This seemingly innocuous film is socializing young children into violence as a way to solve problems from a very early age, much
like other animated films, such as «Wreck - It - Ralph» in 2012.
Not exact matches
Having seen nearly every computer -
animated film made, I would rank Shrek and Shrek 2 near the top of the second tier, just below the fine
films of Pixar and on par with DreamWorks»
other successes (
like Antz, Over the Hedge).
This
animated superhero parody makes so many zippy references to
film, music and
other mass obsessions, it's
like watching stand - up comedians trade riffs with each
other on a Just For Laughs stage.
Maybe at this point it's too much to hope for an
animated film like The Angry Birds Movie to exist as anything
other than marketing fodder, but hopefully it's not too much to ask for that #content to have a shred of substance to it.
An
animated film with a look — a kinetic aesthetic honoring its product line's bright, bricklike origins — that isn't
like every
other clinically rounded and bland digital 3 - D effort.
Like the surrogates at the heart of the
film, it's certainly
animated, but without the meat, guts, heart or original thought, Surrogates never amounts to existing as anything
other than a good - looking pretender.
After years of waiting, it's a pleasure to finally sink into «The peanuts Movie», the latest
animated movie from Blue Sky Studios that radiates charm
like no
other film of its genre.
INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN
FILMS Azur & Asmar (Unrated)
Animated fairytale about a couple of boys raised
like brothers in a castle, one, a motherless, young aristocrat (Cyril Mourali), the
other, the son (Karim M'Ruba) of the family nanny (Hiam Abbass), who grow up to find themselves rivals in a race to find a princess (Thissa d'Avila Bensalah) in a magical, faraway fantasyland.
«Holding on to anger is
like drinking poison and expecting the
other person to die» — Buddha Directed by Lee Unkrich («Toy Story 3») and Adrian Molina, Coco, the latest
animated film from Disney - Pixar tells us to follow our dreams, seize the moment, and regard our family as paramount.
Beautifully
animated (the technology just keeps on getting better), the
film features wonderful vocal cameos from the
likes of Sigourney Weaver (Avatar)-- my favorite, by far — as well as Ed O'Neill (Modern Family), Ty Burrell (also Modern Family), Idris Elba (The Jungle Book), Diane Keaton (And So It Goes) and Eugene Levy (Schitt's Creek), among
others.
Like the
other Disney
animated films of this time, Mulan offers a mixture of ingredients.