The Best Animated Film Characters. The second golden age of animation is well under way, with Aardman, Miyazaki, Disney Pixar and Dream. Works rolling out rather good stories on a fairly regular basis. But which characters of the stop- motion, CG or hand- drawn world really make the grade? Which existing characters made the leap from short form to full- length feature with their dignity intact? How do the newcomers really compare to old hands of earlier eras? Empire lists the best animated characters, from CGI, hand drawn and stop motion films, from the masters at Dinesy Pixar, DreamWorks and Aardman. Create custom t-shirts and personalized shirts at CafePress. Use our easy online designer to add your artwork, photos, or text. Design your own t- shirt today! Read on to find out.. Mickey Mouse. Movie(s): Fantasia (1. Fantasia 2. 00. 0 (1. First Apperance: Steamboat Willie (1. Voiced by: Walt Disney, Jimmy Mac. The leading information resource for the entertainment industry. Find industry contacts & talent representation. Manage your photos, credits, & more.Artisti/Bändi-Cetjussa jo olevat nimet TARKISTETAAN tästä koosteesta + parasta aikaa auki olevasta säikeestä. Artisti/Bändi-Cetjua JATKETAAN viimeksi avatussa. Donald, Wayne Allwine. The most famous cartoon of all time, all the way down here? Why yes, because Mickey Mouse has never been a big character in feature- length animation, and his best performance was in a tiny segment of classical music oddity Fantasia. Here, he's the over- enthusiastic but under- disciplined assistant to a sorcerer, who tries to take a short- cut when his master is out of town and ends up with hundreds of magical mops flooding his home - and he's wonderful at it. The moral of the story is that it's best to take pride in your work and do it properly, and also that you should just never clean house because it'll only lead to trouble. Stroke of genius. The hangdog (hangmouse?) expression on Mickey's face when his master comes back and discovers the flooded castle, full of enchanted mops. ZMovie(s): Antz (1. First Apperance: Antz (1. Voiced by: Woody Allen. Who the hell casts Woody Allen in a kids' film, the debut film from the new Dream. Works at that? Bloody geniuses, that's who. While the film's been overshadowed by Pixar in the years since, Z himself is a distillation of every character Woody Allen ever played, a handy introduction to the director for kids. He's also really, really funny - the middle child of five million, barely able to lift ten times his own bodyweight. His performance makes this more than yer average, . Stroke of genius. The fact that, when he's praised for laughing in the face of death, Z explains that, . Fiver. Movie(s): Watership Down. First Apperance: Watership Down, a 1. Richard Adams. Voiced by: Richard Briers. How sweet and innocent is Fiver, the visionary rabbit hero of Watership Down? Well, he's voiced by Richard Briers, perhaps the nicest man in the history of Planet Earth. And that's pretty much all you need to know about a character who somehow manages to retain its innocence through the heartbreaking slog of Watership Down, through the savage dog attacks, environmental destruction and perilous journey, and somehow through Art Garfunkel's blinking Bright Eyes. Hazel (John Hurt) may be the nominal hero, but it's Fiver's visions of Watership Down that kickstart the story, and he remains the cutest and most fragile of the rabbits, even blaming himself for all the trouble the rabbits endure. Fiver, son, it's not your fault. Stroke of genius. Imbuing Fiver with an indomitable spirit and an unshakeable belief in his brother, Hazel, that carries him through.
Also, the ability to make our eyes all wet just thinking about him, and the movie. Damn those infernal rabbits! ![]() Fun fact. His Lapine name is Hrairoo, which means . Daffy Duck. Movie(s): Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1. Space Jam (1. 99. Looney Tunes (2. 00. First Apperance: Porky's Duck Hunt (1. Voiced by: Mel Blanc, Jeff Bergman, Greg Burson, Joe Alasky, Dee Bradley Baker. Tricky one, this. Based largely on his movie career, you can't include Daffy Duck - arguably the greatest of all the Looney Tunes, with his scheming and his skiving and his suffering suckatash speech impediment - on this list. But you can't not include Daffy Duck on this list, and you shouldn't hold it against the character that Warner Bros. The best we can do is to mention that he's pretty funny in Joe Dante's Looney Tunes: Back In Action, and that he's on this list because he's Daffy Duck. And if anyone disagrees, we have an Acme Reader Pulveriser out back, just waiting to be fired up. Stroke of genius. Just to show how Warners have dropped the ball, Daffy's greatest full- length feature film moment comes in a Disney film. Notably the magnificent dualling pianos scene between him and Donald Duck in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which ends with the two ducks engaging in a spot of M. A. D. Have Your Say. Should Daffy Duck be higher or lower on our list? Vote now! Fun fact. Mel Blanc, the classic voice of Daffy, recorded a novelty single in the 5. Daffy Duck's Rhapsody. We have to hear this song. Bet Kim Newman has it. Toad. Movie(s): Flushed Away. First Apperance: Flushed Away (2. Voiced By: Sir Ian Mc. Kellen. Criminally