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Life is Hell... said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=th8hKC9Y4RcNew Cartoon Cartoon short is out
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Seeing warner digging the cartoon cartoons name out of the grave like this, regardless of the actual quality l, all I can is, Mr. potter if you'll do the honors?

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A Grey Cat said:
The last episode of that tiny toons reboot was meh. Not good but slightly better than that show has any right to be, but I'm gonna rewatch an episode of the original to wash the taste of the reboot out of my system.
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Both of the rebooted amblin/warner cartoons sucked absolute shit. However if it were a sort of pissing contest on which of the two is the worst one, it would go to the animaniacs reboot and the amount of tds stuff in it and the "look at us reboot and be modern, aren't we hip guys."
 

LevelK Boards ‘Betty Balloon,’ a Cosy Fun Adventure, Ahead of Cartoon Movie Unveil (EXCLUSIVE)​

'Betty Balloon' follows a modern family who just happen to be… balloons. When a cactus family moves in next door, it's Betty, aged 4, and her brother who lead the way in connecting with the new neighbours
An early lift-off has already been secured for Puk Grasten’s “Betty Balloon,” as the Copenhagen-based international sales and aggregation house LevelK has secured worldwide rights to upcoming pre-school animated feature and TV series.

The agreement, brokered between LevelK CEO Tine Klint and the film’s main producer Regner Grasten, was reached just ahead of the project’s work-in-progress presentation at Cartoon Moviein Bordeaux, LevelK told Variety.

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A theatrical release of the animated feature is scheduled for October in Denmark, with Danish public broadcaster TV2 set to premiere the series.



A Danish co-production between Regner Grasten Filmproduktion and A. Film Production, “Betty Balloon” follows a modern family who just happen to be… balloons.

At the centre of the story is Betty, a creative and imaginative four-year-old. Life’s turned upside down when a cactus family moves in next door. The Balloon family (Mom, Dad, and Betty’s super tweenie big brother Bobby) must learn to connect with their new neighbours. But in “Betty Balloon”, it’s the kids who lead the way, as Betty quickly becomes best friends with four-year-old Kaj Cactus, proving that curiosity and openness can bridge even the prickliest divides. In this colorful universe, it’s the kids who show the grown-ups how to connect.

“In ‘Betty Balloon,’ the unknown is not dangerous,” explained director Puk Grasten, who also wrote the story and adapted it for the big screen. “It is an invitation to open up. The film [as well as the series] celebrates openness, imagination and emotional honesty,” as well as creativity and curiosity in a soft 2D computer animation style that will definitely appeal to the pre-school audience.



A European Film College/EICAR/NYU Tisch alum, Grasten received the Danish Arts Foundation’s Award for Outstanding Cinematic Work and the Carl Th. Dreyer Award for Visual Storytelling for her debut feature “37.” “Betty Balloon” is her third feature film, and her first venture into animation.

A female-driven fun, cosy adventure, “Betty Balloon” is also highly relevant today, inviting children and parents to openness and acceptance through the unlikely friendship between a balloon and a cactus. Values that both pre-schoolers and adults can relate to, as producer Regner Grasten underlines. “This dynamic stands out from more traditional family set-ups seen in shows like ‘Peppa Pig’ and ‘Bluey,’ offering an alternative vision of community and empathy.”

“Teaching through entertainment is indeed important”, added LevelK CEO Tine Klint, “and as Betty Balloon and Kaj Cactus have to navigate the challenges of living next to each other, becoming friends, and simply being who they are. Their creative minds make the journey fun.”

That’s an approach that fits perfectly with LevelK values and ambitions. A few weeks ago in Berlin, the company presented “Everyone’s Sorry Nowadays” (Generation Kplus), “Dust” (main competition) as well as such titles as “Chasing Millions” and the animated feature “Mumbo Jumbo”, an A. Film Production project.

Regner Grasten Filmproduktion, one of Denmark’s largest production companies, boasts a catalogue of 45 films totalling more than 14 million cinema admissions to date. The company also produced the hit TV Christmas series “The Crumbs’ Christmas” (Krummernes Jul, 1996) and “The Mortensen Brothers’ Christmas” (Brødrene Mortensens Jul, 1998) for TV2 Denmark, and several of the company’s productions have been sold worldwide.

Besides the feature and the TV series, development is also underway on “Betty Balloon” books and merchandising lines, strengthening this innovative and heartfelt IP in the making.
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Source, Wayback (seems to be having issues, Ghostarchive wasn’t working for this either)

This is genuinely beyond parody, god damn.

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The Great One said:
Both of the rebooted amblin/warner cartoons sucked absolute shit. However if it were a sort of pissing contest on which of the two is the worst one, it would go to the animaniacs reboot and the amount of tds stuff in it and the "look at us reboot and be modern, aren't we hip guys."
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The worst part of the animaniacs reboot is, other than Pinky and the Brain, they ignored all of the other segments. Even as a kid, I thought the main animaniac segments were annoying, the only one that was worse was the one with the singing cat and a dog that thought he was a cat.

