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So is Dreamworks Animation just doing Pixar ripoffs now?

Discussion in 'Disney / Pixar' started by Rayancaleb, May 3, 2018.

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    HI,

    I came across the trailer for Shark Tale, and this looks like a pretty blatant cash in on Finding Nemo's success. It has a similar setting, similar looking characters and a similar animation style. Anyone else disappointed that they are doing what is obviously a ripoff of a Pixar movie?I guarantee this movie would not have existed without Finding Nemo. They just slapped a bunch of stars into a fish movie and figured it would make a profit. At least with Antz/Bug's Life they came out close enough together you could argue they were developed independently and it was just a coincedence, but this is just sad.

    Please help.

    I did not find the right solution from the internet.

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    "Nothing succeeds like success," as the axiom goes. Pretty much anytime a film scores a hit, there are going to be copycats. Most superheroes are more or less modified forms of Siegel and Shuster's Superman. Once Aaron Spelling's Charlie's Angels rocked the television airwaves, jiggle shows popped up like dandelions. And every wannabe with a camera was making knock-offs of Lucasfilm's Star Wars space opera.

    However, the story behind Pixar's Finding Nemo doesn't line up with that of DWA's Shark Tale. Yes, both share a setting of Fish World, but aside from that, there's a lot of dichotomy. Nota bene: Pixar never actually lodged a formal lawsuit for copyright infringement; Shark Tale has way too many differences to invoke "brand dilution," so Pixar didn't bother.

    So, film studios are going to continue peeking over their fences to see what "goodies" their rivals have got going on, and try their hand at something similar. In business, that's called the Rule of Minimal Differentiation. I call it Greener Grass Syndrome, but it's the same mechanism: mimic things that succeed, and shun those that fail.
    oneuglybunny, May 3, 2018
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