Sunday, March 17, 2002
This opened at our local cinema on Friday, and I proposed taking Vanessa and a neighbour's boy to it as well. Then that boy's older brother wanted to come, and then a friend of his. So I ended up buying tickets for two Dads (the brothers' father came along as well) and four kids, which came to just over $50 with taxes included. Ouch!
The cinema theatre was almost full with kids and their respective guardians. The movie itself was a hoot. Basic story is: <spoiler>a widower mamoth, a knuckleheaded sloth and a sabre-toothed cat with mixed intentions team up to return an Indian child to its tribe, all set during the last impending ice age.</spoiler> So it’s a basic quest story, and the fun is in watching the antics that happen along the way.
Vanessa said her favourite part was the running joke of the Pleistocene squirrel who kept putting his nuts in the worst places (at one point causing a glacier to collapse).
There were previews for a couple of upcoming cartoon movies, both done primarily using regular cel animation techniques. I couldn't help but wonder about the future of such enterprises -- with a few exceptions, most computer animated films have a spunkiness that seems hard to match. In any event, it is apparent that "regular" cel animation is changing significantly, thanks to computer animation techniques, if a film like Metropolis is anything to go by.
I wonder if the few anime cels I happen to own will be thought of as technological antiques sooner rather than later.
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