Why Trans Jax is Important, especially if you think it's wrong.

I should preface this by saying that I am not trans, I identify as Non-Binary, so if you must take this article with a grain of salt, I do not blame you. However, it seems there is a new discourse surrounding The Amazing Digital Circus, which on the one hand, my God can y'all find something else to get upset about? Valve releasing an overpriced piece of hardware? The United States continuing the whole fascism thing? I'm sure Konami is doing something stupid and shady that's worth getting mad at. On the other hand, I do love getting any chance I can take to talk about the Digital Circus so why the Hell not talk about this?

So, finale episode released on YouTube and everyone went crazy for one thing, it's been hinted at with subtle and not-so-subtle clues, but basically the finale confirmed that Jax was a closeted Trans person the entire time, and if the text of the show isn't enough for you, some of the voice actors have bluntly stated it and Goose has basically confirmed it without saying it directly. I'll admit, I was a bit averse to Jax being trans at first, largely because I was way too into the shipping wars to be thinking clearly, but even when I was saying "It's enough that Jax is gay", I still said "If Goose does make Jax trans I will respect that". Granted that isn't a great defense for myself, probably stuff I need to unlearn there, but the point I'm making is, even as someone who was in that denial camp, I was still picking up the hints that Jax was a part of the Queer Community.

This of course, brings us to the discourse, there are some people who not only deny that Jax is trans, but also outright hate the idea, why? Because apparent;y Jax is a worse trans character than Ida Davis from Family Guy. Of course, Jax has always been the target of disdain and hatred from the fandom because... well Jax was always an asshole, so some people may see this as an attempt to make Jax less of a villain. Let's examine that word before we go any further, "Villain", what is a villain? Some people may say that the villain is someone who is evil, which is a... frighteningly basic interpretation of the word. Like, yeah "Villains" in narratives have usually been evil, or had traits that made them look more immoral than the heroes. Certainly, nobody is gonna argue that Maleficent, a villain whose name is not too different from "Malevolent" is not evil, at least nobody with any sense would. That being said, there are plenty of "Villains" in stories that aren't necessarily evil. Amos Slade in The Fox and the Hound is not a totally evil person, sure he wants to kill Tod and is willing to break the law to do so, but from his perspective Tod is a trouble-maker who is causing trouble on his property and almost got one of his dogs killed, sure we know Tod isn't totally at fault, but that's because we're watching the movie from Tod's perspective, not Amos'.

You look closely enough in media, you'll see all kinds of "Villains" that aren't necessarily "Evil", nor even the more basic "Antagonists". The Grinch is a character who does something wrong, but on some level you do kind of understand where he's coming from, Hell, the entire emotional crux of the best adaptations of Treasure Island hinge on the idea that Long John Silver isn't as evil and heartless as he wants us to think, done best in Treasure Planet, done okay in Muppet Treasure Island. Of course, reforming villains throw the idea that nobody is beyond salvation into the mix, this has been a thing in storytelling for a long time, Yellow Submarine ended with the Chief Blue Meanie reforming, so what makes them all villains if they aren't entirely "Evil"? See, in order for there to be a narrative, there has to be a conflict and in order for there to be a conflict between people, someone has to be in the wrong. Obviously this could be in the wrong morally, but when you get down to it morality is kind of flexible. Les Miserable has a parole breaking fugitive be the hero and the police officer chasing him down be the villain, and it would normally be the other way around, if the narrative didn't establish that Jean Valjean stole that bread to feed a starving child.

In short, a "Villain", narratively speaking, is the character in a story that is narratively in the wrong.

What does this have to do with Jax? The idea that making Jax trans is meant to "Make him less of a villain" is not the correct way to look at either the character, nor villains. A lot of Jax's behavior does seem to stem from being a repressed person who bottles up their problems and emotions, the idea that Jax is trans because it somehow "Absolves him of any wrong-doing" is a massive misunderstanding of the work and character, especially considering that Gooseworx is a Trans Woman herself. Call me crazy but this is almost coming off like calling Rebecca Sugar a "Nazi Apologist" even though she was raised Jewish, almost.

