Another 'Enchanted' Disney film! Oh joy and turds!

[Alondro]

Mmm-hmm...

My rectum is enchanted too!

I had thought at first it might be a live-action/animated version of Kingdom of Hearts, which might have been interesting.  But alas, it looks like nothing but fail.

As usual, the plot is heavily borrowed (stolen) from another film:  "Just Visiting", which was taken from a French film "Les Visiteurs".   And as usual it will be 'Disnified' to death as a musical.

I predict incredible stupidity, pathetic writing, and annoying songs chock full of useless pop culture references.  And with Disney's record this past decade, I have a 99% chance of being right!   

[Roureem Egas]

It sounds like a not-so-memorable Mary Poppins. Animation combined with live action always seemed tacky to me.

[Dannysaysnoo]

The moment i read that wikipedia page, an area around my liver started to hurt. im dead serious.

[Saist]

I don't know... it could be interesting*
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*interesting is defined as watching two trains carrying nitroglycerin and honey mustard traveling towards each other at 120mph on the same track somewhere near Louisville Kentucky. Part of you wants to see the wreck and the aftermath, as well as examine the possibility of opening up a KFWC. The other part of you wants to get farther away than Far Far Away.

[Dannysaysnoo]

i want to see a truck of chocolate and peanut butter crash in an explosion of flavor.

[Faerie Alex]

Animation combined with live action always seemed tacky to me.

I dunno, some movies seem to pull it off okay. (think "Who Framed Roger Rabbit") Although yeah, I suppose a lot of it is turd.

[RJ]

For some reason this just reeks of desperation from Disney.

[xHaZxMaTx]

Doesn't everything?

[bill]

it's like "who framed roger rabbit" but instead of being a good movie it's a pile of shit

[Darkmoon]

I didn't bother to read the wikipedia page, since I jus tdidn't bother to, but...

As much as it might seem like a desperate cash grab from Disney, something to bear in mind is that this script has existed for a lot long than Disney has been involved. The only reason it got made was because it finally caught Disney's interest. Otherwise, it'd still be in development hell.

[Netrogo]

I thought for a second this was the horrible film that I did background for in the summer. Strangely the plots of both share similarities.

Princess in lead role.
Mythical beasts.
Princess ends up in modern day city somehow.
Random dude finds her and helps her adapt.

The only difference is the one I was in is a made for tv movie.

[Jigsaw Forte]

FAIL.

So hard.

Tenth Kingdom did it better.

[Zedd]

Reminds me why the Doctor Who made for tv movie did so poorly in US...No one in their minds could glue to it and understand

[Netrogo]

Maden for tv movies all fail for one major reason... The FOR TV part. Everyone instantly assumes if a movie has been 'made for tv' then it is clearly something so horrible that no movie theatre would show it, or the premise is so weak that no feature film company would produce it. So a cheap company makes it, then throws it on tv in the vague hope that someone might pay to advertise during it thus making them some money.

The only way made for tv movies every actually see success is when someone get's the brilliant idea to make the movie a few hours longer, then break it into pieces and call it a 'mini-series'.

[Dannysaysnoo]

did you know that Toy Story 2 was never intended for a theatrical release? Halfway through production, they decided to make it a real film, instead of straight to video.

[xHaZxMaTx]

Oh God, made for T.V. movies;  Atomic Train and 10.5...   Just to name a few.

[Vidar]

Disney has some very talented people, however, they are being put to work on lowest-common-denominator-pleasing-sacharine-stock-plot-with-ungodly-amounts-of-sugar-and-family-friendlyness drivel.
I predict this movie will be brimming with sentimental songs, sung whenever time needs to be filled in because the flimsy cookie-cutter plot just won't fill the movie on it's own.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

The plot barely filled the trailer...

[Naldru]

Disney is still recovering from Eisner.  And I wonder if this might be the last of Eisner's bad ideas.  Preproduction (such as plot and character development) seems woefully underdone, and that was true of a lot of things during the Eisner period.  On the other hand, Sky High did a lot better than I expected.  Think of this as part of Disney's ten step plan for recovering from Eisner and getting back to good production values.

[GabrielsThoughts]

flight of the navigator was pretty good, and I'm sure that one was done under Eisner... along with the first Mighty Duck film, and The Lion King.

[superluser]

flight of the navigator was pretty good, and I'm sure that one was done under Eisner... along with the first Mighty Duck film, and The Lion King.

Also The Great Mouse Detective and...The Rocketeer?  How on Earth did they manage to do that without sending it to Touchstone?

But otherwise, 1984-2005 was a crap shoot.

...They did a film version of That Darn Cat?  I mean, one not starring Hayley Mills?

[Alondro]

I have it from some insiders that Eisner started letting the executives take much of the control of production..

Imagine your manager trying to make a movie...

Now you can understand how some of the recent Disney stuff kept getting greenlit. 

[bill]

This isn't the nadir, though. Home on the Range was the nadir.

[GabrielsThoughts]

Disney's cartoon movies in general don't live up to the hype, or are only good for one viewing.

[bill]

well, duh, this isn't exactly high art we're discussing here.

[GabrielsThoughts]

am I the only one who thinks Disney was trying to cut production cost's by animating the part of the film that takes place in the dark ages...because you know I suspect it would be more interesting if they filmed it on location with the men and women of Darkon.

[Brunhidden]

the odd sensation i always see is that it seems whoever makes the trailers meets the following condition

1- has started work on the trailer before the film is even finished being written

2- has never seen any part of the film other then the snips for the trailer

3- seriously dislike the makers of the film

4- have a love of the actors which borders on religion

seriously, i see a long line of trailers that either come out 2 years before the movie does, describe a completely different movie, or don't describe the movie at all in favor of telling you who is in it. and on top of that the movie has always changed between the making of the trailer and the movie release.

[Alondro]

am I the only one who thinks Disney was trying to cut production cost's by animating the part of the film that takes place in the dark ages...because you know I suspect it would be more interesting if they filmed it on location with the men and women of Darkon.

Darkon!  ZOMG!!!  It's the Venomoids! 

PS:  For those not anime-obsessed, that's a "Technoman" or "Tekkaman" reference.   

[GabrielsThoughts]

for those not anime obsessed

http://www.darkon.org/intro.html

[Janus Whitefurr]

am I the only one who thinks Disney was trying to cut production cost's by animating the part of the film that takes place in the dark ages...because you know I suspect it would be more interesting if they filmed it on location with the men and women of Darkon.

Darkon!  ZOMG!!!  It's the Venomoids! 

PS:  For those not anime-obsessed, that's a "Technoman" or "Tekkaman" reference.   

"Teknoman" is how they spelled it, at least down here. I had no idea it was Japanese animation dubbed when I was a kid. It was almost the first anime I saw, not counting Sailor Moon. Or the first one I did see, thinking all anime was joy and light.

Akira put a stop to THAT~