Esrever wrote:I bought a little book of Sanders' art at Comic-con last year! It's really awesome. Apparently when he's not working on Disney films he just draws a lot of little monsters and mostly-naked women.
Ok, this is not the first movie that parodies that kind of stuff, I remenber one miniseries I saw at Halmark channel, but it didnt have any 2-d animation.
And it seems I'm the only one that did not like Shrek in the first place
That makes two of us. Maybe the fact that I had a toothache throughout had something to do with it, but it was way predictable and most of the gags felt rather disposable to me.
That makes three. Oddly, I liked the third one quite a bit, which I may be doing subconsciously in order to annoy the many fans of the earlier movies who don't like it so much.
I'm actually interested in this movie purely because the soundtrack is Alan Menken, even though the trailer is awful. Disney ads always show the most contrived, banal, or unoriginal parts of their movies, and there are a lot of movies that are overall enjoyable only because of a kickass soundtrack.
Just as an aside, I thought some of you might be interested in reading this: a more thorough summary of exactly what went down in Disney's direct-to-video-sequel department once Lasseter came on board.
"I enjoyed 15 wonderful years working for the Walt Disney Company. And I've had the privilege of working with so many talented people such as you. Thank you."
"Talented people such as you." Nice mass-mail there, Sharon.
After The Little Mermaid 3 and the four Tinker Bell movies are completed, DisneyToons will shift to making DVD's to support the Playhouse Disney franchise.
Why would there be a need to make The Little Mermaid 3 or four Tinker Bell movies?
Little Mermaid 3 was almost finished. As for the Tinker Bell movies, they are a tie in to the new "Disney Fairies" merchandise franchise. Lasseter can't tank them because, much like the Disney Princesses line, there are literally hundreds of Fairies products being developed and the films are needed to support them all.
Honestly, it's not the execution that gets me (although, let's face it, in general the execution isn't anywhere NEAR spectacular), it's the very concept. Most of these films are almost completely self-contained and do not NEED sequels, particularly sequels that honestly seem to completely lack the heart and soul of the originals.
Although I'll be honest and admit that yes, I actually kind of LIKED the <i>Aladdin</i> sequels. >_>
It's nice to know that at least Aristocats was saved from a DVD sequel. How many other survivors are there? I was surprised to hear they did a Fox and the Hound 2, so it's safe to say they were scraping the fucking barrel.
Crazy Penguin wrote:It's nice to know that at least Aristocats was saved from a DVD sequel. How many other survivors are there?
Pinocchio
The Three Caballeros (though there was a comic book sequel in the 1970s)
Alice in Wonderland
Sleeping Beauty
Sword and the Stone
Robin Hood
The Great Mouse Detective
Oliver and Company
Home on the Range
Those are the only fully animated Disney movies I can name that didn't have sequels.
The funny thing is, they could've adapted Through the Looking Glass for Alice and Wonderland, since they had so much leftover crap from the two books not in the Disney movie.
Crazy Penguin wrote:It's nice to know that at least Aristocats was saved from a DVD sequel. How many other survivors are there? I was surprised to hear they did a Fox and the Hound 2, so it's safe to say they were scraping the fucking barrel.