Zootopia
Prejudice – in all its forms – is the concept under the microscope here. And the screenplay to Zootopia is very, very good at examining said prejudice from every angle.
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Tag Archives: Animation
Anomalisa
Anomalisa was created with possibly the best stop motion animation I’ve ever seen.
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Adventure Time – The Fifth Season Part 2
The show also finds the time to get Keith David and Roddy Piper to re-enact that fight scene from They Live. If you ever needed a reason to get into Adventure Time, this is it.
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The Good Dinosaur
I’d heard that the vistas were impressive, but nothing could prepare me for the image of a raging river, or wheat fields swaying in the breeze. I simply could not believe that I was looking at CGI.
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Adventure Time – The Fifth Season Part 1
Though the Mushroom War hasn’t been fully explained, we at least understand why everyone’s favourite vampire bassist gets really sad when she thinks about Simon.
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Inside Out
The mixture of emotions this film manages to tap into is extraordinary, and I was on the verge of tears more than once.
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Big Hero 6
There’s a lot about Big Hero 6 that is stock-standard, and the boy-and-his-robot tale has echoes of Short Circuit and Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Clichés abound, and whilst this may be based on a Marvel comic, there’s a lot that’s been Disney-fied.
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Adventure Time – The Complete Fourth Season
Adventure Time is a show that continues to get better and better, and the best news is that season four also addresses some of the niggling problems I’d had with the show previously.
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The Lego Movie
I’m at a loss to understand how effortlessly writer/directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller managed to combine what is basically a 100 minute toy commercial into an incredibly witty, self-referential and downright poignant movie such as this.
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Monsters University
Crystal and Goodman are just as good in the central roles as the first time around, but the dialogue feels a little sparse in comparison to the original. That being said, there are some heartfelt scenes here, particularly with one of the recurring motifs.
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