I think this commercial was filmed at 14th Factory in L.A. were there was just an installation of an accurate recreation of that 2001 set. They built the installation from the original architectural drawings. Don’t be surprised if you see more of this.

Beutiful animation? The animation was the worst part of the movie.

Beutiful animation? The animation was the worst part of the movie.

I seems like it was the studio that did the grouping and Disney can be pretty tone deaf to such issues.

The hard part is finding someone that is ME/Indian that doesn’t have a look/accent that isn’t threatening/offputting to Americans, Europeans, and Chinese. The singing bit is just cover.