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- DirectorWilliam CottrellDavid HandWilfred JacksonStarsAdriana CaselottiHarry StockwellLucille La VerneExiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household.The first feature-length cartoon
The first feature-length animated film that laid the foundation stone for Disney company and the genre itself. If this movie failed Disney company probably would never get off the ground and dozens of masterpieces would never see light of day. It is questionable if we would even have this genre today. The success of this movie encouraged other companies to take this path and enrich childhoods of many generations.
The movie was made in four years, two million $ was spent, and it made a profit of around 200 million and won a bunch of awards. A masterpiece of art that laid the foundation of a new genre, resisted the test of time and to this day it keeps its place at the top of best movies of all times. Despite the progress of technology, even after 80 years, few cartoons reached this level. These days cartoons are not made by hand and the production process is much faster and easier, but movies are mostly tragically bad. That's sad. By today's standards I would give it 8/10, but considering that it was handmade 80 years ago and influence it has on everything that came after, even 10/10 is not enough.
And of course, we must not forget fantastic songs led by "Heigh-Ho". - DirectorJames AlgarSamuel ArmstrongFord Beebe Jr.StarsLeopold StokowskiDeems TaylorThe Philadelphia OrchestraA series of eight famous pieces of classical music, conducted by Leopold Stokowski and interpreted in animation by Walt Disney's team of artists.Childhood memories
When I see the cartoons that kids watch on TV these days I'm really worried about what they'll grow up into. All the fairy-tale imagination disappeared from kid's channels, and beautiful animations are replaced with modern ugly-simplified and mostly stupid characters. It is up to us, 20th-century generations, to show today's kids all the magic of old Disney and preserve it from fading into oblivion. "Fantasia" is Disney's approach to classical music and, I must admit, it's not one of my favorites. I always loved the animation part, but the music was quite boring for me as a kid. Still, its quality and worth are undisputable. If nothing else, this is the best way to try and bring Bach, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Mussorgsky, closer to kids and let them decide for themselves. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" by Paul Dukas was and still is my favorite part of this legendary musical. Some parts are fantastic, others I didn't like at all, and my average rating would be about
7/10 - DirectorHarve FosterWilfred JacksonStarsRuth WarrickBobby DriscollJames BaskettThe kindly story-teller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear.One of my favorite childhood memories and one of Disney's masterpieces, far better than anything they are making today. Unfortunately, it is hard to find because Disney was forced to withdraw it... Why ?! Because the movie is accused of racism and bad stereotypes. The movie was not directly forbidden, but whatever agency was in charge of this kind of stuff those days, they let Disney know that showing a warm family atmosphere between slaves and their owners is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated. I understand fights against discrimination and for equality and tolerance, but they really push it too far and destroy many beautiful things of great value by sticking to their principals. I mean... Disney did not come up with this story in the 20th century with the intention to offend the black race. This movie is based on a book that is written in the year 1800. Should they raise the author from the dead to change his novel, just because society's circumstances are changed 150 years after ?! If this movie is offensive to the black population because of slavery, then let's banish slaves from movies about ancient Greece or Rome, let's change the history. Ridiculous. This movie is not offensive discrimination, this movie is one of the most emotional and beautiful masterpieces made for kids in the history of animation.
9/10 - DirectorDon BluthStarsElizabeth HartmanDerek JacobiDom DeLuiseTo save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she suspected.It is not Disney, so it didn't have a promotion as Disney have, and therefore it passed pretty much unnoticed and underestimated, but it's better than many Disney movies. It's too complicated for smaller children and has a couple of unexplained details, but essentially very nice and quite original cartoon.
7/10 - DirectorRon ClementsJohn MuskerStarsScott WeingerRobin WilliamsLinda LarkinA kind-hearted street urchin and a power-hungry Grand Vizier vie for a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true.Disney + Robin Williams = Timeless classic
The US-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee protested over the pro-Western display of Aladdin and Jasmine, who is always without a veil, over the fact that all the characters with the turban are bald, and that all the villains are caricatured personifications of prejudices about the Arabs. But the fiercest protests were caused by a verse from the song "Arabian Nights," which opens the cartoon. The verse now reads "Where it's flat and immense and the heat is intense, it's barbaric, but, hey, it's home". In the original version, the verse read "Where they cut off your ears if they don't like your face, it's barbaric, but, hey, it's home". This provoked such an alarm that the film was placed among the most controversial achievements of all time.
