This film is about Disney's very future.
A while back I wrote comments for Disney's first post-Pixar film, "Chicken Little." My thoughts at the time were that Disney was at surrender stage, and that they had inserted explicit commentary to that fact in the film itself.
Disney and Pixar have since reconciled, and the first fruits of the patched-up partnership are obvious here, complete with the same type of self-referential embedded commentary as in "Chicken." When the two companies parted ways, Disney was lost. As helpless as an infant left on an orphanage's front step. So this story goes, of an abandoned child. An extremely gifted and inventive wreck of a child in search of guidance and nurture.
Disney went back to the drawing board here. The first task: get back that magic they once possessed, monopolized even. So our hero seeks to invent a machine to help him obtain forgotten memories. (Highlighted by an old Mickey short which ran before the film began.)
The bulk of the film is an exploration into what the future may hold, and an admittance is made that said future is wholly dependent on family (Pixar).
Think I'm reading too much into this? Check out how the movie is bookended: At the beginning Disney unveils its brand new (and very impressive) logo. The end is a direct quote from Walt Disney himself about the future of Disney and the importance of moving forward.
A while back I wrote comments for Disney's first post-Pixar film, "Chicken Little." My thoughts at the time were that Disney was at surrender stage, and that they had inserted explicit commentary to that fact in the film itself.
Disney and Pixar have since reconciled, and the first fruits of the patched-up partnership are obvious here, complete with the same type of self-referential embedded commentary as in "Chicken." When the two companies parted ways, Disney was lost. As helpless as an infant left on an orphanage's front step. So this story goes, of an abandoned child. An extremely gifted and inventive wreck of a child in search of guidance and nurture.
Disney went back to the drawing board here. The first task: get back that magic they once possessed, monopolized even. So our hero seeks to invent a machine to help him obtain forgotten memories. (Highlighted by an old Mickey short which ran before the film began.)
The bulk of the film is an exploration into what the future may hold, and an admittance is made that said future is wholly dependent on family (Pixar).
Think I'm reading too much into this? Check out how the movie is bookended: At the beginning Disney unveils its brand new (and very impressive) logo. The end is a direct quote from Walt Disney himself about the future of Disney and the importance of moving forward.