonderland" isn't technically owned by Disney, and it seems companies fail to see that the name as in relation to Alice are in the public domain. I assume corporations don't get jackshit about the public domain, but kids aren't stupid. They can handle subjects out to challenge them like a child or parent having cancer. And the "It's For Kids" excuse continues to piss me off constantly, because kids are smarter than anyone thinks. If this movie wasn't screwed over, it would've been one of the most deepest animated films of all time next to The Land Before Time, among others.
when I saw the trailer I knew I wasn’t going to like this movie and I couldn’t have been anymore right.
The only way that this film was tolerable was with the One Movie Later episode about it.
...So basically, the Movie's pacing and ending was what Broke the Film.
Either tell the story of someone coping with the loss of a parental figure to a disease, or someone coping with a parental figure suffering from a disease, but *might* be ok in the end. I didn't see this movie, but now I know why it's awful.
So the movie is basically boy and the heron but not good😑 I think if the mom was in a coma would’ve made more sense I mean, not knowing if her mother was going to wake up or not
I didn’t care for Wonder Park.
Same
I enjoyed it until the ending. The ending undid the movie for me.
The only people that care for this movie are those that force us to love Nickelodeon even though they have exploited so many minors and the original director of this movie was fired for sexual assault.
I think that your comment pretty much summed up everyone's reaction.
You're not lone.
The thing with June not realizing what was happening and the lack of time I see as just her lack of understanding of the world. Like, maybe this is incompetent writing, but I think it actually worked out since it could be so hard on her that she doesn't want to hear any updates, her mom being sick is so devastating that even with her family talking to her and providing updates it's "just not what should happen, she's going to die" even if it isn't terminal (I knew some kids that thought a moderate new problem was some terminal thing and thing and the person was going to die even when people said "no he's going to be ok"). Also, kids have a weird perception of time, so "how long was this really" is within reason (maybe this happened over a week or month, but because of June's age it felt much longer).
Exactly! Obviously there's flaws but they could of provided more context with the mother and developing the characters more. Other then that I LOVED this movie
The characters are quite mean spirited to June
I hope you had a good Christmas, Enter.
From the disclaimer at the start, I thought it was going to turn out that the mom was in a mental hospital.
Ngl, I didn't even realize this existed. But yea, another video from Enter is a good present for me
The warhog is voiced by MILA KUNIS?!?!
I haven't seen anyone cover this movie yet. Looks like enter is here to do that.
Have you covered the Netflix Little Prince CG movie? That covers eeriely similar traits to Wonderpark, to the point I've confused them in my head a few times :D
I'll have to check it out sometime soon, if its anything like this.
It was also an animated Paramount movie, but that one was unfortunately pulled from releasing in theaters at the last second. I remember seeing a trailer before Norm of the North funny enough.
Reminds me when tulip from Infinity train.
Actually got to go to her camp I stead of her parents splitting up causing her to miss out on that opportunity for the rest of our life or at least until she can pay bills herself.
this is just the trope where the protagonist is supposed to be dead at the end of a high budget animated movie but tears or smth bring it back
Whoa, 😮 updated theme music, sweet 👍
1:22 pretty sure the park was retconned to being named Underland in the shitty CGI live action remake.
You are probably the first person to care about this Movies Exxistence since 2019