Originally Posted By movieguy Katzenberg is responsible for content. He is responsible for taking the creative control out of the hands of the artist and into the (teeny weeny)brains of the executive.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad Jeffery is TRULY bitter. We all know it. And don't for a minute, think that he is not VERY involved in ever aspect of their Movies. I have often wondered what Disney would have been like had Michael offered Jeffery the President position after Frank Wells died. If the two of them could have ever found a way to work together, it could have been truly Magical!
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 I wasn't that impressed with the "Flushed Away" trailer. I do appreciate the Aardman style, but I just didn't find it worked as well in CG. I love the claymation style they're so known for. Also, I did find that there were more crude jokes in it than usual Aardman fare...I guess we'll have to see. To me it looks like a Dreamworks feature that just happens to have that Aardman look to it, and a British cast.
Originally Posted By bean the fart, burp jokes are getting way too old. Why is it that all dreamworks movies need to have this crud to try to appeal to young kids. Even over the Hedge has it on its trailers.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Katzenberg is responsible for content.<, >>And don't for a minute, think that he is not VERY involved in ever aspect of their Movies.<< Dear Wall, It's not a Dreamworks movie. It's an Aardman movie that Dreamworks is distributing. Signed, Mawnck. For my next piece of performance art, I will argue with a stop sign.
Originally Posted By AladdinAZ Flushed Away, and no Pooh jokes????? Katz needs to see the Flush Pooh T-Shirt design.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad Dear mawnck, Sorry I didn't know that. I retract my statement. Thank you for setting me straight. Signed, ex-Wall
Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror >>>Dear Wall, It's not a Dreamworks movie. It's an Aardman movie that Dreamworks is distributing.<<< This is true enough, but it misses the actual situation, and anyone familiar with how things work these days between Dreamworks Animation and Aardman is that Jeffrey and his people are increasingly intrusive into Aardman's product. They by no means have autonomy (and never really did). Even WereRabbit was given notes from Dreamworks for tweaks. They're not merely a distributor. The relationship is more involved than that.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 And the only reason WereRabbit was left "mostly" alone, is because of the established Wallace & Gromit forumula. I think Dreamworks knew that if it were screwed up too much, or Americanized, that it would not be Wallace & Gromit anymore. With Flushed Away, they can have more control because these characters are new...much like Chicken Run (insert Mel Gibson here).
