Animated Films

Fantastic Mr. Fox

With 9, Shane Acker Creates an Animated Post-Apocalyptic Hellscape. Wall-E Would Never Get Out Alive.

Up Soars in Unexpected Ways

AFI Dallas Honors Henry Selick, Father of Jack Skellington and Monkeybone

Patrick MichelsIn more than three decades as an animator, Henry Selick has lived not only at the edge of the film industry, but as a stop-motion animator, even the fringes of animation world. From The Nightmare Before Christmas to Coraline, though, audiences have gladly followed him out to the edge. ... More >>

Monsters vs. Aliens: A One-Dimensional Story in Fantastic 3-D

Patrick MichelsIn more than three decades as an animator, Henry Selick has lived not only at the edge of the film industry, but as a stop-motion animator, even the fringes of animation world. From The Nightmare Before Christmas to Coraline, though, audiences have gladly followed him out to the edge. ... More >>

A Freaky Dallas Flashback

Randy Clower's short film Freaks of Dallas has made the local film-fest rounds -- AFI Dallas and Dallas Video Fest, in other words, even KERA-Channel 13 in '07. But director Randy Clower today posted his 10-minute animated film about the late local "hippie scene," so if you've never seen (or, um, fo ... More >>

Dogs of War

Waltz With Bashir is documentary and animated feature—andA bubbling up of repressed violence

Coming (At You) Soon

Jeffrey Katzenberg's cure-all for an ailing movie economy, in all three dimensions

Bolt

Disney's latest toon is a starry dog story

C'mon, City of Dallas, Give "Clever DISD Student" Credit Where Credit is Dew

Disney's latest toon is a starry dog story

AFI Dallas: And the Winners Are ...

Disney's latest toon is a starry dog story

Film 2007: Hit List

The top movies of 2007

You've Got to Bee Kidding

No wonder all the bees are dying—Seinfeld's movie is embarrassing

It Doesn't Suck!

Breathe easy, Simpsons fans. The movie is eeeexellent.

Incredible, Edible

Brad Bird does it again with the delicious Ratatouille

Ogreload

Third time's the charmless for Shrek franchise

Burning the Yule Log

Third time's the charmless for Shrek franchise

Future Imperfect

Renaissance is black and white and a little dead all over

Ant Wussy

Get out the magnifying glass. It's time to burn a game.

Putting the FU...Pardon, FUN in FUNimation

Get out the magnifying glass. It's time to burn a game.

Down to Size

Boy turns bug in redemptive kiddie-lit adaptation

Ant Invasion

Boy turns bug in redemptive kiddie-lit adaptation

Unreal Estate

Cartoon kids poke around Spielberg's Monster House

Turning Japanese

Like the anime, Naruto: Ultimate Ninja is goofy fun

Truly, Madly, Darkly

Richard Linklater's Scanner is a rotoscoped feast for freaks

More Than Meets the Eye

It's a car, it's a robot, it's a Transformer

Talkin' 'Bot Love

Like Big Fish for little kids, Robots works hard to please everyone

MF Doom

MM..Food (Rhymesayers)

Super, Ordinary

These heroes may be Incredibles, but they're also normal

Shell Shock

The sequel to Ghost in the Shell is a feast for the eyes, but a disappointment for the brain

Baby Love

The belated holiday anime Tokyo Godfathers is a genre-bending offer you shouldn't refuse

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

The belated holiday anime Tokyo Godfathers is a genre-bending offer you shouldn't refuse

Treasure Hunt

It's hard to figure Demonlover out, but it's fun to try

Hanna-Barbaric

It's sick, twisted and coming soon to a theater near you

City Slicker

A 1940s Japanese comic gets the high-tech treatment in grand style

Horse Opera

A cartoon saddled with Bryan Adams songs has no Spirit at all

Fantasyland

Escaflowne plays like anime stereotype

Unreal Genius

The computer-generated Jimmy Neutron should be a blast for kids

Toy story

The creators of Chicken Run find soul in a lump of clay

Letters to the editor

From the week of Jan. 27

International incident

Dragonball Z is the Cartoon Network's top-rated show, thanks to a Fort Worth-based company that's unleashing a controversial American version of this Japanese hit

Pardon...Mumford?

Dragonball Z is the Cartoon Network's top-rated show, thanks to a Fort Worth-based company that's unleashing a controversial American version of this Japanese hit

Gods almighty

Princess Mononoke is beautiful, but is she worth the wait?

This cartoon is X-rated

Princess Mononoke is beautiful, but is she worth the wait?

Night & Day

May 28 - June 3, 1998

Austin's real lounge lizards

Down south, it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing

Uncharted waters

The flawed but fascinating Pocahontas is a big step forward for animated features