Tony the Tigger
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Seems like you are one of those people who have a bias against traditional animation and automatically view it as inferior and/or more childish. That kind of attitude saddens me as it's why 2D animation — an artform I love — is largely dead in the West.
Overall, I did enjoy the Little Mermaid remake. The non-human characters, Ursula and Triton are all superior in the animated version. But everything revolving around the relationship between Ariel and Eric in the live action version was an improvement over the original. Which is probably why I really enjoyed the second half of the remake much more than the first.
You would do better to ask questions rather than rudely attempt to sum me up.
I was so in love with animation that when I was young, my first thought at a career was to be a cartoonist. I took art classes all through school, but my mother convinced me life as an artist would be a struggle (so the same went for my music.)
If there was an animated film that appealed to me, by all means I would see it. I went to the theater for Atlantis, even.
No, it was about the story, and just as much about my station in life at the time. I just checked and it was 1989, so my earlier calculation was off. Specifically, November of 1989.
I had just graduated high school that June, and after an awful summer of fighting, was kicked out of the house 3 days before my 18th birthday in August because I dared see my father. I was homeless for a few weeks, got an apartment in mid-September, and I’ll never forget my paycheck for 2 weeks was one dollar and change more than my rent. I had a 13” black and white TV with rabbit ears and a pile of packs of ramen. So I wasn’t spending money on a movie unless it was huge. “The Little Mermaid” sounded like “My Little Pony” or something. Why would I be interested in that?