Between this and "Treasure Planet", Disney’s Renaissance Era came to sudden end, breaking their chain of recent financial successes and leading Disney to move away from hand-drawn animated films entirely. This is a shame because I really like how "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" looks – the character designs are wonderfully stylised and angular, the environments are beautifully rendered, and the special effects look spectacular. Maybe the script isn’t quite there – it is very notable how many ideas and events get crammed into the third act without any real explanation or set-up – but as a piece of animation, it remains very enjoyable.
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Gamera: Super Monster 1980
While the original Gamera films were being made, the production company behind them was in a constant state of financial crisis (hence such things as a good third of "Gamera vs. Viras" being made out of stock footage). After "Gamera vs. Zigra" got released, things finally became too much for them and the company went bankrupt. Several years later, another company got the rights to the Gamera movies alongside some obscure Japanese TV shows. How could they make a quick…
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House 1977
The infamous cult horror film that’s known for being one of the maddest things ever put to celluloid. There’s not a single shot that doesn’t have something insane playing out – whether that’s how actively artificial all the backgrounds look, the over-the-top nature of the film’s editing or the wantonly gonzo special effects which were all designed to look like a child had done them. The result is a beautiful, disorientating, sublime mess – absolutely unique, thoroughly enjoyable and satisfyingly strange. Watch it if you can.
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Isle of Dogs 2018
This is just a really satisfying film to look at. I can’t understand why more directors don’t design their shots like Wes Anderson does here; the visual style deserves to be the new pallbearer for what animation can do. It’s better than A Dog’s Purpose at any rate.
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