Comments on: When it rains meatballs and dragons fly

By: pyjamas

pyjamas — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:26:41 +0000

Here are some of my “comfort movies”: Pinocchio, Land before time, Monsters Inc., Corpse Bride, and the Studio Ghibli DVD box set

I saw Coraline and Mary and Max and I think they are too dark for kids. Coraline’s button eyes freaked me out.

By: emyM

emyM — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:07:56 +0000

One of my favorite is the dancing scene in the Beauty and the Beast…
how I love the song….it is sweet.
After watching Pocahontas many years ago,we took our children to
McDonalds.There was a commotion on our table as we were ordering food.
Three young blonde girls were talking to my teen-age daughter….they
thought she was Pocahontas.That was funny and amusing.
When our parents celebrated their 50th,their grandchildren surprised
them with a song entitled If We Hold On Together…from The Land Before
Time.Beautiful song.
We owe it all to Disney.

By: d0d0ng

d0d0ng — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:35:43 +0000

Shrek is hilarious and also Timon and Pumba of the Lion King. However, it seems that there is always a dark message for every animation, not only Disney or Pixar films. Parents are always killed or the main character are without parents (like what happened to Snow White parents?). Maybe to prepare the children that someday you don’t need your parents? I don’t know.

Time seems flying past these days. It is like just yesterday when I hesitantly took the role of Scar opposite my son who played Simba. But I like Scar’s lines:
1. I am surrounded by idiots.
2. Just remember our little secrets.
3. Life is not fair, is it? I…well, I’ll never be King but you’ll never see the light of another day.
4. Oh, where I have seen this before.

Bambi and Peter Pan were my old favorites. There were lots of animated films over the years. The Flintstones, Scooby Doos, Bugs Bunny, The Wizard of Oz, The Transformers, Pinochio, Akira, Garfield, Aladdin, The Land Before Time, Pocahontas, Hercules, Antz, Mulan, The Iron Giant, Toy Story, The Emperor’s New Grove, Pokemon, Sinbad, Titan AE, Atlantis, Ice Age, Finding Nemo (fish are friends not food), Bionicle, SpongeBob, YugiOh, Final Fantasy, Flushed Away, etc…

By: Connie Veneracion

Connie Veneracion — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:27:04 +0000

Jeng, I loved The Dark Crystal. Can’t find a DVD copy though.

Neolex, ah, but the really good ones do make you think.

curious_Girl, re “how they were made”: Notice how the physical appearance of the characters resemble the actors that lend their voices to them? Like Mulan looks like Ming-Na, Esmeralda looks like Demi Moore, etc. Now, Astrid in How to Train Your Dragon looks like Kate Hudson — we were so surprised to read in the credits that her voice belong to America Ferrera!

By: curious_Girl

curious_Girl — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:09:48 +0000

Animated films right now are upping the bar in story telling. Its difference with live-action movies is that every gesture and scene have been envisioned with so much attention to detail and plot. What I love even more than watching them, is watching how they were made-the concepts and behind the scenes.