However, the real reason I wanted to talk about this is because the idea that all trans characters have to be one-hundred percent morally upstanding is... well let me put it this way, if you aren't gonna give Jax any leeway because they're trans, why would you give any real person leeway because they're trans. Especially those who are insecure, projecting, lashing out, and depressed because they don't have that luxury of being allowed to be honest with themselves. I know a trans person in real life, have for my entire life, and pre-transition she did act a bit like Jax, especially that whole projecting thing. She didn't have that supportive of a network, so she was lashing out, but unlike Jax, she did build up that supportive network rather than push all of it away, and she is a better, and happier, person now. I think Jax resonates with trans people more than any squeaky-clean sterile stereotype that some people want to push.

Jax is in the wrong in the narrative because they are constantly pushing away their supportive network, and why? Self-loathing of course, why do you think they were upset with Kinger's blunder? It wasn't just that he deleted Caine, but if everyone can forgive him for that, then that means they can forgive Jax, and Jax doesn't want to be forgiven, they don't believe they deserve that forgiveness. Possibly because they grew up in a queerphobic time and place.

I think this idea that Jax can't be trans because they only show the negative side of it is, kind of dismissive of the struggle plenty of Trans people have to go through, and to see even a piece of those struggles in a character who sadly doesn't overcome them, that can still mean a lot. To be blunt, this sanding down of edges required for a Queer character of any kind to be accepted is harmful. Being trans is edgy, in that it is not a smooth experience to everyone and to demand that it be a smooth experience for characters that aren't even real is dismissive to the real people dealing with these struggles everyday. It's a similar issue (Though not completely one-to-one) that people on the Autism Spectrum deal with. The cutification of Autism has sadly overshadowed plenty of the struggles that people with Autism deal with, like sensory issues that can lead to self-harm.

Even as a non-trans person, I still relate a little to Jax, I to have been self-concious about the things that made me different, and while I had a somewhat decent support system (though it could've been better), I was still a terrible person, and a lot of that came from self-loathing which did lead me to having suicidal thoughts. Of course, none of it absolves Jax of their actions, nobody is saying it does, but it does show their actions in a different light, one that we can probably be a little empathetic towards, I mean even Gangle cried over Jax.

If all characters that represent minorities have to be squeaky-clean to appeal to a guilty white audience, it creates a lot of portrayals that cannot ever be lived up to, as well as a slew of harmful stereotypes that nobody will think about because they are "Uplifting Positive stereotypes" instead of "Nasty hurtful negative stereotypes". So to see a messy person who never really had the chance to be themselves, it can, and does, mean something. So, why is Trans Jax important? Because we need more portrayals of trans people that go beyond "Nonthreatening to a status quo that already hates them" and "So pristine and perfect they might as well be an inhuman robot", yes the usage of "inhuman" was intentional and not just a piece of redundancy.

Happy Pride Month Everyone! 

Fornite, GLITCH and the Leeching of Pop Culture

So, GLITCH productions is crossing over with Epic Games by having Pomni and Jax appear in Fortnite. Now, of course there are issues with this, largely Epic Games is a terrible company that is trying to replace a bunch of its human employees with AI slop and apparently fired an employee with Brain Cancer thus stripping away his life insurance, yeah Epic Games is not a good company... name me a company that is, and yeah I am disappointed that GLITCH would choose to work and collab with them, but I'm gonna be honest that's not the biggest source of my disdain with this announcement. Like, yeah they should be more incriminating with who they work with, but to play Devil's Advocate, it's Fortnite. Like, Fortnite is one of the biggest games in the world right now, the fact that GLITCH characters are appearing in Fortnite before anything like Minecraft, some Tetris clone, or even as a deck of cards, like that says something about Fortnite and by extension Epic Games. Yeah, I don't like Epic Games as a company, and frankly I don't care about Fortnite as a game, but I hold no ill-will towards GLITCH for this decision, you can all you want, but money's got to be made somehow, and maybe this is the first step to an actual video game, like a Murder Drones video game would kick ass. No, my disdain for this news comes mostly from the fact that... well, it's Fortnite, and I despise what Fortnite is doing to and with Pop-Culture.

I was talking about this with a friend of mine and it helped me really gather my thoughts on the matter, because the problem was more than just "Popular = Bad", I am a strong proponent that popularity is a good thing overall, like Pokémon has done nothing but benefit by being the most popular video game franchise in the world, and Minecraft ain't slowing down any either, so why does the Fortnite collab irritate me so much? Fortnite's current model seems to be... like the worst, most annoying autistic kid (Self burn, those are rare), like you know that kid who finds a new thing and makes it their entire personality, or if you were like me you probably were that kid, Fortnite kinda comes off like that.

