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Hey, don't be a conclusion jumper. It might actually be good.Class316 wrote:They will suck. Cause in today's enviroment of pc-ness, there's no way they can do good stuff.
So now we know that it's finished and is coming this fall. Predictions for which film it will debut before? I'd suggest Enchanted which would be quite fitting.How To Hook Up Your Home Theater - They nailed it.
Unlike other recent tries at reviving Disney classic characters via new shorts (think The Prince and the Pauper or Runaway Brain), the goal of this new film was not to reivent Goofy but to recapture the spirit of the Disney shorts of the late 40s, particularly the Jack Kinney classics like Hockey Homicide or a Goofy Gymnastics. They did it. It all felt right to me.
Though the film boasts the cream of the crop of current Disney animators (Deja, Henn, Baer, Goldberg, etc.), this isn’t an animators film - it’s a director’s picture. Just as Tex Avery’s cartoons are masterfully skewed through his twisted vision, here directors Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers-Skelton (the first woman to direct a Disney cartoon!) take control, weaving numerous contempory gag situations into a refreshingly old school cartoon structure.
The red burlap opening titles are back. Michael Giacchino provides a perfect Oliver Wallace-styled musical score, and Corey Burton narrates with intonations falling somewhere between John McLeish and Frank Graham. Certain layouts are direct lifts from Motor Mania (Goofy’s home) and How To Play Football (the football field). And there are literally dozens of gags - truly funny ones and several visual in-jokes for those looking extra hard - packed into the six and a half minute running time.
The bottom line: How To Hook Up Your Home Theater feels exactly like a contemporary 1949 Goofy cartoon - and I can’t pay it any higher compliment than that. It’s the perfect film to start the new shorts program with. A nod to the past as the studio looks to the future. I just hope the studio will promote it properly when it decides to release it later this fall.
well, Enchanted was screened all over the country last week, so this popping up simultaneously probaply means it was attached to Enchanted, considering nobody has seen anything of National Treasure yet.ichabod wrote:So now we know that it's finished and is coming this fall. Predictions for which film it will debut before? I'd suggest Enchanted which would be quite fitting.
This sounds like the way to go - and if so, let's have more of them!ichabod wrote:Well Jerry Beck has seen the new Goofy short and is apparently a winner!
Very interesting. It'll be nice to see the opening titles. I can't really imagine Giacchino imitating the style of the great Oliver Wallace, because Giacchino has always sounded more like a John Williams/Don Davis/Michael Kamen/John Barry combo as far as his music goes. Still, it'll be fascinating to hear how far he's gone with imitating Wallace's style, but I'm sure he's put some of his quirky concepts into the mix nevertheless.The red burlap opening titles are back. Michael Giacchino provides a perfect Oliver Wallace-styled musical score, and Corey Burton narrates with intonations falling somewhere between John McLeish and Frank Graham.
Feature animation is making these shorts, television animation made the Mouseworks/House of Mouse shorts so the style and quality will be totally different.Barbossa wrote:How is the animation qualty of the new shorts going to be? Is it going to be like the cheap Toon Studios TV animation? Or will it be like the classics during the 40s and 50s.
I recently watched Mickey's House of Villains and wasn't too impressed with that style of animation (Toon Studios).
Er?thatartguy wrote:Please tell me it's not Enchanted.