Personally, I find this information quite interesting, but totally irrelevant, because the animation is excellent, the music is beautiful, the story is quite solid, and the film that stars Robin Williams by default can not fail.
8/10 - StarsChristopher LeeGraham CrowdenDebra GillettA small girl, a half-elf, and Death together have to stop the musical force known as "Music with Rocks In" from taking over the Discworld.You may find yourself liking Death
An excellent cartoon based upon the novel by Terry Pratchett, creator of the cult Discworld. Discworld is a flat world, carried on the backs of four elephants, standing on the shell of the giant space turtle, Great A'tuin. It is a series of several dozen novels that, in a sarcastic, clever and very humorous way, cover the history of mankind in all its aspects. Each of these novels immediately after the publication reaches the top of best-seller lists. Whoever did not read Discworld novels misses an inexhaustible source of fun and laughter. Some of Pratchett's books are adapted into movies, but one of the main characters, Death, is quite lousy shown in feature films, and much more faithfully in the cartoons. I love all of them, but this one is good enough to start with. I hope it hooks you to read the books.
The animation is poor, but story, jokes, music, and Christopher Lee fully compensate for it.
9/10 - StarsJane HorrocksJune WhitfieldAnnette CrosbieWhen Duke Felmet murders King Verence and takes over the small country of Lancre on the Discworld, three witches are involuntarily tasked with protecting the king's baby son."Shakespeare will not be turning in his grave - he will be rolling from laughter"
Witches by their nature are not prone to social organization and certainly do not have their leaders. Granny Weatherwax was most respected among the leaders they did not have. But even she discovered that interfering in royal politics hides much more fuss than some drama writers claimed.
Terry Pratchett is one of my favorites, and certainly the funniest writer whom I have had the good fortune to read. His gigantic series of novels about Discworld is an extremely funny satire of the entire humanity and everything that makes human civilization. This animated mini-series quite faithfully follows one of the first and best novels of Discworld series. The animation is nothing special, and just over two hours can not conjure up the magic of reading Pratchett, especially because his genius metaphors are impossible to show on screen, but you won't regret if you take the time to see this.
7/10 - CreatorTrey ParkerMatt StoneBrian GradenStarsTrey ParkerMatt StoneIsaac HayesFollows the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado."There is actually a lot of intelligent social commentary here - it's just masked under anything they could possibly offend someone with." - chthon2
16 October 2017
For some reason, I stopped following this show a long time ago, even before the tenth season I think. Recently, again for some inexplicable reason, it came to my mind and I decided to start it all over, from season one, but this time I'm going to finish it, or better to say catch it, because I hope it will never end. This morning I finished the first season. There's nothing better than healthy laughter with morning coffee. After 20 years this season is still fresh and hilarious. One of the strongest tens I ever gave.
10/10
(I'm near the end of the 8th season now and it still kicks ass.)
24 December 2018
In the last year I have seen all 22 seasons of "South Park" and, although it had its ups and downs, overall it's one of the best TV shows of all time and definitely the ultimate animated one. I can't wait for the 23rd season. - DirectorTrey ParkerStarsTrey ParkerMatt StoneMary Kay BergmanWhen Stan Marsh and his friends go see an R-rated movie, they start cursing and their parents think that Canada is to blame."You may laugh yourself sick - as sick as this ruthlessly funny movie is"
"I was not a fan of South Park before I saw BL&U, nor was I a fan of movie musicals. Well, I'm still not a fan of musicals, but I'm a fan of *this* musical, and I am grateful to Parker and Stone for demonstrating that it's still possible to make a great movie on one's own terms.
For this movie, unlike the usual feature-length adaptation of a pop culture phenomenon, not only lives up to its pedigree, it wildly exceeds it. Yes, the movie does recycle many of the show's jokes, but it does so in new yet relevant contexts that keep the material funny if you are familiar with the South Park world. If you aren't familiar with that world (as I wasn't before seeing the movie), the gags are simultaneously accessible yet often subtle.
