- The Toy Story: Hawaiian Vacation short. Witty, smart, classic Pixar.
- The Lion King 3D extended preview. No, it's not necessary, but hot damn is it gorgeous.
- That brief glimpse of Brave.
- Holy crap, there's a 3D Morgan Freeman dolphin movie coming.
- The brief nod to Ratatouille during the Paris sequence.
- Closing my eyes and thinking of this picture of The Rock riding Splash Mountain, which remains awesome.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
MATER D-PLUS: Things I enjoyed during our viewing of Cars 2 more than the movie itself:
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I've had to sit through the Dolphin Tale trailer entirely too many times in the past few months. One thing that I found interesting when I saw Green Lantern in 2-D last weekend was that while there were a number of 3-D movies trailered, they made pains to state that the films would also be available in 2-D. I think the feedback on 3-D and the strong performance of the 2-D prints of Green Lantern and Pirates is convincing studios that 3-D isn't a panacea, but should be reserved for films that really warrant it. (Transformers may be one of those films.)
ReplyDeleteLoved the Hawaiian short, very lukewarm on Cars 2. I figured out who the bad guy was almost right away. My almost 4 yo loved it, it was her first movie theater experience.
ReplyDeleteoh, that was me. I also want to add that I was happy that they did put in a small bit re: Doc Hudson.
ReplyDeleteOne wonders whether they were anticipating the critical response to Cars 2 when they decided to trot out that gorgeous stuff from Brave. Lasseter lasseter lasseter
ReplyDeleteLasseter? Say a little more.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you already knew what I was going to say.
ReplyDeleteOur 3.5 yo, who was very psyched to see it, began losing interest about halfway through. 7.5 yo said he liked it. Mom & Dad? Underwhelmed.
ReplyDeleteHawaiian vaca? So awesome I felt an echo of the verklempf from TS3. The aqauatic treacle preview of Flipper loses a tail? Actually induced anger from me.
We didn't get Brave or dolphins! Was this because we saw the low-class 2-D print?
ReplyDeleteCars 2 exceeded my lower expectations--it's at or near the bottom of my Pixar list, but still better than most everything else out there.
I snickered when I saw the fake advertisement for "Lasse-tyre" during Cars 2.
ReplyDeleteThe boyfriend and I are with Jay on this one. Plenty of witty, punny stuff in there, and the visuals were great, so we enjoyed it. No, it is not a *great* Pixar film, but I'd still put it ahead of many other movies out there.
ReplyDeleteOn a different note: we were a little disappointed with the TS short. Don't get me wrong---I love the TS characters. But normally, the short is about the Pixar future---some new animator who has been working on something different. And this one was about the Pixar past.
The heroine of Brave is a redhead. I forsee much merch ending up in my house. I might even let the kids play with it.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't get the Brave preview either, even in 3D. We had Happy Feet 2 and the dolphin movie and one more I can't remember. Lion King was a pre-preview not in 3D.
ReplyDeleteMy issue with the Brave trailer is, in what little we see, we see her supposedly kill a bear. Has a Pixar hero ever killed another breathing being before? And does de-feminizing her (which I know a lot of people are rooting for) mean she needs to kill things, especially in a teaser trailer when it's the only thing we learn about her? (And that she's probably Scottish.)
ReplyDeleteAs the original working title for this film was "The Bear and the Bow," I think there's more to the whole shooting the bear thing than just "she needs to be defeminized."
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