[Ghoulish Delight]

I heartily applaud the achievement. My overriding thought through it was that it was thoroughly cinematic. I can't think of a better complement to give the creators.

I've been seeing it repeated by we geeks that it was hard to concentrate on the story due to geeking out on the setting. For much of the film that worked in its favor. And not JUST because the story was a little-to-very lackluster and the distraction was welcome. For me, staring at the familiar backdrop with the dialog and action at the periphery of my attention triggered very vivid and very specific sense memories of being at the park, just idly enjoying the views, and catching snippets of people's Disney days - in particular those meltdown moments you can't help but glance towards and eaves drop on.

The reality/fantasy blurring was well balanced through most of it. But I think the ending threw that balance off. Wish they had kept the tone of the fantasy/nightmare on an even keel, leaving it completely ambiguous, allowing you to believe that either extreme (it was ALL in his head, or NONE of it was in his head) could be true. The Brazil ending kinda ruins that, takes away the "ALL in his head" option - it definitely says that SOMETHING out of the ordinary is going on. Even though they left what that SOMETHING is ambiguous it still shuts down an avenue of ambiguity.