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8 months ago 14th Oct 13:51
When new animation movies are released the questions about the over saturated market and the below par movies are always raised but 2008 has been a great year, so far, for this genre of movie.
And it looks set to continue through until the end of the year with stop-motion animation film Igor, Madagascar: The Crate Escape and Waltz with Bashir all still to come.
This summer saw the rivalry between Pixar and Dreamworks continue as they both released movies within weeks of each other.
Stealing the limelight at the Cannes Film Festival was Kung Fu Panda, which boasted an impressive vocal cast of Jack Blank, Angelina Jolie and Dustin Hoffman, and it proved that it could be as successful as the jewel in Dreamworks' crown Shrek, with a sequel already in the pipeline for 2011.
It went on to be one of the most successful movies of the summer grossing over $620 million at the global box office and holding it's own well against the big budget blockbusters.
Less than twelve months after the release of Ratatouille the Pixar team were back with robot Wall-E, which was directed by Andrew Stanton who brought us Finding Nemo.
Wall-E is visually stunning and really does show the audience the potential that animation still has as Wall-E is, with no disrespect to the movies that have gone before it, the most ambitious picture for them since Toy Story.
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