I have a question about your new movie, Hotel Transylvania and your opinion on the state of animated children's movies. It seems as if lately there is a very thin line that animated movies attempt to toe between creating humor suitable for children and imbuing films with humor for the parents that are taking their children. These jokes tend to be "over the head" of the younger members of the audience. I understand that it is important to provide a fun experience for parents and it certainly helps to attract an older audience when there are tongue-in-cheek jokes and pop-culture references but does it harm the experience for the "target audience" of younger children?
As a director/writer/producer who has always included what some might call irreverent humor in his work, how do you walk this line in your new movie? Do you feel you still put your signature in this movie and that those who see it will recognize it as your work?
I also heard that this is the first picture in a multi-picture deal with Sony Pictures Animation and that there is potentially an animated Popeye feature in the works?!
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I have a question about your new movie, Hotel Transylvania and your opinion on the state of animated children's movies. It seems as if lately there is a very thin line that animated movies attempt to toe between creating humor suitable for children and imbuing films with humor for the parents that are taking their children. These jokes tend to be "over the head" of the younger members of the audience. I understand that it is important to provide a fun experience for parents and it certainly helps to attract an older audience when there are tongue-in-cheek jokes and pop-culture references but does it harm the experience for the "target audience" of younger children?
As a director/writer/producer who has always included what some might call irreverent humor in his work, how do you walk this line in your new movie? Do you feel you still put your signature in this movie and that those who see it will recognize it as your work?
I also heard that this is the first picture in a multi-picture deal with Sony Pictures Animation and that there is potentially an animated Popeye feature in the works?!
HUGE fan, thanks!
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