

AniMat (a.k.a Mat Brunet) is an internet reviewer on RVT who has several main shows, all focused on animation. The shows are:
- Animation Lookback
: His flagship show, which takes an in-depth look at the history of various animation studios (such as Pixar) and animators (such as Don Bluth).
- AniMat's Reviews
: A Video Review Show that looks at new theatrically-released animated films in a critical light by judging the story, animation, and characters (and, when necessary, the songs) separately.
- He also has AniMat's Classic Reviews
, which is exactly like his normal reviews, except they're about older animated films not in theatres.
- He has also reviewed live-action films and other media that have to do with animation, such as the Epic Mickey games, Persistence of Vision, and Saving Mr. Banks. Here, he ditches the Story-Animation-Characters critique system and just talks about what works in them and what doesn't work, and he's on-camera frequently. note In 2015, he made an announcement that his fans can request him to review anything they want him to, as long as he's able to review them note and if a fan donates $100 or more on his Patreon.
- He also has AniMat's Classic Reviews
- The Epic Mickey Files
: A series that takes a look at the characters from the video game Epic Mickey, as well as its sequel and spinoff, and talks about their first appearances, the characters themselves, some of their later appearances, and their role in the game.
You can view his videos at the above links, as well as on his YouTube channel. He can also be found on his Twitter account
, Patreon account
(where fans can support his work), deviantART account
, and the Animation Lookback Facebook page
. He also used to have a Blip account, but it is now deleted due to Blip shutting down. A Recap of the episodes of his shows can be viewed here.
Here is a list of all the animated films AniMat has reviewed, both regular and Classic Reviews, along with non-animated films or other media that he's reviewed. Please note that this does not include any films or other media that he only reviewed via crossover, such as the Scary Godmother duology review with Hewy Toonmore or the live-action Smurfs review with Cartoon Palooza. Bolded denotes films that he's reviewed in his Classic Reviews. Italics denotes special reviews that were requested by fans via Patreon. Bolded Italics denotes films reviewed in AniMat's Classic Reviews that were requested by fans via Patreon. Also, while the film are listed in alphabetical order, the only time they won't be is if a film and it's sequel(s) get the same rating, in which case, they will be listed chronologically.
Disclaimer: While AniMat has not made a Top 5 (Or 4 in this case) Best and Worst Animated Films of 2010 list, you can tell where he would place them according to the numbers transitions in his 2011 list.
10/10
- Fantasianote
- Inside Outnote
- The Iron Giant
- The Lion Kingnote
- Perfect Bluenote
- The Prince of Egyptnote
- Princess Mononoke
- The Road to El Dorado
- Soulnote
- Spirited Awaynote
- Toy Storynote
- Toy Story 2note
- Toy Story 3note
- Toy Story 4note
- WALLEnote
- Waltz with Bashir
- Who Framed Roger Rabbitnote
- Yellow Submarinenote
- Zootopianote
9/10
- The Adventures of Prince Achmednote
- The Adventures of Tintinnote
- Aladdinnote
- Animal Farm
- Anomalisanote
- Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
- Big Hero 6note
- Boy and the World
- The Castle of Cagliostronote
- Chico & Rita
- Coconote
- Coralinenote
- The Emperor's New Groovenote
- Finding Dorynote
- Frozennote
- The Great Mouse Detectivenote
- The Illusionist
- Incredibles 2note
- Isle of Dogsnote
- How to Train Your Dragon 2note
- How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden Worldnote
- The Hunchback of Notre Damenote
- Kubo and the Two Stringsnote
- Kung Fu Panda 2note
- The LEGO Batman Movienote
- Moananote
- The Nightmare Before Christmasnote
- Professor Layton and the Eternal Divanote
- Raya and the Last Dragon
- The Rescuers Down Undernote
- The Secret of Kells
- The Secret World Of Arriettynote
- A Silent Voicenote
- The Simpsons Movie
- Song of the Seanote
- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Versenote
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movienote
- Tanglednote
- The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Cut
- Watership Down
- Whisper of the Heart
- The Wind Risesnote
- Wreck-It Ralphnote
8.5/10
- Alice in Wonderlandnote
- Frozen IInote
- Mulan
8/10
- An American Tailnote
- Arthur Christmasnote
- Baltonote
- The Book of Lifenote
- Bravenote
- A Bug's Life
- Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movienote
- Despicable Menote
- Despicable Me 2note
- Despicable Me 3note
- Fantastic Mr. Foxnote
- The Good Dinosaurnote
- Herculesnote
- Ice Age
- The King and the Mockingbird
- Kung Fu Panda 3note
- Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoolenote
- The LEGO Movienote
- Megamindnote
- Missing Linknote
- Mr. Bug Goes to Town
- ParaNormannote
- The Peanuts Movienote
- Penguin Highway (2018 film)
- The Pirates! Band Of Misfitsnote
- Pocahontas
- The Princess and the Frognote
- Puss in Bootsnote
- Ralph Breaks the Internetnote
- Rangonote
- Rise of the Guardiansnote
- A Scanner Darklynote
- Shaun the Sheep Movienote
- The Spongebob Movie Sponge Out Of Waternote
- Surf's Up
- You Are Umasounote
7.5/10
7/10
- The Animatrix
- Antznote
- The BFG (1989 film)
- The Boxtrollsnote
- The Croodsnote
- Early Mannote
- Epicnote
- FernGully: The Last Rainforest
- Frankenweenienote
- Gnomeo and Julietnote
- Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!
