Posted
5:36 PM
by Gene
We see
THE WORLD'S LEADING FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY is
getting back into cartoon shorts. Judging from that "[t]he new Goofy short is slated to go into production early next year" remark the people making these are going to TAKE THEIR TIME doing it.
Friz Freleng didn't need to TAKE HIS TIME deciding what
Sylvester and Tweety would do. The idea of Goofy tackling home-theater is promising, but the more these guys explain it the less promising it gets, and we wouldn't be surprised if it apes every last bit of the cornball for which Uncle Walt's shorts were famous, but happily that's just one side of
THE WORLD'S LEADING FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY.
Hopeful P. S.
This is not the first attempt at such a revival. Warner Brothers, for example, tried to bring back the classic Looney Tunes characters in new shorts in 2003, but they proved unsuccessful and most of them were never screened theatrically.ESPNCORP's crew has also announced it's all but given up making Mickey Mouse "HIP", an admission animated shorts are of another time, a time that, alas, can't be ours.
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ShowBizData)