Its business model seems to be less "Hey let's make a great game that everyone will want to play" and more "Let's load our game with licenses and have people come back for a skin-economy." Like I don't agree with what Yahtzee Croshaw said about Mortal Kombat 1, but like that does kind of apply to Fortnite, but Mortal Kombat's case they have characters that make sense for Mortal Kombat, they have violent action characters like Omni-Man, Robocop, Jason Voorhees, they don't have Peter Griffin and Pomni. On top of that Mortal Kombat has actual... y'know, characters, like you can name them and identify them, Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, Sonya Blade, Shao Kahn, Sub-Zero, Kenshi, you know most of these characters if you know anything about Mortal Kombat, Fortnite is not the same. I'm sure they have named original characters, but for the life of me I can't think of any of them, I don't know their names, I've never really seen much art of any of them out in the wild.

Yes, other games do this kind of thing as well, but most of them are not as egregious about it as Fortnite. Super Smash Bros is a game that works because the novelty of having Mario, Link and Pikachu fighting each other is backed by what is ultimately a solid platform-brawler, the kind of which has become so linked to Smash Bros that very few fighting games try the same thing, while Fortnite is just one in a sea of Battle Royale shooter games. Also, Nintendo can get away with it because most of the characters are Nintendo characters. I made this comment years ago about PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, but that game was never going to be as great as Smash Bros solely because Sony does not have that many first-party characters that are as iconic to their brand as their second and third party characters. Nintendo has so many iconic first and second party characters that a fighting game with just them would sell like hotcakes, and like PlayStation All-Stars, Fortnite is struggling in the original character department.

It's an attention grab more than anything else, they're saying "Look, we have The Simpsons, we have Cartoon Network licenses, we have The Amazing Digital Circus" they're doing this because they know it will make people play their game and spend money on cosmetics, it's a cycle; They add some license to their game, streamers play with the license and skins, rinse and repeat. Really the streamers only get the views because "Look at this guy, they're playing Fortnite as Danny Phantom" or "They're playing with the Peter Griffin skin", it's like a gelatinous cube in Dungeons and Dragons, catching I.P.'s and licenses and absorbing them while dissolving them of any actual value. Like there was buzz about ConcernedApe thinking about collabing with Fortnite, and I'm just thinking, "Yeah, Stardew Valley, the game about the connection with nature and community where the community has a strong opinion of players who choose the corporate route. That would be perfect for the license gobbling gelatinous cube."

I think the big problem I have with this is, and this is shockingly an actual problem, Fortnite is not ignorable. Like Marvel Rivals, that game came out, it's pretty popular, people still play it, it gave us the popular iteration of Squirrel Girl that... look I like fine but I want the dork that juggled Kraven with one hand that I fell in love with as a teenager. Still it's a Marvel Hero Shooter, I don't have to play it, I don't have to pay attention to it. Like, the only thing I know of Marvel Rivals beyond the game is that one of the voice actors was somewhat involved in a controversy involving his daughter that later expanded to involve BlackGyrph0n, Saberspark and a bunch of other crazy people. That's it, I can't even name all the voice actors in that game, I love it. I don't have to know anything about Marvel Rivals. The same cannot be said for Fortnite, I see ads for it everywhere, they had some kind of Halo collab and got Rooster Teeth to do something, they had YouTube ads for their Simpsons thing, the news that The Amazing Digital Circus was coming was shared by Toonhive, I cannot ignore Fortnite.

Fortnite constantly shoves itself in people's faces with these licenses, it's not even creating its own pop culture at this point, it's leeching off of the success and popularity of other properties, like Smash Bros is has still given us original memes, locations, stories, characters. The Master Hand, Final Destination, Subspace Emissary, Fox Only No Items, Smash Bros isn't just leeching off of pop-culture, one can argue that has created its own parts of Pop-Culture. Fortnite is reminding me a lot of Garry's Mod, where half of the fun of the game is just the flagrant usage of characters they didn't create, but like... Garry's Mod is a joke, it's a sandbox game where you can make Gordon Freeman and and Sonic ride a Minecraft Boat over a river in a Spyro world. Fortnite is Battle Royale Garry's Mod without the joke. It does not create Pop Culture, and it barely qualifies as celebrating it. Again, what are the names of the original characters? What is the name of the original location? Unless you are an avid player you probably don't know, nobody is making videos about how Fortnite Island is an underrated location like Nintendo's Wuhu Island. Fortnite really is on the same level as Garry's Mod in the Pop-Culture pantheon, except Gmod was partly used for things like SMG4 so even Gmod can arguably claim to have created its own piece of pop-culture.

