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Re: 80s nostalgia (4.00 / 4)
Ah, animated cartoons. I saw too many to count, so I have group even those I mention geographically. Let's start with the shortest list, for Western Europe.

  • Il était une fois... l'homme was an absolute favourite of mine as a kid. Also liked Il était une fois... la vie. I wasn't aware of the other seasons until recently, but did not like those. (For the uninitiated: this is an educative series with recurring characters; for example, the first one follows human history.)

  • Around the World with Willy Fog was another childhood top fav. This Spanish adaptation of Verne (which I saw before reading the original) turned the main characters into animals.

  • There is the unique and unbeatable La Linea: animated shorts made in Italy, consisting of just a contour. The main character is a walking man, whom the drawer always gets into trouble, with some misfortune befalling him at the end. (Thinking about it, its popularity around here comes from fitting with that Central European loser mentality perfectly.)

  • Jamie and the Magic Torch: an Alice in Wonderland-ish British(!) animation about a boy who opens a hole into another world from his bedroom every night, using a magic lamp.

  • The Smurfs, of course. But that wasn't a favourite, just so-so.

  • Astérix, of course. (Though I'm not sure an animated movie can be mentioned -- at least, this one was a series.) My favourite was and remains Asterix in Britain; I must have seen it a dozen times.


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One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Thu Jun 11th, 2009 at 09:51:24 AM EST
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