Category: Animation

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1950s / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance

Cinderella (1950)

Introductions are hardly necessary for the venerable animated classic Cinderella, Disney’s second “Princess” movie (after Snow White), and the one that took the company that had been struggling to survive through the 1940s back to prominence and financial...

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2010s / Animation / Family / Fantasy

The Boxtrolls (2014)

Alan Snow’s 2005 illustrated novel, “Here Be Monsters!”, provides the basis for this loose-hanging adaptation, set in the Victorian-era cobblestone city of Cheesebridge, where a community of cardboard box-wearing trolls lives underground.  The peace-loving...

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1950s / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Romance

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Very loosely based on the story by Charles Perrault, as well as the reinterpretation by the Brothers Grimm, this now-classic Disney film would initially prove a financial disappointment that would see the studio get...

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2010s / Animation / Comedy

The LEGO Movie (2014)

If I could get the featured earworm ditty, “Everything is Awesome” to stop cycling incessantly in my head, I’d be able to put my imaginative mind to better use at this moment.  Reviews don’t...

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2010s / Animation / Comedy

Monsters University (2013)

A step down from the delightfulness of Monsters Inc., but still a delight nonetheless, Monsters University may lack for the more affecting aspects of its predecessor, but taken as a fun, cute, comic film for all ages,...

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2010s / Animation / Comedy / Family

Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

When the kids leave the arcade, the game characters come to life (in their own cyber world, anyway — akin to Toy Story). Wreck-It Ralph (Reilly) is a ‘bad-guy’ video game character who is tired...

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2000s / Animation / Science Fiction

9 (2009)

9 is the full-length version of director Shane Acker’s 11-minute mostly dialogue-less computer-animated short film from 1995 that went on to garner an Academy Award nomination.  Producer Tim Burton became a fan of Acker’s vision...