Talk:Zootopia/@comment-24680134-20140313215839/@comment-929837-20140409002320

Dreamworks keep switching back and forth between Disney's Second Renaissance Era of the 90s and early 2000s ("Rise of the Guardians", "How To Train Your Dragon", "Megamind", "The Croods", "Monsters VS Aliens"), and Disney's Dark Age era of the 70s and 80s ("Turbo", "Bee Movie", "Shark Tale", "Over the Hedge", the "Shrek" movies, the "Madagscar" movies).

I think comparisons are more than valid.

What Dreamworks lack is its own Don Bluth. Disney started to produce quality material as a direct result of the movies Don Bluth made when he split off to form his own company. Right now, there's no one in Disney (or Blue Sky, for that matter) of Don Bluth's caliber that can provide a decent enough challenge to shock Dreamworks into not being so schizophrenic.

You keep mentioning "Frozen" and "Tangled", but NOBODY can name the director of those movies. "The Secret of NIMH", "The Land Before Time", "All Dogs Go to Heaven" and "An American Tail" are all unambigously Don Bluth movies.

Hell, I still think the music video Don Bluth did for Scissor Sister's "Mary" is a better Rapunzel adaptation than "Tangled", and Bluth could have easily expanded it into a feature film.

The fact that "Zootopia" is being made is proof that there's no one in Disney that can provide a decent challenge for Dreamworks the same way Don Bluth did for Disney itself back in the 80s and early 90s.