The Dreamworks Face Must Be Stopped

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> The insanely profitable and influential 2001 film paved the way for Dreamworks Animation and its strategy of using thinly-veiled (if veiled at all) “adult jokes” and cultural references as its movie fuel.

So like cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s and every decade since?

> These ain’t your daddy’s cartoons

Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat are centenarians at this point, with Looney Tunes at their tails...

Funny how you didn’t get the reference to that Pixar joke style.

It’s a really rather obvious trope; a unique cliche, IMO

Meaning, distinctive. Eye rolling or not depends upon the persons taste, but definitively always done in a particular manner in all their film over the course of 2 decades. The formula is showing it’s cynical teeth and laughing at how dumb we are, by this point in time. I really won’t be surprised to find a small team having written a process guide and an AI churning out stuff, at this point

It was meta-irony, so I'm glad you appreciated it. I also like the term unique cliché.

This person put their finger on why I can’t watch this Pixar nonsense. I couldn’t have put my own finger better on my own reasons why.

It’s like reading a takedown of a serial bully and relishing the takedown. Take that, generic automated entertainment !

I suspect that hand animation and non realistic artsy animation styles will make a comeback

Basically, Pixar formula sausage is the EDM autotune of animation

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