My liking to animated movies can be beaten only by my liking to comics and cartoons. Just love them to the core. Movies by themselves are great and fun to watch. You get to visualize lot of things that you would love to do but can't, could be anything ranging from enjoying a fun filled and romantic life to death defying stunts. But they are almost always limited to what humans can do, or some graphics that are too ugly to believe. And that's where animation beats real world movies. It's great to visualize something like Alice in wonderland or see friendly and nice lion cubs playing around with deers. Its even great to see comical sequences like Tom and Jerry or Roadrunner which can never be achieved without animation(Charlie Chaplin was real close).
For some time I had been wondering whatever happened to the quality of animation these days. No movie after Lion King really had the awesome quality of animation that it had. Even furthur releases from Disney itself were disappointing, as they moved on to 3D and new technologies. Luckily, things are looking up again. With the competition increasing between pixar, dreamworks and disney and even 20th century fox backing up animation(Ice Age), shine is back into the quality of animation movies. Even a movie like Ice Age(not yet relesed in India, I think) which lacks substance, story and any thing worth mentioning is nice to watch because its real good animation. On the day I went for this movie, they showed the trailer of this movie spirit from Dreaworks, to be released in May. The trailer is here, but make sure you have a megabandwidth before you try it. That seems to be one real good movie to watch, I think for once Disney will be beaten in animation. It is the story of harmonic life of a wild horse, difficult to tame., and our hero who manages a fearful ride on it and befriends the horse. The expressions of the horse pictured in the movie are really wonderful to watch. Actions are superbly brought out. Most of the times I felt as if I am there and all that is happening right in front of me. I just hope the movie lives up to the greatness of the trailer. ;-)
