Saturday, June 16, 2012

Family entertainment sickens Billy VICKY ROACH National Features June 13, 2012 7:00PM (NEWS.COM.AU)


Comedian Billy Connolly voices a character in new Disney film Brave. Picture: John Fotiadis

BILLY Connolly would like it to be known that his recent collaboration with Disney does not signal a shift towards the middle of the road.

"As a matter of fact, that whole family thing makes me puke," says the comedian, 69, with characteristic baldness.

"When somebody says they are a family entertainer, I think: I must remember not to see them. It means they are completely inoffensive and not going anywhere near the edge."

For Connolly, giving voice to Brave's loveable and unreconstructed 10th century King Fergus had more to do with posterity.

"What I love about making animated films is you get the feeling, rightly or wrongly, that your grandchildren's children will probably see it - they tend to last for ages," he says.

"I get a weird buzz out of that rather than the goody- goody stuff."


READ MORE:  http://www.news.com.au/news/family-entertainment-sickens-billy/story-fn6c8sdb-1226394550913