Mad Monster Party? (1967)
Aug 5, 2000Famous Monster Bash/Stop-Motion Animation
Absolutely delightful stop-motion animated homage to the Universal Famous Monsters, which places tongue perfectly in cheek
Jules Bass
The Hobbit (1977)
Sep 3, 2005Epic Fantasy Adventure/Animation
Generally overlooked animated adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien book made for tv by Rankin-Bass. This keeps to the text very faithfully - more so than Peter Jackson - and is only let down by some limited animation
The Return of the King (1980)
Oct 11, 2022J.R.R. Tolkien Adaptation/Animation/Epic Fantasy
Way back before Peter Jackson, there was another whole era of Tolkien adaptations, including this animated adaptation of the third book, which is a peculiar oddity if nothing else
The Flight of Dragons (1982)
May 29, 2012Animation/Epic Fantasy
One of Rankin-Bass's animated films, this has an ambitious epic fantasy plot with original themes about the line between science and magic but is undone by Rankin-Bass's limited animation