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Vote On The September 2021 What A Cartoon Movie!
🕑 Added 2021-07-31 15:00:05 +0000 UTC
The summer is nearing the end, but we hosts of the Talking Simpsons Network are just getting warmed up! Not only are more great episodes of Talking Simpsons and What A Cartoon headed your way, but we're also due for another of our monthly $10 premium podcasts, so we'll need your help to decide what we'll be covering in September.
As regular subscribers should know, we're often so far ahead in podcast recordings that we've already recorded August's What A Cartoon Movie! (The Lion King), meaning that in August we have enough time open on our schedule to record our September 2021 movie podcast, and we can start on that as soon as you choose the subject for us!
For those of you who are new to the Talking Simpsons Patreon, WELCOME. Also, you should know that once a month we release the What A Cartoon Movie! podcast, an extra-long discussion about an animated feature film, exclusively for our $10+ Patreon subscribers. And when we open up the voting for each month's subject, we want all the $5 subscribers to also have a chance to be heard too, so those subscribers can help pick episodes they might enjoy down the line!
Our next 2021 poll is inspired by how much we've talked around the early era of Dreamworks Animation & Jeffrey Katzenberg, so we want to dig into it even more! For September we're going to let you choose our next film podcast from some of the best 2D animators the mid-1990s had to offer (before Toy Story and Shrek killed their industry)!
So here are the four early Dreamworks films you'll be voting on:
The Prince of Egypt (1998), the OId Testament tale of Exodus which challenged many viewers with a story that's a little mature than most Disney titles!
The Road to El Dorado (2000), the buddy comedy that inspired a million ships as Hope & Crosby adventure meets 1500s colonizers!
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003), the Brad Pitt-starring adventure film about high seas action that nearly killed Dreamworks Animation & 2D toons!
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002), this bucking bronco of a tale with some of the best horse animation around that went on to be an unlikely franchise!
So please, make your choice known before the poll closes on the night of September 7! And thanks as always for your continued support of our podcasts—we couldn't keep doing all our super-deep movie podcasts without you!
Comments
Paul Jansen
Could we vote for a different category? Ooof haha
Nathanial Miller
EXACTLY!
Nathanial Miller
Come on people! YES el dorado is an underrated movie, HOWEVER prince of egypt is superior cinema. Let's be honest with ourselves lol.
Rico Casanova
Practically everyone I grew up around loves this movie, except my Mexican family and friends (Nahua or Nican Tlaca if you’re nasty). I’d like to think the reasons were for lack of historical accuracy and genocidal whitewash, but I gotta be real. Mexicans love Elton John. Hell, flamboyant performers in general. And not one of these songs hit any of those sweet sweet highs heard in songs such as ¿Puedes Sentir El Amor Esta Noche? or Benny y Los Jets. My people need bangers.
Alex Irish
I’d rather Prince of Egypt win the poll, considering it makes the most sense to start from the beginning rather than a sophomore film
Alex Irish
Seems like all of Dreamworks’ 2D films dealt with degrees of backlash regarding their historical inaccuracies and “political correctness”. El Dorado with its Conquistadors, Spirit with its views of the old west and Native Americans, and Sinbad with changing an Arabic character into a Persian one. Prince of Egypt got away the most unscathed
Ron Sterling
There's still time POE PPL
Rico Casanova
Voted for POE because it made Sunday school less sufferable, but looks to me like it’s El Dorado - Come for the overtly queer subtext, stay for the colonialist white savior tropes. Excited to hear your thoughts on cartoon homoeroticism, indigenous representation in animated media, and the backlash the film (and other films of the past that deal with indigenous representation) continues to face in the wake of a post-Columbus Day/residential school system world.
I really want El Dorado but I'll settle with Prince of Egypt. I just saw that one for the first time recently in the last year and liked it much more than I thought I would
Kevin Peterson
Sinbad has the secret best dreamworks score.
Matt Fish
El DERADOOOOOOOO
Matt Bixler! Hello!
Prince of Egypt or El Dorado are both must-haves, but if you're gonna put them neck and neck I absolutely have to go with Egypt
Oscar Cardoza
Prince of Egypt has THE iconic When You Believe collaboration between Mariah and Whitney like c’mon now!
