If you like " Flying Out the Future " and " Simpsons ", you may have high expectations for these two American animation works, screenwriter Matt Groning. If you do, then the first animation work "Disillusion" created by Matt Groning for Netflix will likely make you "Disillusion" about Matt Groning.
Does not compare "Flying Out of the Future" and "The Simpsons" with "Disillusion", and watching "Disillusion" independently is also an interesting work. At first glance, it looks like an anti-"Disney fairy tale" cartoon, with the protagonist being set as the princess of the Dreamland of the Kingdom of Dreams. As soon as this character is spoken, the loyal audience of Matt Groning's works will feel familiar. Abby Jacobson, who dubbed "Xiaobi" Princess , also made a name for himself in the series "Flying Out of the Future" and "The Simpsons". The character is still the kind of character in the previous work, with the style of a pure American girl from the blood, dares to take risks, is depressed and despair.
Princess Tiabini is eighteen years old this year. Fifteen years ago, her mother was petrified by mistake by taking poison. Her father remarried, and she remarried the aristocratic woman who was like a lizard. She also gave birth to a son. Because of the appearance of male heirs, Xiaobi, although she was a princess, had no throne to inherit. She was pulled by a nanny and began to drink alcohol during adolescence. After adulthood, she began to yearn for love that burned her lower body.
In an era when Disney has begun to engage in "anti-routine" princess fairy tales, the image of an extraordinary princess like "Disappointed" actually does not have many innovations. One wood has three piles, one princess has two gangs, and then look at the people around the princess.
A devil "Luxi" is set to tempt the princess' soul into the abyss, but for a princess who is unrestrained and fearless, the abyss may not be very scary either. This name is taken from the little devil of the Fallen Six-winged Archangel Lucifer. In addition to the black color, the character function and performance are the same as the little fire dragon sent by the ancestors of the Hua family in the Disney animated movie " Mulan ". The fire-breathing function can only be used as a lighter. It has a lot of words and offers suggestions at critical moments.
Another is the elf "Elf", with one more syllable than the English word "Elf". It was born in a country with a code called the "Law of Happiness". This country has no brains, no sorrows and troubles, only the repeated mechanical labor and stupid happiness every day. Because Iver failed to fall in love with the king's daughter, he experienced the troubles of growing up. So like all adolescents, he forced to say sadness in writing new words. The ancient Chinese boy went up the stage alone, and the elf Iver ran away from home. After a scene of a mountain eagle flying, dwarfs and orcs playing against each other in a parody of The Hobbit, Iver broke into Princess Little Bi's life.
At Xiaobi's first wedding in her life, the chaotic adolescent princess and the devil who symbolizes evil and the elves who symbolize goodness jointly embark on an adventure that is unreliable and cannot withstand scrutiny at all.
In an era where spoofs are seriously overrated, a cartoon that is always against routines and spoofs everywhere has nothing new. The story of "Disappointment" is not complete. The first seven episodes of the first season make people feel that this is a spoof animation about anti-Disney fairy tales. The alcoholic princess follows the devil and the elves to the world. In order to make the princess continue to experience adventures, the audience has to forgive all the possible marriage partners of the princess in the cartoon for being spoofed until her death. Princess Xiaobi still lives and goes on and goes on.
After seven episodes of tossing, "Disappointment" suddenly became a Marvel cosmic family ethics suspense drama. The first queen who thought it was the white moonlight suddenly turned back and was revealed to have turned black early in the morning. His Majesty, who was originally determined to pursue immortality, suddenly felt affectionate and patriotic, and suddenly revealed a trace of nostalgia for the kingly power and state affairs and heartache for the misfortune of family life like the "fat deer" Robert Baratheon on the Iron Throne in the animation... On the pirate ship where monsters and ghosts are all in "Pirates of the Caribbean", the first season is coming to an end, slapped several times in the face of the success of the second season.In order to gain audience recognition in the second season, to be precise, the audiences of "Flying Out of the Future" and "The Simpsons", Matt Groning really needs to be a little more awake.
Like all Matt Groning's works, you can also see ridicule and subversive parody of several classic works in "Disappointment". Tolkien's Middle-earth and George R.R. Martin's Westeros scenes are scattered in cartoons, and the shadow of Disney's classic adventure fantasy works are also shrouded in "Disappointment". The necessary magic, rare beasts, giants, elves, dwarves, princesses, knights... are available in medieval stories, and can be seen everywhere. But these elements are more like Easter eggs, waiting statically to be discovered without dynamically playing their due role in the play.
In fact, "Disappointment" does not organize a systematic story that can support two seasons and twenty episodes. In addition to expressing disappointment with Matt Groning, the main problem may be that Netflix releases all episodes at once. Matt Groning's previous two highly acclaimed works were amber that was precipitated over a long period of time. Not every episode of these works is very outstanding, but they happen to be at the moment when they are broadcast. In other words, they were created on hot spots, and animation has become a microcosm of the times.
Netflix needs to pre-made stories. After Netflix uses data to understand the audience's preferences and becomes bolder, booking several quarters at a time may be more of a challenge for creators like Matt Groning. His advantages have not been available, and all the shortcomings are exposed. Audiences are inevitably disillusioned when watching "Disappointment". In a sense, it is considered to be a benevolence.
