Now tell me you can’t watch this trailer without smiling. Pooh’s Heffalump Movie is coming to a cinema early next year.
See, this traditional animation looks fantastic, and Disney are great at it, they are the experts. You can just feel Disney all over it when you watch it, and it’s fun, and nothing to be ashamed of. So why are Disney off trying to be something they aren’t?
Well, if every company stayed doing what they were good at would there be any real expansion or growth? Would we have been unlucky enough not to have seen such films as Toy Story or Incredibles if not for Disney, or at the beginning of Pixar, a few people standing up and taking a chance, breaking into a new area.
Okay, so unless there are big changes it doesn’t look like Disney could radically change and make such a huge success leaving their traditions behind, but maybe. Maybe they could do it and become something better. Just get some new management!
Perhaps we shouldn’t be so hard on their attempts at branching out, and maybe support them (if it’s a good enough movie to go and see of course) and let them find their way.
Still, it is good to know that they are still remembering where they came from.
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WHAT’S A HEFFALUMP?? Obviously Mister T has neither read the books, nor seen the original movie The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. The latter even had a whole musical number about heffalumps and woozles.
Personally, I think it is sad what Disney has done with Winnie the Pooh. The way I see it, Winnie the Pooh and James Bond have something in common, both have two distinct versions: the version in the original books, and the version that appears in studio-produced movies.
Disney has taken Winnie the Pooh and turned him into Nick Jr. fodder. Let me share something with you all. I love Winnie the Pooh. I still read the books on occasion. I love the original, Walt Disney produced movie. Although I had a fleeting interest in The Tigger Movie (solely because it features new music from song-writing duo the Sherman Brothers), nothing Disney has done with Winnie the Pooh since The New Adventures of WInnie the Pooh Saturday morning cartoon show has interested me.
My question: the original movie was a compilation of, like, five or six original WInnie the Pooh stories, there is a total of some twenty stories between the two A.A. Milne books (actually, there are four books, but two of them are just poems), so why doesn’t Disney make another animated movie interpreting the text of some of the other stories in the books? They’ve got enough material there for another three or four movies.
I hope someone at Disney is reading this, because I feel what the company has done the Winnie the Pooh characters is a shame. They’ve turned him into a commercial enterprise.
Heffalump? What the hell is that? Looks very cute, that’s for sure.
I do smile! If you look at the Chicken Little trailer, u can see the charm this company has. In fact, rumours arise that Disney would come back full throttle to 2-D, depending on how will Universal´s Curious George will be received.
Disney is now embanked in fierce battles at all levels. I think Eisner should leave, but… the man has his merits, nevertheless. He is like a Richard Nixon of animation cinema. He should leave so that the Studio can make the films they know better: short films like “Destino” or “Lorenzo” still show how these craft artists deliver when free from unnecesary noise.
Anyway… Disney has faced serious crisis before, and this is but one more chapter. I remember with joy how each Disney release was a phenomenon in the 90s. I have a feeling of nostalgia for that great films. I really enjoy Pixar films, and others, but it does seem to me that 2-D has a quality by his own, and a path of his own.
And these “grandfathers” (Tom Hanks dixit) of animation are the best in the field.