It was a really interesting watch. Feature length and directed by Sting's wife (he was supposed to do songs for the soundtrack, but only ended up doing the final song that plays over the credits) it is perhaps a little longer than it needs to be and features a too much of Sting being grumpy. I still found it extremely enjoyable and very interesting. I could definitely relate to the process of deconstruction and reconstruction that goes on throughout making a film and it's kind of crazy how many times these people had to go through that. It amazes me that they ended up with anything at all.
What's also interesting about this documentary is that it has never been approved by Disney and so the fact that I've seen it is actually quite special. It was uploaded to YouTube and quickly taken down, but I was able to catch it before it disappeared. Perhaps they thought it painted them in a bad light (plus some of the employees swear throughout the film, something that I think actually humanizes them), but I actually saw it as an extremely positive thing for Disney. You could really see the passion and dedication of all these people trying to come together and make a film. Through showing us the difficulties and intricacies of the process they went through it really shows Disney as a place full of artistic and professional people.
Because of this fact the version of the film I saw was actually incomplete and was the version shown to Disney executives (I assume) to be approved or not. It actually has a title card at the end that mentions "Vox pops" because they haven't been added yet. This is, of course, interesting to me as a film maker as you don't often get to see incomplete versions of professionally made films.
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