Posted by Kirk in 3d, Animated, General News, Movie Stills, Movies | 5 comments
RAPUNZEL Lets Down a First Look and Its Hair
I don’t want to give the impression that I’m fully let down by this first shot from RAPUNZEL brought to us today by disneypixar.fr. It looks like perfectly fine, standard, 3D animation at its absolute adequacy. What disappoints me is this notion that Disney has to create 3D animated films when they had a perfectly fine 2D animated film hit theaters just a short month ago.
PRINCESS AND THE FROG should have been the launching point of a whole new Disney venture into 2D animation, a re-visitation of the amazing period of time the company had from THE LITTLE MERMAID to THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. RAPUNZEL seems right up the alley with these other films. It’s disappointing to see it get the same, almost stagnant, 3D delivery Disney gave to films like BOLT and MEET THE ROBINSONS. It doesn’t help that the co-director of RAPUNZEL, Byron Howard, was also co-director on BOLT. Nathan Greno, the other co-director on board this project, was head of story on BOLT.
Anywho, that’s my rant. Here’s the picture in full, which comes from Studio CineLive magazine:
RAPUNZEL is set for release on November 24th, 2010.
Um, after 3 going on 4 weeks, Princess and the Frog has just crossed $70 million. Not exactly a hit. It's made less than Chicken Little.
There will still be hand drawn films from Disney (a new Winnie the Pooh and The Snow Queen are next), but CG films will be done as well (Joe Jump, Chris William's next as well). Rapuzel has been known to be a CG film for seven years.. where have you been? I loved Princess and the Frog, but it's not exactly getting people to go see it sadly. Hopefully it'll find more people when it goes to DVD/Blu-Ray.
My feelings are mixed. I enjoy the 3-D flicks, well, some of the better ones, anyways, and I think the art for Rapunzel looks pretty cool, but I DO miss the glory of the old 2-D days. Surely there has to be some way to recapture at least a part of that era, and bring in the box office along with it.
"Princess and the Frog" wasn't exactly a hit, since (so far) its made less than "Chicken Little". Which was Disney's first attempt at CGI. Princess and the Frog is good, but the fact that its doing worse than that film even though it has just as much competition as "Little" did…means nothing actually. "Rapunzel" was intended to be a CGI flick from the get-go.
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