The internet is still reeling over the fact that Universal Studios hired a special effects artist to add cat buttholes to the characters in Tom Hooper’s Cats film only to hire another special effects artist to cover them up before the movie hit the big screen and internet infamy. Now, it appears that we are on the cusp of our next butt CGI related scandal, but this time the culprit is none other than Disney.
One of the classic films that fans can now see on the Disney+ streaming network is Splash, the classic tale of a mermaid that comes to shore for love starring Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, and John Candy. If you’ve never seen Splash, you are missing out. It’s a great movie that stands up 36 years after the film’s release.
Here’s the thing. Disney+ is going out of the way to be family-friendly. Like… seriously out of the way. They already moved PG-rated TV spin-off of the film Love, Simon to Hulu because of its LGBTQ friendly themes. They have also shut down the Lizzie Mcguire sequel series, allegedly, for similar reasons. Now, it looks like their puritanical take on what is and is not family-friendly has resulted in a really horrible edit to Splash.
In Splash, there are one or two, very limited, scenes where Daryl Hannah’s butt is showing. It makes sense. She’s not wearing pants when she’s half-fish. When her fins turn into legs, it’s not like she’d magically be wearing yoga pants. Where her butt used to be is now some of the worst movie CGI we’ve ever seen. Is it an extension of her hair? Is it fur? It looks like a bad bit of wall texture from the original Doom video game.
The discovery has been made public by Twitter user @AllisonPregler, who is doing her part to spread the word.
Here’s a screengrab of the offending CGI censorship.
Butts happen. Hiding a butt that appears on screen for just a couple of seconds isn’t family-friendly, it says that the human body is a bad thing. One of the best things Disney+ did was to release the uncut versions of the entire series run of Gargoyles. That series includes blood, fighting, guns, even death. We love every frame of that show and wouldn’t change a second of it. Why is it that the violence is OK, but a few frames of a couple of cheeks require a slapdash cover-up?
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