No other
animated movie this year quite had this kind of raw emotion.
Best
animated movie this year?
It's mostly disappointing given the overall lackluster state of
animated movies this year, especially after such a great selection of them last year.
Not exact matches
Meledandri founded Illumination, now owned by Universal Pictures, in 2007, and has produced some of the most popular
animated movies in recent
years, including Despicable Me and Minions.
The
animated movie powerhouse detailed how it improved its animation technology over the
years.
That
movie is positively bursting with creative energy, unforgettable characters, riotous comedy and genuine heart, and it was the easy favorite to win this
year's best
animated picture nod, if not pick up a nomination for Best Picture overall.
There's no shortage of
animated movies coming to the big screen each
year, and 2016 is ending in a big way with the release of Disney's Moana, a fantastic musical...
Transformers, the 1980s toys that later starred in their own
animated TV series, re-entered the public consiousness last
year when their full - length
movie came out.
CATONSVILLE, MD, January 25, 2018 — In the nearly 60
years between the 1939 release of Hollywood's first
animated movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and modern hits like Toy Story, Shrek and more, advances in animation technology have revolutionized not only animation techniques, but moviemaking as a whole.
Debuting in December 2007 with a three - episode - long pilot
movie,
Animated, despite being an... Chinese Fortune Calendar for 2018 Chinese Horoscopes of 12 Chinese Zodiac signs in
year of the Dog.
The bombast of the G.I. Joe and Transformers franchises might suggest no, but after an uninspired
year for
animated movies, The Lego
Movie is a 3 - D
animated film that connects, as an homage to the ingenious Danish - born construction game, along with a subversively flippant story about thinking outside the blocks.
I'm officially worn out from all the crappy,
animated, yapping - critter
movies that have been released this
year.
His credits in the 1980s included Stalin in the 1980 TV
movie FDR: The Last
Year, Barbra Streisand's father in Yentl (1983), and the robust voice of Papa Mousekewitz in the 1986
animated feature An American Tail.
Though in the following
years, Tom's voice could be heard in a variety of
animated releases, onscreen performances in shows like Monk and
movies such as Bad Santa proved that the increasingly active voice - over artist was still very much committed to her onscreen career as well.
«Hotel Transylvania 2» is an unfortunate throwback to about 20
years ago, when
animated movies were more widely accepted as cinematic babysitters.
Of course, Wall - E still went on to win the Academy Award for Best
Animated Feature, but it's interesting to note that this year, with so many great animated movies to choose from, the Annies decided to go back and honour Pixar's Up with their to
Animated Feature, but it's interesting to note that this
year, with so many great
animated movies to choose from, the Annies decided to go back and honour Pixar's Up with their to
animated movies to choose from, the Annies decided to go back and honour Pixar's Up with their top prize.
In a weak
year for
animated movies, the lackluster stuff remains in contention no matter what.
«Ernest and Celestine» — The best
animated movie of the
year is this sweet, watercolor - rendered parable from France directed by Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar, and Benjamin Renner based on a Belgian book series about a little mouse who befriends a big bear.
Warner Bros» The Lego
Movie, considered one of the frontrunners for next
year's best
animated film Oscar, has six nominations.
The
animated film marks Toho's 30th Godzilla
movie, and will receive a theatrical release in Japan in November before arriving on Netflix in other markets later this
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In a
year where we had some pretty cool and unusual things happening in mainstream cinema (an
animated «princess»
movie where the most important relationship was between two sisters, a space thriller whose face was a middle - aged woman, a high - grossing action
movie starring a young woman, a sci - fi blockbuster where 2/3 leads were NOT white men, a female buddy - cop
movie), this just seems....
«Inside Out — Pixar's delightful tale of a little girl's emotions trying to steer her through a turbulent time for her family is one of the funniest and most critically - acclaimed films of the
year — and certainly the most vivid depiction of developmental psychology in a
movie,
animated or otherwise.»
