Impressive Trailer for Chinese Animated Film Due in 2016

Hat Tip: Geek Tyrant


Viewing the trailer for the upcoming Master Jiang and the Six Kingdoms (scroll down to bottom of post to view) makes me wonder why American film companies can't come up with something that looks this interesting.

Personally, there have been few (if any) movies produced by Hollywood recently that have interested me enough to go through the effort of actually seeing them in a theater.  Certainly nothing that interested me enough to spend $10 or more to see.

Everything produced be Hollywood today seems to be produced by rote.  The American film industry seems to be content with just going through the motions, with little attempt to produce anything requiring actual creativity.


The last Hollywood produced animated film I watched was Frozen, and that one I waited until it was released on cable to watch.

I found myself predicting the plot in advance.  It's not a very creative film when you know what is going to happen 30 minutes in advance.  (Oh, look.  That must be the villain.  Oh, and the Prince is going to betray the Princess.)

It's a movie produced by formula.


I don't think you can say the same thing about the Chinese film.



I thought I'd update this post to include the trailer for Disney's new animated film: Big Hero 6




My immediate response "predictable".

Teen discovers danger and authorities refuse to believe him, so he rounds up his friends to deal with it himself.  That's the plot to The Blob.

Which is what the blow-up robot resembles. 

And they have to use the predictable "leak" jokes for the robot.  That looks like the old animate joke where a character gets shot repeatedly then drinks a lot of water.

This is what passes for creativity in modern Hollywood.

Now This is a Reboot I Can Get Behind

I've tended to be very critical of the latest reboot/remake trend coming out of Hollywood, but this reboot is one I can get behind.

CBBC is rebooting Danger Mouse.

He's getting an upgrade in the process as well. The eye patch is now an "iPatch".


For those unfamiliar with Danger Mouse, Hulu has 19 episodes available, out of the 161 produced.  The episodes available on Hulu are the full-length episodes (24 minute run time).  The previous episodes were more like serials, shorter with story-lines spread over multiple episodes.