Music Used: Swan Princess 3 - Aint Nothing but Bad Days Ahead Big City Greens - Best part of Christmas Central Park - I Did Not Account for This Underdog Theme Ted from Scrubs Ghost and Molly Magee - Enjoy your Afterlife Twisted - Starkid - Dream a Little Harder Little Mermaid - Poor Unfortunate Soul (Cover) ua-cam.com/video/g2vqh-3Mw5A/v-deo.html Muppet Christmas Carol - It Feels like Christmas Detective Conan Theme - Saxophone cover ua-cam.com/video/wny2gtemW_s/v-deo.html Miraculous Ladybug Japanese Theme Monkie Kid Theme Believe Your Eyes - Swan Princess Longer Than Forever Gotta go Fast Sonic X Theme Fred Penner - The Cat Came Back Wander Over Yonder - Your the Greatest That Moment Forever Ago - Central Park Milo Murphy's Law - Chop Away at my Heart Eye of the Tiger Cover ua-cam.com/video/acXjUPrZ9Pk/v-deo.html Skillet - Feel like a Monster Cover - Caleb Hyles ua-cam.com/video/2T4PLjoBkxc/v-deo.html Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - Stupid Bitch Greatest Showman - This is Me (cover) ua-cam.com/video/7kT50TDmfnE/v-deo.html Under the Boardwalk - More than a Meathead Mission Impossible theme cover ua-cam.com/video/7HODuAFeM9Y/v-deo.html Die trying - Central Park Jingle Bells Batman Smells - Batman Animated series Les Mis - Castle on a Cloud Cover ua-cam.com/video/wUe3dzabH9U/v-deo.html Imperfectly Perfect - Central Park You are the Music - Central Park Attack on Titan Theme (epic cover) ua-cam.com/video/nEMa7gZljSY/v-deo.html Paradise - Ikson Anatasia Musical - Paris Hold the Key to Your Heart (Portuguese) ua-cam.com/video/npi5l2lbqnY/v-deo.html Frozen Love is an Open Door Acapella Cover ua-cam.com/video/Z5FvIFzEE1k/v-deo.html Simple Plan - I’m Just a Kid Cover - Midnight Cereal ua-cam.com/video/srXvba10c64/v-deo.html Under the Sea Little Mermaid Jazz Cover ua-cam.com/video/RMZXolRm8cc/v-deo.html Green Day Boulevard of Broken Dreams Bard Cover ua-cam.com/video/YVnd7MaGo-g/v-deo.html Little Bird - Elizabeth Mitchell Mad World Cover Tears for Feers Street Performance ua-cam.com/video/Yk3R4xcCf2k/v-deo.html I'll be the Misfit - Gamboy Jone x Breeton Boi ua-cam.com/video/_uZMU8s3bx4/v-deo.htmlsi=EC3wHeafZglO5iMy
I found out when the algorithm recommended me Laura Crone’s video on the swan princess series a while back, and i highly recommend it. She talks about each installment at length and talks about the company making it now being… odd. (I don’t want to spoil it lol).
I feel like I should have said this ages ago but I really do appreciate that you cover such a wide variety of animation in these, when you say "every" you really MEAN "every"
2023 overall was one of the better year for animated films. Spiderverse will definitely have an effect on the industry for at least the rest of the decade.
@@yololthepikminenjoyer I hope it's the part about inspiring other people to take chances on the artistic style of their films rather than continuing to imitate the Disney/Pixar look.
@@joshuasgameplays9850Hell, it’s been an animation practice since Animation even began. It’s not a big deal as you think people, it’s been literally done countless times! Just look at Toy Story 2. Ugh, the internet’s full of Drama Kings.
@@ShockwaveFPSStudios I mean it is a big deal, just because it’s the norm doesn’t mean it’s not bad. but I do agree it’s weird that people are acting like this is the first time animators have been mistreated during production of a movie
I LOVE how you use the best clips from every movie in that opening montage and treat them all as equals for a second.. just appreciating the medium because they really do all have beautiful qualities
Can you imagine how Wish would have turned out if the Disney Corporation just let the story be instead of forcing the writers to change it just to cram in references to past movies
The original story sounds better than what we got, sure, but I really don’t understand why it gets so much hype. It doesn’t sound that groundbreaking to me.
@@emblemblade9245 I think it's because it was tied up in the 100th Anniversary of Disney and people believe the original idea for the movie would've been more fitting for the occasion.
Timestamps: 43. 1:35 - The Swan Princess: A Fairy Tale Is Born / The Swan Princess: Far Longer Than Forever 42. 4:39 - Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Christmas Cabin Fever 41. 5:24 - Mummies 40. 7:08 - Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie 39. 8:41 - The Canterville Ghost 38. 10:21 - Wish 37. 14:19 - Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken 36. 15:37 - Urkel Saves Santa: The Movie 35. 17:00 - Mavka: The Forest Song 34. 18:12 - Inspector Sun 33. 19:22 - The Magician's Elephant 32. 20:15 - Rally Road Racers 31. 21:42 - Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie 30. 24:36 - New Gods: Yang Jian / The Monkey King 29. 28:07 - The Amazing Maurice 28. 29:49 - The Super Mario Bros. Movie 27. 32:02 - To Me, The One Who Loved You / To Every You I've Loved Before / The Tunnel To Summer, The Exit Of Goodbyes 26. 35:27 - Trolls: Band Together 25. 37:27 - Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham 24. 39:42 - I Am What I Am 23. 41:00 - My Love Affair With Marriage / The Peasants 22. 42:59 - Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget 21. 45:53 - Under The Boardwalk 20. 48:36 - Scarygirl 19. 50:17 - Merry Little Batman 18. 51:46 - Migration 17. 54:04 - Lonely Castle in the Mirror 16. 55:59 - Elemental 15. 58:20 - Ernest & Celestine: A Trip To Gibberitia 14. 59:32 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 13. 1:01:11 - Leo 12. 1:03:04 - The First Slam Dunk / Blue Giant 11. 1:06:27 - Le Petit Nicolas 10. 1:07:22 - Suzume 9. 1:09:21 - The Venture Bros. 8. 1:11:38 - Kaguya-Sama: Love Is War 7. 1:14:37 - Deep Sea 6. 1:17:06 - The Inventor 5. 1:19:39 - Unicorn Wars 4. 1:20:53 - Nimona 3. 1:22:01 - Robot Dreams 2. 1:23:46 - The Boy And The Heron 1. 1:26:04 - Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
@@CellSpex I'm surprised you didn't make this a two partner, but I'm glad you made it one full video, almost certain the songs used in here might be copyright striked
Usually you give Disney a bit of leeway, not much to be clear, you're fair, but when perception of their films is more negative (such as Ralph Breaks the Internet) you tend not to swing quite so far as others might in that direction, so to see Wish lose to URKEL SAVES SANTA is a pretty stark statement of how bad Wish actually is. I genuinely think Chicken Little and Home on the Range might have more actual outright fans than Wish does at this point...
