Wish was my favorite Disney film this year because I was laughing at how bad it was in the theater. Who thought it was ok to use chat GPT to write your songs. (South Park used it for an episode but it was a joke scene so whatever)
Ninoma also looks better than Wish imo, mostly because it actually commits to its artstyle instead of making a regular 3d animated movie with an instagram filter on top of it.
@@matias3542 ‘Instagram filter’ exactly describes why I really don’t like Wish’s animation lol. I couldn’t put it into words why until now. It looks so ugly and like you said, looks like a filter rather than trying the actual ‘Spiderverse style’-
9 year old me wouldn't ever expect that a Barbie and a Mario movie would do better than a Disney original. Now 14 yrs later and look what Disney has become: a thing that cant innovate or lacks creative freedom
I just it funny that both the Mario Movie and last year's Puss in Boots 2 had plots revolving a magical star and they were better received by audiences than Wish. In Puss in Boots case it also achieved critical praise and Mario became one of the most successful animated movies of all time
@@dante6985 I have to admit that although the Mario Movie was not narrative masterpiece, I had a good time watching it, but I was quite surprised to see how successful it was. Especially when I was at the theater, I hadn't seen a theater so packed since No Way Home, people of all ages were excited to see it, some of them were even cosplaying as Mario & Luigi. And I'm not from the U.S., it's incredible how popular is Mario at a global level. Don't know how Disney would manage to achieve Mario-levels of hype with their animated offerings, the Frozen sequels are the only ones that can manage to do it in my opinion
@@viddork man remember that the last Disney original that was remotely good and even won an Oscar was Encanto. Like we just want more of Encanto or Moana and less Strange world
At least Mirabel being awkward and goofy makes sense...15 year olds are just...like that and shes been left to drift for years so...ignored child becomes the comic relief trope.
@@dumebiafran1180 i mean yes but anna was indeed supposed to fight the standard at the time, with the whole a villain not being there that was also against what they usually do, but frozen was such a success that they stuck with it and they stopped any innovation after that
EXACTLY The context is everything here, Mirabel, Rapunzel and Anna were all very lonely, misunderstood teens, full of insecurities that translate to their goofy and awkward personalities, all of them in the case are challenged later on, after Rapunzel accepted shes more than her hair and cut it, after Anna understood the love of her sister, and after Mirabel finally confronts Abuela, their personalities were there to express the insecurities they needed to surpass in order to grow We dont know anything about Asha, and she had 0 character growth on her movie
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There was no reason Haunted Mansion had to come out in July. No one wants to see a spooky movie in July. This would have been better if released around Halloween, like August the earliest.
I didn't notice that at all. I just thought "oh they're making a Haunted Mansion without Eddie Murphy 🤷🏻♀️ whatever" that's crazy they chose a summer release date. Talk about having everything stacked against it.
I think that was because one they already had 20th Century's A Haunting in Venice in September and two so it would be on Disney+ by October while still giving it a Theatrical Run. Then again it was originally gonna come in March.
Funnily enough 2023 has the same *EXACT* calendar as years like 2017,2006,1995,1989 and more so it’s kinda of coincidental ngl also I can’t wait to see Disney probably getting their worst ass kicks and probably finally be dead by 2034.
I wanted Asha to become an accidental villain. Imagine if releasing wishes caused chaos, proving the king right? She then has to help the king end the chaos? Not everone's wishes are good and it's Fairytail 101 to be careful what you wish for because it might come true. This would have been a REALLY cool way to take Disney traditions and invert them in a cool new way. You could even include a secondary "true" villain halfway through who's truly evil to sing a traditionally epic musical theater villain song about trickiing Asha into granting their dream/causing chaos! Bonus points if it was a friend she loved/trusted.
@@GabePlaysYT So sweet of you! Honestly, I just really love fairy tales, musicals, and epic villains. I want to produce films like this someday. I'll see where my future takes me after graduation, lol!
