Cartoon/Western Animation General

@TheHappySpaceman
 
Stuff like this are why I’m glad that Illumination is only handling the animation itself for the upcoming Super Mario movie and it’s otherwise being produced and distributed by some other company that I forget the name of.
 
Because say what you will about the quality of their movies overall, but the animation in them is always really nice.

@Jarkes  
The animation is nice when they aren’t sloppily reusing the same character designs. (See IHE’s review of Sing.)

@Jarkes  
Wait, there is an upcoming Super Mario movie? Hype!!!!

@Ilovemyoozik
 
Yeah, it was announced a while back. The animation’s being done by Illumination and it’s being produced and distributed by both Nintendo and some other company that I can never remember the name of.
 
I don’t think it’s coming out until 2019 though.

@Jarkes  
Looks like Nintendo is giving the red plumber a second chance on the big screen after that disaster that was the early 90’s live action film.

@Jarkes  
Wait, there’s a third company involved with that movie? I thought it was just Nintendo and Illumination. Closest I can think of would be Universal, who distributes Illumination’s movies and will probably be distributing the animated Mario movie as well.

@Background Pony #9100
 
I definitely remember hearing that there was a third company involved, I just can’t remember who. It is probably Universal though, since Universal also has that Nintendo theme park coming soon (or has it already opened?).

I don’t care to see the new Illumi Grinch at all. Just from the visual stuff they released already, I know they missed the mark; the Grinch is supposed to be a nasty repulsive curmudgeon (which the animated and Jim Carrey versions got), not some marketable, cuddly Happy Meal toy.
 
Oh, and to answer the earlier question of what the best cartoon era is, that would be the 30’s-to-late-60’s; no other era has been so experimental and purely entertaining and created so many iconic characters that other decades can’t hope to match in quantity or quality. Plus, there was no “age gap” or nonsense about “mature themes” for hipsters to complain about.

@CatsTuxedo  
I’ll go see it. :D

@CatsTuxedo  
i’m thinking that they are gonna do an origin story, and that’s just him as a kid, he will probably look less cute as an adult,

@CatsTuxedo  
It’s the eyes.
 
Baby blue does not bode well with the cranky and dickish nature of the Grinch.

@Thanotos Omega
 
Yeah, another render they revealed a few weeks ago showed him as an adult.

@TheHappySpaceman  
I take it you don’t get the joke about needing high IQ to like RAM?

@ice1517  
I love that joke! It’s one of the few good memes to come out of that wasteland that’s known as dank memes.

@Ilovemyoozik  
I’m just amazed on how fast people turned on R&M.

@ice1517  
No surprise there. The fact that people are still complaining about fandoms ruining the source material makes me think that these people have never been on the Internet for long. “This has been happening for a long time! Why are you surprised by this?” is what I would say to their faces if I encounter a person like this.

@ice1517  
I despise that joke. It’s so overused at this point.

@CatsTuxedo  
Can we stop giving illumation good stuff for them to ruin ? They ruined the Lorax, they destroyed what good will there was of the first Despicable me by making terrible sequels and spin offs and they took a possibly good idea of a movie(Sing) and turned it into pandering trash  
Honestly Illumination Entertainment is the perfect form of the spectacle

@Commune  
Then don’t go see it. No one’s forcing you to do so.

@Background Pony #27A6  
Ah, but an $11 ticket lost is but a mere drop in the sea of revenue by other people.
 
Get Pixar to show a movie around the same time as another Illumi movie if you want to hit it where it hurts.

Still no new eps of Tangled, Big Hero 6, DuckTales, Elena or Vampirina yet.

Watched an Angry Video Game Nerd video talking about best classic christmas movies, and one of them was Gremlins.
 
And that movie is airing right now on tv!

Charlie Brown Christmas is the best animated Christmas special.

“The Nightmare Before Christmas” can be both Halloween and Christmas movies.