The Super Mario Bros. Movie uses something that Netflix’s Castlevania ironically uses: anti-narrative. Explanations aren’t used for world building as they’re mostly left for the audience to recognize rather than learn about again, magic explanation and character closure is not the priority compared to other stories in the classic narrative format, and the plot tend to be straightforward in favor of the character dynamics and development as they are the focus rather than confronting the big baddie, with the finale actually working better that way since you’ll be rooting for the characters more since you got to know them with a few scenes with the villain to make sure there’s emotions on both sides. It works for video game fans as they already know those characters and can get something new with these types of movies because the filmmakers can trust the audience with their pre existing knowledge. That works for Detective Pikachu too because the main audience already knows what Pokémon are and what they can do, so we can focus on the main conflict more instead. But it doesn’t work for critics because they need to know why the action is happening since they often don’t look at the source material. But it still works for audiences as the risk of anti-narratives work for video game movies as they trust the audience will know what’s happening due to their love of the franchise.

Animated movies of 2023 full list 34: The Little Mermaid 0:33 33: The Monkey King 3:46 32: Justice League: WarWorld 7:07 31: Baby Sharks Big Movie 9:28 30: Rally Road Races 12:23 29: Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever 15:42 28: Katak: The Brave Beluga 18:36 27: Heroes Of The Golden Mask 21:22 26: Mummies 24:29 25: Pastacolypse 27:39 24: Trolls: Band Together 29:57 23: The Legion Of Superheroes 32:28 22: Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham 35:26 21: Wish 37:28 20: Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken 40:03 19: Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget 43:21 18: Taz: Quest For Burger 46:02 17: Scooby-Doo And Krypto Too 49:24 16: Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie 52:45 15: The Super Mario Bros Movie 55:14 14: Barbie: Skipper And The Big Babysitting Adventure 57:53 13: The Magician's Elephant 1:00:16 12: Glisten And The Merry Mission 1:03:16 11: Mavka: The Forest Song 1:06:04 10: The Inventor 1:08:56 9: Under the Boardwalk 1:11:45 8: The Canterville Ghost 1:15:15 7: Leo 1:18:42 6: Puffin Rock And The New Friends 1:21:17 5: TMNT: Mutant Mayhem 1:24:21 4: Elemental 1:28:26 3: Nimona 1:30:55 2: Spider-Man: Across The SpiderVerse 1:33:39 1: The Boy And The Heron 1:37:31

45:44 - Before, I was just sad and sympathetic to Julia Sawalha for her being dismissed and recast like that, but finding out she actually went out of her way to perform her old lines just to get back at them - and still sounds almost exactly the same (and way better than the new actress) - made my respect for her go up tenfold.

I understand not liking Sun Wukong in the movie. I'm just pointing this out so Journey To The West fans don't raid your comments with the same comments. Sun Wukong's behavior in this movie is accurate to the book it's a loose adaptation of, because Sun Wukong started off as an asshole in Journey to The West and went through character development.

Just one thing about Chicken Run, although I do agree with the vast majority of points. Ginger didn't know the chickens she could have helped were going to Mrs Tweedy. I'm sure she would have taken action sooner if she did.

“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” is unsurprisingly my favorite movie of 2023!

that example that he used about pulling powers out of nowhere being using his fur to create clones of himself, that's in the original story. doesn't save him from being unlikeable. i wish he could have been more like the book version. because his whole character is basically how he is in the beginning of the book, but they never get to his character development

I personally think Dawn of the Nugget could have giving Mrs Tweedy a flashback explanation on how did she survive that gat crashed and how she did dumps her original husband. Look, i can understand why Willard Tweedy is not in the movie because his voice actor, Tony Haygarth has passed away in 2017. But maybe, at least get someone who sounds close enough.

After waiting for weeks, it's finally here! I really enjoy these ranking videos.

I ain't even heard of like half of these

To be fair though, before he achieves nirvana, the monkey king is a total douche. He's barely a hero. Which tbh makes the film kinda accurate

I saw Across the Spiderverse in theaters and loved it! (I did have nervousness going into the film since I thought maybe the project would be too ambitious and become muddled). I especially loved Leo since the titular character reminded me a lot of Mr Rogers especially the songs!

I don't have an opinion as to which version is better, but one thing I will praise about Nimona is how the film essentially has a very different plot, while keeping the themes, characterisations and specific moments almost exactly the same.

