Essays on Cartoons

In Jean Francois Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition, he discusses how the status of knowledge has changed in more advanced economies. Applying his insight to the world we live in today, the focus is on the information overload emerging from web-based sources and multimedia platforms. This explosion of information that children nowadays are exposed to goes...

Finding Nemo Review ‘Finding Nemo’ has the majority of the typical delights of the Pixar activity style- – the parody and wackiness of ‘Toy Story’ or ‘Beasts Inc.’ or ‘A Bug’s Life. The film happens essentially under the ocean, in the realm of beautiful tropical fish- – the vegetation of a shallow warm-water rack not...

George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm and Disney’s Zootopia, exhibit similar lessons of power. Firstly, intimidation is used by leaders to suppress those who are a conflict of interest to political agendas. In Animal Farm, the animals develop a scheme to overthrow the leadership of Mr Jones, the cruel owner of Animal Farm. This plan is...

Have you ever watched a movie, play, or musical and thought to yourself, “how in the world do they look so realistic, and how did the bring the character to life like that?” In “Shrek the Musical”, they did just that. They brought to life the aspects of the Ogres, Donkey, the even shortened Lord...

Pantalone Pantalone is a very important character in Commedia. He is one one of the highest-ranking characters and a lot of the other characters roles exist to serve him or his daughter. Pantalone is a very common Commedia character and is found in most plays, including Servant of Two Masters. Pantalone’s role in Commedia is...

“Wall E, meaning waste allocation load lifter earth class is a movie released in June 21st 2008, directed by Andrew santon portraying the robot wall e, WALL-E, the last robot left on Earth. One piece of garbage at a time, he spends his time cleaning up the planet. But during the 700 years, a personality...

The renowned 2001 Dreamworks animation is watched and adored by many; having been one of the first feature-length computer animated films. ‘Shrek’ is a film-adaptation of the book ‘Shrek!’, which was written by William Stieg, an American Cartoonist. Whilst maintaining its fantasy/fairy tale genre, its success and fame is from its subversion and disregard for...

Pixar and Disney are two of the most popular animators in the industry and are behind some of the highest grossing films of this generation. They both have their own unique animation techniques, but also some similarities as Pixar is owned by the Disney corporation. Moana uses a traditional hand drawn technique while Pixar’s Toy...

Toy Story 1 and Toy Story 4 are animated films created by Pixar and are made to the interest of young children. Toy Story 1 was released on the 7th of December in 1995 and was a very popular film amongst the younger audience, it was a cleverly constructed with plenty of good reviews. Toy...

The movie called: ”Wall-E” is about a robot that was supposed to be cloned and sent to clean earth,but humanity has left planet Earth and has left Wall-E with alot of garbage to clean, not knowing this, Wall-E made a home out of all the garbage he collected throughout the years, but although mankind has...