So? It's the big movie. I never did warm up to hand drawn Disney princesses or character for the last 30 years except Amy Adams's first big hit role in "Enchanted" (now, despite the spoof nature, I have warmed up to that and e njoyed Amy in her current film Revival and hope to see that other one she has)...Stitch with his gnashing teeth?? However I do appreciate on my Facebook site Stitch or any one when it comes to birthday wishes...that I have nohhhh problem with.
Scooby-Doo and Fat Albert from other famous studios, respectively Hanna-Barbera and Filmation, are cartoon animation and we all know those are *beep* and not Gertie the dinosau,r, Yogi bear, Rocky and Bullwinkle, on in Disney's canon of the times (1950s and back) Sleeping Beauty, Lady and the ATramp,etc.)
And I for one stay away from some CGI films if it's some attempt a la that sequel to 2005-06's "Hoodwinked"(which I DID like) or the Alpha and Omega ones..I don't go by the film art style even though agreed one type of animation is replacing another type, whcih becomes fairly a double take causer when done to old style cartoons like Yogi Bear or if Dumbo were done that way (and that couldn't be even with today's effects be done with a REAL elephant!)
But anyhow, just staying in the film and not facebook icon realm, if you want to argue hand drawns and mention Sleeping Beauty, Dumbo,etc. I'm in. But I do see hand drawn as well as otherwise in Moana and hey, it's the story itself and such. Besides inner Workings looked as much as a cartoon as any computer (the most computerized part of that being the music, sounding rather like the 1970s
insturmentsal "novelty" "Popcorn"), and that didn't have a "CGI" look, nor do Maui's tattoos. To me, it's the story that counts, and I'm 56.
In short, I understand, but to each their own (hand-drawn animation) tastes, and as I said, I don't like all CGI, but I go by what people all SHOULD go by--the advertising and the story.
Just try to enjoy the story. Heck, with Jennifer (my former god) Lawrence joking about the gods in Moana's setting, and on Maui's island namesake (after Maui himself), the film, with the writer of Hamilton contributingh songs (though not the score, which by another songwriter, and veteraan film composer Mark Mancini, whose credits include that odd 1994 "Monkey Trouble" with later "American Beauty" star Thora Birch), is still well worth watching. The two uptempo ones, Maui's "You're Welcome " and that large crab's songare fun yet there is a great set of adventure. Also Moana has the 1967 Mowgli's deep dark eye pupils..
"And that's SHOWBIZ--kid."-Roxie Hart.
PROFILE PIC:Courtney Thorne-Smith.
MAGIC=Sarah Silverman.
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