Watership Down (1978)
[7] Martin Rosen brings to life Richard Adams' novel about a group of rabbits who leave their burrows and face a series of deadly hardships in search of a new home. Watership Down is one of the more serious animated…
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
[8] Bob Hoskins stars as a 1940s Hollywood detective who is reluctantly pulled into a murder investigation in which the prime suspect is a cartoon rabbit. Can he overcome his hatred of 'toons' and prove Roger Rabbit's innocence? Or will…
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
[7] New York teenager Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) is bitten by a radioactive spider and begins developing powers just like Spider-Man. He meets the real Spider-Man (Chris Pine) during an encounter with a villain named Kingpin (Liev Schreiber), who is…
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
[6] Writer/director Dean DeBlois wraps up the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy with a mostly satisfying finale. In this third film, young Viking Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) and his comrades discover a second, rare Night Fury dragon -- and it's…
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
[6] From a technical and artistic point of view, this may be the finest animated film ever made. But it's also dull. I dislike how the three floating fat ladies (Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather) steal the show, while the prince…
Heavy Metal (1981)
[7] Producer Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters) wrangled together animation companies from around the world to assemble Heavy Metal, a string of six animated shorts based on the popular adult fantasy magazine. The stories are tied together by a loose framing device…
Treasure Planet (2002)
[6] Disney Animation puts a science-fiction twist on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story. The mix of 2D and 3D animation is interesting, especially when you stop to marvel at an animator's mastery of perspective when 2D characters are seen running…
The Black Cauldron (1985)
[5] There was definitely potential. A dark Disney movie based on Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain, about a farm boy's brave attempt to stop a demonic king from conquering the land with his army of skeletal warriors? Sign me up!…
All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
[6] Don Bluth's films (The Land Before Time, The Secret of NIMH) tend to be too mature for children and too immature for adults. Consider All Dogs Go to Heaven, where one moment you have cutsey critters singing a cringe-worthy…
Robin Hood (1973)
[6] This Disney flick may be a minor effort in comparison to the company's more perrenial classics, but there's a dated, folksy charm about this all-animal take on the classic Robin Hood legend. The simple story is populated with fairly…