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Animated Movie Reviews [BATCH 1] - Rango, Roger Rabbit, Wolfwalkers and More!
Added 2022-11-18 08:00:43 +0000 UTC2 hours worth of animated movie reviews, including Rango, Lightyear, Vivo, Secret of Kells, The Bad Guys, and more!
I've run out of big animated studios to power through! I've seen all the Disneys, I've seen all the Dreamworks, I've seen more animated movies than anybody ever needs to! I was cataloguing all of my movies and I realized... hey. I've seen most animated films. Maybe I should just sunk cost fallacy and try to see all of them.
So now, every Saturday Night some friends and I get together and watch a double feature, two movies a week! I thought it'd be fun to review them for you guys! No cohesive theme for these, just "I haven't seen this before."
Here are the timestamps and the films! You can tell which ones I liked because the reviews are short. :) (Looks at Rango) Haha! Uh oh!
3:08 - The Bad Guys
7:35 - Rango
34:39 - Cool World
57:48 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
1:01:47 - Lightyear
1:11:38 - Vivo
1:30:00 - Marcel the Shell with Shoes on
1:41:16 - Secret of Kells
1:47:06 - Song of the Sea
1:52:18 - Wolfwalkers
WANT MORE? LISTEN TO BATCH 2 HERE
Let me know if you have any recommendations for me! Especially if you can present them as a themed double-feature. You can check if I've already seen a movie on my Letterboxd account, which doubles as my checklist.
Comments
thank you for introducing me to wendy cope's the orange, it's now my favorite poem :D (& i am now actively looking into watching marcel the shell with shoes on)
starl1ght
2025-11-10 21:03:32 +0000 UTCWatching this after the mokoto shinki mega review is interesting I love hearing your initial thoughts on his work. Also during the Garden of Words review when you said the women in the move ate beer I just envisioned her shoving the can in her mouth and crushing it like a hydraulic press.
Hamyton
2025-10-30 11:01:23 +0000 UTCRango wanted so badly to be flushed away
PhatWith AnF
2024-04-12 21:45:01 +0000 UTCI know I'm late to this party, but I gotta say "So Cool World opens up, and it's Brad Pitt coming home from World War 2" made me audibly go "WHAT" out loud the first time I heard it. What the Hell am I getting myself into. Edit: the moment I heard "Ralph Bakshi" I went "OH FUCK"
Skull Thunder
2023-02-20 04:04:20 +0000 UTCNow, as a Rango lover, someone who considers Rango to be his second favorite western, I get it. It's my opinion that everyone gets to have one semi-popular western that they hate. For me, It's the Assassination of Jesse James. I LOATHE that movie. No movie before or since has made be so visibly angry. And yet... a ton of critics and viewers loved it. It even got referenced in a major mission in Red Dead Redemption 2. And this is mind boggling, because to me that movie is so goddamn awful, and just fails as a film.
Folkloric
2023-02-14 01:49:52 +0000 UTCI'm like halfway through Lightyear at time of writing, but I find it to be slow and weird. Also Chris Evans sounds almost exactly like Woody from the first Toy Story at certain points and it's all I can think about
CeasarAuGratin
2022-12-06 06:05:40 +0000 UTCAt the end of this, you should do your top ten best animated movies or every 10/10 movie in a letterboxd list
CeasarAuGratin
2022-12-06 05:16:45 +0000 UTCYou should talk about Kubo and the Two Strings and the other Laika movies in the next one of these
CeasarAuGratin
2022-12-06 05:14:36 +0000 UTCNot a movie, but I would love to hear you rip miraculous ladybug to shreds. I hate that I love that show. Its like junk food
Emma Watkins
2022-12-02 06:54:38 +0000 UTCI could listen to you talk about anything. Your opinionated rant style is very entertaining
Emma Watkins
2022-12-02 06:49:42 +0000 UTCThe Orange is my favorite poem 🥺 I guess I have a movie to watch
Candaru Driemor
2022-11-23 22:41:30 +0000 UTCLoved the review, Jello! I have two recommendations for animated movies that have “movie making/entertainment industry” backdrop. The first is Perfect Blue, a psychological horror directed by Satoshi Kon, about a idol who quits her career to start acting but slowly starts having her identity distorted by fan backlash. If ur comfortable with horror, I highly recommend it, as it’s one of the only animated horror movies i can think of. The second is Pompo the Cinephile, this movie takes place in Hollywood about a anxious production assistant given his first chance at directing by his eccentric mentor, Pompo, a young lady with a love for filmmaking who only makes shlocky B-movies.
DragonRageLee
2022-11-21 21:16:03 +0000 UTCWait I legit thought those were the same movie
JelloApocalypse
2022-11-21 19:40:19 +0000 UTCthey are not... positive... tbh...
JelloApocalypse
2022-11-21 19:39:51 +0000 UTCThe notes you mentioned for every movie sound really fun to read, are they on patreon? Also, if you doubled up with "Abominable" and "Smallfoot" you could get two yeti-themed movies out of the way.
Calcium
2022-11-19 20:40:45 +0000 UTCI recently watched Wendell & Wild, which was made by Henry Selick with Key and Peele. Absolutely stunning stop-motion animation, maybe Selick's best work yet. Story juggles a lot of ideas but it's about parent-child relationships. I don't think I'd say it's a must watch but I liked it a lot, and would be interested to hear your thoughts on it.
Bobby Osborn
2022-11-19 08:53:44 +0000 UTCThe Jenny Nicol's watch along is 1000% illegal that is inarguably not fair use, that being said no one is checking and the worst they'll do if you're caught is tell you to take it down so like whatever?
Emereldmaster333
2022-11-19 05:14:12 +0000 UTCI am on my knees begging you to watch "Mary & Max". It desperately needs more coverage.
