Obscure and / or Unpopular Animated Movies You Like


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I thought there was a movie of Raggedy Ann and Andy.

Charlotte's Web is another one.


The Prince of the Sea and the Fire Child, aka The Legend of Sirius (the direct translation of its Japanese title, Sirius no Densetsu).

The Land Before Time (first movie only).

Howl's Moving Castle.

+ Many of the ones already mentioned!

(^_')=b

Carry on!

--C.


Legend of Sirrus was basically Romeo and Juliet. Got rather scary as well.

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Ooh, from the first few posts, I love Secret of NIMH and Rock & Rule. Nicodemus is like the Gandalf of rodents, and Mok is wonderfully despicable.

Titan A.E. was also a riot. "I made this last night in my sleep. I don't know what it does. It has a button. Should I push it?"


Mok was a great villain- My record sales are a little down, let me use someone's special voice to summon a demon to kill people so I will be remembered.

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Set wrote:
Titan A.E. was also a riot. "I made this last night in my sleep. I don't know what it does. It has a button. Should I push it?"

And then there's the soundtrack!

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Set wrote:

Ooh, from the first few posts, I love Secret of NIMH and Rock & Rule. Nicodemus is like the Gandalf of rodents, and Mok is wonderfully despicable.

Titan A.E. was also a riot. "I made this last night in my sleep. I don't know what it does. It has a button. Should I push it?"

Full quote btw,

Gune: Does this look familiar? Do you know what it is? Neither do I. I made it last night in my sleep. Apparently I used Gindrogac. Highly unstable.

Preed: Gune...

Gune: I put at button on it. Yes. I wish to press it, but I'm not sure what will happen if I do.

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One of my favourite animated films that nobody else seems to have heard about is Red Line. All I know is that the film took about 11 years to complete, and it bankrupted the studio, but it is a treasure. It's the story of a racer in a futuristic space world that gets thrown into a battle between crime syndicates and the law, all while trying to prepare for the biggest race in the galaxy, the Red Line. The whole final act is like an exquisitely animated, super inventive episode of Wacky Races, and there wasn't a moment in that film I didn't like. I would super recommend it!

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Daniel Yeatman wrote:
One of my favourite animated films that nobody else seems to have heard about is Red Line. All I know is that the film took about 11 years to complete, and it bankrupted the studio, but it is a treasure. It's the story of a racer in a futuristic space world that gets thrown into a battle between crime syndicates and the law, all while trying to prepare for the biggest race in the galaxy, the Red Line. The whole final act is like an exquisitely animated, super inventive episode of Wacky Races, and there wasn't a moment in that film I didn't like. I would super recommend it!

I second this.


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captain yesterday wrote:

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*

What? what? what about The touch or dare to be stupid? we are talking about the original animated one with unicron (voiced by Orsen welles) and Galvatron (voiced by Leonard Nemoy).

If so we are two very different people.


Does anyone remember am anime were the main characters are aliens who were kidnapped, brainwahed, made to look human, and made into a rock band?

Never seen Redline, animation looks good.

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Dragon78 wrote:

Does anyone remember am anime were the main characters are aliens who were kidnapped, brainwahed, made to look human, and made into a rock band?

Never seen Redline, animation looks good.

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(They were already a band)


Vidmaster7 wrote:
captain yesterday wrote:

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*

What? what? what about The touch or dare to be stupid? we are talking about the original animated one with unicron (voiced by Orsen welles) and Galvatron (voiced by Leonard Nemoy).

If so we are two very different people.

All I remember is mid to late eighties hair metal pop s*@@. If I'm misremembering, I'll gladly go back and try again. It's been about fifteen years or so.


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Redline was an awesome movie, I've even shown it to several people who hate anime and they loved it.

From Titan AE I always thought the best line in the movie was

spoiler:
Gune:"I Finished my Nap!"

(Edit:I guess that line is a bit of a spoiler, even for a movie as old as this.)


captain yesterday wrote:
Vidmaster7 wrote:
captain yesterday wrote:

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*

What? what? what about The touch or dare to be stupid? we are talking about the original animated one with unicron (voiced by Orsen welles) and Galvatron (voiced by Leonard Nemoy).

If so we are two very different people.

All I remember is mid to late eighties hair metal pop s~*~. If I'm misremembering, I'll gladly go back and try again. It's been about fifteen years or so.

