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	BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Walt is thawing. Friday, January 13, 2006 Walt is thawing. I'm not sure when Disney's once legendary animation studio hit rock bottom, or if they've even reached it yet, but consider: The company that gave the world classics like Pinochio, Bambi, Fantasia, and Snow White drove its 2D animation division into the ground with unimaginative crap like Treasure Planet and Hercules, while simultaneously churning out barrel-scraping, reputation-raping, straight-to-DVD sequels like Cinderella 2, The Jungle Book 2, The Lion King 1.5, and 101 Dalmations 2 (Yes, they also made a live action movie called 101 Dalmations, and then its sequel, 102 Dalmations, oddly enough.) Quite a pedigree, but you ain't seen nothing yet. Check out the trailer, or even just the synopsis for their upcoming and entirely-unnecessary non-Pixar 3D cartoon, The Wild. After dark, the animals at the New York City Zoo tend to get a little crazy. When one of these wild nights goes wrong, a lion cub named Ryan is accidently shipped to Africa and released into the wilderness. Ryan's father, Samson, and his friends to go on a risky rescue mission to find Ryan and bring him home to New York. So it's Madagascar crossed with Finding Nemo. Couldn't they have worked in a glass slipper or poisoned apple or something, while they were brainstorming that wildly-original plot? Now to be fair, given the production time for animated films, they were certainly working on this one long before Madagascar was released. Which isn't to say they didn't hear about its plot in advance, and I don't see any defense for their ripping off Finding Nemo, a film distributed by their own studio. In a larger sense, I've been wondering when the CGI family animation crash was going to come, and honestly, I'm surprised it hasn't arrived already. The public just can't keep supporting every crappy CGI movie with bright colors and a band of anthropomorphized, mismatched animals thrown together on a wacky adventure. Can they? When do diminishing returns set in, especially given how lame most of these films are? Shark Tale and Madagascar were profitable, but can The Wild, Over the Hedge, Open Season, The Ant Bully, Ice Age 2, Barnyard>, and Happy Feet, and even postmodern Hoodwinked, all possibly make money off of the exact same demographic? True, 5 year olds are very easily entertained by bright colors and textured objects moving around on a screen while making silly noises, but at some point these crappy and redundant films have got to stop making money. Right? I feel worst for the kids coming out of art and computer schools now. They all enrolled years ago, wanting to change the face of popular film and inspired by Pixar's early masterpieces, and now they're graduating just in time to put their cutting edge education to work texture mapping a farting, wise-cracking, B-actor-voiced cow in a film even their studio can't tell apart from the eleven other CGI animal movies coming in 2006. Posted by: Flux # 7:53 AM Comments: Have you ever watched the cartoon network? Quite a lot of kids programs are now made in poorly-detailed 3d animation now, and the kids don't seem to care. #: 12:18 PM posted by Anonymous I fell asleep during Finding Nemo, and I barely remember Madagascar. My recollection is that the plot was all over the place. This new one -- feh. Thank God my 10-year-old has outgrown that crap. I liked the Shrek movies, and I loved The Incredibles. It is possible to do this thing right. Like any other movie, it all begins with the writing. #: 12:30 PM posted by Douglas Hoffman Post a Comment << Home Archives May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2012

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