Buttons, pinky and the brain, goodfeathers and good idea, bad idea blew the actual annoying ass animaniacs out of the water. It was a fool's errand to try to mostly focus on them in a reboot.
 
Life is Hell... said:
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Besides the 3D claymation-like short made by that one youtuber, it is beyond salvation that every one of these shorts all look the same and written similarly. Steven Jewniverse and its consequences...

EDIT: OK except for this one, this actually looks pleasant to look at at least.
 
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'Betty Balloon' follows a modern family who just happen to be… balloons. When a cactus family moves in next door, it's Betty, aged 4, and her brother who lead the way in connecting with the new neighbours
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I love the predictability of modern entertainment. Somehow I can read two sentences and immediately go, the dangerous cactus family is an allegory for black people, isn't it.
 
Basic Blond Boy said:
@Crescent Fresh


I love the predictability of modern entertainment. Somehow I can read two sentences and immediately go, the dangerous cactus family is an allegory for black people, isn't it.
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Between this, Zootopia, and that shitty movie about element people, how many times are they gonna make a species that's totally-not-black-people who's very existence is a physical threat to others in these sorts of cartoons?
 
From Aubrey Plaza and Jason Weingert (yet another LA comedian/actor/writer/hack) comes yet another show with a generic "adult animated comedy" art style and animation because it's just a vehicle for joke delivery and the makers of these shows do not want the art or animation to overshadow the hack jokes or VA work.


DUDE THE CAT HAS SMOKE BLOWN IN IT'S FACE AND IT GETS HIGH


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Basic Blond Boy said:
@Crescent Fresh


I love the predictability of modern entertainment. Somehow I can read two sentences and immediately go, the dangerous cactus family is an allegory for black people, isn't it.
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Blacks or Muslims, it's one of the two, in which despite having obvious visual red flags of incompatibility with their environment and people around them, we're supposed to still coddle them.

Although I will fucking lose my shit if the cacti family is a cast of Hispanics.
 
Nameless One said:
I don't think Bojack Horseman is a good show but when it hits, it fucking hit. I like explorations of one of the worst places in America, I feel like Bojack needed better writers to thrive. The way it got cancelled too soon and ended on a lame note doesn't help. But there's moments of greatness here beyond the outdated 2010s millennial humor and the misery porn.
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It's still one of my favorite shows and considering the bar that is set for media nowadays (=lowest than ever), I rather consider it a good show of the decade. Or maybe even 2020s as well, things are still going downhill.

I was upset when the show ended, but during last rewatches I realized that 6 seasons should have been more than enough. Other than aforementioned problems I noticed there was also this slow "woke" shift and I'm glad the show ended before descending further into early 2020s political climate. Funnily enough but as I'm thinking about examples of said descend, what comes to my mind first is making Diane fat from pharma drugs and passing it as character development. Is that really how you conclude an arc for a character like her? Felt more like propaganda than a happy ending. Imagine if the show kept running into 2020s and we got some pandemic related episode.

Life is Hell... said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=th8hKC9Y4RcNew Cartoon Cartoon short is out
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Commander X said:
From Aubrey Plaza and Jason Weingert (yet another LA comedian/actor/writer/hack) comes yet another show with a generic "adult animated comedy" art style and animation because it's just a vehicle for joke delivery and the makers of these shows do not want the art or animation to overshadow the hack jokes or VA work.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=w_gDJw9tlBA
DUDE THE CAT HAS SMOKE BLOWN IN IT'S FACE AND IT GETS HIGH


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It reminds me of that House Broken animated show Fox air a few years ago and ended at season 2 because it was Dogshit, pun intended. And if any of you don't know or remember, it stars a poodle who runs a therapy session with other pets.
 
Purple fur Pomeranian said:
It reminds me of that House Broken animated show Fox air a few years ago and ended at season 2 because it was Dogshit, pun intended. And if any of you don't know or remember, it stars a poodle who runs a therapy session with other pets.
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I’ve seen like one scene of it on YouTube, where a corgi with a fake service dog vest goes to therapy after getting berated by an actual service dog. The art style vaguely reminded me of every other cartoon that tries to be a Family Guy clone.
 
Speaking of random bullshit on tubi, I saw this

I think it's part of their creatorverse thing, where they get a bunch of youtubers and tiktok people on their service and license their content, even meatcanyon is on here? They got Kevin Spencer, happy tree friends, the library of exploism (cyanide and happiness)
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However what creatorverse is more targeting is children, with shitty slop roblox content from youtube kids so this side of tubi is a cesspool.
 
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