41:39 Mrs Gillman was voiced by Australian actress Toni Collette who you may remember as Adult Mary in Mary and Max

1:32:38 Also it's kind of refreshing that The Director only hates Balister because he was a peasent Where aa the other knights had been Descendants of the original knights I mean it would have been low hanging fruit if the Reason was the Director was homophobic and thus didn't want someone gay on the Knights Plus that would have made her a hypocrite for allowing Goldenloin still be part of the Knights

Thank you for giving Barbie and Skipper The Big Babysitting Adventure the animated Netflix Barbie movies certainly deserve more love. Can't wait for Barbie and Stacie To The Rescue this spring!

I just feel really bad for Wish tbh. it barely made its budget back, and now there's a strong chance that the next Disney animated film won't even get a theatrical release at all.

Nimona is my favorite animated movie of 2023 and of all time. The original book is really great as well.

As much as I personally enjoyed Chicken Run 2, I’m a little disappointed that Mrs. Tweedy didn’t die. I used to find her supposed death in the first film funny as a kid.

34:45 This version of TDK didn’t have a lot of screen time But it’s crazy how a teenager was better at using his superpowers than a grown adult TDK from the Suicide Squad.

Okay I just wanna add that you are wrong about Chicken run 2. You can’t say they ruined Ginger’s character in the sequel because she has PTSD. You think that people who have PTSD would want to come back to war because they’re brave? No? No one wants to go back to the what caused their trauma in the first place. It makes perfect sense why Ginger is scared to save chickens from other farms because she went through hell in the last movie and she doesn’t want to go through it because she finally found freedom and doesn’t want to put her freedom at risk. Plus, she’s a mother now. There’s a saying that a mother puts her child first than anything else. Yes, the story isn’t nothing new but I see this movie as an epilogue movie to the first film. And yes, it’s not as darker as the first film but the film is heartwarming with the family dynamic between Ginger and her daughter and husband. Like, Chicken run 2 made me appreciate my late mother. And you saying that they ruined Ginger’s character because she was afraid means that you don’t care nor sympathize with people with PTSD

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I, personally enjoyed the Super Mario Movie. In my opinion, this has to be Jack Black's best role in any film. Each character seemed just like how we'd imagine them in the games and the references made me very happy. Also, Peaches should've won an award, change my mind

53:05 Okay I do find it pretty funny that The prison would have an orange Tophat for Humpdinger Almost like this Prison has In mind clothing accessories to fit their prisoners

33# The Monkey King is probably the story about Sun-Wukong, does it follow the Journey to west or is it before, and is his personalilty right itself to the ogrinal story, and we need to understand that eastern view of philosophy is not the same as in the west some things could be similar.

19:59 don’t you mean, Don Lino? Don Carlton, is the name of one of the fraternity brothers in Monsters University

I think it would be a great idea to rank of the Pixar films from worst to best.

Saw 5 of the film on this list. Came hear for recommendations if anything I missed. Going to give Nimona a try.

33:23 The worst part of Mon El twist in Legion of Super Heroes is that is complete uncessary since the Legion already has members who became or reveal themselves as villains in the comics. The best exemple is Earth Man and the Justice League of Earth, who are group of meta humans who hate the Legion because they reject them. Since the film already focus on the Legion's weird members and is about Kara feeling like outcast and trying to find her place, the JLE would had been the perfect contrast, since Kara and her friends would fighting against villains who reflect what they could become if they choose a dark path.

Welp, I find my video for this evening ^^ 1:18:44 I spat out my drink. Isn't that a Happy Madison movie? So high in your list?! Damn! I must watch that one, I love redemption arcs like that one! 1:37:11 That and the whole mistreatment of the animators working on it. Like, I agree, this film is a masterpiece, but mastrpieces shouldn’t be created at the expense of workers.

Bro sky pulled a saitama with that Meter

I was hoping “Craig before the Creek” would be on the list but that’s fine. I still enjoyed your ranking and you made good points.

I persoanlly adore the mario movie it jumps from place to place sure but its story is fun and the music is fantastic i swear except the pop songs but its super enjoyable all around

46:06 I still question why they didn't give The characters Australian accents when the movie is set in Australia

Why does Taz sound like Harvey Fierstein in that movie? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

To be clear, I think Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is a great movie and I'm glad people are giving it the respect it deserves. And thank God for CinemaWins for making a postive video on Ruby Gillman. I just felt awful about the movie's box-office and I blame Universal for that. At least the movie became a hit on Netflix. I think it's rather unfair that the movie gets a few negatives rather than positives and that rubs me the wrong way. Still, I think Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken deserves more love and more attention. At least it has a varitey of fans.

