Let's hope it's great so that 50% of the population (the ones with vaginas) don't get blamed for spoiling Pixar's unbroken winning streak*. Brave (formerly titled The Bear and the Bow) features their very first lead heroine 'Merida' (voiced by Kelly MacDonald), and was at one point going to be Pixar's first movie directed by a woman and then it wasn't and now it's (co)directed by her. Since the delightfully cute-looking Newt was cancelled it's Pixar's only original film in the pipeline with sequels to Cars (this year) and Monster's Inc (called Monsters University in late 2012) bookending it. Here are three concept drawings from Pixar's Summer 2012 feature BRAVE. Here's a potentially happy visual extro that has nothing to do with this year's Oscars. It's a good film to see to remind ourselves that we can only borrow heat from past glories for so long before things gets chilly.Ĭlick here for Oscar charts / Animated Feature predictions It documents the dwindling audience love and studio creativity in the 1980s through to its spectacular rebirth in the early 90s. The documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty, which I highly recommend to animation lovers, charts this very problem in regards to Disney. Does it add to the conversation, merely parrot it, deepen it, spoil it, change it? Once studio creatives get too self-referential or repetitive they can turn into a soulless production line workers and whole genres can become museum pieces rather than evolving vivid living things. Half of our response (at the very least) is in the way the new film dialogues with the old. Sequels are judged differently than original fare.

It's hard to figure which animated films will be nominated for Best Animated Feature come January since half of the releases (literally by my count) are sequels.

Will we see a 2006 rematch in Animated Feature?

You can be a huge hit and impress virtually no one (just look through some past box office charts and think about the way people talk about some of those 'blockbusters') since audiences have a Pavlovian response to certain genres in certain decades with certain ubiquitous forms of advertising: Must Buy Ticket. Will 2011 go down in history as the year when animation's hot streak finally cooled? Oh sure, bix box office awaits a great number of the toons arriving this year but box office isn't everything.

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