Maxwell Lord posted:

The Rankin-Bass Hobbit works pretty well. It's got the songs, some very good voices (John Huston as Gandalf is just a brilliant decision), sort of an "antique" look, etc.

Return of the King is... not as successful. Granted when I was a kid who had never read Tolkien it was still pretty mind-blowing, but they kinda try to make it a sequel to the Hobbit since they hadn't made Lord of the Rings, there aren't nearly as many songs in the material so they make up a bunch, it's a lot clunkier in general. Parts of it work (the aforementioned "Where There's a Whip, There's A Way") but it's goofy. (I particularly like the Eowyn/Witch King confrontation since there's really no disguising that it's a woman talking.)

Maxwell Lord posted:

I figure because the Bakshi film had already been made and they didn’t want to retread it. There was some fuckery with the license and for all I know they only had the one shot at wrapping things up.

Rand Brittain posted:

My favorite thing about all three of the old Lupin series is, they may not always be the best animated TV show, but they're certainly the most TV show.

I can't think of a single other show that crams as many raw ideas into twenty minutes.

Darth TNT posted:

Sonic Boom was really good though. My son recently finished the first season on Netflix so I caught a lot of episodes. Funny stuff, even if I'm not a fan of dumb Knuckles because I'm old. (despite the best lines being his)

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Eggman/Robotnik is always the best part of any Sonic media.

Jim Carrey may not have done the physical resemblance at first, but the actual personality absolutely nailed it. Reminds me a bit of Dr Sivana in Shazam; sometimes you just need to do a full on mustache-twirling old school supervillain and it works.

Also I almost typed Drew Carey, and his Dr Robotnik is another thing to think about.

Argue posted:

But all the Buzz Lightyears in Toy Story 2 are alive prior to being played with so clearly the metaphysics of the series deserves closer study

Pick posted:

The sexualization of the little girl is EXTREMELY creepy and the voice actress is using her Lisa Simpson voice (iirc it is the same lady).

doomrider7 posted:

I wonder what the original dialogue was in Japanese.

Barudak posted:

From a brief foray of searching years ago, the dub of Speed Racer is mildly drier than the original Japanese but it was an old serial show so the repeating stuff is just how it was written.

Ultimately anyway you slice it this is a show where multiple two parters are Speed Racer defeating coup plots and terrorist groups by hitting them really hard with a car

Barudak posted:

Its, well, its a show from 1968. Its got fun episodes and lots of weird shifts since theres no overarching plot, but its still an archaic serial with some questionable attitudes and representation of non-Japanese people. Animation is powerfully 1968 so don't expect much and expect it to repeat constantly, to the point of occassionally having a minor villain speed killed off be alive in background shots

Rand Brittain posted:

No, I was talking about the Lupin TV series.

Macaluso posted:

A thing I can't help but notice with the new Animaniacs, is that it sounds like Rob Paulson can't do the Yakko voice consistently anymore. Especially when it's a song, a lot of the singing doesn't sound like Yakko at all

Maxwell Lord posted:

Ghibli really shouldn't have gotten into 3D if they couldn't make it look as good as their 2D films.

Pick posted:

He implies he'll get around to eating him at some point but I also get the impression he just eats bugs to increase amount of bugs? Santa is not a bug.

duz posted:

I still kinda want to see Gunn's original version of the live action Scooby Doo movie.

Ccs posted:

Only in recent incarnations. That's why the Zombie Island movie works, because it plays on the audience suspecting there's a trick behind what appears supernatural.

GlassEye-Boy posted:

Wait what's going on? I thought Netflix was doing a ATLA follow on and that the original creators got kicked off the project. Did they go back to Nickodeon and start a new project? How does thst work with the Netflix show?

Oh nevermind, it was love action and is still ongoing...the original creators did get kicked out or voluntarily left though.

Data Graham posted:

I'm super confused, how can they be doing another live-action ATLA movie and have it turn out worse than the first one.


Also, Rugrats coming back? Bring back Peter Chung imo

perepelki posted:

hiddenriverninja posted:

The new Tom and Jerry movie came out. Jerry still an rear end in a top hat.

hiddenriverninja posted:

I haven't seen the one from the 90s so I can't comment on that, but, no, it is not good.

Spoilers, I guess:

Every animal (that I can recall) is animated. Tom and Jerry themselves don't talk but the others can. Tom and Jerry speak in cartoony charades, which is probably the best gag in the movie.

Data Graham posted:

Such highs and lows. Way-too-intense Rip Torn Zeus is amazing, but Hera as doting mother is lmao. Crazy cool Gerald Scarfe art design, godawful CGI on the hydra. Rad motown/R&B twist on the music, but I'm not so sure the Rocky/prizefighting reframe works. Hades is fantastic in concept and execution, but it's hard to watch him knowing it's James Woods. Etc

Phylodox posted:

Tangled: The Series was absolutely better than it had any right to be.

Phylodox posted:

Really? It ended on a pretty definitive note.

Phylodox posted:

For the record, it hasn’t. You think it has, but it gets crazy good towards the end of season 1 and just keeps building from there.

Macaluso posted:

Some screenshots from Space Jam 2 came out today. I just have one opinion: keep Lola hot, cowards

Wittgen posted:

I'm not pumped about CG looney toons and not hand drawn, but I'm looking forward to the movie. Good dumb fun is nice, and unlike MJ, Lebron has charisma and comic timing.