"We're...living in the Golden Age of animation"

The Cannes Film Festival entrusted its opening to a Pixar film, and the animation studio did not disappoint.

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Cannes audiences are notoriously vocal. They'll whistle if they're unhappy -- a French version of a boo -- and a movie that doesn't meet the audience's high standards will be treated to the repeated "whop" sounds of theater seats banging shut as patrons leave.

"Up," on the other hand, received little but cheers. CNN's Natasha Curry, who's at the festival, reports a morning screening concluded with applause.

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"The Pixar films, the Hayao Miyazaki films from Japan, the Wallace and Gromit films from Britain -- we're really living in the golden age of animation, one of the great ages of animation in the whole history of film," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/14/up.cannes.reviews/index.html

Anyone disagree?

These days, with the ability to spread info so fast, even the most obscure animation can find a niche crowd now, and get exposure that it would never had been able to do before the internet. There's always been awesome stuff out there, but finding it was a challenge.

To me it's like music though. There may be more crap out there now, but there's also more quality stuff out there as well. And now we have the means to find it all, good or bad.