Just from the top of my head, Disney, Pixar, Dream Works, Studio Ghibli...
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Not Quite Batman
I really hope the live-action Cowboy Bebop movie earns a spot in this thread at some point.
"Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse." —Mycroft NextNthing Rocky And Bullwinkle and George Of The Jungle.
I'm not sure how much Looney Tunes Back In Action counts, but screw it, it's Live Action and it's an Adaptation. I loved it. Sure, the plot was kind of generic and they needed to give the human leads more character, but between the in-jokes and callbacks and Lampshade Hanging and just how insanely off-the-wall the entire thing was I couldn't help but enjoy myself. Plus, the toons themselves were front-and-center and in-character, which is more than you can say for Space Jam.
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Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.Speed Racer for the win (or should I say, "Go Speed Racer Go!"?)
Also, I recently got to see Masters of the Universe again and... yes, it deserves to be on here.
visit my blog!Speed Racer is my favorite action movie of all time.
One of the reaasons most people go for animation over live action. In the former, one can make ANYTHING happen. Not so much with the latter. With fantasy and imagination combined with animation, the very word, "normality" does not exist.
Yep, I'm still here."That's funny, I'd argue for eliminating the human characters altogether and just focusing on the toons."
Yes, but then there'd be no point in it being live-action, so they'd make it purely animated, and there was no way that was going to happen. So long as we have to have fleshies in the cast, I'd prefer they be less bland.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.Why? What's so bad about a feature length Looney Tunes movie that only features the Looney Tunes that could make it worse that Space Jam?
You are displaying abnormally high compulsions to over-analyze works of fiction and media. Diagnosis: TV Tropes Addiction.IIRC hand Drawn animation doesn't actually cost any more than the standard CGI cartoon. The production budget for their latest CGI film The Owls of Ga'hoole was $80 million while their last hand drawn film The Iron Giant was $70 million.
You are displaying abnormally high compulsions to over-analyze works of fiction and media. Diagnosis: TV Tropes Addiction.Lets see the first Scooby-Doo was pretty good and accurately gets the atmosphere of what made the show good.
Also Wild Wild West was actually really good,I don't really understand how it won the Razzies at all,becuase ya' know what it was actually funny and the characters were spot-on [except for Love-less but it's hard to go wrong with a Large Ham called Kenneth Brannagh]

Depends on what kind of animation. Is it animation based on storyboards or keyframes of animation which are then inbetweened?