Word: disneyisms
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...Along those lines, what picture of Walt Disney emerges from all the research and collection you’ve done; is he a failed utopian, are there troubling aspects to his view of society...
...Every time the coming-of-age story rips off “The Lion King.” Then, drunk-dial the Disney animation team and ask why they can’t stick to destroying one move at a time...
It’s hard to imagine that a California, surfer-type stud like Paul Walker (“Into the Blue”) would be a snow guide. Yet that is the premise of the new kid-friendly Disney adventure “Eight Below...
...almost too easy to caricature the giddy, self-congratulatory multiculturalism that Americans of our generation learned to love early on in forms as various as school “international fairs” and Disney movies. Almost as easy as it is to parody certain species of academic journal articles...
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...