I agree because Chicken Little and Home on the Range are absolute shitshow movies so bad that they can absolutely gain an ironic cult following whereas Wish I feel has absolutely nothing to hold onto and it’s just an absolute nothing burger
I didn't even know people didn't like home on the range, till now 😅 to be fair I mainly listen to the german Audioplay. I only saw the movie once or twice.
To be honest, I’m often in the same boat as her when it comes to recent Disney. For instance I honestly really like Raya and the Last Dragon and think it is really overhated despite it’s flaws and with the other non-Encanto films in recent years like Ralph Breaks the Internet, Frozen 2 and Strange World, Don’t get me wrong, they are definitely not great films by any means and I’m not going to fully defend them but I do think they have genuinely good qualities that make them in my opinion nowhere near as bad as everyone makes them out to be. So even with all that being said, even I agree that I did not like Wish whatsoever and consider it my least favourite Disney animated film since Chicken Little. I honestly think Cellspex doesn’t get enough credit as a great movie and animation reviewer and should be more well known.
it's important to remember that many (most?) of chicken little and HotR's fans are due to nostalgia from those who grew up with those movies. wish hasn't had that opportunity yet since it just came out.
@@reddeath5791 Throughout my childhood, I loved Chicken Little and played the PS2 game relentlessly. All the criticism is deserved, but I honestly think it isn't a bad film. Wish is a bad film.
1:00:38 THANK YOU!! Nowadays I feel people are forgetting/not appreciating TMNT 2012 anymore and especially Sean Astin’s take on Raphael which in my opinion has been one of the best adaptations of Raphael in a long time, nailing his personality, personal struggles, flaws and attitude perfectly 👏
Came to the comments just to say SEAN ASTIN MENTION!!! 🙌🙌🙌 best Raph imho, he really did capture the angry, snarky teenage boy vibe SO well. No one comes close
1:00:52 In the new TMNT show's defense, it was either a scribbly 2-D animation style, or having a lower budget copy of the movie's animation. I'm grateful for what we are getting since I feared much worse.
Yeah thats a great way of putting it. And we all know how bad cheap CGI can look if not handled well. Heck just look at the first few movies on the list, or heck for extra relevance Megamind vs the Doom Syndicate.
I was surprised to see people not like the new tmnt shows style tbh, I’m an animator and I got pretty excited after seeing some clips from the show - I liked it!
The biggest disappointment of the Magician's Elephant movie is that it didn't include the Light & Night, the Tally Hall song written for the digital release of the book
“The Boy and the Heron” is my top animated film of 2023 with “Across the Spider-Verse” a close second. I’m so happy that “The Boy and the Heron” won Best Animated Feature with Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli winning their second Oscar and the second 2D film and first PG-13 animated film to win Best Animated Feature. What a historic and well-deserved win for Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli!
I know this doesn't really affect anything, but there are good cats in Paw Patrol. One of them is a biker and actually joins the Patrol in some missions!
The best animated thing I saw last year was definitely 'Scavenger's Reign', an animated series on max that was probably the best sci fi world I've ever seen and a masterclass in how to write alien worlds and how humans interact with them. I really hope you're able to go back and give it a look, just for the benefit of more people hearing about it.
Worst to Best in one video? WHAT MADNESS IS THIS? Edit: You have NO IDEA how happy I am to hear you talk about the awful Swan Princess sequels. (And use the song from the third movie)
I love how many films you are able to cover! There were a decent amount that I recognized or had seen in the past year, but a lot that I hadn’t that, with some that I am curious to check out now. It was a great video and the edit at the beginning was really cool and well done! Also, I am so happy that “The Inventor” is ranking high on some of these lists, that was a really unique and creative film!
I'm always impressed by the music choices you come up with :D Also truly appreciate the variety of animated films you show off, especially when so many of the big companies really flopped last year
This is such a highlight to my year as a huge animation fan and an animation uni student, love seeing how animation impacts others and learning more about it myself from others.
I always love watching these videos every year. Time goes by so fast nowadays and though my city’s university has a really fantastic independent cinema, I miss so many movies. These give me a big chance to catch up and discover things I would never have considered. Really excited to go back and watch all the ones I missed last year, thanks so much!
Peasants is the most Polish movie ever made. As the Pole myself I can confirm that we sure love to have eachother behind courtains but still being kind to one another
Congratulations on getting this hour and a half video out. Last year to me was the best year in terms of releases in animation, and its videos like these that make me appreciate the release we got. The good, the bad, and the weird. Here's to another good year of animation with hopefully good results on the basically inevitable animation strike.
Amazing video as always! But an important correction on Suzume: After they leave Tokyo, the entire finale takes place in Tohoku because (spoilers) Suzume lost her mother and her home in the Tohoku earthquake of 2011 (the date even appears in her diary in the film) and the entire point is that she needs to return to where it all began and confront her past. Thank you for reading, love you always ❤
“I swear the people would adore this movie if it was made by dreamworks” is so true cs dreamworks was carrying 2023(with spiderverse and the boy and the heron and Nimona) before 2024 came along and they fumbled with MegaMind 2 and a mid kfp 4
sorry if I'm missing a joke but the only dreamworks movies that came out in 2023 were ruby gillman and trolls 3. they were definitely not carrying 2023.
1:06:32 Le Petit Nicolas is a series of French children's books created by René Goscinny and illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé. Goscinny was the same writer for 2 other Franco-Belgian comics, Asterix and Lucky Luke.
Nimona is literally my favorite animated movie of 2023 and of all time. It’s very underrated, The animation gives me storm hawks & dragon prince vibes and I laughed & nearly cried. It should’ve won the Oscar for Best animated feature.
In any other year I would agree with you but let’s be fair, it didn’t stand a chance against Spiderverse and Boy and the Heron. This was a really impressive year for animation.
Fun fact, there's a soviet animated short from the 70s based on the Canterville's ghost! Sorry you just said it's the first time it's been animated and that triggered some childhood memories in me xD That short has some weird camera choices throughout but it's pretty fun~
Who here has chills while watching the intro of the video (honestly this is the best intro I ever seen in a youtube video therefore I'm subscribing to this channel and hopefully she makes more intros like that in the future)
Commenting to say that I have been watching (and rewatching) these worst to best lists since my early highschool days. I recently graduated college, and this is still one of my most anticipated - anything, for me every year. Also that every year I mentally note each movie that I hadn't heard about, with the intent to someday watch. (college + covid really made it hard for me to go and watch movies) Tho I am fascinated by your opinion on Leo, but also I am so much younger, and saw way fewer movies that year so I kinda had to push that one to my personal bottom ranks. Also that even tho I havent seen Chicken Run in years, I was absolutely terrified of it as a kid and it was one of those movies that my mom would insist I should watch again because its funny, but all I could think about was the scary stuff... which I cant remember anymore.
