I realised something as I woke up this morning. In response to Cars 2, what are they going to do about Doc Hudson? Paul Newman retired from film making, and Cars was his pentultimate, if not, last film. Will they recast him? If they plan to get him back, they're going to need some major lead pleading and woo-ing.
I could see a film where he "dies" and Lightnig races in his memory or something like that, but I doubt they'd kill him off.
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10 movies and only ONE is cel-animated. Weak.
I hadn't been paying that much attention, but I was hoping that Rapunzel would be hand drawn. Guess not.
Aside from maybe the Pixar stuff, color me unexcited. The only Disney flick ont he horizon I'm interested in is The Frog Princess, if only for the return of traditional animation that Disney foolishly gave up on.
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Well, quite a few of these films were in pre-production since well before they bought Pixar. At least Rapunzel and Bolt anyway. And as we all know, Pixar was a-fixin' to leave Disney behind. The 2-D films weren't going anywhere for the reason I mentioned. They were getting flack from the Princess/Fairy Tale movies, and once they broke free and did they're own thing, they were getting flack for that too. And it got even worse, since Lilo and Stitch was the only success they had at that period. They pretty much pretended that Emperor's New groove didn't exist (releasing it just after 102 Dalmations). And Brother Bear and Home on the Range got some pretty nasty reviews. I will say this though, Brother Bear wasn't as bad as everyone says. It was a much better attempt at native American legend than a certain historically inaccurate, preachy snoozefest they did in 95.
To sum it up, without Pixar, Disney's last successes would have been Tarzan (which was hardly as successful as they wanted it to be) and Lilo and Stitch without Pixar. So clearly they put one and one together, and got the wrong answer- CGI was the solution. Now, Chicken Little was a moderate success, and so wasn't Meet the Robinsons (if it were only released 2 weeks later, TMNT would have been a little more successful). So, the solution was to make as many CGI's as possible. But then they bought Pixar. Bolt and Rapunzel were already in developement.
I'm just shocked they didn't announce any more 2-d's after that. I thought they were supposed to keep the original animation studio and traditions....