Galaxy Express 999 (1979)
Dec 16, 2000Anime Space Opera
Classic anime space opera adventure made not long after Star Wars and filled with moments of glorious visual poetry including the conceptually absurd image of a spacegoing train
Nicole Oliver
Barbie of Swan Lake (2003)
Mar 7, 2005Animation/Barbie Enacts Fairytale
The third animated film based on the popular girl's doll Barbie. This places Barbie into Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake in an okay telling, if one that suffers from the usual limited animation of Mainframe's early films
Barbie Mermaidia (2006)
Oct 18, 2018Animation/Fairy Barbie Visits the Mermaid Kingdom
Seventh of the animated Barbie films, spinoff of the earlier Barbie Fairytopia, all delivered in sugary upbeat sentiments amid pastel colour schemes that would look eye-poppingly psychedelic if one were high
Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses (2006)
Dec 31, 2015Animation/Barbie Fairytale
Another animated Barbie film that leaves you quite certain that every problem in life can be solved with a positive upbeat ditty
Barbie Mariposa (2008)
Dec 14, 2008Animation/Land of Fairies
Another of Mainframe's interminable Barbie films that soon slip into a sameness. This is at least directed with a visual sweep
Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow (2008)
Jul 27, 2015Animation/The Children of Marvel Superheroes
Whose bright idea was it to give us kid versions of The Avengers (ostensibly their children)? While Marvel have had an unparallelled string of hits on the big screen in the 00s, their attempts to replicate the successes that rival DC have had in animation have been a dismal failure
Barbie and the Three Musketeers (2009)
Feb 27, 2014Animation/Barbie Swashbuckler
Alexandre Dumas's classic adventure story is turned into an animated vehicle for Barbie with genders reversed and an absurdly upbeat Girls Can Do Anything vibe. Being a kid's film, the girl Musketeers are no longer allowed to wield swords