I can’t wait for Robot Dreams to get a wide US release this summer so I can see it again on the big screen. I saw it earlier this month at a sneak preview screening, and it’s genuinely one of the best animated films I’ve ever seen. A true work of art.
I’m so happy to see the attention paid to a couple Chinese animated films!! I’ll mention a couple other films later in this comment that I loved (specifically _The Storm_ aka _Dayu_ and then also _30,000 Miles from Chang’an;_ one of which _was_ released internationally and one of which didn’t get to be), but I only bring them up here as a “preview.” First, I want to mention some other things: Your discussion of _I Am What I Am_ reminds me of something I’ve been thinking with Chinese animation: a lot of it _is_ amazing visually, but often gets criticized in terms of plot/writing/clichés, but I’ve always felt like there’s some leeway you can give Chinese animation here, which is that _China_ hasn’t gotten a chance to tell some of these stories for themselves. Like with _I Am What I Am,_ yeah it’s a pretty generic ‘80s sports movie on its surface, but the lion dancing part of it _is_ the unique, intriguing aspect of it, and I think it’s neat that we get such a film for a sport/festivity as lion dancing. Plus it’s an interesting thing to try and balance in the first place; Chinese animation has always been known for national style, where it tries to put forth a unique Chinese style that will make it stand out on the international stage. This is actually why so many Chinese films rely on Chinese mythology and fantasy-those _are_ things very special-and important and even cool!-about China. But of course this within itself is limiting. If you demand a film always try to rely on a national style, they’ll start blurring together at some point; you can see this with the number of Sun Wukong and now Nezha but also ink-wash style films there are. But with that being said, I’m glad regardless that Chinese animation is growing so, so rapidly, even though none of them are still quite at the level to compete with the sheer emotional resonance of Western/Japanese animation. Considering Chinese animation only started really maturing again in 2018 and has now culminated in so much, I’m still excited for the future, especially as more and more Chinese indie animators make their debut. And fortunately, China’s animation industry isn’t quite as reliant on a fixed release schedule as Japan, so while I know animation industries are almost inherently exploitative at this point, I’m glad that at least on this front donghua is a little more lenient. Anyway, I typed up all this because I’m happy to see more attention on Chinese animation, even if they’re still not Oscar-worthy ahaha. And because I look forward to next year, when I hope you’ll talk about Busifan’s _The Storm,_ aka _Dayu,_ which I believe released in super early 2024 internationally (it was so soon after the Chinese release I was absolutely delighted). I mourn the fact _30,000 Miles from Chang’an_ didn’t get enough attention internationally to cross borders, because I really feel like not only is it a film worthy of praise (especially since it’s another one that does _not_ rely on mythology!)-it actually came out _in China_ with built-in English subs (hard subs, as everything in China is also subbed in Chinese), which _shows_ the team’s interest in it going west. But hey, at least _The Storm_ got further! Of course, it was quite a limited release, but with the way both films went viral in early 2024, I have my fingers crossed _some_ people actually went and gave them a chance. I always want Chinese animation to get attention internationally so Chinese studios will know it’s worth investing in exporting them (again, I mourn the missed opportunity for _Chang’an_ not getting out of China 😭). And while _The Storm_ was another one that was a little over-ambitious, it was still a really heartfelt, beautiful film that I feel like animation fans will adore, as long as they give it a chance. I actually personally prefer the director (Busifan)’s other film, _Dahufa,_ and I kind of wish more reviews existed of it, but that’s another one that unfortunately never got to go across borders. But in that way, I’m glad _The Storm_ made it, and fingers crossed for it in the future to get more attention, alongside the rest of China’s animation industry. 🥺🤞
For two seconds at 18:32 you showed a picture of a picture of a book, “Ace Lacewing: Bug Detective” and I briefly have to thank you for awakening a core memory of a living books type thing of that book I used to love in elementary school. I was thinking about it just a couple days ago, but until 10 seconds ago I figured I’d have to hope of tracking the book down. Thank you
You haven’t talked about Mars Express, which was my favorite movie of the whole year, and not only the best animated scifi movie ever, but also one of the best scifi movie of the last decade. I’m really sad.
I'm so ffing happy someone saw and liked Scary Girl, just as an Australian who happened to see it at the cinema. Myself, my wife and my 4yo were the only ones at the showing and though it wasn't my favourite movie, I thought it deserved much better than that.
1:22:28 - "Now if you're wondering if this is going to be exploring the social and society upheaval of a world where fully sentient robots are purchasable" You need to see "Mars Express", which really does that.
The 90s dolls you are thinking of is called Betty Spaghetti. And I guess the others in that line. Yeah a lot of people are comparing Velvet and Veneers race/species to Betty spaghetti dolls. That's actually cool to me because I remember those
I kind of liked Wish, but I'm painfully aware that the internet in general, doesn't I really liked the animation, Chris Pine King & a handful of the songs, but my opinion might change on rewatch UPDATE: I am legitimately shocked that it still holds up after seeing it in theatres five months ago
Loved the video❤ and wanted to mention that there is an animated adaptation of the ghost of the canterville! It was made in USSR, in 1970. Sadly i don't think it was ever subtitled.
when the leo section came up i started saying nimona over and over again because it looked like the shark form and it just ended up being leo this is super longwinded but i thought it was kinda funny
As someone who loves Wish anyway despite its flaws, there’s finally a good and reasonable way of criticizing this film. I actually don’t feel stupid for enjoying a film! Thank you.
Personally I did love Suzume as it became obvious towards the end that it really is a story about the 2011 Touhou Earthquake While maybe late in the story, the drive to the Earthquake site in Fukushima and shift to a suddenly more somber tone, gave me chills. Also as someone who is rather close to his mother the final moments of the story where kinda hard to watch without tears
I definitely enjoyed it more than WWWY (and possibly even Your Name). It was just such a fun movie. The amusement park scene was awesome, the humor was top notch, etc. That Whisper of the Heart reference cracked me up too. And of course, the visuals are BEAUTIFUL. Shinkai makes the most gorgeous-looking animated movies, and that is a fact.
It looks like you spent a lot of time on this. I appreciate that, and some of the movies I hadn’t heard of, or didn’t know had come out. Thank you. Good job!
Y'know I gotta say your "Just Watch the First Minute" thumbnail surprisingly worked, cuz I came just to watch the first minute and I'm now 35 minutes in lol
Your montage is fire, and so is the list. I hear about so few of the mid-good tier films, so it's nice to have something to look forward to in the next year.
