Word: disneying
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...feel sick about Disney doing sequels. Look at the quality of 'Lion King 1½,' it's embarrassing...
...BOOK DOWN AND DIRTY PICTURES ALLEGES THE INDEPENDENT-FILM MOVEMENT HAS BEEN CO-OPTED BY BIG CORPORATIONS, STARTING WITH DISNEY'S PURCHASE OF MIRAMAX. DO YOU AGREE? Yeah, my brother Bob and I sit in a little room with chemicals bubbling in test tubes figuring out how to hurt something we once loved. But seriously, the Academy Award nominations are almost an affirmation. I spent 54 weeks keeping City of God in movie theaters, and it got four nominations. How in God's name does anybody think we're not devoted to independent films...
...slightly above humans. But dogs aren't funny; saucy repartee is not a canine forte. They are unlikely to perform a song-and-dance number that mentions all 50 states alphabetically. And rarely are they blue. The premise of Teacher's Pet, the new traditional-animation comedy film from Disney, is that Spot--a precocious, singing, very blue mutt--wants to be a real live boy. But he's too chatty to be a doggie, and almost too faaaabulous to be an ordinary human...
...Baseman design--balloon-animal shapes and clown faces, vividly colored--has been filled out by director Timothy Bjorklund with such loving congestion that you'll need to see the film twice to get all the fun. (Look for the Mickeys!) As CGI cartooning takes over the world--Disney just closed down its traditional-animation studio in Florida--Teacher's Pet finds a fresh and frisky approach to doing things the old, Walt way. --By Richard Corliss
...HOLLYWOOD HIT] FREAKY FRIDAY The loopiness was more generic in this remake of the 1977 Disney...