Cartoon/Western Animation General

@Lord WyrmSpawN
I imagine it’s like Thundercats Snore, they didn’t actually watch it and only said it was good out of spite. There’s a lot of in modern western entertainment. If not dangling shiny keys in front of the easily suade, to then use it as a shield against criticism. Seen it then, see it now.

@Dex Stewart
Absolutely.

So Kevin Hart has an animated Anthology series coming to the roku channel
Looks just like what you would expect something going on to a streaming service that you can only get on roku devices

@northern haste
Or Fire TV devices

@northern haste
Did… did Kevin Hart do the animation himself?

The show probably didn’t get enough views for Netflix heads to justify renewing it for a second season. I can believe viewers watching the series and saying it has some good moments/potential than just lying out of spite.

The new Berry in the Big City episode guest starring Marlon Brando’s Godfather

Also geez that thumbnail.

The new Minions thing is out, and it’s on pace for a boffo opening weekend. Which, on the one hand, is good. It means there’s a place for animation on the big screen post-COVID. On the other hand, it throws Lightyear’s returns into even starker relief.

The two movies aren’t that far apart on RT (72/75), Metacritic (56/60), or CinemaScore (A/A-). And that’s damning enough, given that one is Pixar and the other is, y’know, Minions. But it doesn’t explain why the one is blowing the other out of the water at the box office.

Obviously, Rise of Gru’s ties to the franchise are a lot easier to explain (sequel to Minions, prequel to Despicable Me) than Lightyear‘s weird metafictional turn (it’s the in-universe movie that inspired the toy! except he doesn’t act anything like the toy! and it’s a grounded character study instead of the pulpy space adventure the toy is obviously based on! look, we just got done watching Interstellar on Hulu and it made sense at the time).

But you also have to look at how the two studios handled the pandemic. Disney dumped three quality Pixar movies onto streaming. They trained their audience to stay home. Meanwhile, Universal sat on Gru for two full years instead of using it to sell Peacock subscriptions, and their patience is finally paying off.

Hopefully this was just a temporary setback and Disney can still convince people to see non-Marvel movies in theaters, but it’s gonna be tough.

@Background Human
It also helps that Minions has the power of MEMES at their side.

No seriously, everyone was memeing before this movies release acting like it’s some sort of grand cinematic epic and everyone is going out attending it like its some sort of high class event

So Minions was the reverse Morbius.

That’s sad on so many levels.

@Dustcan
Like i’ve seen videos of whole theatres being packed full of people either cosplaying as the minions or wearing their finest 3-piece suit.

it’s surreal X)

Though in all serious, even ignoring all the memes the DM and minions franchise still seem to be going on well enough. Internet’s hate boner for the minions aside, the franchise seems to get a lot of good/decent reviews from critics/audiences and the movies still seem to do well enough financially. The fact that these movies are very casual/kid friendly probably help a lot too.

This hurts my soul.

Despicable Me are some good movies. But the minions are by far the worst parts. I dare say the only bad parts.

I kept seeing trailers for Lightyear and the Rise of Gru movies and Lightyear looked bland, while Gru actually looked kinda fun.

@Dex Stewart
What’s sad is it didn’t have to be that way, but none of the modern Pixar employees actually cared about Buzz Lightyear. They figure slap the name on and there you go. It could have been another movie and no one would have known it was suppose to be about Buzz. The promotion was “The buzz movie Andy watched” and it was too modern.

A lot of modern Pixar movies look more like from Dreamworks, seeing most of the veteran animators left, it makes sense why this movie didn’t do well. Everyone would could have told them this was going to suck all left, and they probably wouldn’t’ have been listened to anyways.

Miguel is jacked and I’m all for it.

@Dex Stewart
The 20 - 10FPS was difficult to watch the trailers. Plus, I really can’t care about the Arachno-bunch and Miles anymore as they always add more, and more and more - and they get more boring.

@Cyborg_pony
I’m expecting Miles and maybe 2099 to get a bunch of focus and the other Spider-people to be recurring cameos.
I’ve heard various villains will play a part.

@Cyborg_pony
Ugh, that whole frame rate thing. The first Spider-Verse was on TV the other day, and I could only take it for about five minutes. I still want to watch the movie; I just don’t want to have to watch the movie.

@Background Human
The animation definitely took some getting used to. The beginning is where it’s at its worst.

Primal Season 2 is debuting on July 21st and streaming the next day on HBO Max.

@Dex Stewart @Background Human
Meh. It’ll most likely just be Noir, Ham, probably the spiders man and Gwen. There probably some others that will be a blink and you miss it with some from that new event probably to desperately shill that new Spiderverse from Slott which no one really wants.

It was very overpraise.

@Dex Stewart
The synopsis says we’re getting a new team of Spider-folk for the sequel. The Japanese Spider-Man is already confirmed to make an appearance in the movie, and there’s hints that we might get Spider-Man:India as well.

@Background Human
You’d probably hate this short film I saw once when I was little. Its FPS was in the single digits with a sort of sketchy, almost sequential art style. Don’t know the name for it.

I learned much later that the film in question, was about the tale of Beowulf, since I strongly remember there being a male and female monster, and a dragon in it. The foremost I learned was Grendel.

@Salamenace
Too many Spiders in the New York.

@Cyborg_pony
On side note,I just realize that the same sex kiss scene is hilarious in hindsight because this movie is movie that was made in the 90 and what were same sex couple were made into cousins.