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As the Disney Renaissance reached its peak with 1994’s
The Lion King, other studios abruptly began to see that theatrical animation had become a viable blockbuster subgenre, capable of raking in millions of dollars. Many studios opened their own animation divisions, and executives at Warner Bros. Animation tried to start their journey toward animation riches with a big fantasy action-adventure musical:
Quest for Camelot.
But
Quest for Camelot became the first indication that perhaps the tried-and-true Disney formula wouldn’t last forever and that other studios couldn’t achieve success just by copy-pasting it. While the creatives who worked on the project were passionate, mixed messages from executives who chose marketing over storytelling doomed the movie from the very beginning. But even though it earned poor box-office returns and got poor reviews, it meant something to kids who grew up with it, especially those who, for the first time, got to watch a young woma
Your favorite childhood movie might’ve been a total box-office dud. The animated movies that defined the late ‘90s and early 2000s are beloved by a generation that grew up watching them on VHS, but many of these nostalgic favorites were critical failures, box-office disappointments, or both.
What went wrong along the way? And why did they gain such love after the fact? The is out to dust off those old VHS tapes (or, more accurately, find the movies on streaming) and examine some of these films.
In the late 1990s, right at the height of the Disney Renaissance and before American animation diverged into snappy comedies and more serious adventures, the short-lived Turner Animation and Warner Bros. Pictures released