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Originally posted by Satellites
The Academy Awards and the Box Office Gross say different.  |
You can't compare.
The Little Mermaid came out in 1989 when animation was dead. Pocahontas followed the monster that was The Lion King, and it failed to deliver.
When Mermaid came out, Disney had suffered through a series of huge flops like The Black Cauldron, and animation in general had been in a rut since Walt's death in 1966. It didn't make as much as Pocahontas, but it is a landmark in animation, the way it revitalized the medium is still felt today. Even today's computer generated films owe The Little Mermaid.
Pocahontas didn't get great reviews, especially compared to its predecessors during Disney's renaissance (Mermaid, Beauty, Aladdin, Lion King). Beauty is the first animated film ever to get a Best Picture nomination. What's more, each of those previous films earned more than the last, but Pocahontas couldn't even make half of what LK made. It marked the beginning of the end for 2D animation.
