Quite recently, I’ve been lamenting the death of the traditional animated film.  Most of Hollywood’s major animation studios (i.e. Disney) has been saying that there’s no more money to be made in traditional animation; all the money’s in computer animation now.  I, really, don’t want to believe that.  I think there’ll always be a place for the traditional animated films.  “A resurgence is just one good film away,” Mr. Anderson told me recently.  But then, I started reflecting on the past few years.  There was a time not too long ago where I was first in line for every animated film.  But not so since about 2002.  So, this afternoon, I rented every major traditionally animated film that came out in the past two years (the ones from Disney and DreamWorks) and watched them.

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