Top 5 Non-Disney Animated Films

I'm a huge Disney fan, so you can bet I say that Disney animation is the best, bar none. But that doesn't mean I can't appreciate other animated movies. These are my top 5:

#5 Home

Most of the success of this movie is in the aliens: the Boov. Both their way of looking at the world and their speech patterns are so entertaining, you can't help but smile at pretty much everything they do.

#4 Lord of the Rings

An acquired taste, perhaps, and overshadowed by Peter Jackson's outstanding trilogy. But there will always be a warm place in my heart for the first film of the Tolkein masterpiece. Again, rotoscoping...oy! The character design is awesome in almost every case, though, and the dialogue sticks more closely to the book than Jackson's. Sure, it's a story without an ending, but we Tolkien fans know how it turns out.

#3 Flushed Away

No one could be more surprised than I at how good this movie is. I've seen the Wallace and Gromit movies, and they're good, but I'm no fan of the Aardman character design. And yet, the character of Roddy has a captivating charm that makes you really want to know how his story will turn out. Lots of funny stuff, and the weirdness doesn't cross the line into 'too weird for me' territory.

#2 Megamind

Why? Why do super-villains do it? This movie answers that question with good humor and lots of super-hero tropes, and yet still manages not to dis the genre I love. And Megamind the character has the power to make us root for the villain, even when he's at his most villainous.

#1 Klaus

This Netflix-Original tale of a Kuzco-esque postman in a town where the residents are too busy feuding to mail a letter doesn't sound like a Christmas movie, but just stick with it and you'll find the connection. Watch it any time, not just at Christmas. It's that good.

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The New Scooby-Doo Movies Glitches -- Davy Jones

New glitches added for The Haunted Horseman of Hagglethorn Hall, the episode in which the gang meets Davy Jones. Here's a sample:

There's another door in the room in which the guys have barricaded themselves. They might at least try it before moving all that furniture.

The background is stone in a wood-paneled room.

The hinges are on the wrong side of the door.

That room looks smaller when Creech peeks in, too small for a horse, even a projection of a horse, to gallop around in.

See all the glitches.