Interesting NY Times article on this years glut of CGI movies

I think it's selling kids short to say that they reject hand-drawn animation on sight as being archaic - Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network are rife with shows that succeed with kids despite being hand-drawn. The problem, I think, is that studios believe that without the technical wow, kids either won't want to see a movie, or more likely, they won't be able to justify ticket cost to their parents. Also, you don't want to make your product too different from what's already worked - an unproven idea is always an undue fiscal risk. So more wisecracking, animals, and wisecracking animals, stat!
Sad to say, but a moratorium on animated features of any stripe, until such time as they can think of better ways than Spice Girls karaoke and butt jokes as a means to flesh out character, would be welcome.

Jam it back in, in the dark.