The Jumanji Franchise (1995 / 2017 / 2019) Review
The Jumanji franchise consists of three substantial feature productions across approximately twenty-four years. The 1995 original directed by Joe Johnston.
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AdventureThe Jungle Book (1967 / 2016), Contrast Review
The Jungle Book exists in two substantial Disney adaptations across nearly five decades. The 1967 animated production is one of the great classical Disney.
AdventureThe Lego Movie (2014) Review
The Lego Movie is one of the great American animated films of the 2010s and one of the most substantial commercial cinema surprises of the decade. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller had directed Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs in…
AdventureJohn Carter (2012) Review
John Carter is one of the most unfairly maligned films of the past fifteen years and one of the most expensive commercial failures in Disney history. The production was Stanton's live-action feature debut after his Pixar work on Finding Nemo…
ActionThe Indiana Jones Trilogy (1981, 1984, 1989) Review
Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, Temple of Doom in 1984, and The Last Crusade in 1989 form a complete trilogy that arrived before Hollywood started planning trilogies as franchise products. Raiders is the first and the best.
AdventureFinding Nemo (2003) Review
Finding Nemo is one of the foundational documents of Pixar's golden era and one of the great American animated films of the early twenty-first century. Stanton would subsequently direct WALL-E in 2008, Finding Dory in 2016, and various other major…
AdventureFinding Dory (2016) Review
Finding Dory is one of the more substantive Pixar sequels and one of the more thoughtful contemporary animated productions about cognitive disability. The substantial gap between productions reflected Pixar's broader sequel discipline during the period.
AdventureChicken Run (2000) Review
Chicken Run is one of the great British animated productions of the early twenty-first century and the feature debut of Aardman Animations as substantial. Aardman Animations had been working primarily in short subject and television animated production before Chicken Run.
AdventureAntz (1998) Review
DreamWorks Animation had been established in 1994 by Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg, and David Geffen as substantial competitor to the Walt Disney Company and to Pixar. Both productions handled comparable insect colony source material.
AdventureApollo 13 (1995) Review
The film rewards repeat viewing because the substance is procedural instead of dramatic in the conventional sense. The film is adapted from Lost Moon, the 1994 memoir by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.
Adventure101 Dalmatians (1961) Review
One Hundred and One Dalmatians is one of the great Disney animated productions and the studio's most successful early 1960s feature. Sleeping Beauty had been the most expensive animated production Disney had attempted and had generated substantially disappointing initial commercial…
AdventureA Bug’s Life (1998) Review
The 1998 production represented his second feature directorial work and the broader Pixar studio's continued development as substantial animated production company. Flik is an ant inventor whose inventions consistently fail and damage the broader colony operations.