Whats with all the hate on Runaway Brain?

I'm sure that there are people who are familiar with Disney know this Mickey Mouse short. Disney doesn't seem to like discussing about this particular Mickey Mouse short. Whats with all the hate of it?

It's more like Disney marketing people hate it because it doesn't fit into the wholly sanitized image of Mickey that's been around for so damn long. There's plenty of people in the company that love Runaway Brain.

I love Runaway Brain, but Disney seems to be deadly terrified of anything non Pixar that goes against its usual saccharine coated image. See the fate of the Disney Afternoon shows.

Disney seems to forget that in the early days of Disney, the cartoons that were produced then scared the pants off of kids.

It's Disney themselves. Most people seem to like it (and it was far better than the film it was attached to, A Kid in King Arthur's Court).

edited 21st Apr '11 8:36:30 AM by Buscemi

I love this short, its one of my favorite Mickey Mouse shorts. Wished they made something similar to this. I used to be friends with a Disney animator who worked on this project, he mentioned to me that Disney's marketing was rather worried regarding on the matter of it.

Disney acts like it doesn't exist because they need to battle producing quality stories with their own wholesome, clean-cut, family image, which, they don't seem to realize, are two different things. The protagonist needs to have a problem with themselves in order for there to be a story. He needs to be relatable to the audience, have flaws, and overcome his own thought process to fix the problem. Mickey, in this short, neglected his girlfriend, was lazy, forgetful, played video games into the night so that he looked like a zombie, and had to win back her trust when the problem arose! After that short, Mickey had none of that until Warren Spector tried to bring that element back with Epic Mickey. I have no idea who thought up Runaway Brain or why in God's earth it was made, but it was a step in a direction Disney could've used to make themselves as taken seriously as some of the more mature stories other studios adapt, and they gave up on it.

Probably because they attached it to A Kid in King Arthur's Court rather than something like Mr. Holland's Opus.

The CG Coyote/Road Runner shorts are also attached to bad films. I wonder what compels studios to do that.

Money.

They still get paid if you walk out halfway through the film!

Legend of the Guardians was actually quite good (critics didn't like it for some reason). I agree with Cats and Dogs 2 and Yogi Bear being bad though (the 3-D was good on the latter however).

Isn't there like a trope for when people go to a movie and are only interested in the beginning short or trailer? It's like with Star Wars ep 1 Teaser.

Wing Commander the movie, which stands as the only video game movie in history to have less star power than the franchise it was based on.

Just Here for Godzilla.

Didnt Runaway brain also get shown with A goofy movie?

That WAS where it premiered. XP

Only on the international releases. It wasn't ready in time for the American release.

"D'ur, let's add this animated short in front of National Treasure 2, because everyone LOOOOVES cartooonths! A-hyuk!"

That cartoon turned out to be the only good thing about National Treasure 2.

Yeah, that goofy cartoon was the only reason why I saw National Treasure 2.

$18.50 for a traditionally-animated, 5-minute cartoon by the professionals? Heck, THEY DESERVE THAT MUCH! Everyone should've just walked out after the short ended!

Watching a cartoon short in an actual movie theater just like the old days was just too special to pass up.

Yeah, it's a marketing thing. Monster!Mickey made the people in charge nervous, although it's hard to guess what they were so afraid of. That people wouldn't like this one short, and that it would weigh more strongly on the public image of Mickey Mouse than every other thing they remeember him from? That it would scare the kiddies and their parents would write strongly worded letters? It's like it's become axiomatic that Disney animation = wholesome and there must be no blurring of the lines between the good guys and bad guys.

Even Warren Spector had a peaceful relationship with Disney through the production of Epic Mickey, and they STILL made him water everything down after the initial design work (though, that was more to see how far they could go with the Nightmare Fuel), and forced him to prematurely finish the game by Christmas 2010! Mischevious Mickey never made it past the writing stage.

edited 24th Apr '11 8:01:17 AM by Shota

Well, part of scrapping the Scrapper Mickey was that Spector hadn't thought of a way to show your playstyle in a subtle manner at that point and when the alternative Guardians system came up, he figured it would be better then the blatant Fable "Evil Wings" method.