The "artificial trick" of cartoon movies

Waino 2022-03-27 09:01:09

This sequel film follows the previous one, and tells the story of a little blue macaw who, after getting married and having children, goes to the Amazon to experience an adventure in order to find the same kind. Like the previous work, the film is very joyful to watch. The very dynamic samba tune is so provocative that you can't wait to jump up on the seat, but it is a pity that with the gradual weakening of the freshness of various joyful elements, seeing The second half is already a bit exhausting. When you walk out of the theater after watching, the joy can't even bring you to the door of the theater. This is the status quo of most cartoon movies today. It is easy to earn a "fun" because there are too many ready-made "tricks", and these tricks have become a stumbling block for good works to some extent.
The core of the story of the film is that the old father-in-law does not look down on his son-in-law, and the poor son-in-law makes the situation worse and worse, until he finally turns the tide and solves the crisis, and finally wins the approval of his father-in-law. If this story is performed by a real person, it must be vulgar It's a vulgar family comedy, but the protagonists here are fluffy, colorful, and agile little blue macaws. Watching them show the most common family conflicts, the feeling of ridiculous and cute arises spontaneously. Similar to the frequent insertion of singing and dancing, by the usual standards of music movies, many places are very rigid, but here - it's okay, they are birds, and it's fun to see them sing and dance! It has to be said that the cute little animals inadvertently lowered the standard of film quality.
But how can you blame the small animals, besides, do they still look like animals? This not only refers to the "Talent Talent Show" and "Football Battle", which are clearly written in accordance with human activities, but also almost all the plot arrangements and characterization of the film, including the singing and dancing movements of the birds, the formation, as well as the father-in-law and son-in-law. The embarrassing relationship between them, and the repeatedly mentioned saying "wife is happy, life is comfortable", are completely copying all aspects of human behavior, without making efforts to innovate from the habits of birds and living environment, even the bird's nest in the tree hole is an apartment House. It's not that you have to create a world, a species, a "tree of life" like "Avatar", or that you have to make up stories directly based on the special habits of animals like "Black Cat Sheriff", at least Is it so difficult to have a story with a bird feature, after all, this is a story about protecting nature.
I think this film is very interesting in the performance of the theme of protecting nature. On the one hand, it criticizes the deforestation of the Amazon forest. On the other hand, it does not offend pet lovers. It seems that as long as the determination of "I love animals" is expressed, it doesn't matter how to alienate animals with human thinking and values ​​and eliminate the differences between species in the hearts of children.
This kind of cartoon film does not need to be innovative in production, the audience does not need to worry about it, and all parties are happy, but such an ingenious mode, I believe that the days of being abandoned by audiences who like the new and hate the old will not be too far away.

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Rio 2 quotes

  • Blu: [Chucks a Swiss army knife to his son as they sabotage a logging equipment] Tiago!

    Tiago: [Grabs it] Now we're talking!

  • Blu: [Stopping a digger by snatching away it's keys] I'll take those!

    [the driver tries to snatch them back but falls]