Saturday Competition by @marblely - Favourite Cartoon Movies

Favourite Cartoon Movies.

• Spirited Away &
• How to Train Your Dragon

Spirited Away is an absolutely beautiful Japanese animation.

This is the story of a young teenage girl who is caught in the spirit world and has to find a way to save her parents who through their greed have been turned into pigs.

She learns to work hard, forms strong frienships, falls in love, overcomes her fears and saves the day.

There are also just these lovely scenes that really evoke the intended emotion such as the elevator ride with the radish man which is just full of this teenage awkwardness.

The dizzying run down a set of steep stairs and the strength it takes to overcome her fear of heights to make it down the last part.

Her watching a tiny animated soot carrying a piece of coal and coming to its help when it gets squished.

So many different scenes that keep me coming back.

I have watched this movie with the original Japanese voices and the English dubbing and I much prefer the Japanese voices even if the English subtitles are sometimes a little strange.

There are also some really interesting parallels between what I am seeing in this movie and assume to play a part of Japanese fairy tales to what I know of traditional European fairy tales such as food being a way to trap you in the spirit world, not turning away someone due to appearances. The power of true names in contracts and the power of an invitation.

How to Train Your Dragon is an English animation about a young teenage boy learning that the dragons that attack his village every night are not the enemy they are made out to be.

The animation is night and day compared to Spirited Away. However I like both. In How to Train Your Dragon stronger bolder colours are used. There are also Easter Egg scenes such as the flight through the clouds with Hiccup and Astrid which has to be a nod to the original Aladdin cartoon.

I feel that I am not expressing myself clearly. This movie is about many things again forming strong friendships and falling in love and overcoming fears and saving the day.

Yes, you are detecting a pattern.

This movie also addresses becoming comfortable in your own skin and acknowledging the skills you have rather than always striving to be something you're not. It is also the first cartoon I've watched that addresses serious injuries in a non cringe worthy/ dismissive way.

I would love to read about some other peoples favourite cartoon movies.

For details on @marblely contest please see her original post here: Marblely Saturday Competition

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