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This is one of the most boring 'revolution' scenes ive ever seen. Is it supposed to make me think of the characters as jokes or? Because they're singing with literally 0 energy.
They give the vibe of sjw college students about to go protest who will inevitably run away whimpering at the slightest hint of actual confrontation.
This is yalls big anniversary feauture film? Should've hired someone who's competent at writing musicals... and made it look better.


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The only character who doesn't look super akward here is the one actually Mediterranean/middle eastern looking one without the linguini nose. The one with the blunt bang bobcut especially makes it look like a renaissance fair.
I have zero feelings for this movie if it isn't "Dissapointed but not surprised". If anything, this movie perfectly encapsulate Disney in it's current state. It's the culmination of countless of creatively bankrupt cash-grab that have made its reputation for the past decade. Let it be forgotten has the insipid fairy tale that will hopefully accelerate Disney's downfall into our collective pop culture.
 
It seems like Diary of a Wimpy Kid but with the bite taken out. Greg is way less of a hatable sociopath in these films, but they are still decent.
That's something I've noticed. In the original trilogy, he's seen just as much of a sociopath as he was in the books.
 
Old Garfield was based, what are you talking about?
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In case it wasn't obvious for the threads I frequent or how I write, THIS GEM was made and aired before my parents even met.
For the longest time my only exposure to Garfield was The Garfield Show (I even wrote in another thread how that show made me think Garfield was dull as fuck) and those awful movies Paws Inc made because The Garfield Show was shit. I still recall bits of the superhero one, the one about no name characters turning into zombies and the one about Garfield leaving his friends out to dry because he wants out of the comic. Son of a bitch hates mondays indeed. I think I only like Garfield memes because I didn't like Garfield.
Look, back when I was a child if the cartoon had animals in it, it was a way to keep me distracted for hours. I did like The Wild, so you have to be a particular breed of shit for an animal obsessed future KF poster such as moi to think you were lame. I also wrote about Casper's Scare School which was also shit but at least I was exposed to those fucking acid trips that were the late 90s movies. I vaguely recall Loonatics but the classic Merry Melodies were a stapple at my household alongside old Who, is the closest to family bonding I got.
In my household we only ever read Peanuts, Asterix, Tin Tin, Olaf. Smurfs is were I know good taste didn't run in the family. Mum liked Dilbert, told me I was a little shit like Calvin once. We even read Mafalda to flex the bilingual muscle. But Garfield? No sir, the only thing both sides of my family have in common is hating cats.
 
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A troon cartoon from the last batch of gobelins shorts.

They had another one in, like, 2018 or something.

EDIT: Here it is.
All these stories about "trans kids" are the same. A child who knew they were trans since they were a very young age (even though most transgenders troon out in adulthood), dress more feminine/masculine as a teen, parent keeps calling them by their birth sex, the kid becomes uncomfortable, and either the parent is abusive or they eventually come to understand their child's gender identity.
 
OK, even I have to admit, the Chris Pratt saturation is getting kinda ridiculous
I mean, it’s technically a step above the live action movies but that’s not saying much. I’d take Bill Murray’s delivery over Pratt anyday at this point. I do wish that Sony pictures had at least tried to contact Murray to see whether he’d be interested in giving it another shot but considering how those films turned out seems like he was done with the character ages ago.

I’m my sure Do you think maybe he’d give it a shot since it’s been over 16 years?
 
You know, these people want to prove that animation is not just for kids but they all write and watch is kids shows like Gravity Falls.

Batman: TAS might have been a show for kids but it knew how to tackled darker and mature themes like death, corruption and redemption in creative ways.

These people in modern animation just don’t know how to be mature or want to tackle mature themes.
A few pages late, but I always think back to this scene from the Men in Black cartoon when discussing "mature moments" in animation. It all feels so genuine and well acted. I always loved the atmosphere of it.

 
I'm probably in the minority here, but I think there's plenty of mature themes being explored in animation these days. You just have to look outside the mainstream channels like CN or Disney to find them.
 
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So what did your mother think of Dilbert creator Scott Adams?
She and her coworkers knew perfectly well that the best of Dilbert was possible because of fans giving Adams their own horror stories. They liked the show, still do. About Adams himself they know he is lolcow but it isn't like he matters to people that much. My mum may like Dilbert but she loves Archie.

