From The AV Club (avclub.com):
"The safest bet on an unrepeatable experience at Sundance this year is Escape From Tomorrow (A-), a movie shot guerilla-style inside the Magic Kingdom. Thats a bet, however, Id be delighted to lose, since Randy Moores first feature is a sui generis work of art that deserves an audience every bit as devoted, if substantially more select than, as The Little Mermaid. The movie begins with an ironic twist on the perfect family vacation, as dad Roy Abramsohn rises for his last day at the park to find out hes been fired from his job. But the demons menacing him soon manifest themselves more literally: the Small World marionettes hiss at him with bared fangs, and Space Mountain threatens swift decapitation.
"With a Disney lawsuit all but certainan audience member informed Moore during the Q&A that one was already in progress, although I havent seen confirmation elsewhereEscape has drawn a few comparisons to Todd Haynes samizdat Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story. But the likeness goes deeper than mere provocation. Like Haynes, Moore is waging an all-out assault on a cultural icon, flipping the polarities so what normally attracts repulses, and vice-versa. Its extralegal production style, which required substantial rerecording of dialogue and the use of green screen, lends a sense of disassociation more akin to Haynes Poison, which like Escape is essentially a semiotics thesis masquerading as a loose narrative. It has plenty of rough edges, but its climax hits like a confetti-filled shotgun."
