big kids dream (Top Ten Animated Movies)

Member Name: wyvern9lb

Product:	Top Ten Animated Movies
Date:	29/07/09 (37 review reads)
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Advantages: my favourites

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Well as I am still a big child at heart, I still love watching my animated classics. They help me forget all my worries in life. I have so many Disney films, I find hard to chose just ten.

1) Disney's "The Lion King":
I love the story, characters and the music to this classic. For those of you that don't know the story, it's about the life of a young lion prince (Simba) dealing with the pressure of growing up. Simba and his best friend Nala (a young lioness selected to be his future mate) are always exploring and getting into trouble. After an unfortunate accident, Simba runs away from the pride lands and befriends a carefree meerkat (Timon) and warthog (Pumba). Life is peaceful, until Nala (now fully grown) convinces Simba to return to confront his Uncle Scar. Although I am not a fan of Elton John, his soundtrack to "The Lion King" features some classic song from the up beat "I just can't wait to be king" and "Hukuna Mata" to the love ballad "Can you feel the love tonight"

2) Disney's "The Lion King II: Simba's pride":
We return to the pride lands with the birth of Simba's daughter. The villain is Scars mate, who is now banished from the pride lands. She has trained her son (Scars last heir) to take over the Pride lands. Unfortunately the plan fails as her son fall in love with Simba's daughter. Although this isn't as good as the first you still have your favourite character such as Timon and Pumba, Simba and Nala as well as a bunch of new characters.

3) 101 Dalmatians:
I have always loved Dalmatians so this was a definite favourite. They are so cute as puppies, not as a coat. You have the two proud parents of 15 puppies, Pongo and Perdy. On night, whilst they are out for their walk, the puppies are stolen by the wicked Cruella De Ville, who plans to make a coat out of them. They must go out to rescue them, only to find 99 puppies. You cant help but to sing along to "Cruella De Ville". My favourite characters are sergeant Tibbs (a cat) and the Kernel (a deaf sheep dog)

4) Mulan
A young girl joins the army in her fathers place. She must keep her disguise as a man, with the help of her guardian, Mushu, (a lizard who is supposed to be a dragon), her trusty horse and a lucky cricket. They must save the Chinese empire from the evil attacks. The main reason why I have chosen this as one of my favourite is the humour of Eddie Murphy as Mushu.

5) The little mermaid
This is a classic from my childhood and the first Disney film I watched. I always wanted to be a mermaid as a child and spent many of hours swimming at the bottom of the swimming pool. I love the songs in the film such as "Part of Your World", "Under the Sea"

6) Discworld- soul music
I have read a few books from the discworld series and was thrilled to see they had made a cartoon version of Soul music. The characters are just as I imagined them to be. The main story line is about a young musician called Buddy, who find instant fame due to a mysical instrument. Death has disappeared to try to learn how to forget things, leaving his grand daughter Susan to take over. Lots of comedy links to the Beatles. only downfall is it is a long cartoon, originally spread over 6 episodes.

7) Discworld - wyrd sisters
Another cartoon adaptation of the discworld series. This is based on the story of macbeth. 3 witches, 1 dead king who is a ghost, an evil nephew of the king persuaded by his wife to kill the king. I really like the characters in this adaptation, especially one of the witches. originally shown in 3 parts on TV.

8)Fox and the Hound
This is a heart warming tale about 2 best friends who really should be enemies. I really like films about true friendship, always makes me think of my closest friends. As they always say " friends are the your family you chose yourself"

9) Jungle book
Who doesn't like the jungle book. You only need to start of singing "look for the bare nessesaties" and nearly everybody will reply with the rest of the song. All the characters are fantastic fron baloo the bear to King Loui. My favourite are the vultures "I dont know, what do do want to do?" "now dont start that again. The songs are memorable to every generation.

10) happily Never after
possibly not a well known cartoon, as I have only discovered it myself recently, but I love it. This is a twist on the well known tell of Cinderella. I you like Shrek I suggest you give this a try as it is very similar. As thw wizard in charge of the balance between good and evil in fairy tales takes a golfing trip to Scotland, He leave his magical staff in the hands of two complete idiots. Cinderella's evil stepmother manages to get her hands on the magical staff and all hell breaks loose. This is a very entertaining catroon from start to finish.

Summary: love em"