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#21

Hey! Treasure Planet is great if you give it a chance. Atlantis isn’t too

great, but I watched it again more recently and some of the characters are rather likable. :slight_smile: Home on the Range

was pure garbage. I’d like to say something nice about it though … oh, it’s worth watching just to see a

cartoon-ified version of Steve Buscemi! xD

Ice Age 2 was actually a bearable movie. A little mature at

points for kids though … I loved the first one better. And Robots- I’ll admit I disliked at first but it has

good jokes and it’s pretty decent. The only thing that annoyed me to pieces was ‘See A need, fill a need’ or

something like that. If Rodney Copperbottom said that one more time I was going to run my head into a wall. That

line kills.

I dunno why I heard good things of Madagascar on the net. That was horrible. I felt as if I

was on a drug trip. xP

#22

I loved Treasure Planet, but as

has been established in the POTC thread, I’m a sucker for pirate movies. I have almost every crap pirate video

game available, too (I skipped Sid Meijer’s ‘Pirates’ cos it’s not my platform or my genre :wink:)

#23

That depends on the age. I liked it as

a kid, surprisingly. I was freaked out by the carnivores thing. I think it’s 'cause the Jurassic Park movies

scared me. But otherwise it was decent. If you compare it to newer and better films … yeah, it’s bad.

I

think this goes for all movies- it doesn’t matter what people say or think about them- it’s what the movie

means to you and whether or not you like it that counts. I’m not ashamed to say I enjoyed movies like 'Around

the World in 80 Days’ and ‘Nanny McPhee’. I liked them and that’s all that counts for me. It won’t change my

opinion on them. Just like I don’t like Chicken Little, but no matter what I say about it I’m sure it won’t

change other people’s minds about it if they liked it from the start.

#24

I concur, Treasure Planet actually ties with

Aladdin for my favourite Disney film. C’mon, Clements, Musker

and Glen Keane? You’re not ALLOWED to dislike it! :wink: I think the film’s real

problem was the advertising. It’s a film aimed at young boys primarily and it wasn’t marketed that way. At

the end of the day, it’s a great story, it has fantastic characters and stunning animation. Silver is the

best villian Disney have had since the 90’s, and Amelia is one of the strongest

females in a long time. Plus, solar surfing! And not only did it have a soundtrack

by someone other than Phil Collins, but it was by the Goo-Goo Dolls! [i]Treasure

Planet[/i] must be loved! LOVED!

#25

Not forgetting Eisner’s

cuts! Treasure Planet was MEANT to be released before Lilo and Stitch, but it wasn’t because Eisner insisted the

film couldn’t have swords in it because the terrorists who made 9/11 happen carried BOX CUTTERS on the plane.

Ignoring the logic, there’s a lot of action that had to be redone and a scene where you can plainly see Doctor

Doppler reacting to a dagger that was removed! They came in over budget and probably didn’t have the money to

market it to the extreme that Lilo and Stitch was, thus is was completely overshadowed by it.

#26

Precisely. Yet another reason I believe Eisner was the

worst thing that happened to Disney. Hopefully now with Lasseter on board, things are going to be different!

:wink:

#27

:smiley: I don’t think I’ve seen any film in the cinema as much

as I did Treasure Planet - you know, TP is what made me quit school and run off to be an animator, pretty sure!

It was a case of "Why am I learning about the Pantheon and digging up dead people when I can be a space

pirate? Hello? gone" :wink:

#28

ROFL! I think we went nine times all together, and most of them when we were supposed to be at uni. :smiley: I

wanted to be a space pirate too, darnit! How did I wind up in Jersey? Actual surfing isn’t as fun as solar

surfing! (I imagine.)

Regardless, it’s definitely high on the list of their good films.

Atlantis, I’m not fond of, and it took me many a viewing of

Tarzan until I liked that. I have a problem with characters that are made to be the

comic relief and sort of don’t have any other purpose. B.E.N. annoys me in [i]Treasure

Planet[/i], but he doesn’t get a lot of screentime, whereas half the supporting cast of

Atlantis are only there for comic relief, and Terk and… er, the elephant, take up

half the movie. Plus Rosie O’Donnell. 'Nuff said. :wink: And most of Disney’s latest releases have been like

that, really sterotyping the characters not expanding on them enough for my tastes. The Genie is a major

catalyst in Aladdin, so he works, Scuttle adds to the plot in [i]The

Little Mermaid[/i] so he works, and ditto for Timon and Pumbaa in [i]The Lion

King[/i]. They’re all characters before they’re tools for comedy, and lately Disney seem to have

been forgetting that characters are what’s most important.