underrated, and implicated as the main cause of Aardman's acrimonious split from Dream. Works, Flushed Away is actually an enormously fun film, that may not have the soul or finesse of a Wallace & Gromit flick, but which has a joke ratio that's up there with Zucker Abrahams Zucker. And it also has, in the megalomaniacal Toad, Ian Mc. Kellen's most deliciously funny big- screen performance. A pompous, pumped- up buffoon who walks around making wild, grandiose speeches about ruling the sewers (while remaining tragically unable to suppress his craving for flies), Toad is a spot- on parody of Bond villains, with more than a hint of the craven idiocy of British politicians thrown in for good measure. Stroke of genius. Casting Mc. Kellen, who tackles Toad's stiff- upper- plumminess with relish and elevates the character into Well, someone worthy of placing 4. They didn't make him a knight just for the fun of it, you know. Fun fact. In the grand tradition of excruciating puns begun by Nick Park, The books on Toad's shelf are . Aisling. Movie(s): The Secret of Kells (2. First Appearance: The Secret of Kells (2. Voiced by: Christen Mooney. Generally speaking when countries are embodied in the form of people, they're big strong muscly men, or women who make up for in weaponry what they lack in coverage around the bosom region. Aisling represents the spirit of Ireland in this medieval adventure, but instead of being powerful or a bit slutty she's a tiny sprite, an impish younger sister who irritates Brendan as much as she helps him. Oh sure, she's also got magical abilities, but she's magical more in the way that Luna Lovegood is, rather than in the way that Gandalf is. Some might say that that fits Ireland rather well though, so maybe it's for the best. Thumper. Movie(s): Bambi (1. Bambi 2 (2. 00. 6). First Appearance: Bambi (1. Voiced by: Peter Behn, Tim Davis, Sam Edwards, Brandon Baerg. The thing about Thumper is that he's so cute he almost helps you to forget that Bambi's mum has, um, . The scene where the rabbit and the young faun venture out on the ice during their first winter, slipping and sliding around, remains one of the happiest things you'll ever see, guaranteed to raise a smile even if you've just eaten venison before watching the movie and are feeling horrendously guilty. A sage advisor to Bambi himself, more or less, and a more streetwise (forest- wise?) character, he's a good friend and fellow adolescent in the big, bad woods. Stroke of genius. Why, it's his trademark habit of drumming his feet against the ground, much imitated but never bettered. Fun fact. Thumper doesn't appear in the original novel, which is darker and more concerned with the natural world than the cuddly baby animals. The Nazis, book lovers that they were, banned the book as an allegory for the treatment of the Jews in Europe. Fievel. Movie(s): An American Tail (1. Fievel Goes West (1. Fievel's American Tails. First Appearance: An American Tail (1. Voiced by: Phillip Glasser. OK, so this guy makes it in not so much on the basis of being layered and complex as because of the fact that he's totally, totally adorable. He's tiny (even by mouse standards), he wears an oversized hat and he's searching for his family on the mean streets of old New York. He also sings a cutesy little song about his sister being Somewhere Out There while he's lost, accidentally gets drawn into a crime ring and manages to bring about a mini- revolution and make the streets of New York safe for the humble mice. Stroke of genius. During the Cossack raid at the beginning of the film, Fievel loses his hat and reaches back for it as the terrifying cats approach, in a direct nod to exec producer Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones. Fun fact. Strictly speaking, Fievel should be spelled Feivel when coming from the Yiddish. He's named after Steven Spielberg's grandfather. Sophie. Movie(s): Howl's Moving Castle (2. First Appearance: Howl's Moving Castle, a novel by Diana Wynne Jones, 1. Voiced by: Chieko Baisho; Emily Mortimer & Jean Simmons. Here's a perfect of marriage of director, author and heroine. Hayao Miyazaki always creates complex, believable heroines. Diana Wynne Jones always writes twisty- turny, slightly trippy plots. And Sophie herself offers loads of meat to play with, a young woman who mixes a no- nonsense approach to her eccentric wizard employer, Howl, with a crippling sense of her own inadequacy (which helps a witch turn Sophie into an old lady, as you do). The resulting relationship is an odd one, with Howl indulging in moments of wild vanity and Sophie spending most of her time wearing support stockings and sounding like his granny. Still, there is a love story there, and the fact that you buy it at all is down to the fact that Sophie's one of the great heroines. Stroke of genius. The fact that the film's big action face- off consists of two old ladies trying to climb a long flight of stairs. OK, so there are a few magical battles and air chases too, but this is the one that lingers. Fun fact. Diana Wynne Jones wrote a sequel called Castle in the Air. This is not to be confused with Miyazaki's unrelated film Laputa: Castle in the Sky. Remy. Movie(s): Ratatouille (2. First Appearance: Ratatouille (2. Voiced by: Patton Oswalt.
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