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Even the filmmakers at Walt Disney, long-time champions of the pre-teen set, have not been immune. Their latest movie, Tron, caters exclusively to the burgeoning video class...
...enusing struggle is made infinitely more vivid by some neat anthropomorphism. The Disney creators of talking mice, ducks and crickets again break new ground by devising human-like computer programs, creatures who carry their intelligence--programming orders--on frisbees attached to their backs. They live in the computer system, itself conceptualized as an incredibly complicated maze of tunnels, valley and towers...
Tron ironically makes this latter point more effectively than its producers hoped. By releasing this abysmal movie. Disney serves as a prime example of man destroyed by technological obsession. As proof of the failure. Disney stock dropped $2.50 a share after a special pre-screening and some preliminary pans...
...until its last film, Black Hole, Disney resisted this temptation. To bell with declining morals, here was a family company that would produce stuff for general admission. The thrill came from good old fashioned...
Fortunately, Disney will have an opportunity to set this flop aside; Tron is destined to obscurity. Those not afflicted with video disease should have no interest in going. And for those who are wrapped up in the craze, there are much better things to do with four dollars--that's 16 quarters--and an hour and a half...