2012’s Oscar winner for best animated picture was the film
Rango directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Johnny Depp. This film has won quite a few awards for this category in other award shows however I happen to
disagree with it winning. While the animation, character designs and all the
other things it takes to make a CG film work where wonderfully done, I feel the
story was greatly lacking. The movie for me was quite boring and uninteresting
over all, when the film was over I was not sad to leave the theater at all. I
also found it mildly disturbing for a film marketed to children, some may
disagree and maybe I’m a tad sensitive but when a movie actively shows an
animal getting run over by a car with in the opening minutes even as an adult
woman I am frightened, I certainly would not what my child (assuming I had one)
seeing that.
This years Oscars in my opinion snubbed a marvelous film in
this category that I think would have won if it had been nominated, as it had previously won the Golden Globe for this category it surely would have taken
the Oscar. The film was The Adventures of Tintin directed by Steven Spielberg.
This film featured some of the most flawless motion capture I have seen in a
long time and while mo-cap has had a bumpy start and taken many years to get
right I feel this film was the one to finally do it. The story as well was
wonderfully written and brilliantly executed. I was enthralled during this film
and did not want it to end, I was even a little sad when the credits started
rolling that the movie was over. I had wanted more, it was amazing. It was also
as child friendly as it was marketed to be. I find it ridiculous that
Dreamworks Puss in Boots got on the ballot for this years Oscar when The
Adventures of Tintin did not. Tintin’s story and animation was dozens of times
better then Puss and Boots and certainly better then Rango.
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