You know, even if this year wasn't their 100° Anniversary it would still have been a disastrous year, but the fact that it was their centennial makes everything that happened to Disney even a bigger failure
@@noobmasterruben5167 if we're talking about animated films from this year, I'd say the Oscar nominees will be Across the Spider-Verse, The Boy and the Heron, Elemental and maybe some late release. I'm sure AtSV will win the Oscar, I haven't seen the last from Miyazaki but some say it's very good but not as amazing as some of his previous works. Elemental was pretty good as well, but I can't see it winning against Spider-Verse
"We didn't make a 2D animated film for our anniversary because it was too hard" Aren't you like the company that was the leading force in 2D animation for decades???
Or imagine if Disney started making animated versions of it's live action movies, including subsidiary studios like Hollywood Pictures...still waiting on that Encino Man anime or how about Son In Law ..or In The Army Now cuz i know I ain't the only one that (mostly) loves Pauly Shore
i feel like people are harping on her quirkiness too much and only have access to scenes in the trailer where shes just NERVOUS about her interview with the king. she does have her like idk awkward moments,(the beginning of the interview, when she's talking to herself, or trying to hide things from others) but she carries a very good-natured and headstrong personality through the movie
Regal, noble, and strong do not come to my mind. All I see is the quirky, dorky princess trope that plagues modern Disney stories. This film reeks of corporate meddling and people are starting to see it.
When I look at Asha's design, I see a combination of Esmeralda, Rapunzel and Mirabel, with a dash of Disney's signature political correctness mixed in. She's made up from pieces of other Disney characters - she ain't unique herself. She's just a cookie cutter character with no personality at all. The goat and star sidekick's only purpose is to have marketable plushies made out of them for kids. Yes, it's that bad.
It was a matter of time, but it looks like we’re going to have to see studios actually TRY to make GREAT movies, now that they know we are not stupid anymore, and we will see what we want in theaters.
The reason Wish was "too hard to animate" in 2D is because Disney did away with their 2D animation team a long time ago. 3D animation and 2D animation are done a lot differently.
I think it's sad that modern animators don't even know how to do 2D animation anymore, wasn't there something to do with the newer Mary Poppins movie. They had to like rehire a guy who was retired for like 40 years now because he was the only person that knew how to animate in that old classic Disney style?
Yep, that's correct. From what I've read, the current animation team has virtually no experience with traditional animation, so for that segment, they temporarily rehired someone who did. And it definitely shows. The style there is remarkable! That said, 2D animation isn't completely abandoned. It's largely fallen into the hands of smaller, more independent studios. If you want a really good example of this, take a look at the film "Ernest and Celestine", alongside it's sequel, "A Trip to Gibberitia". They're French films. Only the first film is English, but the second is apparently getting an English dub soon.
@@marcynalc No I know that's all true. I'm just saying it does seem like Disney is lost all capabilities when it comes to its 2D animation department. Not with marvel or Star wars but with everything else...
As well, Once Upon a Studio was a short film. Barely clocking in at ten minutes. Nowhere near feature length. Not to discredit the work that went into it, but that's something to consider. Animating a short is generally easier to do.
I once read that when kingdoms reach their golden era, they need to fall to the ground to come back to it's roots and start all over again. I don't think it's the case with Disney because they're too big to fail but we can see the lack of creativity from a thousands miles away. I can't believe the same studio that brought us Beauty and the Beast and villains like Scar and Ursula gave us this current cheap antagonists and half baked stories.
Honestly what is happening recently blows the whole "too big to fail" idea out of the water. We're assuming Disney will come back from this, but what if the situation is that its too big to keep going? This is a company that has had endless layoffs, aquired way to many studios and companies, and has angered a lot of its fans due to political nonsense it shouldn't have gotten involved in.