#29

Tarzan’s cool, though it’s the one Disney film I don’t

have on tape or vhs so … can’t really recall it. Haven’t seen all of ‘Great Mouse Detective’, but I heard

it was good and lacked recognition.

Treasure Planet also has the most interesting couple in all of Disney

history- a cat lady and a dog man! <3 lol, it’s weird love, but it’s rather cool at the same time :slight_smile: I

love them.

Yus, I tried to love Atlantis but I realized the film sorta speeds on through. They don’t have

a moment to take a breather. And I know half the cast was for comic relief, but at least they were funny.

Packard’s bit “I sleep in the nude” was a bit disturbing but hilarious at the same time :slight_smile: especially

when Sweet added “She sleep walks”

They had some of the funniest lines in the film but they

needed to not speed it up is all. Milo and Kida- I’m not so fond of. For some reason they’re annoying to me. I

forget why. Otherwise, I love the rest of the cast <3

#30

Atlantis suffered from too many characters, I think! Also from deranged PC casting XD

#31

Yeah, too many

characters … but I did like most of them. They just shoved too many in there.

#32

Wow I never knew that!
Can you imagine if they

used that “LOGIC” on Pirates of the Carribean?! … How can you have a pirate movie without swords? And

for that matter – what does any of that have to do with box cutters? o_O

#33

Truthfully, I’ve never liked Pinnochio,

call me a heretic… :wink: In any case, concerning the phenomenon known as the Disney Sequel… there are only two

words, and those are “Grrr” and “ARGH.” Okay, so I might’ve also just finished watching a

Joss Whedon show, but the point remains- the sequels mostly suck. I won’t say they all do, since I kinda

enjoyed the Aladdin sequels, but such travesties as The Little Mermaid II must not be forgotten.

I watched

The Little Mermaid with a bunch of my friends for the first time in years last semester. Things that impressed

me were not only the quality of the writing, or the fact that the characters were just so gosh darned loveable,

but the quality of animation was phenomenal. That film was before the widespread use of computers, so I can

appreciate how much skill it took to do the lighting just right, or make the merpeople move consistently (no

swimming cycles for those guys!). It blows my mind. But the sequels are cheaply produced, the lighting is all

off, they use just about every cheat I’ve ever learned, they look positively flat, and let’s face it, the

writing blows. Cheap laughs, overused plot devices, no inventiveness at all. And okay, The Incredibles was a

conglomoration of conventions, stereotypes, and overused plot devices. But it was put together in a brilliant,

intelligent way that made it not just a cartoon, but a commentary on comic book characters. It is a satire of

itself. The typical Disney sequel cannot claim this sort of quality. And that makes me sad.

#34

This is what makes Kim Possible such a great show . .

. satire of the overused, and they know it . . .

#35

I did hear that - from Jim Hill. Other

sources tell me that the Disney folks are just fine with what John Lasseter is doing to help with the

film.

Yeah, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Best, Aladdin, and The Lion King

all sucked. :wink:

BTW - I don’t really like Treasure Planet…at all. :blush:

#36

I would’ve liked Treasure Planet, but the fact that all they actually did was get a very old

story that everyone knows and put it into the space genre was not very impressive. If only Disney could tell

their own stories again, like they used to in the past.

#37

Treasure Planet wasn’t the movie it could have been, I think, because of all the interference from the execs.

Now that the artists are in charge again, look for better movies in the future - in fact, I’m expecting another

renaissance like we had in the early 90’s! :smiley:

#38

Meet the

Robinsons is probably the first non-Pixar animated film I’ve ever been looking forward to even moderately. I’m

thinking it’ll do relatively well at the box office, too; I heard some kids at the camp I just got back from

quoting the caffeine patch line from the trailer, and hearing high-school aged kids quoting the trailer of an

animated movie is a first for me! At first I was all, "They can’t be quoting MtR, they wouldn’t do

that," but I was soon proved otherwise when I intruded upon the conversation. :unamused:

#39

American Dog and Rupunzel (sp?) look promising too.

#40

Obviously never

been to my school! X)

In all fairness – the caffinee bit is very funny … but I’m going to have to wait

for more trailers before I’ll be able to decide whether it has a good chance with me or not. But it could be

like how everyone freaked out about how bad the ‘Cars’ teaser was - and the movie of course was amazing …

theeen again - nothing in that teaser was in the final movie. :slight_smile:
I wish though that the MtR teaser has been

put together in a less random way – some order to it – I just feel like most other teasers or trailers are

generally put together better. Anyone getting what I mean cause I think I’ve lost myself trying to explain.

:slight_smile:

I agree with Meg – I can’t wait to see more on American Dog and Rapunzel. Anyone know if it still has

the subtitle “Unbraided”?