Subtle? Yes, many of the gags are. Indeed, one of the pleasures of owning a copy of the movie is having the ability to review the movie, in slo-mo if necessary, and discover throwaway sight gags that one has missed in the delirium of watching this anarchic satire the first time through. (And if you have the DVD, you can add subtitles to catch many of the songs' often elusive lyrics.)
Then there's the music. What is it about movie musicals that attracts great satiric minds? Not since Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" has a work of art so subversively exploited the conventions of the movie musical as South Park. From the droll opening strains of Mountain Town, to the Disneyesque "Up There," to the Les Miserables spoof, "La Resistance," South Park simultaneously sends up the genre while paying homage to it, and still finds room to use the songs to score delicious points against its myriad targets.
One last thing: this movie is not cynical. Beneath the scatological humor, the cartoon violence, the scathing portrayals of Wynona Ryder et al, and the backdrop of adult xenophobia, sexual repression, and political opportunism, is a sensibility that exalts childhood as an island of honesty and idealism, if also of id-like impulse and frequent selfishness. In this, they share space on the shelf of great satires with "Candide," "Gulliver's Travels," "Tom Sawyer" and especially "Huckleberry Finn"--classics that, like BL&U, also exposed the hypocrisies of the adult world "through the eyes of a child."
Elvis Costello once sang, "I want to bite the hand that feeds me/I want to bite that hand so badly/I want to make them wish they'd never met me." That BLU was shut out at the Academy Awards (having only garnered a nomination for the relatively tame "Blame Canada", which lost, appropriately enough, to the execrable Phil Collins) only vindicates the film's take-no-prisoners send-up of nearly everything that annoys in this suffocatingly focus-group-tested, PC-policed, cynically sentimental, violence-ridden, love-starved modern world. See this movie, and see the persistence of hope and possibility sparkling like a diamond amid the pop culture detritus of a quiet little red-necked, white-trash, strait-laced, meshugeneh, US mountain town." - Tresy
8/10 - DirectorTim BurtonMike JohnsonStarsJohnny DeppHelena Bonham CarterEmily WatsonWhen a shy groom practices his wedding vows in the inadvertent presence of a deceased young woman, she rises from the grave assuming he has married her.What a story it is. A tragic tale of romance, passion, and murder most foul.
While he was practicing vows in a forest night before the wedding, clumsy Victor accidentally proposes to a corpse of a girl brutally murdered by her fiancé. Corpse wakes up, pronounces that fateful "I do" and takes Victor to the underworld. He is trying to escape and get back to the girl he loves. One of Barton's best movies. Plot, emotion, acting, music... beautiful.
9/10 - DirectorAndrew StantonStarsBen BurttElissa KnightJeff GarlinIn the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.One of the cutest things I have ever seen. :D
- DirectorByron HowardChris WilliamsStarsJohn TravoltaMiley CyrusSusie EssmanThe canine star of a fictional sci-fi/action show that believes his powers are real embarks on a cross country trek to save his co-star from a threat he believes is just as real."I'm going to beat your pancreas with your spleen!"
A Disney cartoon that brings us the adventure of a TV star dog and his newly acquired friends, an alley cat, and a pet hamster. Bolt is a superhero dog, who lives in the delusion that his powers from the TV series are real, and his gradual discovery that in the real world he is just an ordinary dog leads to a series of comic situations. An additional plus to his character is that his voice is lent by John Travolta. Among the more famous, there are also Miley Cyrus, Malcolm McDowell, and Chloë Moretz. The film lost the race for the Oscar for the best animated feature film to the legendary "Wall-E". Nothing spectacular, but a lot of fun.
8/10 - DirectorShane AckerStarsElijah WoodJennifer ConnellyCrispin GloverA rag doll that awakens in a postapocalyptic future holds the key to humanity's salvation.Visually it's nothing special, but it's far from bad. But story is lousy... Boring, confusing, without emotion... waste of time.
