Alpha and Omega

Agreed. :unamused:
He’s supposed to be ā€œPack Manā€ and there’s only one other wolf in the picture? :confused:

I believe this is the same India studio that brought us Roadside Romeo blegh

Do those posters have to be sooooo dumb? :confused: :imp:

BTW, has anyone else tried to visit the official website for this film? I’ve tried, but I keep getting stuck at ā€œloading 13%ā€. Is that just my computer or has anyone else had the same problem?

I’m afraid not, Haunt. A&O is by Crest Animation Productions, originally founded by a former Disney animator and the studio that brought you The Swan Princess (one of my favourite 90s classics). It filed for bankruptcy after the lacklustre King and I and was bought over by an Indian CEO and rebranded. Animation was done in its India branch, with pre and post-production in L.A.

Roadside Romeo is by Yash Raj Films, which is primarily a live-action studio. RR was its first foray into the animated family film market, and it was a co-producer with Disney.

Source: Watching Roadside Romeo and reading good ol’ Wiki. :wink:

Nope, mine loaded perfectly. Maybe try another computer or IP address? But you’re not missing much, just a trailer, an About page, and a panorama sidescroller interface of the main characters.

Saw the trailer with TS3. Turned to my friend Nan and said ā€œSeems like Ice Age 2, but even MORE awkward.ā€ She nodded. Neither of us were impressed by the jokes or animation, and we both agreed it looked dumb.

Thanks for confirming that, it’s actually working perfectly now (yep, not much there). I guess I just caught it at a bad time.

That describes it perfectly!

It’ll go in my Netflix queue, but not much more than that. There’s nothing very significant looking about it.

And this is why we should have gotten Newt.

I don’t like the animation at all, the characters look very wooden. This is the first film about which I can honestly say the animation might prevent me from seeing it. Usually I don’t let the look of the film get to me, I prefer to judge a film based on its acting and story. Not that the movie looks like it’s very strong in either of those departments either :unamused:

The ā€œlook of the filmā€ is one of those things that prevents me from seeing a lot of things in today’s animation, but the acting and story quality does also whenever it’s clearly not good.

One reason I love Pixar though is because they really seem to have a way of always making characters appealing in CGI.

Yeah, the animation, character design, and backgrounds are not impressive at all.

A cross between Open Season, Ice Age 2 (I loved Ice Age 2, though) and Flushed Away. Mismatched buddy adventures. They are total opposites, but they fall in love. How original. Plus a rip off of Boris from Balto. And that trailer didn’t make me laugh one bit.

Pass.

And by the way, didn’t some of you folks ever notice that the proposed plot to newt was similar to Flushed Away in terms of the two leads’ character?

Yeah, that’s true, now that you mention it. The guy was supposed to be inexperienced and uptight, while the girl was supposed to be independant and well-versed in the ways of the world. At least, I think that’s how they were supposed to be. Anyone with more information feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

Just saw the trailer myself, and I too was unimpressed by everything. But what bothered me the most was character design. Ugh, why must they have so much hair? It looks horrible! So far, this doesn’t even qualify as a movie I’d think about renting to watch.

I think, after so many years of great Pixar movies, I’ve become an animation snob and anything that doesn’t measure up to the standards of Dreamwork’s best tends to irritate me. You would think that after all of these years people would be able to figure out what it takes to make a great animated film.

But then again, wanting great animation isn’t really snobbiness, I guess. It’s a perfectly legit thing to desire.

It looked like they put too much moouse on it! Or they haven’t washed for days! :stuck_out_tongue:

I do think there’s some animation-elitism going on around here, TBH. I mean, maybe this is a case of bad marketing (like for Shrek 4 or Despicable Me)? And you have to bear in mind the American studio which produced this is a newcomer (and the offshore animation production house is from India, an emerging market), so we’d have to be a little more forgiving aesthetics-wise.

But for the screenwriters’ terrible script… to quote Sonic from the Sonic Sez YTPs, ā€œThat’s… NO GOOD!ā€ xD

New poster. Just…no.

I re-saw the trailer last night in a movie theater. Seeing it on the big screen and in 3D did not make it look any better.

ā€œA pawsome 3D adventureā€
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alrighty then.

Lol, those three birds in the upper left corner are copy-and-paste.