Escape From Tomorrow gets the honor of the most simultaneously bizarre and tame film I have ever seen. It's weird to the point of insanity and yet it plays it significantly too safe. The film is written and directed by first time director Randy Moore, whose running gag is that this is a truly messed up horror film being shot in secrecy at the various Disney theme parks. The only problem is that Moore never really does anything with the location and focuses more on the half baked plot thus having the gag of the Disney park locations become tired very quickly.
I suppose I shouldn't tell of the half baked plot since Moore obviously doesn't want people to know about it. He has gone so far as to only release a minute long trailer that says nothing about any of the events in the film. However, I will say that once the big (and may I say fairly obvious) reveal is shown...the film still goes on for another twenty minutes. It was exhausting to sit in the theater and watch a film that essentially consists of one joke milked endlessly.
Moore starts out with a delightfully twisted opening scene but goes nowhere from there. The film is too tame with its subject matter, perhaps due to the fact that they didn't want to get sued by Disney themselves when it should have been going all out. If you're going to make a film that attempts to demolish Disney's reputation...at least attempt to make a film that actually says something evil or mean spirited about Disney.
The cast is also terrible. I guess I shouldn't be surprised since star (and most well known cast member) Roy Abramsohn was previously most notable for playing Groucho Marx in a completely unknown TV film. Still....they have easy material to work with here. No one is exactly asked to play Gandhi and yet no one can pull of anything except annoying the hell out of the audience.
Escape From Tomorrow is a rather boring film that could have and should have been so much more. The film consists of bad actors saying terrible lines, most of which don't even relate back to the initial premise. If "Seinfeld" was a show about about nothing...Escape From Tomorrow is a film about nothing.
(1 out of 5 Stars, The film is Not Rated)
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