I've loved animation since the 1980s, but I will never know anything close to the amount you know about animation. Another thing I love is seeing a master at their craft. More than anything else, **THAT** is why I love your videos.
I was legitimately convinced that I was the only person who watched Scary Girl (I have seen literally nobody talk about it) so I'm happy to know I'm not the only one.
I love the Inventor, just watched it on a whim and it was a delight. I love the variety of animation and songs. It was fun movie that quietly came and went from theaters.
The Disney corporation butting into actually good creativity and stopping good ideas just to cram in a seven Dwarfs reference with the friend characters,that's who. A power couple villain team as well as a possible great love story between the main character and the boy who shape shifts into a star as well
I'm both surprised and unsurprised that Glisten and the Merry Mission didn't even get a mention. Because... well, what is there to say about it? It was just a feature-length Build-a-Bear commercial with a forgettable story and forgettable characters, and the most notable thing about it was that it was _technically_ a theatrical 2D-animated release... for releasing in exclusively Cinemark theaters. For like a week or two. And the only reason I even knew it existed was because I saw Build-a-Bear tweeting about the cute plushies they were selling of the movie's characters. More than they tweeted about the movie, might I add.
Wish was fairly straight forward for me, and had a shockingly clear thesis. It's a movie about Capitalist Realism. Like, that very specific concept. When society robs people of the ability to even coherently imagine a better world. Magnifico is pretty much just Musk, Bezos, Gates, and every billionaire who capitalizes and exploits others to his own benefit but convinces himself and others he's helping SOOOOO much, everything would be so much worse without him! And the heroes have to be a plurality because it says the only recourse is collective action. Plus a cheeky Carl Sagan reference as the premise for the power of community. And the big lynchpin in all of this: The wishes aren't really REAL. Not in the way we think of "Disney Wishes". Magnifico can't "grant" wishes, all he does is deny people the ability to even TRY. Wishes can only do anything from WITHIN the person with the wish. Look at the two "wishes" he grants on camera: He gives a celebrity endorsement to a dress maker and.... he makes a cop. And Magnifico's vague backstory is honestly kind of genius. Because it doesn't MATTER what his sob story is, his real and deliberate harm cannot be justified because he had a bad day one time. It's even left vague enough that it remains to be known if it was all Magnifico's fault, if he was just the bad guy then, too.
I concur, I thought he only granted wishes of people who already had the skills and it was a Wizard of Oz situation with meaningless magic badges of sorts. There's little evidence of how much magical power he actually has
I thought that the reason Unicorn Wars had Teddy Bears and Unicorns as protagonists was as a way to mock the war propaganda of the teddy bears and the attitudes of the soldiers. They act like tough macho men but everything they do is undermined by them being Teddy Bears. Plus the Unicorns being presented as monsters out of a horror movie is a way to show that anything can be villainized if presented in the right way.
People give you grief for Wish Dragon? I never get used to how much internet reduction-isms really do suck, sometimes XP I didn't like it as much as you did, but I had fun with the recommendation, seeing what unique strengths it had to offer. Heck even just seeing what you were pointing out for myself and how it hit me instead was interesting and worth the while - something I would've thought is the real hallmark of a worthwhile review.
I think this year might be the record keeper for me going "what is this?" Not because I didn't know what the movie was, but because I didn't know what the movie was and wasn't sure why it existed. In previous years that was movies like Arctic Dogs, that Dorthy of Oz thing from 2013, this year it felt like movies like that were half the list
Music Used:
Swan Princess 3 - Aint Nothing but Bad Days Ahead
Big City Greens - Best part of Christmas
Central Park - I Did Not Account for This
Underdog Theme Ted from Scrubs
Ghost and Molly Magee - Enjoy your Afterlife
Twisted - Starkid - Dream a Little Harder
Little Mermaid - Poor Unfortunate Soul (Cover)
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Muppet Christmas Carol - It Feels like Christmas
Detective Conan Theme - Saxophone cover
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Miraculous Ladybug Japanese Theme
Monkie Kid Theme
Believe Your Eyes - Swan Princess Longer Than Forever
Gotta go Fast Sonic X Theme
Fred Penner - The Cat Came Back
Wander Over Yonder - Your the Greatest
That Moment Forever Ago - Central Park
Milo Murphy's Law - Chop Away at my Heart
Eye of the Tiger Cover
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Skillet - Feel like a Monster Cover - Caleb Hyles
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - Stupid Bitch
Greatest Showman - This is Me (cover)
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Under the Boardwalk - More than a Meathead
Mission Impossible theme cover
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Die trying - Central Park
Jingle Bells Batman Smells - Batman Animated series
Les Mis - Castle on a Cloud Cover
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Imperfectly Perfect - Central Park
You are the Music - Central Park
Attack on Titan Theme (epic cover)
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Paradise - Ikson
Anatasia Musical - Paris Hold the Key to Your Heart (Portuguese)
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Frozen Love is an Open Door Acapella Cover
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Simple Plan - I’m Just a Kid Cover - Midnight Cereal
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Under the Sea Little Mermaid Jazz Cover
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Green Day Boulevard of Broken Dreams Bard Cover
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Little Bird - Elizabeth Mitchell
Mad World Cover Tears for Feers Street Performance
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I'll be the Misfit - Gamboy Jone x Breeton Boi
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I have been looking forward to this year's video since the New Year started and can't wait to get started.
That intro was peak
The paris hold the key of your heart performance you used is actually in portuguese not in french!
Me seeing you use a song from my friends game boy Jones and breeton boi song want on my bucket list that was so unexpected hearing that! 🔥🔥✨
love all the central park reps
The original swan princess had one of the best responses the prince. "How to offend women in 5 syllables or less" has lived rent free since i saw it
The Swan Princess having that many sequel films is the biggest thing I have learned all year
I found out when the algorithm recommended me Laura Crone’s video on the swan princess series a while back, and i highly recommend it. She talks about each installment at length and talks about the company making it now being… odd. (I don’t want to spoil it lol).
I also highly recommend Bobsheaux.
Less you forget Land Before Time
@@emuanon34Has he dropped the channel awesome way of reviewing movies?
Who has been watching them
And how can we help them
I feel like I should have said this ages ago but I really do appreciate that you cover such a wide variety of animation in these, when you say "every" you really MEAN "every"
2023 overall was one of the better year for animated films. Spiderverse will definitely have an effect on the industry for at least the rest of the decade.
as in... it’ll teach directors you can get away with mistreating your workers as long as you make a good movie?
@@yololthepikminenjoyer I hope it's the part about inspiring other people to take chances on the artistic style of their films rather than continuing to imitate the Disney/Pixar look.
