Sunday
29Jun2008
Trailer - Disney's Next Animated Effort, 'Bolt'
Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 4:22PM 
Disney fans the world over got a taste of the studio's
next animated flick,
Bolt, when they piled their kids into theaters to see
Wall-E this weekend. Now, if you're not paying close attention, you might think
that this is another Pixar movie. After all, it's a Disney cartoon, you're
seeing the trailer for the first time right before Wall-E, the fish-out-of-water
story is a Pixar staple...it's an honest mistake.
Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. Not
that Bolt doesn't appear to have its merits, but it's by no means a Pixar film.
Bolt is a famous TV dog who happens to think that the
series he's working on is real. So at the end of a shoot, when he sees his young
heroine whisked away by bad guys, he sets out to save her. Of course, if a dog
were this smart and this resourceful, surely he could understand the concept of
cameras and scripts and second and third takes. But I digress.
This actually looks really fun for kids, but it's too
early to tell if it's going to be one of those that translates well to adult
sensibilities, another marked characteristic of the Pixar catalog. Of which,
again, this is not a part.
Colin Boyd | Permalink | in Animation, Bolt, Trailers | Print Article | Email Article | 1 Comment | Share Article
Reader Comments (1)
Pixar's run is not a fluke: They own the world that Disney created right now. Disney survived a dark age in the eighties (Aristocats, Dark Cauldron anyone?...I think they might be locked in the vault forever, having tea with Brer Bear and Uncle Remus). But the circumstances are different. Pixar is not Don Bluth Studios. They are not Jim Henson and his wacky puppet creatures. This is a Sea-change that I don't think Disney can recover from unless they conveniently remember how to tell stories again (and, quite frankly, if Pixar somehow forgets). The name Disney doesn't rope 'em in like it used to, and a movie like Bolt is about as interesting to most as all of the "other" animated movies out there. Sharktale. Madagascar 2. Barnyard. Etc. The ones we all watch because a Pixar movie isn't due for another nine months.