- Horton Hears a Who!note
- How to Train Your Dragonnote
- James and the Giant Peachnote
- Justice League: The New Frontiernote
- The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Partnote
- Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wantednote
- Minionsnote
- Mr. Peabody & Shermannote
- Onwardnote
- The Phantom Tollbooth
- The Pointnote
- Rionote
- Sausage Partynote
- Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
- The Secret Life of Petsnote
- Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seasnote
- Singnote
- Storksnote
- Team America: World Police
- Teen Titans Go! To the Moviesnote
- Treasure Planetnote
6/10
- 9
- Abominablenote
- An American Tail: Fievel Goes Westnote
- The Angry Birds Movienote
- The Angry Birds Movie 2note
- The Black Cauldron
- Cars 2note
- Cars 3note
- The Croods: A New Agenote
- Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic
- DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
- Ferdinandnote
- The Flight of Dragonsnote
- Gay Purr-eenote
- The Grinchnote
- Ice Age: The Meltdownnote
- Leap!note
- The Lego Ninjago Movienote
- The Little Princenote
- Looney Tunes: Back in Action
- Monsters Universitynote
- My Little Pony: Equestria Girlsnote
- My Little Pony: The Movie (2017)note
- Penguins of Madagascarnote
- Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
- Rio 2note
- Rock & Rule
- The Secret Life of Pets 2note
- Sgt. Stubby: An American Heronote
- Shrek Forever Afternote
- The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Runnote
- The Sword in the Stone
- The Transformers: The Movienote
- Trolls: World Tournote
- Wizardsnote
5/10
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
- BIONICLE: Mask Of Light
- The Care Bears Movie
- Dinosaurnote
- Happy Feet Twonote
- Homenote
- Ice Age: Continental Driftnote
- Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
- The King and I
- A Liars Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Pythons Graham Chapman
- Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch
- The Loraxnote
- Mars Needs Momsnote
- My Neighbor Totoronote
- Planes: Fire & Rescuenote
- Pokémon: The First Movie
- Quest for Camelot
- SCOOB!note
- Smallfootnote
- Smurfs: The Lost Villagenote
- Spies in Disguisenote
- The Swan Princessnote
- Titan A.E.
- Trollsnote
- Turbonote
- We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
- The Wild
- Yo-kai Watch: The Movienote
4/10
- The Addams Family (2019)note
- Alpha and Omeganote
- The Boss Babynote
- Chicken Littlenote
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
- Free Birdsnote
- Gumby: The Movie
- Happily Ever After
- Hey Arnold! The Movie
- Hotel Transylvanianote
- Hotel Transylvania 2note
- Jetsons: The Movie
- Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Returnnote
- The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
- The Nut Jobnote
- The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Naturenote
- Open Seasonnote
- Open Season: Scared Sillynote
- Planesnote
- Ratchet & Clanknote
- Rock-A-Doodle
- Sherlock Gnomesnote
- The Starnote
- Surf's Up 2: WaveManianote
- TMNT
- Uglydollsnote
- Wonder Parknote
3/10
- All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
- Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical Worldnote
- Escape from Planet Earthnote
- Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
- Happily N'Ever After
- Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evilnote
- Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacationnote
- Ice Age: Collision Coursenote
- Open Season 2note
- Open Season 3note
- Playmobil: The Movienote
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Strange Magicnote
- Walking with Dinosaursnote
- The Wild Lifenote
2/10
- Arctic Dogsnote
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2note
- Doogalnote
- The Emoji Movienote
- The Legend of the Titanicnote
- In Search of the Titanicnote
- Norm of the Northnote
1/10
- Foodfight!note
- Where the Dead Go to Dienote
10/10
- Gravity Fallsnote
9/10
- Cowboy Bebopnote
- Cybersixnote
- Death Note (2006 anime series)note
- Epic Mickeynote
- Hot Fuzznote
- The Muppetsnote
- Persistence of Vision
8/10
- Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion
- The Insidernote
- Iron Mannote
- The Jungle Book (2016)
- Knyacki!note
- Office Spacenote
- RWBYnote
- Saving Mr. Banks
- Small Townnote
- ×××HOLiC (2006 anime series)note
- The Spectacular Spider-Mannote
- Telltale's The Walking Dead (Season One)note
- Wonder Boysnote
7.5/10
7/10
- Cinderella (2015)
- Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two
- Muppets Most Wanted
- Newsiesnote
- October Skynote
- Peter Pan (2003)note
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Talesnote
- Pokémon Detective Pikachu
- Quaq Quaonote
- Richard Simmons Aerobics Videosnote
- Tomorrowland
6/10
- 100 Greatest Cartoonsnote
- Aladdin (2019)
- Beauty and the Beast (2017)
- Christopher Robin
- Hellsing Ultimatenote
- The Incredibles (BOOM! Comics)note
- Mulan (2020)
- Pete's Dragon (2016)
- Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
- Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fightersnote
- Tiger Mask Wnote
5/10
- Dumbo (2019)
- Hopnote
- The Lion Kingnote
- Maleficent
4/10
- Alice Through the Looking Glass
- Cats (1998 direct-to-video film)note
- The Happytime Murdersnote
- Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
3/10
2/10
- Serenity (2019 film)note
1/10
- Bratz (2007 film)note
Not given any rating
- BioShock Infinitenote
- The singing career of Paige O'Haranote
His videos provide examples of:
- Arch-Enemy: He refers to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs as this. Time will tell if Norm of the North, a film he considers worse than Cloudy, replaces it.
- Berserk Button:
- The Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs films, but especially the sequel in any sort of context (he likes the books though). Just watching it for a second in the animation montage at the Oscars made him go on a short rant, comparing the Academy acknowledging its existence to an American Heroes slideshow featuring Charles Manson.
- Environmental messages thrown in at the last minute, particularly in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 and Jetsons: The Movie.
- Big "NO!": During his Nightmare Sequence in the Top 10 Worst Films Based on a Cartoon episode.
- The Cameo:
- Hewy Toonmore appears in Don Bluth Part 4 upon hearing about AniMat's signed DVD copy of The Secret of NIMH.
- Mr. Coat and his fellow members appear at the end of the Top 10 Worst Films Based on a Cartoon episode.
- Catchphrase:
- Hey guys, this is AniMat.
- "Let's find out!"
- See ya later, dudes!
- What the fridge!?
- Caustic Critic: Averted. While AniMat isn't a professional film critic, and his reviews are, for all intents and purposes, an entertainment web series, he mostly gives a fair criticism for the works he reviews. He does get rant-y when it comes to reviewing a work he dislikes, though.
- Cliffhanger: Used at the end of his review of Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two. The following review is the spinoff game Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion.
- Content Warnings: This is used prior the Number 1 Worst spot of the Top 5 Best & Worst Animated Films of 2012 (Hotel Transylvania).Voice Over: Warning: The following animated film may cause blindness of rage and angry comments due to it being on the worst list at #1. It may contain arguments about the film that not everyone would want to hear. If youd like to avoid this, please skip ahead to here (20:13). If not, then please listen and try to understand the reasons why its at #1 on the worst list. You have been warned.
- *Cough* Snark *Cough*: He considers Dracula from Hotel Transylvania to be a ripoff of Marlin from Finding Nemo because of the Overprotective Dad role, and another reason.AniMat: (coughs dead wife)
- Dork Age: What he feels Sony Pictures Animation is going through. He believes that after the first Cloudy film was released, they started going on a downward spiral (not counting the Aardman co-productions), fueled by poor corporate decisions and other matters. He claims in his review of Surf's Up that if they don't progress, then eventually they will be shut down. However, he has expressed positive interest in Smurfs: The Lost Village, praising the character designs revealed in a photo and the animation in the teaser trailer, considering it promising overall. Unfortunately, though, Mat thinks that it might not save the company since it, and The Star, are at high competition with other movies (Mainly, The Fate of the Furious and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, respectivelynote ). To make matters worse with The Star, it is mainly a Christian movie, so Mat feels that it most likely won't bring in a large audience. And to add extra salt to the wound, they made The Emoji Movie...Yeah...
