Genre Animation - Movies With Macca (Page 2)

Rating: 3.0★

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

Victor Hugo's 1831 novel Notre-Dame de Paris (better known in English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame) has had no shortage of screen adaptations, from the silent Lon Chaney version of 1923 through to the brooding 1939 Charles Laughton picture. By the time Disney came to the

Rating: 3.5★

No Dogs or Italians Allowed (2022)

The title alone tells you something about the world this film inhabits. "No Dogs or Italians Allowed" refers to the kind of signs that reportedly appeared outside lodgings and workplaces in early twentieth-century France, a blunt shorthand for the discrimination faced by the waves of Italian labourers

1970s

Fantastic Planet (1973)

René Laloux’s Fantastic Planet (1973) is one of those films that doesn’t really fit anywhere: too cerebral for kids, too odd for animation festivals, too steeped in European political theory for the Saturday-morning slot, and too visually fearless to ignore. A 72-minute French–Czech co-production

1950s

Alice in Wonderland (1951)

Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (1951) is the studio’s middle-period work par excellence: technically polished, commercially tested, narratively cautious, and just slightly off. Made between two of Disney’s commercial successes (Cinderella in 1950, which had rescued the studio from one of its periodic financial near-misses, and