Ana: Playful, family-oriented, loves sweets/local fare, determined to the point of carelessness Mirabel: Helpful and friendly to people in her community even though she has no gift, artsy, a bit sassy, conflicted Asha: Knowledgable about Rosas and MAYBE has solid friendships? All this is to say that Asha is just “awkward” and nothing else which is so sad cause I wanted so badly to like her character 😢
Don’t forget movies have to make roughly double their budget because movie theaters take 40-70% of the ticket price depending on the country. Other than that great video man keep it up!
I watched the new Haunted Mansion and I'd say that it was pretty decent. The movie was simple reiteration of the original, yet also allowed its own story to shine through. I wouldn't say that it was mind blowing, but definitely nice, entertaining movie.
Nah, they're also losing grip on the eastern (Asian) conscious here as well. Nobody here talks about Disney unless it's about their woke agenda or mocking their failures
@@devinmay3038 Lol no. Everyone here in my country (Indonesia) definitely does. Everytime a new Disney (or anything from the West) content with forced diversity (whether that be feminist, racial, or LGBTQ stuff) gets released, everyone will definitely start posting on social media complaining about or making fun of it.
@@SuperBC64 yeah only "terminally online geeks". And that's why the government banned Lightyear and Strange World ;) Because we all know the government is filled with "terminally online geeks"
I'm probably the minority here but I actually ended up enjoying Elemental more than I thought I would. i thought it was a really fun way to portray interracial relationships and cultural barriers without it being too over the top.
Elemental doesn't make sense. Fire and Water are literal opposites in nature. They can KILL each other just by being close to each other. Too much water causes fire to be extinguished. Too much fire causes water to evaporate into steam. What's the message they're trying to convey to kids here? That nature doesn't work the way it obviously does? That physics are inherently false? It's such a weird concept.
I respectfully disagree. Elemental to me has proved that Pixar can still deliver meaningful films that can resonate with anyone. Peter Sohn isn't the only person that has experienced hardships with immigration and xenophobia. Embers struggling to live up to her dads expectations and finding her own path are real issues people face. Wade and Embers romance felt so relatable and developed, not like a fairytale romance or Romeo and Juliet. There doesn't nessecarily have to be a big climatic subplot, or an overly ambiguous storyline, it's how the message gets through that matters, and Elemental did so beautifully. It is safe to say that it was very entertaining and lives up to the Pixar name. I loved it.
@@perrykv7312 How the they took the time to animate the constant movement the of fire, water, and air elements in each shot of the film. Hats off to the animators for taking the time and effort to execute these amazing visuals.
I learned a lot! Like how me & immigrants are like fire & water...and how people who insist I shouldn't feel threatened by immigration are equivalent to people who insist I shouldn't feel threatened by literal fire, and other things that pose an objective physical threat to me that *no one* should be forced to be exposed to. The great analogy showed me how justified I am in treating people different from me the same way I would treat a creature who can't even touch me without accidentally killing me. They can't even stop themselves from hurting me, it's essentially apart of their nature! Humans aren't all humans - no. We are like completely different species...and not only that, but we're different species that actively cannot survive together, because we will literally destroy each other. It's a physical essence of our beings...an inevitable & unavoidable fact of nature, as certain and predictable as the reactions between elements...or like water killing fire the moment they're in contact. 🤷 Makes just as much sense as the movie's world building, I guess. Thanks Elemental! I could tell Pixar *really* thought this one through, all of it.
13:24 The "goofy" and "quirky" girl trope started with tangled and belive me when I say that it's not the nostalgia talking when I say it worked then for a variety of reasons. However, it's Disney's new trope, their new staple, and have seemingly forgotten how to do anything else (just like it being far too difficult to have 2D animation for Wish).
Tangled made sense, even frozen. Because both those characters had incredibly limited social interaction before their movies. Hell Ana doesn't show any quirkyness beyond that of a little kid her age in the past scene, so its clear the isolation has affected her development. And how it contrasted with Elsa who had less interaction, and self imposed at that.