- Double Standard:
- He has repeatedly taken a potshot against films that are primarily aimed at younger audiences because they tend to be lazily written to squeeze money out of the most gullible of all audiences. However, he made an exception to My Neighbor Totoro, which he doesn't personally enjoy very much, but appreciated the thought put into it, and even gave it two separate grades (as a kid's movie, and as a movie in general).
- He also did not seem to have any issue tearing Sony Pictures Animation apart for losing Lauren Faust as a director, while ignoring similar instances of this happening at other studios.
- Everyone Has Standards: His "it's fine to have disagreements over movies and television" viewpoint comes to an abrupt end when it comes to Where the Dead Go to Die.
- Evil Laugh: During his exit at the end of the Top 10 Scariest Disney Moments episode.
- Fanon Discontinuity:
- Zootopia review, he mentioned that Zootopia is Disney's first computer-animated feature that uses a world full of anthropomorphic animals. As he was saying this, an image of Chicken Little popped up from the corner, and AniMat quickly shoved it away, screaming, "NO! Shut up! That movie doesn't exist!" Averted later on though, as he does openly acknowledge Chicken Little both near the end of the Zootopia review, and in its own review. During his
- He's also implied to hold this sentiment toward Muppets from Space.
- Fatal Flaw: He states that the addition of non-stop voiceovers in the Walking with Dinosaurs movie completely destroys the experience.
- Four Point Scale: Averted. He has a ten-point scale and tends to distribute his rankings evenly. Anything below a five gets a Seal of Garbage, and he only tends to give one Seal of Approval (9+) per year.
- Only sixteen films (or seventeen pieces of media if Special reviews are counted) have a perfect score, and only three of them did so in the year they were released as opposed to being on AniMat's Classic Reviews.
- Heroic BSoD:
- In his Animation Lookback series on Pixar, he briefly turned into a sobbing wreck and needed a time off after realizing that Pixar made its first bad movie that is Cars 2.
- After watching Where the Dead Go to Die, his brain needed a CTRL-ALT-DEL.
- Also happened near the end of his Lets Watch of The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure.
- I Work Alone: Most of his videos are made only by himself.
- The Ken Burns Effect: Being a documentary series, Animation Lookback features a lot of this.
- Medal of Dishonor: His "Seal of Garbage", which he hands to films he rates below 5/10.
- The Mockbuster: He calls Turbo a full-on ripoff of Cars.
- Nice Guy: Most of the time. He has become more opinionated in recent years, though.
- Nightmare Sequence: In the Top 10 Worst Films Based on a Cartoon episode, Mr. Coat members bombard him with announced live-action film adaptations of cartoons.
- The One Thing I Don't Hate About You: He admits the only redeeming thing about Gribble in Mars Needs Moms is that hes the only human character who actually looks like a human,
as opposed to the others.
- Precision F-Strike: From his review of The Emoji Movie: "So with that said, f*** Sony, f*** emojis, and F*** THIS MOVIE!!!"
- "Psycho" Strings: He uses these in his "Top 10 Worst Sequels" when he shows the Yellow Bellies' song in The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends.
- He uses them again in the "Top 10 Animated Box Office Bombs" when he shows some details of a planned CGI remake of Yellow Submarine.
- Rage Quit: Animat Watches Bratz the Movie. Animat dropped a censored F* bomb and says that he is done with Bratz the Movie with only Twenty Minutes left of it's run-time. Also counts as Screw This, I'm Outta Here!.
- Running Gag: Whenever a film is overly cutesy and trying to pander to a very young demographic (i.e. A Troll in Central Park, The Care Bears Movie, and to a lesser extent Trolls), expect him to use the phrase "happy rainbow butterfly pony flowers."
- Shout-Out: Crossover links.
- To the web series Vaulting
in his review of Jetsons: The Movie.
- To his fans who personally did the ultimate Patreon pledge in their requested review. (Click on the "notes" for films in italics or bolded italics for the names of the Patrons)
- To the web series Vaulting
- Something Completely Different:
- He reviewed all of the Epic Mickey games, which include Epic Mickey, Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, and Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion.
