Want to know another Disney movie that no kid remembers? The Princess and the Frog. It was such a commercial disappointment that it pretty much killed Disney's 2D animation division. Goes to show that all their attempts to pander to black people and specifically consulting their empress and champion of melanin superiority, Oprah, didn't produce a product anyone was actually interested in.
And unlike Song of the South, it doesn't have the excuse of being forcefully out of print for decades.
They did it in 2D because people wanted 2D back but disney wanted to save money and time so they intentionally made a sub par movie and marketed it like shit to "prove" 2D animation was dead.
True, though I have to say Disney chose the worst kind of film to try and "revive" (whether genuinely or not) 2D animation. Namely, another princess film (or at least one that was posing as a princess film, considering that no one was really a princess in it). Boys and grown men don't like princesses (and the latter that do are really not the types you want to bring to a film for children), and there was a strong push at the time discouraging girls from consuming princess-related media. In retrospect, it feels like the film was just a giant virtue signal, because the only hype it got was that it was the first Disney movie with a black princess in it!
Want to know another Disney movie that no kid remembers? The Princess and the Frog. It was such a commercial disappointment that it pretty much killed Disney's 2D animation division. Goes to show that all their attempts to pander to black people and specifically consulting their empress and champion of melanin superiority, Oprah, didn't produce a product anyone was actually interested in.
And unlike Song of the South, it doesn't have the excuse of being forcefully out of print for decades.
They did it in 2D because people wanted 2D back but disney wanted to save money and time so they intentionally made a sub par movie and marketed it like shit to "prove" 2D animation was dead.
True, though I have to say Disney chose the worst kind of film to try and "revive" (whether genuinely or not) 2D animation. Namely, another princess film (or at least one that was posing as a princess film, considering that no one was really a princess in it). Boys and grown men don't like princesses (and the latter that do are really not the types you want to bring to a film for children), and there was a strong push at the time discouraging girls from consuming princess-related media. In retrospect, it feels like the film was just a giant virtue signal, because the only hype it got was that it was the first Disney movie with a black princess in it!