This is one I liked more and more as it went along… It kept the entire story at a high-level… I rarely had the notion that I was watching a “kids movie”. The thing even starts off with a character being eaten. Other characters die along the way too; no kid gloves with this one! That’s part of what keeps it so engaging – you truly don’t know what’s going to happen next – anyone is fair game.

I also appreciated the way Rango didn’t have to start off as some wimp who finds his strength (which is a total cliche). Instead, he’s such a prodigious liar, the lie starts to become the truth. What a refreshing twist.

From acid-trip factory that brought you the Triplets of Bellville, comes this far more tame and mainstream tale of… of… um, I’m not really sure. Magic? The animation had a refreshing hand-drawn look. It wasn’t all polished like today’s computer-generated perfect desserts. Instead, it was rough… like life. It had a dream quality to it. You’re never quite sure where it’s going, but it does make some kind of strange logical story… even if it’s one you wouldn’t expect as it skips from scene to scene. And I liked the rabbit too.

A bunch of light-hearted fun. I really couldn’t find anything to complain about in this one. Animation was good, story was good… just, well, plain old fun.

Honestly, this just made me feel good all over.

Let’s set the record straight, Bambi is a BOY!  Why the hell do I always see bimbos named Bambi?  It’s a guy’s name dammit!  I’ve had more than one argument with people who insist that Bambi was a girl, then realize… hey, you’re right, he was a buck.  What the hell is going on out there??? Wake up!!!

Much of this movie was cute, and fun, and beautiful… But I thought the main story (about the bird, etc), was “forced”, like the needed “something” to keep the story moving, and you could see the writers shrugging their shoulders, “rare rainbow colored bird? Um, I guess that’ll do…” I guess I just don’t like it when “they” invent animal species for some reason. Maybe it goes back to an old episode of woody woodpecker about the “pipsquak bird” wherein a birdwatcher is mocked, etc… I hated that episode during my childhood, and have disliked that plot device ever since. I’m not entirely sure why, but there you have it. Anyway, this movie has enough positives going for it to more than compensate.
(oh, one other thing… Do they even have squirrels in the amazon? I’d guess not… So, why would the dogs even know of squirrels, much less call one out? Stuff like that makes me feel like the writers are talking down to me. Sure, it would be a funny little “bit” for a kid, but I expect more from pixar wrt/ jokes like that one.)

If you could really dig like that, the world would be full of possibilities. I loved the attention to detail, and the way the characters experienced time. Just a really cool, unconventional animated experience.

Went to go see this in 3d, but they’d moved it to the 2d theater because some teeny-bopper concert flick had taken over the 3d theater. Dangit. Anyway, even in 2d, it was an entertaining artistic feast. There was lots to like from start to finish, for young to old.

An epic story which takes on such issues as slavery, class struggle, communism, genocide, and the importance of free will.  The hero (who is so insignificant that his name is nothing more than the letter “z”) rises from the masses of oppressed workers and seduces the entrenched monarchy with a sample of ‘insectopia’.  He is hunted down by a fascist dictator who tries to create a pure race by exterminating the weakest members of the society.  Throughout the movie, there are ruthless battles, passionate romances, senseless deaths, and wretched souls who eat crap.  In the end, the entire population rises from ‘underground’ and becomes enlightened.

What an amazing thing this is. A whole big group of people devoted months or years of their lives to telling a story about an unlikely friendship between a strange young girl in Australia, and a middle-aged misfit loner in New York… with grotesque animated clay figurines. Who’d have thunk it’d work so well? I’m so glad there are people out there taking chances.

A really cool movie.  I have to wonder what the animators were thinking when they came up with the “pink elephants” scene – my favorite.  And those crows… something that would never fly in a modern movie… but there it is.

See Antz.

Yer typical Disney product – all the elements are there… well, except the platonic love interest. Unless of course we are to assume there was “something going on” between the two bears… or the two moose… wait a second, maybe there was more than meets the eye on this one. Well, it’s about time Disney came out of the closet!

This was probably just as good as the first, but it suffered just a little by being a sequel – the characters weren’t as new and fresh, I knew what to expect going in. Although, I guess every sequel has that… that’s why they’re sequels in the first place. Ok, so it was incredible too.