The Secret of NIMH

[_asenath_]

I just watched it again for the first time in who knows how many the hell years. I remember when I first saw it (i was probably 4) I thought it was really scary. Not having seen it for so long, I forgot how freaking cool the colony the rats have built under the rosebush is, and am of an age now to appreciate how absolutely beautiful the animation

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[otis_nixon]

Don Bluth stuff is so... alternate reality... at a time when Disney Animation was festering... he took a group of talented artists and tackled animation as the art-form Walt thought that it should be.

Long before Dreamworks and Pixar there was Don Bluth.
I cannot say I like anything as much as I like NIHM (NIHM2 is not worth the celluloid it is printed on)... but offerings like 'American Tail' and 'Anastasia' are better than you remember them. (All dogs go to heaven? that was a 'job of work'**.)

** the famous quote that Orson Welles gave about doing the main-villain's voice for "Transformers, The Movie":
(his assistant)"How was it?"
(Orson)"It was a job-of-work".

[_asenath_]

I haven't seen American Tail in sooooo long, but it's one of those things that pops into my head at least once a month.
Hmm... now that I'm thinking about the films you mentioned, they all had rather well-done frightening elements in them. I guess some of his films can be looked at as children's animation that doesn't have all the 'good stuff' censored.

[hellocatgirl]

I love the Secret of Nimh. I own it.