Talk:Moana/@comment-24912114-20140724050627/@comment-1672596-20150105031826

"Blaming the lesser Dreamworks movies and "Chicken Little" on the animation style rather than the horrible writing is the same mistake that led to Disney doing poor decisions in the late 2000s.

If a movie has good writing, it doesn't matter how it's animated. Disney's "trademark" is good writing, not any form of animation. Animation is a tool.

If this movie has good writing, it doesn't matter if it's CGI. "

Except CGI more often than not has been used as a gimmick at the expense of writing (it's precisely one of the reasons why the Prequel Trilogy of Star Wars, Avatar, and the final two Matrix Films were considered to be extremely bad, and those WERE box office successes), meaning a movie with CGI is more likely to end up being a bomb right now, at least critically, if not financially. Sure, they can do good writing, and I'm not saying there should be no CGI at all. That's why if Disney is to do CGI films, it has to be done under Pixar. With Disney itself, it should stick to hand-drawn animation, as that at least hasn't been frequently used as a gimmick. And besides, most of its films WERE hand-drawn animation.