goddamn smirky eyebrow-raised badass poochie cartoons nowadays

Cameron Diaz has reportedly asked for the film to have an eco-friendly storyline about a threatened swamp.

Ugh.

shrek 4 is set to be directed by the director of deuce bigalow: male gigalo

what about shark's tale?

-- Upt0eleven, Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:01 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

aka "crossed arms: the motion picture"

http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mo/sharktalebig.jpg
http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2004/10/07/shark_tale_narrowweb__200x372.jpg

lol crossed fins

Shark 'Tude

Shrek the Third 42%
Bee Movie 53%
Madagascar 56%
Over the Hedge 73%

What metric are we using for "ridiculously good" here?

Shark Tale 34% BEST REVIEWED MOVIE LOL

well i guess yeah cars maybe was a little bit of bad dudes with baddass 'tudes

but still it's nowhere NEAR as snarky as say shrek.

the big thing with Pixar is that they don't do pop culture reference gags...each movie is true to its own fantasy world, they don't break to wink at the audience...

cars is the least of the pixar movies though.

"Shrilly pandering to edgy, jive-talking, hip-hopping bents of the moment, [Shark Tale] churns up a sea of offensive ethnic stereotypes, unfunny situations, unsympathetic characters and lousy plotting." Houston Chronicle

A MUST-SEE!!

eh i was griping about these kids today when i was 14, im not too worried about coming off like a curmodgeon

-- deeznuts, Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:38 AM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Suspicions about nuts's age confirmed.

Yeah, Kung Fu Panda is the only one of these I actually want to see, for the whole "actual animal master of corresponding animal style" thing.

the Shark Tale producers presumably concluded that the secret to Nemo's success was the fact that it had fish in it. OMG FISH ARE SO IN THIS YEAR!!!!

cocks

When a movie is rating higher than Indy IV and the latest Marvel joint, yeah, it might be actually not too bad.

-- Pancakes Hackman, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:00 (7 minutes ago) Link

Smirking computer animation edges out the corpse of a movie franchise and yet another comic book film (the second take on this one), what an accomplishment.

Yeah, Kung Fu Panda is the only one of these I actually want to see, for the whole "actual animal master of corresponding animal style" thing.

-- kingfish, Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:10 PM (54 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

that's a really strange criteria for wanting to see a movie.

Finding Nemo only came out a year before Shark Tale, and these computer animation movies take years and years to produce.

Yeah, Kung Fu Panda is the only one of these I actually want to see, for the whole "actual animal master of corresponding animal style" thing.

-- kingfish, Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:10 PM (54 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

that's a really strange criteria for wanting to see a movie.

-- some dude, Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:13 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

coyote kingfish

i saw monsters inc on tv & its great but theres def pop cult refs... buscemi makes fargo woodchipper jokes!!

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:aeu3c2Y6M5CKMM:http://www.wallpapergate.com/data/media/1819/Tweety.jpg

lol argh @ tweety

I like kung fu movies, what do you want? Trad kung fu movies make a point of demonstrating contrasting styles, the more the better. Hell, even the pilot for the David Carradine series had each of the 5(ish) animal styles portrayed. The conceit of taking your otherwise bog standard dreamworks talking animals cheapo CGI but using it to instead match up said animal with the animal style interests me.

Let's see if this movie has James Hong in it.

[imdb check]

HA! It does!

Finding Nemo only came out a year before Shark Tale, and these computer animation movies take years and years to produce.

Dreamworks and Pixar so know what the other is working on, even if they're not meant to, and even if it's just "hey they're doing a fish film". Goes as far back as Bug's Life/Antz.

tweety is one of the OGs of this shit imo xposts

Finding Nemo only came out a year before Shark Tale, and these computer animation movies take years and years to produce.

there were leaks. so i hear.

http://www.mywildcrazyspace.com/wp-content/themes/2007/11/alvin_chipmunks_christmas_2.jpg
http://images.starpulse.com/Photos/Previews/Alvin-Chipmunks-movie-02.jpg

http://www.buzzbunny.co.uk/images/050217_loonatics.jpg

O_o

yeah i dunno...i feel like competing studios have more to lose than to gain by jumping on similiar themes/premises. i always imagine that it's more of a situation of both teams getting really far along on pre-production before finding out what the other is doing and going "fuck it, we've already put a lot of time into this, let's just do ours and hope it's better than theirs."

