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Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection
…surreal style of the late 1920s and early 30s animation (by Eric Goldberg among others), the unique twist here is that the action onscreen leads the characters to literally break… |
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Rick & Morty
…animation is lively and smooth, the characters are likable, and the series frequently finds its own kind of surreal poignancy amidst all the gags about butts. Smart, hysterical, and insane… |
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Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie
…Disney. Those movies were used by Disney to experiment with techniques and stories. I like how open- minded and surreal they were, compared with the movies we make now. I… |
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An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara
…born in 1983, so I grew up with the Disney Renaissance films, and The Little Mermaid was my favorite. So, having Ariel call my cell phone was a really surreal… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…in a strangely surreal stripped down version in which Promising Young Woman bafflingly won something when it offered nothing we hadn’t seen before in other female revenge thrillers, of which… |
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It’s all Family Business in the new Boss Baby 2 trailer
…surreal Oscar-nominated comedy will now arrive in the summer on both the big screen and on Universal’s Peacock Streaming platform (which may or may not be a violation of the… |
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Nickelodeon greenlights The Patrick Star Show
…Star Show is a family sitcom starring Patrick and the rest of his family as they are constantly disrupted by Patrick’s wild whims and surreal imagination. The series will debut… |
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There’s a new boss in town in The Boss Baby: Family Business trailer
…brand of surreal comedy as the original. The sequel to the Oscar-nominated DreamWorks Animation hit is set to arrive in theaters (assuming they’re open by then!) next March. The Templeton… |
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Trolls World Tour
…was an unprecedented move, one which wasn’t met without controversy, but it is what it is, which makes Trolls World Tour something of a surreal experience as it stands. For… |
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The Rise of Skywalker rises to $175 million
…again, Cats was a pretty weird Broadway play to begin with, so it makes sense that the movie adaption would also be pretty surreal. Cats cost a reported $100 million… |
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Avengers: Endgame
…appear most audiences don’t mind–but for now it feels kind of surreal for Marvel to “wrap up” its central story in a manner that requires a pick-me-up when it’s all… |
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Watch the new Imagine Dragons music video for Ralph Breaks the Internet
A brand new music video from Imagine Dragons for Ralph Breaks the Internet is now online, and you can check it out in all of its surreal glory in the… |
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The first trailer for Isle of Dogs is here
The first trailer for Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs is now online for your viewing pleasure. It can be seen below, along with an official plot summary for the surreal… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Fifth Season
…in English for the hearing impaired. Final Cut: The Cartoon Network smash keeps chugging along with another gleefully surreal season of quirky characters, strange romance, weird ideas, a bit of… |
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The Emoji Movie
…the form of literal streams, exploding with color in a dreamlike waterfall. A photo album is a frozen landscape which keeps pigeons and fountains in place in a surreal manner…. |
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2016: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…not: full of heart but not necessarily heartwarming, fun but not necessarily funny, surreal but more real than most animated films. Kubo gets a lot of credit for originality, which… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Sixth Season
…offers a surreal demonstration of how nature works, in a story behaving like a fever dream of Finn and Jake. The episode is strange, yes, but it was also nominated… |
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Kubo and the Two Strings
…and unconventional: full of heart but not necessarily heartwarming, fun but not necessarily funny, surreal but more real than most animated films. Kubo and the Two Strings is magical storytelling…. |
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Alice Through The Looking Glass
…most “Burton” Burton films of the last decade, surreal, dreamlike, and full of delightfully twisted visuals and characters (our own Ben Simon wrote an extremely favorable review at the time)…. |
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The Good Dinosaur
…the childlike-evolved dinos placed within hyper-real backgrounds that works much better than it the idea would seem to suggest, and a brief but surreal moment when Arlo and Spot eat… |
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World of Tomorrow
When The Simpsons episode Clown in the Dumps aired a year-and-a-half ago, it featured arguably the most bizarre and surreal couch gag to date. Showing the characters as mutated stick… |
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Brave: Into the open air with songwriter Alex Mandel
…the first time at the Premiere. It is pretty surreal to collaborate with someone never having met them. But it worked out really well. We were considering different singers to… |
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The Seventh Dwarf
…on various tangents here rather than offering a straightforward review of the actual film. But the truth of the matter is, apart from its more “surreal” aspects, The Seventh Dwarf… |
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Sealab 2020: The Complete Series
…“lame” 1970s show that was ridiculed so mercilessly by Cartoon Network’s mocking revival Sealab 2021, which ran for four surreal seasons. Is This Thing Loaded? There are no extras on… |
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Mind Game trailer
…animation and photographs in an explosive combination of action and violence. Mind Game tells the surreal story of manga artist Nishi,who is killed by the Yakuza, returns to life and… |
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The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
…creating a “real” world that’s still as surreal and stylised as anything on the page. It’s as just about as faultless a combination of talent and technology, and Hergé’s property… |
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Peanuts: 1960’s Collection
…surreal territory with a sequence that sees Snoopy, as a world War I flying ace, being shot down from his doghouse over enemy territory. Plenty of great gags add to… |
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Popeye The Sailor: Volume 1 1933-1938
…variety, and usually surreal, utilizing the classic cartoon staples of anthropomorphism and metamorphosis. In that first Popeye cartoon, followed by over two dozen more, Popeye’s voice was provided by someone… |
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Defenders Of The Earth: The Complete Series, Volume Two
…premise just doesn’t get any less surreal in the last half of this series. It’s still space hero Flash Gordon, jungle legend The Phantom, and world adventurer Mandrake teaming up… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete Second Season
…Fan. Wackiness ensues in this surreal episode. The producers’ insistence that the Titans stay in costume at all times becomes especially ludicrous in this episode, as Robin wears a cast… |
