Funny, I was daydreaming the other day and the theme song just popped into my head. And I haven’t watched it since I was ten years old!
This, I disagree. A lot of people are more familiar with Batman Begins, but you have to give Tim Burton credit for his art direction and Jack Nicholson for being a great Joker.
This, I agree. It has got the amount of attention it deserves, not more, not less. In fact, most people cite The Incredibles when asked to name a Pixar movie, from my personal experience. Also (again from my personal experience) most animation journals and magazines would cite The Incredibles, Wall-E and Up as Pixar’s best (often overlooking ABL, Monsters Inc or Ratatoulle). So there’s enough love for the Parr family as it is (in my most humble opinion).
This, I agree. Transformers 2 was a good action film. A great one, in fact. But it was a poor film as a whole.
If you’re a fan of Michael Bay, Bad Boys and The Rock are two of his underrated classics you should be checking out. Now those were good action films and films as a whole.
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DW’s traditional animated movies may have been box-office failures, but they certainly had artistic merit.
Prince of Egypt was visually magnificent, but a bit of a religious movie and not exactly secular enough for mainstream audiences.
Same goes for Road to El Dorado, absolutely beautiful but a bit too much like Avatar and Pocahontas, where the pale-skinned foreigners falls in love with the beautiful native and saves her entire tribe from extermination.
Sinbad Legend of the Seven Seas was okay, but a tad predictable. But it is second-best in my books.
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron remains my all-time favourite. The protagonist is a true American hero in every sense of the word, and the conflict resolution with the antagonist is much more poignant and touching than the standard ‘Good guy wins, bad guy dies’ formula. Add that to some truly lush scenery of the American West, charming characters, and a sweeping soundtrack courtesy of Hans Zimmer, and you have an underrated classic from The-Studio-That-Must-Not-Be-Named.