🏴‍☠️ Why does Disneyland’s new pirate animatronic look so cartoony? A new portrait Disney also added to Pirates of the Caribbean explains it, pointing to the origins of the ride itself. Critics are arguing that the new Pirates of the Caribbean animatronic, with its CG-animated face, doesn't fit the aesthetic of the ride. Does something this exaggerated and cartoony belong in a ride as dark as Pirates? Well, in the 1960s, similar tensions over style and tone were part of what shaped Pirates in t