SOME SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS! (nothing serious though)
Zeo said:
It's great, and "not enough plot" is retarded. It's still a kids movie, how deep do they want it to be? It's not like Nightmare Before Christmas had tons of plot. I thought this had more.
I HATE this reponse with a passion. So what if it's a "kid's" movie. That's a horrible excuse for very little plot. If you've noticed, the greatest kid's movies are always the ones that aren't dumbed down by kids. Kids see the world acting as complicated as it is everyday, if you can hook a kid from the beginning on real problems and real emotion, they're not going to drift off. Sure, they won't understand everything, but kids are smarter than we give them credit for. Dumbing down movies for kids is the worst thing to ever happen to animated features. And movies like Toy Story or Iron Giant, animated masterpieces, stand on their own a GREAT movies in any genre or medium. I just don't see where people thing kids catch the hook. Is it on a lack of plot? Are kids just attracted and pulled in when there's very little plot? I don't think so. It's when you get real emotions, and real problems in the plot that they sit tuned in. Brave Little Toaster, getting home and sacrificing. Iron Giant, coming of age and friendship. Lion King, loss, struggle, resiliency, responsibility, redemption. From my experience, I've noticed when I was younger, the most memorable animated movies from my childhood always stood the strongest today. Pointless sidekicks, pointless musicals, and paper thin consequences and choices are the downfall of bad animated movies, not the target area for kids.
Zeo said:
It did end a little abuptly but uh.. how many unanswered questions were there? It wasn't exactly a deep movie.
Well, for one, what happened to his parents after that one dude died? The parents were weak characters. I loved a lot of the designs though, got a lot of laughs out of the Butler w/ the nose, the bell tolling crying townsperson, and Christopher Lee yelling out from the church just like Two Towers :lol
Anyway, I thought Corpse Bride was fairly empty too. The main struggle was decent but you can't hold them the entire movie on that. Between was simply pointless musicals, stalling, and amusing characters. Really the only things they had going was the 3-way thing between the 2 chicks and Victor, the amusing characters/art style, and animation. Just not enough. The animation was really brilliant though. You have to see that at some point, but you will find yourself wanting to admire more than is there, because of how well it's done. As far as if it's a Nightmare Before Christmas equal, I guess not. I've never been a
huge NBC fan, but others seem to be and not one would compare the two. Their world of seasons, important side characters, and a more universal dilemna that gets out of hand was a lot more interesting though. And a villain that was a lot better done. Why was the vilain in CB even in the movie? He was horrible and utterly pointless. A better film would have left him off all together.
Still, cool flick for the art and animation. I don't want to trash it like I think I have, because it was kind of charming and pretty respectable. Just empty and weak in a lot of other areas. Still, you get lines like some good lines and gags.
"The deeeead walk the eaaarth!" :lol
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