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15 Years Ago, DreamWorks released Megamind. At a time when superhero films was becoming more popular thanks to the MCU, DreamWorks Animation still decided to do their usual send up storytelling for the genre.

While it wasn’t a huge hit, it’s now achieved a cult following. What do you think of the movie? Leave your opinion below in the comments

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Aside from The Nightmare Before Christmas, which Tim Burton related animated film is the best?

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I’ve posted a new video lecture about one of the most popular and important animated films in Disney history. Please watch, give it a thumbs up, and share, and subscribe for more

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https://youtu.be/zjDELhAwpUc

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I’ve officially started a new blog called Daniel Alpine’s Animation Wonderland. Since my lectures are to be better locked up to a 10 minute length, this helps the audience understand more about the subject of animation history that couldn’t be fit into a typical lecture.

Please check it out and share it. Thank you

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Deeply sorry for the 6 month delay for this. Here’s my review of The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie. I thought it would be better as a written post than a video. Without any real spoilers, the story centers on Porky and Daffy trying to stop a threat to their town and the entire world in their own irreverent looney fashion. While the movie was initially set to be a direct-to-streaming film for MAX, it was soon thought it could be released in cinemas. But because of complex issues at that time over at Warner Bros. after the merger with Discovery, an independent studio called Ketchup Entertainment eventually picked up the distribution rights and after a year since its completion and limited screenings, it finally reached a wide audience in March of this year. I was fortunate to see it twice. First time was at an AMC theater and later at a small independent theater for a second time with my best friend, Lauren. And I can tell you folks out there that it was very good. This movie was a breath of fresh air for a variety of reasons. The obvious one is because it’s a new traditionally animated feature film that’s not released as a limited release or a special screening but a new one that’s released widely. The last film of this kind I saw of this kind was Teen Titans Go! to the Movies (2018) also from Warner Bros. Also, this was a much better Looney Tunes movie adventure than any of the earlier ones. The style of the animation and character designs was an excellent tribute to the classic cartoon directors, Tex Avery and Bob Clampett and I can confidently tell you that those 2 legends would be pleased. But importantly, the story was well crafted, and it had a lot of heart in it. That’s a contrast to the first Space Jam in which any heart in the film was virtually absent. There was a little heart in Looney Tunes: Back in Action that was about how Daffy felt unappreciated. And in Space Jam 2, the heart was artificial and standard. But The Day the Earth Blew Up did a fantastic job at that while keeping the classic irreverent comedy that fans expect. What was a relief that there was a decent amount of people in the audience after I was worried if I were the sole person who saw it or if there would be 2 or 3 other people but what I saw exceeded that expectation. Plus, it was a delight to hear the audience roar with laughter because the movie was indeed hilarious. And it looks that after people ran around as trolls declaring the film was a box office dud, positive word of mouth has helped boost its box office growth a little to at least earn back its cost. I applaud the parents who took their kids to see this instead of the awful Snow White remake that deserved to bomb in theaters. But I do wish that The Day the Earth Blew Up was better marketed so it could’ve drew a bigger audience and be a hit. But now this film’s distributor has picked the distribution for Coyotes vs. Acme, after it was practically banished to the Warner’s morgue. We’ll see that next year. And it was reported that Warner Bros. will start production on new Looney Tunes movie projects.

I award The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie a very good score of four stars out of five.

That’s all for now and so I’ll be seein you

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POP QUIZ!

Who was the first celebrity to be in a Disney animated film?

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In the summer of 1990, two animated movies based on popular television shows were released. The two also proved to be box office failures but each had a different critical reception.

In July of 1990, Universal and Hanna-Barbera released Jetsons: The Movie. The idea of adapting the TV series, The Jetsons, was first pitched in 1985 but the initial pitch was to adapt it into live action. But it was shelved in favor of an all animated feature film. The movie was the last project that the first voices of Mr. Spaceley and George Jetson, Mel Blanc and George O’ Hanlon respectively, worked on before their deaths in 1989. It was also the last movie Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera directed. When it was first released, the reviews were bad due to the story and characters not being interesting or well written and the blend of 2D and 3D animation was off putting and the environmental lesson was boring. While it earned back its production costs, it was thought to be a box office failure. Not even casting the popular singer, Tiffany as daughter Judy helped the film.

One month later was the release of Disney’s DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp. The film was first developed as a TV movie to introduce the last season of DuckTales and would’ve been split up into a multiple part episode storyline for future broadcast. But it was thought that it might work as a theatrical feature instead. It was then Disney founded what would soon become DisneyToon Studios. The animation for the film was done at the now defunct Disney Animation Studio in Paris and was one of the last to use the old fashioned cel animation method. The reviews were mixed to positive but due to the failure of Jetsons: The Movie, this also proved to be unsuccessful at the box office. Because of this, plans for sequels were scrapped.

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