On this day of the release of Shrek 2 to theaters it is hard to not talk about Shrek, about Disney, and about how Disney reacts to Shrek. Over at Jim Hill Media, Jim offers up some interesting reading on Walt Disney Feature Animation’s plans to catch up with the Shrek franchise in the lucrative making-fun-of-fairy-tales game. Word is that Disney may even be taking the opportunity to poke fun at some of their own early movies. (In case anybody should think the Shrek/Disney rivalry is too strong it should be noted that Shrek 2 is playing every 45 minutes at the AMC Theatre in the Downtown Disney section of the Anaheim Disneyland Resort and is also being promoted in the latest issue of Disney Adventures.)
Fracturing Fairy Tales