hate when a youtube vid claims it’s a deep dive into a topic but the vid is less than 30 minutes long like where’s the depth there :/
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What are your thoughts on Chip n Dale 2022?
Hooh, it's almost gonna be a year since that came out... I remember writing a long Twitter-thread after finishing it.
To sum it up.... while it was mildly entertaining at times, the whole movie just was so laced in that edgy, cynical "childhood cartoons turned cynical/fake"-vibe that you could get a-plenty from likes of DorklyBits/CollegeHumor's parodies on Youtube - which works for that kind of instant, low-brow humor in that site. Considering who they got to helm this movie, it's no big, whooping surprise.
Prolly why the animation quality matches that kind of effort too.
But it becomes kind of difficult to sit through this sheer lack of sincerity as the whole movie just shoves us ickily unflattering versions of Toons we grew up with, either to get low-hanging edgy internet humor or meta jokes out of them that leaves me more embittered on having grown up with these shows, as now I'm watching them being mocked or twisted beyond recognition on-screen.
I've long been dead-tired of the "Grown-Up Caillous" or "Toons in Modern Hollywood/Youtube-Era"-trope that's been rampant in our industry or entertainment for so long:
This insistence that these characters and the shows we grew up with from our childhood days, are meant to expire in our minds as shallow stuff for "kids" as we reach into adulthood, and thus grow "beyond them", in a way - and thus find belieability or entertainment on them not really growing with us as result.
Often these people have such little self-awareness to think the only way we'd ever be interested about these cartoon characters adults, is to just portray them in very gritty, "realistic" ways that are supposed to speak to your modern, cynical adulthood.
So when I have to watch Lonely Island just takes these characters for granted, giving us these edgy takes like Monty being a crackhead for cheese enough to apparently drive him out of rent - or tone-deafly written villains like Sweet Pete... yeah, it kinda leaves me with very disgusted taste on my mouth. (And the less said about the intended humor driving the "relationship" Gadget and Zipper, the better.)
Finish this with a Modern Corporate and Post-Ironic, Reference-laden Hollywood writing on top of what Lonely Island's best at - and you get a movie I've been wanting to stay as far away as possible, unless I'd go watch reviews lambasting it for these very aspects.
The most important thing about Roger Rabbit has always been how the people behind the movie showed us just how and why the Toons meant so much to the generations that grew up with them: whether they had entertained you in zany, infectiously charming ways in the original theatrical runs in 1940s - or the various syndicated runs on TVs post-theatre era.
That kind of deep appreciation and sincerity towards all of the Toons in Roger Rabbit - you can just feel it throughout every cameo and portrayal of them in the entire movie.
It's no GD wonder how it helped usher in such renewed appreciation and fondness back towards Western Animation back in the late 80s, and eventually ushering us to such amazing resurgence on it as we'd hit the 90s with Disney Renaissance, WB's Animated TV Series and even a few cartoon-only cable channels. How's that?
It's kinda unfortunate how there's so many people thinking how R/R 2022 is apparently a modern successor to Roger Rabbit - when you can clearly see that the people helming former doesn't really thing as much highly about medium of animation as Richard Williams and his crew movie crew did.
But duh - what did you expect from people who weren't that into animation at the first place?
And I think that's the problem. For the past few decades, these celebrities getting to helm or act in movies like these... Lonely Island, whatever all-star casts in Live-Action Disney Remakes, critics at Oscars, and rich executives in Hollywood - all have come to believe that animation's for children - while also being interested on brand recognition that brings them more fame and money ultimately.
So it's easy for them to not just treat medium of animation like crap, but also see these animated characters as mere lifeless, floating signifiers for their brand recognition - or even prop them as representations of naive, childish immaturity or bad role models for youth that they can lampshade or mock in post-ironic fashion later, thanks to so many poor or twisted generalizations on the animation industry or even internet that Disney most notably has attempted to "address" in their movies for years now.
TL;DR: No sir, I didn't like it.
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