there's a fine line between "original" and "variations on a long-established theme".
Bolt, from one perspective, is the typical "road-movie", with shades of Cars (pandered rich-kid finds himself on the streets) and Toy Story (character with special powers in fictional world has to learn to live without them in the real world).
Madagascar? The idea of a tamed animal learning to live in the wild again? That's Call of the Wild by Jack London. With fart jokes. And yet more CGI penguins (like we haven't had enough of them).
Twilight? And this is different from the HBO series True Blood how? I wonder which was pitched first...The whole "vampire romance" genre is ancient, and this doesn't strike me as being all that "original" a variation.
Now, variations on themes can be done well, but "original" is a relative term in Hollywood, and quality means more than just the amount of money spent on it.
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Bolt, from one perspective, is the typical "road-movie", with shades of Cars (pandered rich-kid finds himself on the streets) and Toy Story (character with special powers in fictional world has to learn to live without them in the real world).
Madagascar? The idea of a tamed animal learning to live in the wild again? That's Call of the Wild by Jack London. With fart jokes. And yet more CGI penguins (like we haven't had enough of them).
Twilight? And this is different from the HBO series True Blood how? I wonder which was pitched first...The whole "vampire romance" genre is ancient, and this doesn't strike me as being all that "original" a variation.
Now, variations on themes can be done well, but "original" is a relative term in Hollywood, and quality means more than just the amount of money spent on it.