Vote On The April 2019 What A Cartoon! Movie!

Bob on Twitter promised me the Bill Murray vehicle Meatballs would be an option.

Micah

Spider-verse easily here. I really appreciate the fact that it is a movie that does a TON of showing and not telling right from the get go. The fact that Miles is mixed-race for instance is something that is shown in fairly explicit terms without him having the obligatory "Since I am half Black and half Hispanic I see things differently than some people" lines that movies shoe horn in there. The fact that his Dad is his adoptive Dad is never addressed explicitly either. They have different names, even though Miles shares his Mother's last name, but Jeff is still his Dad. The whole notion of family (circumstantial, chosen, or genetic) is so deeply intertwined from the first (non-expository) scene in this movie that I still catch things every time I watch it. Having a 4-year old that is into this means that is pretty often. Even the fact that Aaron has the framed picture in his apartment that Jeff uses as his Cell phone contact picture when he call Aaron later is great. To be honest I am just excited to hear the things that I missed.

Pumpkinbob

Everything is Spider-Mansome!

Alex Irish

If it's gonna be Spider-Man again, here's something I'd challenge you to bring up: The animation style in Spider-Verse has been a LONG TIME COMING. Pixar movies had used geometrically consistent, on-model characters for decades, but Sony Pictures Animation wanted to carve out a different visual identity. The process of creating distinct tools for distinct work started on Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, but it really blasted off when they hired Genndy Tartakovsky from Dexter's Lab and Samurai Jack. He pushed for new in-house animation tools to make Hotel Translyvania as flexible and fast as a 2D animated picture. Sure it's not a funny movie, but the characters change shape, noodle, smear, double and do all the things 2D characters do. Innovative animation rigging in the 2014 Popeye animation test AND Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse are not a coincidence; they're both flexing in-house animation tools and talent that Sony Pictures Animation have been developing to stand out from the crowd for a decade.

Tom Brien

Yeah I think we have plenty of Spider-Man to talk about, and I'd prefer hearing about The Lego Movie.

Tom Brien

I would love for it to be any of these, but there's no chance it's going to be anything other than Spider-Man. Which is a bit of a shame, as these are all fantastic.

Chris J

Spider-verse feels too recent to be featured. We’ve heard Henry and Bob talk about spider man how many times now?

Old men yell at Cloudy

I’m just waiting for BeBe’s Kids to show up on these polls. One day, one day....

*sigh* In my opinion, Spider-verse is too recent to be reviewed in the usual style of the podcast. Most of it probably WILL be explaining references and we'll end up having to gloss over the history of not only every other Lord/Miller movie on the list, but every other Spider-Man movie too. A true deep dive MUST start at the beginning. "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" or GTFO. Thank you for your attention. ^_^

To Boldy Joe... Moore

I like the notion that because it was spider-man it was obviously going to be great, like there haven’t been tons of bad spider-man movies and cartoons to this point. Not to mention it does it while killing Peter Parker. It’s a greater achievement than a lot of people give it credit for. The rest are great too, especially LEGO Movie, but I think Spidey is not only the best of those movies it, it’s a love letter to the comic industry in incredibly subtle ways that no animated film has ever done before. It’s really technically impressive with brave stylistic choices I think worked out better than they could have hoped.

Perniciousducks

Can we just vote "All of the above"? I'd enjoy all of these (Spidey #1 though)

Brock Hevenor