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Or maybe I don’t. It’s only a teaser, and I’ve given up assessing teasers because they usually tell nothing. Maybe I don’t have to give this desecration of Walt’s legacy the time of day. Half the internet has probably already said everything that’s need to be said, surely.

I have just under two hours to get a post out, I didn’t sleep well last night, and this movie may be the biggest example of how modern Disney is failing?

Fine.

I’m not kidding when I say that this movie is the biggest example of Disney’s current failings. As I went over in the article comparing how Walt Disney started the company and Bob Iger is ruining it, Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs essentially made Walt Disney Pictures. It may have started with a mouse, but Walt helped bring cartoons beyond shorts played during a matinee showing and showed what you can do with animation. He embraced new technologies and made his legacy with this movie. Meanwhile, thanks to the media pecking order in Hollywood, Iger is pushing for live-action replacing animation, and creating movies that are shells of the former works. To this point the oldest films they ruined were Pete’s Dragon by creating from all appearances an original movie using the name, and Cinderella, the only movie under Walt’s tenure until now. (I guess you could make the case for Maleficent, Disney’s attempt to cash in on Wicked‘s success.) I haven’t even heard that either movie was terrible, so it’s gotten worse and worse with these live-action demakes.

So now that Disney has continued to distance itself from the very format that the company was founded on, how bad is this teaser? You know how teasers are supposed to drum up interest in the movie? This is doing the opposite.

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