Dacey wrote:I'm a little confused by what you're going for. "Nervous Lilo & Stitch flashbacks?" That movie made a ton of money for Disney in the long run, and won them lots of praise, too.
Yes, but...that was AFTER the movie came out.
Before, Disney hadn't the faintest clue how to sell it, and thought showing us Stitch parodies of every
other recognizable Disney jokes (with a few too-short out-of-context space clips at the end) would get us into the theater.
(I remember when fans thought L&S actually
was going to be 90 minutes of Stitch crashing Disney classics, and went into fervors that Disney was "embracing Shrek"...And since they hadn't bothered to tell us yet who or what "Lilo" was, we thought that was another alien. Well, yes and no.

)
Here, Disney knows they can sell The Muppets, period, a lot more effectively than they can sell Recycled Country Bears Knockoff, so keep the parodies going as long as they don't have to show the real thing.
Unfortunately, a couple seconds of the Mean Rich Guy plot sneaked into the last trailer....Oops. Although the trailer teases "Look, folks, we ALMOST got some plot!", which suggest they probably are rationing it out carefully.
(And why do I keep wishing they'll make some reference to Scooter's uncle J.J. Grosse?)
Ben wrote:If anything they know they have something great but are bringing it out in marketplace that has seen the popularity fade a bit. Better to hold back and really surprise than to spill it all early,
Well, there's good AND bad "surprises", that's the point.
