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...effort to keep topping itself, Hollywood is taking time-tested crowd pleasers--namely, talking animals--further and further into the digital realm. Dr. Dolittle 2, in which Eddie Murphy talks to computerized critters, will still be in theaters when Cats & Dogs, a whiz-bang homage to Chuck Jones and James Bond, enters the fray. "We have to deliver images that audiences have never seen before," says Cats & Dogs' director Lawrence Guterman. "It has to be funny--otherwise there's no movie--but at the same time you have to deliver something new." That effort has gone on for two years...
Animation in feature films was special in part because it was rare: a Disney epic every few years and not much else. Now Hollywood shovels out half a dozen animated features a year, from the studios of Disney and Pixar, DreamWorks, Nickelodeon. Still others that don't look animated are: great chunks of them, anyway (Pearl Harbor, Planet of the Apes). We won't even mention--it's too, too depressing--the great ruck of live-action movies, starring your son's favorite buffoons, the Schneiders and Sandlers and Greens. These slob comedies play like long, stupider versions of Itchy...
...Hollywood wants to believe that today's animators have barely opened their toolboxes. An early clue to the new direction will come in July with the opening of Final Fantasy, which attempts to bring photo-realistic accuracy to the computer animation of humans. Will this make living actors obsolete? Or is the whole process a bad idea in its awkward infancy--the cyberage version of colorizing...
...molesting an elephant and lots of jokes about testicles. No surprise that the audience, more and more, is keeping its distance from youth-oriented flicks unless they are of the action-adventure variety, with plenty of noise to drown out the script. Perhaps that is part of the reason Hollywood is trying to improve on the genre with Crazy/Beautiful--a romantic drama starring Kirsten Dunst as a rich, white high school senior rebelling against her limousine-liberal father and falling in love with a Latino jock from the wrong side of the tracks. No one eats anything disgusting, and nothing blows...
...more honest and open before the M.P.A.A. ratings board got their hands on it," admits John Stockwell, who was midway through directing the movie last year when Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman launched their congressional assault on the entertainment industry for marketing adult product to children. Filmmakers around Hollywood who had been courting teen ticket buyers soon felt a chill. "The whole mood at Disney changed," says Stockwell, who was ordered by the studio to tame Crazy/Beautiful's R-rated script and deliver a PG-13 movie. In the final version of Crazy/Beautiful, opening this week, the heroine will...