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So what obscure and/or unpopular animated movies do you like?
Ones that come to mind for me are...
Strange Magic
Wizards
Rock and Rule
We're Back A Dinosaur Story
A Monster in Paris
The Illusionists
Heavy Metal
Flight of Dragons
Cat's Don't Dance
The Princess and The Goblin
Fern Gully
The Last Unicorn
Titan A.E.
Starchaser The Legend of Orin
Little Nemo
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So what obscure and/or unpopular animated movies do you like?
I remember and liked a bunch of those. My list (I know I'm forgetting a lot from my childhood here) is:
Wizards
Heavy Metal
Flight of Dragons
Cat's Don't Dance
Fern Gully
The Last Unicorn
Titan A.E.
The Hobbit
The Secret of Kells
Legend of Manxmouse
Plauge Dogs
Watership Down
I would like to add.
The Secret of NIMH
Once Upon a Forest
The Brave Little Toaster
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The Iron Giant
The Chipmunk Adventures
Fire and Ice
The Black Cauldron
Chalotte's Web
Monster House
There's some great stuff on this list.
Aside from previously mentioned films like Secret of NIMH, Iron Giant, Wizards, Rock and Rule, Heavy Metal (especially Captain Stern -- hilarious!), Flight of Dragons, Last Unicorn, and Secret of Kells, I have some fondness for:
Chuck Jones' adaptations of Rikki-tikki-tavi and the White Seal, and a rare treasure from the late 30's-early 40's done for Christmas called "Peace on Earth". If you've seen that one, you'll remember it.
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Nice little gem I found once called "A Cat in Paris" The way the different characters moved was such a great expression of their personalities. Really great film if you can find it.
Also "The Triplets of Bellville", just brilliant
I remember Watership Down, When I first saw it I had no idea what is really about.
I have heard of a A Cat in Paris.
Never heard of The Triplets of Bellville, Plauge Dogs, Legend of Manxmouse, or The Secret of Kells.
I remember Watership Down, When I first saw it I had no idea what is really about.
I have heard of a A Cat in Paris.
Never heard of The Triplets of Bellville, Plauge Dogs, Legend of Manxmouse, or The Secret of Kells.
Those are all pretty obscure, Triplets of Bellville was a french art piece animation about a sport biker and his grandmother, kinda trippy but good.
Plauge Dogs..whowf...that was a really heavy animation back in the day about a pair of dogs used in medical experiments escaping to freedom.
Legend of Manxmouse...yeah good luck finding that one, it was, I think, a french animation that was adapted but it had a bit of a velveteen rabbit/Pinocchio story about a toy manxmouse that became real and had a bunch of adventures.
The Secret of Kells was actually pretty recent compared to the others it told the story of the Book of Kells, a famous illuminated manuscript from around 800AD
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Secret of Kells (2009) is a real gem! The animation is gorgeous, and the storyline is fascinating. It's one of my daughter's favorites. I took her to see it in the theatre when she was 9, and we ended up buying the Blu-Ray when it was released. I never buy the Blu-Ray!
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Preaching to the choir, but Secret of Kells is truly brilliant, but I think the studio outdid that masterpiece with Song of the Sea which is just un-frigging-beliavably good.
Wizards is also great, in all it's visual weirdness and "hey let's make a children's movie with busty fairies and nazi symbolism" tone. Definitely a one of a kind movie.
Persepolis is also great, and I also recommend the comic itself.
Iron Giant, Secret of Nimh, ParaNorman, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. The usual suspects.
Out of unpopular or "flopped" Disney movies I personally really like Treasure Planet and Atlantis the Lost Empire, though I admit Atlantis has some real problems.
I actually like the Tinkerbell movies.
If we are bring up ParaNorman, then we should also have Coraline and Kubo and Two strings. Box Trolls was good but not as good as the other three.
Persepolis?
Bit OT but has anyone here seen the recent animated film about a young girl going to find her grandfather by exploring the North Pole? I am blanking on the title.
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Is it called the "Long Way North"?
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In regards to A Flight of Dragons, it could be proof that wizards have trouble with logic, but if the evil wizard had used a little logic himself, than he could of most likely won.
Wizard: Tell me man of logic, how is it that you are standing here before me? How does logic allow you to be plucked from your time and into this one?
I guess you could count the Transformer and G. I. Joe animated movies as well since nether of them did all that well in the theaters.
The Tiny Toons movie, How I Spent My Summer Vacation, would also be a good one. Though I don't know how well it it did since it was a strait to video release.
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I remember that GI Joe movie, it was kinda dark but then both it and the Transformers movie was designed to "clear the stable" for new characters.
Man, I watched the Transformers movie so many time when I was little I had to replace the VHS. But if it didn't do well in theaters I can see why they never made any more Transformers films. Too bad really.
