Ernest and Celestine
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The animation is like a giant watercolor painting come to life with the smooth, soft colors outlined in crisp, black pen…
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Metropolis
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There are too many vital characters interacting with each other, crisscrossing subplots, that the logistics of the story gets lost within itself, but the saving grace is the artwork…
Read MoreThe Secret of NIMH
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Mrs. Brisby is a timid yet courageous figure dealing with the absolute worst possible outcome. But the movie tosses in the rats’ backstory like an afterthought, and in an already anthropomorphized universe, fails to deliver on why the rats are more significant than other creatures…
Read MoreThe Little Prince
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whenever the story follows the Little Prince in his travels, it’s absolutely mesmerizing. The production used stop-motion animation for these sequences, and all the characters were made out of thin, practically see-through paper…
Read MoreWatership Down
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Watership Down (1978) is a 90-minute adaptation of Richard Adams’ best-selling novel, an Odyssey-like tale about a group of rabbits who flee the evils of humanity before land developers obliterate their warren…
Read MoreFinding Dory
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Unlike some of Pixar’s previous attempts, Finding Dory (2016) manages to stay true to its original predecessor. While I’m not rushing to place it among Pixar’s elite, it is a strong movie with a powerful message…
Read MoreLittle Witch Academia
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The two Little Witch Academia are just pure fun from beginning to end. I admit that some of the lines are a bit cheesy and there is an inexplicable complete disregard for student safety on the school’s part, but I’m willing to overlook it…
Read MoreThe Last Unicorn
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Many of the plot points from the book are hastily thrown into the movie, and where the book has the luxury of threading in the thematic elements within the narration, the film’s pacing is rushed and feel like random scenes thrown together…
Read MoreA Cat in Paris
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I’m sure that if cats could talk about what they while they’re prowling around in the middle of the night, they’d have some wild tales to tell…
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