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Originally Posted by matt
i have to disagree with you - the truly great kids movies work on two levels - one that kids enjoy and one the adults can enjoy cf. toy story, shrek etc
and as someone who had to sit through garfield with their four year old nephew i can tell you that that movie absolutely sucks. besides if you're going to base your quality control decisions on what a 3 year old would enjoy then why even bother with a plot at all and just have a guy slip on a banana skin for 80 mins or whatever
besides, a lot of the reviews i've seen for this film don't focus on the 'oh no another animated talking animal movie' issue but on the rather more important weak storylines and lack of any humour (in their opinion of course as i've not seen the film)
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There certainly have been reviews like this as well, but that doesn't mean they're right. For one, I've been in probably eight or so screenings with all different kinds of audiences....executives, the people who worked on the film, general public, pretty much all possible groups. To be perfectly honest, it has always gotten a good amount of laughs in the regular theaters.....3d has been less laughs, but I think that's because all the cool stuff to look at breaks your concentration on following the story a bit. I know I was missing dialogue when I saw it 3d because I was seeing all kinds of stuff I never noticed before.
And honestly, I'm not sure what they mean by it having a weak story....it's not perfect what with all the scrutiny the studio was giving it since it was our first fully animated film, but to me, it's a very simple, clear story line. But whatever....I'm fine with people having their subjective opinions, I just don't appreciate the callous meanness in many reviews. A lot of reviewers obviously have very little class, and seem oblivious to the fact that all the people working on these films put everything they have into them. I'd love to see them try to create something out of thin air, get it approved through major studio beurocracy, and then put it up in front of the whole world to judge....but my guess is that they wouldn't have the balls to.