In some ways, but in others it's a very different story; definitely not something to see solely because you're hoping to see a beloved childhood book depicted accurately on the screen.

I'd like to see more animation for adults, too.

I don't think ALL the Disney dubs have been great, honestly. I found the "Castle In The Sky" dub in particular off-puttingly harsh and shouty. I'm usually a stickler for subs — I saw this first on DVD with subtitles — but in this case I found the sub to be fine. Not blew-me-away fantastic, but not distracting or…

@avclub-2b07bb81390ccae4d6f77b8d475c6a28:disqus : The "unsettling"/"horrifying" stuff is probably subtle enough to go over kids' heads — it has more to do with the personal dynamics between the very small protagonist and a child with too much power in the relationship and not enough personal responsibility to handle…

Heh. Arrietty does her hair twice in this film, and what tickled me about it is that after she puts her hair up (as seen in the still image above), she swishes it from side to side to make sure it looks all right and moves okay. It is, as you say, a very natural and well-observed little moment.

We're experimenting with longer-form reviews for notable releases; see also Steven Hyden's recent long-form review of the new Van Halen. More to come.

I wish I could favorite this comment.

I saw him recently at a WHY WE BROKE UP reading with artist Maira Kalman, and they were hilarious together. I highly recommend attending his events. And I wish I'd known about that back when he was doing Unfortunate Events tours.

I'm pretty sure he was talking about the FOOTLOOSE remake (which I haven't seen) and implying its idea of a completely post-racial, colorblind small-town community is naive at best, but that there's no way a mainstream feel-good movie could in any way accurately depict the actual racial tension and social segregation…

BTW, I mention in the podcast that the review will be up the same day as this podcast, but the podcast went up at midnight and the review will be up at noon.

I'm adding a link to that Neil Gaiman interview to the post, by the way, in case anyone wants his words in context.

Also, there are many elil, but rabbits are clever and breed fast.

Y'know, I considered TRUE GRIT when the Coen brothers version came out,
but reading the book, I didn't find the differences that significant, or
interesting as a topic. The differences between the two film versions
wound up being more compelling to me, but this isn't "Film Vs. Film."

You do realize you have to actually wear all five ties at once, or they revoke your membership, right?

"Happiness" has at least two animated scenes. (Too bad, because I enjoy any excuse to talk about how ridiculous and great that movie is.) "UHF" wasn't considered, and maybe it should have been, though I'm not 100% sure that a music video dropped in in the middle should count as an animated scene.

Wow, "Aristocrats" might be a legit miss for this list. I'd have to watch it again. Than which there are worse things.

Yeah, we looked into that one, but it basically has animated bumpers between all the live-action segments:

The first "Happy Feet" movie involved a little live-action, though I think it's more like two scenes. And there's a bunch of it in the second one.

Both "One Crazy Summer" and "Better Off Dead" contain multiple animated scenes — and "Better Off Dead" DID get an honorary mention in the very first entry.

Both "One Crazy Summer" and "Better Off Dead" contain multiple animated scenes.