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denWhy 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
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Date: 28 Dec 2001 05:43 (UTC)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.