Sentences with phrase «animated tale»

An animated tale refers to a story that is told using animation, usually through a movie or a cartoon. It involves characters and events that are brought to life using drawings, computer graphics, or other forms of animation. Full definition
And it will also remind people how useful a musical number or two can be in these now classic animated tales.
The traditional superhero tale is turned on its head in this entertaining if slightly derivative animated tale.
Many folks consider this to be among 2016's best animated tales.
From the Academy Award - nominated Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon, The Breadwinner is a timely and visually stunning animated tale set in Afghanistan
The latest animated tale from Illumination is a «let's put on a show» story that weaves over 75 songs — most well - known — into the story of Buster Moon's last gasp attempt to save his run down theater.
A Brief Spark Bookended by Darkness (Director and screenwriter: Brent Green)-- A hand - drawn animated tale about love in an increasingly dark world.
Filled with modern vernacular and poppy versions of carols and hymns, this solid animated tale looks to address this by telling the fable through the eyes of a young ass called Bo who winds up in the manger.
Pixar's latest animated tale is Brave, featuring the studio's first feature - film female protagonist — and it's about time.
Directors David Bowers and Sam Fell make full use of all this pedigree in their charming computer - generated animated tale of an affluent pet rat who gets flushed down a toilet.
And you are holding back something special from your kids as well, for while these films take themselves seriously and should perhaps be screened before being shown to some younger, more sensitive audiences, they are among the most powerful animated tales being told today, and they deserve to be allowed to wow you.
Charlie Kaufman delivers another downbeat masterpiece with his stop - motion animated tale about a lonely motivational speaker
This production delivers «Horton» as a richly animated tale.
Pete's Dragon, the reimagining of a classic Disney animated tale is completely different from the original... and it is absolutely perfect that way!
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The acclaimed animated tale based on the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) has dominated new releases both domestically and abroad.
The South Pacific animated tale, featuring the voices of Dwayne Johnson and Auli'i Cravalho beats holdover Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,
Sarah Ward finds the new Aardman animated tale of buccaneers and scientists to be «simply good fun»
As previously reported, the thrilling and thoughtful animated tale represents a victory in a number of ways, not the least of which in proving that both adults and children will flock to a Disney animated movie starring a female character who is not a princess.
«The Book of Life,» the visually stunning and colorful animated tale produced by Guillermo del Toro and directed by Jorge R. Gutierrez, is an exciting celebration of life inspired by Mexico's Day of the Dead holiday.
The tale as old as time is getting a spruced - up, live - action look as Disney continues its adaptation of previously animated tales into new versions.
A poorly animated tale that offers little new to the genre or the Dungeons and Dragons franchise in which it is based.
There's certainly nothing here that compares with «Part 1» highlights, which include the trio's infiltration of the Ministry of Magic, the brilliantly animated Tale of the Deathly Hallows, and, the emotional highlight, the doomed Dobby's defiant, «Dobby has no master!
The Ant Bully, an intermittently sweetly moralizing but rather lackluster and ramshackle animated tale of shifted perspective in which an adolescent in shrunken to the same size as the ants in his front yard.
«Isle of Dogs Behind the Scenes» • A virtual - reality look at the miniature figures in Wes Anderson's forthcoming animated tale.
The fully animated tales have very different facial expressions, which did take me aback just a bit.
Then animate the tale to watch it unfold dramatically online.
Decisions on how your players behave toward remaining survivors affect the morale and health of your characters in the randomly generated world brought to life in a beautifully animated tale of survival and loss in a devastated world.
On Tower Level 5, Wong Ping creates a multimedia installation centered on a colorful, racy animated tale that explores the tension between an aging population and the relentless pace of a digital economy; in her paintings and sculptures, Duan Jianyu depicts a surreal, transitory place where the rural meets the urban; and Lin Yilin constructs a virtual - reality simulation featuring a professional basketball star, testing the potential for using technology to inhabit the experience of another.
But there's nothing I've seen that's quite like the crowd - created Japanese animated tale of «Nuclear Boy,» which offers a metaphorical explanation of the plant damage and radiation questions aimed at children, drawing them in using that classic enticement — potty humor (which was featured here before in a video on sanitation).
What's The Deal: A smart send - up of the Superman myth and the age - old precept of good vs. evil, Megamind is a refreshingly solid animated tale that soars on vibrant visuals, energetic vocal performances and clever writing.
Disney's retelling of its classic animated tale is expected to top $ 60 million, knock off «X-Men» and leave «A Million Ways to Die in the West» in the dust
Animated tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: eight - year - old Mary (Toni Collette) in Melbourne, and middle - aged Max (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a severely obese man living in New York.
Based on the children's picture book by author Julia Donaldson, this animated tale follows a creature called the Gruffalo and his young daughter, who wants to explore life outside of their clearing despite her father's warnings of a Big Bad Mouse that lurks in the forest.
Produced by Guillermo del Toro and based on stories and imagery from the Mexican holiday Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead, the film's original title), this animated tale follows Manolo (voiced by Diego Luna) on his journey to return to the land of the living to reunite with his beloved Maria (Zoe Saldana) and thwart her other suitor, Joaquin (Channing Tatum).
«Brother Bear» (Disney) An animated tale set in prehistoric times gets rolling when a hunter is killed by a protective mother bear (voiced by Joaquin Phoenix).
This animated tale comes from the creators of Ice Age and Rio.
Lea Michele, Dan Aykroyd, James Belushi, and Kelsey Grammer lead an all - star voice cast in this animated tale set in the world of Oz.
In this quietly charming, animated tale, two sisters (voiced by real - life siblings Elle and Dakota Fanning) move to the country to be closer to their hospitalized mother.
Similarly, one episode of Those Who Can't, about a trio of immature teachers, was plenty, and I was satiated with 25 minutes of Dark Minions, an animated tale of losers in space written and voiced by John Ross Bowie and Kevin Sussman — Kripke and Stuart the comic - store guy, respectively, on The Big Bang Theory.
Photos from «No No: A Dockumentary» below, but first, the animated tale.
Produced by acclaimed Studio Ponoc and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, this animated tale opens in theaters this month, but the narrative and the Mary Smith character leapt from Mary Stewart's pen in 1991, six years before JK Rowling's Harry Potter garnered millions of fans with its somewhat similar magical theme and environment.
Set mostly in the Land of the Dead, the animated tale of Miguel, a young boy eager to become a musician like his idol, despite his family's peculiar aversion to music, is a love letter to Día de los Muertos.
The classic tale gets a big Hollywood update with Ferdinand, an animated tale from director Carlos Saldanha, the co-director Ice Age.
The story of Moses has been adapted for the screen many times before, from live - action epics like The Ten Commandments to DreamWorks» animated tale The Prince of Egypt, but Scott's film seems to be part of a recent push for Biblical and / or religious themed epics in Hollywood; another upcoming title is Ben - Hur, which will star Jack Huston in the title role.
The Little Mermaid is closing in fast on its 25th anniversary and while I've viewed the animated tale countless times on VHS and DVD over the years, seeing it restored in its full high - definition glory is a fresh experience.
Using puppets, this animated tale offers a creative version of the story, however the themes it promotes — crime, drinking and lying — are hardly family friendly.
With the animated tale of a motivational speaker struggling to cope with his isolation in the universe, the Telluride film festival has screened a future classic
Even with critics and audiences saying the animated tale fails to embrace the kids, the flick is holding up extremely well in its third week.
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