Animated Movies Throughout the Years: 2004

Animated Movies Throughout the Years: 2004

In January, the criminally underrated Teacher’s Pet premiered. While it got very good reviews upon release, the film did very poorly at the box-office.

In April, there was Disney's 45th animated film Home on the Range, which, at the time, was Disney's last hand-drawn film. The film ended up being a box-office flop and got rather bad reviews.

In May, there was Shrek 2, which would go on to gross over 900 million dollars worldwide. It also got the Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature, but lost to The Incredibles.

In June, we had the US release of Europe's first CGI movie, Kaena: The Prophecy. While I don't hate it like other people do, I felt 'Kaena' had plasticky animation and a confusing plot.

August saw the US release of the critically panned Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie. I honestly haven't seen it, but I heard it wasn't that good.

In October, DreamWorks released their fourth CGI film Shark Tale. While it earned more than enough money to pay off its budget, and got the Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature, the film got rather negative reviews. However, my mom likes it.

In November, we jumped into action with Pixar's sixth feature film, and their first PG-rated film, The Incredibles. This film got very good reviews when it premiered, and is arguably the best animated film of that year. The Incredibles won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature that year.

Also released in November, the ever popular anthropomorphic sea sponge starred in his first movie, simply called The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. I'm actually not that fond of this movie because I feel the physics of the SpongeBob world don't belong on the big screen.

And finally, in December of that year, Robert Zemeckis's first motion-capture film, The Polar Express, was released. It was based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg. While it had dazzling CG backgrounds and effects, the realistic motion-captured human characters had rather dead-looking eyes and faces.
That's all I have to say for this week's Animated Movies Throughout the Years! Tune in next week when we talk about animated movies from 2005, in which DreamWorks released four
zoo animals back in the wild, but in the wrong habitat, Blue Sky released their second feature
film Robots, Disney made their first CGI film without Pixar, Chicken Little, and two horror- themed stop-motion films from two different countries were released.
In unrelated news, Google+, which I use to promote my blog, will shut down for good on April 2nd. As I am typing this, I am working on a Facebook account to promote Andrew's Corner (my blog). My final Google+ post will be on March 29th.