As someone who's both a DC. fan and a Scooby-Doo fan, I'm embarrassed to say that I completely missed the joke where the Daily Planet employees fail to recognise Velma without her glasses.

At this point, any traditional Scooby-Doo DVD movie is worth welcoming, especially since there's very little Scooby-Doo media these days. Especially since THIS one released the same year as Velma, the worst Scooby-Doo thing on the entire planet.

I respect your Opinion on Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

Ok, HOW did you watch 'Under the Boardwalk?' That movie had nonexistent publicity. Then again, I wouldn't be surprised if the Russell Brand scandal killed its chances of mainstream success.

Robot Dreams clears this whole list

So cool that we get videos like Yours and the reason I keep coming back to your videos, even for bad games. Cough Cough Wish Cough Cough Elemental the only youtuber that Give us fair criticism and how to fix it ❤

Puts Paw Patrol 2 above Wish and Dreamworks’ 2 movies of 2023! What a world we live in!

Why do I hear Candace when hearing the villain from Baby Shark?

The real reason Julia Sawalha wasn't asked to reprise her role as Ginger in Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget was to appease Mel Gibson's ego. It's a shame because Julia Sawalha was phenomenal as Ginger.

I actually understand gingers change In the sequel. She has a child now. That mixed with the ptsd made her act different. Because kids do that to you. Which is why it makes sense that she'd break into a facility despite her ptsd. Her child is in danger.

Me: Sun Wukong is pretty in character pre character development. Me: But why did you remove his character development?!

Interesting list, despite I’ve only head of maybe 5 lol. I actually have only seen Elemental, and I was pretty impressed to see it so high. I really do enjoy the romance between Ember and Wade and how its a lot more realistic and mature than Disney normally goes. My main cons with the movie is the character design (specifically ones like air and some of the fire characters look straight up creepy) and the world building could’ve been a little better. I definitely wouldn’t mind if this one got a sequel, considering Ember and Wade actually do have a steam child in the very last minute after the credits. I haven’t seen Wish yet, despite I’ve heard so many negative reviews on it. All I’m gonna say is it was a HUGE missed opportunity to make the shelved project The Search For Mickey Mouse, which was originally a sequel for the Great Mouse Detective. It was about different characters from almost every Disney movie coming together to find Mickey and could’ve been served as a metaphor to show how the company has decayed into a money making mega corporation that doesn’t care about art and storytelling anymore. And I find it very fitting, considering Mickey Mouse himself doesn’t actually have a movie about HIM, only shorts and Fantasia. Maybe do a video about the short Once Upon a Studio, your favorite parts and how it was so much better than Wish? As for Wish, I find this movie such a disappointment, especially as an anniversary movie. I think it had waay too many Easter eggs to basically rely on other Disney movies to keep audiences’s attention, especially kids. And I feel Asha is a bit of a selfish brat, considering how the movie ended with her having the ability to grant any wish she wants without any limitations. She basically learns NOTHING. As for the villain, Magnifico isn’t awful, BUT I am so disappointed Amaya wasn’t a villain too, considering the original plot for the movie. Same for Star being a love interest for Asha, so disappointed they scrapped that idea too. Instead, girls aren’t allowed to fall in love anymore because “love is a weakness” and the side characters are ok, except Valentino. I’m sorry but once he is able to start talking, I just wanted him to shut up. Animal characters like Hei Hei are so much better BECAUSE they’re consistent the entire movie as a dumb rooster that doesn’t talk

I would like to know what you thought of the adult talking dog movie Strays

1:31:07 when you think about it the Director was very stupid with her plan because the Queen didn't have any children so it makes me question who runs the kingdom now

Justice for Zachary Levi

1:33:26 as a straight man i had no idea that was still happening like that it horrible Why can't Homophobic Biphobic and Transphobic people just leave you alone

Jam, have you watched Greta Gerwig’s Barbie? If so, how does it compare to Barbie: Skipper and the Big Baby sitting adventure?

