I saw previews for Hotel Transylvania at a few recent movies I've watched. The previews, well, they didn't thrill me. Maybe it was because they were sandwiched between Madagascar 16: Someone Send Chris Rock a Check Because He Needs the Money and Ice Age 325: The Wrath of Who Gives a Shit Anymore. Maybe it's because 99% of CG movies are just bad movies. And the studio gave us Surf's Up (one winner--and, hey, that goes for it as a Shia LeBooooof movie, because all his other movies are ass) and a bunch of turds and/or movies I just have no fucking interest in.
Then I saw three words in a headline at CBR: "Director Genndy Tartakovsky."
Now, I don't expect any CG cartoon will be a John Carter type bomb. Enough people don't care what their kids see and will take them to any shit. But this isn't smart marketing. There are a lot of adult fans of animation who simply don't care about most of the stuff Fox, Sony, and Dreamworks churn out. When they were mentioning the all-star cast in their ads, maybe they might've mentioned that the director created fucking Samurai Jack and Dexter's Lab. He was one of the main guys on Powerpuff Girls. And he beat George Lucas's ass so badly that Lucas had to make his own shitty cartoon/continuity clusterfuck to try to get people to forget he'd been topped at his own game. Hell, if you don't want to mention 'toons owned by competing companies, say his name--the people who need to hear it will know what it means.
Yeah, I want to see it now.
(I compared Lucas unfavorably to Tartakovsky and said mean things about The Clone Wars. Cuing JJL response in 3... 2... 1...
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