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I'll try. Thanks for your encouragement. :)
Ultimately, I'm just thankful there are so much as THESE message boards to compensate for IMDb's removal of theirs.
I may very well be in the vocal minority here, but, sexual harassment or not, I actually believe Lasseter leaving Pixar AND more importantly Disney, itself, COULD have some good effects, hypothetically. LONG before the sexual allegations arose, J.L. was speculated by a fair few on the now tragically extinct IMDb boards how it seems unlikely in retrospect that he ultimately intended for 2D films to be resurrected at all; he just greenlit the EPIC "Princess and the Frog" and contrastingly stupid final-nail-in-the-fucking-coffin, "Winnie the Frick" to at very least UNDERPERFORM before shamelessly sacking the numerous 2d animators and ultimately becoming a greedy, seedy, suspicious money-wanter. He's effectively hit an apex of that, by not ONLY abandoning 2D, but NOW largely abandoning new stories for the sake of CASHING IN on heinously inferiorly done "reboots".
Sicko! Glad he's at LEAST gone for six months at this rate. Hopefully that, AND Bob Iger's already scheduled resignation next year, will only do both companies BETTER in the end... >:/
Having female leads is far from a bad thing, but even now some people are still a bit too oversensitive about depictions/portrayals of race/sex/etc. It's also interesting to note that, indeed, Nick Wilde was going to be the lead, until the filmmakers realized the version of the story with him as the main character wasn't going to click, resonate with audiences as it made the setting too cold, bitter, dislikable.
Ironically, prior to seeing the film, I swore Nick was going to be the lead as it was.... Only for Judy Hopps to be the main focus, and for Nick, himself to not show up until about 25 minutes or so into the film.
While the Disney Co has gone awry in many respects over this past decade (essentially killing 2d films, and more recently cutting back on new stories and instead churning out sequels and retakes like there's nearly no tomorrow - not even a "great big beautiful" one at that...), this, Pixar's "Inside Out" and the numerous retro "Mickey Mouse" cartoons are there redeeming qualities for the time being...
Too young for what? (just wondering what you meant there...)
Rainbow Connection is my favorite Muppet song in general (along with the more recent Muppet or Man of course). And while Kermit's version in the original film is the classic, I may like Karen Carpenter's soft almost lullaby-like rendition even more. :)
Hey, some boards I've posted on (yet tragically very few others have thus far) are The Rescuers (1977), Pokémon (1997-), Zootopia (2016), Robin Hood (1973) and the forthcoming Wrinkle in Time (2018) and *gags mildly* Frozen 2 (2019) (for a sequel to one of the most overrated animated films to date, F2's board has gotten little to no attention - I'M the only one who's posted there thus far for Christ's sake...) *rolls eyes*
Thank you VERY much. All of you!!!
Indeed, the traffic on these still relatively new boards has been slow thus far, but hopefully more people (including the ones who, like myself, were quite saddened to see IMDb tear theirs down) will be discovering this new site and the livelihood will pick up. More people to reach out and converse with. :)
Thank you VERY much! In fact, you're the first person on this site to respond to ANY of my (now) ten comments/posts. :)
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Hehehe, but, no really, THOSE guys, along with the "naturalist" yak are definitely up there.
Along with, optimistic upbeat Judy Hopps, herself, of course! Gotta love women with attitude and spunk, and not JUST for romantic reasons (And, as I'm not really "a furry", I don't have THAT kind of crush on Judy)...
Yeah, "Oliver" has become a fairly obscure Disney entry, to the point where tbh I didn't even know it EXISTED until 2008 (2 DECADES after its premiere!)
It's interesting that this film has some parallels, characterwise at least, to both "Lady and the Tramp" and "The Rescuers" (those two films are, incidentally, my 2 favorites of the pre-90's Disney flicks), what with Jenny obviously being Penny's (hypothetically even in universe) long lost cousin/twin/whatever and Dodger, Tito, Francis, etc. looking like Tramp and Pedro and Bull (the chihuahua and bulldog at the pound) in that film. (And for extra measure, Trusty, Jock and Peg from "L&T" also cameo during "Why Should I Worry"?)
Speaking of that song, Billy Joel really (inevitably) rocked it (though I digress he's definitely not the best voice actor, despite his epic singing skills)...
Bottom line: Upon discovering this for the first time, I really came to like it for a while. My only (relatively minor) gripe is that the film looked "too 80's", and regrettably that's not even counting the Twin Towers' cameo at the beginning... But still, I can look back and remember how simple and entertaining this film was for a while in my life...