I did not know anything about this short before hand. Before the main "attraction" was a pre-show hosted by John O'Hurley (Peterman of Seinfield). Unlike most pre-shows this was an excellent little 5 minute short on Hershey's life. My pet peeve with these pre-shows is that it is just a way to keep people busy while waiting for the main feature. Also, why do you always have to stand for these things? Anyway after the short you go into the next room for the feature. The main feature then has a live actor interacting with a cartoon actor. The live actor wants to host a 3 1/2 hour lecture on Hershey while the cartoon wants to have a big 3-D show with the different Hershey products singing and dancing. (The whole thing reminded me somewhat of a very poor Muppet Vision 3-D at Disney Studios.) It is hard to write a review of a short that contained nothing happening at all, just a bunch of random products singing and dancing in different uninspired "classic movie" scenes. This short was not only worthless in every way possible, but racist as well. Several times it appeared that the Milk Duds were just portraying African Americans as simple and stupid. Let me also add that the 3-D (or lame 4-D)is just terrible, possible the worst ever. Several times the 3-D didn't even work. All the viewer could see was a double image. The mostly empty theater sat in silence and bewilderment at this complete crap. The entire project just seemed to be inspired by greed and Barnum Bailey. Instead of a "free" piece of candy when you exit it should be a sucker because that is what you feel like. It was so bad that I asked for my money back and to my surprise was not questioned by management. Even the staff knows how bad this rubbish is. The entire thing was propaganda and brainwashing. This is a brown stain on the entire Hershey Enterprise. Nestle should show this garbage as a way to convenience customers to buy from them. I would have given this complete waste a lower number, but 1 is the lowest I was allowed to go. Milton Hershey probably would not have started a chocolate business if he knew that this would be the end result.
The bottom line is that this is not even pre-pre-show material! I would rather stand in a line at the DMV than sit for this junk (food).
The actual free tour is pretty good. It felt like a slightly below average Disney ride.
The bottom line is that this is not even pre-pre-show material! I would rather stand in a line at the DMV than sit for this junk (food).
The actual free tour is pretty good. It felt like a slightly below average Disney ride.
