Talking-animal movies are ruining my life

Talking-animal movies are ruining my life
Our feisty columnist has some advice for Hollywood studio executives
By Dave White
MSNBC
Updated: 12:31 p.m. PT Nov 1, 2006

Dear Hollywood,

Why are you so lame? Why don’t you have a single original idea left in your collective head? Why do you hate audiences? Why do you continue to crank out by-the-numbers animated films that hold ticket-buying families and animation fans in contempt while trying to sell them tie-in merchandise at the same time?

Why do “Madagascar” and “The Wild” and “Open Season” and “Flushed Away” all have the same plot? How many domesticated menageries of circle-of-life-defying zoo pals actually find themselves tossed into the wilderness on a regular basis, learning the true meaning of family and home in the process?

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