Question: Will America’s current ennui for CG animation - or at least the talking animals/objects - help to cultivate more sophisticated tastes in animation, and possibly save anime in the process? Or will this just hurt the animation industry in general? Ratatouille was less profitable than The Simpsons movie. Bolt lost to Twilight. Pixar’s Up got upstaged by The Hangover. Yet A Scanner Darkly did better than the director’s previous rotoscoped work, Waking Life. Persepolis had enough buzz to be

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