Since the worldwide release of Disney+, the service releases new content every week. The amount cannot be compared with, for example, Netflix (it is much less) and the strategy is different (weekly release of new episodes from, for example, The Mandalorian, Forky Asks a Question or The Imagineering Story instead of releasing whole seasons), but the service tries to ensure that you return regularly. The documentary One Day at Disney was recently released, which covers a part of the book One Day at Disney Making Magic Every Day and can be seen as a companion piece. Ultimately, it is intended that more individual episodes follow. Disney is known for its magic, but does this documentary also capture that?
The idea of One Day at Disney is to show what the different employees do during a day. And because Disney is a huge company, as a viewer you get a look behind the scenes at Disney parks, at the Imagneering studio, the animation studio, ABC, Marvel and the theater. The various employees talk about their work and how they ended up at Disney and you can see what they are doing (although you don’t see in detail what such a day at Disney looks like).
What is missing in this documentary is a sense of cohesion. One moment you hear how a train driver at a Disney park can perform his dream job, then you see how Robin Roberts from Good Morning America talks about her work and how she could interview Barack Obama or why she filmed her fight against cancer. The number of people interviewed is large and due to the relatively short playing time of 59 minutes, it is actually impossible to go into more depth. I hope that the planned 52 episodes will offer that, but as a separate documentary this feels more like a kind of long trailer. The magic simply isn’t there enough.
[score5]