Shrek Retold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM70TROZQsI is a similar fan-made reproduction, but it's way more polished. The movie is split into roughly 1min sections, with each one done by a different creator. The quality is all over the place, in a hilarious way. One minute it's produced by a professional animator nailing the scenes, then the next minute it's people goofing around in their backyard.
I love the differences between those three movies (The Free Movie, Shrek Retold and Star Wars Uncut).
Star Wars really looks like a work of love. Shrek looks like a work of love that tries it's best to not take itself seriously. Free Movie looks like a bizarre troll post.
While this is coherent with each movie's tone itself, and perhaps with the time each "demaster" was made (I don't know, I didn't check), I feel like this is most coherent with how each movie is viewed by the community:
- Star Wars is a beloved movie, with a huge honest fan base. Thus, it was remade with love and attention to detail.
- Shrek is a beloved movie, but doesn't take itself seriously in the first place, and is also a meme. Thus it was remade with love, but trying hard to look like it's a troll.
- Bee Movie is mainly a meme, isn't AFAIK a beloved movie, and its fan base is mostly made of memers and trolls. Thus it was low-effortly remade at this non-flattering image.
Bee movie has more of a cult fanbase at best. It's still Seinfeld, and the jokes aged surprisingly well.
But there's only so far you can get with a story of a bee breaking out of his natural programming,followed by a bee-human romance, followed by said bee suing humanity for stealing bee-kind's honey. You can't even truly explain the plot without breaking it down into 3 episodes.
It's a surprisingly good benchmark to ask "is it better than Bee movie" when measuring other Dreamworks movies against themselves.
You forgot the part where the bees then sit around and do nothing after getting all their honey back. It's basically a diatribe against universal basic income, since without the incentive to slave away for the rest of their lives, their lives become meaningless.
> Star Wars is a beloved movie, with a huge honest fan base. Thus, it was remade with love and attention to detail.
Agreed. Star Wars Uncut exists because devotees wanted to set the record straight regarding controversial changes in later versions, and their efforts were laudable. Still, the image and sound quality cannot match the latest, greatest studio versions, so watching Uncut versions on the newest home theatre gear means accepting the warts and all.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's remaster was also a labour of love but with a different purpose (image clarity and upscaling):
I believe you are confusing Star Wars Uncut with Star Wars Despecialized Edition. Image and sound quality are far, far away from the first thing I would point out when distinguishing Uncut from the studio masters.
Similar is "South Park Reanimated: The List" [1]. From the description:
> 6 years, 175 animators, 260 unique scenes, 1 copyright dispute, and a lot of love-- we are proud to finally present the South Park Reanimated Project! We are so grateful for everyone who participated and made this such an amazing recreation. We hope you enjoy!