I do want to say, as far as Elemental goes, it is an interracial romance story aimed at the entire family. While interacial or intergroup romances are not uncommon in media (The Owl House, Avatar: The Last Airbender, I mean the list goes on), especially where bad guys are able to be swooned away from the dark side, the intergroup romance being the main focus is suprisingly sort of rare. In retrospect, I can at least respect Elemental for tackling this topic for an entire feature film that ultimately draws on the experiences of its own creators in a way similar to Turning Red. I appreciate it being a personal property even if I don't really connect with it. That is way more than I can say for many other Disney properties, and especially Wish.
Elemental doesn't make sense. Fire and Water are literal opposites of each other. They can KILL each other just by being close to each other. I really don't understand what they were trying to pull with this movie.
@@isabellegoegebuer2777 It is just an analogy that is not fundamentally different than predators and prey in Zootopia, where physical differences and history are among the primary contributors leading to discrimination and bias in the world of Zootopia, yet are not and should not be the end-all be-all of how society should treat different groups of people. I think the thing with Elemental is that even such great physical differences do not necessarily need to divide us as individuals. If Fire and Water can get along, why can’t we? Sure they’re different, and Fire will never understand what it is like to be Water, that doesn’t mean they can’t find common ground while appreciate their differences, both innately and individual. And to be fair, water and fire elementals can touch, versus regular water and fire elementals. I think this idea of obsessing over the premise of Elemental is Cinemasins level of critique. We can fuss over the details of realism and practicality, but this nitpicking fails to consider thematic relevance. How does the premise take away from the message of being against discrimination and realizing that differences are not deficits? I don’t think it really does to the extent it critics are complaining about. There is such a thing as being too literal about it. In any case, you could suggest that Fire and Water do mix; they just form steam.
Disney's "worst year" also being their 100'th anniversary absolutely kills me. They went through so much hype and marketing, just to make a movie that was average at best. why not make something actually related to their anniversary, rather than this *highly generic* animated movie plot
Wish makes me so mad. My whole life I’ve been an artist and a theatre kid, so seeing a movie by a company that once dOMINATED those genres fall so flat is just.. awful
I said it before and I'll say it again. Disney nowadays is the equivalence of a hung over university student who overspends his money with little to no plan or a secondary school pupil who got his first bankcard and spent all his money in one day.
to think that the only good movie that Marvel has released in recent years is Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3 and yet James Gunn left Marvel to go work at DC and Warner Bros
The original concepts looked so cool!! The villain was supposed to have an evil wife alongside him (villain couple!!) And the star thing was supposed to be a guy that could shape shift. It was theorized from early art that he and Asha would have been a couple. Shame they flopped so hard.
I thought it would be a good movie. It's supposed to be a really big fun movie . Apparently it wasn't I was sadly bored in the theater. I was feeling tired in the theaters.
I kinda think that Disney is running out of ideas and their child-friendly limitations and their own views and beliefs is getting in the way as well. The past few movies has has a similar effect and concept in a way. It’s just a musical, it has a misfit protagonist, it has a villain that is usually a twist villain, and after a big battle against the villain everything is better again and the world lived happily ever after. It’s getting repetitive now and becoming increasingly obvious. Yes, Disney had amazing movies. But it’s getting worse and repetitive now.
Mirabel, Rapunzel, and Anna are justified “adorkable” tropes bc Rapunzel and Anna were isolated for the majority of their lives and Mirabel is not only 15 (and 15 year olds tend to be awkward), but she’s kinda shoved to the side- so she kinda makes up for it by being quirky. Asha just isn’t justified; and it’s Disney milking the trope to death.
It's been interesting to watch the fall of a once revered company like Disney, to the point that the film that is supposed to commemorate their 100th anniversary looks weird and unfinished, at least from what I've seen. Also I didn't even know Haunted Mansion was a thing lol
Nah, I’d be SO MAD if I was Mickey Mouse after this year, bro. Like, he did not deserve to be disrespected this hard by his own house on his 100th birthday.
