Alpha and Omega

Agreed. :unamused:
Heā€™s supposed to be ā€œPack Manā€ and thereā€™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? Iā€™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?

Iā€™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 olā€™ Wiki. :wink:

Nope, mine loaded perfectly. Maybe try another computer or IP address? But youā€™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, itā€™s actually working perfectly now (yep, not much there). I guess I just caught it at a bad time.

That describes it perfectly!

Itā€™ll go in my Netflix queue, but not much more than that. Thereā€™s nothing very significant looking about it.

And this is why we should have gotten Newt.

I donā€™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 donā€™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 itā€™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 todayā€™s animation, but the acting and story quality does also whenever itā€™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 didnā€™t make me laugh one bit.

Pass.

And by the way, didnā€™t some of you folks ever notice that the proposed plot to newt was similar to Flushed Away in terms of the two leadsā€™ character?

Yeah, thatā€™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 thatā€™s how they were supposed to be. Anyone with more information feel free to correct me if Iā€™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 doesnā€™t even qualify as a movie Iā€™d think about renting to watch.

I think, after so many years of great Pixar movies, Iā€™ve become an animation snob and anything that doesnā€™t measure up to the standards of Dreamworkā€™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 isnā€™t really snobbiness, I guess. Itā€™s a perfectly legit thing to desire.

It looked like they put too much moouse on it! Or they havenā€™t washed for days! :stuck_out_tongue:

I do think thereā€™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 weā€™d have to be a little more forgiving aesthetics-wise.

But for the screenwritersā€™ terrible scriptā€¦ to quote Sonic from the Sonic Sez YTPs, ā€œThatā€™sā€¦ NO GOOD!ā€ xD

New poster. Justā€¦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€
ā€¦
ā€¦
alrighty then.

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