Singing

[den]

Why do animated movies have singing in them?

Why? It really gives me the shits to see animated characters singing. It breaks up the movie. It halts the story. It's a fucking interruption.

In the Toy Stories they had songs, but they added to the images. And the characters didn't stop to sing. The same with Antz, Chicken Run and Shrek (except for the end bit) : The songs were in the background, adding to the movie. Even Road To Eldorado was mostly free of character songs.

But DizCo seems to insist that their animated movies stop so the characters can sing a naff Elton John song.

Look, just

stop it

Comments

[lonita.livejournal.com]

I've been of the opinion for some years now, that Disney should just stop making films altogether since, in my not at all humble opinion, they do such a monumental cock-up of everything.

cock-up

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

You're going to use that word every chance you get, aren't you.

[greyman.livejournal.com]

Bravo!

I was just discussing "Yentl" with DrDemure the other day... about how Barbara Streisand would stop every couple of minutes to sing a few lines. it was highly annoying.

Oh wait... that wasn't a Disney Cartoon movie was it?

....never mind....

(the movies you list are some of my recent most favorites)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Disney movies are more animated than a Streisand movie. (Ooh! Rude!)

I liked those movies enough to buy the videos. I also own Aladdin and Lion King but the FF button gets a work out.

Toy Story 2 is the *only* sequal I have. The others I deemed unwatchable after trying to watch them.

[charles.livejournal.com]

Here, bloody here.

I haven't voluntarily seen an animated Disney movie since "Snow White" when I was five. I have, however, been forced to sit through three or four of them by a procession of girlfriends. Some of them were halfway decent, some of them were decidedly shit-house, but they all suffered from their music rather than benefitting from it.

The problem is that Disney movies are a very strict formula, and because the music is obligatory, it's crap, and it feels tacked on to the side of the movie. For a musical, the songs have to be integral, not an afterthought designed to give the movie a live performance at the Oscars.

[julesong.livejournal.com]

Ehem. *light cough* Dissenting voice, here. :)

For a lot of people who like "live-action" musicals, such as myself, watching Disney movies with the music is a joy. Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" was an animated musical, and I loved the way the animation followed traditional musical (play) lines.

But then, I'd be happy if everyday life were a musical. ;) I didn't think the musical demon on the Buffy episode "Once More With Feeling" was such a bad guy.

(I'm sure I'd feel differently in real life, of course.)