Why was it a one and done thing?
Wouldn't its success warrant more animated adult theatrical comedies regardless of how you felt about it?
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Why was it a one and done thing?
Why was it a one and done thing?
Wouldn't its success warrant more animated adult theatrical comedies regardless of how you felt about it?
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What success?
It made back 7 times its budget
how does ~~*he*~~ do it
~~*ESG*~~ scores
>Budget $19 million
>Box office $141.3 million
OP has a point.
call me a tinfoil homosexual but does anyone ever feel like the reported success of some movies is totally fabricated?
Same director from Shrek 2, which had the word Chastity on it, among a dozen of adult humor stuff.
Logically it should, but thankfully it didn’t.
It's still getting a streaming series next year
I saw this movie, but I don't remember anything about it. Not only that, I don't remember laughing once while watching it. It wasn't even interesting.
It could've been worse going by the original script from when North Korea hacked Sony
Surprisingly, normal people didn't like it
It was a vanity project by Seth Rogen, nothing more.
>Shrek 2
>Monsters vs Aliens
>Madagascar 3
>Sausage Party
>The Addams Family 1/2
Everything directed by this guy is so goofy and juvenile. At least he stopped using earrings inbetween Shrek 2 and MvA.
Exactly how you'd expect the director of a film like Shrek 2 to look like.
Because it was specifically a parody of children’s animated movies. If the plot was like a more typical adult comedy (like say a bunch of losers going on a road trip or a guy is trying get with a girl but what do ya know she’s fricking crazy, generic shit like that) that was able to show how animation could enhance such plots then yeah, more studios might have gone
>Wow that dumb stoner cartoon made a ton of money on the cheap. Hmmm, maybe there IS a market for adult animation in theaters. Let’s make a couple of more and see how they play out
but because it’s a parody of your standard Pixar "What if [X] had feelings?" kids movie, it instead reinforced the idea that theatrical cartoons are kids stuff because the one that ISN’T is just kids stuff but this time they swear which ultimately means it’s still kids stuff at the end of the day
If this movie came out today Seth Rogen would probably be cancelled
It's the animated equivalent of stunt casting or a cameo.
You know when Scary Movie came out in 2000, and it was novel and had some shock value that still was acceptable by general audience standards?
And then they made like 5 more and each one flopped harder than the previous one, not to mention all of the copycats like Meet the Spartans that also fell on their face. And we haven't had a movie like for well over 10 years now. That's why.
Didn't parody movies die because the internet caught up?
I think that's a factor. Also because it was it was a one-trick pony and strictly speaking Scary Movie was not a good film, it was successful, but it was sleazy and cheap. That being said there have been some very good semi-recent parody movies like Tropic Thunder.
Same thing happened to Paranormal Activity. It was good and original once and then they made like 3 more, same gimmick, same basic premise.
I suspect they didn't think the IP was valuable enough, and Seth Rogen went on to other projects where he had a better contract and more control.
Like Santa Inc?
Doesn't even have to be a sequel
Just similar movies in the same vein
Aren't his other things similar enough? Not as much raunch, but loads of shitposting.
The animation age ghetto is very systemic and has persevered through numerous counter-examples
Sony is trying this again with Fixed, OP.
Why is Genndy wasting his talent on this?
It's not wasted if it is what he wants to do, everyone else is irrelevant
Personally, I’d be pissed if my passion project got passed over for a fricking emoji movie, but it’s cool that he’s willing to forgive and forget.
Not everything Genndy makes is a hit but it is nice that he’s still making art to this day
You can't get an ego when there's that much Hollywood frickheads running around.
probably because it was dogshit that no one liked
Dog shit is still dog shit