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I've run out of big animated studios to power through! I've seen all the Disneys, I've seen all the Dreamworks, I've seen more animated movies than anybody ever needs to! I was cataloguing all of my movies and I realized... hey. I've seen most animated films. Maybe I should just sunk cost fallacy and try to see all of them.

So now, every Saturday Night some friends and I get together and watch a double feature, two movies a week! I thought it'd be fun to review them for you guys! No cohesive theme for these, just "I haven't seen this before."

Here are the timestamps and the films! You can tell which ones I liked because the reviews are short. :) (Looks at Rango) Haha! Uh oh!

3:08 - The Bad Guys

7:35 - Rango

34:39 - Cool World

57:48 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

1:01:47 - Lightyear

1:11:38 - Vivo

1:30:00 - Marcel the Shell with Shoes on

1:41:16 - Secret of Kells

1:47:06 - Song of the Sea

1:52:18 - Wolfwalkers


WANT MORE? LISTEN TO BATCH 2 HERE 


Let me know if you have any recommendations for me! Especially if you can present them as a themed double-feature. You can check if I've already seen a movie on my Letterboxd account, which doubles as my checklist.

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Anonymous

Now, as a Rango lover, someone who considers Rango to be his second favorite western, I get it. It's my opinion that everyone gets to have one semi-popular western that they hate. For me, It's the Assassination of Jesse James. I LOATHE that movie. No movie before or since has made be so visibly angry. And yet... a ton of critics and viewers loved it. It even got referenced in a major mission in Red Dead Redemption 2. And this is mind boggling, because to me that movie is so goddamn awful, and just fails as a film.

Anonymous

I know I'm late to this party, but I gotta say "So Cool World opens up, and it's Brad Pitt coming home from World War 2" made me audibly go "WHAT" out loud the first time I heard it. What the Hell am I getting myself into. Edit: the moment I heard "Ralph Bakshi" I went "OH FUCK"

Kruh-Daze

Yeah Rattlesnake Jake was one of the only things I remember liking about Rango. And Gabby was the reason I dropped Vivo after the first 20 minutes.

Anonymous

I know you’ve already stated on Twitter that Mitchells vs. the Machines is a 10/10, but I’d still love to hear you talk about it.

Daniel

Fuck i forgot the most important Kon movie. You have to watch Millenium Actress, its def one of my favorite movies, and while I've so far only seen it and Perfect Blue, it is my preferred movie. If you don't end up liking it, I'll spit. Somewhere.

Anonymous

There’s always the classic Bluth movies, Secret of Nimh, American Tale, All dogs go to heaven (the most weirdly racist of the bunch), and Land before time (the weakest of the 4 imo)

Anonymous

the last unicorn gets weird and I’d be interested to hear your thoughts. Water ship down/plague dogs is an obvious double feature but I don’t think they’re your cup of tea. Wendlall and Wild was really really good and weird and could be paired well with Coraline

Anonymous

I am HERE for Irish Jello ^>^

jelloapocalypse

I've seen about 70% of his body of work and I'm not really a huge fan of any of his movies, to be honest. Secret of NIMH is probably his best. Haven't seen either ADgtH movie since I was like six though so I do need to rewatch those

Anonymous

Definitely movies of the Infinity train/Rango “edgy 12-14 year olds will love this before they discover real media” genre and it’s extremely funny that Disney was and clearly still is mad that Don Bluth beat them to the “cash cow name brand children’s dinosaur IP” so it’s funny in like, a historical way. I think I find AT’s premise interesting more than anything, kids media about pre-WW1 American history and “what f animals had a society parallel to our own” are both so prevalent it feels extremely weird that American Tale and like…arguably the titanic movies are the only two to merge the concepts. Like it feels like a sub genre we should have had more of by now but don’t. You could also do a double feature with ADGTH and Balto, which unintentionally has the funniest over the top morbid scene I’ve ever seen in a kids movie where the dog overhears the news of a bunch of kids getting sick and then walks by the carpenter and sees the rows of child sized coffins he’s been building

Jacob

I'm not nearly as versed in 'hidden gems' as I like to think I am. But if you haven't seen it already, check out 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.' It's a very tongue in cheek British show about a hack writer who makes a hack show.

Daniel

I suspect you'll be somewhere like 7-8 on it, but it's a 9-10 for me. Just a lovely time. Ending makes me cry everytime.

Daniel

"Infinity train 'edgy 12-14 year olds will love this before they discover real media." Why am I catching strays in the Patreon comments lol.

Anonymous

I am on my knees begging you to watch "Mary & Max". It desperately needs more coverage.

Anonymous

The Jenny Nicol's watch along is 1000% illegal that is inarguably not fair use, that being said no one is checking and the worst they'll do if you're caught is tell you to take it down so like whatever?

Anonymous

I recently watched Wendell & Wild, which was made by Henry Selick with Key and Peele. Absolutely stunning stop-motion animation, maybe Selick's best work yet. Story juggles a lot of ideas but it's about parent-child relationships. I don't think I'd say it's a must watch but I liked it a lot, and would be interested to hear your thoughts on it.

Anonymous

The notes you mentioned for every movie sound really fun to read, are they on patreon? Also, if you doubled up with "Abominable" and "Smallfoot" you could get two yeti-themed movies out of the way.

Anonymous

Loved the review, Jello! I have two recommendations for animated movies that have “movie making/entertainment industry” backdrop. The first is Perfect Blue, a psychological horror directed by Satoshi Kon, about a idol who quits her career to start acting but slowly starts having her identity distorted by fan backlash. If ur comfortable with horror, I highly recommend it, as it’s one of the only animated horror movies i can think of. The second is Pompo the Cinephile, this movie takes place in Hollywood about a anxious production assistant given his first chance at directing by his eccentric mentor, Pompo, a young lady with a love for filmmaking who only makes shlocky B-movies.

Candaru Driemor

The Orange is my favorite poem 🥺 I guess I have a movie to watch

Anonymous

I could listen to you talk about anything. Your opinionated rant style is very entertaining

Anonymous

Not a movie, but I would love to hear you rip miraculous ladybug to shreds. I hate that I love that show. Its like junk food

Anonymous

You should talk about Kubo and the Two Strings and the other Laika movies in the next one of these

Anonymous

At the end of this, you should do your top ten best animated movies or every 10/10 movie in a letterboxd list

Anonymous

I'm like halfway through Lightyear at time of writing, but I find it to be slow and weird. Also Chris Evans sounds almost exactly like Woody from the first Toy Story at certain points and it's all I can think about