Animation Reviews | Picturenose

DVD Movie Review: WALL-E (2008)

Nov

2012

A lonely robot finds love Long-established as the leader in creative, endearing and enduring animated features, such as Toy Story (1995) (and its simply marvellous sequels Toy Story 2 (1999) and the truly brilliant Toy Story 3 (2010)), The Incredibles (2004), Ratatouille (2007) and Up (2009), Disney Pixar’s offering WALL-E (2008), from Oscar-winning writer-director Andrew ...

Toy Story 3 (2010) 2

Jun

2010

Pixar’s peak A delight – make sure you don’t miss your chance to laugh and cry in roughly equal measure at the final Toy Story installment. I ask you – manipulated to tears (nay, proper sobs) by a bunch of cartoon characters? That was me, sure enough, at the end of Toy Story 3 (2010) ...

Screwy Squirrel (1944)

Dec

2009

Let’s go nuts, kids… Cillian Donnelly returns with his thoughts on the brilliant beginnings of cartoon violence… If, like me, you believe Tex Avery to be the only true genius born in the 20th century, then you’re probably already ahead of the game when I say that Screwy Squirrel remains to this day the most ...

Up (2009) 2

Oct

2009

Soaraway success It seems that hardly a year passes without an animated masterpiece from Pixar – following the wonderfully moving ecological fable Wall-E (2008), the ‘toon geniuses take us on a new journey into beauty…and this time, it’s in 3D. To be fair, writer-directors Pete Docter (Monsters Inc (2001) and Bob Peterson (it’s his first ...

New Ice Age Movie – Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)

Jun

2009

A fine finale, s’no word of a lie… Picturenose would take the opportunity to dedicate this review to Hélène Noël, who passed away on 16 June, 2008. It took me completely unawares, did Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha’s Ice Age (2002), not unlike falling in love with Hélène, who first showed me the film.

Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)

Feb

2009

Ice, ice baby! Ahead of the release of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) in July, we take our own little trip back in time, to enjoy Hélène Noël‘s take on the second adventure…

Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

May

2008

The best of British This is getting silly. Revisiting this film on St George’s Day was a curious inversion of time and space. Wait a minute here…the English/British aren’t supposed to be that good at anything any more, declinism fuelled by lack of funding in the NHS and public services, the Millennium Dome, the scandalous ...

Over The Hedge (2006)

Dec

2007

Cutting hedge humour We at Picturenose have a mind to bring you the best in films, so I make no apology for the subject of this review. Those who complain that it doesn’t count or is not highbrow enough may not only be missing the point, but also a very good movie. Over the Hedge ...