Ill admit, I thought the new Jungle Book was amazing. It took what I loved about the original and, mostly, made it better (especially the fusion of robot puppets and cgi animation to produce some astonishing animation and character appearance). I loved it.
But Beauty and the Beast, it was almost great. Except the Beast did not really sound very beastly when he talked so that ruined that one. Aladdin was meh. Lion King sucked. And they're still doing. Lady and the Tramp caught my attention, so did Mulan, and I'd probably be excited at first sight of an aristocats movie. But they've only done one good one so far IMO, and I have my doubts at this point it's nothijg more than a lazy money grab fest.
And what was with Jungle Book being quite different from the cartoon, but the ones after that are nearly shot for shot remakes.
Really, this age of, lets call it what it is its kot reboots and remakes, it's the age of sloppy and lazy creativity where if it feels you've seen a movie a hundred times already it's not because of similar plot elements and characters, it because you have seen it before.
Mulan is the only one that I’m actually looking forward to.
Beauty and the Beast looked creepy to me. Jungle Book looked pretty good but I didn’t watch it. Similar to Dumbo. The lion king entered uncanny valley for me lol
Lady and the Tramp was one the very first Disney films I saw as a kid, I had the vhs. It had behind the scenes featurettes and in them the animators literally say in interviews, they studied real life dogs for their process but they were too “real” for it to work as an animated movie. Meaning Lady couldn’t be as elegant as they depicted her if they just allowed the dogs to eat, which would have make the famous spaghetti scene useless.
And I think that’s where I’m not really jiving with a lot of the live action remakes. A lot of them are based on movies with anthropomorphised animals, so when that’s done realistically it often falls into uncanny valley territory. Or they’re based on movies with stylised renditions of animals and unless the CGI follows suit, the more realistic renditions looks stiff and clunky in comparison.
The only one that seems to not have much issue is the old 101 Dalmatians movie. And that’s because the original didn’t so much stylise the animals as it largely focused on rotoscoping techniques, so not a lot was lost in translation. Plus Glen Close is freaking hilarious in that movie lol. Used to scare me as a kid
I skipped Aladdin so I can’t say either way.
Mulan I’m intrigued by because it’s supposed to be closer to the original folktale. I know some are upset there’s no Mushu or whatever, but the original was based on people more than animals. So it could make for a better transition to live action, imo. And Mulan was one of my favourite movies as a kid lol
