I win!
So, apparently, the odious Sharon Morrill is being sacked, and DisneyToon's Studio is being revamped, all as a result of John Lasseter, Chief Creative Director of Disney animation, seeing The Tinkerbell Story. Hopefully, this means that the entire planned fairy franchise will be abandoned. If there was any true justice in the world, this would also mean that the ocean of tacky Tinkerbell t-shirts and bedazzled bags at Wal-Mart will dry up, but I somehow doubt that the animation studio has anything to do with that.
I know this isn't technically my fight, but I'm still claiming victory. Granted, one can't lay all the blame for the existance of DisneyToon's long, long line of shitty sequels on the studio itself or it's money-grubbing parent company, or Morrill herself. A huge part of the blame is we the people. Not me, specifically, of course, as I only consume the finest, most artistically pure animated products, but my aunts and all their friends. They are the ones who bought this shit for their kids, in order to give the little things a new, shiny movie to watch on the portable DVD player in the back of the Scion so that Mommy and Daddy can enjoy the two hour drive to Grandma's in peace, glorious peace. And in the process, they destroyed modern 2D animation and did their own children a severe disservice.
Consider this true to life parable: Aladdin came out when I was a kid, and I, of course, loved it. I saw it 5 times in the theater (which remained my standing record until Rushmore came out). A few years later, the sequel The Return of Jafar came out, and of course I wanted it. I was raised, however, in a house with my super-geek uncles, and one of them quickly took me to school, explaining to me that this was a direct to video sequel, and that it was going to be dashed-off crap. At the time I unquestioningly believed everything my uncles taught me, and so I never even rented, much less owned Return of Jafar. Of course compared to nonsense like Cinderella II it was Iron Giant, but still, it was a lesson well learned.
Teach your children well, people.
I know this isn't technically my fight, but I'm still claiming victory. Granted, one can't lay all the blame for the existance of DisneyToon's long, long line of shitty sequels on the studio itself or it's money-grubbing parent company, or Morrill herself. A huge part of the blame is we the people. Not me, specifically, of course, as I only consume the finest, most artistically pure animated products, but my aunts and all their friends. They are the ones who bought this shit for their kids, in order to give the little things a new, shiny movie to watch on the portable DVD player in the back of the Scion so that Mommy and Daddy can enjoy the two hour drive to Grandma's in peace, glorious peace. And in the process, they destroyed modern 2D animation and did their own children a severe disservice.
Consider this true to life parable: Aladdin came out when I was a kid, and I, of course, loved it. I saw it 5 times in the theater (which remained my standing record until Rushmore came out). A few years later, the sequel The Return of Jafar came out, and of course I wanted it. I was raised, however, in a house with my super-geek uncles, and one of them quickly took me to school, explaining to me that this was a direct to video sequel, and that it was going to be dashed-off crap. At the time I unquestioningly believed everything my uncles taught me, and so I never even rented, much less owned Return of Jafar. Of course compared to nonsense like Cinderella II it was Iron Giant, but still, it was a lesson well learned.
Teach your children well, people.