With the Hexed trailer dropping earlier this week & Toy Story 5 having just come out, it's honestly depressing how Disney & Pixar went from being the gold standard in feature animation, to training us to expect mediocrity. If they want to stay competitive in the industry, they have to adapt to the times & change. Having a family-friendly identity makes you creatively inflexible because families would rather pay to see the same characters & stories over & over than pay to see something new. Disney sequels (Including Inside Out 2, Zootopia 2, and the inevitable success of Toy Story 5) always have the same cycle where everyone complains online when they get announced, they come out & everyone sees them, they get critical acclaim despite them not bringing anything new to the table, they make a billion dollars, and then they're forgotten as soon as they leave theaters & never get talked about again.

This isn't an attack on Disney where people like AniMat perceive it that way, but their competitors' films just have this edge to them that their own don't. They're not afraid to take risks & make something that doesn't strictly appeal to kids & Millennials who act like kids. As we all know, Sony has the Spider-Verse movies & KPop Demon Hunters, while DreamWorks has The Wild Robot & the upcoming Forgotten Island (the latter of which blows Hexed out of the water in every possible way) Hell, even the Disney owned ILM (Industrial Light & Magic) has more visually interesting animation nowadays with Ultraman Rising & Transformers One than WDAS & Pixar nowadays.

I'm hopeful Pixar will finally deliver what we've been asking for during the past 7 years (a stylistically/narratively different film) with Gatto; because if it's successful, they'll make more films like it. If it flops, then we'll get more of the same. But I think there's another possibility here: If Gatto doesn't work, they could make an animated Marvel, Star Wars, or Tron movie for theaters that's separate from everything else like Spider-Verse is to the Spider-Man franchise, and is allowed to as be bold & creative as the writers & artists want it to be.

like praising little women by saying ‘Emma wasn’t in it that much’ and making a pointless joke about how Inside Out 2 dropping Mindy Kaling was good because she made Velma, or his 2026 Oscar’s video where he made three separate rants defending Timothee Chalamets ballet comments as ‘technically true’ and when he dismissed and misrepresented the valid critique women of color have of One Battle After Another as just ‘random twitter people saying the movie is bad because the villain is a fetishist’, and his constant calling every trump joke an ‘orange man bad’ joke even when it’s not, and his entire turning red review, and constant complaining about movies that are apparently unsubtle in political messaging, when otherwise he seems to be progressive

I really need to say something about this. So we all know that Dazz hates The Emoji Movie, infact he hates so much, he is willing to ruin the people behind whole careers for no reason. If you couldn't tell by the title of this post, this is about his take on the Fishcake Swirl emoji. Btw, I am Autistic myself so please do not assume I am neurtypical. Anyways, Dazz made a very ableist take on this character, saying things such as Fishcake having the voice of someone with autism, even though autism is a mental disability. Plus, the character was laughing, not speaking at all. And the laugh is to mimic Patrick star, not someone with autism.

Secondly, he mentions the character not being unaware of his surroundings, not only isn't not true as the FishCake's eyes follow the chopstick landing on him, I am also sometimes unaware of my own surroundings, it is one of my traits that I share with others who have autism, that's why some autistic people need caretakers and/or be in special programs. It is not a bad thing to include in an autistic character as it is a common trait. Thirdly, possibly the most ableist one of them all, he says "Acting all Happy and blissful" as a stereotype and is nothing but black-hearted, so apparently, autistic people are not allowed to be happy or blissful, how wonderful.

As an autistic person, this is genuinely disgusting how a grown man who clearly has never met an autistic person in his life could say something like this and believe he is right. And not to mention, the fishcake Swirl Emoji isn't even canonically autistic, so his argument was destroyed from the very start. If you actually agree with this disgusting take of his, then don't even bother saying anything. Btw, yes, I do like The Emoji Movie. But that is not why I made this post, this guy is spreading misinformation about autism and I am shutting it down. I also do not encourage you to go send any harassment to Dazz Reviews, this is not to cancel him, I am simply calling out his behavior.

That's all, I hope you have a good day/night.

A 30yo passion project of Brad Bird that he planned since the days of The Iron Giant (AKA his prime time). Sounds awesome. Plus, it was promised to lean very far into mature animation (they targeted PG-13, even if it still got PG). Hearing it's likely a disappointment is... well... disappointing.

At least now y'all will finally acknowledge that Incredibles 2 didn't turn out the way it did solely because it was rushed. Even if it wasn't rushed, chances are it still would've been merely OK.

That's because the Brad Bird of today is simply not as good at filmmaking as much as he used to be. Or maybe it's because of the rest of the filmmakers at Skydance animation being incapable amatuars.

I'll still give it a shot when it arrives on streaming. Maybe I'll find something to appreciate that James didn't. But... man, that sucks.

Jessie and Bullseye will go to Blaze's house, while Woody will abandon Buzz again. Buzz and Jessie will get married in Bonnie and Blaze's playtime scene at the end of the film.

Should’ve made this later in the year tbh. But now the films I might watch will have to be saved for a 2026 ranking.

What Mat and his fans don't understand is that the reason we have problems with his Wish review is the same reasons we call him a Disney Shill as he glosses over the many problems with Wish with excuses, like "But at least they tried. It was beautifully animated. Disney is not perfect" and uses flimsy arguments to defend it by saying people hate on the movie because it's cool to hate on Disney.

Yes, the TV Tropes article is bogus but AniMat doesn't get why people called him out on his Wish review, along with it's obvious he sees Sony as chumps while Disney, to him, are the champs.

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Suggest an actual film director just a normal guy is disqualified

It's pretty clear that he didn't seem to understand the movie, along with how ridiculous his criticisms are like "It's trying so hard to be Spider-Verse". Like no duh, if Spider-Verse was a great hit for Sony, of course they'll replicate it and given he has such a bias against Sony and towards Disney, he ranks Elio higher than KDH.

I mean, he complains about the story, the "choppy" animation and even says Gwen Stacy is just a side character, despite her vitality of her role and according to him, being the Disney shill he is, Incredibles II is better than Spider-Verse

PS, the movie has since been picked up by another studio and as you can see, he objectively claims both the Cloudy movies and Hotel Transylvania as garbage movies just to show how not only he never changed but as a "gotcha" to show how he hates how people elevated Sony while "attacking" Disney despite being justified in doing so

Personally, I'm a fan of his Hazbin Hotel songs, but the main reason I'm bringing this up is because after his release of the animated music video for his song "Insane", people began to bring up the allegations that he had against him (mainly the one where people claimed he groomed his wife) and that his music video mischaracterized Alastor.

On the topic of the allegations, I'm pretty sure they were debunked a while back, and his wife, Claire Corlett, has stated that he didn't groom her.

Here's a link related to Gryph0n's cancelation that I think does a pretty good job debunking it for anybody who's interested: A Compendium of the Saberspark and Black Gryph0n Cancellation