Best english cartoon movies
Goro Miyazaki ( From up on Poppy Hill) is directing, with his father Hayao credited for “planning.” The film was one of four animated features included in Cannes Festival’s official selection in 2020. The story, about a young orphan who’s unaware that she’s the daughter of a witch, marks a stylistic break for the legendary anime studio: this is Ghibli’s fully cg-animated feature, although early images suggest a highly stylized approach. Release date: Early 2021 Febru(limited theatrical run) Febru(HBO Max)įor the first time in six years, American audiences will get to see a new Studio Ghibli feature in theaters.
One final note: three films in the list are hybrid productions, included here because they derive from beloved illustration or animation properties. Elsewhere, anime fans will welcome the first Studio Ghibli release in six years - albeit in new-look cgi. Admittedly, it inherited two of those titles from Fox, one of which is the debut release of the U.K.’s young Locksmith Animation. In contrast, Disney muscles in with five entries, with four of them scheduled to come out in a three-month window. Meanwhile, Apple apparently has no follow-up to this year’s Wolfwalkers, its first animated feature. Netflix has announced only one original animated feature, down from two in 2020 (although it may very well have another original film or two by the end of year, before ramping up in a big way starting in 2022).
In last year’s list, six of the 17 films were sequels or franchise spin-offs. Of the films below, The Spongebob Movie: Sponge on the Run has already been converted into a streaming release in the U.S., and others may well follow suit. Now that major tentpoles like Pixar’s Soul are skipping theaters, that rule makes a little less sense. In past years, we omitted straight-to-streaming titles (unless they were produced by the streamers themselves). The pandemic has also pushed us to broaden our criteria a little.