Disney Canon Conundrum

A year ago, I took a look at my own view of Disney animated feature films and explained my particular views on what is known as the Disney animated features "canon". What is the "canon"? An official line-up of sorts determined by The Walt Disney Company themselves, a line-up that says what counts as a …

Animation Perception ’20

Before I start, I've been meaning to post this since December. The bulk of it was written then. I fully understand that now isn't exactly the time to talk about the way animation is perceived by a lot of the public. Right now there are far more important things going on in the world, and …

Pixar, Or Just Four Guys?

Some early reviews of Onward, which got out mere weeks before its theatrical bow, haven't been so glowing. Some writers have expressed disappointment over the fact that it wasn't up to "Pixar standards". Even the blurb on the almighty Rotten Tomatoes, predictably, reads "It may suffer in comparison to Pixar's classics". Naturally, I wanted to …

This Decade in Disney Animation: My Retrospective, Part 2

A recap... Instead of looking at the last ten years' worth of Walt Disney Animation Studios output, I decided to start off at where I thought their "revival" period began, and why it began in the first place. This entire decade is very much part of and a byproduct of the studio's resurgence as a …

I Love Both INCREDIBLES 2 and SPIDER-VERSE

Awards season is over. For the first time in years, an animation giant other than The Walt Disney Company took home a majority of the awards, including the coveted Oscar. Yes, Sony Pictures Animation's Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse was the grand champion of 2018's animated feature crop, in a year with some pretty fierce competition. Big …

Modern Mouse: Contemporary Ideas and Disney Animation…

It appears that the latest Walt Disney Animation Studios film is starting a lot of conversations... Opening next week, Ralph Breaks The Internet, the sequel to the studio's video game-centric hit, happens to be a somewhat rare contemporary Disney animated feature. Since the trailers and marketing materials have highlighted lots of pop cultural references, memes, and …

Make Up Your Own Mind

Another year, another live-action Disney film that tried to do something a little different has possibly failed at the box office... Walt Disney Pictures' adaptation of Madeleine D'Engle's arguably-unfilmmable A Wrinkle in Time hit screens this weekend. Backed by vague and unconvincing trailers, the film seemed to get by on its director's pedigree and its refreshingly …

Animad Max

An animated Mad Max movie is something I'd really love to see... An animated Mad Max movie would also be something rather unprecedented in the mainstream film market... A mostly live-action film franchise going animated... When does that usually ever happen? When I say a live-action series going animated, I mean a series that's going …

Animation’s Naughty Dog…

A naughty dog? What in the world does an undisciplined canine have to do with the medium? Recently, I've been getting into a video game series called Uncharted. The developer of said series happens to be called Naughty Dog. Let's go back a little ways and look at something that put this very developer on …

Pixar Generalizations and Complaints That I Don’t Like!

Loving certain works of entertainment can come with a price. I know that very well as a fan of animation, and especially the legendary Disney animated classics "canon". Back in August of 2015 on my mainline news blog, I ripped five generalizations about the body of work apart. Now, I want to do the same …