Pop songs everywhere. Why can’t they stick to the original score?
SoA: Some original pop songs which play in the background (while the characters don’t sing) can work well with scores, like in the Toy Story series or Cars with Randy Newman. Others have nice musical numbers that work within the film’s story like Princess and the Frog, Tangled, and Rio. And others have scores throughout, with only an obligatory pop number at the end like HTTYD. And of course, there are those who simply use pop songs for the sake of it (the Shrek series).
So the use of pop songs is not bad innately, but it has to be used effectively and with purpose, and not as a simple tie-in (like the random insertion of an Owl City lyrical number into Legend of the Guardians during a ‘montage sequence’, while the rest of the film had an orchestral score).
I don’t like it in Cars, but I agree with you on the Toy Story instance. But even there, I like how each movie included less songs than the previous one. Hence, my favorite one is We Belong Together, mainly because it’s played during the credits.
I can’t stand then the animated characters have BIG chins 
Agreed.
Do you want to give some examples?
You mean characters like these?
Those are great examples
LOL, The Crimson Chin maybe has some leeway since its his superpower (he was bit by a fan with radiation 
), but I agree.
I like CC–he’s the only big-chinned superhero that I like…but I agree with the Flash post too. Although I stomached TDI and TDA plus TDWT, I can’t stand Flash, unless it’s like Foster’s, where you don’t know you’re watching Flash.
True, but still: what better example of a popular big-chinned animated character than him?
Yeah…
Generally speaking, I don’t care for Flash cartoons because I’m just not fond of the way it moves, but some shows have pulled it off appealingly, like Foster’s as you said.
Class of 3000 too, but that’s my opinion.
I’ve actually heard of this show from artists on dA, but I haven’t seen it (not too crazy about it). Who are all the characters in this picture anyway? I know the main two girls, the bad girls, and the red-head boy, but unsure of the rest.
They’re all named after articles of clothing for some reason. 
Girl on the left is Panty, girl on the right is stocking, boy in the middle is Brief and the man above them is Garterbelt. It’s aimed at adults and unfortunately contains a lot of that kind of content.
There are two things I just can’t stand to see in animated movies.
Comic relief characters
Most people seem to love them, perhaps even more than the main characters despite the fact that they seldom add anything to the plot. I don’t think that comic relief characters are particularly interesting though. More often than not, they seem to actually steal attention from the other characters and the plot.
Antagonists
Animated films are made partly children, right? Then it is really responsible to have the characters fighting against unnecessary evil villains? Why not have the characters struggle with a real life issues, like oppression, confusion and intolerance? Well, it’s awfully hard to make movies with such themes but it’s not impossible to make a funny, easy-to-enjoy movie that still has some important life lessons packed in it. A perfect example is How to Train your Dragon which offers a rather interesting lesson when it comes to the importance of understanding and trying to coexist with animal wildlife. And a personal favorite - Bolt, the movie about a naive dog tricked and used by the evil, shallow entertainment industry which cares a lot about cash and little about real emotions like love and friendship. In a time when reality shows and TV exposes children to tired stereotypes, telling them to act in a certain way to feel accepted, I think it’s important to tell children that the best thing - and the only thing - you can be is yourself.
I don’t agree with the antagonists part.
It’s not true that animated movies are always intended with children in mind, and the ones that are, might have horrifying villains and that won’t spoil any kid.
Darkness exist in real life, and children have to learn that.
Antagonists
Animated films are made partly children, right? Then it is really responsible to have the characters fighting against unnecessary evil villains? Why not have the characters struggle with a real life issues, like oppression, confusion and intolerance? Well, it’s awfully hard to make movies with such themes but it’s not impossible to make a funny, easy-to-enjoy movie that still has some important life lessons packed in it. A perfect example is How to Train your Dragon which offers a rather interesting lesson when it comes to the importance of understanding and trying to coexist with animal wildlife. And a personal favorite - Bolt, the movie about a naive dog tricked and used by the evil, shallow entertainment industry which cares a lot about cash and little about real emotions like love and friendship. In a time when reality shows and TV exposes children to tired stereotypes, telling them to act in a certain way to feel accepted, I think it’s important to tell children that the best thing - and the only thing - you can be is yourself.
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I agree somewhat–but there were two antagonists in MI and an important message about nuclear vs. fossil fuel energy, with some comic relief thrown in, but in small parts from Mike.