Movie Recommendations

Favorite | Good
In alphabetical order:

image Appleseed | video
image Bee Movie
image Dinosaur (2000)
image Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children | video
image Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | video
image Finding Nemo | video
image Horton Hears a Who! | video
image Ice Age
image The Incredibles | video
image Kung Fu Panda | video
  • info | DreamWorks | 2008 | Amazon
  • Review: great design | animation | concept | writing
    [Note] Beautiful animation that was very touching and funny
image Open Season | video
image Over the Hedge | video
image Ratatouille
image Shark Tale
image Shrek | video
image Shrek 2 | video
image Shrek the Third | video
image Surf's Up
image TMNT | video
image Toy Story
image Toy Story 2
image Toy Story 3
  • info | Pixar | 2010 | Amazon
  • Review: great design | animation | concept, good writing
    [Note] Pixar creates another instant classic!
image Up (2009)
  • info | Pixar | 2009 | Amazon
  • Review: great design | animation | concept, good writing
    [Note] Creative story with awesome characters and animation
image WALL-E
Favorite | Good
In alphabetical order:

image 9 (2009)
image A.Li.Ce
image Aero-Troopers: The Nemeclous Crusade
image The Ant Bully
image Antz
image Appleseed Ex Machina
image Ark (2004)
image Arthur and The Invisibles
image Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard
  • a.k.a.: Arthur et la vengeance de Maltazard
  • info | BUF | 2009 | France | Amazon
  • Review: good design | animation, average concept | writing
    [Note] Decent sequel with creative (although a bit disjointed) story
image Astro Boy | video
  • info | Imagi | 2009 | Amazon
  • Review: good design | animation, average concept | writing
    [Note] While the plot was pretty simple and mostly for children, the animation was nice, the main character was compelling, and the robot fighting action was fun
image Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest
  • info | Mac Guff | 2006 | France
  • Review: good design | animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Very interesting visuals and stylized animation (except for sword fighting), although I did not find the fairy tale story very compelling
image Barbie as Rapunzel
image Barbie in The Nutcracker
image Barbie of Swan Lake
image Barnyard: The Original Party Animals
image Battle for Terra
  • a.k.a.: Terra
  • info | 2007 | Amazon
image Beowulf (2007)
image Bionicle: Mask of Light - The Movie
image Bionicle: The Legend Reborn
  • info | Threshold | 2009 | Amazon
  • Review: good design | animation, average concept | writing
    [Note] While it is a bit oriented to kids and the animation has a few weak points, it has some cool animation, nice visuals, good action, and an interesting mythology
image Bolt
image Book of Dragons
  • info | DreamWorks | 2011 | Amazon
  • Review: great design | animation, average concept | writing
    [Note] Written for kids,mostly using flashbacks, and mostly 2D
image A Bug's Life
image Cars
image Cars 2
  • info | Pixar | 2011 | Amazon
  • Review: great design | animation, average concept | writing
    [Note] Awesome animation as usual, but not very impressive writing
image Casper's Scare School
image Chicken Little (2005)
image Dragon Hunters: The Movie
image Dragons: Fire & Ice
image Dragons: Metal Ages - The Movie
image Everyone's Hero
image The Flight Before Christmas
image Flushed Away
image G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Spy Troops - The Movie
image G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: VALOR vs. VENOM
image Galerians: Rion
image Garfield Gets Real
image Gift of the Night Fury
  • info | DreamWorks | 2011 | Amazon
  • Review: great design | animation, average concept | writing
    [Note] Mostly written for kids, but still entertaining
image Happily N'Ever After
image The Happy Elf
image Happy Feet
image How to Train Your Dragon
  • info | DreamWorks | 2010 | Amazon
  • Review: great design | animation, good concept | writing
    [Note] While the comedic writing was a bit lacking and the movie was slow to start, this is a very entertaining Dreamworks movie with great animation
image Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
image Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
image Kaena: The Prophecy
image Kung Fu Panda 2
  • info | DreamWorks | 2011
  • Review: great design | animation, good concept | writing
    [Note] Not as funny or quite as touching as the first, but still a very good movie with more spectacular panoramic environments and cooler high-paced action (although sometimes too fast to follow) than the first
image Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
  • info | 2010 | Amazon
  • Review: great design | animation, good concept, weak writing
    [Note] Spectacular design/animation in its own fantasy world. Unfortunately, I did not find the story and writing very compelling, exciting, or even funny
image Madagascar
image Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
image Meet the Robinsons
image Merry Madagascar
image Mickey's Twice Upon A Christmas
image Monster House
image Monsters vs. Aliens
image Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space
image Monsters, Inc.
image Open Season 2
image P3K: Pinocchio 3000
image The Polar Express
image Prep & Landing
image Puss in Boots
  • info | DreamWorks | 2011
  • Review: great design | animation, good concept | writing
    [Note] A great character with some great scenes (mostly in the first third of the movie)
image Resident Evil: Degeneration
  • a.k.a.: Biohazard: Degeneration
  • info | Digital Frontier | 2008 | Japan | Amazon
  • Review: good design | animation, average concept | writing
    [Note] Evaluating it on its own (independent of the videogame), the story/action/characters are weak. And even though the human character animation is often clunky (especially for the secondary characters) and some human CG faces are plastic-like, there is enough awesome animation and stunning visuals to make this worth it. The CG for inanimate objects (e.g., airplane, helicopter, buildings, etc.) is especially very realistic
image Rio (2011)
  • info | Blue Sky | 2011 | Amazon
  • Review: great design | animation, good concept | writing
    [Note] Great animation and visuals with endearing characters
image Robots
image Scourge of Worlds: A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure
image Shrek Forever After
  • info | DreamWorks | 2010 | Amazon
  • Review: great design | animation, good concept, average writing
    [Note] While it was visually nice and it had a warm story, it is a shame to end this cool series with such sub-par comedic writing (except for a few select scenes)
image Shrek the Halls
image Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists
image Space Chimps
image Star Wars: The Clone Wars
image The Tale of Despereaux
  • info | Framestore | 2008 | Amazon
  • Review: good design | animation, average concept | writing
    [Note] While some of the secondary character design/animation was weak and the story/adventure/action was lacking key elements for real greatness, this was a good movie with nice animation and an endearing lead character
image Tangled (2010)
  • a.k.a.: Rapunzel Unbraided
  • info | Disney | 2010 | Amazon
  • Review: great design | animation, good concept | writing
    [Note] Great animation with decent characters and story, but not quite up to par with Disney classics
image Tinker Bell
image Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
  • info | Disney | 2010 | Amazon
  • Review: good design | animation | concept | writing
    [Note] Nice work for kids and adults
image Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
image Valiant (2005)
image Vexille
image The Wild
image Yes, Virginia