Because the Transformers and G.I. Joe movies didn't do well, we never got that Jem and Holograms animated movie:(
So has anyone else seen the Princess and the Goblin?
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Oh, I just thought of another one, The Elm-Chanted Forest.
That was a trippy one. I don't remember much about it other than the really weird mushroom scene.
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I was profoundly moved by this movie when I saw it in theaters in 1979. I was two and a half years into my first D&D campaign as DM, and desperately in love with a girl who didn't know I existed.
I look back now and can see that it isn't a great movie, but at the time I ate it up.
That's one I was thinking of--it was much better, IMHO, before they added the narration. (At least if you already were familiar with the myths.)
Another one that got a lot of play in art theaters and on college campuses around that time period is the Fantastic Animation Festival. I saw that in a theater in Madison once, and when the Teaser and the Firecat segment got to the part where Cat Stevens is singing Moonshadow, I think the entire theater was singing along very very quietly, so no one would hear them.
Bruno Bozzetto's Allegro non Troppo was uneven, but some of the segments were amusing. Although if I ever see the one about the cat in the abandoned apartment again I will cry.
When The Wind Blows 1986. Most uplifting film I've ever seen.
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The Mouse and His Child
The Devil and Daniel Mouse
Dark stuff those two.
Cricket in Central Park
I have heard of The Devil and Daniel Mouse and Winds of Change but have never seen them.
Never heard of The Mouse and His Child, Cricket in Central Park, or the Elm-Chanted Forest.
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I remember that GI Joe movie, it was kinda dark but then both it and the Transformers movie was designed to "clear the stable" for new characters.
Man, I watched the Transformers movie so many time when I was little I had to replace the VHS. But if it didn't do well in theaters I can see why they never made any more Transformers films. Too bad really.
I was traumatized by the murder of all the transformers in the first ten min of the movie. After years of them missing each other over and over I didn't think it would ever happen to any of them (including the decepticons!) How the film didn't do well with Orson Wells and Leonard Nimoy is beyond me. Oh they had Judd Nelson too.
The highlight of G.I. Joe is the opening credits, "Sgt. Slaughter as Sgt. Slaughter" Even though they found a plot reason to remove the original joes instead of killing them, it was still annoying to see all the classics swept aside for the feature film.
Because the Transformers and G.I. Joe movies didn't do well, we never got that Jem and Holograms animated movie:(
There was a Jem and the Holograms live action film a year or two ago. It was a box office nuclear strike.
The only way I can watch that Transformers movie is with the volume down completely. Because the soundtrack was soooo bad, and it's going nearly every second of the movie.
*shudder*
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I always liked the She-Ra and He-Man saves Christmas movie.
The only way I can watch that Transformers movie is with the volume down completely. Because the soundtrack was soooo bad, and it's going nearly every second of the movie.
*shudder*
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Transformers animated movie soundtrack is TOTALLY AWESOME.
As far as I am concerned, that Jem and the Holograms movie doesn't exist;)
Forgot to add the Hobbit animated movie to the list.
Dot.
After looking up Elm-Chanted Forest, it does seem familiar. Maybe I saw it a long time ago when I was little.
I couldn't find anything for Cricket in Central Park, what year did it come out? what was it about?
Hoodwinked is a mashed-up fairy tale mystery through multiple lenses and a crazy modern vibe. It's deeply cynical and wickedly funny.
The Road to El Dorado is probably higher in my eyes because I was in a Spanish inspired 7th Sea game where two of our characters mirrored the protagonists.
Cool World perhaps didn't completely live up to it's potential, but it's a great look at a strange world.
A Scanner Darkly is a Phillip K Dick mindbender, if you're into that. It fills the Rule of Keanu by definition. (Movies where Keanu's character knows less about what's going on than somebody else tend to be better) I had my own Whoa! moment, when it showed the freeway off ramp I take every day.
Anomalisa was good, but very creepy. It's a bit of a slow build and a little depressing, so you have to be in the right mood for it. Note, though animated, this one is not for kids.
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My favourite animated movie to this day is Warriors of the Wind, an Americanized dub of a Miyazaki film he so disliked it nearly put him off allowing dubs.
Also, I prefer the Rankin-Bass animated The Hobbit to the "expanded" CG epic.
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My favourite animated movie to this day is Warriors of the Wind, an Americanized dub of a Miyazaki film he so disliked it nearly put him off allowing dubs.
Also, I prefer the Rankin-Bass animated The Hobbit to the "expanded" CG epic.
That dub did result in probably the most epic editorial note of all time.
Allegedly upon hearing that the company that had picked up the rights to Princess Mononoke was planning edits; Miyazaki sent them a custom made katana with a note tied to it that simply said "No Cuts". There has since been no material cut from any Miyazaki film sent state side. Supposedly this was in direct response to the issues from Warriors of the Wind.
