Antonio E. Gonzalez wrote:
Actually (and here's where some of the translation comes in),
"Enchanted" was GOING to go "the Shrek Route" under Eisner's watch, as
Eisner's overdefensive kissup to what he thought was going to be the New
Way, a la Katzenberg--Gladly slicing Snow White's own throat as cynical
ram-sacrifice, so long as we Wouldn't Hit.
Than Bob Iger and John Lasseter took over, and they discovered a rather
odd thing: Nobody out there *wanted* to see a "Shrek-style" fairytale
dogpile.
Except, ironically, for the animation geeks, who were trumpeting the
opening twenty minutes as "the Return of Old-Fashioned 2-D Animation".
The operative word was "Awkward": Lots...and LOTS...about two or three
*years*' worth...of studio rewrites turned a lame Shrek 2 clone into a
"harmless" feel-good Pretty Woman clone, and when fans and reviews
gushed over "A wonderful, cuddly feel-good satirical love-letter to
everything Disney did right", the new studio's reaction was your basic
"Uh, yeah....we MEANT to do that! ^_^''' "
But anyway, in answer to your question, um...No. Looks like they
aren't. :)
Derek Janssen
ejanss1@
verizon.net
