My Little Pony: The Movie (1986)
I realize that the age demographic for My Little Pony: The Movie is far below my current age, predominantly aiming at kids below perhaps ten years old, but when you’re a dad with a...
Category: Animation
Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Bah Weep Grah Na Weep Ninibon. Transformers: the Movie is a theatrically released, ultra-long episode bridging the second and third seasons of the popular TV series that ran during the mid-1980s, based on the Hasbro...
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Turning around the reputation of Disney animation in 1989, The Little Mermaid, the studio’s loose and much more upbeat take on the Hans Christian Andersen tale originally published in 1837 that looked to restore their more...
Ferdinand (2017)
John Cena (Sisters, Daddy’s Home) voices the voice of a pacifist bull named Ferdinand, who manages to escape a life slated to be either a victim in the bull-fighting arena in Spain, or to become...
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
A key entry in the Disney revival of the 1990s, Beauty and the Beast retells the old French fairytale, originally written centuries before, to a new generation. Paige O’Hara voices Belle, a provincial French...
The LEGO Batman Movie (2017)
Spinning off from the surprise 2014 hit, The LEGO Movie, The LEGO Batman Movie gives further exploration into one of its small bit characters, Batman (again voiced here by Will Arnett, TNMT: Out of the Shadows), and...
Moana (2016)
Moana (Cravalho, her debut) is the chief’s daughter within her tribe on the New Zealand island of Motunui. Unlike most girls in her Maori village, she is destined to be the chief of her...
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
Kubo and the Two Strings is the fourth, and arguably the best, of the big screen releases from the Oregon-based, mainly stop-motion animation studio, LAIKA Entertainment. It’s the first to be directed by that company’s...
The Secret Life of Pets (2016)
Upon first glance, The Secret Life of Pets would seem like a take-off on Pixar’s Toy Story series, using pets instead of toys to show the world of individual hobbies and collective adventures the characters would go in...
The Good Dinosaur (2015)
Offering up a sort of alternate prehistory on what might have happened had the theoretical asteroid that hit Earth 65 million years ago that wiped out all of the dinosaurs not occurred, dinosaurs are...