Xander ,'Empty Places'
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Damn bunny never seemed to want to *pay* for his fruitily delicious part of a well-balanced breakfast, he just wanted to *take* it.
a) This is SO TOTALLY GLOSSING OVER the racism inherent in singling out his bunniness every time they snatched sugary bliss from him, and b) You mother never taught you to share?
Which totally avoids the question of whether faux-fruit sugar balls can be part of a well-balanced breakfast.
Unless you're carrying the bowl on your nose.
megan needs to see more Miyazaki and Aardman.
I have seen all of Miyazaki up through Porco Rosso (thanks to Scola), I meant to keep going chronologically but haven’t got around to it. But all I’ve seen fall before your 1995 cut-off. I looked at your link and realized I’ve seen the following non-Pixar:
Shrek
Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the WereRabbit
Chicken Run
Lilo and Stitch
The Iron Giant
Shrek 2
The Emperor's New Groove
The Simpsons Movie
Antz
Pooh’s Heffalump Movie (courtesy of my niece)
Ice Age (yes, I'm ranking this below the Heffalump movie)
Of those, I remember liking the first three quite a bit. I saw both Lilo & Stitch and The Iron Giant based on buffista love for them. I was underwhelmed in both cases. I think I’m just not a big animation fan.
Of course, I adored Les Triplettes de Belleville and Persepolis, but don’t really count either as kids fare.
ETA: I fear Sean watched far too many prison movies as a child.
smacks forehead
SHREK!!!!
Tied with Incredibles, knocks Robinson to #2 and Monsters to #3.
a) This is SO TOTALLY GLOSSING OVER the racism inherent in singling out his bunniness every time they snatched sugary bliss from him, and b) You mother never taught you to share?
a) It would make no difference if he was a bunny or a toucan or a tiger or a naval captain.
b) Not with fuckin' bunnies, she didn't.
Oh god, the animated movie list. The top spot on my list is a three-way tie between Lilo and Stitch, Monsters Inc., and Kiki's Delivery Service.
After that, then there's Toy Story 2 (even if it makes me sob my eyes out at a certain point), The Incredibles, Finding Nemo ... and why the hell don't I own Emperor's New Groove, yet?
I'd pay cash money to see that on YouTube.
Well, there was that Robot Chicken where they cast the Trix rabbit as Pacino in Scarface (basically). Of course, he ended up being denied his Trix in that too...
Hubby will not watch Toy Story 1. He was horrified that they left those other toys with the mean kid, because he didn't think the mean kid was completely reformed. The kid would recover and be even worse. Hubby has a low expectation of bullies and sadistic kids. He can't watch Toy Story 2 without brooding over the poor toys from Toy Story 1.
Pixar did a bunch of bumps for Saturday morning ABC shows after TS1 came out that are on the Ultimate Toy Box set (TS1, TS2, and a third disc of just extras). Quite a few of the mutant toys are shown playing with Buzz, Woody, and the rest of Andy's toys, which made me happy ("Legs," the Barbie legs with fishing pole torso, plays a mean game of Go Fish).
Quick comments!
Cars is definitely the worst Pixar movie. It's actually kind of BORING, and the main character is insufferable for half the movie.
Lilo and Stitch is awesome. "Oh, good, my dog found the chainsaw."
Emperor's New Groove is also awesome. "Llama faaaaaace."
If I were to make a list, I would fail and just throw things at people. Except Ice Age would not be anywhere on it. Sorry, I cannot deal with prehistoric humans who shave and wear jewelry and have modern family social structures. Also, the movie had approximately two funny jokes. I will admit that the Skratt scenes were the best thing about the movie.