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An entire generation knows this film as, "I Just Wanted A Movie About Bunnies!!!"

I can't figure out how a new Percy Jackson movie is even a thing that exists in this world?  This may be it.  This may be the moment where I lost touch with the Youth of Today.

^^ True that.  Let's go yell at those posters who "DESPISE" "Secret of NIMH" some more!

God, yes — except for the inconvenient fact that it isn't an adaptation of anything.  That said, I watched it with my seven-year-old cousin who was enthralled and the whole thing made my heart ache for the loss of American hand-drawn animation.

^^ Ah, the 80's miniseries.  The Channing-sheep is indeed an image from the most deranged fever dreams.

It apparently debuted as part of a double-feature with "My Neighbor Totoro" of all things.  (One can only hope "Totoro" ran second to act as  mental health break.)

What's up, Traumatized By Nostradamus' Millennial Predictions Buddy?

People look at me weird when I call that one Kubrick's* "A.I." for kids.  Then they watch it.

At this age, I'd like an anthology film of Celebrity Encounters With Angry Animals.  It could have both Carter's rabbit and Sandler's cheetah!

I wish this studio was still around so we could finally get our rigorously accurate, hand-drawn, voiceover-free, basically impossible to market Raptor Red film adaptation.

He sounds more like someone who is dimly aware that there is such a thing as Anime but doesn't know of anything between "Pokemon" and "Legend of the Overfiend".  (And speaking as a Miyazaki cheerleader, these people are so much fun to deal with in real life.)

Care to elaborate on that or are you just going to let it sit there and leave us wondering?

"It established that the pandas were actually lovable space aliens…"

For what it's worth, Mynah Birds figures prominently in Judy Bloom's "Fudge" books.  They were also the laziest go-to hybrid on "The Wuzzles" (Mynah Bears and Mynah Boars), which was a hell of a context to first learn about the species.

I swear I heard they were making a movie of the first book back when it was first published years ago.  It was going to be Disney's direct competition with "Harry Potter" back when that would have mattered.  To give you an idea of how long this has taken to get off the ground, the teaser I saw that announced the

Lowly Worm's single shoe always bugged the crap out of me as a child.  Just… *why???*

No, it was actually weirder than that.  The kid from the movie was some kind of shaman who could understand animal language.  There was a secret island where the last mammoths still survived. And -I could not make this up if I wanted to- there was an evil cyborg who lived in an underwater fortress who wanted to

I remember very vividly how the people who worked on the original "Fraggle Rock" who were brought on to work on the cartoon were all excited, because now animation could give them limitless possibilities!  Two problems with this.  The first, two words: Marvel Studios.  The second, wasn't Jim Henson's entire career

That was the most educational aspect of this list for me.  I thought it was just the damn "Punky Brewster" cartoon where they had a magical little furball, but it turns out most of these shows had some kind of annoying but highly marketable creature sidekick.

Yes, it's better this way.  I tried watching an episode of the infamously insane-sounding "Mission: Magic" (a magical teacher a la Miss Frizzle and her thousand-year-old cat take a bunch of children on [dubiously] educational adventures and wherever they go they meet Rick Springfield who sings a song about the