All these cartoon movies are losing their novelty.

[The Robot Lord of Tokyo]

The over-abundance of all these animated movies are starting to wear thin. The Cars movie...the Wild movie....that movie with the dancing penguins......now their just making cartoon movies for the sake of making cartoon movies. They've all started to suck after Finding Nemo....and I didn't even like that one that much.

[A.Huerta]

U didnt like the Incredibles?

[Nick_Ardill]

It is getting to be a little much. I think I counted from the time the Incredibles came out there have been 20 animated feature length movies. Its multiplied by 5 in the past 5 years.

[FredC]

For me, it's just 3D movies that bug me. WAY too many 3D movies. They, i'd agree, have lost their novelty.

[YouStayClassy]

A lot of them seem to follow the formula of having the characters make topical pop-reference jokes that won't even be funny or make sense 5 years from now. That's why Toy Story worked so well for me, it's timeless material.

[The Robot Lord of Tokyo]

U didnt like the Incredibles?
I'll agree...Incredibles was good....but for that there has been so many bad ones.

[Corwin: Bear Fighter]

Animation shouldn't be a "novelty". That's the main problem with Hollywood's approach to it.

[A.Huerta]

No doubt.

After Incredibles its been straight crap. The sad thing is these movies are feeding off each other... The Wild = Madagascar.

[Nick_Ardill]

Lets see theres been in the past 2 years...
Incredibles
Madagascar
The Wild
The Hedge
Ice Age 2
Happy Feet
Cars
Chicken Little
The Polar Express
Oh god I'm forgetting a tonne.

[The Robot Lord of Tokyo]

I remember when I saw Akira.....I was blown away by the visuals.
Everything now seems to follow the same mold or patern.
Family friendly recycled garbage.

[YouStayClassy]

Lets see theres been in the past 2 years...
Incredibles
Madagascar
The Wild
The Hedge
Ice Age 2
Happy Feet
Cars
Chicken Little
The Polar Express
Oh god I'm forgetting a tonne.

The Godawful Hoodwinked that I actually paid money for.:-x

[Vonn Hennigar]

Blame all those stupid kids and their parents who make almost every 3d animated movie a big hit.

Of course the studios are gonna flood the market.

[Ray G.]

The problem with most of the animated movies coming out is the same problem with most movies: the script. If the script sucks, the movie will suck no matter what.

[Nick_Ardill]

The Godawful Hoodwinked that I actually paid money for.:-xThats the one I was thinking of and the other movie that the studio did too. Damn I'm completely at a loss right now...:-x

[YouStayClassy]

Thats the one I was thinking of and the other movie that the studio did too. Damn I'm completely at a loss right now...:-x

Doogle I think, can't quite remember.

[Nick_Ardill]

Doogle I think, can't quite remember.Thats the one.
What makes me mad about Doogle is that it had John Stewart in it. I love John Stewart but hate that movie.

[YouStayClassy]

Thats the one.
What makes me mad about Doogle is that it had John Stewart in it. I love John Stewart but hate that movie.

I bet the makers of Doogle had blackmail photos of him watching Fox News or something...

[Foolish Mortal]

A lot of them seem to follow the formula of having the characters make topical pop-reference jokes that won't even be funny or make sense 5 years from now. That's why Toy Story worked so well for me, it's timeless material.

I agree. It's not that there are too many animated films, it's that they all follow the SAME formula.

[Corwin: Bear Fighter]

No doubt.

After Incredibles its been straight crap. The sad thing is these movies are feeding off each other... The Wild = Madagascar.

We're in a transitional period, much akin to the late 70s-early 80s. At the point, Disney was trying to cling to a specific formula, and the movies weren't necessarily bad, but nobody knew because people were just not interested. The pseudo-adult-fantasy/sci-fi fad came along (thanks to Heavy Metal and Rock 'n' Rule) and you saw everybody trying to hitch their wagons to it (even Disney, whose Black Cauldron is possibly their darkest animated feature), and yet people still didn't buy it.
Part of the problem is definitely pidgeonholing. We're finally getting movies that appeal to a wider audience (Shrek, the Incredibles) with good stories and interesting characters, but Hollywood is just too afraid to go all out with it. They see it, like everything else, as just another formula they have to crack in order to make money.

[Corwin: Bear Fighter]

The problem with most of the animated movies coming out is the same problem with most movies: the script. If the script sucks, the movie will suck no matter what.

Agreed.

[xyzzy]

The problem with most of the animated movies coming out is the same problem with most movies: the script. If the script sucks, the movie will suck no matter what.

Bingo. What most filmmakers don't seen to understand is that Pixar has been successful because they pick good scripts, not because it's CG or whatever other superficial stuff they pick up on.

[Nick_Ardill]

I wanna see more movies like Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Something that can really bend the way we look at a movie. God I love Advent Children.

[YouStayClassy]

I wanna see more movies like Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Something that can really bend the way we look at a movie. God I love Advent Children.

YES. I can't wait to hear the American voices for this movie, just to see if they can do it justice.

[Nick_Ardill]

YES. I can't wait to hear the American voices for this movie, just to see if they can do it justice.As long as its not Alec Baldwin or that chick from Frasier I'll be golden.

[YouStayClassy]

As long as its not Alec Baldwin or that chick from Frasier I'll be golden.

:rofl:

Oh man, that movie should be taught in Film School as "Every Single Thing Never To Do When Adapting A Popular Medium Into Movie Form".

[Oeming]

THose arent cartoon movies- those are CGI. Cartoon movies are a dead art form, unless its manga.

[xyzzy]

THose arent cartoon movies- those are CGI. Cartoon movies are a dead art form, unless its manga.

I thought that one of the first things that Lasseter did at Disney was to restart their 2d animation program?

[Nick_Ardill]

THose arent cartoon movies- those are CGI. Cartoon movies are a dead art form, unless its manga.This is true. Its a sad state. Even when you can't get away from a traditional animation movie without it having some CG in it.

[nihilance]

If you were going for the "novelty" of 3D then you shouldn't be surprised that you are getting disappointed now.

[Adam Geen]

There's also that movie called Valiant. Ewan McGregor was a voice. About some pigeons or somethin goin to war with the crows. (I think.) Fuckin terrible.

[Natty P]

They make them for little kids.

[Evan the Shaggy]

Its scary how much the Wild looks EXACTLY like Madagascar.

[J. R. Scherer]

I love animated films, but they're just like everything else--most of them stink. You have to wade through the crap to get to the good ones. Same with books, music, comics, TV, live action movies, and video games.