People get so wrapped up in The Legacy of Disney Classics that they have unrealistic expectations, which results in the Little Mermaid formula. Maybe the reason Dreamworks has had so much success while Disney’s been floundering is that they’re more free to experiment and don’t have to make every single release the next treasure in the Disney Vault

Experiment all you like; I love experiments. Doing the same crap over and over again gets boring, fast. I just meant that it seemed they would not let the movie be itself. They would force jokes on it, they would try and give it black mascara because the kids wear black mascara, that sort of thing. "Oh, add a Linkin Park song here! 14 year olds love Linkin Park!"

My hope was that whatever the movie did would be natural, and people would love it for it. And they've been marketing Tangled a little differently. I don't know. The title change was done for financial reasons (as to not repel the male demographic). That makes me uneasy.

Also, the High School Musical/Hannah Montana audience is ludicrously huge, and Disney would be just plain stupid not to capitalize on that. If they can get Kung Fu Panda level success from a girl power movie, why not?

No reason not to, but I've noticed that things go horribly wrong when you try to change the core of something to what it isn't. The original pitch for Rapunzel had it being a real genuine fairytale: back-to-the-basics, let's-get-our-hands-dirty-making-a-masterpiece-without-funny-expressions-after-being-hit-by-a-pan kind of deal. But it just seems that more and more pressure has been applied to shape the movie into something else. It'd be like a, I don't know, Star Wars movie ending with two mechas fighting each other over a metropolis. It doesn't make sense for the IP.

Maybe they've aimed for that from the start, I don't know. I heard about the back-to-the-basics pitch ages ago, and it might have mutated ala broken telephone by the time it'd reached my ears. Or maybe they're marketing the movie one way, making it another. I hope so.

The whole Suits vs. Glen Keane is probably too simplistic — it takes more than one person to make an animated feature; there’s no room for auteurs in movies this big.

Aye aye. I don't have views as simplistic as Artist Vs the Suits. I just meant that I'd have loved to see Keane push animation into an area it hadn't gone into before. The guy is a master. I'd have loved to see him break new ground.