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...while maintaining Pixar's excellence will be quite a feat. The Burbank shop is a husk of the studio that made The Lion King in 1994. Hundreds of animators lost their jobs in the wake of duds like Atlantis. Rival studios like DreamWorks, meanwhile, created hot characters such as Shrek, worth millions in licensing revenue. And Disney all but ignored digital animation until recently...
...America. And unlike the text, in which Lewis deftly blends morality with witty narrative and dynamic character descriptions, the film is virtually humorless and Swinton’s oddly androgynous face far too static. Adamson, the directorial mind behind “Shrek” and “Shrek 2,” is unable to carry over the wholesome, multigenerational fun of these films to “Narnia,” giving nothing to the parent dragged to the theatre or the young adult looking to recapture her youth. One can only hope that the film?...
...cool” ’90s songs that the characters sing (“Wannabe” by the Spice Girls) and the not-too-hip band contributing cover songs (the Barenaked Ladies) blatantly expose Disney’s misinterpretation of “Shrek 2”s soundtrack’s success. Young children will probably enjoy this film, the very long riff on different terms for pee (such as “tinkle” and “piddle”) probably are feats of comic genius to them. But as a movie that...
Susan Sarandon was the popular nominee to play New. Larry was a tougher one, but the winner was—and I swear this is true—animated green ogre Shrek, with three independent mentions...
Annette Bening looks like New, and was good in “The American President.” As for Larry, could he be animated? Could we get Shrek? It could be a cross between real life and animation, like “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” I think it’d be a romantic comedy of epic proportions...