Happily N'Ever After
Dec. 30th, 2006 03:45 pmProcrastinating on the year-summary post...
[No spoilers: this is just from watching a few trailers]
The good: MUCH better character designs than their previous film ("Valiant"--hideous designs where *everything* looked like a stupid pigeon, even the villainous German falcon). Mostly terrific voice acting (or maybe I just like Andy Dick).
There are three wolf characters (from various fables) who play almost exactly the same roles as the hyenas in Lion King, including an "Ed" character (boss-wolf, dumb-wolf, crazy-wolf).

The bad: One of the wolves has a great character design, but sounds like a doofus thug henchman (the kind that says "duh?" a lot); based on his design, he should sound more like a sinister Ricardo Montalban.

Because the film is CG and kind of stupid-looking, I'll have my work cut out for me trying to drag Zor to see it.
[No spoilers: this is just from watching a few trailers]
The good: MUCH better character designs than their previous film ("Valiant"--hideous designs where *everything* looked like a stupid pigeon, even the villainous German falcon). Mostly terrific voice acting (or maybe I just like Andy Dick).
There are three wolf characters (from various fables) who play almost exactly the same roles as the hyenas in Lion King, including an "Ed" character (boss-wolf, dumb-wolf, crazy-wolf).

The bad: One of the wolves has a great character design, but sounds like a doofus thug henchman (the kind that says "duh?" a lot); based on his design, he should sound more like a sinister Ricardo Montalban.

Because the film is CG and kind of stupid-looking, I'll have my work cut out for me trying to drag Zor to see it.