Look, I don't care is GLITCH wants to collab with Fortnite, again that money's gotta me made somehow, it's the same reason I have no ill-will towards the actors in the new Harry Potter series, like yeah they probably should have reconsidered, but then again it's one the most popular franchises in modern history so those actors, especially those child actors, are basically set for life. GLITCH can collab with Fortnite, they can collab with Konami for all I care, but let's be real the collab can only happen because Fortnite is a license leech, and it only looked at The Amazing Digital Circus because it is so freaking popular that it licked it's gluttonous lips and salivated at the idea. If the Circus was so popular, we wouldn't be talking about this and instead be talking about Fortnite collabing with Bear in the Big Blue House, that would actually be funny.

So... What's been going on?

It's... been a while hasn't it? Let's cut to the chase, what is going on and what will be happening going forward?

Straight up, what is going on is a combination of things, mostly a form of burn-out. The thing is, for most of this year I decided to slow down movie reviews and focus on editorials, for three reasons; Firstly I have not really had the space to watch a movie consistently, so a weekly or bi-weekly schedule just seemed less possible. It also didn't help that this year started off with a 1-2-3 punch of getting sick, getting back problems and getting sick again, that was how my first quarter went, so that was fun, and also a reason I couldn't go to the theatre. Second, Editorials were just more enjoyable to write, I have a bit of a formula for reviewing movies and it got a bit dull to write after a while, plus there are only so many ways you can say "this is funny", "this is beautiful" or "this is good". Finally, movie reviews just weren't getting the views, granted I have a very small reader-base, but editorials have usually gotten more views than movie reviews have so it made more sense to focus on those.

However, that's really the surface answer, because I made a decision that ultimately burnt-me out. See in November of 2024, I did a blog about animated movies that were banned in different countries, and I had a lot of fun doing it, in May of 2025 I sort-of spiritually followed it up with a blog about seven myths around animation. These kind of editorials that required more research were tougher to write than others, where I just write down my thoughts on a certain topic, but were also more fun because it allowed me to look into subjects I normally wouldn't have thought about, like the Road Runner rules or why Shrek 2 got a ban in Israel. So, I tried to do something ambitious, I wanted to do a similar style blog, but with a topic I was more familiar with; I wanted to talk about the cartoon reviewing community that the different controversies it got into.

This was a mistake, because... first of all really all it was gonna be was a condensed recap of certain events, and second, as it turned out, two of these stories were still ongoing, sort of. I talked about the Great Brony Purge, the period of time where many prominent and even lesser known members of the brony community were ousted for being predators, and immediately after that the Saberspark controversy happens, where Saberspark gets accused of sexual assault. Really it began with BlackGryph0n but the way the whole situation ended, really it's about ILoveKimPossibleALot and EmuEmi. The second story that ended up carrying on was the Stargiant Productions controversy, because guess who resurfaced? And with the most... stupid stuff I've ever heard anyone say or write, if you can stomach seven and a half hours of literal delusional nonsense check out Lazy Bedhead's stream where she and the Enter Team read and react to a document that Stargiant wrote. Keep in mind, the second stupidest thing I heard from that document was literally "The law is if they are free, they are innocent."

The blog I was writing was not good, and would need a serious rewrite if I wanted to post it, the key word there being "if", because I'll be honest it does come off as a little... ambulance chaser-y, like those channels who talk about controversies and dramas only because it gets them views and attention, I won't deny on some level I did want that, but I also wanted to just tell these stories because... some of them are just insane, like the Stargiant story involves N3k0pan, Lio Convoy, Mr Enter, HopelessPeaches, Misanthropony, Rei Rants, PhantomStrider, and almost involved Just A Robot apparently. Like this whole story needs to be studied, in university classes or something, it's that insane. Still, not a great blog, and I'm going to withhold it indefinitely.

