In the final installment of Beloved Animated Failures, we take a look at how a movie about a family threatening to splinter apart because of social services, and an alien fugitive crash-landing in Hawaii, managed to become one of Disney’s few enduring modern hits. Stitch, against all odds, is still everywhere. Now Disney’s eying a live-action remake with In the Heights director Jon Chu. The movie spawned three direct-to-video sequels, a successful television series, and multiple theme park attractions. Lilo & Stitch, arguably one of the kookiest and off-kilter movies to come out of the tense time period, proved to be the unexpected success Sanders was hoping for - and not just in its theatrical release. We would pay for our story freedom by controlling our budget.” “One of the things I began to advocate was a return to a smaller film. “Each film we produced was more complex and more expensive than the film before it,” Sanders tells Polygon. So after the six-year-long production of Mulan, animator Chris Sanders pushed for the studio to diversify the scope of the movies. In the late 1990s, Walt Disney Animation saw a number of increasingly expensive projects stumble with increasingly diminished returns. What went wrong along the way? And why did they gain such love after the fact? The Beloved Animated Failures series is out to dust off those old VHS tapes (or, more accurately, find the movies on streaming) and examine some of these films. The animated movies that defined the late ‘90s and early 2000s are beloved by a generation that grew up watching them on VHS, but many of these nostalgic favorites were critical failures, box-office disappointments, or both. Your favorite childhood movie might’ve been a total box-office dud.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |