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Ramble: Non-Disney Animated Movies (Patreon)

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2022-09-05 22:12:26
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Ramble: Non-Disney Animated Movies

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Hellvetika

A glaring Last Unicorn omission!

Hellvetika

I saw this growing up and had no idea what it was called or how to find it until reading this comment

Torie Gatti

Spirit Stallion of the Cimmaron is definitely a damn good non disney animated film 🔥😭😭😭 i still get shocked that hardly no ones seen it or remembers it, just us horse girls lol Im probably the only person who likes both the original and the reboot lol in the show she keeps the horse but I remember they changed it for the movie and it ends with them saying goodbye, so sweet but the original is far better, i still get chills with the ending scene. “Cats dont dance, i think alot of furries like this movie” personally attacked lolol its so good i still have the vhs tape of that movie thats how much i love it, Balto is also a top for me 😭😭 Im noticing now i have a pattern lolol The first Swan Princess is another childhood favorite, but rewatching it as an adult and realizing how horrible the main love interest it lolol the sequels are terrible.

Marcella

Kubo and the two strings was SO good you should watch it. I’m always sad it didn’t do very well

Mirandahh

sinbad is so special to me, very nostalgic and worth the watch i think. sinbad and his little prince friend are so in love no question

mango

I very much think you should watch Fantastic Mr. Fox. It was directed by Wes Anderson so it has a unique vibe to it. It’s very funny and charming in a strange way and I would love to hear your thoughts on it.

Lupa Wick

I'm 7:35 minutes in and in fact I *would* watch Shrek 2 by itself, often, I loved prince Arthur in it, I think kind of teenage boy characters like that (Hiccup, Hercules, Arthur, Jim) who had a thirst for adventure and purpose appealed to me a lot as a kid. We had the VHS of it and I absolutely loved how it was set in high school and I loved how that girl unapologetically had a crush on the ogre because of his disgustingness **Scratch that, that was Shrek the 3rd

Michelle Harris

Titan A.E. was soooooo underrated. The movie is beautiful and the soundtrack is still one of my favorites

Noah Gallant

just watched this vid from the master post and had to scroll down just to say that shrek 2 is good on its own merit and is, in fact, better than the first.

enoch

I paused and watched HTTYD. Now, I'm back to finish the video.

Aimee W

i would enjoy a ghibli studios rating

nina ♡

I completely forgot about We’re Back and I also watched it like a ton as a kid so I guess my brain tucked it away for some reason and you unearthed it.

Paul Bloomfield

Sing is OK but not great, too many characters, an over-familiar plot. Sing 2 is a distinct improvement with more contemporary songs and more poignancy: a B compared to the original's C- for me.

Idiot City

This video made me remember that I actively hate the movie Home, F-

Siobhan is On

Idk if you even look at these BUT you absolutely SHOULD watch Looney Tunes Back In Action!!!!! It's kind of crazy how much better it is than Space Jam while still having the same spirit - also Brendan Fraiser is the lead!

John Thomas

Definitely a Don Bluth fan, mainly the earlier ones. I loved All Dogs go to Heaven as a kid. The pocket watch representing Charlie's mortality always freaked me out for some reason.

Ella M

This made me go search the weird Soviet animations I watched as a kid, apparently made by studio Soyuzmultfilm. I remember their version of Cinderella with the weird dancing in air scene, and then this utterly horrible story where a dog saves a little boy from the river and then dies which traumatized me as a kid.

MLE

no literally !! i might even go as far as to say shrek 2 is the best sequel ever made, although maybe i’m biased since it’s the sequel i’ve watched the most and, as a result, can quote nearly line by line of the script (A+ soundtrack too)

MLE

ik this is a super late response but i just wanted to add that i wholeheartedly agree. probably my favorite animated princess movie ever made

Robert Romero Jr

Still havent seen kung fu panda. My cousin raves about it and the series as a whole that it’s great. Im afraid i’ll have the same reaction as you did when i get around to watching it. Of course she’s seen spirit untamed. Kubo was such beautifully animated for stop motion and good story from what i remember. Shame you didnt see it. About halfway through and kind of shocked by all your hot takes on these animated films. We’re back was a wild film

James McKenzie

Shrek 2 not good in it's own right? Jenny. Shrek 2 has one of THE greatest scenes in movie history, in Shrek storming the castle

Ail uros

Shrek 2 would be in A or S tier for me especially because it IS a sequel. I like it better than the first one tbh.

Gustavo Meneses

Totally disagree on Kung Fu Panda. Should be a solid B.

some kind of gay cryptid

I feel like All Dogs Go to Heaven is ‘just a dog who likes gambling’ in the same way that Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is ‘just a horse who likes running’, or The Little Mermaid is ‘just a girl with really bad FOMO.’

Cammie

I love Laika, but I can tell you that the reason some of their stories fall flat even tho the artistry is there is at least partly due to nepotism. Laika’s studio and Nike’s headquarters are both located just outside of Portland, Oregon, and Nike’s founder, Phil Knight, basically bought Laika for his son, Travis Knight, when it was still Will Vinton Studios (the makers of those dancing raisin commercials in the 80’s). Nepo baby Travis has directed and/or produced every Laika film that came after Coraline (which was directed by Henry Selick) and it really shows. I’m optimistic about their 2025 film, Wildwood, tho because like Coraline it’s based on a children’s book that already has a strong story. Edit: to be a little more fair to Laika, an alternative reason for the story weakness is also just the painstaking nature of stop motion. If they’ve already begun to animate, it’s expensive and time-consuming to implement rewrites by deleting and reanimating finished scenes. It already takes longer to animate in this medium, so if they want to finish the film on time and start making money off it, they might feel like it’s better to release what they’ve already got instead of letting it languish in production.

em

shrek 2 is infinitely better than shrek and i think it’s watched more alone than the original 😭

Hayley Mills

The first 2 httyd movies are SO good… and the 3rd was the most disappointed I’ve ever been by a sequel.

Katherine Allen

I know I’m 2 1/2 years late but thank you, yes, I hate most claymation and especially chicken run. It’s so uncomfortable and upsetting to this like deep, subconscious part of my brain. And I hate the teeth in Wallace and grommet. Activates my fight or flight

Travis Sheflin

Exceptionally late to this post, but I was shocked by the complete lack of Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland. In my mind it's in the same realm of early 90s non-Disney animated film as We're Back.

Paulie Paul

I actually enjoyed how the frequent dismissiveness became its own running joke. "Haven't seen that one... F." 🤣

Azure

Really late but... Yeah, you are not wrong about Sing. It really is kind of just that. That being said, i do think its one of the better Illumination movies just because its executed competently enough that its mostly fine. I feel like people praise it because its better then a lot of Illumination's other stuff, but that's really not saying much, its still like the kids movie equivalent of plain, lukewarm, oatmeal. I guess at least its edible.

Pepe Silvia

Calling Kung Fu Panda a nothing movie after all that buildup really left me crestfallen. Had previously thought all of Jenny's opinions were correct

Jai

Sing is whatever but Sing 2? Absolutely garbage film. But its *my* garbage film.

Rosemary

HTTYD 3 is fantastic and i also didnt like the 2nd movie. I was convinced to watch the whole series from watching the last five minutes of the third movie while i was babysitting so if thats not a glowing endorsement i dont know what its. The Bad Guys is surprisingly good and im very excited for the second movie. Puss in boots the last wish is also amazing. The peanuts movie is so good. I was initially put off by the animation cause its 3d, but it was wonderful and it has like the best ratings ever. Highly reccomend.

Lola C (edited)

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2026-10-07 10:00 Just making my way through the backlog of videos, and wallowing in the fact Im one of maybe 3 people who have ever seen Titan A.E.
2025-10-27 00:03

Paige

The first SpongeBob movie actually was pretty good. It was the last hurrah of the original animators and show writers before they handed the show off and you can tell it’s the last SpongeBob thing that had the original tone and humor.

Paige

I wonder if she’s seen any of them. Surely at least one, right? Maybe that’s what she meant when she said “a lot of these are anime ones” and isn’t as familiar

Neil Dutton

I was in a weird mood the first time I watched it and was furious that the pig was not paying his construction workers. Have never been able to rewatch.

The Latter Day Autist

All Dogs go to Heaven was a pretty sweet film. I think you'd like it if you rewatched it through adult eyes. It's about a mobster (bad person) learning to be good through the power of love. Sounds corny, but I like how it doesn't talk down to the children for whom it was made. Also, I'm pretty sure Charlie is the deadbeat dad of all those impoverished puppies to whom he brings pizza in that one scene?

Marla Owl

What did you think of them???

ShadowShine57

I know I'm several years late and you may have watched it already but the first Spongebob movie is really really good.

Em Bee

I had the DVD as a kid and still have lots of fond memories of it. I doubt it would be outstanding to look back on as an adult, but my hunch is that it'd hold up reasonably well.

Emily Gelderloos

I'm so perplexed that someone with such a low threshold for disgusting things could love the Saw franchise haha I mean seriously, how!?

Adam Herma

Osmosis Jones is such a fever dream. Like how is there a pedo song from Kid Rock in that movie. Sounds like fake urban legend until you see it on Youtube.

paul francis

can’t wait to watch when i get home from work!!!

Jason Perez

We are now fed, thank you!! <3

Katie Kraynak

these long rambles are really getting me through the year 😭 thank you!!

Riley O'Neill

So excited for this!! Can't wait to hear you take on Ghibli while I get groceries!

Luis

Another hour long ramble on my birthday too! Okay my bday was Saturday but I'll pretend otherwise :D

Jaz Mei Luo

My dog ran away yesterday and I really need this to lift my spirits thanks for another monthly ramble Jenny I'm so happy to support you 😭

Merelyflowers

Ok, this is uncanny. I was literally just chatting with friends about Prince of Egypt.

Jenna Stoddard

Omg everyone has to watch Monsters vs Aliens, it's actually very precious

Clouds in the Sky

Ok I'm sorry I only started listening but you talked about Antz and I've gotta ask: which one is worse, Antz or Bug's Life?

gabstar

so excited !! working retail during Labor Day gets intense and this is gonna get me through the day !!

Bison

Next you should do Disney Non-Animated Movies

Cecile

how to train your dragon is arguably a horse girl movie

Jazz Me to the Moon

I'm happy you to hear that you had a great time on your trip! And to see that you managed to land a Pringles sponsorship!!

Dave Ruff

Kubo and the Two Strings was one of the most hauntingly, beautiful movies I'd seen that year, and the craftsmanship alone is worth a watch. Also, I appreciated Hiccup's journey throughout the trilogy, from boy on his hero's journey, to a man learning to lead, to a father learning to let go.

Rose Tyler

Happy (Belated) Birthday!! :)

Jaz Mei Luo

Omg I think Jenny has shared that same sentiment in a ramble video but I forget which one lol

Francesca White

Jenny how could you, Shrek 2 is the best in the franchise!

Cecile

ahajahah i knew i'd heard someone else say this before!!

Alex Andra

This story about the professor and the smart dinosaur cereal sounds like a fever dream I once had…I can’t believe this is real

Sawyer Quinn Brown

Can highly recommend The Penguins of Madagascar, it's one of my favorites. It's just so joyful, you can tell how much fun the writers had writing it.

Rachel

I would recommend watching Kubo and the Two Strings. The visuals are stunning (they do some cool things with origami), and it has a solid story about family in an action/adventure wrapping.

Iris

I've gotten the sense from other movies that you have a low tolerance for gross stuff, and I find it really comforting because I'm like that, too. Mine is actually so bad that the words gross me out- I can't say them, and I don't like to hear them. I wish kids' movies didn't always have to cater to the grossest of little boys.

Jack Avalon

Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return is the Movie you were referring to and it was actually a money laundering scheme 😭 (Return to Oz is the live action Disney sequel made in the 1980s and it’s pretty good.)

Xavier Fauver

Do you guys forgive Jenny for giving Prince of Egypt and Boss Baby the same score

Alex Andra

The animated movies I remember most clearly that I don’t think you mentioned were ferngully& cats don’t dance - talk about a fever dream lol. I miss that era of animated movies where it was anything goes, the characters were all unhinged, and there were so many colors and patterns. Clearly so many drugs in production. What a time

Will V

I believe the Laika films are at least consistently B- or higher. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Box Troll despite not finding the premise or character design all that appealing. Kubo is a great movie as well, up there with Coraline.

AW

Devastated at the lack of a rating of The Last Unicorn, my favorite movie as a kid that I would watch over and over and over again, annoying my family to no end because they all hated it with a passion

Cecile

jenny you absolutely need to watch the last unicorn if you haven't seen it

Cecile

came on here just to recommend it!! i was the exact same way as a kid

Anna Murchison

I would watch a lil seasickness inducing footage of theme parks! That story of the little girl in Germany is scary. I feel you on getting scolded; I then over index on getting permission 😅

Luis

Thanks 😊

Luis

Man that dinosaur movie deserves its own ramble I can't wait to watch it for myself. Also glad to see Langnek lurking in the background! Sigh now I want Pringles :(

Monica McFadden

The "We're Back!" summary is everything I could have hoped for, thank you. Also they should put your quotations on the cover of every movie. "Isn't it just about a dog who likes to gamble?"

Iris

P.S. I definitely thought you just mixed up Fairuza Balk with Lea Michele for the Return to Oz movie, my mind is B.L.O.W.N. that Lea Michele is actually in an Oz movie. The cast is so creepy, just her and like 10 really old dudes, half of whom have recent sex scandals.

Tony M Parker

Wow talk about going above and beyond for a ramble video.

Jenny Nicholson

I had actually assumed it only got a theatrical release because iirc Cory Monteith's passing happened only a few months before so Lea Michele became a bigger pop culture focus at that time. Which, feels mean to even point out because obviously that wasn't by Lea's design and was a real tragedy. But did feel like cynicism on the part of the production company. On the other hand I remember they put out a TON of merch to coincide with the movie and that obviously takes a long time to plan, so they might have always thought it was going to be bigger than it was

Jenny Nicholson

I have seen it but feel like I don't remember it well enough to give it a score! I always caught it on tv and switched away when she turned into a human lol

Cecile

that's completely understandable lmao

Starmongoose

I was wondering how the video was an hour and a half long when by about 30 minutes in you ran out of movie studios, but I guess that's on me for not predicting the lengthy We're Back! A Dinosaur Story retrospective.

Notation

I am shocked beyond belief that Jenny hasn't apparently really seen The Last Unicorn?

Notation

Boss Baby's pretty good and Prince of Egypt isn't very good honestly.

Beau Little

Jenny, are you gonna do one on Everything Everywhere All At Once?

Jaz Mei Luo

I would watch the hell out of a ramble on Miyazaki & other Studio Ghibli films Also some of these films' premises I only know about vaguely through watching Schafrillas's ranking videos and I think it's funny to think of the contrast between those vs the efficiency of Jenny blowing through a list of movies, saying "Haven't seen it" to 80% of them, and then giving a succinct summary & letter grade the rest 😂

Heather(s)

Would totally love to see the Swan Princess movie franchise ranking vid! I remember loving the first 10-minute montage of the first movie so much I ended up religiously watching all the sequels as a kid. Even though I was completely hitting that phase of 'Oh, this is...bad? I think??' in the middle of them.

Andrew Hill

They are so extremely different - gonna go watch the evermore preview againsieesss

Jack Cooper

help me help me please! There's a non-disney animated film from my childhood that I randomly remembered a few years ago and has haunted me ever since - no one in my family remembers this film, none of my friends have ever heard of it - I remember it being set in Russia or having a Russian aesthetic and the core images I remember are 1) sticks either being magically transformed into an army or some trickery being done to make it look like the sticks' shadows were an army, 2) someone has to endure a sauna (?) for a long time or its an especially hot sauna, and 3) maybe the protagonists are doing these things to fulfil a task or challenge from a king (less sure on this one)

Jack Cooper

and I would have watched this film on VHS as a kid in late 1990s/early 2000s

Notation

Also, Jenny--the person who chooses Laika's project is Phil Knight's son, Travis Knight. Phil Knight is the co-founder of Nike. He bought Wil Vinton's studio here in Portland and gave it to Travis. The studio doesn't "have" to make money either, which is why they kind of make whatever. It's because this is less embarrassing than Travis' rap career. None of this is a joke.

Gnome Choomsky

They reviewed the prince of Egypt on God Awful Movies! They rated it, in effect, "big yikes"! 😅

Terence Digan

RE Don Bluth movies being dark: a while back I was talking with a friend about "An American Tail" and they basically said "If you were to pitch this movie, but didn't mention that the main characters were talking animals, no one you'd be pitching this to would think it's intended for kids." Even though I think it's a solid film, I'd have to agree.

Luis

So the Germans stared when you wore colorful clothing and also didn't like to be filmed? Interesting 🤔 but I am hype for any bonus footage from your trip!

emchovy

The Home ranking hurts so hard because it's SUCH a C movie but also the book it's based on, "The True Meaning of Smekday", is SO GOOD. It's SO GOOD. A young girl writes a school essay about traveling across America to reunite with her mom after an alien invasion. it's insanely good. please just read it instead of watching the movie.

Jonas

I had a stuffed animal that was the main orange T Rex from "We're Back: A Dinosaur Story." It was very large and so cool and I loved it. Sometimes my sisters would steal it and put it somewhere funny, like tie it to a chair or hang it from the ceiling. I had forgotten all about this until this ramble video. Thank you for bringing this back.

Michael Schrag

I had Looney Tunes Back in Action on VHS as a kid and liked it - from what I remember there are a few parts that make it worth checking out, but it almost certainly doesn't hold up as a whole

Marshall Wong

Was hoping to get a comment and grade on Monster House if Jenny saw it. I thought it was Sony but I guess I was wrong or it wasn't listed there for some other reason.

B

We're Back and Space Jam were probably two of my most watched films as a kid, and now We're Back is baffling to me. Great video!!

Luc Gendrot

I can't believe Jenny hates All Dogs go to Heaven, I'm absolutely gutted

Naomi

Yeah so I have to pitch in my two cents about the Prince of Egypt. First of all I'm super glad you didn't trash it because it is beyond beloved to me now, but I can confirm that it is not a good kids movie. Being raised in a weird sort of charismatic but sometimes also very strict conservative home, movies were one of the things my mom was super picky about, and Prince of Egypt was one of the movies we were allowed to watch, along with fiddler on the roof, that I remember explicitly hating because it terrified me and I didn't understand it, and then I grew up and figured out what was going on, and I was like hey I actually like this now. I think the main characters not having flaws is a valid criticism, but I think especially Ramses goes through a really compelling antagonist arc, and there's still a lot of good writing around how a persons beliefs about themselves can affect their lives and relationships. I will say I just really appreciate it now as an art piece, because of exactly what you said. Animation, performances, and especially music, all phenomenal.

S G Matthews

Glad to hear you had a nice trip! I enjoyed hearing all your takes, but more importantly what is that head?!? It's so familiar...

ColemanS

Well darn, I voted for this one because the last time it came up it directly mentioned Studio Ghibli and was interested in some hot takes. There's over 20 of them, and having just marathoned (almost) all of them, I thought it'd be a great subject because of how beloved so many of them are yet there's also that good chunk of very "meh" ones that are rarely mentioned.

Gnome Choomsky

I haven't seen Rock-a-Doodle since I was a kid, but I definitely watched it several times, so I can't say it holds up, but it must have made an impression on me. Also, guess I can't argue with your hot take on brave little toaster (which is technically a Disney movie, btw 😅), but, again, I watched that movie so many times when I was a kid! *sigh*

Jill Morris

If you went to any theme parks that sell parts of rides... yes, merch hall video please.

MattMitchell45

Kubo had a pretty powerful story, but more than that it gorgeously mixed so many styles of clay-mation, papercraft, animation, etc.

Jennifer

I had completely forgotten about We're Back but it was so familiar as you described the plot. I think I thought it was a recurring fever dream or something lol

Susan Held

As an Elder Millennial I feel compelled to clarify that the original version of I Like to Move It is from 1994. Also, I'm not looking forward to the day when my now-toddler is begging me to take her to Zootopia 14 or whatever mindless sequels are being churned out by these studios in 2028.

Peachy Parfait

I’m offended that someone might confuse Peter Pan Hat for Gnome Hat 🥲

Sara

Jenny!! I would looove a haul video! Please!!!!

Peachy Parfait

I can’t say words that gross me out or of concepts that gross me out too! I also have to hold my breath sometimes bc I think I’ll smell gross visuals…

Peachy Parfait

for how many times I watched Fern Gully growing up, I barely remember anything about it, and I also found it really off-putting but watched it anyway, lol

Nancy Summitt

Sinbad is awesome - the score is really good, too.

Steve Ray

Sad! Come back, dog!

Amanda Kay

I loved The Swan Princess movie and I still remember playing swan princess at recess and not getting to play Odette, even though I was the only blonde girl, because I had moles on my neck. Kids are brutal.

Steve Ray

Could it be a Jan Švankmajer film?

Tony Pepperoni

When you started to talk about We’re Back and explain the plot, my first thought was: BUT WHAT ABOUT THE OPENING WITH THE T. REX PLAYING GOLf??

Steve Ray

Submitted for the consideration of my fellow Patreons: Jan Švankmajer The Brothers Quay Fantastic Planet The Adventures of Mark Twain Also, Anomalisa was directed by Charlie Kaufman and intended for adults, interesting but not extraordinary. And does A Scanner Darkly count? It was animated, but more as SFX for the sci-fi subject matter.

Papa Q. Bear

Pirates Band of Misfits is a lot of fun, recommended.

Jenny Nicholson

Am I wrong that it's just about a dog that likes to gamble

M

i’ve only seen httyd 3 and all i remember is how uncomfortable i was because one of hiccups friends had a repeated gag where he tried to fuck hiccups mom, like it happened several times and that’s all i remember about the movie

Brian L Hughes

I liked the Madagascar series. Did you mention Robots?

Mikayla Roby

I’ve seen 8/11 Illumination films and Jenny just kept listening them and I kept remembering just slightly off-beat childhood memories, like not out of the ordinary just strange: Hop put me, my sister, and my cousin to sleep in a crowded theater when we were the age too proud to take naps, one time my sister had the Secret Life of Pets on and my mom turned it off because of the sewer animals talking about murdering all the humans and actively torturing the two main characters, like — what’s Illumination doing?

S. R.

Listening to this made me realize I thought balto and the pebble and the penguin were events from the same movie...

Anna O.

Claymation Mark Twain? It has some serious creepy parts but I remember we had a VHS recording of it when I was a kid and I loved most of it.

Jonas

The dog does like to gamble, that is correct. But more importantly, there is a scene where they eat the most delicious looking pizza I've ever seen. It gets bumped up a grade for that in my book

Anna O.

The Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs books movies pretty decent, especially for having been based on a picture book. And Arthur Christmas is absolutely adorable and I love it.

Benjamin Ng

Over the Hedge is fun! One of the main characters is voiced by Garry Shandling

Josh Duchemin

There's also Netflix's in-house animated studio which did some that I think are pretty dang good (like Klaus and The Sea Beast) but then it did like America: The Motion picture which was kind of bad.

ColemanS

It's cool I understand. Wait no I mean how dare you! But really I do think that Ghibli movies are an interesting topic. Maybe not a particularly original topic, but still interesting. The storytelling is different enough that I often legitimately did not know what was going to happen next, and the cultural differences also lead to things like western audiences getting a very different message from Grave of the Fireflies it than the author/director wanted. Seeing them for the first time as an adult has been a great experience. I'd hazard a guess that the ones you've seen are probably the best/popular ones, but even if you never do a video on them I think the rest (well most of the rest) are well worth the time.

Charlie

Of all the have-not-seens Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs is definitely worth throwing on for the hell of it.

Admiral Clackbar

Anomalisa! That was jarringly out of place compared to all the family content earlier in the list. It's not my favourite Charlie Kaufman movie, but it's a Charlie Kaufman movie sandwiched between The Little Prince and Monster Trucks. That's so wild. It's about a man who's basically face blind, who finally meets a woman who doesn't look and sound like everyone else. Literally every other character in the movie is played by/modelled after one guy, and it primarily takes place at a convention in Ohio. It deals with infidelity and loneliness and depression and I can't imagine what Jenny would say about it.

Brian Murray

looney tunes back in action is a MUST WATCH if you like the absurdity of space jam

Steve Ray

She did, but gave it a low grade.

flynnparadox

Definitely give Looney Tunes Back in Action and Kubo and the Two Strings a chance.

Trevor Atwood

Sinbad is gorgeous and Eris feels like she was designed to appeal specifically to the gays. But the story is so garbage and Brad Pitt and Catherine Zeta-Jones have that horrible "we hate each other, it must be love!" dynamic going on... I hate it.

Moira Laidlaw

1. I love your gnome hat. 2. I’m glad you’re back. 3. I love We’re Back and would have accepted nothing less than an A grade

wolfgang

DELGO! YES. was one of my favorite movies as a kid. i wanted to look like him

Brorsan

I totally recommend watching Looney Tunes: Back in Action. It has almost been reclaimed as a good movie (because it is) but Joe Dante has a curse on him which seems to stop him from ever getting any attention and praise.

LadyLotte

Don't worry about being afraid of German customer service personnel. In general we can seem quite rude to Americans since you are used to a really different approach to customer service. Here in Germany seeming fake is considered to be super rude, so we will be more honest than Americans. That being said that guy in Movie Park sounds insane D:

Matt Reynolds

I was never a fan of dreamworks, even as a kid before I knew about katzenberg and his fallout with Disney or knew the term mockbuster I felt dreamworks animation were low tier Disney knock offs. Although there tv stuff like trollhunters and she-Ra is solid. Illumination feels like mockbusters of dreamworks. Warner Bros animation is usually solid but can't believe I've never seen looney tunes back in action. The Brendan Frasier renaissance has me thinking I should. Also I guess this is a hot take. Scooby doo and the boo brothers is better than ghoul school. I'm sure no one agrees with me or remembers boo brothers lol.

Ham

When I was a video store guy way back in the day, I had this whole thing where I'd challenge the idea that animated movies were automatically "kids movies." I prefer the term "family movie."

Ham

I found Mr. Peabody and Sherman surprisingly good. The script is faithful to the content and tone of the old cartoons and the cast is on point. It only suffers from a generally cheap look. Hair and fur simulations have come a long way since.

Ham

Missing Link deserves a better reputation. And it DOES feature some spectacular settings and environments.

Ham

Peanuts was a very pleasant surprise, especially coming from Blue Sky. Recommended to anyone who values the strip's mid-60s run, when the characters gained depth and storylines expanded.

Matthew S. Dentice

The discussion of We’re Back alone was enough to make my day. Such a bizarre and fascinating film. I think everyone who saw that as a kid has had a moment as an adult where they were like, “Does that movie actually exist or did I just imagine it?” I have the same feelings about the Don Bluth stuff seeming like it’s dark just for the sake of being dark. I feel like I can respect the competently-made films (All Dogs Go to Heaven and An American Tail come to mind), but I can’t say I really enjoy watching them. I do love some of the cheap 90’s non-Bluth sequels to Bluth films though, if for no other reason than because I find it hilarious that they just straight up throw out the original dark plotlines and replace them with nonsensical fluff.

Shaun Cheah

Would you say it was... All you ever wanted?

Shaun Cheah

Dat is Langnek, de makker met de lange nek.

Cynethryth

The older I get the more insane it is to me that Anastasia was made and then marketed like any other princess movie. My parents took me to Anastasia on Ice, for heaven's sake! You have convinced me to watch Spirit; I have not seen it yet.

Es

WILD THORNBERRYS DEEP DIVE WHEN?

Jodi Hoffman

I feel the same way about The Polar Express! It is weird that it is canon in all Christmas movies that Santa is real. And failing to believe in him is a moral failing - that's weird for children. lol With some troubling ramifications. (I say this as a Deist, personally, but still. lol)

Ash Gabrielle

If you're really into kung fu movied, then Kung Fu Panda is a really enjoyable homage. I think it works better probably as a fan of the genre.

Steve Ray

Joe Dante's approach to Space Jam was directly inspired by a 1940's blockbuster called Hellzapoppin'!, which is 1,000% worth watching.

Samantha Ansley

Advocating for Despicable Me 2 (only2). It is adorable and very feel good. Sing 2 is cute and all about its pop music. Box Troll is an aimless joke. Listening to these lists left me realizing how terrible it is for these picture studios to do franchises. Just terrible.

Nathan

This video was 30% movie reviews, 40% "I haven't seen it", and 30% "We're Back" synopsis

Ash Gabrielle

Also, does anyone know if Jenny has said whether she still intends to do a Star Wars hotel video?

Little guy

I loved rise of the guardians so much (embarrassingly, even throughout my teen years, and long after everybody else fully forgot about it) but I think I loved the potential more than the story itself... Also to a specific type of 12 year old Jack Frost had a certain appeal I won’t lie. Definitely deserved C- though

Jack Fahey

The two Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs movies are some of my faves.

Oskar Acosta

Laika is such an outlier in the industry, sadly despite their quality the main reason they keep themselves afloat is because of their wealthy owner. We can only hope audiences’ rising interest in animation as a craft brings more attention to them.

BestStressed

I vote for blog-style footage with just a warning that some of the footage will be shaky. People can make their own decisions!

Natalie Arnold

This. It's great if you appreciate all the homages or even just are a kid who likes kung fu and martial arts in general.

Selina

Jenny were you on tumblr when there was that weird crossover fandom that sprung up around Rise of the Guardians, HTTYD, Tangled, and Brave? where people would do fanart of like Hiccup, Merida, Rapunzel, and Jack Frost at Hogwarts together. a v interesting time haha. also of the movies you haven't seen i'd recommend Over the Hedge and Horton Hears a Who!

Eric Kaplan

Is "Hoodwinked" any good?

Jaz Mei Luo

I think Hoodwinked is entertaining and not annoying. The animation is really ugly though.

Jaz Mei Luo

Lmao that fandom came across my dash all the time!

Jaz Mei Luo

The first movie is so good I promise

Dan Gibbins

The We're Back synopsis was amazing. There is just so much happening in that movie. Amazing you managed to make it make that much sense. Looney Tunes Back in Action I remember being super fun; good Looney Tunes shenanigans, Bugs and Daffy had a solid relationship arc, and the human lead was Brendan Fraser instead of a popular athlete so that was a big help. Also Joan Cusack shows up, always a plus. This movie is what I use to demonstrate my beef with streaming services: they pushed video stores out of business and NOW where am I supposed to find Looney Tunes: Back in Action, none of them have it. Also I don't think I've seen Shark Tale start to finish but I've seen most of it and yeah, F, you're correct on that one. I can't believe Martin Scorsese is in it.

Alexis

Really tickled by the number of qualifiers added prior to admission of having seen Igor.

Markus D

While I really liked ParaNorman, I thought that Kubo and the Two Strings was really boring and mediocre. It all LOOKS good, but I feel like they haven't come up with a hit script.

UnderwaterSphinx

Justice for Cats Don't Dance, Anastasia, and The Brave Little Toaster

Dee Crosier

Glad you had a fun/rewarding trip, and got back safely! :) I wouldn’t argue with anyone about this, but I did really enjoy the “Trolls” movies and the spin-off cartoons (especially “Trollstopia”)… mostly for the random psychedelia and the Rock Trolls… but I’m an ageing hippie/rocker type, so that’s kinda my soft spot.

Chelle

Anastasia IS deeply weird conceptually and somewhat in execution but I WILL go to bat for it bc the music slaps and I have deep nostalgia for it that I cannot separate from any critical lens

Dee Crosier

Agreed! I watched that a couple weeks ago, and really enjoyed it. The cast is great.

Dan Gibbins

Here's the nice thing I can say about Shark Tale. You remember how in the pilot of Hannibal, Hannibal does a copycat killing but gets it all wrong so that Will can better understand the killer he was actually tracking? It's like that. Shark Tale did everything wrong so we could better appreciate what Finding Nemo did right.

LL

It feels super weird to nitpick a Ramble post, but it took me a while to figure out you where approaching them as kids movies because of the title just being animated films. Probably a good thing Anomalisa was a no watch, that would have been a hard one to fit! I'm also glad that I'm not the only one with nostalgic fondness for Thumbelina, it seems it's the widely agreed upon bad movie among the Bluth films...and yeah. But it got to me early enough that it imprinted on me, and I just liked the pretty settings and the colours. I even like the songs though that probably says something about my tastes in music.

Desiree DiBerardino

Shark tale is so cute it’s a little mini godfather movie lmao and the SpongeBob SquarePants was also much better than it probably could have been, sort of right before the show itself dropped off

newdreamsltd

I'm surprised that Hoodwinked and its sequel never came up. Both of them are bad but the second one is truly Horrible

Trent Morell

Unironically Bee Movie is one of the top 5 movies of all time and I feel personally attacked.

newdreamsltd

Also Rugrats In Paris is absolutely the superior Rugrats movie, the soundtrack is nonstop slappers

flowerbear

SO glad to hear someone else have a sane take about kids’ movies being dark for the sake of being dark. Just because a movie made you feel weird inside doesn’t make it compelling or deep

Steven Clark

I knew somebody who was working at Dreamworks Animation around the time they made Home, and she said that when Jeffrey Katzenberg saw the rough cut, all he said was, "I hate this."

Katherine Evans

Need a whole Patreon video on the Ghost Train at Phantasialand.

Scott Carter

I lived in Germany and worked as an after school care worker for highschoolers (US kids) and we went to a theme park for a weekend trip. I was getting footage of us on a swinging boat ride for the center's montage thing for slideshows showing what we do and all that. Tt was selfie mode so it was JUST me and the kids in frame and they stopped the ride, scolded me, and didn't let me finish the ride with the kids. It was nuts lol

carly novell

was cooking while watching this and i thought you were saying antz is the only jewish movie for kids other than rugratz and i was so confused

Marebito

When I moved to Germany I once had the audacity to take a picture of a bus. The driver got out and came running after me, demanding that I delete the footage immediately. He even wanted to see me deleting it from the trash folder so it couldn't be restored afterwards. Also, Germany does not have Google Streetview because of privacy reasons.

Joy Wood

I'd be delighted with ANY bonus content. Totally ok if its a bit shaky!

Ryujin713

The song "Be Prepared" from that movie is iconic tbh

Casey May

Is it bad that I genuinely think Anastasia is a great film? Like, I understand that it’s problematic but I think the characters, story, music, animation, etc. is top tier

scott melton

Box Trolls was awesome! Great voice cast (Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Richard Ayoade). Fun story. Lots of jokes about cheese. Loved the animation. Grade: A

MW

I am the opposite. Wallace and Gromit and all that animation terrified me as a child. My worst fears. I hated them so much.

Bag of Tricks

A movie Jenny didn't mention, that I can't pass up a chance to recommend, is Hoodwinked. It was made independently, and it does have a slightly low-budget feel, although they got a lot of notable voice talent (who I think all do good jobs and don't feel like as much like Dreamworks celebrity voice roles). It's a basic story as far as characterization goes, but it's told in such a fun way. The sequel is dreadful, though, a must-miss. I'd give a "sure why not" recommendation for Looney Tunes: Back in Action. Doesn't take itself seriously, has some solid jokes. It's a less good Who Framed Roger Rabbit, having more of the (at times annoying) 2000s animated movie sensibilities, with the human world being more part of the slapstick, as opposed to contrastingly serious like in Roger Rabbit.

Michelle Deapen

As a kid, the theatre had a "we are having technical difficultes" popup right at the death scene in chicken run. It lasted about 5 minutes and then the movie resumed. I always thought that was part of the movie and that they had censored a 5 minute gruesome scene.

teacupful

Boxtrolls was kind of nauseating to look at, but Kubo is transcendent. The first Laika production that felt like their craft and the story were on equal footing.

Iris

Yeah, Kubo is the best.

Iris

It's nice to meet someone else who has the same problem! I know what you mean about ideas having a scent in some weird way. Ugh. Heehee, we are delicate!

April Feldman

That was really fun! And don't worry about having different opinions about the films. Whenever you mention a movie and then have a totally different read of it than I did I always find it really interesting! Also yikes the employees in that one park sound really scary- I would have been absolutely terrified. I had no idea German parks were so strict with filming. But I'm glad that Efteling went so well!!

Lia Lawliet

Another animated movie that I think you missed is Netflix's Klaus, which I think is really solid and enjoyable for kids and adults alike, and the animation is quite lovely, I'd definitely reccommend it.

run_away

The Oregon Ducks and the last bastion of theatrically released independent american animation. ...thanks, nike?

run_away

Monsters vs. Aliens is surprisingly fun considering it's mostly a vehicle for the creators' giantess fetish. I think the thing that makes The Prince of Egypt divisive is that US studios just won't greenlight full-length animated feature films for adults, and that movie really wanted to be made for an adult audience. As a fan of the movie, I mentally blank out the sillier elements (the priests and their musical number), and focus on the insane music direction and intensity of certain scenes, as well as the interesting relationship between Pharaoh and Moses. I think people who are more inclined to take it as the childrens' movie that it was marketed as, which is reasonable, tend to find it very off-putting. Baby murder and all that.

Rushka Unverricht

An American Tail was one of the first animated films I was taken to see at a movie theater. I loved it then, I have no idea what I would think of it now. I remember giving Spirit to my little sister for her birthday when it came out, it's nice to see that Jenny gave it an A+. That gnome hat is great. It looks somehow almost more Peter Panish than the Peter Pan hat last month lol.

poppys daddi

the road to el dorado was like my gay awakening as a kid.. there was something about those two men that rewired my brain 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

poppys daddi

also justice for balto and pls go watch cloudy with a chance of meatballs!

Asmodeus

Man I love How to Train Your Dragon, but I also think the sequel is just as good. Also All Dogs Go to Heaven is easily A-material.

IndigoRen

Willy the Sparrow

Kate Ashwin

cloudy with a chance of meatballs is a lot of fun, honestly worth a look! same with the pirates one.

Lory

omg Once Upon A Forest was genuinely scary. The gas scene, the yellow dragons, the birds resigning themselves to death and that freakin owl. So many scenes have been burned in my memory for life lol

Markus D

I only understand enjoying it ironically because the writing is very bad and cringey. I also think that while it can be entertaining in a so-bad-it's-good way it feels too long so I don't enjoy actually trying to watch the whole thing.

Markus D

The Road to El Dorado is like... good but problematic. I really like it for the animation and the character acting (like the two leads especially are great) but I've seen some takes from indigenous Mexica and Central/South American people (the location is pretty vague, though the art and architecture is definitely Mayan-inspired) saying that they thought the culture (generalized though it was) was looked upon kind of insensitively and that Chel being another sexualized native American character is off-putting (she has more characterization, of course, but I understand looking for female characters who AREN'T portrayed as sexy, especially for kids watching) Overall I think it's also a better adult animated movie than a kid's movie, as I actually enjoyed it more as a teen and older because of some of the more "mature" or dry jokes. I like some of the music, but it's just very '90s/2000s Elton John and doesn't have a specific identity.

Tasha

I saw missing link at the cinema on a random day when I needed to entertain my young daughter and that happened to be what was showing and I really enjoyed it! It was much better than I'd expected from the adverts.

Markus D

Spirit is one of my favourite childhood movies, but I do really wish that all the songs weren't by Bryan Adams because I don't like how raspy his voice is and since the songs are from Spirit's perspective, I feel like they don't "fit" the voice of the horse-- especially since his few narration lines are provided by Matt Damon who sounds WAY younger. There are a lot of negative critic scores for the movie but there are a lot of weird ones that are upset about it not being as "magical" like Disney, or not having cutting edge computer effects, or even, bizarrely being too "politically correct". I really don't like that Spirit became a kind of "horse girl" thing because... well, I don't have anything against concepts surrounding girls riding horses, I just feel like a lot of it is really trite and tropey and not enough new plot lines are done with horses and girls. Horse "boys" sometimes get things like War Horse, but horse girls could do with stuff more like True Grit, but more horse-focused instead of another story about "girl finds freedom through horse". I also think that whether the story is unique or not, it would be SO much more palatable if the girl was native American, both for thematic consistency with the original movie (both her and Spirit could find freedom from the colonized world of America by exploring together or something), and because white horse girls in stories are a dime a dozen.

Markus D

Shrek 2 is actually often considered superior to the first movie by Shrek fans. When I was a kid, I know I watched it more.

Markus D

I don't love the original Kung-Fu Panda (though I think it has some strong action scenes) but I do really like the second one. It has more emotion to it and the villain is great.

Markus D

I was never super into How to Train Your Dragon, but I'm almost certain that a large part of that is not being able to get past ridiculous character names and how uncool most of the dragons were after being a huge dragon kid my whole childhood.

PamperYamper

OMG I LOVED "We're Back." I had the side scrolling Gameboy game and it was fire. Sinbad is pretty good. I too remember full grown adults being so hype for Kung Fu Panda for some inexplicable reason.

Markus D

Personally, I thought Kubo was really boring and predictable and the pacing was TERRIBLE. Like it started off paced okay but when the proper adventure started it felt like we were going a mile a minute. It might have something to do with my knowledge of Japanese legend, but something that really put me off of the story was how inauthentic it felt in the culture it was part of. It felt like a story you could've slapped into any cultural wrapping paper.

Paul Martens

Lange Jan doll-thing! So you've been? :-D

Markus D

I like Coraline, but I really wish they didn't add the boy character who wasn't in the book because I just found him annoying. I actually like ParaNorman better but I don't know exactly why. I appreciated the lighter tone and I thought having a gay dumb jock character doesn't happen enough so that was fun to see.

Markus D

I'm so glad to hear you say you don't like Cats Don't Dance. I can't remember what came out (maybe the CATS musical movie?) and people were comparing Cats Don't Dance to it favorably but it's SUCH a boring nothing movie and the fact that the main character never has visible teeth is so off-putting. As a sort-of-furry, the male cat is NOT sexy. He's very classic Warner Bros. The female one was drawn to be like a sexy actress though.

Markus D

YES. Totally agree about Don Bluth making a lot of movies that were dark but mostly not good. He also had something in his animation style where sometimes his character's mouths would move too much. It's hard to describe but there was a lot of over-enunciation and it looked really uncanny. I really remember seeing it recently in Jenny's Land Before Time video, especially from Daddy Tops in the first movie. All Dogs Go to Heaven was actually one of his better movies, IMO, though there are some missteps like censoring a gun by making it a ray gun and whatever the fucking crocodile thing was. It's pretty heartfelt, though I think it ends up getting... not overrated, but considered weirdly because of the VA of the little girl getting murdered soon after.

Connor Schoonveld

I only know about We’re Back! because the little blue bird was voiced by Blaze Berdahl, and I had a huge crush on her in the Ghost Writer series lol. I literally don’t remember a single thing about it other than that.

Markus D

I'm so confused by what people liked about Kubo. I thought it was really boring and it felt jarringly shallow, like there was a story there, but we weren't actually told all of it. I understood the premise, but it really didn't hit emotionally, especially since it moves so fast in the last half.

Amanda Moreira

jenny giving a D to Robots made me really upset. But I’ll cry about it in the shower instead of on the internet like a grown lady

Trent Morell

Cuz it is all in service of a single joke and serves as an excellent critique of the capitalist system in a way that *appears* accidental but... god damnit if it's not purposeful it's the best shitpost of all time.