Elemental may have had a terrible first weekend, but it proved that word-of-mouth marketing is WAY more effective than whatever the Disney marketers are doing. It really is a great story. Simple, but you can tell it has heart and passion behind it. The director really did a very good job and I think his personal stories and experiences translated well into the themes of the movie. The romance is relatable and not overblown, and they take their time to get to know one another. It was honestly really refreshing to see. It didn't smash the box office like Pixar had hoped but it was a sleeper hit, and we shouldn't discount movies based on how slowly they become popular. Same thing happened to Puss in Boots The Last Wish and that's now one of the most popular animated movies of all time. Sometimes it takes a little while for some movies to hit their peak. Think of It's a Wonderful Life, or Labyrinth, or John Carpenter's The Thing. All became popular WAY after their initial releases, and all were deemed flops when they first released.
@@niasharp9049 The first weekend it made the lowest out of any Pixar movie. Unfortunately I think the marketing was mainly to blame. But thankfully good word of mouth got people out to see it and the movie bounced back pretty spectacularly. The movie was not bad, but the marketing was.
I love how you said all this, I am glad you are one of those people who slow down and try to understand the meaning of Elemental and its incentive. I also love your many Elemental animations. I did not expect you here, and I think you said a good Elemental comment on Saberspark's video about Elemental's Box Office comeback.
@@DragonRebelRose You are welcome, I hope to make Elemental content of my own on my channel. And I agree with @niasharp9049 that Elemental was not terrible. It did have its set of flaws, but I still love what I got.
2023 can't be that bad of a year for Disney. Can it? They have a few downsides sure. But they were a few upsides like Elemental and Once Upon a Studio.
I think another thing that bothers me about Wish is the lack of a cultural identity. There’s just no sense of where the movie is taking place nor what the character’s backgrounds could be. It’s just “a city.”
I pretty sure Haunted Mansion also failed because of the SAG & WGA strikes. None of the writers could promote it, and Disney cast members were at the red carpet.
For a 100th anniversary of a company as iconic and influential as goddamn Disney, it is disappointing and anti-climatic how it just came and went like nothing happened. Same with Warner Bros who also turned 100 this year. And looking at the 2024 schedule, Columbia’s doesn’t sound much better I’m afraid, don’t know anything about MGM’s tho EDIT: But then again. on’t remember how much was Paramount’s and Universal’s 100 anniversaries were a decade ago, all I remember was Universal released Ted and that Paramount launched theirs with one of their Mission Impossible movies.
So far the only good Disney films I’ve watched this year was GOTG 3 and Elemental. Guardians of the Galaxy obviously did perform well at the box office because it was a sequel and Elemental just barely made it because of how underrated it got a couple of months after it came out
I think the ending of Wish, with their desperate attempt to literally MCU-ify their entire catalogue of animated films, should tell you everything you needed to know about badly Disney has been clutching at straws this year
12:23 "It was too hard to do it"...actually translates to *"It was too hard to pay people to get it done."* Disney absolutely could make anything happen...they could go back to how they originally animated their original classics, but it would cost money...they would need to find & hire people who can do it, spend time & money training their current 3D animators in how to help, and none of it could be done on autopilot by copying their previous Disney work. Because basically all the people who originally created those 2D animated classics are retired or dead. It would be hard, definitely harder than how they ended up making Wish. But it could only be "too hard" for a company who genuinely isn't making enough money to afford it. Is that Disney? _(Well, maybe if they managed their money better and didn't waste hundreds of millions of dollars on parasitic execs & shareholders, and instead put it to the workers. They laid off a bunch of people but not the people with the actual insanely high salaries...who could be cut loose altogether or at least get paid the same amount as the animators actually doing the work. Somehow everyone else can survive on $100k or less a year but the top execs & suits simply cannot survive on such a pitifully low salary!)_
I wanted to like Wish but….. it was boring. Bad pacing, jokes sucked and I couldn’t wait until the songs were over. Rewind 20 years ago and I was jamming to the Disney tracks.
