Favorite Animated Film.? Got any..full length, or 7 minute short.

[Stuart G]

Ok, anyone like cartoons?

I do...

7 minute short...something called:

Fast and Furious....l947..introduced the Road Runner.........Beep..Beep...........and my favorite looser of all time, with many plans, but no success.
......Wiley Coyote.

Full Length.....Beauty and the Beast...Disney l991..

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

1. watership down

i love that movie

[Catbird]

4. Fantastic choice

This is such a beautiful movie, with a great ending. After this reminder, I'm going to have to watch it again. It's been too long since I've seen it.

[bookworm65t]

44. disagree

1. as usual, the book was better
2. I had trouble telling one rabbit from another

[stuntcat]

46. book

yes, better. It's the only book I re-read.

[stuntcat]

45. ooo yes

I got the dvd but I've been afraid to play it because it used to upset me so much. I loved it though, I need to watch it.

[Rhythm]

2. Fave short and favorite full-length

My favorite short is an adaptation of "Kiwi!" that replaces the original whimsical soundtrack with Gary Jules "Mad World". The original is funny... the change of music breaks your heart. "Mad World" version is linked below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0G9vDKcdLg

~*~*~*~*~

Favorite Feature-length animated film? "The Nightmare Before Christmas"!
I have loved stop-motion animation since the first time i watched the old Rankin-Bass "Rudolph" when i was a preschooler, so i am thrilled that the technology has come this far. The Tim Burton's story is great, the voice actors do a supurb job, and Danny Elfman's score is a classic.

[grace0418]

9. Thanks for reminding me about Nightmare Before Christmas. If you love the

Rankin-Bass stuff, do you watch any of the Ardman Animation stuff? Wallace and Gromit are wonderful, as are the Creature Comfort shorts. The detail in those stop-motion scenes is absolutely mind-blowing.

[ghostsofgiants]

3. Waking Life

[EstimatedProphet]

10. Very good one

[Duer 157099]

23. I third that n/t

[ceile]

49. My great uncle was in that. n/t

[ghostsofgiants]

54. Who was he?

[ceile]

72. Not exactly sure.

I just know he did a scene w/ Ethan Hawke. He was the old guy w/ a beard. I don't think his character had a name.

[Catbird]

5. Fantasia -- first version

Animation has moved beyond this. But I got to see this movie when it was new. There have only been a few movies that I wanted to see again right away. This is the only animated one.

[Stuart G]

12. While Animation has moved beyond this..I would like to say..

that some of the scenes in this film, Fantasia are incredible. Even more so, given the fact that all were hand drawn. The last part of the Nutcracker's Suite is wonderful in so many ways: the snowflakes, the changing seasons, the incredible color.
..And the 6th Symphony, Pastoral, is also quite beautiful.

[sarge43]

33. Don't forget Night on Bald Mountain

That kicked animation into an art form.

[Mike Daniels]

41. I keep waitng for Fantasia to be reissued on DVD in a deluxe version

I don't think there was a lot of unused material but if they paired it up with Fantasia 2001 (which admittedly wasn't as good but still entertaining) I'd definitely be picking it up.

As is, I still watch my old video-tape version a couple of times every year.

[grace0418]

6. Anything Nick Park/Ardman Animation has ever done, Ratatouille, Robots, My Neighbor Totoro,

Princess Mononoke... I know I'm forgetting some.

ETA: I did forget some until I read another post! Nightmare Before Christmas and all the Rankin-Bass films!

[Carrieyazel]

7. Batman- Mask of the Phantasm (1993)

Just awesome, with a great female lead character that plays Bruce's love interest.

[Bennyboy]

8. Alice In Wonderland and

Fritz The Cat. Alice is the best movie I have ever seen on mind expanding substances.

And Fritz The Cat is hilarious (and not bad on those same substances).

[OmahaBlueDog]

51. You'd have loved the Disney film that never was made

Disney had planned (and preliminary drawings had been made) to make a film based on the work of Salvador Dali.

[EstimatedProphet]

11. Fantastic Planet

[Aristus]

13. Agreed. Nothing else even comes close.

[ghostsofgiants]

20. I really need to watch that.

[EstimatedProphet]

39. Yeah, it's a mind-blower

[Hippo_Tron]

14. Aladdin

I used to be my favorite movie as a kid. As an adult I'm amazed at how much of the humor, particularly from Robin Williams, was lost on me.

[Lorien]

56. I worked on that one. Robin ad libbed a lot of his dialog

which is why he later made a stink about his union scale pay for the project. Jeffery gave him a painting as a bonus to appease him. I think it was an original Van Gogh.

I worked on the title character. Most of my scenes in "Beauty and the Beast' were about 15 feet long, but my average scene in "Aladdin" was about 5 feet. The pacing was a little too brisk for my tastes, personally.

