They got merged into Dreamworks. Prince of Egypt basically was their work. Don Bluth creating The Secret of NIMH in 1982 essentially was the starting domino that led to Dreamworks.
I mean, its all comparative. The best Amblimation stuff is still mediocre next to Disney at the time. But Balto could have been way worse.
I haven't seen Balto, sadly. However, I've heard lots of great things about it. (Dingo themselves knocked it off kek.)
Balto had 3 movies
first movie is a must watch, second movie the quality downgrades and can be skipped while the third one is in between first and second in terms of quality but also felt like a more true sequel to the first movie.
Wish they established whether or not the wolf was real, all in Balto's mind, or an actual mystical spirit. I always leaned toward mystical spirit because the wolf disappeared like a spirit and when you think about it the story of this Balto animated movie is a STUPID delirious grandmother telling the story to her grand daughter. I really hated that. Utterly ruins the movie that every character in Balto is made up by some stupid mentally ill grandmother who had a grudge against a random dog called Steele so in her story she made him the villain.
>Fievel Goes West (1991): production executive >We're Back! (1993): production executive >Balto (1995): executive producer >The Prince of Egypt (1998): special thanks >The Road to El Dorado (2000): producer >Curious George (2006): executive producer
Bonne Radford's career suffered a major blow after the failure of El Dorado. She never worked at DreamWorks again, and she banished from the movie industry for 6 years.
What was Simon Wells thinking with Mars Needs Moms? Never directed another movie after that flop. He still works on animation movies as a storyboard artist tho.
It sucks how people compare Road to El Dorado with Emperor's New Groove. Just that cartoony spin Kuzco does here is something that you won't see in any character from El Dorado.
Who the frick watches cartoons for historical accuracy. The dogs fricking talk bro, nobody was expecting factual accuracy let alone for a story like 6 eskimos care about
Frick, i can't remember a fricking thing about these movies. They were gutter trash.
YOU'RE trash, homie
Fieval Goes West is a classic frick off. The others are trash.
They got merged into Dreamworks. Prince of Egypt basically was their work. Don Bluth creating The Secret of NIMH in 1982 essentially was the starting domino that led to Dreamworks.
In other words... it was all one, big corporate merger? Go figure, I suppose.
Correct
>Sharktalegay Approves
That's an animation lore piece I wasn't aware of. How did Dreamworks came to me? I'm only aware of when they aquired Pacific Data Images.
Katzenberg was fired from Disney and created a new company with Spielberg out of spite.
Yeah, Fievil Goes West and Balto were the only good ones.
I haven't seen Balto, sadly. However, I've heard lots of great things about it. (Dingo themselves knocked it off kek.)
I mean, its all comparative. The best Amblimation stuff is still mediocre next to Disney at the time. But Balto could have been way worse.
As long as the animation looks stunning, I'll be impressed either way.
Balto had 3 movies
first movie is a must watch, second movie the quality downgrades and can be skipped while the third one is in between first and second in terms of quality but also felt like a more true sequel to the first movie.
Balto 2 isn't the same quality as Secret of NIMH 2, but it's definitely the same tone.
This scene alone is better than any animated film since.
Awooooooooooooo
Wish they established whether or not the wolf was real, all in Balto's mind, or an actual mystical spirit. I always leaned toward mystical spirit because the wolf disappeared like a spirit and when you think about it the story of this Balto animated movie is a STUPID delirious grandmother telling the story to her grand daughter. I really hated that. Utterly ruins the movie that every character in Balto is made up by some stupid mentally ill grandmother who had a grudge against a random dog called Steele so in her story she made him the villain.
We're Back! has Yeardley Smith. Her only voice acting role outside of Simpsons media.
Remember when she tried film acting? Maximum Overdrive?
>Fievel Goes West (1991): production executive
>We're Back! (1993): production executive
>Balto (1995): executive producer
>The Prince of Egypt (1998): special thanks
>The Road to El Dorado (2000): producer
>Curious George (2006): executive producer
Bonne Radford's career suffered a major blow after the failure of El Dorado. She never worked at DreamWorks again, and she banished from the movie industry for 6 years.
That's truly saddening news, and I hope she goes on to do great things again.
THANK YOU!!!
What was Simon Wells thinking with Mars Needs Moms? Never directed another movie after that flop. He still works on animation movies as a storyboard artist tho.
>MOCAP IS THE FUTURE!
(Or so I would think.)
Ah, the Zemeckis Kool aid.
I won't lie, his shit probably would've made the Kinect a more functioning add-on.
Yes, I have looked through the bottom of the movies at the dollar store.
How did Amblimation/DreamWorks went from Prince of Egypt to Road to El Dorado? Talk about a step backwards.
"Mass appeal", apparently.
It sucks how people compare Road to El Dorado with Emperor's New Groove. Just that cartoony spin Kuzco does here is something that you won't see in any character from El Dorado.
Nik Raneri did a fantastic job on that shot in particular.
Not as close as hit and miss as WDAS was during the same time.
All three of those SLAP
Yeah, a lot of people just imitated Disney movies at the time and turned out trash.
No Rex don't
Balto was a pretty good film... as long as you ignore how it barely has to do with the actual Balto and how much of The Great Serum Run it ignored
Who the frick watches cartoons for historical accuracy. The dogs fricking talk bro, nobody was expecting factual accuracy let alone for a story like 6 eskimos care about
Why are there people selling rex plushies for $200?
Why was Spielberg on top of the world in the 80s and 90s? It's like if he asked for something he got it.
His 80's movies were fricking massive successes. That's it.
He's a israelite. He's a brave revolutionary when he quits, but if you don't do exactly what he wants you're getting liquidated, serf.