RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] saturday morning cartoons are evil

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Ross, Matt wrote:

> Personally, I liked bug story much better than Antz.  Antz tried too hard to
> capture a mature audience, while Bug Story didn't pretend to be more than it
> was.  It stayed humorous for both adult and child.

Yes.  The shows I hate the worst (from the perspective of trying to enjoy
them with your kids) are ones that leave either the parents or the kids
completely stranded.  The best ones are shows that can maintain interest
for everybody *for extended periods of time*.  All of the Pixar stuff has
done that.

> As for Toy Story 2, I loved the "Buzz, I am your father" bit,

Obviously it was a great idea for all of the space toys to be completely
convinced of their real-ness (gotta be a factory defect) when they are
first opened.  My favorite line from both movies is almost certainly
Buzz's "Years of academy training...wasted!"  I'd have *loved* to see the
punch up session that line came from.

> but the bit with Buzz flipping up his wings when he saw the cowgirl
> was a bit 'mature' for the intended audience.

What; I'm not part of the intended audience? :-)  Seriously, the
wing-schwing move is...interesting in that all non-innocent
interpretations basically require you to be non-innocent.  No kid I've
ever seen watch the movie has interpreted this as anything but (at most)
a gesture of surprise.

jking



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