I think Enchanted was supposed to be a parody of the 90's Disney princess stories, which was actually kind of fun and still had genuine creativity. I would say the current live-action stuff kicked off with Maleficent and people didn't respond that well to a villain-POV-re-telling of classic Disney animation, so they backed off and just made a bunch of soulless remakes instead.
Even a 3D re-animation would have been better than the live action bullshit that's been coming out, because a huge problem was the inability to translate the abstract, surreal aesthetics of 2D animation into 3D live action. 3D animation could've at least helped with that transition.
I'm just going to resign myself to watching the old 90's cartoons when I get nostalgic, because the new live action stuff is just so drained of any artistic integrity.
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I think Enchanted was supposed to be a parody of the 90's Disney princess stories, which was actually kind of fun and still had genuine creativity. I would say the current live-action stuff kicked off with Maleficent and people didn't respond that well to a villain-POV-re-telling of classic Disney animation, so they backed off and just made a bunch of soulless remakes instead.
Even a 3D re-animation would have been better than the live action bullshit that's been coming out, because a huge problem was the inability to translate the abstract, surreal aesthetics of 2D animation into 3D live action. 3D animation could've at least helped with that transition.
I'm just going to resign myself to watching the old 90's cartoons when I get nostalgic, because the new live action stuff is just so drained of any artistic integrity.