@@yololthepikminenjoyer Hollywood has known this for decades.
@@joshuasgameplays9850Hell, it’s been an animation practice since Animation even began. It’s not a big deal as you think people, it’s been literally done countless times! Just look at Toy Story 2. Ugh, the internet’s full of Drama Kings.
@@ShockwaveFPSStudios I mean it is a big deal, just because it’s the norm doesn’t mean it’s not bad. but I do agree it’s weird that people are acting like this is the first time animators have been mistreated during production of a movie
I LOVE how you use the best clips from every movie in that opening montage and treat them all as equals for a second.. just appreciating the medium because they really do all have beautiful qualities
Can you imagine how Wish would have turned out if the Disney Corporation just let the story be instead of forcing the writers to change it just to cram in references to past movies
The original story sounds better than what we got, sure, but I really don’t understand why it gets so much hype. It doesn’t sound that groundbreaking to me.
@@emblemblade9245 I think it's because it was tied up in the 100th Anniversary of Disney and people believe the original idea for the movie would've been more fitting for the occasion.
@@colbystearns5066 plus it was supposed to be the origin story of the fairy godmother
@@sarahtelles1931dude that actually sounds interesting
@@emblemblade9245at least it would have been something interesting, rather than something that wasted my time
Playing the most satirical part of Twisted's "Dream A Little Harder" to introduce Wish.
Oof.
Especially by nature of what Twisted is and what the musical itself calls out. Just perfect usage
Timestamps:
43. 1:35 - The Swan Princess: A Fairy Tale Is Born / The Swan Princess: Far Longer Than Forever
42. 4:39 - Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Christmas Cabin Fever
41. 5:24 - Mummies
40. 7:08 - Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
39. 8:41 - The Canterville Ghost
38. 10:21 - Wish
37. 14:19 - Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken
36. 15:37 - Urkel Saves Santa: The Movie
35. 17:00 - Mavka: The Forest Song
34. 18:12 - Inspector Sun
33. 19:22 - The Magician's Elephant
32. 20:15 - Rally Road Racers
31. 21:42 - Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie
30. 24:36 - New Gods: Yang Jian / The Monkey King
29. 28:07 - The Amazing Maurice
28. 29:49 - The Super Mario Bros. Movie
27. 32:02 - To Me, The One Who Loved You / To Every You I've Loved Before / The Tunnel To Summer, The Exit Of Goodbyes
26. 35:27 - Trolls: Band Together
25. 37:27 - Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham
24. 39:42 - I Am What I Am
23. 41:00 - My Love Affair With Marriage / The Peasants
22. 42:59 - Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget
21. 45:53 - Under The Boardwalk
20. 48:36 - Scarygirl
19. 50:17 - Merry Little Batman
18. 51:46 - Migration
17. 54:04 - Lonely Castle in the Mirror
16. 55:59 - Elemental
15. 58:20 - Ernest & Celestine: A Trip To Gibberitia
14. 59:32 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
13. 1:01:11 - Leo
12. 1:03:04 - The First Slam Dunk / Blue Giant
11. 1:06:27 - Le Petit Nicolas
10. 1:07:22 - Suzume
9. 1:09:21 - The Venture Bros.
8. 1:11:38 - Kaguya-Sama: Love Is War
7. 1:14:37 - Deep Sea
6. 1:17:06 - The Inventor
5. 1:19:39 - Unicorn Wars
4. 1:20:53 - Nimona
3. 1:22:01 - Robot Dreams
2. 1:23:46 - The Boy And The Heron
1. 1:26:04 - Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
Migration lets gooo
Hero level! Thanks!
Thanks, no way I'm watching this video with silly opinions
holy crap, I did NOT realize that many movies were featured in this ranking. cellspex is such a legend I swear
Ah... Once again, no Digimon adventure 02 the beginning. A shame
Me: I thought you released your worst to best in January
Cellspex: "I don't believe in consistency"
The number of Worst to Best Lists that actually released in January in the 15 years I've been doing it is maybe 3
This is a long one
@@CellSpex I'm surprised you didn't make this a two partner, but I'm glad you made it one full video, almost certain the songs used in here might be copyright striked
It still feels like January to me
@@ammaralrai9955now I’m thinking of that meme with Kylo Ren. “More. MORE!!”
Usually you give Disney a bit of leeway, not much to be clear, you're fair, but when perception of their films is more negative (such as Ralph Breaks the Internet) you tend not to swing quite so far as others might in that direction,
so to see Wish lose to URKEL SAVES SANTA is a pretty stark statement of how bad Wish actually is. I genuinely think Chicken Little and Home on the Range might have more actual outright fans than Wish does at this point...
I agree because Chicken Little and Home on the Range are absolute shitshow movies so bad that they can absolutely gain an ironic cult following whereas Wish I feel has absolutely nothing to hold onto and it’s just an absolute nothing burger
I didn't even know people didn't like home on the range, till now 😅 to be fair I mainly listen to the german Audioplay. I only saw the movie once or twice.
To be honest, I’m often in the same boat as her when it comes to recent Disney. For instance I honestly really like Raya and the Last Dragon and think it is really overhated despite it’s flaws and with the other non-Encanto films in recent years like Ralph Breaks the Internet, Frozen 2 and Strange World, Don’t get me wrong, they are definitely not great films by any means and I’m not going to fully defend them but I do think they have genuinely good qualities that make them in my opinion nowhere near as bad as everyone makes them out to be.
So even with all that being said, even I agree that I did not like Wish whatsoever and consider it my least favourite Disney animated film since Chicken Little.
I honestly think Cellspex doesn’t get enough credit as a great movie and animation reviewer and should be more well known.
it's important to remember that many (most?) of chicken little and HotR's fans are due to nostalgia from those who grew up with those movies. wish hasn't had that opportunity yet since it just came out.
@@reddeath5791 Throughout my childhood, I loved Chicken Little and played the PS2 game relentlessly. All the criticism is deserved, but I honestly think it isn't a bad film.
Wish is a bad film.
1:00:38 THANK YOU!! Nowadays I feel people are forgetting/not appreciating TMNT 2012 anymore and especially Sean Astin’s take on Raphael which in my opinion has been one of the best adaptations of Raphael in a long time, nailing his personality, personal struggles, flaws and attitude perfectly 👏
@fandomqueenjkwhen was Leo a jerk? I would just like some clarification plz.
Came to the comments just to say SEAN ASTIN MENTION!!! 🙌🙌🙌 best Raph imho, he really did capture the angry, snarky teenage boy vibe SO well. No one comes close
Me: Man I need a good video to clean my apartment to
*Cellspex uploads an hour video*
Me: PERFECT!!!!!!