ughghhggh i dont know if anyone saw the chipmunks trailer in theaters but it revolved around some kind of joke that involved one of them having to eat one of their own turds to prove to dave it wasnt a raisin

not kidding

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/PreStitch.jpg

woulda been cool if stitch looked like that

er was a raisin obviously

haha I was about to post the whole chipmunk turd trailer -- the ENTIRE TEASER was a poop joke

to appeal to the stoner frat bro demographic - xxxpost

o_O at Disney's next picture being based on a Philip K. Dick fantasy story. Did somebody just option everything the guy wrote and they're trying to clear out the cheap properties?

i saw monsters inc on tv & its great but theres def pop cult refs... buscemi makes fargo woodchipper jokes!!

They do have em, but they're always completely peripheral to the characters and plots.

In other words, they're not "Family Guy".

Wait, are you saying that the pop cultural references in Family Guy are integral to the plot? Because that's the complete opposite argument most people make about FG.

family guy is so disconnected from modern society!!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/business/media/11cartoons.html

Warner Brothers hopes to “reinvigorate and reimagine” Bugs Bunny and Scooby-Doo through a new virtual world on the Internet, where people will be able to dress up the characters pretty much any way they want. American Greetings is dusting off another of its lines, the Care Bears, which will return with a fresh look this fall (less belly fat, longer eyelashes).

And 4Kids Entertainment, which licenses the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, will revive them next year in new video games, where they will have more muscles and less attitude.

Even Mickey Mouse is getting an update, although the Walt Disney Company is still mulling what tweaks to make.

“I love classic Mickey, but he needs to evolve to be relevant to new generations of kids,” Robert A. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, said in an interview.

Reinventing these beloved characters without inflicting indelible damage is one of the entertainment industry’s trickiest maneuvers. Go too far, as Mattel did in 1993 when it gave Ken a purple mesh T-shirt, a pierced ear and the name “Earring Magic Ken,” and it can set off a brand crisis on a global scale.

Done correctly, it can be incredibly lucrative. Mickey Mouse produces an estimated $5 billion in merchandise sales every year. Strawberry Shortcake, even in her diminished state, has generated $2.5 billion in revenue since 2003, according to American Greetings.

If the classic characters look less stodgy, the companies hope, they will appeal not only to parents who remember them fondly, but also to children who might automatically be suspicious of toys their parents played with. For parents, nostalgia is considered a bigger sales hook than ever because of the increasingly violent and hyper-sexualized media landscape.

“It’s a terrible world, and modern parents are trying to cocoon their kids as much as possible,” said Alfred R. Kahn, chairman of 4Kids Entertainment, which also manages franchises like Pokémon and the Cabbage Patch Kids. “What better way to protect them than wrapping them in nostalgic brands?”

Mr. Iger talks about the need to balance “heritage and innovation.” For Mickey and other Disney characters, one method is to keep the core attributes of the characters the same, but to update the world in which they live. For instance, Disney is updating Toontown, the section of Disneyland that Mickey calls home. One plan features an old-fashioned trolley, but Mr. Iger is not sure that is a smart idea. Will modern children know what an old-fashioned trolley is?

Warner Brothers, by contrast, is leaving the styling decisions up to the customers, some of whom were weaned on virtual worlds like Disney’s Club Penguin (where they can, say, dress a virtual penguin in a pirate costume and make it dance). At KidsWB.com, which is rolling out a revised site over the summer, the studio will let people customize Looney Tunes characters as they see fit.

“You want a dark, Goth version of Tweety Bird? Have at it,” said Lisa Gregorian, executive vice president for worldwide marketing at Warner Brothers Television.

“You want a dark, Goth version of Tweety Bird?"

No thanks

“What better way to protect them than wrapping them in nostalgic brands?”

WHAT BETTER WAY, INDEED

i forgot about some of the monsters stuff..i haven't seen that in a minute

but i think everyone knows the point i was trying to make wrt pixar's style vs. the shrek style which is a constant barrage of winky referential b.s.