4/10 [6/10 for animation and 2/10 for story] - DirectorIsao TakahataStarsChloë Grace MoretzJames CaanMary SteenburgenKaguya is a beautiful young woman coveted by five nobles. To try to avoid marrying a stranger she doesn't love, she sends her suitors on seemingly impossible tasks. But she will have to face her fate and punishment for her choices.The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
A beautiful Japanese animated film based on the folk tradition of a bamboo collector who finds a miniature girl in one bamboo stem and adopts her. It's made in the "Stickman" style, but the story is so powerful that it didn't bother me at all.
8/10 - StarsJoe McGannEdward KelseyDebra GillettUnder the floorboards of an old department store live the nomes, tiny people for whom things like Outside and Sun and Rain are just daft old legends. Then a group of new nomes arrive from the Outside that nobody believes in, bringing with them The Thing. The Thing eats electricity. It listens to electricity, too. And right now the electricity is telling it that the store is about to be closed down.There is more of Pratchett's magic besides Discworld
In addition to the unmatched Discworld series, Pratchett has written many more things, and in particular stand out his books for children and those who still nurture their inner child. "Truckers" is a fairly faithful adaptation of the eponymous novel about miniature people living in the walls of a department store and for which the outside world is just a matter of legends. But the department store is to be demolished and Noums must leave their home and seek for a new one. Pratchett once again shows his amazing talent for satire and humor, which will win over adults, and excellent stop-motion animation and a simplified way of storytelling will bring this beautiful adventure closer to the youngest audience. However, to me as a fan(atic) of Terry Pratchett, who read everything he could get his hands on and saw all adaptations, this is far from the maximum that adaptations of this author can provide.
7/10 - DirectorGary TrousdaleKirk WiseStarsPaige O'HaraRobby BensonJesse CortiA prince cursed to spend his days as a hideous monster sets out to regain his humanity by earning a young woman's love.Simplified but beautiful
This movie is an adaptation of the story from mid 18th century written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. The original story is completely different and I prefer it to Disney's version, but I understand why did they have to take a totally different approach and I admit that the result is amazing. Still, I recommend you to read the original text because it will shine a new light on the story and give you insight in its depth and true meaning. Disney's movie is meaningful, but it's mostly just a fairy- tale, while the original has a much heavier background. This is the very first animated movie nominated for an Academy Award for the best picture. It didn't win it, but it won two other Oscars, for the original score and the title song.
8,5/10 - DirectorAdam ElliotStarsToni CollettePhilip Seymour HoffmanEric BanaIn 1976 Melbourne, a lonely 8-year-old girl strikes up a correspondence with an unlikely pen pal: a severely obese 44-year-old New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome.It would be cute if it wasn't morbid... Beginning is very promising and just when I thought it would become one of my favorites it starts to slip into ruin. Ideas and essence of this movie are great, but author simply does not know when to stop. There's bunch of beautiful and witty scenes, destroyed by overdoing until they end up distasteful. I'm disappointed and sad to see such inspirational idea and quality realization messed up and spoiled with some completely unnecessary moments.
6/10 - DirectorByron HowardRich MooreJared BushStarsGinnifer GoodwinJason BatemanIdris ElbaIn a city of anthropomorphic animals, a rookie bunny cop and a cynical con artist fox must work together to uncover a conspiracy.I know it's offensive, but I must say it. This bunny is so darn cute <3
10/10 - DirectorGary TrousdaleKirk WiseStarsMichael J. FoxJim VarneyCorey BurtonA young linguist named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis.I love to put my movie marathon on pause from time to time and watch some Disney cartoon for a change. It's healthy for a soul. From this one I did not expect anything at all and I was in for a pleasant surprise. Young and silly scientist gathers expedition to find Atlantis, but his crew are not who he thought they are. After about 20 minutes I lost any feeling that I am watching cartoon and I experienced this same as feature movie. It would be great if they would really make one. It hold attention and does not irritate you with too much niceness and morality, so it is not annoying to non-kids audience. It's not on the level with greatest Disney masterpieces but it definitely is worth watching. I really enjoyed it.
