Thread:Marvelfan94/@comment-25692211-20170315200828/@comment-25692211-20170316061756

Marvelfan94 wrote: What's more, when it comes to animation, I tend to have no interest in, or simply avoid, much of the crap that's out there (i.e. Video Brinquedo, Kanbar Entertainment, ANYTHING animated having to do with the Titanic!), so I haven't really had to suffer through any of this obscure stuff. Infact, I don't even regularly watch alot of animated titles.

If I were you, I'd also avoid anything with Rob Schneider in a voice role, anything by Lionsgate Animation, pretty much anything by Sony after 2010 (aside from Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2) and all the Ice Age sequels after Dawn Of The Dinosaurs.

These are the types of films that would rather make something that panders to "cool kids" culture rather than telling a decent story with likable characters. I really can't stand when films, animated or live action, dedicate themselves to advertising modern tech or playing generic pop songs to make it to some top ten charts.

It's ironic how what they do to these types of films often has the opposite effect to what they intended. Modernizing a film with updated slang and pop songs doesn't "update" it for a current audience, it just makes it feel more dated for a future audience. Increasing adult/dirty humor doesn't make it "more grown up", it often makes it seem even more childish. And when you "softening" a film doesn't make it more suitable for kids, it's just talking down to kids.

Technically, after Shrek, every animation studio except Pixar and Aardman (so yeah, even Disney was doing this) was trying to make a film like that. Though it did win the first ever animation Oscar, so I guess that's "justified". For the most part, comparing these films with Shrek is like comparing Suicide Squad to Guardians Of The Galaxy (it's pretty much the same but done badly) only some of these films, like Robots and Ice Age 2-3 were actually pretty decent since they still focused on story and character.

And honestly, films like Kung Fu Panda, How To Train Your Dragon and The LEGO Movie ended this trend of animated movies when they were released because of how different, and much better, they were. So when you watch those films and then switch to the ones I mentioned at the beginning of this, you kind of get the feeling that those films pretty much came out in the wrong decade (and then of course you also have films like Foodfight! and Filmation's Happily Ever After that actually did come out in the wrong decade. Seriously, if you have time, look both these productions of. You'll find the story of their production is far more interesting than the films themselves).

And of course, you have the ultimate offender in this. I was actually f*****g disgusted when I saw the trailer alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV9LYMAEnRA

By the way, guess who does that voice at 1:04. I wonder who's kid did he hit with his car to have to do this (literal) piece of s**t.