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Can't get interested in Zootopia
9 years ago
Nothing gets me enthused to see it. None of the stills or clips. None of the designs I've seen. Sadly, nothing makes me want to see it. I used to live for animation and animal characters, and what little I've seen of this fails to hold my interest. Maybe it's a failure of the marketing, but every animated feature of recent years is like this for me. A tremendous variety of sameness.
Whatever originality the conceptual artists brought to the characters dissolved into what's become the generic look of every computer animated feature since Toy Story. There are too many animated features now and they all look alike, in the same way that all Japanese animation looks alike, or all Hollywood comedy short cartoons from 1940-1960. I've seen enough mediocre ones by now to stop getting excited for the next one. I know there are exceptions, or ones that look refreshingly different (9) but I've stopped feeling like I'm missing something special or important.
Whatever originality the conceptual artists brought to the characters dissolved into what's become the generic look of every computer animated feature since Toy Story. There are too many animated features now and they all look alike, in the same way that all Japanese animation looks alike, or all Hollywood comedy short cartoons from 1940-1960. I've seen enough mediocre ones by now to stop getting excited for the next one. I know there are exceptions, or ones that look refreshingly different (9) but I've stopped feeling like I'm missing something special or important.
For my part, I'm waiting until the DVD is cheaper than a ticket for the cinema. *shrugs* Money is tight.
I'd recommend Inside Out for something more eye popping and mentally engaging, and if you want a really challenging American animation, try Anomalisa by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson. That one shook me quite a bit, and it managed to be sad, humorous and terrifying in equal measures.
Because frankly, I prefer it that way. I hate characters with boobs so big they would cause them to break in half or breasts on reptiles etc... I prefer a more fluid blend of human/animal traits and anatomy. I do get WHY they do it, yeah it is safer, but still...
I would give it a recommendation, but it's not the usual "animated Film" and feels more like a Pixar film, than a Disney film, because of the solidity of the story and the acting.
Watch it, and then say what you think. 7@=e