All the work studio ghibli puts out is also "for children," and every animation deals with deep themes. The only children's media I excuse on this front is stuff made for toddlers like peppa pig. Not to say, i expected the mario movie to have had deep themes or anything, i didn't, i expected it to be slop. I don't think it being children's media is an excuse for it being slop, tho. It being the mario franchise is excuse enough.
And to be clear I'm not saying we shouldn't advocate for children's media to be good or that you can't critique a movie on the grounds that it's for children.
I just think it's amusing how many people are upset or shocked that its dumb children's slop and a cash grab. If anything that should have been the default presumption, like you said.
Yeah most kid animations in general suck. The cgi all feels so soulless too, Into the Spiderverse is one of the exceptions I can think of, but I'm honestly kind of bummed we're not really gonna getting much hand-drawn 2d animation stuff with actual character to it anymore
All the work studio ghibli puts out is also "for children," and every animation deals with deep themes. The only children's media I excuse on this front is stuff made for toddlers like peppa pig. Not to say, i expected the mario movie to have had deep themes or anything, i didn't, i expected it to be slop. I don't think it being children's media is an excuse for it being slop, tho. It being the mario franchise is excuse enough.
Love to show children Grave of the Fireflies right after My Neighbor Totoro :miyazaki-laugh:
And to be clear I'm not saying we shouldn't advocate for children's media to be good or that you can't critique a movie on the grounds that it's for children.
I just think it's amusing how many people are upset or shocked that its dumb children's slop and a cash grab. If anything that should have been the default presumption, like you said.
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Yeah most kid animations in general suck. The cgi all feels so soulless too, Into the Spiderverse is one of the exceptions I can think of, but I'm honestly kind of bummed we're not really gonna getting much hand-drawn 2d animation stuff with actual character to it anymore
100% with you on that, if nothing else the only thing that's shocking to me is that other people are shocked