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Sneak Peek of Pixar's Brave [Video]

Pixar is an extraordinary animation studio. Every time I see a new trailer I always doubt it will be popular, fortunately I'm always wrong. Brave is Disney Pixar's new movie releasing June 22, 2012.

IMDB describes the story as, "Determined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her bravery and her archery skills to undo a beastly curse."

This video clip reminds me a little of Mulan. Here is a short clip of Pixar's New Movie Brave:

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Animaniacs!

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I'm not going to sing the intro to Animaniacs, even though I know it by heart and could probably sing it under water.  And I seriously love me some Good Idea, Bad Idea.  I can't believe this cartoon isn't in syndication.  It was cartoon sketch comedy at its finest.  I'm happy with the relaunch of Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry, but I wish they brought back Animaniacs too.  With the beauty of 3D Animation they could get really creative.

Here's what lead me to write about them, Brain (from Pinky and the Brain).  When I sat down to write tonight all I could think of was Brain.  He was one determined mouse.  Brain was quite simply in search of happiness.  And he was terribly jealous of Pinky because Pinky found happiness everywhere he went.  The moral of their story was you could try forever to force the world to love you or you can accept people for who they are and enjoy living in the moment.  Of course I wasn't thinking of that when was watching it was just my form of mindless entertainment.

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Yakko, Wakko, and Dot had important roles as well.  My interpretation of their characters was, if you take yourself too seriously you'll never be happy.  I also didn't care for them because I found I could only tolerate them for the first thirty seconds, they were just annoying after that.

In my opinion the real draw of the show was the supporting characters like: Pinky and the Brain, The Good Feathers, Buttons and Mindy, Chicken Boo, just name a few.  If you consider the possibilities that shows like the Animaniacs and The Simpsons paved the way for Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy.  Children who likely watched Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, and The Simpsons probably are also enjoying Family Guy.  I say that because I'm one of them!

Japanese Anime is almost preferred as a young child's entertainment.  We need shows like Animaniacs to return simply to teach children its okay to be Wakky (intentional misspelling).  I'll even take Tiny Toons... Plucky Duck is so freakin' adorable.  "Toot Toot go down the hole!"

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Tribute to Tex Avery

Do you remember you're first cartoon?  Probably not.  I vaguely remember watching Disney cartoons of Mickey and Donald when I was four or five years old at my relative's house.  When I was six or seven (in the 1980's) my dad finally got a TV, that's when I was force fed cartoons (I'm currently force feeding my two year old on pbs children's shows).  Hanna Barbera, Looney Tunes, Disney, and whatever popular stuff came up on Saturday morning.  Many Master Animators bloomed in the Golden Age of American Animation, but none had a bigger impact on me and other animators than Tex Avery.

When I was eight years old I clearly remember, I spent hours watching Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, Red Hot Riding Hood, The House of Tomorrow, Magical Maestro, T.V. of Tomorrow, and so many more.  I didn't have any vhs tapes or dvds of Tex Avery's work, so I caught the shows when the networks decided to put them on the air.  There was a period when they were moved from local channels to the Cartoon Network and Boomerang.  This maybe sad, but I still continued to watch Tex Avery's Cartoons up until my early 20's, probably because there was a "not for children" undertone in most of Tex Avery's cartoons.

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Take Red Hot Riding Hood, the cartoon was clearly screwing with boys and girls and just maybe wasn't for children.  The Wolf was really attracted to the Little Red Riding Hood and just was going completely gaga for her.  That taught me a lesson that women are attractive only when they appeared dolled up with make up and provocative clothing. I wonder what young girls thought when they first saw it? The subject matter of gender roles continues in most of Avery's Work.  Especially in the House of Tomorrow!  There is a constant joke about the mother-in-law living with the family in the house of tomorrow, basically no one wants the mother-in-living with you and it evens goes as far as suggesting death upon her.

Violence is a common theme in cartoons.  Tom & Jerry no doubt provided straight out evil acts of violence. Wikipedia says, "By the mid-1940s, the series had developed a quicker, more energetic (and violent) tone, due to the inspiration from the work of their colleague in the MGM cartoon studio, Tex Avery, who joined the studio in 1942."  Kind a odd to think Tex had such a impact on the series that they intentionally made it violent.  I think they figured out violence and sex sells no matter how old the audience is.  By the way, another contribution to the series was Spike the dog, who later appeared as a loving and protective father.  Whenever Tom messed with Spike's son, Spike turned into a total maniac ready to do physical harm to Tom.  Spike had various augmentations that appeared on different series.  The funniest would be Spike as a opera singer in Magical Maestro.

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Modern Media still pays homage to Tex Avery's animation style from The Mask, Roger Rabbit, Disney's Aladdin, Ren & Stimpy, The Mask 2, Animaniacs, Looney Tunes, Tiny Toons, Tom & Jerry, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Spongebob Squarepants, and much more.  Even Family Guy has made fun of the big popping eyes and Droopy (youtube link).

Artistic expression is a release and a destressing experience.  I don't know much about Avery's childhood or personal adult life, but I hope all the boundaries that he pushed in his career was self satisfying and therapeutic.  I will continue to show my kids who inspired me to animate and how art exists outside of paintings and sculptures in a museum.

#Tex Avery #Red Hot Riding Hood #Magical Maestro #House of Tomorrow #Screwy Squirrel #Golden Age of American Animation #Tom &amp; Jerry #Looney Tunes #MGM cartoon studio

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