I find it so refreshing that we are in this rare stage in western animation where disney is actually not monopolizing all the attention. If anything, 2022 has been one of their worse years yet in the animation department. Everything they have done has been completely eclipsed by other studios for once. Their Pinocchio "movie" was just obliterated by Guillermo del Toro's version. Strange World was completely forgotten because of poor marketing choices, allowing Dreamworks to come back with the Bad Guys and Puss in Boots, the first being very good and the second absolutely excellent (I'm being serious, this movie is SO MUCH MORE than a simple Shrek spin-off).
TMNT even got its time to shine with probably the best 2D animated film this year (in a technical aspect at least), rekindling an interest for the entire franchise (with another TMNT movie by Seth Rogen in production!!)
The Sea Beast was amazing. Wendell & Wild was a masterclass. 2022 has just been excellent throughout, and it's Disney that happens to be the weakest at the moment. Even the Minions 2 got more attention than most things that came out on Disney + Animation this year (not saying that the movie was great or anything, but it's saying a lot)
And when we look at the next Pixar movie coming out next year, the hype pales in comparison to the Mario movie, and let's not even TALK about Across the Spiderverse......everybody knows it's going to snatch everyone's wig, and all the awards under the sun to match it.
So yeah, western animation gets to breathe a little, and it feels amazing.
Rather than some unoriginal slasher flick about a rodent of unusual size pulling a FNAF I feel like what would be so interesting to see someone put Steamboat Willie & Minnie in would be something in the vein of Epic Mickey about character’s that are aware of their writer’s effects on them but more so their copyright holder’s. Like it could include other public domain characters Disney is clutching the reins on (Oswald, Pooh, & Peter Pan come to mind) but instead of the grim dark BS it would instead be about how the copyright holders don’t always have the property’s best interests at heart & tend to bastardize & take them out of context in ways the original artist would never have done. Basically boiling down to what happens when art outlives its artist & the evils of corporations vs said artists original intentions for their work & then the characters from those works finding new life through the people who truly love it rather than those who view it purely as a cash cow they can put in the bare minimum to milk totally dry because effort=money & both are something you don’t have to put into something that’s already a household name.
Apparently invading other worlds, causing mass murder, and possessing a child's body is No Big Deal. But canceling The Owl House was enough to put Disney's 90 year beloved icon Mickey Mouse on the naughty list and made Darcy look like a saint fitting for the nice list.
Controversial take but I'm much more comforted by the idea of a deity that makes mistakes and admits it than one that insists they're perfect and punishes anyone who says otherwise by sending them to be tortured
If I were born in the Cult Of The Lamb universe you bet I would be Shamura's follower, mourn and suffer as I watch the most brilliant person I know crumble and fade away because their brother, who they, still after everything, loved so dearly, decided to break their head open
The Bishop of war, of knowledge
"He was gluttonous in his ambition. And in my imprudence I loved him. For it, I lost my mind."
Don't say that DON'T SAY THAT OR I'LL THINK ABOUT IT FOR AN ETERNITY