tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364805792882783170.post4064150361645434556..comments2023-11-03T09:20:52.837-04:00Comments on Disney Film Project: Water BabiesRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126059549015204825noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364805792882783170.post-66433554712037842412010-12-03T20:14:27.071-05:002010-12-03T20:14:27.071-05:00This was one of my favorite cartoons as a child. I...This was one of my favorite cartoons as a child. I look back at it and remember a carefree point in my life when my biggest worry in the world was if Santa was going to get me what I wanted for Christmas. I found the cartoon 20 years later and all those memories flooded back to me and filled me with great warmth. With that being said, being a cartoon which is clearly aimed towards a child, I believe the short fulfilled its purpose.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364805792882783170.post-8188264283391469192009-12-19T06:32:51.251-05:002009-12-19T06:32:51.251-05:00Blecch! I don't like it either. This is for me...Blecch! I don't like it either. This is for me perhaps the ugliest Disney cartoon ever made while Walt was alive. Again it's an attempt to be more beautiful than the level of art and technical limitations of the time will quite allow. Usually I go easy on this because it's this kind of ambition that will lead to beautiful scenes in later projects, but here the imagery is so twee, it comes across as total puke.<br /><br />The babies just look gross. It is an attempt to be cute (too cute!) and fairly realistic, but the over-detailed outlines combined with one flat pink area of nudity on every baby is disgusting to look at. It also makes any imperfection in the drawings readily apparent. Then there's all the yukky coloured thick water and flowers, the dead-eyed stupid-looking swans and the ridiculously fat birds flapping about. Ugh! Make it go away.<br /><br />Previous cute cartoons (e.g Funny Little Bunnies) did have an abundance of gags and silliness to cheer things up and they bounce along quite nicely. However, this ones just about going to a magical world where everything's cute and a disgusting colour.<br /><br />As much as I hate this twee little film, it does have it's fans. I do admire that Disney tried to do something different yet again (there hasn't been a Silly Symphony quite like this one before), but trying to be cute and nothing more doesn't cut it for me. I know there are people who like pretty flowers, cute babies and all this sort of thing, but I'm surprised they don't see how ugly this cartoon is. I think the music goes a long way in carrying this film – Leigh Harline's score is lovely and suggests something much more beautiful than what we see in the visuals.Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17701967442508380462noreply@blogger.com