When I first saw the trailer for this movie. I was really looking forward to it naming. Because it looked beautiful and thought. Disney might have a chance but honestly when i've heard It didn't do well. I mean. I was hoping they would do good but honestly I don't know if I'll see this movie. I'm have a feeling I might. Do you want want me to see this movie?
While I will still be a Disney fan, it is AMAZING how i enjoyed other things outside of Disney this year. Across the Spider-Verse, Super Mario Bros Movie, Transformers (ok I know the movie struggled but DAMN IT ITS BEEN SO LONG SINCE I ENJOYED A TRANSFORMERS MOVIE, LET ME HAVE THIS), Nimoma, and other stuff. The only things I enjoyed from Disney this year is adding more classic Disney cartoons, Once Upon a Studio, and Guardians 3. Hopefully 2024 is different for Disney but I ain't that optimistic so.....
Elemental actually became an international success and now they are producing a show and hopefully a sequel. I have a feeling Wish get the same treatment and get a sequel as well (perhaps like how Frozen 2 was so much more awesome than the first one)
Here;s something I don't see alot of people talking about Wish has an artstyle that feels very reminiscent of Nimona , which has a very pretty artstyle.
Guardians was so predictable. They kept baiting "someone in the Guardians might die!😱" Bitsch- I know they werent gonna die, they have a ride in Disneyland where they are all alive.
Haven't liked anything Disney has brought out this year. Well, I guess Guardians 3 was pretty good but still wouldn't have it in my favorite films of the year. It's shocking how much the quality has dropped with Disney of late, I'm sure Walt Disney would be embarrassed by what they've become.
I feel like they could've built up Kang better if they had him appear in the different films, starting of with smaller cameo or bg appearances, to post-credit scenes, and making his appearances bigger and bigger and you realize "oh shit he's been there the whole time," and then you realize it wasn't one Kang but a bunch of Kang's through multi-dimensional shenanigans. Kind of like how Bruce Campbell's cameos in the Raimi Spiderman trilogy was supposed to build up to him being Mysterio in the final movie.
I got to watch the haunted mansion movie in theaters with my siblings and one family member and it was decent it wasn't bad but it wasn't outstanding and this is coming from someone who never seen the original before but instead just went to the ride twice in their whole life.
Magnifico has a lot of subtle buildup actually, long before he reads the book. Heck, he would’ve never read the book if it wasn’t for that, so you can’t exactly say that he’s “evil because the book said so”
Just yesterdays, some asshole called me a racist for having an opinion of the live action little mermaid. Cause yeah, how dare I have an opinion of a movie.
It is sad to see such out of touch story telling. Maybe it's due to the SAG AFTRA strike, maybe it's due to hiring inexperienced writers in order to save money. Regardless the reason, the customer will vote for good story telling, and hopefully Disney will pay more attention and follow traditional story telling guidelines such as the heroes journey.
I think the main problem with the new Disney movies is that they're treating their audience like idiots and that they have to explain everything throughly, where it would be better to show not tell.
I haven't seen WISH, but I've heard the music and seen enough spoilers to get the jist. I don't think it's necessarily a bad or awful movie, just a mid, ok movie. The biggest problem that Wish had was this dismal lineup of movies that all failed in one way or another and there was so much backlash and hate towards Disney, that as Wish approached the release date, there was a lot of pre-hate on the movie that many didn't even want to give it a chance. I honestly didn't realize the main character was "black" until I saw the face character they revealed to the parks. I thought she was mixed, European, or something else. Coming off the huge controversy with The Little Mermaid, the last thing Disney needed was another black female lead (and also one of the 3 main characters in The Marvels). I honestly wonder how the movie would have done if there weren't so many failures that preceded it.
No no, Wish ain't okay. The message this movie conveys to kids is just inherently WRONG. You can't just have any wish granted. Like, what if some guy wishes that his crush would fall in love with him against her own volition? What if a villain were to wish to become all-powerful and destroy the world? What if a woman were to wish she could kill any person she dislikes just by looking at them, sort of like Medusa? It's just such a fucked up thing to implant in a kid's brain.