Dare you Capn'


Rysky, I had never seen the movie, but remember seeing scenes from it used in music videos and clips.

Sp nobody but me has seen the animated Gen13 movie?

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Dragon78 wrote:

Sp nobody but me has seen the animated Gen13 movie?

Ooh, I've never heard of this, but I want to see it! Along with the WildCATS cartoon that I heard exists, but have been unable to find.


Saw Gen13. It was ok.

WildCATS was fun!

Titan AE was awesome!

Other movies:

  • The Secret of the Sword
  • The Sword in the Stone
  • the 3 Care Bear movies (The Care Bears Movie, Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation and The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland)

Carry on!

--C.

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Dragon78 wrote:
Rysky, I had never seen the movie, but remember seeing scenes from it used in music videos and clips.

Well the movie is basically one long AMV for Daft Punk's Discovery.


Is The Last Unicorn obscure? That was probably my favorite movie as a kid.


So the movie doesn't have much of a story? Is it one those movies that has little or no dialog?


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Vidmaster7 wrote:
captain yesterday wrote:

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*

What? what? what about The touch or dare to be stupid? we are talking about the original animated one with unicron (voiced by Orsen welles) and Galvatron (voiced by Leonard Nemoy).

If so we are two very different people.

Everything is more awesome with a Stan Bush soundtrack. If I had the time and savvy I would re-cut the airport scene from "Civil War" to start "The Touch" as soon as Ant-Man hits his "reverse" button.


So because I am bored and I like useless statistics

Films listed so far: 84
Films I could find reliable info on:79
Films from the Silent Age of Animation (1900-1920):0
Films from the Golden Age of Animation (1920s-1950s):2
Films from the Dark Age of Animation (1950 - ~1980):11
Films that could be considered Dark Age or Renaissance (~1980-89):18
Films from the Renaissance Age of Animation:(~1985-1999):20
Films from the Millennium Age of Animation(2000-Current):29
Films I wasn't able to date with accuracy:3

List of Films so Far in Chronological Order:
:
  • The Congress  ? ?
  • Peace on Earth 1928 Golden
  • Make Mine Music 1946 Golden
  • Chalotte's Web  1973 Dark
  • Cricket in Central Park 1973? Dark
  • Rikki-tikki-tavi 1975 Dark
  • Raggedy Ann and Andy 1977 Dark/Renaissance
  • The White Seal 1975 Dark
  • The Hobbit  1977 Dark
  • The Mouse and His Child  1977 Dark
  • Wizards  1977 Dark
  • Space Pirate: Harlock  1978 Dark
  • The Devil and Daniel Mouse 1978 Dark
  • Watership Down 1978 Dark
  • Legend of Manxmouse  1979 Dark
  • The prince of the sea and the Fire Child 1981 Dark/Renaissance
  • Heavy Metal  1981 Renaissance
  • Flight of Dragons  1982 Dark/Renaissance
  • Plauge Dogs  1982 Dark/Renaissance
  • The Last Unicorn  1982 Dark/Renaissance
  • The Secret of NIMH  1982 Dark/Renaissance
  • Fire and Ice  1983 Dark/Renaissance
  • Rock and Rule  1983 Dark/Renaissance
  • Warriors of the Wind 1984 Dark/Renaissance
  • Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer 1985 Dark/Renaissance
  • She-Ra and He-Man Save Christmas 1985 Dark/Renaissance
  • Starchaser The Legend of Orin  1985 Dark/Renaissance
  • The Black Cauldron  1985 Dark/Renaissance
  • The Care Bears Movie, Care Bears Move II: A New Generation, The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland 1985 Dark/Renaissance
  • The Secret of the Sword 1985 Dark/Renaissance
  • When the Wind Blows 1986 Renaissance
  • An American Tail 1986 Renaissance
  • Elm Chanted Forest 1986 Renaissance
  • The Chipmunk Adventures  1986 Renaissance
  • Transformers 1986 Renaissance
  • GI Joe 1987 Renaissance
  • The Brave Little Toaster  1987 Renaissance
  • Oliver and Company 1988 Renaissance
  • The Land Before Time 1988 Renaissance
  • All Dogs go to Heaven 1989 Renaissance
  • Little Nemo 1989 Renaissance
  • Princess and the Goblin 1991 Renaissance
  • Rock a Doodle 1991 Renaissance
  • Cool World 1992 Renaissance
  • Fern Gully  1992 Renaissance
  • Batman:Mask of the Phantasm 1993 Renaissance
  • Once Upon a Forest  1993 Renaissance
  • We're Back A Dinosaur Story  1993 Renaissance
  • Cat's Don't Dance  1997 Renaissance
  • The Iron Giant  1999 Renaissance
  • Gen13 2000 Millennium
  • Road to El Dorado 2000 Millennium
  • Titan A.E.  2000 Millennium
  • Atlantis:The Lost Empire 2001 Millennium
  • Waking Life  2001 Millennium
  • Treasure Planet 2002 Millennium
  • Interstella 5555 2003 Millennium
  • Kaena 2003 Millennium
  • The Triplets of Bellville 2003 Millennium
  • Howl's Moving Castle 2004 Millennium
  • Hoodwinked 2005 Millennium
  • A Scanner Darkly 2006 Millennium
  • Monster House 2006 Millennium
  • Paprika 2006 Millennium
  • Persepolis 2007 Millennium
  • Redline 2007 Millennium
  • 9  2009 Millennium
  • Coraline 2009 Millennium
  • The Secret of Kells  2009 Millennium
  • A Cat in Paris 2010 Millennium
  • The Illusionists  2010 Millennium
  • A Monster in Paris  2011 Millennium
  • Gnomeo and Juliet 2011 Millennium
  • ParaNorman 2012 Millennium
  • Mind Game  2014 Millennium
  • Anomalisa 2015 Millennium
  • April and the Extraordinary World 2015 Millennium
  • Strange Magic  2015 Millennium
  • Kubo and the Two Strings 2016 Millennium
  • Immortel ?
  • WildCATS ?
  • Winds of Change ?


