As a kid, I found this special creepy, and even as an adult, it's off-putting. It's a fever dream visit to Walt Disney World, an odd mix between "A Christmas Carol" and the workaholics in Hallmark movies, before that was as engrained of a trope. Colin Mochrie is literally trying to escape the park, where he's being held by a supernatural force of sorts. The Canadian music acts, added to justify Canadian television content requirements, are mismatched with the locations: a rock band in Animal Kingdom's Africa, fiddlers on Main Street U. S. A., a woman on the Streets of America who comes off as a lady of the night. Oxford would be exhausted with the on-screen quotes.
But there's something bizarrely compelling, despite the jarring approach. You get to see a lot of the park that doesn't normally get shown. DeVine is a full out character, when else does that happen.
Watching it in March, it's quirky but interesting. Watching it at Christmas, when it was originally aired, was weird.
Try it. There's enough redeeming qualities to make it worth a watch.
But there's something bizarrely compelling, despite the jarring approach. You get to see a lot of the park that doesn't normally get shown. DeVine is a full out character, when else does that happen.
Watching it in March, it's quirky but interesting. Watching it at Christmas, when it was originally aired, was weird.
Try it. There's enough redeeming qualities to make it worth a watch.
