Current mood:	bouncy
Entry tags:	happythings, movie

Enchanted!!
Watched Enchanted and Hero today! Movie marathon with my darling! Hoho :D

Hero was pretty exciting at some parts, but makes references to the TV special, so if you'd missed it you might not follow some parts.. But it did feel like watching a tv program on big screen, so you might be better off with a vcd/dvd.

Enchanted, on the other hand, is a totally different story!! It was FANTASTIC! Yes!! So if you haven't watched it, or don't plan to, GO NOW! The story is predictable but this is a movie where the plot doesn't matter so much as execution does. And the ending credits art is just beautiful!

I felt the animation and drawing style was different from previous Disney styles and learnt from Wikipedia (as we all do) that the animation was outsourced to another company because most of their 2D artists were laid off after the CG boom. What! Why?? ): They should hire better writers, not lay off their treasures and what makes them Disney. But the animation was still pretty good, if you ignore the grotesque anatomical errors (Disney princesses had exaggerated figure proportions, but wait till you see Giselle's). The music and dance scenes were fantastic! Just like old school! The most fun part about the whole thing was trying to look for references. Reading the official reference list makes me want to watch it a second time!


Behind the scenes.
Warning: spoilers! You might want to watch this after you've seen the movie (:

All this is making my psyched for Rapunzel! But that's only coming out in 2010. Sigh! What's revealed looks very promising though, what with Fragonard being their inspiration and all. I love Fragonard's work, and if they do succeed, the graphics for Rapunzel will definitely be an unprecedented breakthrough! I do hope that after the retooling they scraped the pop culture references (ala Shrek and Chicken Little). They're funny, but somehow diminishes the magic of the animated world, especially seeing that they'll most probably be marketing this one as another Princess film, and why would people want to be reminded of the real world when watching a Princess film? X:


Left: Fragonard's The Swing | Right: Rapunzel art. Source.