Tube Tuesday: Gary Trousdale tries to "Shrek the Halls" without first wrecking DreamWorks Animation's most important franchise

re: Tube Tuesday: Gary Trousdale tries to "Shrek the Halls" without first wrecking DreamWorks Animation's most important franchise

Jim Hill — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:32:00 GMT

Disney Co tries to make Dreamwork's Shrek into a timeless classic on ABC, while The Incredibles played for two nights on NBC this weekend - ah, synergy.

Why not let NBC air Shrek and promote their Shrek ride at Universal Studios, so ABC can show a Disney-related show? Maybe "High School Musical Christmas Vacation", or "The Making of Enchanted" hosted by Patrick Dempsey, or "Meet the Robinsons Future Holidays", even "Stitch ate Santa's cookies and half the gifts." Let's make timeless classics out of Disney properties at least.

re: Tube Tuesday: Gary Trousdale tries to "Shrek the Halls" without first wrecking DreamWorks Animation's most important franchise

Jim Hill — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:43:49 GMT

They put the competition on the air, but not Mickey Mouse? Talk about shooting yourself in the foot for some short term profit.

Dust off "Mickey's Christmas Carol", package it with other Christmas related classic short subjects, and maybe even produce a new short of some kind. They would have an entire Disney one to two hour holiday special... and at practically no cost!

It's so simple, even an MBA corporate suit can figure it out... or maybe not?

re: Tube Tuesday: Gary Trousdale tries to "Shrek the Halls" without first wrecking DreamWorks Animation's most important franchise

Jim Hill — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:57:53 GMT

Okay, room full of kids who aren't Disney Dweebs:

Show of hands - do you want to see Mickey's Christmas Carol, which is perfectly paced for Disney Dweebs but a bit slow for 00s kids, or Shrek?

(I'd pick MCC, but I'm a huge Dweeb).

My daughter would apologize profusely to the head Disney Dweeb of the domicile (me) and then gleefully turn on Shrek.

I am so glad to see Gary Trousdale. But when I see his name, I can only hear General Knowledge shouting it. Is that wrong?

Shelly

re: Tube Tuesday: Gary Trousdale tries to "Shrek the Halls" without first wrecking DreamWorks Animation's most important franchise

Jim Hill — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:39:43 GMT

The only thing that concerns me about this is that I've seen no decent preview for it. I've seen 30-second spots that really don't tell me what it's about (besides the fact that it's Shrek meets Christmas). If I could just see a 30-second long clip of this thing uncut (because, you know, it should have an actual story to it), I'd be a little more eager to see this.

re: Tube Tuesday: Gary Trousdale tries to "Shrek the Halls" without first wrecking DreamWorks Animation's most important franchise

Jim Hill — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:41:34 GMT

"Which is why we deliberately steered clear of film parodies this time around...."

Isn't this the entire point of the Shrek franchise (and it has grown rather tiresome)? Is Gary actually coming up with original ideas for Shrek?

re: Tube Tuesday: Gary Trousdale tries to "Shrek the Halls" without first wrecking DreamWorks Animation's most important franchise

Jim Hill — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:51:12 GMT

Kudos to two old pals I've had the pleasure of working with over the years. Gary Trousdale and storyman, Bill Riling.

Nice work, guys!