Bluth had a really good start, but he lost his momentum when he broke up with Spielberg, and every movie since Land Before Time had a lot of obvious executive meddling and pressure to be more Disney-like. He had good ideas and talent, but what can you do. Secret of Nimh is still one of my favorite movies. It's a shame that rumored Dragon's Lair movie never happened. It would have been neat if it were like Dragon's Lair II and it was just 90 straight minutes of the silent protagonist narrowly avoiding death over and over.
Apparently he's going to be animating videogames now, which sounds interesting, let's see how that works out.
Published on April 18, 2011 13:27