Quote Originally Posted by warty goblin View Post
This is frustrating because there's a really good point about working towards goals you might fail at in there, and handling failure and its attendant pain, and it ignores it completely.
Disney, in the current climate, is terrified of offending people with this very message though. So they have to water it down to the point where you are expecting it, but it's not there, and you note its absence as a result. Which makes the final product just feel... off.

What's the old saying?: You can please some of the people all of the time, or all of the people some of the time, but if you try to please all of the people all of the time, you end up with watered down, sanitized, garbage that no one wants to actually pay money for (Ok. I may have paraphrased that last bit). Worse, they aren't even trying to "please all the people, all the time", they're trying to "not offend any people, any time", which is an even more aburd exercise in futility. Pick a theme for a film, commit to it, stick to it. Some people will love it. Some may hate it. That's fine. But being so afraid of anyone hating something, that you shy away from anything interesting or meaningful, will guarantee a "meh" reaction from everyone.

And that's pretty much the current Disney. So afraid of their own shadow, that they're just spinning in place.