The Motley Fool has an article on Disney’s latest “dud”. Here are some interesting excerpts:

“Blaming the medium instead of the messenger is akin to blaming your tailor because you gained a few pounds. You simply can’t make a blanket statement that hand-drawn animation is dead and that computerized renderings are the way of the future.”

“Would Finding Nemo have bombed if it were hand-drawn? I doubt it. Would Home on the Range have been a box-office blockbuster if the barnyard critters were dolled up on high-end Silicon Graphics machines? Nope.”

“There are plenty of computer-animated television shows out there, but the favorites are hand-drawn, like SpongeBob and Rugrats. It’s not the format. It’s not pixels versus inkblots. It’s the story. In the end, Disney’s franchise and the animation medium may have been sullied and diluted, but like its own classics, it was by the stroke of Disney’s own hand.”