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Fucking Disney!

That is all.

I really liked Cars. More than Toy Story 2 in fact.

Obviously, the fourth movie will tell the story of Andy passing his toys down to his kids. Or, according to YouTube, it'll be about the toys watching Andy's drunken debauchery as a college freshman. I hope it's the latter. That Jessie looks like she's into some really kinky shit. I see the way she looks at Slinky Dog.

RE twig
"Pixar pretty much took over the animation department, from everything I read, so this wasn't like Disney buying the right to drag their brand down the way they'd destroyed their own."

Apparently, it is like that. Disney paid $7 billion for the right to drag Pixar down. Obviously, they'd be stupid to do that, but... Disney doesn't always do the smartest thing. Just because Pixar people are now in charge of the animation at Disney doesn't mean Disney isn't the one ultimately in charge. Maybe the agreement is the animation people are in charge of animation stuff, but not the marketing of it. Disney can do whatever it wants, I guess, as long as Steve Jobs (Disney's largest shareholder and board member) agrees.

Depending on how you set it up, the Monsters Inc universe still has some meat on its bones. There are stories to be told there. They pulled off two Toy Story sequels, so I imagine they could make that one work.

But farking Cars? Fuck my ass with an old muffler if that's not an awful, awful idea.

I loved Toy Story 3. I even liked Cars.

But DTV movies are rarely as good, as well-put or as original as the first ones. Given that they also seem to be pulling the plug on some of their long-waiter projects like Newt, I'm hoping this is not a new direction for everyone's favorite animation company.

I thought they already had DTV spin offs of Cars - they all feature the Larry the Cable guy car, and his various adventures. I saw them on ABC Family one day when they were doing a marathon of Pixar shorts before they showed Ratatouille that night.
I know I've seen these on DVD in the hands of my niece and nephew, so I'm not sure how this new one is different?

Is it too late to hope for "Ratatouille in Dubai"? FML

TS3 felt more like a lap of honour for Pixar than a fresh new idea, but I was fine with that- they had earned a moment of laurel resting. That coda was a sweet & sad moment on which to complete the series, but it felt like the right place to end.

Cars 2 on the other hand sounds like the board are milking the cash cow at a time when other animation studios are finally getting their shit together. It's not as if Disney don't have form-just wait for the weak tv spinoff cartoons and telemovies. It was a good run while it lasted.

I can't get worked up over this. Somewhere along the line when we discovered that Pixar's projects weren't just cynical pop culture references and scatological humour we decided that we're the company's target demographic. If you can remember Original Gordon from Sesame Street, these films aren't made with you in mind (entirely, though I'm sure they're very aware of their crossover appeal). I don't go the cinema regularly and when I do, yes, it's usually to see an animated film. That said, I'm under no illusions about the studio's celluloid fantasies giving me the power to live again by sheer virtue of the fact that they're not insulting the intelligence of their *actual* intended audience. A slightly disappointing turn towards the inevitable marked out on a business model isn't what's raping our childhoods today, I promise you, adulthood is raping them, and it needs no help from a sequel or resurrected franchise.

Will there be a decline in quality? Almost certainly, but who here among the Office fanbase hasn't wanted to seal up Jim and Pam in some faraway lime cave for years now? Wasn't it Saint Sandra who was in Speed 2? (I seem to be ragging a lot on this today, I don't even have issue with her...I don't have issue with her outside of her movies). Not everyone is going to take the Mary Margaret O'Hara approach to output--though she may surprise us by pulling a Terrence Malick, but even so, that's another eight years away.

Is it a cash grab? Was Basil a Bulgar Slayer? Am I A Wild Party? Do Scottish kings ride off cliffs at night because the weather is bad and advice was ignored leaving the realm to eight-year-old granddaughters who are just going to be dead in like, a minute anyway? Probably. Is Ras TaFarI, or, 'fi we'? Um, you decide. I've never seen Cars before, so I wouldn't know how to laser focus my righteous indignation, but this is my nephew's favourite movie because he's four. It used to be Alexander Nevsky, but people grow. He's also awesome enough for one little DVD to not mitigate his hold on the mysteries of the universe, or whatever fretful parenting guide designed to separate us from our money and good sense is twitching us into believing. If we're perpetually afraid about the corruption of the minds of the youth, let's give the little dullards a book. If we're worried that mainstream appeal is going to give the toddlers hivemind, just re-name the protagonists Hendricks and Klosterman, and chill the heck out with a She and Him album--or better yet, go listen to some music!

PIXAR IS SHIT. GET OVER YOURSELVES AND GROW THE FUCK UP.