Markus D

I was also put off by early CGI and some stop-motion stuff, but I was also put off by the art styles of a lot of Nickelodeon 2D-animated shows. I never watched Rugrats because of it looking gross and because babies are generally gross. I remember liking The Wild Thornberries, but also really hating most of the character designs.

Markus D

I think that kind of falls apart at the end where it suddenly becomes cartoonish because they are able to scare a bunch of cats with a big mechanical mouse thing... It's a bit jarring, to be honest.

Markus D

I always thought the pizza was gross because it's like ALL CHEESE. If I remember correctly, the main dog, Charlie dies but then is resurrected and needs to learn to care about someone or else he goes to hell?

Markus D

Looking it up, I really hate the writer of Grave of the Fireflies' "these selfish kids these days" attitude, but it turns out I DID get the message he wanted to send, which is that SPOILERS Seita leaving his aunt's house was selfish and ended up killing his sister. https://asiatimes.com/2021/05/grave-of-the-fireflies-misunderstood-masterpiece/ A lot of people who recommended the movie just talked about how sad it was but only the first... I don't know, 15 minutes has a lot of the tragedy of Hiroshima, so what stuck with me the most was being frustrated at Seita, especially since I watched it as a teen myself. Still, I don't agree with the writer's generalized thoughts on the kids these days having too much pride or whatever, which sounds like an old Japanese man not getting why some kids won't conform nowadays and it feels REALLY tacky for that to be the ultimate message of a movie where the surrounding setting is a real-life event where people died horribly and pointlessly because of war beaurocracy.

Markus D

I distinctly remember cool things from Sinbad, but I don't think it made a super interesting cohesive whole. I definitely watched it a lot as a kid though. It has a lot of spectacle to the action scenes but the characters are nothing special.

Markus D

Klaus is weird because I want to like it so much as a fan of 2D animation, but the emotional impact didn't hit right and I felt kind of uncomfortable with the Saami people being... I don't want to say that they weren't treated like humans, but they didn't have a proper arc, they just were eventually useful to the protagonists and that just feels off.

Markus D

I haven't watched the whole thing in YEARS but I remember watching Bartok The Magnificent a LOT on VHS as a kid. I definitely remember the dragon transformation sequence that was ABSOLUTELY Don Bluth's fetish (apparently even though he wasn't involved with most of those sequels, he was involved with Bartok).

Markus D

Agreed. I also think that the second movie was a lot more emotionally affecting than the first, though I still think the first is a fun watch.

Markus D

NGL, Hugh Jackman Easter Bunny does it for me.

Markus D

That Kubo comment sounds like a bash at the studio to me because I thought that it looked great but the story was awful.

Jen Canary

Flushed away is *so good*

Markus D

Agreed about Prince of Egypt. I definitely think it's flawed but sometimes people go and bash it because "this is not good for a kid's movie" while I'm just like "was it supposed to be a kid's movie!?"

Markus D

I would recommend Rango, though I might be biased towards Westerns. I think it's a very witty movie that plays with the genre well and the character designs are kind of weird but not off-putting.

Freakivore

I'm gonna push back on Balto a little bit even though I think it's kind of mediocre. I think the whole point of the 'solving a task' plot was more to demonstrate that this was something that Balto could *only* do by getting in touch with his other half, and by completing the task, the narrative is just demonstrating that he managed it for himself. The acceptance from the human villagers was more like a bonus to give him a happy ending. (Though I wouldn't say it was done super gracefully.)

Trent Morell

The writing is absolutely incredible and not cringey at all fight me lol

Grace King

Kung Fu Panda 2 is actually incredible and worth watching. A really excellent villain in that one.

Grace King

Also my hot take for Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is that the movie would be even better if Matt Damon's voice over was removed completely.

Ben Ostermeier

The Spongebob movie is indeed pretty good, and right after the series creator and many of the original writers left the show, so the quality of the show dropped significantly from season 4 onwards.

Muireann McGlynn

I like to Move it actually came out 11 years before Madagascar. I recommend Flushed Away!

Mr Ixolite

My hottest Dreamworks take is that Penguins of Madagascar is an absolute riot, and easily top tier for the studio

Jaz Mei Luo

They couldn't even get Anne Hathaway back for the sequel smh

Alex Willging

I'd recommend Monsters Vs. Aliens. It's surprisingly funny and has a lot of fun with Fifties B-movie tropes.

Rebekah Fisher

100% agree about Sing haha. I feel like people have talked about how good it is but everything I've seen of it looks terrible.

James ShinHito

Laika notoriously has terrible marketing for some reason. I was so not interested in Boxtrolls due to the trailers played during the Olympics, but I was shocked when I saw it. It was up to the emotional quality of Paranorman. Kubo and The Two Strings was absolutely incredible. I would say it’s my favorite Laika film next to Coraline. Definitely give it a shot Jenny! Even if you don’t end up liking the story the imagery is *gorgeous*.

Thread Bomb

I usually don't watch animated movies, but for some reason I watched the Minions movie (the first one) and liked it, and I think Jenny might like it too. Everything I've seen of the Despicable Me movies looks painfully unfunny and predictable, but the Minions movie is quite different: instead of following a character, it follows the minions as a species, with a great nature documentary-style narration by Geoffrey Rush.

Thread Bomb

At the time of release, Antz was seen as a cheap knock-off of Bug's Life.

Thread Bomb

Please not on Tiktok, I don't want to have to get Tiktok.

Thread Bomb

There used to be genuine "family movies", but now those movies are a combination of dumbness for small kids, and snarkiness and memes to make the adults feel hip.

Thread Bomb

I'm an atheist but feel the same way. People used to conspire to make children believe in God, but now they conspire to make children believe in Santa, someone they know doesn't exist!

Thread Bomb

I have the feeling she doesn't want to put something so negative about Disney on the public channel, because it might sour relations for future videos.

Thread Bomb

"Giantess fetish" instantly makes me think of Blade Runner 2049.

Lindzzz

Klaus!! So good!!

Lindzzz

Happy Feet and its sequel inexplicably missing

Anna Surman

personally i LOVED kubo and the two strings! i thought it was super beautiful and had a super cool concept and i've seen the box trolls and i remember really enjoying it but i also could not tell you the plot haha

Anna Surman

i desperately want to know jenny's opinions on monster house

Heidy J

... is that the Efteling long neck guy in the back????? God if you put out a video about that theme park a few years out from now (I have no conception of time) I'll be psyched. I'll have to religiously rewatch Momo O'Brien's video on it in the meantime and even if you don't, damn that's still really cool. I think so anyway

Lindsey Keefer

I’ve watched a lot of these sequels more often than the originals lol. My parents just bought the second ones when they came out on dvd!

Patricia

Sinbad was good for (1) the iconic villain Eris who BLEW MY LITTLE MIND when I was a kid, and (2) the "friendship" (hmm) between Sinbad and his estranged childhood friend ("fRIenD"). Points deducted for the very 2000s romance which mostly consists of "strong woman fights with sexist man hiding feelings behind sexist remarks"). I do recommend it though! (And you're right, it's not a musical)

Kim Stroberg

Delighted to hear you had a great trip! I would absolutely Love a merch video, preferably not on tiktok though (or if you can link it on your twitter at least so I don't miss it ^^). I take your point about overly dark children's movies (even though the Nostalgia Critic comparisons certainly sting a little haha), but many of those are the movies that stuck out the most in my childhood, and that I have remaining fond memories of. I don't think I was ever an edgy child, maybe just a sucker for melodrama. And yes, the car crusher song in Brave little toaster absolutely slaps!

Lindsey Keefer

I was wondering if you’d do Gumby but then realized it would’ve grossed you out for sure. The square guys getting morphed together and the dog crying pearls… I get queasy remembering it.

Alexis De La Garza

I had a Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron birthday cake when I was 8. I was obsessed with that movie and all things horses. It’s still a great movie.

Alexis De La Garza

My only memory of Rugrats Go Wild was that it came with scratch and sniff stickers and each sticker would flash on the screen in the movie theater when you were supposed to sniff it

Janine

I loved Sinbad as a kid, had its flaws but I liked adventure movies and it looked beautiful. It was always really weird to me that it did not do well.

Quinn

I totally forgot about this!

Colin Sebastian

Anomalisa isn't a kids movie at all, but is one of my favorites.

Grace

i was obsessed with the swan princess as a kid. and also sinbad. which i think is worth a watch for eris (the villain) alone.

Tall Jeff

Such fun. Sinbad worth watching the Eris scenes on YouTube. BoxTrolls has hidden depths. Very archetypal characters and a trans allegory.

Oltanya

Laika films always have hidden depths, and they are always so poorly advertised. i have never seen an ad for a Laika film which matched the mood of the actual film.

