-Rinni

But I guess you kind of can get disappointed in it. O.O But not all of it is bad. Like just recently, Ben 10 came into the US, and it’s cool.

And the stuff on Disnay Channel, I only like the movies and the show American Jake Long. XD

And they need better actors too! D

Interesting read;
I’m soo glad that so many people have the same views as me on this!
Another thing that bothers me about American Animation, Disney in praticular, is the sequals they come out with..ya know, because they obviously have nothing better to be animating. Hell, some classic disney movies are even getting 2nd sequals (Cinderella, The Little Mermaid.)

When a new sequal comes out to a classic movie, I always download it – just out of interest..ya know, to see what its like and stoof~ and I am almost always disapointed with the quality of the movie. The songs are terrible (The worst songs in a sequal would have to go the Fox and the Hound 2 and The Little Mermaid 2) the lyrics inpraticular are often really really bad. The last sequal I saw was a sequal to one of my all time favourite Disney movies, The Fox and the Hound. I loved the oringinal, the friend ship themes, the animation, art, characters, even the songs (and the songs were actually quite weak compared to other, better known Disney songs.) But the sequal was easily the worst one I had ever seen, seriously – I’d actually go as far as saying it was one of the worst films I had ever seen. The songs..oh god, were bad beyond belief, especially “Good Doggie; No Bone!” and “Hound Dude” ..I mean really, W.T.F?

Mm, I think I’ll leave it there, I’m sure you get the idea. XD;

Like you, I have always been a fan of animation and not just anime. Before my anime obession there was my cartoon obession, I even remember when cartoons started to change for the worse (two words: Columbine shooting, ever sense then it seamed like the Cartoons only kept getting worse), it really amazes me on how people can actually watch the s*** they make now-a-days, the poor kids.
The cartoons back then (like the anime they still make today) had life in them…..the stuff they make now is, so…..well, dead-like, theres no “life” in them at all.
I was watching an episode of Darkwing Duck (one of my all-time-fav cartoons from when I was younger), the other day. *sigh* It brought back so many memories, I enjoyed it as much as I did then too. I really miss the good ol days when the cartoons had good stories and lovable charaters, you can’t find anything like that now a days alright. Last year I was talking to some junior high students, and it sounded like the only animated shows they watched was the anime they have on Toonami/Adult Swim because they liked it better than the cartoons they where showing on TV. I was also talking with this one girl in my spanish class, and she said her little sister only watches InuYasha because she didn’t like the newer cartoons either. You know the cartoons are bad when 10 year olds have to result to watching anime series thats not for kids!

I also find it screwy on how the cartoons back then are more anime-like then the cartoons they make now, and yet now they are trying thier oh-so-hardest to make thier cartoons anime-like. And is it just me or does it seam like almost all the animation in the newer cartoons are all the same? Back then the cartoons were very diverse in animation, now they all seam to have that “modern Hanna barbera”-style to it (examples: Dexter’s Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, etc.)

Then again, its not just animated movies/cartoons that have gone downhill, the movies that Hollywood makes now are s*** too. All they are about are great special effects and money really. Most of the movies they make now area all remakes, sequals, or based off off books/comic books/TV shows etc, and the movies that come up with their own ideas are usually bad. Most of the remakes and sequals they make are really awful. It could just be that these companies have to result to coping older ideas and pointless comedies because they are running out of ideas, same goes for animated movies as well.

But these american companies need to seriously clean up thier act! Escpecailly the animation companies in the US, otherwise anime is going to put them out of business! America used to be #1 in animation thoughout the world for decades, but it looks like the tables have started to turn…..

etcetera, etecetera. Apart from The Simpsons, I never watch North American animation.
But I still like Shrek, Hoodwinked…and all the other Disney movies you mentioned.

And to waista, what you’re saying might be true, but still, I don’t think it would be too much trouble to have even a little more drama and a little less comedy. And that still doesn’t excuse the lack of great music and diverse cultural themes/settings that defined the old Disney classics. That’s one major reason why I liked Happy Feet so much; it had a good story along with excellent song/dance numbers amid a realistic setting and characters. I’m sure CGI could do wonders with the kind of settings and musical numbers present in movies like The Lion King, Aladdin, and Bambi…but there’s obviously not enough of an interest in movies having artistic beauty and uniqeness like that nowadays, which is what makes it all so sad =(

But I’m not totally devoid of all hope. There’s a good chance American animated movies could change for the better sometime in the future.