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I haven't seen anyone bring up "Gnomeo and Juliet" yet. Besides being an entertaining twist on the Shakespeare tale, and featuring a decent voice cast, it is fun to play "spot the Elton John reference" while watching.
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I remember seeing Plague Dogs as a kid, if my parents had known what that movie was about when I came up to them and said "this one!" in Blockbuster Video I doubt I would have ever seen it.
Most of the movies I'd recommend have been covered above but I'd like to suggest:
Julith
It's a French animated movie based in the Wakfu universe. Its a fun, lighthearted Fantasy Setting.
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Atlantis the Lost Empire, though I admit Atlantis has some real problems.
Say what you will, in my opinion Atlantis did the best in giving a huge cast individual personalities. They're all one-notes, but they're interesting one-notes.
I remember really liking All Dogs Go to Heaven. Which is strange, because I was a cat person from the womb, much to my mom's chagrin. The pet battles were constant and quietly vicious; she was less perturbed when I eventually came out as gay.
Animal tales worked for me in general. Oliver and Company and Rock-a-doodle were also watched, along with Secret of Nimh. I'm curious how many of these would hold up to me as an adult?
I like the Hoodwink movies and Gnomeo and Juliet.
The Secret of Nimh is my all time favorite Don Bluth film though the American Tail movies come second. Now that I think about it, just about everyone of Don Bluth's films would be unpopular and/or obscure.
Anyone remember the Disney animated movie "Make Mine Music"?
I have heard of The Devil and Daniel Mouse and Winds of Change but have never seen them.
Never heard of The Mouse and His Child, Cricket in Central Park, or the Elm-Chanted Forest.
As I remember, The Mouse and His Child was about a wind-up toy of a father mouse and his child who were on a quest to be 'Self winding' There was some animal like a fox that was chasing them for some reason and at one point, the fox SMASHED both toys with a rock. Cue trauma.
My favourite animated movie to this day is Warriors of the Wind, an Americanized dub of a Miyazaki film he so disliked it nearly put him off allowing dubs.
Is this not "Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind"?
Don Bluth films were quite popular in my part of the country.
My favourite animated movie to this day is Warriors of the Wind, an Americanized dub of a Miyazaki film he so disliked it nearly put him off allowing dubs.Is this not "Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind"?
Yes and no. It was the same animation, but the names were changed, the script rewritten in places, and some scene editing changed the plot in minor ways. What I like about Warriors compared to Nausicaa is that Warriors uses humour from time to time to break up the heavy tone, while Nausicaa is a continuous grind until the ending.
Yea. Lord Yupa in the dub said 'Now that you had time to think about it, do you want to surrender?' which was amusing.
Wasn't there a Raggedy Ann and Andy movie from the 70's or 80's?
Another one I would like to add would be Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer.
Yeah, I remember the He-man/She-ra Christmas movie.
Well that is a sad ending for the Mouse and His Child.
What was the Elm-chanted Forest about?
My favourite animated movie to this day is Warriors of the Wind, an Americanized dub of a Miyazaki film he so disliked it nearly put him off allowing dubs.
if only.
If only.
Wasn't there a Raggedy Ann and Andy movie from the 70's or 80's?
Another one I would like to add would be Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer.
Yeah, I remember the He-man/She-ra Christmas movie.
Well that is a sad ending for the Mouse and His Child.
What was the Elm-chanted Forest about?
The elm-chanted forest was about a painter who fell asleep under a magic elm tree and was given magical abilities to help protect the forest from a villian known as the cactus king.
It was apparently a Yugoslavia animation, and they took some liberties with the translation, also they sped up the animation to make it easier to synch the mouth movements.
Interesting, It was a Yugoslavian animated movie.
Has anyone seen the Gen13 animated movie?
I remember The elm-chanted forest was scary (when you're 4), and there was another similar film called The Wizard's Hat
other animated films I like are
The Congress
Waking Life
Mind Game
Space Pirate: Harlock
Immortel
Wasn't there a Raggedy Ann and Andy movie from the 70's or 80's?
Another one I would like to add would be Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer.
Yeah, I remember the He-man/She-ra Christmas movie.
Well that is a sad ending for the Mouse and His Child.
What was the Elm-chanted Forest about?
Oh yes! That was nightmare fuel with a huge blob monster that wanted to eat Ann/Andy's hearts.
Yea. Lord Yupa in the dub said 'Now that you had time to think about it, do you want to surrender?' which was amusing.
My fave:
While preparing to escape from the cargo bay of an in flight airship using her glider, the Prince asks her if she can take off from here. "I can take off from anywhere" door opens revealing an enemy warship about to attack "except under fire"