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...World” has brought Pocahontas to theaters once more, and though the film is meant to appeal to moviegoers of all ages, it seems especially apt for a generation that grew up humming “Colors of the Wind.” If cartoon “Pocahontas”—complete with singing raccoon friends and pervaded by a sugary-sweet insistence that love does, in fact, triumph over all—was a staple of childhood, Malick’s latest endeavor is appropriate to the end of adolescence, from the characters?...
...Funny that, in the year when old-fashioned animation was declared dead, there's not a single CGI film in this category: one traditional cartoon from Japan (Howl's Moving Castle) and two stop-motion film epics. What did Disney just pay $7 billion...
Snooping isn't so secret anymore in China: officials in the city of Shenzhen announced last week that two cartoon cops would soon start to appear on local Web browsers as a reminder that the police are patrolling cyberspace too. Such candor, however, did not play well with Netizens. PONDBLOG said, "China is trying to make Internet censorship palatable by putting cute faces on its online thought police." JACKARANDA derided the "Great Firewall of China," deeming the cybercops proof that "the Net can be developed and strangled all at once." But a cautious FREECASHSPACE questioned the upside of "life...
...ANIMAL SUNDANCE, CHECK LISTINGS If George Orwell had readUS Weekly instead of Marx, he might have written this savage cartoon satire rather than Animal Farm. A band of talking beasts escapes a secret British facility and pursues the idea of freedom--shaped by a diet of tabloids--which consists mainly of getting record deals, obsessing over celebrities and making a pile of money. I Am Not an Animal shows what separates us from the fauna--and it isn't pretty...
...Poor catchphrase attribution is one of several fumbles made by directors Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards, and Tony Leech in their efforts to create an animated film that caters to all demographics. They also sacrifice the charm of traditional children’s movies for aggressive characters, trite cartoon gags, and curious casting decisions; Xzibit, for example, sheds a little more of his dignity by providing the voice of an irritable grizzly bear/police chief. But “Hoodwinked” isn’t a laugh-free affair: when the characters aren’t talking, the writers manage...