[deucemagnet]

15. Spirited Away

An instant classic.

Edit: link http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/

[ghostsofgiants]

21. Good choice.

[sakabatou]

22. Along with that

Cowboy Bebop: the Movie
Final Fantasy: Advent Chilren
Akira
Anything by Studio Ghibli

[BlueDissenter]

16. It's a tie between......

Sleeping Beauty and Monsters Inc. I love both of them, and I watch them whenever I need to feel like a kid, again.

[SeattleGirl]

18. Ha! I just watched Monsters, Inc on TV tonight.

I love that movie.

[drmeow]

17. Creature comforts

which I loaned to the chair of my department who lost it!

Also The Incredibles. Mr and Mrs Incredible having a marital spat while running through the bad guys lair trying to save their children - CLASSIC. Possibly tied with Shrek.

Also - when I was in a film studies class they showed us an animated short about a whale who sang opera which I loved.

[Stuart G]

27. Willie the Operatic Whale..Disney, 1947...

Here is a link to the animated short about a whale tha sang opera..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039109/usercomments

[drmeow]

48. You rock! Thanks. I saw it as part of "Make Mine Music" n/t

[Lorien]

55. I LOVE Creature Comforts!

"I have to have SPACE, and MEAT"

[drmeow]

60. That's why I lent it to my chair

cause everyone in the department is always whining about space "I need more space" and he LOST it. I am SOOOOO annoyed.

[Capn Sunshine]

19. Fritz the Cat

Ralph Bakshi's X-rated homage to R Crumb and the 60's. You kind of had to be there.

[Lady Freedom]

24. Vampire Hunter D

A full length cartoon for adults.

[Lyric]

26. ThinkBlue1966 has a Vampire Hunter D tattoo!

It's a half-sleeve on her left upper arm, pictured below:



She also has this tattoo on her right upper arm, from the James O'Barr graphic novel "The Crow". It's a reproduction of a piece of portfolio artwork titled "Just Like Heaven".



She has a third tattoo around her neck--a chain of skulls that reaches all the way around her neck and ends in a "pendant" of sorts in the center of her chest. :hi:

[Lyric]

25. Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron.

The soundtrack is fantastic, and the movie itself is inspiring. If you haven't seen it, you really should. :hi:

[Lorien]

57. Lol! A friend of mine directed that one

and I don't think that he's ever heard anyone say that. ;-)


Nice animation, though.

[hobbit709]

28. What's Opera Doc

A classic. And Fantastic Planet. Though any of the Warner Brothers WWII cartoons are a hoot-Russian Rhapsody, Herr Meets Hare, Daffy The Commando, Draft-Dodger Daffy.

[Sanctified]

29. Tonari no Totoro

I remember the first time I watched it with my wife and I was kind of like how did this movie become such a Japanese Icon, but after watching it a couple more times it really grew on me and became my favorite and I love watching it with my kids now.

[The2ndWheel]

30. The Fox and the Hound

Gets me every damn time.

[fight4my3sons]

31. The Lorax

my kids really like Tom and Jerry right now

[sarge43]

32. So many

What's Opera, Doc? (Just about perfect)

One Froggy Evening. (Excellent morality tale)

To Beep or Not To Beep (Wiley and the catapult)

Robin Hood Daffy ("We trip and trip ...")

Duck Dodgers in the 24th and a half Century

Don't remember the name, but the toon where Wiley eats the earthquake pills.

The Scarlet Pumpernickel ("Funny. That never happens to Errol Flynn.")

Avery's Little Red Riding Hood

Watership Down

Disney's Beauty and the Beast

And

Bambi Meets Godzilla

[sarge43]

34. As said, so many

Bill Plympton's Your Face and 25 Ways to Quit Smoking.

[auburngrad82]

35. Triplets of Belleville is very good nt

[Stuart G]

43. Quite a Strange Film., But Outstanding.

I cannot recall ever seeing an animated film quite as satirical and biting as this one. Exceptionally dark and moody, it makes fun of the French, Americans, Sport, wealth..and almost everything one can think of..........especially Bicycle Riding, but that is a metaphore for something????? Anyway, it is unlike anything you have ever seen. And in that vein, exceptionally well done. You will remember it..

[elana i am]

36. i have a DVD of the pixar shorts

my favorite is "boundin'". here's the synopsis if you haven't seen it:

***"Boundin'"--A sheep who likes to dance becomes the laughing stock of his neighborhood after his first shearing. However, a jackalope comes bounding along and teaches him not to be such a mope, but to enjoy life.***

the storyline was conceived, written and performed by one of the pixar sketch artists. it's adorable.

i also like "luxo jr.", "red's dream", "for the birds" and "one man band".

[sarge43]

37. "boundin" is on the special features section

of The Incredibles DVD and you're right; it's charming.

