Particularly charming film, with humor, cheerful characters and plenty of action and excitement was nominated for an Oscar.
It’s a heartbreaking journey to witness, but it’s honest and pure. “Toy Story 3” is a hilarious and heartfelt tale of abandonment that isn’t afraid to portray the sadness that comes with no longer being wanted, and it’s hard to think of other movies that capture the feeling of yearning for innocent times quite as effectively as this animated adventure. Perfect third part of an excellent series, witty and exciting, also very suitable for adults.
Lovingly made stop-motion zombie film about a kid who needs to save the community from a witch's curse, is the first film by director Chris Butler, who was involved with "Coraline" and Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride" as a storyboard artist.
Last film by the retired animation great Hayao Miyazaki. “The Wind Rises” is a fictionalized biopic and bittersweet melodrama in one, about the brilliant airplane designer Jiro Horikoshi. The film is indispensable as the final chord of an oeuvre that has few equalities. The drawings are beautiful again.
Directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have demolished plot elements from "The Matrix" and other popular culture to build a dazzling animated film with unbridled imagination, consistently designed in the blocky style of toys. The sparkling animated film is packed with successful humour and has an endearing message.
Second part in the DreamWorks animated series after the books of Cressida Cowell is again a very successful family film, full of spectacular 3D images and pleasant humor.
Walt Disney's animators blend the classic style of their studio with a touch of anime in this funny and visually stunning adventure loosely based on a Marvel strip. Hiro befriends the extremely cuddly care robot Baymax and goes up against evil with him. Almost casually, "Big Hero 6" touchingly deals with some big themes like sacrifice and loss, without sacrificing humor and spectacle.
An adventure film pur sang, with detailed clay animations, in which there is a lot to chuckle about. And the subtlety to which Shaun owes his success is combined with action and adventure.
Leave it to Pixar to make an animated film for the whole family about something as complex as the human psyche. "Inside Out" revolves around the emotional life of eleven-year-old Riley, who gets emotionally tangled up after a move. Parallel to her life, we follow the events in the control room of her head, where the figures of Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust are the service. Raging creative film will be somewhat abstract for the little ones, but it is full of clever ideas, strong jokes and warm sentiment.
You would never expect a movie about talking animals to be a noir-styled mystery with a subtextual message about racism and prejudice, but that’s precisely what “Zootopia” is. Set in an imaginative world inhabited by numerous species of anthropomorphic animals, “Zootopia” takes a step further than classic Disney shorts featuring Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, and explores the implications and consequences of such a society through the eyes of police officer Judy Hopps, the first rabbit in a profession dominated by physically bulkier animals. Added to Disney’s characteristically excellent design and animation, and you’ve got some seriously expressive characters playing out a surprisingly engaging buddy cop flick.
Touching and intelligent stop-motion fairytale about the young storyteller Kubo, who discovers in a fantasized Japan that the family legends he received from his mother all turn out to be true. It's the beginning of his own exciting adventure, in which he sets off with a talking monkey and a beetle-murai in search of a magical armor. Technically perfect, downright enchanting ode to the power of stories.
Wes Anderson's second stop-motion animation film is as dry-comic, quirky and melancholy as his first, '"Fantastic Mr Fox" from 2009. And just as good. With a great sense of detail, Anderson creates a universe of his own, which is so beautifully put together that the film invites you to watch it several times. The fact that Isle of Dogs is set in Japan is emphasized by the exhilarating score of Alexandre Desplat.
Another film about Marvel icon Spider-Man: no one was really waiting for that. All the more surprising that this Sony Pictures Animation animated film, starring not Peter Parker but teenager Miles Morales, is by far the best film about the masked vigilante from Brooklyn, and also the most radical, intelligent, artistic and revolutionary superhero film ever made. From the (diverse) voice cast to the absurdist jokes and from the moving father-son theme to the hallucinatory and breathtakingly beautiful images: almost everything about "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" is of great class.
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