The brave beluga has a music similar to Minecraft music and Minecraft sounds

Where's Mortal Kombat: Legends Cage Match? 🤔

The diary of a wimpy kids movie is based of the books

Me: At least you actually review Trolls Band Together correctly and you also find Trolls World Tour the best of the 3 movies like me ( nothing can beat Dreamworks Infinity War ( My Espeon ( Sofia ): And its at least a trolltastic step up from Avengers which is actually just as unnecessary as Chicken Run 2. Which when we do watch it. My trainer is gonna smash that evil manufactured abomination that is more deserving for the Animat seal of garbage compared to Trolls Band Together. At least that do something engaging and even extended the dreamworks Trolls lore though ether way... this chicken run feast is spoiled and unnecessary and will make you throw up her boobies ) Branch: And thats we're aramen is meant to be in after this and Chicken run didn't deserve a sequel especially for its own good especially Animats real Chicken 2 score that is what's really meant to happen: Story: 1/10 Animation: 8.5/10 Character: 2.5/10 Overall: 3/10 🍗🤢🤮

Granted with an open mindset, i could tell you were disappointed with Dawn of the Nugget. as for the rest of the ranking, most of 2023 has its highs and lows, like every other animated film, but they vary by preference and recommending, which are worth a watch for addressing criticism and judgement. For 2024, we've got more streamed films from Netflix, and unfortunately for this year, there's not a single animated feature film from Warner Bros (for literal reasons)

24:15 jumpscare😭

ive got to check out the hermitcrab movie!

Archie from road rally racers Reminds me of the walrus from arctic dogs

There was no reason to make April look like a orc from lord of the rings 🤣🤣🤣

Ngl monkey king was tuff

Chicken Run 2 is Aardman’s worst film by far. You can tell interference from Netflix screwed it over a lot.

Out of all the 2023 animated movies I managed to see in 2023, there were only two movies I outright disliked. 'Mummies' exceeded my unremarkable expectations & I hated 'The Monkey King' with a burning passion, to the point where I strongly recommend LEGO Monkie Kid & American Born Chinese as alternatives.

Watched every Scooby-Doo film ever, huh? Is that in the running for the next Top 5 best and worst video...?

44:04 And even then that’s a stretch.

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Godzilla minus one

I'm starting to see a pattern...all the newest releases keep making it at number one on these yearly ranking videos.

The most overused criticism of 2023 was "It feels like it was generated by AI" because it was the year AI went mainstream, a fair amount of generic content got made, and one of the main reasons why the strikes happened is because of the AI going mainstream, which made it ironic whenever things were actually generated by AI. On a separate note, I refuse to believe that King Magnifico was ever a villain because I wouldn't want to live in a world where Hitler and Stalin could have anything they wanted by just asking for them.

Where’s Suzume?

I think you're way too mad at the Monkey King. It deserves to be at least above Wish in my opinion, but definitely doesn't deserve to be second worst. Not even close.

I guess the chapters gave up half way through

Where's migration?

21:23 This movie is so ugly! I never heard of it or saw a trailer. The one with the beluga had a bad story BUT at least the animation is ok. The 3D in the golden masks is disgusting, looks really cheap 😐 I also couldn't believed that Ms tweedey is alive after what hapened to her in the first movie. She; falled from a plane then was caught in an explosion by her pie machine and crushed by a giant door. How the heck is she still living after all this?

37:29 - It is your personal opinion, but I actually liked Wish. Is is it Disney's finest? No, but I did enjoyed it and it didn't feel like Disney's vanity project because I actually watched all of the Disney Animated Canon films, including The Black Cauldron though I haven't seen Home on the Range and Chicken Little, and even played Epic Mickey. I also thought the songs were really nice, though it all comes to your personal opinion. When I read The Art of Wish, there is one sentence that stood out to me: 'What we are selling isn't escapism, but reassurance.' This is what Wish brings. Reassurance. 40:05 - About Ruby, I really feel pity to the film as if it gotten time, it would be then comparable to The Fox and the Hound and even Ernest and Celestine.

The Super Mario Bros Movie is obviously my favorite movie of 2023

Under the boardwalk, to me, was bad. It's Romeo and Juliet with hermit crabs and pop songs, that's it! Nothing is interresting, cute or funny except the relation between the big crab and Ramona's sister. It was the ONLY thing that i liked and the animation is pretty. Not enough to make a good movie. Also, the movie is a musical and none of the songs were memorables. Nice job producers 😂

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