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[deckardcanine]

Is it just me, or has 2011 been a subpar year for animated films? The most popular I can think of is Kung Fu Panda 2, which I haven't seen yet. Meanwhile, the Academy Best Animated Feature winner (Happy Feet) and prime runner-up (Cars) from 2006 both have had underwhelming sequels this year. Rio is above average for Blue Sky but still an unlikely pick. Puss in Boots is mainly just cute. I know of nothing from foreign studios coming out before 2012.

If Europeans' sentiment is anything to go by, The Adventures of Tintin should have very little award competition.

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[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Rango

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. I haven't decided whether to see that; it sounds kinda disturbing.

[nefaria.livejournal.com]

I didn't care much for Rango. I liked the unusual ugliness of it to some extent, but ugly + stupid is a horrible combination, and most of the writing in it was stupid.

Tintin is motion-capture animation, which puts in on par with rotoscoping as art, in my opinion. I don't plan to see it in theaters unless it gets excellent reviews. Maybe an excellent story can save it from unpleasant animation.

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

If it's faithful to the comic episode on which it's based, then the story is good.

[akktri.livejournal.com]

Nothing can be as worse as that one summer where we had nothing but Madagascar and March of the Penguins. That was a summer of Go Read A Book.

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

Uh, March of the Penguins was a documentary. Happy Feet, the penguin animation it inspired, came out the year after that and Madagascar. Anyway, I look at whole years, not summers.

[akktri.livejournal.com]

Okay, so Crappy Feet came out at a time LIKE that summer, where there was absolutely nothing worth watching in the theater.