The move comes as Pixar is under mounting pressure to build on its early successes in an increasingly competitive marketplace; this
year will see the wide theatrical release of 11
animated movies, up from six a decade ago.
Don't confuse this with the other
animated bigfoot
movie coming out this
year - Smallfoot - which is made by Warner Bros..
We started with one of this
year's Razzie firsts, THE EMOJI
MOVIE being the first
animated film to vie for the worst picture award before moving on to the industry's love - hate relationship with Rotten Tomatoes; Adam Sandler's opinion of his fans; how Wilson has dealt with a steady diet of bad films for the last 38
years; the odd timing of FIFTY SHADES FREED's release; and who the Razzies consider to be fair game.
BEST NARRATIVE FILM Boyhood Birdman Calvary *** The Grand Budapest Hotel *** A Most Violent
Year Selma Whiplash BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM Citizenfour Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me Jodorowsky's Dune *** Life Itself *** The Overnighters BEST
ANIMATED FILM Big Hero 6 The Boxtrolls How to Train Your Dragon 2 *** The Lego
Movie *** The Tales of Princess Kaguya
As always, Pixar has created the
animated movie of the
year, this time going where family - aimed films rarely dare to go as it deals directly with death.
Animated feature «The Croods» «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Frozen» «Monsters University» «The Wind Rises» Action
movie «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Iron Man 3» WINNER: «Lone Survivor» «Rush» «Star Trek Into Darkness» Actor in an action
movie Henry Cavill — «Man of Steel» Robert Downey Jr. — «Iron Man 3» Brad Pitt — «World War Z» WINNER: Mark Wahlberg — «Lone Survivor» Actress in an action
movie WINNER: Sandra Bullock — «Gravity» Jennifer Lawrence — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Evangeline Lilly — «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» Gwyneth Paltrow — «Iron Man 3» Comedy WINNER: «American Hustle» «Enough Said» «The Heat» «This Is the End» «The Way Way Back» «The World's End» Actor in a comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror
movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12
Years a Slave»
Resembling a children's
movie for grown - ups while reining in Del Toro's worst tendencies, its hybrid form holds clear appeal for another
year when the highest - grossing films replace humans with costumed superheroes and
animated creatures, our postmodern costume dramas.
WHY: DC Comics has been cranking out
animated movies featuring its stable of heroes for several
years now, so it was only a matter of time before some of its villains got a chance to step into the spotlight.
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Movie Has a Lesson
Though directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller have gained considerable notoriety in recent
years with excellent films like 21 Jump Street and The LEGO
Movie, the duo actually got their start in television with the short - lived
animated series Clone High.
If best
animated film, best documentary feature, and best director begat the
year's most conspicuous snubs (for The Lego
Movie, Life Itself, and Ana DuVerny, respectively), best sound mixing boasts the most controversial nomination: Interstellar.
Also new on DVD: M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (Paramount), an adaptation of the
animated TV series and one of the most critically reviled films of the
year, the feature film version of Beverly Cleary's Ramona And Beezus (Fox), Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (Warner), Marina de Van's Don't Look Back (IFC) with Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci, The Lightkeepers (Image) with Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner, Lau Kar - Leung's classic martial arts
movie Shaolin Mantis (Vivendi) and the newly remastered The Endless Summer: Director's Special Edition (Monterey).
The
animated hit raised its domestic haul to $ 210.1 million, becoming the fourth
movie released this
year to top $ 200 million.
Tangled Rated PG for brief mild violence Available on DVD, Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D You know it's a strong
year for
animated films when a
movie like Tangled garners some of the strongest reviews of the
year, makes over a half - billion worldwide, and still can't muster up an Oscar nom for best
animated film.
Despite the colossal marketing budget, Bee
Movie added to the downward slide in attendance that CG -
animated films have been experiencing over the past three
years.
