Recommend me some animated films

Kingp35

I'm looking for some good animated films to get my hands on. I'm not looking for Computer Animated films, Anime or Disney musicals, I'm looking for films that are animated like The Iron Giant or Watership Down.

Any recommendations much appreciated!

Karl Hungus

Hang on, are you discluding all anime?

Also, you disclude CGI films, but don't mention things like Claymation. Can we recommend films like Wallace & Gromit?

Anywho, if you liked Watership Down, have you seen The Plague Dogs?

gordonnet

thunderbirds

joe 90

TheIrishGrover

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Hang on, are you discluding all anime?

Also, you disclude CGI films, but don't mention things like Claymation. Can we recommend films like Wallace & Gromit?

Anywho, if you liked Watership Down, have you seen The Plague Dogs?

As Karl said above, are you discluding all anime? It's not all tits-n-tentacles or kids in giant robot suits or ultraviolent. The latest anime film I got was The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. A bit of a groundhog day thing set in modern day Japan. Wonderful animation and sutiable for all (If that is a concern)

Also, since you've mentioned The Iron Giant (Kudos man. My absolute fave) then you cannot rule out Miyazaki (My neighbour Totoro, Porco Rosso (IMHO) and Spirited Away especially) The dubs on these are very good now if it's for an audience who will not watch subtitles (Prefer subs myself but listen to the dubbed versions when watching with niece and nephews)

You are narrowing your options down SEVERELY if you keep to your original criteria. Remember, The Iron Giant was unusual: A major western studio trying to compete with Disney. Unfortunately, it failed. The Iron Giant was a flop on release and has really only gathered a cult following on DVD (Albeit a large cult following). There are a couple of Sulivan Bluth films out there (An American Tail, Land Before Time, Anastasia etc) but not much else I'm afraid.

What kind of tone/audience are you looking for?

TheIrishGrover

Kudos again on The Iron Giant. You may appreciate this site if you are a collector. Ive gotten a couple myself: http://vegalleries.com/wbopc.html#iro

BenjAii

I suppose strictly speaking they would come under the category of anime, but Hayao Miyazaki is brilliant. 'Howl's Moving Castle', 'Princess Monoke' and Spirited Away' are some to look for.

monkeyfudge

Titan AE was quite a good science fiction action movie written by Joss Whedon that was largely over looked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1QW2PT9sek

Star Chaser the Legend of Orin is another space action film... bit of a rip off of Star Wars, but good fun nonetheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8UZ2WfLG70

Fire & Ice is an excellent fantasy barbarian style film... really exploitative just like all the old Conan book covers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz-yLWGaIxM

ziedth

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Titan AE was quite a good science fiction action movie written by Joss Whedon that was largely over looked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1QW2PT9sek

Star Chaser the Legend of Orin is another space action film... bit of a rip off of Star Wars, but good fun nonetheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8UZ2WfLG70

Fire & Ice is an excellent fantasy barbarian style film... really exploitative just like all the old Conan book covers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz-yLWGaIxM

OMG Starchaser is an epic suggestion. I really must Download Legally buy that now.

Also, Titan AE is also very very good I didn't know Joss wedon was involved but now that I think about the film its fairly obvious.

TheIrishGrover

Yeah, Titan AE wasn't bad. I liked the animation (I like that "simple" character animation that Sulivan Bluth used (Also similar to the character animation of TIG) ) and the writing's pretty good. There are certainly some decent Whedonisms in it. The main problem I had with it was the voice acting in it: Most of them sound like they're reading the lines while waiting in line for something. No life to the voice acting at all. I had forgotten all about Star chaser (Except that someone says "Bastard" in it. That blew me away at the time. Hah.)

I suppose there's always the Dreamworks stuff too now I think about it: Prince Of Egypt, Road To Eldorado and Sinbad: Quality animation, big name cast etc (Although there are a few songs in all of them too)

Kingp35

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Hang on, are you discluding all anime?

Also, you disclude CGI films, but don't mention things like Claymation. Can we recommend films like Wallace & Gromit?

I'm discluding Anime because I have seen a lot of the stuff out there and was more looking for some classic animation that I haven't seen. Having just watched The Iron Giant and Watership Down I thought there must be a good few animated films out there that I haven't seen. Yeah recommend away on the Claymation!

Thanks for the suggestions so far.

Cianos

Fantastic Planet

Waltz With Bashir (haven't seen it yet but it looks v.good)

Persepolis

Otis Driftwood

Star Chaser the Legend of Orin

My God I havnt seen this in at least 20 years,have to track it down.Thanks for the reminder.
On topic,try Fritz the Cat.;)

monkeyfudge

Kingp35 wrote: »

I'm discluding Anime because I have seen a lot of the stuff out there and was more looking for some classic animation that I haven't seen. Haven't just watched The Iron Giant and Watership Down I thought there must be a good few animated films out there that I haven't seen. Yeah recommend away on the Claymation!

Thanks for the suggestions so far.

For Claymation it has to be Comet Quest (or the Adventures of Mark Twain as it was known in the US)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOlBfBZQSE0

Wizards is another good animated film by Bakshi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjSFujG6Uhg

Bakshi also did Fritz the Cat.. but I thought it was an awfully dull film.

The Brave Little Toaster and The Secret of Nimh are great childrens animated movies if you haven't seen them.

Karl Hungus

Definitely agreed about Titan AE, very overlooked film. Someone mentioned Anastasia, I remember enjoying that quite a lot.

shenanigans1982

Batman : Mask of Phantasm

Probably one of the best animated movies I have seen.

Galvasean

shenanigans1982 wrote: »

Batman : Mask of Phantasm

Probably one of the best animated movies I have seen.