Which Captain Harlock movie are we talking about, cause there are a few including a recent CG version.

Plus the plus there are the periphery Leiji movies like the Galaxy Express 999 movies and Emeraldas

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Allegro non Troppo 1976 Dark
Fantastic Animation Festival 1977 Dark
Winds of Change/Metamorphoses 1978 Dark


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Some of these aren't so obscure or unpopular. Just say'n.

No one has mention Turok, Son of Stone so I'll throw that in there.


Never even heard they did an animated Turok movie.

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Dragon78 wrote:
So the movie doesn't have much of a story? Is it one those movies that has little or no dialog?

Oh no it has a story. Can't remember if it has any dialogue though outside of the songs, it's been awhile since I've seen it.


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Well here are some more obscure/unpopular Disney animated movies.

Saludos Amigos
The Three Caballeros
Fun and Fancy Free
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Fantasia
Fantasia 2000
The Aristocats


There is also Song of the South and So Dear to My Heart though they may be more infamous than obscure. And really they arn't truly fully animated, the first is live action with animation and animated vignettes, and the second, it's more of a hybrid live action/animated like Pete's Dragon.

I've actually seen a VHS copy of Song of the South once. Had I known what it was at the time I would have bought it in a heart beat.


Fantasia, Fantasia 2000, and The Aristocats are obscure or unpopular?!? I hear people talking about the first two all the time. And when my son asked for The Aristocats on DVD for his birthday a few years ago (in 2012, perhaps?) a new special edition of it was just coming out. (Admittedly, I've never seen The Aristocats, although the DVD is still collecting dust on my shelf.)


Fantasia was not a hit when it came out, in fact, every movie between Snow White and Cinderella were not successful at all.


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Ah. Movies not successful at first count for this thread. Yeah, I forgot that you hinted at that when you mentioned the Transformer and G. I. Joe animated movies. Sorry about that.

Anyway, I'll agree about those Rankin/Bass ones, The Hobbit, The Flight of Dragons, and The Last Unicorn. Much as I love high fantasy novels, I seldom find a movie on the subject to be half-decent, so when I do, I feel compelled to give it honorable mention. I agree with Scythia; the Peter Jackson treatment of The Hobbit was too "expanded".

And I'll agree with Philo Pharynx too: I regard Cool World, despite the complete mess of a plot, to be quite possibly my favorite animated movie of all time, just for portraying such a fascinating world.


Of the Ralph Bakshi films, I have always liked Wizards best.

I guess I could add the Powerpuff Girls movie because despite the show's popularity, the movie did badly.