- He reviewed the live action films The Muppets, Muppets Most Wanted, Saving Mr. Banks, Escape from Tomorrow, and Maleficent. The first two, because he's a huge Muppet fan, the third because it's about the making of a half-animated feature film and he's a huge Disney nut, the third because it's an independent film that looks at the "dark side" of Disney, and the fourth because it is a remake of Disneys Sleeping Beauty.
- His review of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 was done in a vlog style, completely different from all his other reviews. This is because he was going into way more detail about why he hated this particular film (particularly when talking about the animation).
- He would later do the same with his review of Where the Dead Go to Die, but unlike the previous, he only did it since a lot of the movie is way too messed up and violent to be shown on any website.
- He has also reviewed Persistence of Vision, a documentary about The Thief and the Cobbler.
- So Okay, It's Average: These types of films usually receive the 5-6 score from him.
- Soundtrack Dissonance: He demonstrates in his review of The Legend of the Titanic how replacing the soundtrack can make Tentacles very threatening.
- Spiritual Successor: He considers Epic to be the spiritual successor to Rise of the Guardians.
- Standard Snippet: The end of reviews have one of five themes depending on how high a score the film got. These include:
- The Seal of Approval worthy films get the celebration remix from Super Smash Bros. Melee Smashing... Live! Live Orchestra Music Track 5: Original Medley.
- Films scoring an eight or seven get the orchestra "stage clear" theme from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
- Films scoring a six or five get the tense $500,000 question music and the "Final Answer" jingle from Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
- Films scoring a four or three play the Game Over music from Sonic the Hedgehog & 2.
- Films scoring a two or one get a snippet of the demonic climax part of the "King of Pride Rock" score from The Lion King. However, due to copyright issues with Universal Music Group, the music was later switched to the Game Over music from Super Mario 64, starting with the Arctic Dogs review.
- Strictly Formula: Anytime something he's reviewing has this, he ends with "Rinse and repeat."
- Take That!:
- When he responds to a question on why he reviewed the CGI/live-action hybrid Walking with Dinosaurs movie and not The Smurfs 2.AniMat: Look, Walking with Dinosaurs did it much more differently so that the animation plays a bigger role. How 'bout I say no and forget it so that both of our lives would be much more simpler.
- During the CN Real segment in Part 4 of his Animation Lookback on Cartoon Network, he gives a little jab at Fox News with this:AniMat: If you take away the "Fox" from Fox News, then you would get a channel that would report real news from credible journalists that would respect women.
- When bringing up the
Misaimed Fandom of Coonskin in Part 2 of his Animation Lookback on Ralph Bakshi, he brings up pictures of Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, actor and far-right activist James Woods, actor and martial artist Steven Seagal, Fox News correspondents Sean Hannity and Tomi Lahren, alt-right leader Richard Spencer, and a klansmen.
- The entire Office Space review is an elaborate one towards The Nostalgia Critic.
- When he responds to a question on why he reviewed the CGI/live-action hybrid Walking with Dinosaurs movie and not The Smurfs 2.
- Talking Poo: In his review of The Emoji Movie, he mocks Poop as being a possible mascot for Sony Pictures Animation: "A poorly-drawn animated piece of crap that spews jokes that no one would ever think is funny."
- The Stinger: Mat often ends Animation Lookbacks with these, most of them just directly hinting at the subject of the next lookback.
- More recent installments have done a more traditional stinger. The History of The Thief and the Cobbler ends on a shot of four Disney films arranged in a circle while the words "
10 Years Later" appears below them, and The History of Walt Disney Animation Studios+ ends on a upward panning shot from Mat's Disney film collection to a poster of The Muppets while Rainbow Connection plays.
- More recent installments have done a more traditional stinger. The History of The Thief and the Cobbler ends on a shot of four Disney films arranged in a circle while the words "
- This Is Gonna Suck: Has this reaction in his review of Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie when he finds out the franchise is a Religious Edutainment series, and of course religion does have a tendency to lead to widely heated discussions online even if he tries his best to review the film objectively.
- Why Won't You Die?: Brought up word-for-word at the beginning of his review of Ice Age: Collision Course:I would like to categorize Ice Age as a zombie franchise, where no matter how many times you keep shooting at it, it always comes back and all you can do is shout out "WHY WON'T YOU DIE!?"
- X Meets Y: He describes Gnomeo and Juliet as Romeo and Juliet meets Toy Story.
See ya later, dudes!