THE SECRET OF KELLS (2009), dir: Tomm Moore & Nora Twomey
For those who mourned the loss of aesthetics in animation with the advent of "Toy Story," there was hope in last year's crop of animated films.
Disney's return to the hand-drawn form with "The Princess and the Frog" was an unsatisfying meal for me. "The Secret of Kells" excels in its visual look. It's like viewing illuminated manuscripts. The new batch of hand-drawn animated films advance the old form, such as "Persepolis" and "Waltz with Bashir," mainly for using it to explore a wider range of themes. With the dominant hand of Disney now far from the old form, hand-drawn animation has become more adventurous. Two that I'm looking forward to this year are "The Illusionist" and "Chico and Rita."
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