The Greatest Animated Film Ever.

Rating: 10/10 (2 November 2005)

It is amazingly subtle till the last 15 minutes.
It changes is pace, tone, and message, almost like Superman changing directions in mid air. Without you knowing it.. Yet, this film stands by itself, as far as I am concerned, as the greatest Animated Film ever..
This is written by someone who for more than 50 years has been a fan of animation, of all kinds, from the " The Sprit Within" to "Beauty and the Beast" to, "Dumbo", to "Robots", to Triplettes de Belleville, Les, to "Ice Age; to "What's Opera Doc" to "One Froggy Evening" to "Duck Amuck" to the "Dot and the Line." Yes, I have seen hundreds of animated films, short and long..
Further, I am not the only one who has said this is the best..Read as many of the reviews as you can..there are at least 10 more (possibly 20) that say that this is the best Animatated film ever, some others say this is among the greatest films ever made. And, it is.
Why, because of its tone, message, flow, ease of transition, almost as if you do not notice it. In the end, there is a message, which goes past most, and it took me 3 or 4 showings in the theater, for the light bulb in my head to go on, about what Brad Bird was really trying to say with this film
Snow White, may be considered by some to be better, only because it made others possible, but this is the finest, most sensitive, most dramatic, and the best Full Length Animated Film ever made. For those who read this, and if you haven't seen this, let it hypnotize you, as it did to me..and watch the last 15 minutes a few times...maybe you too will figure it out...
Stuart