I'm probably in the minority here, but I think there's plenty of mature themes being explored in animation these days. You just have to look outside the mainstream channels like CN or Disney to find them.
Open to recommendations here. I'm in desperate need of a palate cleanser after a video singing the praises of Big Mouths representation of autism appeared in my recommended way too many times.
 
She and her coworkers knew perfectly well that the best of Dilbert was possible because of fans giving Adams their own horror stories. They liked the show, still do. About Adams himself they know he is lolcow but it isn't like he matters to people that much. My mum may like Dilbert but she loves Archie.


Open to recommendations here. I'm in desperate need of a palate cleanser after a video singing the praises of Big Mouths representation of autism appeared in my recommended way too many times.
Klaus is one I like to go back to and it's especially apt now since we're close to December. You can find it on Netflix. "Mature" is probably an over-exaggeration, but I like the way it promotes hard work as a way to grow as a person.
 
Klaus is one I like to go back to and it's especially apt now since we're close to December. You can find it on Netflix. "Mature" is probably an over-exaggeration, but I like the way it promotes hard work as a way to grow as a person.
Brilliant pick, a personal favourite in my family alongside Arthur Christmas for this season.
 
Klaus is one I like to go back to and it's especially apt now since we're close to December. You can find it on Netflix. "Mature" is probably an over-exaggeration, but I like the way it promotes hard work as a way to grow as a person.
I really loved how the movie portrayed adult-child relationships both in family and society level. Kids were not perfect angels or devils. They were capable of good and evil, mostly just reacting what was going and taking ques from adults. Adults were good and bad influences accidentally and on purpose. They were in general just intrested in their own lives and going about it until something shook them do something different.

My favorite part was the writing about good deeds montage. Kids trying to figure out how to be good and do good things because you need to be good for presents. How the adults were completely confused and uncomfortable about the kids behavior but wouldn't tell them to stop because they were being nice. That nices ultimately made the adults feel they should also act nice, they didn't really want to but not doing so would be bad. Then they got used to niceness and just wanted continue because it was nice.
 
I mean, it’s technically a step above the live action movies but that’s not saying much. I’d take Bill Murray’s delivery over Pratt anyday at this point. I do wish that Sony pictures had at least tried to contact Murray to see whether he’d be interested in giving it another shot but considering how those films turned out seems like he was done with the character ages ago.

I’m my sure Do you think maybe he’d give it a shot since it’s been over 16 years?
Bill Murray does not want to do another Garfield movie. Like, at all. He still regrets it to this day. But I do wish they have someone that can perfectly emulate the Lorenzo Music-esque voice like Murray did, because I really don't see it with Chris Pratt so far.
 
Bill Murray does not want to do another Garfield movie. Like, at all. He still regrets it to this day. But I do wish they have someone that can perfectly emulate the Lorenzo Music-esque voice like Murray did, because I really don't see it with Chris Pratt so far.
Yeah I can see why, it does blow my mind that he did two of those fucking films Jesus lol. If the first one script was so bad why did he ever agree to do a tale of two kitties? Didn’t he remember how well that went the first time? What’s the story here?
 
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Yeah I can see why, it does blow my mind that he did two of those fucking films Jesus lol. If the first one script was so bad why did he ever agree to do a tale of two kitties? Didn’t he remember how well that went the first time? What’s the story here?
It's something I've explained a couple pages back and that Bill Murray only did this because he assumed that, when signing up for the first movie, it was written by Joel Coen, as in one of the Coen brothers, but was actually written by an unrelated Joel Cohen. It didn't take until the movie premiered in which he was invited in and he realized that it was indeed not written by one of the Coen brothers.
 

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I know I’m a little late here but did anyone actually see the final season of Matt Groening’s overlooked fantasy cartoon on Netflix? It’s honestly much better than people say. It’s not at all really funny but it’s generally a pretty great straight fantasy action show with a huge amount of lore, a genuinely good story and interesting world, Queen Bean, Elfo and Eric Andre Demon Lucy are axtually compelling main characters, and the animation is amazing for a Netflix cartoon.

It’s genuinely a good show while not amazing way better than shit like Big mouth and even Bojack horseman. It’s not completely disgusting or ridiculously up it’s own ass with pretentious melodrama. It’s just a genuinely fun if a bit simple medieval fantasy comedy with some genuinely great drama, characters and action. I’d honestly take 8 seasons of this over Seth Rogers cancerous pedo cartoon any day. If you have t checked it out I think people should give it a chance.
 
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