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Too many animated animal movies?

Published Wednesday, October 04, 2006 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

I told you so. The New York Times weighed in yesterday on the disturbing amount of animated animal movies that have been unleashed on audiences in 2006, with Hollywood executives assessing the damage. If only they had read my April 14 story in the Boston Herald, then they would've known what was coming and halted the madness already!

As I warned them in April: "And those dollar signs have opened wide the eyes of Hollywood studio executives. They've done the math. Draw some cute, wild animals, put them in an unknown, dangerous environment, force them to find their way out of it and hire some funny, famous actors to provide the voices. Ta- DAH! Box-office gold."

Enough already. Enough, I say.