The inedibles? Cartoon giant derailed – Times Online
Money quote:
While Pixar uses pop-culture buffoonery as the icing on the cake, for DreamWorks it is the cake: remove the jibes at Disney in Shrek, or the celebrity jokes in Shark Tale, and there’s not much left, least of all that sense of enchantment that is the lifeblood of fantasy. “Pop-culture references are easy,†sighs Bird, “and they give the audience a cheap thrill. But they don’t last..
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1 Digichrome // Sep 18, 2007 at 1:19 pm
I’m amused by your selective quoting. The article continues….
“Take Disney’s Aladdin, which I like – when that came out, and I saw the genie doing an impression of [US chat-show host] Arsenio Hall, I thought, ‘This is going to mean nothing in 10 years’ time.’ We try to avoid that. People who know James Bond movies could feel their influence on The Incredibles, but hopefully you didn’t need to be familiar with them to enjoy the film.â€
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Naturally I disagree with the guys assessment of Shrek. The movie was a good movie with our without the subtle Disney slams. Before you protest too much remember, you’ve never seen it.
I’m a little sad that I haven’t seen Ratatouille yet. I guess it’ll be out on vid soon.
2 Digichrome // Sep 18, 2007 at 1:20 pm
PS: You may be sorry you turned on comments!
3 DizWiz // Sep 18, 2007 at 4:27 pm
You’re so silly, Digichrome. Yeah, I did read the whole article. And yes, Aladdin did have one or two references to current pop culture. However, the point is that like the reference in Aladdin that won’t hold up, neither will Katzenberg’s entire revenge movie that is Shrek. Unlike the Disney classics (which are still raking in millions of dollars with each re-release) and the Pixar movies (of which every one has been a huge hit, and none has grossed less than $350 million–and that was Toy Story), Shrek will not be considered a classic movie.
4 Digichrome // Sep 19, 2007 at 8:32 am
So, the only way to gauge a movie’s value is by it’s revenue?
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