{"id":4139,"date":"2009-06-19T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=4139"},"modified":"2009-06-19T07:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T23:33:00","slug":"fav-films-animation-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/06\/19\/fav-films-animation-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Fav Films – Animation – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"blog-animated-03\" My three picks for animated features: Monsters, Inc.<\/a><\/em> (2001), Ratatouille<\/a> <\/em>(2007) and Surf’s Up<\/a><\/em> (2007).<\/p>\n

This is an interesting genre: over the years, there was a large gap from the 60s to 80s in which there weren\u2019t many quality animated pictures were getting made by the major studios. Then Disney came out with The Little Mermaid<\/a><\/em> in 1989, and animated films become in vogue again.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s even the more surprising was how quickly hand-drawn animated films got surpassed by 3D computer-generated animation, beginning from Toy Story<\/a><\/em> in 1995. Nowadays, there\u2019s a glut of 3D animated films left right center, and nicely most of them are Ok to pretty good.<\/p>\n

Of the lot though, I think I\u2019ve gone with what aren\u2019t really universal favorites. Many people would have selected Finding Nemo<\/a><\/em> for instance as the best Pixar effort to date. Nemo<\/em> was OK for me, but I don\u2019t know. I didn\u2019t find the story or premise that special \u2013 it was ultimately a road trip movie where a father Clownfish looks for his missing child, with turtles, sharks on a mission of good behavior, and a forgetful dory thrown somewhere into the mix.<\/p>\n

The very recent WALL-E<\/a><\/em> was also very well-received, but I thought the film was spoilt by the dominant inclusion of large humans into the story from the midpoint onwards. The film\u2019s story should had centered squarely on EVE and WALL-E.<\/p>\n

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So what\u2019s so special of the three I\u2019ve chosen then? Well, Monsters, Inc.<\/em> had a great premise. The story\u2019s about monsters in an alternative universe who come into our own world and scare children just so in order that theirs can survive.<\/p>\n

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Now, it would had been easy for the monsters to come from some wretched underworld of Hades. But Monstropolis is anything but such. It\u2019s a modern, highly urban city where the monster scarers are all professionals, and their world is like ours: bosses, rivals, girlfriends, and Japanese food LOL.<\/p>\n

And in a story twist: it\u2019s the monsters who when in their own world are terrified of little children! Too funny for words.:)<\/p>\n

Best of all for me though was that the two monster leads had incredible chemistry, helped in no small part by some of the best voice acting ever. Sulley and Mike, portrayed by John Goodman and Billy Crystal, for me have been the best buddy pair in animation \u2013 even better than the Woody and Buzz \/ Tom Hanks and Tim Allen pairing from the two Toy Story<\/em> films.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s apparently a Monsters, Inc. 2<\/a><\/em> in the works \u2013 oh yes!!!<\/p>\n

Continued in the next post.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My three picks for animated features: Monsters, Inc. (2001), Ratatouille (2007) and Surf’s Up (2007). This is an interesting genre: over the years, there was a large gap from the 60s to 80s in which there weren\u2019t many quality animated<\/p>\n

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