another disney rant...

disney movies coming soon to DVD

out of all the movies coming soon and recently released to DVD throughout 2005 (and if you check out the link, you'll see that there are a lot!) check out all the ANIMATED SEQUELS!:

pooh's heffalump movie
tarzan II
lilo and stitch 2: stitch has a glitch
pooh's heffalump halloween
kronk's new groove
bambi and the great prince of the forest
brother bear II
the tinkerbell movie
cinderella III
mulan II

that is LUDICRIOUS! first off, why not focus all your talented animators on ORIGINAL projects and give them the chance to express themselves! you may have the next john lasseter, hayao miyazaki or don bluth sitting in your studios right now but you'll never know if you have him painting fucking pictures of cinderella for the 3rd go around. and while we are on the subject, did the debaucle known as cinderella II: dreams come true really do well enough to warrant ANOTHER sequel?? PLEASE... that was the worst piece of crap to come out of the studio to date, and that is saying alot!

AND, this is on top of all the live action sequels and remakes that are coming soon:

halloweentown III
herbie: fully loaded
the shaggy dog
pirates of the caribbean 2: dead man's chest
the santa clause 3
swiss family robinson
mighty ducks 4
kiki's delivery service

now i'll admit, if you can make a good sequel, then by all means go right ahead... Toy Story 2 was amazing, and i'm sure we're all excited for pirates 2 and (maybe it's only me) santa clause 3: (tim allen returns as scott calvin a.k.a. santa claus for a follow-up to the two popular holiday comedies. this time, he struggles to keep his family happy while battling jack frost, who is plotting to take over christmas.) but is anyone excited for another mighty ducks or another holloweentown movie (in case you don't know them, they aired on the disney channel)??

disney is also getting into a habit of remaking it's classic films and turning it's animated films into live action ones: 101 dalmations, the jungle book, the parent trap, freaky friday and now swiss family robinson, the shaggy dog (starring disney king tim allen) and kiki's delivery service. (as a side note, did you know that the freaky friday remake with disney queen lindsay lohan was actually the 2nd remake of that film?? the first one was in 1995 and starred shelley long and gaby hoffmann)

i dunno if disney has lost it's creativity or if they are just lazy and out to make a buck, but in either case it's really sad to me. disney was THE company to me when i was younger, they were everything i wanted to be and that's why i even worked for them when i was in NY. just go to the parks and you'll see the magic that i saw and still do see in them, if they can just get out of this shitty slump that they are in right now. speaking of the parks, another attraction is heading to a cineplex near you, following the HUGE success of the country bears, haunted mansion and pirates,... ok, just pirates, the newest attraction to make the cross-over is: Jungle Cruise! if you've ever ridden the ride, you'll know that they joke around ALOT so i'm sure it'll be a comedy.

i will never give up on my disney, but i WILL rant and rave when they piss me off. after all, i own stock, i gotta protect my investment! :)