Is there something where younger people today won't watch traditional animation? I don't know specifically, but younger relatives of mine seem to just reject instantly anything that appears "old media."
I could imagine parents trying to get their kids to watch Aladdin and them just not being interested because it's "hand drawn." Yet getting them to see a CGI live action remake of Disney films won't get that reaction.
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Younger people are increasingly enjoying animation more given recent articles, and much of that is anime which isn’t CGI. Hell, there are very dedicated YT and TikTok channels for farming views off old cartoons particularly the 90s and 00s such as the DCAU, Avatar, Ben 10, up to like Adventure Time. 2D isn’t dead by any sense nor is even older 2D - even Scooby Doo, Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry continue to remain relevant.
Hollywood is just fucking dog shit and has completely given up trying to appeal to younger demos. Too many Baby Boomer CEOs who won’t leave and think of animation as nothing but kid stuff, at best a stepping stone to real adult CGI live action films. I would say Gen X and above are why this mentality persists, but since they are the main demo of Hollywood, it just keeps going. Too many Xers who grew up on Lucas Films, consistently pushing for a future where their X-Men comics are real since Star Wars blew them away as kids. They lived through a time of watching incredible technological progress and won’t go back as who wants cartoons when the MCU can give you the real deal?
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is a guilty pleasure of mine. Probably was a sign of things to come especially when it came to how female protagonists were to be written, but I didn't think it was terribly done.
Tim is really good at aesthetics, it is the major positive one can give his Alice, and was really the only reason he was chosen.
The main issue was that Tim didn’t care for Alice no matter how much fans wanted his take. He basically created his own narrative because he didn’t give a shit and had no real feelings towards the original tale. If one really wanted a “Burton” Alice, they would be far better off with the American McGee titles than actual Burton, those do a much better job making the narrative darker and linking concepts like mental health to the original tale. I also think their aesthetic was superior, but I digress….
And a lot of the films that I didn't mention also don't feature the type of character they're complaining about, but they star children or at least don't have a love interest to begin with.
Felix/Calhoun really should have been on your list. He’s like the poster child of the Disney puppy-dog boyfriend.
