Return to the Hundred Acre Wood

[Kogen]

This thread is getting hot!

[Brazillian Cara]

So they're second cousins, then. I don't think the word your searching for is "forgettable".

I guess you're right - it's just hard to find a good synonym for "that sequel was unnecessary".

[Green Gibbon!]

Well, so how's Rapunzel?

[Tsuyoshi-kun]

You mean Tangled? I'm going to see it sometime today. My expectations aren't very high, though.

[Radrappy]

Saw it last night. The animation was REALLY cute/appealing. That's about it.

[Esrever]

The cartoony CG animation is an incredible, technically astounding execution of the blandest, most generic possible style. I am simultaneously impressed and annoyed!

[Tsuyoshi-kun]

Just got back from seeing it. It met my (very) low expectations for it, but not much else. It's basically Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame, only with a cute girl instead of Quasimodo and a bland, manipulating woman instead of Frollo. And much more cringe-worthy songs sung by virtually the entire cast of the film except for Rapunzel's chameleon (who doesn't talk) and a horse that also doesn't talk. (And looks a LOT like the prince's white horse in Sleeping Beauty.)

The CG is fantastic, though. Not Pixar-level, but far more appealing than anything from its competitors.

Also, after watching the trailer, I DO want to see Cars 2, even though the spy genre is the last genre Hollywood needs to make more kids' films out of.

[Frieza2000]

I take it that you haven't seen The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (you know, Disney's original Pooh feature film). It has an very faithful adaption of precisely that chapter (i suppose that at the time of that films making, nobody though they would produce anymore Pooh movies).

Whoa, thanks. I watched this last night. It turns out that I'd watched it dozens of times in my early childhood but had no conscious memory of it until now. I was disappointed with the ending; they blunted the sense of finality it had, which is the best I could expect from Disney I guess, and they crammed the whole thing into literally the last 2 minutes. There were a few quotes from the book, but they were selected and altered in such a way as to remove any trace of drama or emotion from the scene. They weren't even at Galleons Lap. Though I guess it's better than nothing; they did at least touch on the theme.

[Dr. Watson]

I'm not sure the disneyfication of that scene actually had anything to do with Disney consciously trying to "soften it up" though. I think it's more of a case of them simply feeling that the scene didn't "need" to be any longer than what we see on the screen. A notion that is entirely up to debate though, of course.

Fun fact about that scene; the kid playing Christopher Robin, despite his young age, apparently actually picked up on the basic message that the scene was trying to convey; that Christopher was growing up and had to leave his childhood fantasy world, including his best friend that only exists in that world. So when he has reading the lines, he genuinelly started to cry, meaning that the sound of Christopher's voice slightly cracking cant really be called acting.

[Delphine]

Of course that's acting. Getting so into the role that you feel the character's emotions is pretty damn good acting. It's kind of the point.

[Tsuyoshi-kun]

Since it would be pointless to start a new topic, I was curious if any of you Europeans on here saw Winnie-the-Pooh, or anyone in general saw Cars 2? The former got good reviews, and the latter got far and beyond the worst reviews in Pixar history.