Worst Animated Films You've Seen
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I'm a Wild fan, actually, and like it much more than Madagascar, despite the production problems.
I don't think it's unfair to say that it was also a case of Disney being able to prove to Pixar that they didn't need them to produce and release animated CG movies. I'm sure the film's director Spaz might like to add some comments too...
I don't think it's unfair to say that it was also a case of Disney being able to prove to Pixar that they didn't need them to produce and release animated CG movies. I'm sure the film's director Spaz might like to add some comments too...
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True. The movie was given the green light at a low point in the relationship between Disney and Pixar. (Wow, it is sort of unbelievable to think about those days considering all that has happened since.)
I guess IF the movie had been made on time AND had made the 200 million domestic haul of Madagascar. . .then, well, who knows what would have happened?
I guess IF the movie had been made on time AND had made the 200 million domestic haul of Madagascar. . .then, well, who knows what would have happened?
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Mediocrity breeds hatred? Really? That's pretty sad. Considering that mediocrity, by its nature, applies to most things, that means there must be an awful lot of hatred in your world. What emotion do you save for truly awful films, I wonder.
Films like Madagascar and The Wild were never meant to be landmark films. They only sought to entertain. At least 90% of commercial films have such modest aspirations. But a lot of talented people worked on those two cartoons, and I can't bring myself to hate the films for being what they were meant to be.
Films like Madagascar and The Wild were never meant to be landmark films. They only sought to entertain. At least 90% of commercial films have such modest aspirations. But a lot of talented people worked on those two cartoons, and I can't bring myself to hate the films for being what they were meant to be.
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The one animated movie I struggle to watch is Dreamworks Spirit. I find it ploddy and pretentious. I saw it at the cinemas and it didn't bother me that half way through something happened and they had to pause the film to fix it. And then since I collect animated movies I bought the DVD and to this day I have not managed to sit through it completely once. I jsut get bored with it. I will admit that I think part of the problem is that it's a movie about horses.
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Reportedly, this was the Katzenberg "future-theft" version of the "serious" cows movie Disney's "Home on the Range" was originally going to be back when it was still "Sweating Bullets"--Bill1978 wrote:The one animated movie I struggle to watch is Dreamworks Spirit. I find it ploddy and pretentious. I saw it at the cinemas and it didn't bother me that half way through something happened and they had to pause the film to fix it. And then since I collect animated movies I bought the DVD and to this day I have not managed to sit through it completely once. I jsut get bored with it. I will admit that I think part of the problem is that it's a movie about horses.
Guess we can thank Jeff for talking them out of it.
And yes, "Sinbad" got all the publicity, but "Spirit" was the movie that officially sank the public's love for corny, melodramatic Katz-formula Lion-worship knockoffs in the DW/imitation industry...
I remember how the TV ads were reduced to promoting the ONE humorous moment in the movie (aw, the cute lil' Indian toddler!), to try persuade us that it had more of them. It didn't work.
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And what's wrong with horses? Horses are lovely animals that we don't see very much of in animated feature films. It could be because they're incredibly difficult to animate. DW totally nailed the film's overall design in my opinion, and it's a gorgeous film to look at.
The reason it doesn't work is that the story was incredibly lame. When I watched this film for the first time, I was actually angry. Angry because it had the potential to be very very good, but instead was incredibly BORING.
The reason it doesn't work is that the story was incredibly lame. When I watched this film for the first time, I was actually angry. Angry because it had the potential to be very very good, but instead was incredibly BORING.