Pixar should come out with a selections of its early shorts.

[evlbstrd]

38. Allegro non Tropo

A parody of Fantasia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ox2AyNUJiw&feature=related

[HERVEPA]

40. Spirited Away

[Mike Daniels]

42. Wallace and Grommit in "Curse of the Wererabbit"

A wonderfully funny and "warm" film. My wife and I watch it a couple of times a year usually in the fall/winter.

Our friends always look at us a bit funny when we admit we love this film but we consider it their loss if they aren't able to enjoy it.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

47. Any Popeye cartoon

made before 1950. The animation and detail was fantastic! :)

[seemunkee]

67. I bought the box set last week

Popeye meets Ali Baba is fantastic.

[OmahaBlueDog]

50. There's a bunch of ways to look at this

The original "Fantasia" is amazing when you consider how ground breaking the work was and how little Disney had to work with.

Consider a plotline of "A father goes on a road trip with a mentally dysfunctional woman to look for his kidnapped, disabled son after having his family murdered." You're probably thinking Coen Bros. Yet Pixar makes "Finding Nemo" into one of the most brilliant and uplifting movies of the past 25 years. The message: "Just keep swimming"

Someone mentioned "What's Opera, Doc?" One could go short-by-short and argue the merits of an assortment of Friz Freeling, Chuck Jones, or Tex Avery shorts. To me, "Ali Baba Bunny" may be 20 of the funniest minutes on film.

My personal favorite: I love an oft overlooked Disney work from 1999 -- "The Emperor's New Groove." It is, in many ways, the anti-Disney, Disney movie. The film flows more like a Warner Brothers cartoon. The closing credits also contain my favorite, most overlooked Disney song -- "My Funny Friend and Me" (sung by Sting, and produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis)

[Greyskye]

52. Bambi vs. Godzilla and Bambi's Revenge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpBkc2jK-6w

[Lydia Leftcoast]

53. Tokyo Godfathers and Grave of the Fireflies

Tokyo Godfathers is about three homeless people who find an abandoned baby.




Grave of the Fireflies is about two orphans trying to survive World War II.

[Lorien]

58. I can't say that I have one, but I really enjoyed "the Iron Giant"

Brad Bird is a genius director, but Warner's really screwed up the promotion of that one. I think they sunk all their money into that Wil Smith "Wild West" disaster that year. I Loved "Bambi" and "Lady and the Tramp" as a kid, but working for Disney feature animation made watching animation less pleasurable. It just seems like work now. :-(

[Lorien]

62. Oh, and I LOVE Simon's Cat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rb8aOzy9t4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ffwDYo00Q&feature=related

[Forkboy]

59. When The Wind Blows or Dr. Tran

On a lighter note (much lighter) we have Dr. Tran!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jBa7iBonTk

[Akoto]

61. Princess Mononoke. Beautiful movie. n/t

[femmocrat]

63. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (Disney)

The animation is just so lush. I think it's gorgeous.

[TexasBushwhacker]

64. Short - "Eat Your Peas"

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6lfo_eatyourpeas

Feature - Princess Mononoke

[mainegreen]

65. It's not the best, but it's my favorite: the Last Unicorn

Yeah, I was a kid in the eighties.

[Lex]

66. "The Iron Giant"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Giant

[seemunkee]

68. Gertie the Dinosaur

But honestly how can you choose one?

I love Dumbo for the colors and music.
Bad Luck Blackie by Tex Avery is a hilarious short
The rotating scenery process in the old Popeye's give it a depth that few shorts had at the time.
The feel of the stop motion in Cosgrove Hall's Wind in the Willows is rich and pastoral and just right, especially in comparison to Disney's awful version.
The Man Who Planted Trees, simply beautiful colored pencil animation.
Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria - The animation of Chernobog is amazing and the plate glass fore/backgrounds in Ave Maria were ground breaking.

[Doc_Technical]

69. "Count me out" staring Egghead.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030016/

[Xipe Totec]

70. The Animatrix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld6bpKqg9nI

[tigereye]

71. Your Face

or The Cat Came Back


(for shorts)

[deepthought42]

73. Gasp... you picked my favorite!

I'm a complete and utter Beauty and the Beast fan...to put it mildly. :D :D :D :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

I also loved Happy Feet, Titan A.E., Finding Nemo...

[Stuart G]

74. Among the funniest films ever.......are...

Rabbit Fire (1951), Rabbit Seasoning (1952) and Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (1953).

These three have Elmer hunting "duck" during "duck season"
.....and they have poor Daffy trying to convince Elmer that it is not a duck, but a rabbit..and so on and so on.

Now if anyone has ever seen these, they are very very funny. If you are down, please look at these toons. Very hard not to laugh..

[Rob H.]

75. 'The Iron Giant'

Just an excellent movie, period.