Saw it last night.
It isn’t particularly bad, but it isn’t particularly good, either. I don’t see it being of much interest to anybody over ten, but it did seem to keep the attention of the children in the audience (it was also a Radio Disney screening).
Saw it tonight. Not bad; not great. Some cute stuff, a really obvious moral, a couple of jokes for the parents. Par for the course, really.
The sad thing is, it’s the best cartoon Disney has made since Mulan (not counting Lilo and Stitch, which was kind of a guerrilla production inside the company and wasn’t expected to be much of anything). Sort of an unfortunate commentary on how much magic the company has lost.
So while I didn’t hate it, I have no great desire to see it again.
I’m half Canadian and I love 'em, eh!
Brother Bear looks like it sucks, loved the Emporer’s New Groove though – wish they’d do something funny and song-free like that again. I hate the preachy ones. There can be morals, but the need to be sneaky about it, not hit me in the face with a frying pan.
I actually liked Atlantis quite a bit, for the most part, if just because I could watch almost anything with Leonard Nimoy’s voice in it. I haven’t seen any of the more recent ones, though.
2a. Rick (moron) Moranis is a Disney stand-by, seems to me. Just like Don Knotts or Ken Howard? - the guy from the Kinney shoe commercials, Mayberry, F-Troop, Momma’s Family, and whole host of other roles. At least I could learn to like these guys, but not Rick…maybe I have him type cast as the absolute boob?
2b. God, you mean I might actually have to admit I like Rick Moranis? I like the MacKenzie Brothers routines from SCTV (and radio), but they were all no-names back then, IIRC, including John Candy. Other than John Candy, I can’t tell you who was in the cast, but I loved SCTV! (BTW: Who played the dude in the wheelchair, and what his character’s name on SCTV?)
But, yuk…Rick “Moron” Moranis? Really? Say it isn’t so, Joe! He is so lame…just as bad as Alan Thicke, but I’d pick Rick over Alan if I had to choose.
Now I’ve lost my appetite…multiple face slaps for me!
:smack: :smack: :smack: …it’s a SCTV tradition!
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Bernardinelli is a good reviewer, and he’s not like the damned “artist-reviewers” who get off on condemning anything anyone outside their little clique might want to watch. He says its not super-great, but 3/5 is a competant movie worth watching. Give it a shot.
Huh. Right the year that Spirited Away took the Animated-feature Oscar. Weird, the thought process of corporate management is. I do hope, as has been mentioned, that they realize that Pixar’s success has to do with content and not just presentation. In any case, even conventional cel animation by now relies heavily on CG technology for backgrounds, in-betweens, FX, etc (e.g. Tarzan’s “Deep Canvas”), so it’s not that much of a leap.