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Critics are quick to note that despite being distributed by an arm of the Disney empire, the film is about as different from The Little Mermaid as you can get, and it "makes Hollywood's homiletic, follow-your-dream fables look even more solipsistic" (David Edelstein, Slate ). Most impressive is the "exotically beautiful" artwork (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ); the director is reported to have personally retouched some 80,000 of the film's 1.4 million cells.
Without reason and knowledge, say Catholics and other believers in this way of reconciling reason with faith, the teachings of the Bible look like magical fables instead of moral teachings.
Also, a few years ago, when left to choose his own material, Travolta made the hideous Phenomenon , thereby demonstrating a Cagneyesque taste for treacly fables.
The movie has a scope that makes Hollywood's homiletic, follow-your-dream fables look even more solipsistic.
--Aesop's Fables