Comments on: PIRATES booty can't save Disney jobs

By: Peter from MoCCA

Peter from MoCCA — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:24:59 +0000

The real fault at Disney lies in its cancellation of all traditional hand-drawn animated features save for the direct-to-DVD releases which even I hear aren’t going to last.

I, myself, am holding out until Disney returns to the traditional animated features while at the same time releasing the CGI films under the Pixar banner, please.

By: Julio Diaz

Julio Diaz — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:21:40 +0000

I took my kid to see “The Wild” and we both kind of liked it. Keifer Sutherland as a lion, Eddie Izzard as a koala, Janeane Garofolo as a giraffe, Shatner as a warthog… what’s not to like?

Not even close to being the best movie I’ve ever seen, but not even the worst thing I’ve seen this year, either. (That dubious honor still goes to “Date Movie,” which I knew would be bad, but I thought Alyson Hannigan might redeem it. Boy, was I wrong…)

By: Edward Liu

Edward Liu — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:10:21 +0000

“The Wild” came out in April, right smack in the middle of the no-man’s-land between New Year’s and the summer when studios release films to die. Most reviews claimed that it was just another farting animal movie that was just like “Madagascar” except not even as good. It tanked fast.

By: Matt M.

Matt M. — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:49:35 +0000

No weirder than the big comics companies being completely unable or unwilling to maintain their child readers.

By: Brian Spence

Brian Spence — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:13:22 +0000

With as much money as Disney has to promote a film, “The Wild” really must have sucked. Or they just advertised it during kids’ shows (which I don’t watch anymore, honest!), because I don’t remember it opening either. This must have been made because they were going to lose Pixar at one point. Glad they’re leaving the cartoon making to the pros now. Kinda weird that Disney can’t make a good kids’ movie anymore, isn’t it?