Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest.asp?I1=ID&I2=75482" target="_blank"><b>Latest: Gnomeo and Juliet Trailer</b></a> <p style="text-align: center;"> <object data="http://www.youtube.com/v/vxbjC7e8lGA?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="385" width="400"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /> <param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vxbjC7e8lGA?fs=1&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /> </object> </p> <p>Trailer for "Gnomeo and Juliet" -- Touchstone Pictures animated feature with music by Elton John (via <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cartoonbrew.com">CartoonBrew</a>)</p>
Originally Posted By utahjosh Tiki Room, Cinderella...what other Disney references did they use? It's like because they could, they crammed it full of Disney .
Originally Posted By mawnck Didn't care for it. The gags are lamesville and too similar to each other, the dialog is too sitcommy, the characters are too unappealing. This looks to me like another Alpha and Omega, and if this trailer gives an accurate impression, I can see why they halted production. But does it give an accurate impression? No one knows better than I do how trailers that come out of that dang company nowadays can make a great movie look pretty awful. So I'm waiting to see more.
Originally Posted By leemac <<Didn't care for it.>> Me neither - I'm getting so fed up of seeing all this CGI junk on the previews - it seems like every other movie is a CGI animated flick. I do have some sympathy for Elton John and David Furnish on this one though - their pet project has been shoved around the company from Walt Disney Pictures to Miramax and now Touchstone? I thought this movie had been sold as part of the Miramax sale? I also thought it was supposed to have original Elton John music - now it is just a rehash of some of his older records?
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 I didn't know if I would like it, but I was laughing. I'm looking forward to see it. On the Miramax sale, Disney kept touchstone.
Originally Posted By basil fan I dunno. It could go either way. I liked Gnomio's voice. And garden Gnomes are such a lame-o thing, they could be funny. Donald Duck's Family Tree <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/disney/donald.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/...ald.html</a>
Originally Posted By TheRedhead Wow. That was absolutely dreadful. Not a single funny line. Not a single appealing character. Not a single original moment. Blech. And for the love of gravy, the characters actually do a MATRIX SPIN??? They should be tarred and feathered for that alone!
Originally Posted By Britain The fungi line made me smile. Not as dreadful as I feared it would be. I was expecting some crap like The Wild or ...what's that one with the carrier pigeons?
Originally Posted By mawnck >>what's that one with the carrier pigeons?<< Oh, that would be Valiant. Icch.
Originally Posted By basil fan It could be a funny movie. Or not. It could be warm and sweet. Or not. I really can't tell by the trailer. Tarzan <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/disney/tarzan.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/...zan.html</a>
Originally Posted By dshyates I think it will be a lot like "Prep & Landing" on steroids. That being said, I enjoyed "P & L".
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Sometimes I think some of these animated movies would have been better off just airing on 'The Wonderful World of Disney' "Home on the Range" "Chicken Little" "The Emperor's New Groove" "Meet the Robinsons" -- even "Bolt" When they release these movies in theaters with the same treatment as a "Beauty and the Beast" or "The Little Mermaid" -- they just fall short. In other news -- anyone going to buy the Blu-Ray, amped up, high-definition version-like-you've-never-seen-it-before version of "Beauty and the Beast"? Yeah, me neither.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>"Home on the Range" "Chicken Little" "The Emperor's New Groove" "Meet the Robinsons" -- even "Bolt"<< TENG and Bolt are considerably better than the other three. and ... >>anyone going to buy the Blu-Ray, amped up, high-definition version-like-you've-never-seen-it-before version of "Beauty and the Beast"?<< OH HECK YEAH! 2D in HD rocks!
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <TENG and Bolt are considerably better than the other three.>? Arguable... and... you're missing my point.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>you're missing my point.<< Maybe so. I'm hearing that you think all Disney theatrical features should be of "Mermaid" quality, and then you try to define "not Mermaid quality" with a list of other movies, some of which were critical and/or commercial successes. #1, audience perceptions shift. I strongly suspect that if Mermaid were released 10 years later, it would've made your naughty list for its inconsistent animation and stupid ending. I still maintain you're selling Bolt and Groove short by including them on that list. And much as I hated Home on the Range (and I REALLY hated Home on the Range), to say it belongs only on TV strikes me as crazy. There are no animated TV shows with those production values. Never have been. Not even on Wonderful World of Disney. #2, no studio is ever going to sustain that quality level year after year. Studio Ghibli has already tripped up big time with Tales From Earthsea. PIXAR got one mediocre movie through (IMHO) on the basis of a really strong first act (Up) and is due for a certified clunker. Uncle Walt himself presided over Fun and Fancy Free, Sleeping Beauty, and (most tellingly) The Sword in the Stone, which, while they have their merits, really aren't very good movies. Even such classic post-war features as Cinderella, Alice and Peter Pan were a big drop in quality from the pre-war stuff. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by them getting the same "treatment." Are you saying Disney shouldn't promote their own movies, or make commercials that say "this one really isn't up to snuff but go see it anyway"? They tried that with Treasure Planet, loudly writing it off as a loss after it had been in theaters for just a week. It proved to be a bad strategy. ;-)
Originally Posted By FerretAfros "And much as I hated Home on the Range (and I REALLY hated Home on the Range), to say it belongs only on TV strikes me as crazy." This is completely aside from whether the film should have been released in theaters or on TV, but the characters and situations in that film always made me think it would have made an excellent animated series, like the spinoffs that several other features (Mermaid, Aladdin, Lion King, Hercules, 101 Dalmatians) had. As we all know, the film bombed (and for good reason), but I think that there could have been some really good follow up material there, had there been any public interest in it.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>the characters and situations in that film always made me think it would have made an excellent animated series<< Yeah, I do believe you're right about that. Hmmmmmm .......
