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1990somethingcomic.com/You can't do the '90s without mentioning the Disney Renaissance. Everyone sings the praises of Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin and The Lion King, but for whatever reason, The Rescuers Down Under always seems to slip through the cracks of people's memory banks. Kendra won't be forgetting it anytime soon, though
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I remember liking The Rescuers Down Under a lot more than the original Rescuers when I was a kid because of how much more action-y the plot was (and the villain was new this time around, rather than a rehash of Cruella De Vil). I can definitely get where Kendra is coming from, though--too many people still don't get that animation is just another form of storytelling. You can tell any story with it if you want to, but too many people assume it's only kiddie stuff because of Disney (and even then, Disney's shown that "kiddie stuff" can deal with serious things).Β
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Yeah, I also loved Rescuers Down Under as a kid and thought it was one of those sequels that just topped the original in so many ways. In fact I still think it's the best Disney sequel period.
It's also one of the few Disney movies that I watch on Blu-ray now, since knowing me I wasn't going to buy any of their recent CGI crap.
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This movie was great, but it annoyed me a bit that there were very few Australian accents -- like, all the human characters and most of the Australian animals sounded American.
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At least the humans had the right accents
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That's literally the first time I've ever heard anyone give that particular criticism of Finding Nemo.
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Really? Huh, maybe it's just me who found "An American Tail" traumatising.
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I'm so glad my parents were never like this.
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Oh god, this is so familiar. I remember getting so excited about the annual Disney movie as a kid growing up during Disney's post-Little Mermaid Renaissance. But I'd have no one to share my enthusiasm with, because my friends were all too "mature" for them (I kind of wish I'd told them, "You're not mature! You're TEN!") and my parents were convinced cartoons were exclusively for babies. I still managed to see those films every year, though, even if I had to go alone.
Nowadays, pretty much all my friends are into cartoons.
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Yet another thing I don't respect and won't miss about past generations.Β
God that reminds me of the idiots I grew up surrounded by! Β Half the Americans I know assume anything animated is a kids movie, even if it's clearly labled "not for kids", and warnings come up at the start of the vhs/dvd!
Sorry, but I just had to get that off my chest, especially after dealing with some of said people just this morning.
Great work as always, Jesse.
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Oh my god this is me vs everyone in my family right here lol XD
It bums me out so much when they don't get how much cartoons and artwork itself in general means to me.
Like its not just "cartoons" it's a whole new world someone created from their imagination and passion.
Plus the animation is Always something I geek out about haha.
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Easily 90% of the movies I've seen in theaters are animated. So I agree with her.
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I had a feeling that Disney was changing for the better when I saw the first "Rescuers" back in '77. A little more noir, a bit of an edge.
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Eh I was meh about Rescuers down Under, though I did like Great Mouse Detective, particularly that Clocktower sequence based on Hayao Miyazaki's "Castle of Cagliostro" (have you watch a Ghibli movies Jesse?)
Ps, noticed Nimh poster at the background, I watched Secret of Nimh like 4 times, I still can't engage with it outside from an academic technical perspective.
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I've started watching the movie two years ago. Somehow, I didn't even finish it, despite the fact that the animation did look incredible and the CGI effects looked cool.
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And also I guess this is when parents also started saying that cartoons were just for kids, and not really impressionable at all.
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Kendra is jazzed over the movie-making accomplishments that no-one else notices. It's kind of a pity that she's about 20 years before The princess and the frog. And not to mention the kind of industry wipe-outs that'll hit the animation field on the way.
Whenever DisneyCorp moves away from the "fairy tales" (which they choose or _make_ them be _heroine_ hero stories) it's always entertaining. From the varied tv movies of The Magical World of Disney, to Lilo and Stitch, to the Pixar Upheaval, it's like they have to be strong-armed to do better. And when they do, they succeed!
Just because it's "G" rated doesn't make it horrid, but the same cannot be said of "PG". And that's truly a shame- think of all the freedom that gets wasted on worthless swearing, and sub-par nude scenes. They could have long-running nudescenes, and freedom to take the dialogue as far as they want and make risque wisecracks instead!
The CG made the flight and landscape animation smoother, but apparently that means nothing for those who want 'edgy' instead of beautiful.
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People will say βOh my gosh, itβs Disney, you canβt have a character swear, you canβt have a character reveal their vices, you canβt have things be scary!β And I say βWatch Pinocchio for two ***ing secondsβ.
Alex Hirsch
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You can't have a character swear because it reveals a absolute lack of any manners, any civilization, the abandonment of the lowest allowable level of decorum or behavior, any acceptable level of behavior around your fellow man, any self-control over your own powers of speech, any common sense, and on some levels any toilet training. Why put the effort into being a piece of garbage when you could be better just by paying some attention to what's coming out of your mouth?
There's nothing wrong with a character having vices, but there is something wrong with a character being controlled by his vices, or willingly practicing vices that are injurious to his health. (smoking, opium use, self-mutilation with a knife out of boredom, stable leavings) I think that characters should have vices or something close to them. Just because they're the hero or the protagonist shouldn't meant that they're written to be internally empty human beings. Aren't many of the villains made entertaining by having a vice or two?
I'm all for things being scary in a movie. You've got these characters going on epic quests and difficult struggles. When your boat is sinking, when your cliffside is cracking under you, when the knifeman lunges at you, when you're running _at_ the tiger, _at_ the dragon, that's the sort of things you'd rather see happen to other people. That's risky, that's scary, that's dangerous. And they're supposed to be able to handle it. Shouldn't you be able to, sitting safe in your chair, with your popcorn and soda pop? Or is it too much a reminder that someday you will have to possess the ability and focus to take on _less_ fantastic dangers and win?
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That's slowly going away.
"Animation is not a genre."
-Brad Bird
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Gosh, this is relatable on a spiritual level! I plan to be a cartooning major and everything and this is my reaction to almost any animated movie I see; 2-D, 3-D, claymation and so on. I sadly wasn't born yet when this movie came out but I love so much to this day!Β
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This comic made me a little sad, why shut your kids down when they're passionate about something?
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Because [some] adults lose all of their passion when they grow up andΒ have to get jobs and have families of their own. Kinda sad.
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Because you are the adult and know better.
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I did a review on it for my Film Appreciation class in college. It's just that good.
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That was a pretty sick movie. It wasn't until I rewatched it years later (college age) that I realized how well-written and mature it was compared to other Disney stuff at the time.
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