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** Shrek is also blamed by fans of traditional animation for [[Genre Killer|ending the dominance of traditional animation]] and about the rise of [[All CGI Cartoons]] laden with [[Shout-Out|pop cultural references]] that would become dated within months, an over-reliance on [[Toilet Humor]], overuse of [[Parental Bonus]] and [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] to the point where it gets annoying, and gratuitous celebrity casting. Granted, [[Looney Tunes|Warner Bros.]] had done pop cultural references [[Older Than They Think|back in the]] [[Golden Age of Animation]]; [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney]] often cast big name celebrities in their films since ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', and pretty much EVERY animation studio has slipped crap past the radar in their films, but Shrek and [[Shark Tale|similar]] [[Madagascar|movies]] are the culmination of these trends, for better or for worse.

* ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'' showed that not only can animation be entertaining and longer than 5 minutes, but that the audience can be emotionally connected with animated characters.

{{quote|[''[[Harry Potter]]'' is] a film series that, for better or worse, seems to have kicked off and excelled at every major trend in modern movie-making for the last decade. Things like the boom in the [[Fantasy]] genre, to the reliance on [[Derivative Works|recognized franchise names]], to the idea of [[Marvel Cinematic Universe|long-running cinematic continuity]], can all be traced back to this one game-changing production. Like it or not, the entire scope of movies are now living in the world that ''[[Harry Potter]]'' created.}}

** The ''Potter'' films most clearly sparked a trend towards more faithful and straightforward adaptations of novels, particularly fantasy novels aimed at children and/or young adults. The prior trend of combing seperate installments of a novel series into one film was killed in favor of adapting each novel individually in the hopes of creating a money-spinning movie franchise. When the live-action ''[[Chronicles of Narnia]]'' movies were first planned, [[Executive Meddling]] was aimed at relocating the story to America. But after the success of the first ''Potter'' film, the executives suddenly didn't have a problem with keeping the British setting of the novels.