Cartoon Corner- How to Train Your Dragon 2

Originally posted at the DL November 2015

God, is this really our first Dreamworks film?

Cartoon Corner- Aladdin

Originally posted at the DL October 2015

Oh I come from a... hold up.

Cartoon Corner- My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games

Originally posted at the DL October 2015

What's this... oh yeah.

MUSICAL OF NON-DISNEY ORIGINS.

Cartoon Corner- Mulan

Originally posted at the DL October 2015

Pre-viewing looking up of titles suggests there's fewer songs in this than average for Disney of the era, so we may have to intersperse singing with other analysis.  Let's find out!

Cartoon Corner- The Nightmare Before Christmas

Originally posted at the DL October 2015

What's this?

Cartoon Corner- Over the Garden Wall

Originally posted at the DL September 2015

So it's not often you see cartoons that feel designed to win awards, but I think this one is.  Turns out I'm pretty okay with that.

Cartoon Corner- Superman: Doomsday

Originally posted at the DL September 2015

Probably the last one of these for a while (mostly since there's only one more in the set of "DC Animated films packed in with appropriate comic" and Justice League WAR doesn't look that good, and I really think covering All-Star Superman would be hella redundant).  Which is good because god I feel like there's hardly ever anything to say with them.

Cartoon Corner- Wonder Woman

Originally posted at the DL September 2015

Cartoon Corner- My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Season 2)

Originally posted at the DL September 2015

So this might be my favorite season?  Would not have called that.  Main contributing factors:

Cartoon Corner- Despicable Me 2

Unlike a lot of sequels I can think of, this really feels like a sequel: it’s entirely about the fallout from events in the previous movie and how this impacts the lives of the characters.

Cartoon Corner- Star Wars Rebels (Season 1)

Modified from posts made at the DL September/October 2015

So it is easy to forget that I know like all of the things about Star Wars.  Okay not so much now because I haven't been keeping up with the new wave of novels but anyway I go into this knowing nothing about Clone Wars (which Rebels is fundamentally a sequel/successor series to).  Except nothing from Clone Wars is really necessary for me because like hell I don't recognize a Jedi Holocron or obvious Force-sensitive luck when I see it.  And there's certainly a large amount of pandering for the sort of audience that would actually get stuff like that, and a lot of the set pieces are very note for note with previous Star Wars media.

Cartoon Corner- Beauty and the Beast

Originally posted at the DL September 2015

It's that time again.

Cartoon Corner- Redline

Originally posted at the DL September 2015

So I actually made a short comment about this the first time I saw it.

"This movie is such a pet project.  These dudes gave no fucks if the movie was salable.  They made what they wanted to.  I just wish I had more levels in animation geek, there is so much going on in this movie and I would love to be able to analyze more of what's going on with it.

No mistake though, this is a thoroughly entertaining movie on its own merits.  Just, everything under the hood has me intrigued but I just don't have the background to dig in."

Cartoon Corner- Aria: The Animation

Originally posted at the DL September 2015.

ara ara~

Cartoon Corner: The Great Mouse Detective

This is a strange movie sometimes.  Mostly one or two scenes feel like the rest of the movie had no idea they were there.

Cartoon Corner- Dungeons & Dragons

Originally posted at the DL September 2015

Welcome to the Time Warp.

Cartoon Corner- Moana

I realized once I was in the theater for Moana a flaw to the whole music format- I really need to write as I watch the movie to do this.  Sooooo yeah, I’ve been waiting for the blu-ray to work on it.  Hopefully I can remember my original impressions for various bits in addition to all the song material.

Cartoon Corner- My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Season 1)

Originally posted at the DL August 2015

I used to wonder what friendship could be.

Cartoon Corner- The Princess and the Frog

Originally posted at the DL August 2015

Here we are, the launch of the current era of Disney.  Because the last time around was a lot of fun for me, we're going to make this a regular element of Disney Musicals (well and if anything else is a proper musical they'll get that treatment too but if they exist I don't know them)

Cartoon Corner- Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

Originally posted at the DL August 2015

This one is a bit of a review in two parts.

Cartoon Corner- Big Hero 6

Originally posted at the DL August 2015

So apparently the internet has decided there's this huge rivalry between this movie and Frozen.  Which uh sure you do that dudes.

Cartoon Corner- Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

Originally posted at the DL August 2015

There are two very distinct parts to this film.  We'll be talking about them separately.

Cartoon Corner- Despicable Me

Consciously or unconsciously, Illumination drew a lot of inspiration from Shrek here.  Take an obvious villain, put a known comedian behind them, make the whole thing a surface-level subversion of the expectations for children’s movies while deep down reaffirming most of the same basic tropes.  They both even end on essentially a fourth wall shattering cast-wide dance party.  While Shrek is a different animal at heart (for starters it’s a full on parody), those similarities definitely color how I’m looking at the movie as a whole.

Cartoon Corner- Batman the Animated Series (Volume 2)

Originally posted at the DL August 2015

The main standout feature of this set is it actually has Robin in a majority of episodes.  We'll come back to that.

Cartoon Corner- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

This is composed of three shorts made over the course of several years, which is easy to tell if you’re on the lookout for it (the animation quality and character models visibly change between the segments), but I think the in-between material adds a lot to the experience, so we’ll cover this as one movie.

Cartoon Corner- Adventure Time (Season 5)

Originally posted at the DL August 2015

So I meant to sit down and watch the intervening seasons again before this one came out; I knew I was going to watch it right away since due to my lackluster internets I can only be as up to date on the show as the DVD releases.  Oops.  This also means though that I'm going to be talking about this season as though all those other ones are something you're familiar with.  But more than that, a lot of my thoughts on the season have little to do with the highlight episodes and a lot to do with the progression of the show to this point, so I'm going to knock those out first before moving on.