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Artistic design was amazing
The film works its showy magic. Or perhaps enforces its magic would be more accurate.
His vision is big, but the execution clunky and crowded with detail, such that it all plays like a regional-theater production of “The Wiz” staged within the walls of “Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium.” Talbert is positively unabashed about Jingle Jangle’s too-muchness, as if trying to make up for a century of underrepresentation by stuffing everything he can into two hours’ worth of Christmas pageantry.
The greatest gift offered by the film is an empowering world that looks less like invention and more like real life.