Happy Feet may have tap-danced its way to the Oscar, beating Monster House and Cars, but, without launching into full Pixar-fanboy mode, I genuinely think Cars earned that trophy.
The other two relied heavily on motion-capture, which is fine, but Happy Feet started to feel visually monotonous: penguins singing, penguins dancing, penguins everywhere. The constant white Antarctic backdrop looked cool at first, but by the end, my eyes needed sunglasses.
Monster House, meanwhile, feels like a film that didn’t need animation at all. With mostly ordinary human characters and a plot that could’ve been live-action, the only real justification for animating it was the house, and that could’ve been handled with VFX in a live film.
Cars, on the other hand, is born from animation. A world run by automobiles? That concept only works when animated - Pixar squeezed personality, emotion, and humor out of metal and headlights. The environments are gorgeous, the story flows, the emotional beats land, and not a frame feels wasted. What more does an animated film need to win - an unnecessary “message”? Hopefully not.
All respect to the teams behind every film, but if anyone deserved to ride off with the knight holding a sword, it was the crew on Route 66.
4 comments:
Penguins, penguins and more penguins. The same thing i felt for the movie "Happy Feet". Single-tone monotonous movie. That is what i think.
In the case of "Monster House", i don't think it "should" be taken with real human beings and special effects. 3d is an art. This art could be in any form. What is the purpose of creating portraits then? It could have been real photo.
"cars" is just awesome. The characters, animation, expression etc..etc..This movie has life. It doesn't look like the characters are CG. I even got emotional when our hero car "lightning McQueen" helped his opponent to win the second place in the final race. Awesome. just awesome.
Thanks for being here Sudarsan....
Unless its a simulation, trying to create art that mimics the real world pixel by pixel is unnecessary. But still, there are two school of thoughts regarding this.
The available technology is not good enough to reproduce human movements and expressions perfectly.
Its quite surprising to know "Happy feet" bagged the oscars, n was rated the best one against "Cars".
I feel "Cars" is one of the best work of Pixar till date. Finding nemo is an equally great work too, but the former has an innovative concept "Car world". It sure should have given the Oscars for the outstanding Concept, Animation n Story line.
There was ofcourse some drag in the Happy Feet with its monotonous atmosphere and the ending was not tat keen too. Altogether it could never be compared with Cars.
Its very obvious the judges wanted to uphold the 'message' than the exceptional animation n storyline. This could be a way of encouraging new (animated) movies with some message?!
Madhan
Thanks for your comment Madhan.
Movies with messages can be made under the short film, or documentary categories. 3d animation movies should not be judged by the 'message' tag. Importance should be given to the entertainment value and use of medium as well.
Am sure Pixar will be back knocking the doors with Ratatouille(read as rat-a-too-ee). The rodents must have already smelt the cheese.
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