To that end the unrated version of Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker.

Films of similar style to Watership Down is The Land Before Time (ignore the awful musical sequels) and The Secret of NIMH (again ignore the twee sequel).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FncvmmLAgZo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwNfsLwQBhM

There's also the 1986 Transformers: The Movie if that's your thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaEWLuVJee0

If you're into fantasy look up Flight of Dragons or The Last Unicorn.

monkeyfudge

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Definitely agreed about Titan AE, very overlooked film. Someone mentioned Anastasia, I remember enjoying that quite a lot.

If you know anything about history then Anastasia is the most annoying film ever made.

JanusGeminius

Renaissance is a good choice if you want something different. The only things I can criticise are the Dialogue and some of the voice acting; especially Romola Garai, just a weak performance.

ziedth

The 1986 Version of transformers the movie is simply put a classic.

To this day we still randomly start singing "you got the touch...."

I'd nearly go as far to say that I enjoyed it more then the Michael bay Effort.

shrapnel222

when the wind blows

kirikou et la sorciere

johnny_ultimate

Heavy Metal anyone? :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGwn_0k_TQo

But someone mentioned Persepolis: well worth tracking down. Belleville Rendezvous too - absolutely astonishing French animation from a few years back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf7PsN2SwC8

If you are looking for something a little different, Waking Life is fantastic (not necessarily traditional animation though - filmed then animated):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk2DeTet98o

jane86

The Sword in the Stone

All Dogs Go to Heaven

Animal Farm

c - 13

City of Rott (I think this is classed as a short film)
The Chosen One

As someone else said Heavy Metal isnt bad. I too found fritz the cat a bit tedious to watch, the second one, the nine lives of fritz the cat was even harder to watch, don't think I even made it to the end of that one.

L31mr0d

The BFG

Although I haven't seen it since I was 8 so I might be remembering it with rose tinted glasses on... actually I'm more than sure I am. Still if you haven't seen it before you might as well.

Full_Circle

Wow, I've never heard of "Fire and Ice", but the animation looks spectacular! Is it available on dvd at all?


Excluding anime or musicals (tough, cause loads are well worth watching!), I would recommend:

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm - In my opinion, the best Batman movie, animated or otherwise. You don't have to be familiar with the animated series to enjoy it as its a stand alone story.

The Secret of NIMH - One of my all time favourite animated movies. It just has a certain charm about it and the animation is exquisite.

Lilo & Stitch - I know its Disney, but theres no songs to speak of (just Hawaiian music and some Elvis tracks!). When I first saw it, it just struck me as odd, but watching it again recently I found it much funnier, very entertaining and the story is really quite sweet and heart-warming too

Superman/Doomsday - As long as you know nothing about the original storyline in the comics, then this should be a treat. It was the first of DCs more adult orientated animated movies, which translates into lots of spectacular (and quite violent) action scenes. Again, this can be enjoyed as a stand alone movie, even if you are totally unfamiliar with the Superman animated series.

Not too long ago, I would have recommended "Titan AE", but I watched it again only recently and it wasn't as good as I remembered. The film has no heart and the main character is extremely unlikeable. The only thing worth mentioning is that some of the action scenes (with hefty amounts of CGI) still look quite spectacular.

Capt'n Midnight

¡Vampiros en La Habana!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090249/

monkeyfudge

Just remembered The Last Unicorn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5RpRxS28RA

It's actually quite a dark film if you overlook some horribly out of place songs by 'America'

And of course there is Flight of Dragons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0j0Bjy6hFc

Delirium

Great thread. Last unicorn is a class film, can remember going to the cinema to see it as a kid and loving it.

zAbbo

Waltz with Bashir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J9uoLMhMhs

Currently in cinemas

Galvasean

Full_Circle wrote: »

Wow, I've never heard of "Fire and Ice", but the animation looks spectacular! Is it available on dvd at all?

I remember they were selling it for less than a fiver in Tescos and I didn't bother with it. Fool that i am

Also the H-Man/She-Ra crossover movie was pretty fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz2AgPkzqkY

Full_Circle

Galvasean wrote: »

I remember they were selling it for less than a fiver in Tescos and I didn't bother with it. Fool that i am

I thought it was way too obscure a title to have been released over here, but after reading that, I popped onto Play and there it was for a fiver! So thanks for that

bnt

I'm watching Porco Rosso for the first time at the moment (Film4), and can thoroughly recommend it. It has a kind of absurdist humour that you rarely find anywhere these days. You can see it in the first scene, when air pirates take a bunch of schoolgirls hostage in their cramped plane, and soon wish they hadn't...

"So we're taking all 15 of them?"
"Well, it wouldn't be nice to separate them from their friends..."

Nolanger

Phantom Toolbooth

Hard Larry

The Transformers Movie

Watched it during the summer again and it rocks.

Some legendary lines of dialog (by legendary I mean cheese-tastic, Robert Stack as Ultra Magnus )

Orson Wells as Unicron makes your hair stand on end with every line.

Lenorrd Nimoy voices Galvatron always an interesting choice I thought.

I challenge any Transformers fan to watch this and not get a lump in his/her throat when

Optimus Prime

dies

shrapnel222

got this one in france this Xmas: Les trois brigands. I already had the comic book which is great but the film is just brilliant.

monkeyfudge

How about the greatest Studio Ghibli film that you'll never see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbPJmxIQqKc

It never got made. But in the end there was a Little Nemo film that was produced in the early 90s. I don't think I've ever seen it though, looks good enough so I'll have to track down a copy.

max robo

go to http://www.nartystation.com to see some donegal claymations
pullin' the devil by the tail etc