Originally Posted By indysoarin19 In the just-released trailer for DreamWorks' "Flushed Away", a rodent is flushed down a toilet and comes across a fish that resembles Nemo who says, "Have you seen my dad?" Why does Jeffrey have to always bash Disney for a cheap laugh? Plus, he's now bashing Pixar, unlike his other bashings previously (i.e. the Little Mermaid bit in Shrek 2). To see for yourself, just go to <a href="http://www.apple.com/trailers/dreamworks/flushedaway/" target="_blank">http://www.apple.com/trailers/ dreamworks/flushedaway/</a>
Originally Posted By jdub I get sick of "poo-poo jokes" -- it seems to be about all Dreamworks is good for... ...but the "Flushing Nemo" described in post 1 IS pretty funny.
Originally Posted By Chelledun I don't really see that as bashing Disney, I think its just a silly pop culture reference. People know who Nemo is. I dunno, it kind of made me giggle.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA One question: why do all characters in 3D animation have the same eyes? Remember how we look back at old cartoons of the 20s and 30s and all characters have those circles with the little wedge cut out of them? Why were they all the same then? And why do all of the character's eyes look the same? But I've already asked that...
Originally Posted By ToonKirby I didn't even catch that that was a Nemo joke ... it would have made more sense if the fish said "son" instead of "dad".
Originally Posted By leemac The whole concept of the movie leaves me cold. Glad to see that Over the Hedge isn't set for a huge first weekend. Early indicators put its Friday gross at about $10m. Way behind Da Vinci Code (about $30m).
Originally Posted By leemac Ultimately Jeff is responsible for many of the woes in Feature Animation these days. Budgets are out of control as he had to poach Disney staffers rather than trying to organically build a studio. Personally I wish the man a lot of ill will and hope these next few DreamWorks movies fail miserably.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA ^^^I have to agree with your assessment of Katzenberg, leemac. He's always seemed like sort of a punk to me.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 ^^^^^^^^ Was basically going to say the same thing...he should actually try andbe creative once in a while without relying on this type of stuff.....
Originally Posted By jdub Okay, I saw the preview today. The Nemo joke was funnier in the description than the execution. The only thing I can see this film has going for it is the Aardman studio look--and in truth, I don't give THAT a free pass! Looks like if I want to see a good animated film, I'll have to keep renting anime.
Originally Posted By movieguy The computerized version of Aardmans claymation doesn't look very appealing in Flushed Away.
Originally Posted By Tonfinityanbyond I have never been one to shy away from a little tease here and there but there are limits. I wonder where Mr. Katzenberg would be today without all of those good folks in the Disney Company that worked very hard for him and kind of sort of put his name on the map. All your differences with Mr. Eisner aside Jeffrey, Disney is what made you not the other way around.
Originally Posted By markedward Turning something beloved on its head and making fun of it is a classic joke. At least as far back as the Fractured Fairy Tales on the old Bullwinkle show, adults and older kids have enjoyed having fun with the stories they knew as children. I thought Shrek was often histerical as it did this. It poked, and poked, and poked, and was really smart and funny as it did it. And let's not forget it will go down in history as the very first movie to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. But ... The joke has gotten old. Each time they recycle the same styles of jokes, they become more tired.
Originally Posted By kennect The joke has gotten old and it will only be a matter of time that the audience shows it doesn't care about such...The future of animation is really going to have to be extremely creative to keep the publics interest...
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<let's not forget (Shrek) will go down in history as the very first movie to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.>> But let's also not forget that the Best Animated Feature award category wasn't created until 2001, and that Snow White receieved an Honorary Award all the way back in 1939.
Originally Posted By TheRedhead Let's also also not forget that Beauty and the Beast was the first animated film to be nominated for Best Picture. So, um, nyah.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA And lets not forget that 'Home On The Range' didn't win an Oscar or any other award for that matter. So there...
Originally Posted By mawnck >>The joke has gotten old and it will only be a matter of time that the audience shows it doesn't care about such<< Yeah, um, I'm still waitin'. Flushed Away is an Aardman production, not Dreamworks. Aardman won the most recent Best Animated Feature Oscar. (So there.) And Katzenberg isn't personally responsible for the gags in Dreamworks' movies anyway. He doesn't make the movies, he's just an executive.