Same but with making dinner lol
same but with wasting my life
@@yololthepikminenjoyersame
I got jumpscares upon hearing Dream a Little Harder, the fact you used a Twisted song for Wish is amazing
You are the GOAT. You've been ranking every animated movie for a decade now! Its definitely one of my favorite youtube yearly traditions
1:00:52 In the new TMNT show's defense, it was either a scribbly 2-D animation style, or having a lower budget copy of the movie's animation. I'm grateful for what we are getting since I feared much worse.
Yeah thats a great way of putting it. And we all know how bad cheap CGI can look if not handled well. Heck just look at the first few movies on the list, or heck for extra relevance Megamind vs the Doom Syndicate.
I was surprised to see people not like the new tmnt shows style tbh, I’m an animator and I got pretty excited after seeing some clips from the show - I liked it!
@@hyacynthii I liked it too! I was also pretty surprised by the distaste I saw.
The biggest disappointment of the Magician's Elephant movie is that it didn't include the Light & Night, the Tally Hall song written for the digital release of the book
inb4 the opening is claimed and she's forced to redo it again.
No copyright track (for now)
@@CellSpexWell that’s a good start.
"Whoops, looks like you used music somebody rapped over."
Knock on wood
“The Boy and the Heron” is my top animated film of 2023 with “Across the Spider-Verse” a close second. I’m so happy that “The Boy and the Heron” won Best Animated Feature with Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli winning their second Oscar and the second 2D film and first PG-13 animated film to win Best Animated Feature. What a historic and well-deserved win for Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli!
The intro with the man himself at the piano was the best UA-cam intro I’ve ever seen
I know this doesn't really affect anything, but there are good cats in Paw Patrol. One of them is a biker and actually joins the Patrol in some missions!
"not all cats"
The best animated thing I saw last year was definitely 'Scavenger's Reign', an animated series on max that was probably the best sci fi world I've ever seen and a masterclass in how to write alien worlds and how humans interact with them. I really hope you're able to go back and give it a look, just for the benefit of more people hearing about it.
Based
It’s become one of my favourites, I loved the ecosystems and stuff
The huge smile that popped up on my face when I heard a song from Big City Greens when Diary of a Wimpy Kid popped up!
Worst to Best in one video?
WHAT MADNESS IS THIS?
Edit: You have NO IDEA how happy I am to hear you talk about the awful Swan Princess sequels. (And use the song from the third movie)
Hey, been a while since I've seen a Wakfu pfp!!! Nice
@@Plexxis_SugarPom Hello fellow Wakfu fan!
These are my favorite videos to tune into each year!! It made me so happy to hear you talk about Lego Monkie Kid that is my FAVORITE show!
I love how many films you are able to cover! There were a decent amount that I recognized or had seen in the past year, but a lot that I hadn’t that, with some that I am curious to check out now. It was a great video and the edit at the beginning was really cool and well done! Also, I am so happy that “The Inventor” is ranking high on some of these lists, that was a really unique and creative film!
I'm always impressed by the music choices you come up with :D Also truly appreciate the variety of animated films you show off, especially when so many of the big companies really flopped last year
This is such a highlight to my year as a huge animation fan and an animation uni student, love seeing how animation impacts others and learning more about it myself from others.
I always love watching these videos every year. Time goes by so fast nowadays and though my city’s university has a really fantastic independent cinema, I miss so many movies. These give me a big chance to catch up and discover things I would never have considered. Really excited to go back and watch all the ones I missed last year, thanks so much!
Peasants is the most Polish movie ever made. As the Pole myself I can confirm that we sure love to have eachother behind courtains but still being kind to one another
It’s insane how the two best animated movies of this year were the most life changing for me
Congratulations on getting this hour and a half video out. Last year to me was the best year in terms of releases in animation, and its videos like these that make me appreciate the release we got. The good, the bad, and the weird. Here's to another good year of animation with hopefully good results on the basically inevitable animation strike.
Amazing video as always! But an important correction on Suzume: After they leave Tokyo, the entire finale takes place in Tohoku because (spoilers) Suzume lost her mother and her home in the Tohoku earthquake of 2011 (the date even appears in her diary in the film) and the entire point is that she needs to return to where it all began and confront her past. Thank you for reading, love you always ❤
Oh man I thought it was Hokaiddo, that's on me then
@@CellSpex It's okay, they're both technically the rural north haha ☺️
“I swear the people would adore this movie if it was made by dreamworks” is so true cs dreamworks was carrying 2023(with spiderverse and the boy and the heron and Nimona) before 2024 came along and they fumbled with MegaMind 2 and a mid kfp 4
😆, good one.
sorry if I'm missing a joke but the only dreamworks movies that came out in 2023 were ruby gillman and trolls 3. they were definitely not carrying 2023.
I liked Nimona, and I'm pretty sure people would have hated it if it was made by Disney since it featured a prominent gay couple.
My top 3 animated movies of 2023:
1. Attack on Titan: The Final Chapters
2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
3. The Super Mario Bros Movie
For me it’s:
1. Across the Spiderverse
2. The Boy and the Heron
3. The Peasants
@@zadejames6269Oh, the only movie I've seen on your pick is Across the Spider-Verse, and I haven't seen the rest.
@@yuki2320 you should for sure check em out !! highly recommend
The Mario wasn't good
The thumbnail change 💀 The opening montage is really good, though.
What was the thumbnail?
1:06:32 Le Petit Nicolas is a series of French children's books created by René Goscinny and illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé. Goscinny was the same writer for 2 other Franco-Belgian comics, Asterix and Lucky Luke.
Thank you for putting so many animated movies on my radar every year!
Nimona is literally my favorite animated movie of 2023 and of all time. It’s very underrated, The animation gives me storm hawks & dragon prince vibes and I laughed & nearly cried. It should’ve won the Oscar for Best animated feature.
The animation reminds me of Storm Hawks and Slugterra. One of my personal favourites in Disney XD
It was a tough year for relatively smaller projects to win with juggernauts like Spiderverse and a Miyazaki film coming out
In any other year I would agree with you but let’s be fair, it didn’t stand a chance against Spiderverse and Boy and the Heron. This was a really impressive year for animation.
It's legit my favorite movie ever.
@@cliffturbo2146 funnily enough, Nimona's animation style was inspired by the Disney shorts "Paperman" and "Feast"
Fun fact, there's a soviet animated short from the 70s based on the Canterville's ghost! Sorry you just said it's the first time it's been animated and that triggered some childhood memories in me xD That short has some weird camera choices throughout but it's pretty fun~
*IT IS TIME*
(dramatic lion king music as you walk towards this video)
Who here has chills while watching the intro of the video (honestly this is the best intro I ever seen in a youtube video therefore I'm subscribing to this channel and hopefully she makes more intros like that in the future)
Commenting to say that I have been watching (and rewatching) these worst to best lists since my early highschool days. I recently graduated college, and this is still one of my most anticipated - anything, for me every year.
