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Where have all the pixels gone? That's what cartoon mavens were asking about the Oscar finalists for animated feature. At a time when computer-generated imagery (CGI) bedazzles the box office, when Disney dumps its 75-year-old traditional-animation unit and spends $7.4 billion to buy CGI leader Pixar, the three nominees are defiantly old-fashioned and handcrafted: two delightful stop-motion movies--Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Tim Burton's Corpse Bride--as well as a hand-drawn fantasy, Howl's Moving Castle, from Japanimator Hayao Miyazaki. Meanwhile, three big-studio CGI...
...epitome of cute, Matthew O’ Callaghan’s “Curious George” is a bit bland for anyone over the age of six. Universal Pictures could have easily followed the Pixar design with its movie version of the classic, dictating a spiced-up, CGI-ed kind of glory, with a wisecracking George hip to all sorts of slang. Fortunately, the creators of “Curious George” have gone old-school, deciding to return to 2-D, hand-drawn animation and kiddy-style content. While the plot is changed from the original...
...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...
...even the most exuberant middle-schoolers will get restless. The film beats its theme of brotherly love into the ground, seemingly lifting dialogue directly from after-school specials on PBS. While the movie should have been a showcase for the talented young stars, too much time is cluttered by CGI special effects. That said, “Zathura” is a bona fide entertaining kids movie that doesn’t insult the age of anyone in the audience. College-aged audiences may not flock to “Zathura,” but those stuck babysitting siblings during...
...enriched by what I deem the real classics. But if sales are still going strong, maybe I will buy them that Care Bear stuffed animal—even if its somewhat giant skull unnerves me—because they sure-as-heck won’t be watching that CGI-ed “Care Bears” movie. Yet the exploitation of nostalgia will continue to kill me inside. Those moments our generation waited so long to relive were falsely returned, and unnecessarily so. Children of the 2000s will only beg for vamped up dolls if we tell them...