I've watched the first three episodes so far. Episode 1 was a little heavy handed with exposition. The cartoon trusted kids to figure out what was going on more that this episode did! Editing was a little weird too. By the end it had got its footing and hooked me in. Episode 2 was great. Exactly wha...

Quote from one of the reviews: "I almost admire the sheer lack of effort on display in the acting, storytelling, and set pieces. To say that Johnson in particular phoned this performance in would be an insult to Alexander Graham Bell."

The Noggin television channel started up right around the time my first child was born. It was a staple in our house for years. It transitioned to an online only service a few years ago. Sad to hear it's going away completely.

This all could be just Disney playing nice with theatres after a few years of upsetting them.

To be fair, three of them saw a version of it: "Zaslav never saw the movie at all. De Luca and Abdy saw a 'director’s cut,' and Damaschke saw the first audience preview."

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Nope. They just announced it's going wide this May ! What's amazing about this film is that they were going to have Cartoon Saloon do the animation but when they pulled out because of Covid, the filmmakers created a single-use "pop-up" animation studio from scratch! More about that here: https://www...

I was off the site for the last few months of 2023 so it got behind. Happy to be back and love doing the calendar! Made an update to the web version too, with studio logos on the films with no posters yet, rather than the AV logos that used to be placeholders.

Also The Tiger's Apprentice, which was on our calendar for a long time just released the same week on Netflix from Paramount.

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I really liked Ferdinand too. Migration was not on the same level. Again, not bad, just a basic kids story done well.

It's a very good kids movie. I'll probably never watch it again. But there have so much worse things the past few years that it's nice to see something not terrible!

I bit on the DMI pin for 500.

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Full trailer for this looks amazing!

Critics, the Academy, Hollywood guilds, and even the Animated Views staff are rendering their judgment on the top movies of the year. But now it's your turn! What was the best animated film of 2023? Cast your vote here: http://animatedviews.com/avi/2023-readers-choice/ We'll tally up all the numbers...