Tag: Animated
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Pixar Showcases Their Actual First Gay Character in “OUT”
Disney/Pixar may see a bit of a turning point with Pixar’s new Disney+ Sparkshorts short film: OUT.
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Mortal Kombat: Scorpion’s Revenge Gives Fans a Gory Good Time
Ever since the mid-’90s, the Mortal Kombat game franchise has seen multiple attempts to make it on the big screen, or at least adapted into other media.
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‘Peter Rabbit 2’: The Runaway Hare
The second film takes us on Peter’s journey to be understood.
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‘Encanto’: Colorful Characters, Intergenerational Trauma, and Fun Music
Disney’s newest Latine animated musical, ‘Encanto’, features a super colorful cast, fun music, and a surprising conflict about intergenerational trauma.
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‘The Lego Movie’ Brilliantly Subverts Movie Tropes
The Lego Movie achieves great humor and story with a combination of childish comedy, adult references, irony, and by subverting popular movie tropes.
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“The Willoughbys” Finds Light in the Darkness
Bad Parents (and guardians) in children’s stories are nothing new. In stories like Matilda, Harry Potter, and Hansel and Gretel, protagonists are forced into the so-called “care” of adults whose selfishness and neglect create a pattern of abuse meant to give the protagonists the fortitude and courage to break off on their own. All of…
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Disney’s Soul: An Exploration of Identity
Disney Pixar strikes again with another tear-jerking, introspective, animation masterpiece. With similarities to the previous Pixar film Inside Out, Soul takes intangible concepts like self and personality and makes them completely palpable and simple to digest. When Joe Gardner, voiced by Jaime Foxx, dies feeling unfulfilled, he gets sent on a journey with a new soul who…