Jonah Creek
2022-11-19 04:14:40 +0000 UTC"Infinity train 'edgy 12-14 year olds will love this before they discover real media." Why am I catching strays in the Patreon comments lol.
Daniel
2022-11-19 00:27:26 +0000 UTCI suspect you'll be somewhere like 7-8 on it, but it's a 9-10 for me. Just a lovely time. Ending makes me cry everytime.
Daniel
2022-11-19 00:25:34 +0000 UTCI'm not nearly as versed in 'hidden gems' as I like to think I am. But if you haven't seen it already, check out 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.' It's a very tongue in cheek British show about a hack writer who makes a hack show.
Jacob
2022-11-18 22:12:36 +0000 UTCDefinitely movies of the Infinity train/Rango “edgy 12-14 year olds will love this before they discover real media” genre and it’s extremely funny that Disney was and clearly still is mad that Don Bluth beat them to the “cash cow name brand children’s dinosaur IP” so it’s funny in like, a historical way. I think I find AT’s premise interesting more than anything, kids media about pre-WW1 American history and “what f animals had a society parallel to our own” are both so prevalent it feels extremely weird that American Tale and like…arguably the titanic movies are the only two to merge the concepts. Like it feels like a sub genre we should have had more of by now but don’t. You could also do a double feature with ADGTH and Balto, which unintentionally has the funniest over the top morbid scene I’ve ever seen in a kids movie where the dog overhears the news of a bunch of kids getting sick and then walks by the carpenter and sees the rows of child sized coffins he’s been building
Bestpartofwakingup
2022-11-18 22:02:51 +0000 UTCPiph and Glass did a Barbie Marathon a few years back and I hopped on for a few of them. The Pegasus one was absolutely one of the best I saw. To my memory most of them were pretty good except for the Mermaid ones, all of which sucked.
JelloApocalypse
2022-11-18 21:53:06 +0000 UTCI've seen about 70% of his body of work and I'm not really a huge fan of any of his movies, to be honest. Secret of NIMH is probably his best. Haven't seen either ADgtH movie since I was like six though so I do need to rewatch those
JelloApocalypse
2022-11-18 21:52:10 +0000 UTCI've been meaning to watch Millenium Actress for a long time
JelloApocalypse
2022-11-18 21:51:09 +0000 UTCI am HERE for Irish Jello ^>^
Shovlin
2022-11-18 21:18:23 +0000 UTCthe last unicorn gets weird and I’d be interested to hear your thoughts. Water ship down/plague dogs is an obvious double feature but I don’t think they’re your cup of tea. Wendlall and Wild was really really good and weird and could be paired well with Coraline
Bestpartofwakingup
2022-11-18 20:58:57 +0000 UTCThere’s always the classic Bluth movies, Secret of Nimh, American Tale, All dogs go to heaven (the most weirdly racist of the bunch), and Land before time (the weakest of the 4 imo)
Bestpartofwakingup
2022-11-18 20:50:12 +0000 UTCFuck i forgot the most important Kon movie. You have to watch Millenium Actress, its def one of my favorite movies, and while I've so far only seen it and Perfect Blue, it is my preferred movie. If you don't end up liking it, I'll spit. Somewhere.
Daniel
2022-11-18 20:20:12 +0000 UTCI know you’ve already stated on Twitter that Mitchells vs. the Machines is a 10/10, but I’d still love to hear you talk about it.
CroakPad
2022-11-18 17:25:46 +0000 UTCYeah Rattlesnake Jake was one of the only things I remember liking about Rango. And Gabby was the reason I dropped Vivo after the first 20 minutes.
Kruh-Daze
2022-11-18 17:14:41 +0000 UTCI watched Rango in theatres and i remember ONE thing & that was at the start some mariachi lookin owls(?) said the protag was gonna die and this was the story of how it happened then at the end when he didnt they came back to say "well we all die eventually" and honestly fuck off
dollqueen
2022-11-18 14:30:06 +0000 UTCOh man I was just thinking about Book of Life & wondering ur opinion considering youve already given your opinion on Coco & Encanto. Unfortunatley no in themes but since xmas is coming i wonder if youve seen Tokyo Godfathers? And if you want a recommendation on Barbie movies bc youre willing to go there, Princess and the Pauper, Magic of Peagasus, and 12 Dancing Princesses are my top 3 recs. I love Barbie in the Nutcracker but I admit thats probably nostalgia talking...
dollqueen
2022-11-18 13:51:12 +0000 UTCOh boy recommendation time. I don't think you've ever talked about any of the Hosoda films or Satoshi Kon films on camera/microphone, but I see you've seen like all of them so maybe those. I definitely suggest Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis and Studio Madhouse's Redline. Redline is kinda weird but its got good heart and its fucking wild. Also Maquia: When the Silent Flower Blooms, A Silent Voice, Night is Short Walk on Girl, Weathering with You, the CGI Lupin III movie, Promare (I feel like you'd hate Promare and I'm here for that), Angel's Egg (possibly the most pretentious movie of all time), and just to really rub salt in it, why not also hit every single fuckin Open Season movie. Edit: And the og Ghost in the Shell movies.
Daniel
2022-11-18 12:27:51 +0000 UTCHighly recommend checking out Don Hertzfeldt’s work, could make a double feature of sorts out of his three World of Tomorrow short films (74 minutes total) and It’s Such a Beautiful Day, the feature film version of another short film trilogy of his.
Luke Beeman
2022-11-18 12:00:21 +0000 UTCYou've made me interested in watching Marcel the shell; I thought the trailers looked kind of meh but i'm glad it was good and heartwarming. So glad you've been watching Owl House, its a great show
Chandler B
2022-11-18 10:54:49 +0000 UTC