Also that every year I mentally note each movie that I hadn't heard about, with the intent to someday watch. (college + covid really made it hard for me to go and watch movies)
Tho I am fascinated by your opinion on Leo, but also I am so much younger, and saw way fewer movies that year so I kinda had to push that one to my personal bottom ranks.
Also that even tho I havent seen Chicken Run in years, I was absolutely terrified of it as a kid and it was one of those movies that my mom would insist I should watch again because its funny, but all I could think about was the scary stuff... which I cant remember anymore.
The montages get better every year and they've always been great!
I can’t wait for Robot Dreams to get a wide US release this summer so I can see it again on the big screen. I saw it earlier this month at a sneak preview screening, and it’s genuinely one of the best animated films I’ve ever seen. A true work of art.
It's so nice to see your opening compilation not be removed by copyright. That was beautiful! Great editing work!
I’m so happy to see the attention paid to a couple Chinese animated films!!
I’ll mention a couple other films later in this comment that I loved (specifically _The Storm_ aka _Dayu_ and then also _30,000 Miles from Chang’an;_ one of which _was_ released internationally and one of which didn’t get to be), but I only bring them up here as a “preview.” First, I want to mention some other things:
Your discussion of _I Am What I Am_ reminds me of something I’ve been thinking with Chinese animation: a lot of it _is_ amazing visually, but often gets criticized in terms of plot/writing/clichés, but I’ve always felt like there’s some leeway you can give Chinese animation here, which is that _China_ hasn’t gotten a chance to tell some of these stories for themselves.
Like with _I Am What I Am,_ yeah it’s a pretty generic ‘80s sports movie on its surface, but the lion dancing part of it _is_ the unique, intriguing aspect of it, and I think it’s neat that we get such a film for a sport/festivity as lion dancing.
Plus it’s an interesting thing to try and balance in the first place; Chinese animation has always been known for national style, where it tries to put forth a unique Chinese style that will make it stand out on the international stage. This is actually why so many Chinese films rely on Chinese mythology and fantasy-those _are_ things very special-and important and even cool!-about China.
But of course this within itself is limiting.
If you demand a film always try to rely on a national style, they’ll start blurring together at some point; you can see this with the number of Sun Wukong and now Nezha but also ink-wash style films there are.
But with that being said, I’m glad regardless that Chinese animation is growing so, so rapidly, even though none of them are still quite at the level to compete with the sheer emotional resonance of Western/Japanese animation.
Considering Chinese animation only started really maturing again in 2018 and has now culminated in so much, I’m still excited for the future, especially as more and more Chinese indie animators make their debut.
And fortunately, China’s animation industry isn’t quite as reliant on a fixed release schedule as Japan, so while I know animation industries are almost inherently exploitative at this point, I’m glad that at least on this front donghua is a little more lenient.
Anyway, I typed up all this because I’m happy to see more attention on Chinese animation, even if they’re still not Oscar-worthy ahaha.
And because I look forward to next year, when I hope you’ll talk about Busifan’s _The Storm,_ aka _Dayu,_ which I believe released in super early 2024 internationally (it was so soon after the Chinese release I was absolutely delighted).
I mourn the fact _30,000 Miles from Chang’an_ didn’t get enough attention internationally to cross borders, because I really feel like not only is it a film worthy of praise (especially since it’s another one that does _not_ rely on mythology!)-it actually came out _in China_ with built-in English subs (hard subs, as everything in China is also subbed in Chinese), which _shows_ the team’s interest in it going west. But hey, at least _The Storm_ got further!
Of course, it was quite a limited release, but with the way both films went viral in early 2024, I have my fingers crossed _some_ people actually went and gave them a chance.
I always want Chinese animation to get attention internationally so Chinese studios will know it’s worth investing in exporting them (again, I mourn the missed opportunity for _Chang’an_ not getting out of China 😭).
And while _The Storm_ was another one that was a little over-ambitious, it was still a really heartfelt, beautiful film that I feel like animation fans will adore, as long as they give it a chance.
I actually personally prefer the director (Busifan)’s other film, _Dahufa,_ and I kind of wish more reviews existed of it, but that’s another one that unfortunately never got to go across borders.
But in that way, I’m glad _The Storm_ made it, and fingers crossed for it in the future to get more attention, alongside the rest of China’s animation industry. 🥺🤞
Every year you do this, it reminds me that I need to watch animated movies more.
For two seconds at 18:32 you showed a picture of a picture of a book, “Ace Lacewing: Bug Detective” and I briefly have to thank you for awakening a core memory of a living books type thing of that book I used to love in elementary school. I was thinking about it just a couple days ago, but until 10 seconds ago I figured I’d have to hope of tracking the book down.
Thank you
Came in as soon as the notification came on! READY FOR THIS!!!
You haven’t talked about Mars Express, which was my favorite movie of the whole year, and not only the best animated scifi movie ever, but also one of the best scifi movie of the last decade.
I’m really sad.
And not to be chauvinistic, but it is certainly one of the best french movie in recent history
And the best french scifi movie by far
Cellspex: the motion picture
I'm so ffing happy someone saw and liked Scary Girl, just as an Australian who happened to see it at the cinema. Myself, my wife and my 4yo were the only ones at the showing and though it wasn't my favourite movie, I thought it deserved much better than that.
Now that was a pretty cool montage.
Impeccable intro song choices as always!
I will not forgive [as] for canceling The Venture Bros.
An 1hr half my god we are spoiled right here ❤❤👍🥳🎊
You have become my benchmark and information on info about animation. Thank you for another banger!
1:22:28 - "Now if you're wondering if this is going to be exploring the social and society upheaval of a world where fully sentient robots are purchasable"
You need to see "Mars Express", which really does that.
My top most anticipated animated films this year are
Day the Earth Blew Up
Transformers One
Wild Robot
In no particular order
The 90s dolls you are thinking of is called Betty Spaghetti. And I guess the others in that line. Yeah a lot of people are comparing Velvet and Veneers race/species to Betty spaghetti dolls. That's actually cool to me because I remember those
2023 was easily one of the best years for animated movies if not the best
I kind of liked Wish, but I'm painfully aware that the internet in general, doesn't
I really liked the animation, Chris Pine King & a handful of the songs, but my opinion might change on rewatch
UPDATE: I am legitimately shocked that it still holds up after seeing it in theatres five months ago
I always look forward to your montages for these, wonderfully edited by the way
23:09 POV: you would spend 50k on a softcore animation featuring Charlie from Hazbin Hotel.