Related Reviews: New: Sesame Street: 20
Years... and Still Counting • Greenberg • Chloe • Operation: Endgame • Jesse Stone: No Remorse Stop - Motion Animation, Film: Fantastic Mr. Fox (Blu - ray + DVD) • Coraline • The Nightmare Before Christmas (Collector's Edition) Stop - Motion Animation, TV: Shaun the Sheep: A Woolly Good Time • Jack Frost • The Easter Bunny is Comin'to Town • A Miser Brothers» Christmas 2009
Animated Films: Ponyo • Up • The Princess and the Frog • Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs • Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs • Planet 51 Toy Story (Blu - ray + DVD) • Toy Story 2 (Blu - ray + DVD) • Night at the Museum • Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Blu - ray + DVD) Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon
Movie Film for Theaters • Home on the Range • Renaissance • Teacher's Pet • Smurfs: Season One, Volume One
Easily one of the most unique and visually striking
movies you'll see in theaters this
year is writer - director Dash Shaw «s My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea, an
animated comedy with a mouthful of a title that only just scratches the surface.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For
movies opening March 2, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Lorax (PG for mild epithets) Danny DeVito stars as the title character in this
animated adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic about an idealistic 12
year - old (Zac Efron), raised in an artificial reality, who searches for a real tree in order to impress the girl of his dreams (Taylor Swift).
Both of those
movies were nominated for the Best
Animated Feature Oscar, and I'll be very surprised if «The Boxtrolls» isn't on the ballot this
year.
Following on from its announcement at the San Diego Comic - Con and news of its voice cast, we now have the first teaser and a sneak peek for the upcoming DC
animated movie Batman: Bad Blood, which you can see here... Batman: Bad Blood is set for release next
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Meanwhile, it's also been announced that T'Challa will be receiving his own
animated LEGO
movie next
year with LEGO Marvel Super Heroes — Black Panther: Trouble In Wakanda...
Even then in May, amongst the line - up of melodramas and arthouses from auteurs all around the world, it stood out as an entertaining and commercial thriller, though this is just the first take on live - action from the 39 -
year - old South Korean director who packed on his back only several
animated movies, most notably The King of Pigs and The Fake.
Few freak - out film experiences are more rarified that the forgotten oddity, and this
year saw the release of a
movie that's been begging to be re-discovered for decades: Belladonna Of Sadness, a 1973 Japanese
animated feature conceived with the help of Osamu Tezuka and directed by his longtime collaborator, Eiichi Yamamoto.
The
year was 1995, no one had never seen a full - length CGI
animated movie before, but that was about to change.
You expect a
movie as disastrously under - attended as Mars Needs Moms to be wretched, so it's genuinely surprising to discover that not only is it not so bad, it even has more going for it than most of the
year's highest - grossing
animated films.
Shaun the Sheep
Movie — Anomalisa is more insightful, but Shaun the Sheep
Movie is my favorite stop - motion
animated feature of the
year because it's downright old - fashioned good - natured fun.
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Year - Old Film Critic 20:35 — Review: The Expendables 57:45 — Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World 1:47:30 — Trailer Trash: Skyline, Enter the Void, Unstoppable 2:03:30 — Other Stuff We Watched: BBC's Sherlock, Man v Food: Season 3, Lock Up, 12th & Delaware, Marooned, Billion Dollar Brain, Cropsey, Johnny Handsome, Until the Light Takes Us, And the Pursuit of Happiness, The Last Lovecraft, Mad Monkey Kung Fu, Standard Operating Procedure, Spartan, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Cobra 3:05:45 — Junk Mail: Film Junk Mega Mix, Favourite and Best Actors, Devil Trailer,
Movies with Right Wing Agendas, TIFF Tips 3:26:20 — Twitter Poll: Why did Scott Pilgrim Fail at the Box Office?
Paramount and Hasbro have come to terms on an exclusive 5 -
year movie deal that includes both live - action and
animated films.