CGI Movies - enough already!
It was bound to happen; one CGI cartoon movie does well and then more follow. But even I was surprised that, after Toy Story 2, the cinema listings seemed to fill with more and more cartoon movies, all super slick animation and voiced by big name stars. I suppose we could think of it as "too much of a good thing", but really, after Toy Story 2 the animation may have improved, but the overall quality of the movies have been in steady decline.
Hasn't stopped them coming though - check this little (not definitive) list out..
Bugs Life, Robots, Chicken Little, Ice Age (and sequel), Finding Nemo, Madagascar, The Wild, Monsters Inc, Shrek (and sequel), The Incredibles, Polar Express, Antz, Over The Hedge, Shark Tale..
Scary, isn't it? And with the impending Cars and Shrek III (God help us), plus about ten more that I probably haven't heard of, it looks like this animated bubble is about to burst.
personally, I am pig sick of all of them. I can only see so many shiny wide-eyed cute talking animals, all spouting glib remarks and post-modern dialogue. I can only stomach so many sassy, streetwise, hip-hop speaking creatures. The charm and style that Toy Story had is long gone (look no further than Shark Tale and Madagascar for where we're at now. Ever wanted to hear a lion say "that is off the chiz-ain"? No - I didn't either).
This isn't a plea for a boycott of CGI movies. It's not even a plea to return to traditional 2-D animation (it certainly wouldn't hurt though - was The Iron Giant any less awesome because it wasn't done on computer, that it was actually, GASP, drawn by hand?). It's asking that these film makers stop churning out these features, that were once novel and with tight, razor sharp jokes and engaging, involving plots.
But they're continuing to make money, so that's not going to happen for a long time yet. A real shame.
2 comments:
You know something I've noticed about Disney? They've managed to get every negative review I've posted on Amazon pulled. Bambi II - review gone. Disney Pop Hits - review gone. There was another one for something else as well, but it's gone too. That's why my reviews in here and my reviews on Amazon don't measure up numerically - some were just too damn controversial - or Disney don't want people bad-mouthing their crap.
I thought, and continue to think, Cars looks RUBBISH. Charmless, dull and lacking any sense of inventivness that the likes of Toy Story had.
And Finding Nemo? I still fail to see why that did so well. It was BORING.
Hmmm... yeah, that's probably it. As nice as it is to imagine some lowly Disney employee hired to wipe out any negative reviews, it's probably just some glassy-eyed "la la la - life is nice" moron with a Bambi fetish complaining a lot.
I thought the Star Wars DVD's sounded pretty good. A double disc for each movie? Sounds alright to me.
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