The Book of Life is a multi-layered story — both in its narrative structure and in the number of layers within its depicted world. We pass...
Watching The Secret of Kells or Song of the Sea feels more like leafing through an illuminated manuscript.
Beneath the surface of satire, Mary and Max hides serious questions, fears, and phobias. It is a vision full of exaggeration and stylistic eccentricities.
A boy named Champion, raised by his grandmother, was not treated kindly by fate. He probably lost his parents in the war. Since his youth, despair...
20th Century Fox, clearly inspired by Disney’s artistic (and financial) successes with The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Pocahontas, decided to produce an animated...
Sylvain Chomet’s earlier animation, The Triplets of Belleville, is a very peculiar film. It is an almost dialogue-free, absurd story built on caricature and exaggeration, often...
Monster House doesn’t surprise with an inventive form or complex narration. Yet the director manages to include several striking and memorable images
Poor Mowgli from The Jungle Book should be used to being abandoned by now. As a baby, swept away by a flood, he was lost in...
Kung Fu Panda (2008) opens with the dream of the main character, an awkward panda named Po. In his vision, he is a legendary warrior of...
Although The Aristocats (1970) is not the first animated film that comes to mind when one thinks of Walt Disney, it seems to be one of...