Anastasia

Hey Fanpoppers, I am doing a review on a movie I was writing that was expected to be released on TAY (Talk Among Yourselves) very soon. I have an excerpt from the intro of the review; it’s a very interesting yet dark fact-filled story of the making and behind the scenes drama behind Warner Bros’ obscure Non-Disney Film/Disney Knockoff, Quest for Calmelot.

When Warner Bros. Feature Animation was founded in ’94, they have planned to make two projects to release for theaters, with the Live-Action/Animated Hybrid Film Space Jam planned for the November 1996 release and the film adaption of...

I was thinking of this while watching the other day the Nostalgia Critic's review of the Swan Princess, and how critical and overly nitpicky he was in general towards this movie...

And that made me think how almost all non-Disney movies are treated in this way (of course, there are a few notable exceptions as the Studio Ghibli films and the Dreamworks ones), that audiences feel the need that if they are animated movies which aren't Disney, they must be held in an impossibly high standard and they must please every demand of the audience.

Why is that? Why is it that any animated non-Disney movie...