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I'm still hoping to catch it somewhere, if not at the El Cap.
But frankly, I'm dismayed by the method that was used to make the film 3-D. Apparently, every character and set and object was scanned into a computer, and everything was completely recreated and recomposited as computer imagery. Reportedly, this results in seeing even more detail of the original puppets and sets .... but I feel as if I'm not watching the original puppets and sets.
I guess, in a way, photography provides just as much of a false image of the puppets as a computer scan of those puppets ... but I feel very odd and displeased that I would not be seeing the painstaking stop-motion work done by human artists, but rather computer scans of that work. It just doesn't quite sit right with me.
Strangely, I wouldn't so much mind a computerization of hand-drawn 2-D animation ... but computerizing the stop-motion work sorta bugs me.
(And I also find it strangely amusing that the new Aardman film, Flushed Away, uses computers to generate characters in the exact style of their previous hand-wrought claymation efforts.)
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