(The Fat Albert kids boggle at cell phones and laptops the Smurfs pointedly praise Sony’s brand partners.) But all this assumes the filmmakers are interested in the real world in the first place. There’s still room for commentary in even the laziest cartoons-in-the-real-world story, though, in how those cartoons relate to the world we take for granted. Less-ambitious stories-2000’s The Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle, 2004’s Fat Albert, 2011’s The Smurfs-acknowledge the fantasy, but may be more about the cost-saving device of using live-action instead of full animation, or about upping the scale to big-screen size by removing long-established characters from their well-explored, insular settings. That partially explains the proliferation of feature films where fictional characters find a magical portal into our world: Movies like Last Action Hero, The Purple Rose Of Cairo, and Enchanted use the trope to comment wryly on both the fantasy of hanging out with fictional characters and the disconnect between cinematic wonderlands and prosaic reality. Most kids have at some point wished that their favorite TV or movie characters could step out of the screen to say hi.
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