Cat McDevitt

Definitely recommend Rugrats Go Wild even if that’s just because it introduced child me to the concept of the GIANT SQUID

Leesah

Jenny, Sing is LITERALLY The cartoon version of The Greatest Showman. I'm not even kidding. Insert Pam from the Office meme here.... They are the same movie. Scam artist tricks a bunch of nobodies into performing for him so he can make money and then they all somehow forgive him at the end once the building they were performing in burns down...

Rick Clark

Animation: C- Story: B+ Voice Actors: A Patrick Warburton as the Big Bad Wolf: A+

Rick Clark

So I just did a mini-dive into “We’re Back,” which is apparently based on the book by the same name. I just couldn’t stop thinking that during the pitch meeting for the film, the word “serum” was misheard as “cereal.” Apparently, in the book it’s an alien who gives the dinosaurs a *vitamin* that makes them smart, and then brings them to the present. So I have no evidence either way, but “brain grain“ cereal is such a weird choice, whereas “smart serum” makes sense in the context of scientists. FWIW, the thing that makes the dinosaurs lose their intelligence is called is a pill called “brain drain,” so the fact that it rhymes with “brain grain” might be relevant, except even then why didn’t they make it a vitamin also and call it “brain gain?” What I’m saying is this is weird, and I may never know why.

Clem Ellis

some of the covers in sing kind of slap ngl

Maddy

i highly recommend surf's up even though i am extremely biased bc it's a really good parody of surfing documentaries/movies and i grew up watching those. the story is pretty simple and the character development is cute but simple, and them being penguins isn't related to the story at all (but they are cute to watch). i think the voice performances are incredible and watching these penguins enjoy surfing so much is such a nice experience (also full of genuinely funny moments to me). good soundtrack too :)

Heather Q

Piggyback and say definitely watch Kubo. I’d also say Missing Link deserves love. And my god was We’re Back one of my favorite and also most traumatizing movies as a small child

Jackson

Looney toons back in action was my favorite as a kid

Jesse “Heinous Crimes” Lovelace

How could you talk about we’re back a dinosaurs story without mentioning screw eyes’ horrifying death scene where he gets literally eaten by crows

John Fenster

I have never been able to deal with stop-motion animation, especially with clay. Was terrified by the Rankin/Bass holiday specials. Gumby felt incredibly creepy. The only time this really worked was A Nightmare Before Christmas... assuming they were going for horror.

Cleo Oops

I didn't know that I needed to hear Jenny summarise the plot of "We're Back", but it turns out I did.

Luca Ash

kung fu panda is all about the animation and sound design, the story isnt that good but the visuals are captivating and the fight choreography is AMAZING!!!

Camilla

I highly recommend Kubo and the Two Strings, it’s beautifully animated, it’s intense and suspenseful, I think it’s a great movie. The voice acting is really good too but it’s set in feudal Japan and like all the cast was white so that was a little…mm. Matthew McConaughey samurai was a very weird choice lol

Dani Buttons

Please watch Arthur Christmas!

M

Sounds like The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

Jack Cooper

YOU'VE SOLVED THE MYSTERY THAT HAS HAUNTED ME FOR OVER TWO YEARS, IT IS INDEED THE FOOL OF THE WORLD AND THE FLYING SHIP

Jack Cooper

I'm delirious......... I've never wanted anything more...... watching it on youtube now, thank you so much <3 <3

Jack Cooper

I just found my original tweet asking about this and I have in fact been waiting for three and a half years for an answer... you have truly filled a void in me

Kodak

the shrek fandom doesn't seem ironic to me, but maybe it's just because I've never been ironic about it? Shrek is a great fucking movie

Laura

I watched like 30 minutes of Sing and couldn't stand it, and I have a pretty hhigh tolerence for mediocre movies. But it was boring bad, the worst kind of bad. I did know a baby that loved it though, his parents said he watched it nearly every day because it could get him to stop crying. He also loved the live action Whinnie the Pooh movie. His dad said he thought the movie was terrible, but that his son loved the animated stuffed animals enough that he'd seen it a bunch.

August

The "prince of egypt isn't a kids' movie" thing always throws me for a loop. I was raised deeply christian so was told the story of exodus from a very young age. The baby murder just kinda...slides off you, I guess? when you're that young and that familiar with a story. As an adult I obviously understand why people say it's not a kids movie, but for kids who were already marinated in those stories, it's really not bad at all.

Skylin.

It's always felt ironic to me, there's no shred of sincerity in a teenager quoting "Shrek is love, Shrek is life."

draav

- kubo and the 2 strings is definitely worth watching. - surfs up is good - cloud with a chance of meatballs is great - rango is very stylized spaghetti western and pretty good

Skylin.

I love Rango

E.K. Young

No, you were right about Rockadoodle. There's live action sequences that are almost inconsequential to the animated storylines. Rockadoodle is bad and bizarre. But a favorite.

David S

Wish you did Studio Ghibli!

tristeguey

all im saying is if any of you haven’t seen The SpongeBob Movie next time you have free 80min just give it a watch 🌊

Adam Flynn

I think Sing is okay but my cat absolutely loves it. There's a lounge singing Seth McFarlane mouse that he's emotionally invested in. He screams when the bears try to eat him.

Charlotte Fabb

The Bad Guys was real good I thought! Really recommend checking that one out if you get time. It has some predictable plot beats which are fine imo as it's a kids' movie. But I really liked almost all the characters. I'd give it a B for Bad (Good)

Bryn Bachmann

i am so passionate about turbo. i saw it after a knee surgery and because of the medicine i was convinced it was a cinematic masterpiece and i’ve made all my friends watch it since

Sarah Krishef

Haha, can confirm that Prince of Egypt is shown at Jewish Sunday schools and is a very unique and special experience. A+ for me!

Franki Lew and Kitschy Cats

Lol. James and the Giant Peach is 1) Disney, 2) also terrified me as a kid, 3) now one of my very fav movies ever. I've dev a great love and appreciation for all forms of stop-motion (claymation is fine) because of Henry Selick, so much so I watched 'Mad God' (do not look that up, it is NOT your type). It's sort of a coping mechanism to find joy in em now.

Franki Lew and Kitschy Cats

>Movies you listed that I think you'd like: Arthur Christmas, Pirates! Band of Misfits, Peanuts Movie >Movies you listed that I think are sick but I don't think you'd like: Rango, Anomalisa (not for kids, why is that here?), Kubo and the Two Strings >Movies not on this list I think you'd like: The Last Unicorn (if you haven't already seen it), Moonman, Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers, Shaun the Sheep Movie, The Big Bad Fox and other Tales >Movies not on this list that I don't know how you'd feel: Book of Life, Mary & Max (not for kids, but think Aardman with a little more depression, fav film ever), Strange Magic, 9 (also not for kids. love it even tho it's mediocre), Watership Down/Plague Dogs/Cryptozoo (also not for kids, but fascinating) The thing that sucks abt Nostalgia Critic's 'judgement' of 'good' kids movies is I think it's better understood in reverse. I happen to love Brave Little Toaster and American Tail and what makes them appealing isn't that they're "childrens movies but sad and horrifying OMG!11!!" but that they're compeling, dark stories that happen to be for kids- which I didn't find then or now horrific but thrilling....sorry abt leaving so many comments on your post Jenny...

Chris Talerico

Peanuts and Arthur Christmas are really good.

Rewbacca

I thought everyone agreed that Shrek 2 was better than Shrek 1 and now I don’t know what to think!

Pterranodon

RIP the Jelsa fans, Boss Baby has officially ranked higher than Guardians

Mags

put exactly my thoughts about Laika movies into words. I really do want to like their movies, but they haven't made any that impress me beyond "huh well they sure did work hard on that". also Boxtrolls was a unique case of being particularly shitty because they went hard with their advertising, and the advertising was extremely "lgbt family friendly", like, all the ads were about "some families have two moms or two dads or a bunch of trolls". and then they made the bad guy be a "man disguised as a woman" with extensive "that was a DUDE?? IM GONNA BARF" jokes. it was such a slap in the face. I never saw it but I remember thinking Laika didn't get as much flak as they deserved for a stunt like that.

Iggy Kidd

Rugrats Gone Wild is okay. The main plot is that the babies get lost with Nigel, who has been hit on the head and is acting like a baby, so they have to take care of him while everybody else scrambles trying to find them. The big thing for me watching it for the first time a couple years ago was a scene where Spike the dog is running up to Eliza and I suddenly realized "wait, Eliza can talk to animals. OH MY GOD SPIKE IS ABOUT TO TALK". I don't know why that was so shocking to me but I was honestly not prepared for that concept. He's voiced by Bruce Willis, which is about as bad as most celebrity voice casting, it was mainly the idea of this character getting a new voice decades later (for me at least), kind of on par with the one Land Before Time where Spike actually says a word. Main highlight is a scene with the babies and Nigel (after he comes to) that does a great job of showing how passionate he is for nature and how well he can convey that to even very young kids. Really puts into perspective how he's able to secure funding for all of these expeditions despite being kind of bumbling.

