Animated films you wish were part of Disney canon

[Siren]

Yes, Secret of NIMH is very much a reminder of Disney's good old days. Beautiful movie. Both in its art and story. As well as the score.

[yukitora]

If i like an animated movie it doens't matter to me if it's Disney or not. But at the time The Secret of NIHM came out it reminded me so much of the good old days of Disney (it was the time of the lean years for Disney remember) I must have sighted 'Why doesn't Disney do any of this kind of stuff anymore?'

Since then Disney of course has come back with a venegance!

I also like the fact that Disney is also involved in the production of a great movie like Spirited Away, which nevertheless fully maintains it's own 'anime' characteristics. (If you can't beat them, join them! )

My opinion about several of the movies mentione here before:

Prince of Egypt: good in parts, but also a bit ....uh... boring (don't kill me!)

Anastasia: also good in parts, but doesn't succeed as a whole I think. I still have trouble with the fact that Bluth used the tragic family-history of the Romanovs as background for a pure happy-ending fairy-tale (before anyone comes up with Pocahontas: I think that was different in tone, did not make light of the historical background, even if it was far removed from actual events)

Madagascar: saw it halfway than turned it off because it was so insipid: joke, pop-culture reference, joke, pop-culture reference and so it went on and on.

Ice-age: Quite amusing

Iron Giant: pretty good

Chicken Run: pretty good

Curse of the were-rabbit: Good (not mentioned here before I believe)

Bee-movie (not mentioned here yet): to many disconnected stories in one movie (and why is the bee-hive presented as a masculine rather than a feminine society - yes I know it's fantasy anyway, but still..)

Disney had no hand in the production of Spirited Away. They just did the english dubbing and distributed it in North America.

[BelleGirl]

Disney had no hand in the production of Spirited Away. They just did the english dubbing and distributed it in North America.

Well, I didn't know exactly what role Disney played in this, thanks for pointing it out. Anyway, that they supported a non-Disney product is quite surprising.
I did not want to suggest that Disney had anything to do with the production of SA in any artistic way.

[Voiceroy]

...that they supported a non-Disney product is quite surprising.

They supported it because John Lasseter did (Lasseter served as Exec Producer for the US version), but also because they saw the profit potential releasing Spirited Away in the US, as well as other of Studio Ghibli's classic Miyazaki productions like My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle, Porco Rosso, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and Kiki's Delivery Service.

[Super Aurora]

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