I'm hoping for a scene where one of the sapient vehicles proclaims, "Hot dang, I wish all the humans were still alive to see THAT!"

Man, this summer could have used a U.S. Ghibli release…

Nice try, but not even Disney either.

^^ You know, everything I have ever heard about "The Day After" makes me insanely happy that I managed not to watch it as a child.

That makes this film sound remarkably, delightfully like "How They Supposedly Recorded the Voices for 'Fantastic Mr. Fox': The Movie!"

I want to live in the alternate universe where everything is basically the same but "Planes" was quietly and hastily shunted off to direct-to-DVD purgatory so I could basically ignore it and not have to keep correcting people who think it was actually made by Pixar and/or Walt Disney Feature Animation.

The sad thing is, that's been his role in every children's film he's been in lately, up to and including the "Harry Potters".

Huh, I always heard MuppetVision 3D in the Disney Parks?

^^ Aww, beaten!  There's a sweet scene near the end involving Boys II Men's haunting a capella version of "Silent Night".

I like how "The Witches" is more blasphemous than "All Dogs Go To Heaven".

It's a testament to how shitty the ending is that I didn't even realize the "good witch" was a character we'd already met.

My "favorite" aspect of the ending is all the questions it raises right at the last minute just for the sake of giving people who would never be able to understand why the book ending IS happy a more conventionally "happy" ending.

I said this for the "Watership Down" article and I'm going to say it again: Getting a "comment replied to" notification on this one's going to be as much fun as that one AV Q&A where the header picture was the bathtub scene in "Gummo".

@avclub-e1228be46de6a0234ac22ded31417bc7:disqus I found a bunch of "Jim Henson Hour" episodes on YouTube and because this series had such a huge space in my imagination, it blew my mind to smithereens to learn that there were only, like, eight episodes in all.

@avclub-011d0b4fe6835bb3d37ef4e0ea713de6:disqus  There's also that weirdly touching moment where mouse-Luke is glad for his shortened life span because he doesn't want to outlive his grandmother.  Always liked how Dahl would address the darker, stranger aspects of his stories directly for us weird kids who tended to…

^^ Somebody elsewhere in this comment thread called it "The final act of 'Toy Story 3' - but for the whole running time", which is pretty perfect too.

I can already tell that getting a "Poster replied to your comment" notification for this feature is going to be as much fun as it was for that AVQ&A where the header image was the bathtub scene in "Gummo"…

I… I agree.

My "favorite" aspect of "The Point" is that [spoilers for a weird-ass concept album and children's film from the 70's] Oblio gets screwed both ways by the ending.  Once he's made it clear to the townsfolk that he isn't any different from them, everybody suddenly loses their pointed heads — but then Oblio grows one! …

@avclub-36f8a23ed1166894f1aa598ac11169ab:disqus   Word.  When people were listing the movies that woke them up as young children, "NIMH" was mine.