just shut up and forward the plot
Dec. 15th, 2007 08:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaidenwe bought a couple DVDs on the trip, Mulan and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. i saw both of them in the theater, and remember Hunchback in particular as being jawdroppingly beautifully made. (Hunchback gains big points for causing parents to carry screaming crying freaked-out children out of the cinema during both of my viewings. that's with the happier ending.)
they're still lovely. but wow, the whole a-cartoon-must-be-a-musical thing is terribly intrusive. years of Studio Ghibli and Brad Bird had flushed the idea out of my brain. the songs in Mulan are particularly jarring. (and Eddie Murphy. sigh.) the production numbers in Hunchback are annoying too. and that's sad, since Hellfire is so great, and so is God Help the Outcasts. (i seem to be in the minority on this one. i also don't care for The Lion King film. which isn't that surprising since i don't like Hamlet.)
they're still lovely. but wow, the whole a-cartoon-must-be-a-musical thing is terribly intrusive. years of Studio Ghibli and Brad Bird had flushed the idea out of my brain. the songs in Mulan are particularly jarring. (and Eddie Murphy. sigh.) the production numbers in Hunchback are annoying too. and that's sad, since Hellfire is so great, and so is God Help the Outcasts. (i seem to be in the minority on this one. i also don't care for The Lion King film. which isn't that surprising since i don't like Hamlet.)