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Personally I beleive that Song of the South is a very important film to have out there, but it needs to be prefaced with a message explaining the context of the film and the time that the story was written. It isn't a film that should be shoved under the rug and pretend never happened. Beyond simply the content of the film there are also some amazing film effects that were pioneered during the making of it.

Yes it is a troublesome film in some ways but it should be discussed not ignored.

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Anyone here seen Sita Sings the Blues?

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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.

You live in LA, too? I loved that movie! I didn't know the Rule of Keanu but it makes sense. I saw that movie when I was getting into a funk post-college. It was kind of a highlight for me because I went to the theater alone to avoid my sister's birthday party and her super-annoying happy friends, and it's just enough weird+downer that it made me feel better.

Movies: Record of Lodoss War (but does it count because it is more of mini-series than a 2-hour type movie?)


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atheral wrote:

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.

You mean I'm not the only person who saw that movie? I mostly remember it for the Cactus King and his guard formed of evil halberds with legs. Man was it bizarre.


captain yesterday wrote:
Is The Last Unicorn obscure? That was probably my favorite movie as a kid.

I loved it too. King Haggard was the best villain. Just the way Christopher Lee did his dialogue...

And that drunk skeleton was a riot.


Dragon78 wrote:
Is it called the "Long Way North"?

That's it!

Also, let me add to my list the animated Rankin-Bass versions of The Hobbit and Return of The King. How I loved Smaug as a boy! And when they showed us Thorin dying I wept unashamedly.

And RoTK, yikes, but the horror in the scenes where Samwise forced his way past the Watchers; and when Grond broke the gates. And the way the Ring was shown tempting Sam and how Frodo fell to it was very well done.

Oh yes, did anyone here ever see the original My Little Pony animated film, with the Smooze?

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A Flight of Dragons is what cemented my love of fantasy.


Ditto, although the logic battle was a little to pat.


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I some what remember the MLP animated film but I thought the first movie was the one with Tirek as the villain? I also remember both Care Bears movies but none of these really stood the test of time for me. Though I still enjoy the Rainbow Brite movie.

I always looked at the logic battle in Flight of Dragons as the main character "doing some growing up and taking charge of his life" kind of thing.


Dragon78 wrote:

I some what remember the MLP animated film but I thought the first movie was the one with Tirek as the villain? I also remember both Care Bears movies but none of these really stood the test of time for me. Though I still enjoy the Rainbow Brite movie.

Tirek was in the first MLP TV special. The movie came along later, and it had the Witches from Mount Gloom and the Smooze as villains.


Dragon78 wrote:

I some what remember the MLP animated film but I thought the first movie was the one with Tirek as the villain? I also remember both Care Bears movies but none of these really stood the test of time for me. Though I still enjoy the Rainbow Brite movie.

I always looked at the logic battle in Flight of Dragons as the main character "doing some growing up and taking charge of his life" kind of thing.

Been a long time so I don't remember it that well, but having some more back and forth to me would be more interesting. By having the MC embrace both logic AND magic would prove the old wizard's(*voiced by Sherman Potter's actor) goal of inspiring imagination/hop the correct path. The MC keeps fighting for the dream, 'has faith' as it were.


Flight of Dragons Ending Spoiler:
The conclusion to the story did do that in a way, he awakened the princess with a kiss, causing the green [wizard to comment that he wasn't completely lost to magic..

Spoilered for what it's worth.


OK, so Tirek was in the first special.

Does anyone remember those weird and little dark Jonny Quest made for TV movies a while back?


Greylurker wrote:

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

Do you mean Gay Purrree?

Maybe they changed the title.

I haven't read the whole topic yet, but Over The Garden Wall was a tour de force for the blue bird.


Goth Guru wrote:
Greylurker wrote:

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

Do you mean Gay Purrree?

Maybe they changed the title.

I haven't read the whole topic yet, but Over The Garden Wall was a tour de force for the blue bird.

A Cat in Paris is about this family Cat, who's other family (you know how cats have more than one family) is a cat burglar and goes with him on a job. The burglar then gives this braclet from one of the thefts to the Cat who then brings it to the little girl he lives with in the day. Her mother however is with the Police. Add in some Mobsters who would like their cut, a kidnapping, a chase and of course a meeting of the Cat's various peoples.

Cats tend to object to mobsters threatening their peoples

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Dragon78 wrote:

OK, so Tirek was in the first special.

Does anyone remember those weird and little dark Jonny Quest made for TV movies a while back?

I remember vs the Cyber Insects.

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