Year of the Animation

It just occurred to me that 2012 had some really great animated movies, at least in my opinion. The four main movies that touched my heart and jump started my imagination were Hotel Transylvania, Rise of the Guardians, Wreck It Ralph, and of course, Brave. Hotel Transylvania put a very humorous and cute spin on the fictional characters that have served as the villains of so many scary stories. I adored this movie because I think it made its audience view so called monsters in a new perspective and made us question whether humans can actually be considered the bad guys. Rise of the Guardians brought back the wonderment we had as children, although some of us never truly lost this. Rise of the Guardians reminded us why we loved Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Tooth fairy, Sandman, and Jack Frost. It was really interesting to see these characters cast into the role of guardians for children, even though it makes sense since most of us owe our best childhood memories to these characters. Wreck It Ralph provided a clever and humorous interpretation of how arcade game characters feel. I was truly fascinated by the unique ideas that were integrated into the world of the three arcade games. The candy rush land had such humorous and inventive concepts such as the donut police officer named Dunkin, the hot Coca Cola lake and the Mentos stalactites, or the quick sand made of Nesquik drink mix. Brave, as I have said before in my post "Brave New World" was a wonderful new take on the classic Disney princess. Merida was a princess which more modern women and girls can appreciate, and was a perfect movie to show that happy endings can exist without a romantic relationship. This is becoming a very relevant topic since many women are concentrating on their careers and education instead of pursuing marriage and motherhood. This year also looks promising with animation films such as The Croods, which stars one of my favorite actresses, Emma Stone.