Despicable Me @ Causeway point
Despicable Me! Great movie!
Watch Despicable Me with my dear last Friday night after hearing very good reviews on the film. Though the film is produced by a very small film studio called Illumination Entertainment, the animation quality and humor is on par with dreamworks and pixel. Instead of using air-conditioned server farms to render images, the company asked IBM to built a customized server farm using the iDataPlex system, a processing system that cuts down on energy use by 40% compared to traditional server farms. It's especially important because CGI films requires a lot of servers and power in order to render each individual frame and such small studio does not have the large resources to afford them.
Despite the great humor and animation, the movie lacked of story plot and it's rather simple and predictable. Well, one may defend saying that it's easier for kids to understand. However with a better story plot, it will put the studio to a better position in fighting the big animation giants like Pixel and Dreamworks.
Small animation studios are beginning to pull off great films nowadays. I hope one day Singapore will have one too, a high quality one of course...
4 stars for this film!
July 15th, 2010 - 19:29
For Singapore to pull off a better firm, they have to walk out of the shadow of the “12 zodiac” =X