chill and enjoy the movie, fuck.

P.S. – Reviewer, you’re gay.

Actually, his mother appears at the end of the film..

“Pixar hedges its bets by adding a cute dog who’s rejected by his dog pack.”

This wasn’t really done as a tear jerker..

“And a large endangered-species bird, which gets injured and hobbles pitifully.”

Only at the end of the movie..

Sorry, felt it necessary to point these things out.

Sounds like you haven’t seen many Svankmajer films then since his style is not very comparable to Trnka or Kawamoto and you very much mis-characterize the tone of his output. Trnka and Kawamoto both rely mostly on stop-motion puppets, whereas Svankmajer has used a huge variety of animation materials, figurines being but a small subset. You could perhaps level your criticisms against the Quay Brothers better since they have mostly used puppet figures, but I would still prefer them.

Before I go further, I should say that I’m not sure whether you’re criticizing him based only on his feature films or whether you’ve also seen all or many of his 26 short films, which, in my opinion, are quite superior to any of his feature lengths, although I love those too.

Obviously it just comes down to an issue of taste as to whether you think Svankmajer’s films aren’t done as well or aren’t as fun. For my two cents, the scope, variety, and technical brilliancy of his films far surpass Trnka and Kawamoto, and I think it’s impossible to miss just how much fun and humor (albeit mostly black humor) is found in his shorts.

As for poignancy and simplicity….well I guess if you value those things in films. I don’t necessarily. I fail to see how the relative complexity of Svankmajer’s technical aspects or his themes are any kind of downside. I’ve never cared much for poignancy, but if you know anything about Surrealism, its history, and philosophy, you’d be able to see that Jan incorporates quite a lot of Surrealist poignancy for childhood imagination, even (and especially) those things that are frightening as a child. (“Jabberwocky” [1971] and “Down to the Cellar” [1983] are perhaps the best examples of his childhood obsession).

Accusing Pixar of abusing of their popularity to create more and more heart-warming movies is outrageous by the simple fact that it’s their objective; in the film industry, the main goal of a company is to attract a great audience and please everyone that walks in the theatre to go see their movie; Pixar has achieved something big by attracting adult and children to the same movie and pleasing both during the viewing (followed closely by DreamWorks), you’re accusing them of their own success; what would you suggest, that they stop making movies people enjoy and like? Pixar’s target audience is children and parents and they have mastered their interaction, it’s their objective and their job and they perform exquisitely. Contrarily to DreamWorks with flops such as Shark Tales or Flushed Away, Pixar’s movies have always been suited for both adulthood and childhood, if they go deeper and deeper into the heart warming, it’s simply because that’s the key of their success and it’s on their way to beating their last movie.

Obviously, you have little to no knowledge of CG animation and modeling, because the movie is beautifully composed, the 3D modeling is a perfect mix of realism and cartoon and the textures and meshes are superbly crafted, the animation is flawless and the artists’ work on Up was great.

I suggest you try and get an opinion of your own instead of merely trying to create some bullshit opinion you half-assed together by saying the opposite of what people say. Going against the masses is alright if you have a good reason for it.

Indoctrination? Indoctrinating…what exactly? Does it say “George W. Bush is your new god… hail the Aryan race” when you play it backwards?

I enjoy reading your review. I actually work for a PR firm and I’m supposed to troll sites, but just wanted to say, good review.

this is a good example of “Falatia ad hominem”. when you can’t put better arguments on the table, you atack the critic’s personallity.

how dull and pathetic

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Disney didn’t exactly purchase Pixar, it was more like the other way around. When the dust settled, the acquisition left Steve Jobs as the majority stock holder of the Disney empire. As I keep telling people, Apple rules.

Anyway, great review, Eileen! You had me at “waterboard you with the gushing tears of a million pathetic orphans.” Awesome! I wish I could write essays as funny as this one.

Вы безграмотное дерьмо. Хотя бы скажите его по буквам правильно,падла ебанная. Строго в рту, мудак.

You know, I think these children’s movies should be scrutinized even more, since it’s pure indoctrination.

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