Regarding this weekend's Puss in Boots, exec producer Guillermo del Toro says:
... We shaped the story of the villain, Humpty Dumpty, so he was memorable not just as a bad guy, but in his journey. We started devising ideas for him, how clever he was as an inventor. We created a little bit more of a mythology for Puss—how he got the boots, what they meant, what was his internal turmoil… One of the things I’m most interested in exploring is family and friendship—I thrive on that. We tried to make Puss have colors that that were unexpected. There were people who said, ‘Oh, we’re going to see another Shrek spinoff,’ and I became actively involved in trying to give the movie a different type of humor and a different type of beauty. ...
There were sixty animators working on PiB last summer. Buzz in and out of the studio has been positive, and certainly Rotten Tomatoes thinks highly of it.
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Only 8 reviews on rotten tomatoes so it's too soon to tell. But it looks promising
I have not seen it but word from those who have said it's "fine"
It's already gotten more positive reviews than Cars 2.
Which says...its better than the worst Pixar movie of all time? Big deal. Thousands of movies can say that.
Poor del Toro. He started by directing masterpiece Pan's Labyrinth, sand a little lower when leaving the Hobbit, and now he's making cartoons about humpty dumpty.
Del Toro won't be "poor" after this one.
It looks like a serviceable kids cartoon, like Cars 2. But I doubt it'll make the cash Cars 2 raked in for the Disney Company. dw toys just don't sell.
It's not just DW toy's that don't sell, it's anything that's not Cars or ToyStory. When is the last time you have seen serious merchandising for anything else? Retailers don't like clogging up shelves with toys that compete with other toys with similar play styles that generate 1 to 3 billion dollars in annual sales.
Toy Cars are dominated by... well Cars, stuffed toys don't sell, and action figures are dominated by starwars/Transformers. Building blocks is dominated by Lego, and Dolls limited to two major brands. Beyond that you have compete with a big player in an established play system and that's very difficult.
It's not the lack of DWA from trying, but even if you come up with amazing product, if the retailers don't want it, then you are stuck selling a few token products at release date and that's it.
Where's my stuffed old man doll from Up? Oh Right....
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