Iggy Kidd

Boxtrolls was also a very sloppy racism allegory, which is another kind of offensive. I'm eternally confused why so many kid's movies use that theming but fumble it so hard, feels way worse than if they just didn't bother.

Iggy Kidd

I think 2 felt a little less cynical? The first one was just Katzenberg's very impotent and petty rage at the company he just left, it lucked out that it aligned with the very postmodern cynicism towards Disney at the time.

Iggy Kidd

My roommate's kid declared Sing 2 to be "the best movie [he's] ever seen", but they're pretty much just jukebox musicals with a Cabaret plot. Similar to Minions, they're pretty pointless, but kids do genuinely love them.

Iggy Kidd

Okay, conspiracy theory time. I just watched We're Back recently and I'm preeeeetty sure the 'Brain Drain' is actually supposed to be illicit drugs. The read I got as an adult is that the entire thing is supposed to be a comparison between wholesome traditional media (like museum exhibits and parades and wholesome cereals) and raunchy modern media (like scary circuses? I mean that's what a boomer would probably imagine modern media as). It was produced by Spielberg, who I think very much agrees with the concept given his creative output. These kids are misguided, so they can be formed by the wholesome sweet dinosaurs, or they can sell their souls to the entertainment industry and take drugs that make them stupid and violent. The only thing that really convinces me is that there's a shot of Screw-Eyes where he has a big nasty coke nail. Just one shot, the kind you'd sneak in to get past the MPAA, but it's clearly one pinky nail that is WAY longer than the rest on his hand. So Brain Drain being a pill feels VERY intentional, if that was their angle.

Iggy Kidd

I mean do they slap because they're a good cover, or do they slap because the original song slapped? They don't really add much with the covers. It's impressive how well they can mimic Elton John and Frank Sinatra, but at that point, I'd rather listen to the originals lmao

Iggy Kidd

It's pretty solid! I wish they hadn't gone the celebrity voice route (and it clearly hurt them based on it's reception), but nobody did a particularly BAD job

Iggy Kidd

tbh there isn't much in there outside of Eris anyway

Iggy Kidd

probably not, she hates jukebox musicals

Iggy Kidd

Yeah, it feels cowardly, like they were scared that the SUPER EXPRESSIVE animation wouldn't convey enough. But that's the ENTIRE point of the movie, it's all about how much personality these animals have without talking.

Iggy Kidd

Kung Fu Panda has really good action scenes

Iggy Kidd

I think that one gets a lot of credit for the evil-shirley-temple villain

Iggy Kidd

That's Klasky Csupo for you! Their style is VERY unpleasant, but sometimes it works. Rocket Power and As Told by Ginger are also super ugly, but Aaah!! Real Monsters was fun and Duckman is really good (probably because they aren't human characters). Also, according to a quick search to make sure I spelt their name right, apparently they animated the early seasons of The Simpsons??

Iggy Kidd

I don't think it's as much "this is too violent to be a kid's movie", more "this doesn't feel like it would hold a kid's attention". It's a slow movie (at least compared to kid's movies) with subdued performances. The storytelling feels a bit more mature than a lot of kids have patience for (me included, it bored me to tears as a kid).

Marisa Leon

I would say for Dreamworks, How to train your dragon 3 is a pretty good watch. I think it rounds out the trilogy nicely and one of the songs in it makes me sob every time i hear it. Also Bad Guys really surprised me. the animation was so fun to watch and the story line was pretty good. though if the story isn't up your alley, i would still recommend it for animation alone. For Laika, I liked coraline and paranorman, hated boxtrolls, and kubo i honestly think is on the same level as coraline. It's absolutely stunning and I sobbed through the entire last scene, it was very good. I have not seen missing link though, can't comment on that. ALSO, SHREK 2 IS THE BEST SHREK AND I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL

Marisa Leon

also, also, i love the lorax because i watched it high on pain meds from my wisdom teeth being taken out, definitely A tier.

Markus D

I've seen a lot of people praise Kubo and the Two Strings for generally being good, but I thought that the plot moved way too quickly to get connected to any of the characters, plot twists that I could see a mile away, and it had the feel of a movie about Japan made by people who don't really know about the culture--like it was too much of a generic hero story with "JAPAN" painted over it.

Markus D

I liked Coraline except for the friend character they added who wasn't in the book (having read the book I just thought he didn't add anything and was kind of annoying), and I liked Paranorman, but I thought that Kubo was super disappointing. I cry at like...all movies that are kind of sad/heartwarming at the end, but I just didn't really feel anything for the characters in that. It felt like they were RUNNING through the plot.

Mags

completely agree on all counts. I could never figure out exactly why I never connected with Kubo as a movie, and this is why. Plus, the conclusion at the end to just lie to this old man that killed a great deal of Kubo's family ended up seeming almost comically sinister and not the sweet metaphor about storytelling the creators clearly wanted to convey. the story wasn't cohesive enough to be about stories - so the ending becomes about telling lies.

Mags

I would guess, not unlike Zootopia, it started out with a good and strong message, and as production went on, producers and often ppl in corporate positions want to make stories more "generalized" for money and dont want to rock the boat, so a good story and message about racism gets turned into a generic "everyone was wrong" story

Markus D

I get that they might have wanted a "nicer" ending where the villain didn't die and the hero didn't have to kill for Kubo, but it ultimately just felt unsatisfying and the reconciliation was too far in the other direction because like you said, Kubo's grandfather (? It's been a long time, I don't remember how they're related exactly but I think it was maternal grandfather) killed a bunch of his family so the peaceful ending feels weird and undeserved. Not saying Kubo had to kill him, but...do something that makes sense.

Marisa Leon

its been a while since I've seen kubo, so I may feel that way now too. but I'm just going off the vibes I remember, and a lot of the visuals are stamped on my brain because of how beautiful they were.

Nos4ay2

We're Back was my favourite movie as a kid. Also Rockadoodle fucked me up with nightmares cause the Grand Owl turns the main kid into a kitten and tries to eat him. Also there's Rooster Elvis.

Isaac Smith

I watched Shrek 2 recently not expecting much, and I was super surprised. It had a lot of really iconic stuff I just kind of associated with the first movie (Puss in Boots, Prince Charming, fairy god mother singing "I need a hero" like a faux drag show). I really think the second movie has a lot more to offer and is just way more entertaining.

big bird

the guy who wrote gravity falls (alex hirsch) was both a voice actor and a creative consultant on the mitchells vs the machines! I actually haven't seen the mitchells vs the machines, and I don't know how I know this, but it just tickled me that you drew such a direct line to gravity falls

Renegade

I had some sort of full-body perk up when you said you marathonned all the Swan Princess movies. God that series was pretty unhinged from jump and just kept getting more and more with every sequel 😂 I hope you talk about it someday!! the way they seem to change everything about the world from movie to movie was wild to me, it was a beloved one as a child but similar to your jimmy neutron reaction it became one of the first movies i thought about in a critical way

Finnegan Rasmussen

One of my professors in art school previously worked for Laika, including on Missing Link. He told us students to watch it with the caveat of “the story is not all there, but the visuals are amazing”. He actually worked on a scene with a pot of goop being stirred, and he told us it’s the hardest task he’s been given! (Liquids in stop motion are really hard, a lot of it is CG). So… Jenny’s sensory feelings really cracks me up. I would recommend Missing Link to anyone who just loves the artistry and animation. Learning how to do miniature set design under that prof was one of my favorite and most informative classes!

Sausage Azs

I know I am very late to this ramble....... But Shrek 2 is way more iconic than Shrek. Don't even get me started on Shrek 2 the videogame. Masterpiece

Olivia

Sin bad is soooo good! That and treasure planet have similar feelings to me

Alexandria Ritz

I've never seen anyone who shared my claymation opinions, it makes me sick to my stomach. ((I didn't like chicken run, to this day I can't watch it cause I think it's so disturbing))

Sierra Thomander

Shrek really is perfectly structured. Also great soundtrack.

Tina Grapegrape

I love Boxtrolls but I do think it was made for only me and my brother because I've never met anyone else who likes it let alone has watched it.

Miranda Kanowsky

GIRL HOW HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE ITS A CLASSIC

Simon Rodriguez

Song of the Sea is literally my favorite movie.

Alexis Burman

I adore the box trolls, I’ve watched it so many times

Kathryn Rose Hunter

Anomalisa is fantastic! Not a kids movie at all, but brilliantly existential, very Charlie Kaufman.

O

I recognize that I'm commenting on this months after and that you're definitely not still checking the notes on this, but you should definitely check out the Irish company Cartoon Saloon because they're films are absolute works of art that I think you'd enjoy. Song of the Sea is genuinely so beautiful and it makes me cry every time.

Robin

As a non-furry, I feel I can say Cats Don't Dance is really good. Great songs, and I think real rotoscoped dancing?