Animation domination

      Who says quality films can not be animated? Not me. In fact, animated films today are better than what most live action films put on the table. Toy Story 3 was incredible. Transformers Dark of the moon, I'm not so sure.
       Walt Disney is the man personally responsible for making animated feature films profitable. 1937 marked the year Snow White and the Seven Dwarves came out.
        Based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale and consisting of nine musical numbers, the film was an instant smash. Not bad for a guy who had made a fortune making seven minute animated shorts featuring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.
        For fifty seven years the tired formula of musical fairy tales applied to almost all animated features. The Pixar minds said "enough of this. We're making a buddy picture". That picture was Toy Story, the first EVER CGI feature film released. I personally think the Toy Story series is the best animated film series ever.
        Dreamworks followed Pixar's new, improved formula of Original Characters and NO breaking into a four minute musical number with funny flicks Antz, Shrek, the Shrek Sequels, and Kung Fu Panda. All funny films but none can compare to Pixar films, not even the tediously boring WALL-E.
         The Incredibles had great action and killer dialogue. A Bug's Life was clever and had a great cast. Monster's Inc. still makes me laugh. Ratatouille is overrated. A 96? Really Metacritic? Toy Story and Toy Story 3 got 92's and Ratatouille gets a 96?! There's something really wrong with this picture.
          The Simpsons movie once and for all proved that those five yellow skinned freaks could dominate the movie screen in addition to t shirts, television screens, and every merchandising product imaginable. The film had a great plot. It was like a big, explosive, 88 minute long episode with more emotion than normal. 100/100 for my tastes. I'm a fanatic as it is.
          Animation is truly a fantastic medium. Characters can achieve the physically impossible, the voices can be zany and nonsensical without having to worry about the silliness, and Anthropomorphia is as accepted as the common cold. Those are the main reasons why I love animation so much and sometimes wish I was a cartoon. If a mistake is made, the scene can be deleted or I can be erased and redrawn. What a life!