Disney Animated Films
Topic: Latest: Walt Disney Pictures Gives a Voice to One of the Worlds Most Beloved and Timeless Characte

#	Author	Message
11	hightp Tue 6/3/2008 11:06a	I think it would be funny if Tink had Roseanne's voice, but they'll probably give her someone lame, like Hillary Duff.
12	hightp Tue 6/3/2008 11:08a	D'oh, sorry, I didn't read the article. I'm not sure who Mae Whitman is, but I bet she's no Roseanne.
13	gottaluvdavillains Tue 6/3/2008 11:25a	http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0926165/ She was in Hope Floats with Sandra Bullock and When a Man Loves a Woman with Meg Ryan. She was in the short cable series Thief with Andre Braugher also. At 20 she has done alot of stuff - Interestingly she replaced Britney Murphy for Tinks voice.
14	mawnck Tue 6/3/2008 11:35a	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Whitman The clip in the original post has her performing. Standard issue spunky tween type voice, coming from someone with actual voice acting experience for a change. She's way overacting on this clip, but that's probably what the director wanted. It probably would have been perfect if the animation wasn't so stiff.
15	Jim in Merced CA Tue 6/3/2008 4:42p	The bothersome thing to me, is the quality of the animation. It's a notch above something like The Backyardigans -- and that's not a good thing.
16	Kar2oonMan Tue 6/3/2008 4:51p	>>The bothersome thing to me, is the quality of the animation.<< Yes. They have done some neat stuff with these characters in books over the past few years, where they were hand drawn rather than computer rendered, rather charming and fresh. Too bad they didn't stick with that look.
17	ecdc Wed 6/4/2008 12:40a	>>The bothersome thing to me, is the quality of the animation. It's a notch above something like The Backyardigans -- and that's not a good thing.<< So true. I saw the video and with Lasseter's introduction, I want to believe it'll be good. But it's yet another example of Disney taking something that feels classic and charming and trying far too hard to make it "hip" or "edgy." I'm haunted by visions of Poochie the Rockin' Dog.
18	christiemarsh88 Wed 6/4/2008 6:34a	When I think cheapqual, I think "Return of Jafar" (which, incidentally, I loved when it first came out--I was 6). Now that is some truly horrible animation. This new movie definitely seems like a huge improvement as far as DTV releases go. They've come a long way in the 14 years since the cheapqual inundation began.
19	mawnck Wed 6/4/2008 8:19a	>>This new movie definitely seems like a huge improvement as far as DTV releases go.<< Of course I'm basing this on only a very brief clip, but I couldn't disagree more. Setting aside the overall stiffness, jerkiness, and creepiness -- having one character walk through another? Disney? Heck, you won't even see that kind of thing in the earliest episodes of Veggie Tales. Return of Jafar was cheap, not incompetent.

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