7,5/10 - DirectorConrad VernonGreg TiernanStarsSeth RogenKristen WiigJonah HillA sausage leads a group of supermarket products on a journey to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they are picked off the shelf.WTF I just watched ?! I heard many things about this movie and everything was true, but even if I did know what to expect I was swept off my feet. Adventure that, in very vulgar and explicit way, makes fun of racial, political, sexist, homophobic and every other stereotype you could possible think of, alluding or directly spoofing celebrities, famous events, movies, music. I think it is impossible to catch all layers and details of this movie in just one watching. Technically it's nothing special, but story is good enough to make everything else negligible. Even the worst scenes are fun, and those best and most shocking I had to rewind and re-watch several times, not being able to believe my own eyes and ears. I couldn't say it's one of the best animated movies of all time, but it definitely is the most original and bravest I've seen so far and I'm absolutely amazed.
9/10 - DirectorHenry SelickStarsPaul TerryJoanna LumleyPete PostlethwaiteAn orphan who lives with his two cruel aunts befriends anthropomorphic bugs who live inside a giant peach, and they embark on a journey to New York City.I watched this movie because somewhere I ran into comparison with Nightmare Before Christmas. It is far from bad movie, but Tim Burton is just a producer here and comparing this with movies Burton wrote and directed is nothing but blasphemy. My main objection to this movie are pretty much boring songs. It's unbelievable that this movie was nominated for Best Music Academy Award. Out of all Disney animated movies I saw so far this one has definitely the worst soundtrack and not even one song that became evergreen hit. Overall, I have no objections, but no commendations either. Average Disney flick suitable for children only.
6/10 - DirectorJohn LounsberyWolfgang ReithermanBen SharpsteenStarsSebastian CabotJunius MatthewsBarbara LuddyIn this collection of animated shorts based on the stories and characters by A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh, a honey-loving teddy bear, embarks on some eccentric adventures.Disney classic that can not be judged by criteria we use for most of the movies. There's no much of a story, nor acting or directing, or any other special qualities technically speaking. But this movie perfectly portrays innocence of childhood. It's not probable anyone with two-digit age would find it interesting, but it is sweet as honey and only someone without a heart could resist loving this chubby bear.
7/10 - DirectorDonovan CookStarsWayne AllwineTony AnselmoBill FarmerMickey, Donald and Goofy are the French three Musketeers.Everlasting war between fans of DC and Marvel universes sucked me in pointless thinking of which one is better for a while. I don't know who's better, but I know that both can kiss Disney's ass. As a kid I was comic-books fan. There were superhero comics mentioned above, than Il Grande Blek, Za-Gor-Te-Nay, Martin Mystery, Dylan Dog and bunch of others. I gave up on comics long time ago and the only one I still cherish is unsurpassed Alan Ford. But as a child, I did not rejoice in anything as much as I rejoiced Mickey and company.
Mickey, Donald and Goofy, as three musketeers, are saving princess, followed by original lyrics written on the famous compositions of legends of classical music. I don't know why I decided to watch this at all. I suppose I wanted to take a look at how Mickey looks like nowadays and turn it off in a few minutes, but I ended up watching it till the end with a smile from ear to ear. And to be honest, I didn't feel so cheerful for a long time. Disney forever <3
8/10 - DirectorBob HathcockStarsAlan YoungChristopher LloydTerence McGovernScrooge McDuck takes Huey, Dewey, and Louie to Egypt to find a pyramid and magic lamp.When I was a kid this was one of my favorite comic-books. I think I still have it somewhere. Story is variation of Aladdin, objectively, far below Disney classics, but it doesn't make this movie any less fun. Just relax and enjoy the ride with Scrooge, Huey, Dewey, Louie and Webby. <3
7/10 - DirectorAndrew AdamsonVicky JensonStarsMike MyersEddie MurphyCameron DiazA mean lord exiles fairytale creatures to the swamp of a grumpy ogre, who must go on a quest and rescue a princess for the lord in order to get his land back."Well, I have to save my ass." :D
Oscar well deserved!
10/10
Besides four full length movies, there's musical and several short animations. I could watch them all tonight. <3