> Heh. Sometimes there's not much to say about music without much to say lol.

Indeed! It might be the shortest write-up I do, if for no other reason than I doubt I'll find a shorter standalone album release. I remember being at the dog park listening to it and thinking I must've clicked skip accidentally a handful of times - but nope!

> Underrated score in my opinion, I would have given it an extra star for the Celtic and fantasy elements, but that overlong album did it no favors. Pereira here continues to prove his workman abilities in this genre, and proves a point that sometimes a 35-45-minute album is ideal!

Honestly, for all the TERRIBLE albums I've heard in this era - and there have been many - it's actually stuff like Smurfs that prompts me to be less of a completist going forward in this rundown. I lol'ed yesterday when I saw I originally estimated this at something like 150+ scores, a number I overshot months ago.

Knowing that pretty much all of Pereira's animated / kiddie work is going to sit comfortably in that 2.5-3.5 star range is enough to make me just say 'hearing a few of those was enough'.

> The film's underperformance' just goes to show that sometimes the difference between a flop and a modest hit can often be a matter of expectations. That Disney never tried another mid-budget animated feature is profoundly disappointing. In fact, given the marketing and release dates, this and Princess and the Frog were just about set up to fail.

It seems like the film had production issues. It was given the green light before the company had reacted to the relative underperformance of Princess and the Frog and two of the planned five stories were removed at some point. You have to imagine Disney corporate chose to pull resources to other, likely more lucrative efforts.

I could also argue a film like this was made in the wrong era. A 63 minute film (a shocking number when I first saw it a few weeks ago, though perhaps that just reflects the aforementioned removals) makes little sense for theatrical distribution but works perfectly fine in streaming.