So what's going to happen for the future? Well... I think it goes without saying but I'm stepping away from this blog for a good while. I began this blog because I wanted to explore the vast world of animated features and I have not been doing that as of late. Also, I've been working on a few comic projects, most notably I have been submitting cartoons to the underground magazine Absolute Underground, so I think I'm going to focus more on comics for the time being. Will I come back to this blog? Sure, I don't believe this is goodbye forever because I still love animation, I still love movies and I still love writing, but right now I need to really focus my time and energy on to one or two things, and given the state of the world, and some personal issues I can't and won't divulge publicly, keeping myself sane is one of those two things.

 Well... this was a long letter, I'll see you around.

Good or bad, Fixed is important.

Okay, this is going to be a short summary of my thoughts on a certain topic. Recently the Genndy Tartakovsky adult animated feature film "Fixed" was released and prior to that it had a large group of detractors. People were calling this movie "Sick", comparing Genndy to John K, and all around making a lot of claims about this movie and how depraved and degenerate this movie was.

Full disclosure I have not seen Fixed as of yet, I have been really slacking in my job this year, but regardless, this is not a post about the quality of the movie, rather about how I think a movie like this is important. What is the one thing I always say about animation in stories like this, "There is a stigma towards animation", I say that because animation is constantly being pigeon-holed as "Children's entertainment", and this doesn't just mean viewers dismiss it as "Low art", it also means that companies disregard it because "It's just for kids, nobody cares". If AMC treated Breaking Bad as badly as Nickelodeon treated... literally any of their cartoons, but for example sake let's say Legend of Korra, chances are they would not have gotten away with it.

Of course the question is, "How do we destigmatize animation?" and the answer to that is really simple, but also really complicated. For the most part, animation fans are doing alright, supporting "K-Pop Demon Hunters" and "The Day The Earth Blew Up" is absolutely how we should do it. However, let's not (For want of a better word) kid ourselves, these are movies meant for kids, maybe older kids, maybe young teens, but still meant for younger audiences. Animation is never going to leave the stigma behind if the only things coming out in animation are predominately meant for kids and young teens. We need more adult animation, and I mean beyond X Rated pornography, and South Park and Family Guy clones, or even online content. We need proper mainstream adult animated properties, especially feature films.

This is not to say that adult animated features are exceedingly rare in this modern day, we see things like "Cheech & Chong's Animated Movie" or "Anomolisa", but are those "Mainstream" or are they more of a "If you know your stuff" kind of movies? Genndy Tartakovsky is a mainstream name in animation, even if you don't know the name, you know Samurai Jack, you know his work on Dexter's Lab, you know Hotel Transylvania, he's not a name like Richard Williams or Rob Renzetti, he is probably up there with Walt Disney and Stephen Hillenburg. Him making an adult animated feature, one that reportedly is not tame at all, is actually very good to help destigmatize animation. Even if the movie isn't good (Though I've heard good things about it), it does say to other animators that they don't have to be stuck in these holes they are put it, they can experiment, leave their comfort zone, and get notoriety for it.

I actually think it's kind of refreshing to see Genndy Tartakovsky go in this direction, and I do think that "Fixed" is a good thing on the art side of animation. Of course, on the business side, "Fixed" is probably going to be a nightmare, with studios green lighting more animated features that have adult content, but miss the point of what made them liked in the first place. We can, and should, celebrate the artistic achievement while dreading and criticizing the corporate directions that will come of things.

Anyway, those were my thoughts on the matter, again, whether the movie is good or not, and again I've heard good things, I do think that "Fixed" is important to animation as a whole, and also trailers suck, but that's a topic for another time. 

Movie Review: The Pebble and the Penguin (1995): There's a really good movie in here

Well... hiatus was fun, but I want to get back to what this blog was meant to be about, exploring the vast world of animation, experiencing the weird, wonderful and creative works that such a wonderful medium can bring us. When it comes to wonderful, there are very few names to make that word synonymous with animation as Don Bluth, a former Disney animator striking off on his own in the 80s, he made movies that not only rivalled Disney, but in many cases usurped Disney's throne. The Secret of NIMH and The Land Before Time are fantastic movies that define the medium and show that not all amazing animation has to come from Disney. So what happened in the 90s? In my review of Rock-A-Doodle, I posited the idea that the movies that Don Bluth wanted to make became more passe in the Disney Renaissance and someone pushed him to adapt to the changing landscape of the 90s, and what followed was some of his... more odd film making attempts. Case in point, The Pebble and the Penguin. Why does that line sound so familiar?

