First, Happy (delayed) New Year 2026 everyone!
Then, the new year is not going to be very ordinary-- animation-related -- where many beloved 2001s productions that were the cornerstones of the new century are all going to own 25 this year.
2001 was historically a year of doubts and somehow, angsts, by not even known what kind of ride the 21th century strive us for. The culture of animation has morphed years ago, but never than in 2001, we seen all a change of motions of the way fans consumed contents on any capability.
Before legal streamings, there was online piracy. The classic animation-bubble that were hip in the 1990s went clearly deemed for nostalgia (Reason why Boomerang is made.). Such old fan-favorites like Looney Tunes or The Flintstones are become too outdated for the today's youths standards, by make us know that these productions reflected their time.
2001 offered us some nuggets, like the first-ever Shrek film that were a monster (No pun intented) hit for that summer, by be a game-changer of how animated movies have to be made: It was a Fairy Tales spoof! No musical numbers! Big stars who make the voices! Katzenberg and company taking many risks with this, by eschewed the old mold of 90s animated features that audience was clearly exhausted of this. And where Pixar is no longer alone to producing high-quality CGI movies with the portfolio of Dreamworks, by become the acorn of CGI animated features for the upcoming decade.
The Warner Bros.-Animaniacs kind of irreverent humor was somehow also dated by that time, judging of the number of merchandising and videos line of Looney Tunes for the masses, to be reducing to a trio of Japanese Tweetys DVDs (It was so popular there!) and a re-issue of Bugs Bunny's Movie 3rd Rabbit Tales but with a newer cover art and a Disney-esque white-clamshell box tape in what would be one of the very final Looney Tunes products on cassette tape with the final five compilations of classic shorts from Columbia House before the company closed their shop few years later.
About the newer stuff, well, the fans we are owned a newer relief of joy, after a fewer years of cynical madcap from some animated studios. Totally Spies!, Spirited Away, The Fairly Oddparents, Braceface, the launch of Adult Swim with the likes of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, The Brak Show and the reason why it exists, Samurai Jack and on my personal enjoyment, The New Adventures of Lucky Luke, when Morris has worked and written some of the episodes before to passed away in July, few weeks before its original Premiere. These are arguably the newer "classic" cartoons, with all the respect I can credited for.
But on a personal note, 2001 was rather a dry year to me. The high-school I have spending the three previous years there were no longer my place due to age and a transfer of school went inevitable by staying for the remaining five years and more. I missed clearly the many laughs, conflicts and human touch I hanging with the friends I got, and to my surprise, one of them was in my work yesterday for his shopping by have known me... for the second time in fewer years!
Never than in that year, I was disposed to churn out the classic WB library for my own selfish needs. The first official DVD lines of these weren't come yet, but the Looney Tunes characters stars had struggled overtime to the inconsistencies of the studio's politics. Mistakes that are more egregious than others were featuring in the digital long run thought: What about DVNR, interlacing, foreign audio tracks, cropped widescreen or the outrageous mess with Porky Pig 101 about the music featuring in a couple of title-card shorts? (I would spending my days watching it over and over when the music wasn't too overbearing and because I didn't known better)
And all that are done before to known that I could be a creator on my own... Nowadays, this pleased me less with all these hacks and opportunists who make the high-life with our tax and the credit card of their parents!
For some, the 1950s-60s are the classic period era. To me, it was the 00s -- For the best and the worse. A decade of twist and turns by be the final time when productions became still watchable and pleasant. After passed 2010, everything is changed for the worse with the creative hack era, where everyone is been rude and arrogant because of social media and the toxic frictions of the modern-day world.
Creators need to work their respect or empathy anyday, especially with the war in Iran, Ukraine - AND NOW - Venezuela, instead to lecturing us that art is important for people, when this is obvious that they have never spending a day in a hospital, a school or a senior home and go to work... with real people and by grab a real lunchbox too!
We don't have the luxury to abandonned the human service for the Automated ones or those made from drones in stores. I have to encounter it for the second Holidays in a row this year.
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