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By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:22:13 +0000

Agreed

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By: Gardea

Gardea — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:53:38 +0000

Great.

By: Kamil

Kamil — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:02:26 +0000

Roger Ebert is an idiot, and I’m embarrassed at the fact that he’s considered an “authority on cinema” and I’m not.

By: The Editor

The Editor — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:20:44 +0000

“Overanalyzation” is a perfectly cromulent word.

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:15:44 +0000

Dude…overanalysis is sufficient…overanalyzation is a “Bush-ism”. Be not a douche.

By: Rob Northrup

Rob Northrup — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:03:41 +0000

Disney’s “rules” about which animals speak have been broken ever since Pluto the barking dog on all fours failed to behave like Goofy, the speaking, walking dog.

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Mini-Analyzations « The Journal of Cartoon Over-analyzations — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:21:13 +0000

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By: Eli Salz

Eli Salz — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:03:11 +0000

You quote Roger Ebert for saying that the ability to talk is given to animals who are “cute” and “charming” leaving the predators mute.

What about Lion King where both Scar and the Hyenas talk?

If your answer is that it was one of the few movies where the presence of humans is absent so all animals talk to give the bad guys character and personality, then what about Jungle Book? Both Kaa and Sheir Khan speak.

I’m not counting either Robin Hood or the Great Mouse Detective because both of those have the easy argument that they are anthropomorphic (even more than usual) animals and replace the people who would’ve had a speaking roll.

Lackeys or side-kicks often can speak as well.

In the Fox and the Hound the older dog Chief is a “bad guy lackey” and he is able to talk. As is Iago the parrot from Aladdin, and the two eels Flotsam and Jetsam from the Little Mermaid both have a line or two.

In the end I think it’s less about the type of animal and more about the personality/charactization of the animal. If it’s supposed to be vicious and kill a baby (ie Tarzan) then there’s no real voice or dialog you can add in a kids movie to make it more terrible.