The Pebble and the Penguin follows Hubie, an Adélie Penguin who falls in love with a girl named Marina, and wishes to propose to her with a pebble, however he gets tossed aside by another penguin who has eyes for Marina, a big, hulking obviously designed to be the villain penguin named Drake. Hubie must travel across miles of ocean with a new friend, a Rockhopper Penguin named Rocko, to return to the island before Drake can marry Marina, or she gets banished by law. Overall, I'd say the story is... halfway solid. There is an idea here, and it does almost work. What is the biggest flaw? I guess it would be that it's a bit too formulaic, but it's not too bad in that regard. Obvious tropes like the "friends squabbling only to make up later" and the "Fake Out Death" are here, but for a kids movie, the plot isn't all that bad. I guess it could have probably benefited from fleshing out a few things, like for the most part we completely forget about Marina and Drake save for little snippets before the climax.

Maybe it would have been nice to spend more time with the characters, because they have some charm to them. Hubie is a shy but good-hearted guy, and it might just be that I am soft for this kind of character, but I can't hate him, plus he kicks a leopard seal in the face, that's pretty awesome. Marina is kind of bland, but to be fair, they do give a little moment to explain why she likes Hubie, I love it when the unrequited crush is not actually completely unrequited, and it's clear from the get-go that Marina does actually like Hubie. Really, the worst character in the movie is sadly the villain, Drake, who is just a bland and boring entitled jerk, like come on, I don't need uncomfortably buff Penguin version of Gaston. Sadly, it does not help that he is voiced by Tim Curry, and as much as I love Tim Curry, something about this performance didn't quite work, Tim Curry works as the slimy and sinister evil, not really the pompous and arrogant evil. He is more Maleficent brand evil and less Cruella brand.

This is not to say that the voice acting is subpar, for the most part there are some good talents here. Shani Wallis is the narrator and she does have that voice for it, Jim Belushi as Rocko is pretty good casting, and Annie Golden as Marina was actually really good. Plus, there are cameo appearances by names like Will Ryan, B. J. Ward, Pat Musick, Maggie Roswell, and Scott Bullock who is known for his role as Hades in Kid Icarus: Uprising. Really, it is just Martin Short and Tim Curry who I don't fully gel with, Martin Short as Hubie does feel like good casting, he does have a voice that fits the kind of pathetic but lovable character Hubie is, I guess I just can't separate him from B.E.N. from Treasure Planet, which would come out about seven years later.

Then we have the songs, and the songs are absolutely, complete, one-hundred and ten percent okay. They're fine. I'm probably not going to be humming them, except for the Good Ship Misery song, and Tim Curry's villain song is sadly one of the less good songs in the movie, though least good might go to Martin Short and Jim Belushi's duet. I might flip flop on which one is the worst. Really, the biggest problem is just that the songs are just kind of... there. They fill their purpose and do nothing beyond that. I could imagine a soundtrack by Alan Menkin or Elton John, but instead we got Barry Mannilow. Well, I can think of worse people to get for the music of this movie.

Then we have the animation, and if you want a drinking game that will leave you with a hangover that makes you wish alcohol was banned, take a shot every time you notice an animation error in this movie. I've caught a few, characters in the background being frozen, which also happens during song sequences where they should be singing along in, in some cases you might find unfinished animation, I even think Hubie's hat was coloured incorrectly once. That being said, when the animation is actually animated it is pretty good. Don Bluth is a fantastic animator, and while I don't think this is as good as his early stuff, honestly there are times I think it gets close, like within earshot of something like Secret of NIMH. Really, I get the feeling this movie was rushed for a deadline, and if it had more time to get ironed out, this could have been Don Bluth's best movie since the 1980s instead of his least bad movie of his flop era.

Really that is the biggest problem with The Pebble and the Penguin, instead of being his best movie in a while, it's his least bad movie of a bunch, and that is a darn shame. The movie just needed some more time to iron out the wrinkles, mostly in the script and animation. I get why people can be nostalgic about this movie, I see it, I see a really good movie in here, it's just a shame we didn't get that. I'd actually really like to see an early draft script for this movie because I really do wonder what this movie could have been. Imagine a remake with rewritten songs and more time to flesh out the characters but with the same, or similar traditional animation. Still, I should focus on what we have instead of what could have been, and what we have is alright, like I wouldn't mind showing this to kids, I know the endorsement of "There are worse movies" is not a very... high endorsement, but still, I can't see this movie causing any harm.