Loved the video❤ and wanted to mention that there is an animated adaptation of the ghost of the canterville! It was made in USSR, in 1970. Sadly i don't think it was ever subtitled.
Saw this in my notifications, this instantly just made my day! Love whenever these are posted!!!!
when the leo section came up i started saying nimona over and over again because it looked like the shark form and it just ended up being leo
this is super longwinded but i thought it was kinda funny
really appreciate the twisted clip preceding the wish segment
There was one movie I was really looking forward to seeing you review, and curious where you would put it in the list for 2023. Glad you liked Leo.
Everyone else: YEAA SPIDERVERSE
Meanwhile, me: *wipes tear* she finally caught up on Miraculous!
As someone who loves Wish anyway despite its flaws, there’s finally a good and reasonable way of criticizing this film. I actually don’t feel stupid for enjoying a film! Thank you.
Personally I did love Suzume as it became obvious towards the end that it really is a story about the 2011 Touhou Earthquake
While maybe late in the story, the drive to the Earthquake site in Fukushima and shift to a suddenly more somber tone, gave me chills.
Also as someone who is rather close to his mother the final moments of the story where kinda hard to watch without tears
I definitely enjoyed it more than WWWY (and possibly even Your Name). It was just such a fun movie. The amusement park scene was awesome, the humor was top notch, etc. That Whisper of the Heart reference cracked me up too. And of course, the visuals are BEAUTIFUL. Shinkai makes the most gorgeous-looking animated movies, and that is a fact.
Thank you for your thoughts and for opening the door for us to find new favorite films! I have maybe 12 hours of films to go watch now!
Wow, while I don't recognize all of the animated movies dropping in 2024, the only one I'm excited for is The Wild Robot.
Also Wish Dragon slaps
Same I'm for the wild robot movie too
I'm so happy you liked the Venture Bros movie. I did the props for it, and I can tell you we had a blast making it!
It looks like you spent a lot of time on this. I appreciate that, and some of the movies I hadn’t heard of, or didn’t know had come out. Thank you. Good job!
32:26 that’s literally the plot of If/Then. Like exactly the same gimmick
Y'know I gotta say your "Just Watch the First Minute" thumbnail surprisingly worked, cuz I came just to watch the first minute and I'm now 35 minutes in lol
I wish more people were familiar with robin laws concept of the iconic hero. It would help a lot with analysis of genre / action movies.
Your montage is fire, and so is the list. I hear about so few of the mid-good tier films, so it's nice to have something to look forward to in the next year.
9:34 actually there was a made for TV animated version of Canterville ghost in 1990. I saw it as a kid.
I've loved animation since the 1980s, but I will never know anything close to the amount you know about animation.
Another thing I love is seeing a master at their craft. More than anything else, **THAT** is why I love your videos.
I was legitimately convinced that I was the only person who watched Scary Girl (I have seen literally nobody talk about it) so I'm happy to know I'm not the only one.
I'm glad the Boy and the Heron won the Oscar award for best animated film, Studio Ghibli deserves another award.
The Inventor is also really funny. I laughed audibly countless times in the theatre. The finale is very kids tailored though
The "Chop,Chop,Chop" needle drop was all I needed to make this day amazing.
Its great to have another long video from your channel! I really enjoy your content :D
Man that intro is fire
I love the Inventor, just watched it on a whim and it was a delight. I love the variety of animation and songs. It was fun movie that quietly came and went from theaters.
The Disney corporation butting into actually good creativity and stopping good ideas just to cram in a seven Dwarfs reference with the friend characters,that's who. A power couple villain team as well as a possible great love story between the main character and the boy who shape shifts into a star as well
I'm both surprised and unsurprised that Glisten and the Merry Mission didn't even get a mention. Because... well, what is there to say about it? It was just a feature-length Build-a-Bear commercial with a forgettable story and forgettable characters, and the most notable thing about it was that it was _technically_ a theatrical 2D-animated release... for releasing in exclusively Cinemark theaters. For like a week or two. And the only reason I even knew it existed was because I saw Build-a-Bear tweeting about the cute plushies they were selling of the movie's characters. More than they tweeted about the movie, might I add.
I really love the music you used at the beginning.
I love how high you rated Unicorn Wars! Loved it. My fave of the year was The Peasants.
Wish was fairly straight forward for me, and had a shockingly clear thesis.
It's a movie about Capitalist Realism. Like, that very specific concept. When society robs people of the ability to even coherently imagine a better world.
Magnifico is pretty much just Musk, Bezos, Gates, and every billionaire who capitalizes and exploits others to his own benefit but convinces himself and others he's helping SOOOOO much, everything would be so much worse without him!
And the heroes have to be a plurality because it says the only recourse is collective action. Plus a cheeky Carl Sagan reference as the premise for the power of community.
And the big lynchpin in all of this: The wishes aren't really REAL. Not in the way we think of "Disney Wishes". Magnifico can't "grant" wishes, all he does is deny people the ability to even TRY. Wishes can only do anything from WITHIN the person with the wish. Look at the two "wishes" he grants on camera: He gives a celebrity endorsement to a dress maker and.... he makes a cop.
And Magnifico's vague backstory is honestly kind of genius. Because it doesn't MATTER what his sob story is, his real and deliberate harm cannot be justified because he had a bad day one time. It's even left vague enough that it remains to be known if it was all Magnifico's fault, if he was just the bad guy then, too.
I concur, I thought he only granted wishes of people who already had the skills and it was a Wizard of Oz situation with meaningless magic badges of sorts. There's little evidence of how much magical power he actually has
Is just me or does Nimona feel like what if Jinx was adopted by Viktor instead of Silco
I thought that the reason Unicorn Wars had Teddy Bears and Unicorns as protagonists was as a way to mock the war propaganda of the teddy bears and the attitudes of the soldiers. They act like tough macho men but everything they do is undermined by them being Teddy Bears. Plus the Unicorns being presented as monsters out of a horror movie is a way to show that anything can be villainized if presented in the right way.
1:06:31 this film almost made be tear up since i grew up with the little nicolas, and i think it does great job at being a tribute to it's creators
People give you grief for Wish Dragon? I never get used to how much internet reduction-isms really do suck, sometimes XP
I didn't like it as much as you did, but I had fun with the recommendation, seeing what unique strengths it had to offer. Heck even just seeing what you were pointing out for myself and how it hit me instead was interesting and worth the while - something I would've thought is the real hallmark of a worthwhile review.
I think this year might be the record keeper for me going "what is this?" Not because I didn't know what the movie was, but because I didn't know what the movie was and wasn't sure why it existed. In previous years that was movies like Arctic Dogs, that Dorthy of Oz thing from 2013, this year it felt like movies like that were half the list