Return of the Dinglehopper, Talking Clocks, and a Monkey's Uncle

[AaronisMe]

I HATE Computer Generated Animation.

It's lifeless. There's no spirit and it doesn't move me emotionally as much as Traditional Animation does. I don't know if it's my age or my generation or just personal preference. I just feel the way they did it before is superior.

This clusterfuck of CG animated movies is choking the cinema. There has been Happy Feet, Open Season, Cars, the Incredibles, Shark Tale, all the Shreks, Finding Nemo, Flushed Away, all the Toy Storys, Over the Hedge, all the Ice Ages, etc. And to top it off, there doesn't seem to be a slow down of it.

What happened to tradition? I LOVE all the classic Disney animated features. Especially since they were musicals. Little Mermaid, the Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Mulan, Jungle Book, etc.

I do believe there's an actual tangible quality that you get from the hand-drawn. It's more visceral in a way. Maybe it's because there are less generational gaps from the hand and the eye.

There's been rumors that Disney is trying to revive their Traditional Animation department. This gives me hope.

[outsyder]

I find Pixar is the only company to have successfully given a real dramatic life to their characters, as the Toy Story movies, Finding Nemo, and a few others have genuinely been some of the best overall family films of the last decade.

Dreamworks and other animation companies have a while to go, although Shrek wasn't terrible.

[bigred760]

While the sheer volume of computer animated movies is getting on my nerves, I can't say the movies themselves aren't horrible. The Toy Story flicks, the Shrek movies, The Incredibles, are reaaly good and really fun to watch.

The problem with the traditional animated movies is that newer audiences can't relate to them as well, and with the recent successes of CGI and the recent flops of traditional animated - studios are more inclined to go with CGI.

Though Aladdin still is my all-time favorite animated flick.

[CletusHorniblow]

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This flick should give anyone their "traditional" animation fix. It features some of the most beautiful animation that I've ever seen in my life and is surprisingly original.

As far as these computer-animated flicks go, they ARE getting heavily redundant. But I still enjoyed Toy Story, Toy Story 2, the original Shrek, Monsters Inc, The Incredibles and Robots. It's just that for some reason studios won't give up on these 3-D animal flicks and it's becoming an embarassment to animated cinema.

[Mr-Blonde]

Yeah 3D animation bites the big one. I much prefer watching the traditionally hand drawn and much more beautifully animated films. Also anyone ever notice how pop culture centric today's animated features are? When I finally watched Drek, er I mean Shrek not too long ago I lost track of the number of pop culture references that there were. That kind of shit repeated ad nauseam throughout the feature is just not that funny to me. Shark's Tale is another one that pissed me off in the way it's humor is entirely based off of refernces to other, better films. I understand that it was supposed to be a light harted parody of Scorsese's works but it just flat out unentertaining.