One plan features an old-fashioned trolley, but Mr. Iger is not sure that is a smart idea. Will modern children know what an old-fashioned trolley is?

unbelievable.

Go too far, as Mattel did in 1993 when it gave Ken a purple mesh T-shirt, a pierced ear and the name “Earring Magic Ken,” and it can set off a brand crisis on a global scale.

ahahaha

http://www.manbehindthedoll.com/images/earringmagic.jpg

yeah matt i know toy story (which i think is the only pixar ive seen) didnt have nearly as much of that stuff; still i felt like a huge amount of its appeal was its cgi novelty, which is obviously done with

somebody needs to go back in time and kill the teenage mutant ninja turtles.

somebody needs to go back in time and kill the teenage mutant ninja turtles.

-- Tracer Hand, Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:42 AM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

F.U. man wtf

btw while we're on the subject, what do you guys make of this WALL-E flick? I feel like the trailers have been too vague for me to really have any idea whether it's more likely to be great or garbage.

somebody needs to go back in time and kill the teenage mutant ninja turtles.

-- Tracer Hand,

FU MAN WTF

I think Wall-E looks fantastic.

Also, Gay Ken is astonishing.

14 years on...

https://images.mymovies.net/images/film/cin/350x522/fid21007.jpg

maximum Poochie

The original Legion of Super-Pets is v much not a smirky eyebrow-raised badass Poochie comic strip

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Legion_of_Super-Pets_%28Earth-One%29

https://i.imgur.com/R4JmXDx.jpg

Excellent.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNWEyYzc2YjItYzY4Ni00ZTY2LWJjYTItMjJiYTE1MWNkZTU4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyODUwMzI1NTI@._V1_.jpg

http://www.impawards.com/2023/posters/ruby_gillman_teenage_kraken_ver6_xlg.jpg

Dreamworks, it is time for you to learn to draw faces

There is a large slice of society for which smirk=WINNER and a smaller slice to whom smirk=sociopath, we must choose a side

Well going by the trailer for that movie, the filmmakers are in the latter slice since she’s the baddie lol

del Toro just a few days ago:

The 58-year-old filmmaker spent a good portion of his Annecy master class deriding what he sees as destructive tendencies in much commercial animation where characters and emotions are “codified into a sort of teenage rom-com, almost emoji-style behavior. (If) I see a character raising his fucking eyebrow, or crossing his arms, having a sassy pose — oh, I hate that shit. (Why) does everything act as if they’re in a sitcom? I think it's emotional pornography. All the families are happy and sassy and quick, everyone has a one-liner. Well, my dad was boring. I was boring. Everybody in my family was boring. We had no one-liners. We’re all fucked up. That’s what I want to see animated. I would love to see real life in animation. I actually think it’s urgent. think it’s urgent to see real life in animation.”

Guillermo del Toro, welcome to the resistance

"Well, that just happened."

already noted upthread but

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/lego/images/6/6e/LEGO-Smiley-001.png/revision/latest?cb=20131127180524

to

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ca/9b/fa/ca9bfa14ff7384c85dde033ab28290ca.jpg

http://https%3A//media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/230504113629-01-what-are-zillennials-olarte-wellness.jpg%3Fc%3D16x9%26q%3Dh_540%2Cw_960%2Cc_fill/f_webp

from: "Zillennials: The newest micro-generation has a name" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/10/health/what-are-zillennials-wellness/index.html

Apparently this is the smirking generation. No generation has suffered more. "“They attended college during the pandemic, and missed out on important social markers.” So they must smirk.

goddamit

well just click the link to get your dose of smirk

http://https%3A//media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/230504113629-01-what-are-zillennials-olarte-wellness.jpg

i give up.

https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/230504113629-01-what-are-zillennials-olarte-wellness.jpg

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNzk4ODdiOTEtMTk3YS00MzZmLTgyOWMtYzc1NjgxYWE2MmMyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTUzMTg2ODkz._V1_.jpg

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/garfield/images/2/22/Garfield1980.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width/360?cb=20231128184048

Garfield was kind of a pioneer when it comes to smirky cartoon characters