In 1989 two movies showed police detectives battling crime
with difficult dogs: K9 and Turner and Hooch. In 1995 we were treated to Babe
and Gordy, featuring cute talking piglets who try to save their bacon. Two
years later everyone ignored volcanologists' warnings in Dante’s Peak and
Volcano. All life on Earth was threatened by huge asteroids in Armageddon and
Deep Impact in 1998. That same year misfit ants tried to win the affection of
their princesses in Antz and A Bug’s Life. Red Planet and Mission to Mars
showed manned Mars landings going horribly wrong in 2000. In 2005 we saw
animated zoo animals breaking free in Madagascar and The Wild. 2006, with Happy
Feet and Surf’s Up, was clearly the year of the penguin. 2012 gave us two
versions of the same fairy tale: Mirror, Mirror and Snow White and the
Huntsman. It seems to me that Hollywood works harder at imitation than
innovation.
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