Another Favorite to Add to the Collection...

I made a list of children's movies this morning. I was looking at a list of all movies (starting in the 20's or 30's, I think) that were marketed to children. I wanted help remembering which new kids' movies I'd seen that I wanted to end up buying. (Pixar is a certainty so I wasn't looking for those)

I noticed that in the 80's and 90's, there were SO MANY great children's movies. I mean, you had the first Land Before Time, Fievel Goes West, Charlotte's Web (cartoon) and some great Disney movies (Beauty and the Beast).

Then we hit a MAJOR slump in the 2000's. Just recently (as in the last two years recently) we have had a lot of great children's movies. These are on my list to purchase (along with most of their soundtracks):

The Tale of Despereaux (different from the book but as a standalone film, it's beautiful)

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs (not sure how it differs from the book but it is an excellent film)

Coraline (liked this BETTER than the book. *GASP*)

Fantastic Mr. Fox (...maybe liked this one better than the book too!!! *GASP GASP* They just added in a lot of flavor and some great storyline stuff! The book was a children's book but they turned this movie into a children's epic)

Monsters vs. Aliens - just a cute, cute movie with a great message

Despicable Me - arguably the best movie of the year for me...SO SO GOOD.

How to Train Your Dragon - also a beautiful, beautiful movie based off a book.

And now...

I just finished watching Dragonhunters, which is based off of a European cartoon that did not have much success on Cartoon Network here. Probably because it was awesome. And gorgeous.

Anyway. The movie is instant view on Netflix and besides a really odd way to end (good ending but odd how they didn't explain it...but again...it's European), it is FANTASTIC.

The scenery - GORGEOUS.
Characters - FABULOUS. AHHHHH I already have fanart in mind. !!!!!!!!!!
Story - A perfect fairytale.
Music - AWESOME. (Thank you, Klaus Badelt, for not getting grumpy about Hans Zimmer stealing your awesome pirate music. YOU TOTALLY ROCK!)

Agh. So good. I might watch it again this week. SO SO GOOD.

I still want to see MegaMind and Tangled, both of which have gotten rave reviews from everyone. Pixar has taken a back seat the past few years...they're always amazing, but...I really, really appreciate little teeny studios making brilliant movies too. :)