2023 is definitely a rocky year for Disney. However, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is one of the best movies I saw this year along with Oppenheimer, Spider-Man: Across the SpiderVerse, The Super Mario Bros Movie, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, John Wick: Chapter 4, Scream 6, Killers of the Flower Moon, and M3gan. Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania in my opinion was entertaining but not the best and it is inferior to the first two Ant-Man films. I wasn’t bothered nor do I have any in seeing both the unnecessary live action Little Mermaid which is why I will no longer watch anymore future Disney live action movies and Pixar’s Elementals. I did saw 2023 Haunted Mansion on Disney plus and while it was entertaining, it would have been better if Guillermo Del Toro did wrote and produced the Haunted Mansion movie. But like Haunted Mansion (2023), the rest of the Disney movies this year such as Indiana Jones 5, The Marvels, and Wish have all crashed and burned like Anakin Skywalker got burned by a lava in Revenge of the Sith. While Universal, Sony, Paramount, and even Warner Bros are doing better this year for the most part, Disney is getting worse nowadays.
4:10 I rolled my eyes so hard at elemental. If I could sum up the ethos of Pixar it would be "Letting go of what was, finding your place in a changing world, and deep emotional truths" Elemental? That was a boring standard issue "boy and girl from different worlds" story. It was lazy, bland, and unoriginal. Elemental has been told 10,000 different and better ways. It also highlights everything wrong with Disney. Paint by numbers, mass produced trash is paint by numbers, mass produced trash. No one wants it. You need to take risks. To do that the cost of movie productions also needs to fall. Look at A24. Huge pile of stinkers with the occasional gem. Well you have a budget of 5 million, you can be wild and creative because failure isn't catastrophic
You could also add The Creator as another box office bomb from Disney. I liked the movie, but Disney really wanted to just get rid of it as soon as they could with the September release
Another bad thing about 2023 Little Mermaid was that it was a missed opportunity to cast Keegan Micheal Keys as Sebastian in Little Mermaid 2023 from what we've seen in his role in Migration he would have done a much better job at a Sebastian voice than Daveed Digs was
Why i can figure a very, very pissed out Mickey Mouse shout at his employees that they are doing everything wrong and that if they continue like this, he will turn into a giant fire-breathing rat?😂
heyo, animator here, a lot of flack with the 2d animation scene is that one, it is SO expensive, two, they are completely unionized after the chaos of the golden age, three, the equipment ITSELF isn't even in the Disney studio anymore AND when going to art school you have to usually major in a drawing or 2d based major to learn these skills and most of the time you're directed away from those mediums because corporations like Disney want 3d slop from animators that they can quickly turn a profit on. I have said it before and I will say it again, while Wish marked the 100th anniversary it marked the official death of true animation within the Disney studios, and it's a shame because it truly was so magical.
U forgot to mention that they have another animated diary of a wimpy kid movie on Disney plus called canon fever which is why Disney won’t just let go of Fox’s IPs like ice age, Rio, and diary of a wimpy kid, and night at the museum franchise
I didn't even know about Haunted Mansion. Sadly, when a disney movie starring mostly women does bad, people will still scream that it's because everybody in the whole world absolutely despises women. Granted, it's not as bad as in 2016, because most people by now have understood that people don't dislike women in main roles, they dislike badly written movies. There are plenty of movies with women in the main cast that did amazingly well, that's true for the genre of "chicflic" first and foremost, but also modern classics from Frozen to Barbie. But I shouldn't have to remind you that even action movies (alien, terminator, hunger games) did great and have strong female leads, as well as a large number of horror movies (both Carrie, Midsommar, Ready or Not)
100 years of Disney and you would think they would go back to their roots and do Wish in 2D. They have done nothing but 3D and all the characters are starting to run together and look the same. You could throw Wish into Tangled along with the people from Frozen, Encanto, Ratatouille and there would be little difference between everyone. There is no personality in these movies anymore. They are al just Xerox copies of each other.
