20 Live Action Films with At Least One Animated Sequence
You know when you're watching a film and someone changes the channel and you get really angr... Oh yeah, right, it's part of the film, which 100% animated sequence(s), in an otherwise 100% live-action film, is your favourite?
Note: Films that mix live action and animation at the same time do not count. Live Action must be the main theme of the film.
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Note: Films that mix live action and animation at the same time do not count. Live Action must be the main theme of the film.
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- DirectorMarilyn AgreloStarsJessica AlbaChris MessinaSonia BragaMona Gray is a 20-year-old loner who turned to math for salvation as a child after her father became ill. As an adult she now teaches the subject and helps her students through their own crises.The film opens in an animated land in which the human inevitability of dying is eradicated. Naturally this leads to overpopulation, things take a turn for the grisly when a family decide to sacrifice it's limbs to create some more space.
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenDiane KeatonTony RobertsAlvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.The scene involves an animated Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) arguing with a Snow White-inspired wicked queen, with the voice of Diane Keaton. She confesses that her and Singer never have fun any more because he's too concerned with her self improvement.
- DirectorMichael MooreStarsMichael MooreCharlton HestonMarilyn MansonFilmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.A doc about U.S Gun culture has a short animated scene about how the countries history was largely driven by conflict and racist feuds and that this has inspired a culture of fear, only eased by guns and bullets.
- DirectorJørgen LethLars von TrierStarsClaus NissenMajken Algren NielsenDaniel Hernandez RodriguezFilmmaker Lars Von Trier challenges Jørgen Leth, the filmmaker behind The Perfect Human (1967), to remake his classic short under circumstances of increasing constraint.
- DirectorDavid YatesStarsDaniel RadcliffeEmma WatsonRupert GrintAs Harry, Ron and Hermione race against time and evil to destroy the Horcruxes, they uncover the existence of the three most powerful objects in the wizarding world: the Deathly Hallows.The Tale of the Three Brothers, read by Hermione revealing the 3 elements of the Deathly Hallows.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsRon PerlmanSelma BlairDoug JonesA prince of the mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity in order to rule the Earth. Hellboy and his team must fight to stop him from locating the all-powerful Golden Army.A prologue that fills in some Golden Army back story in the form of Hellboy being told a story by his father, involving a great war and a guilty king. Prince Nuada's character is revealed as he goes into exile after a disagreement with his father.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsUma ThurmanDavid CarradineDaryl HannahAfter awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.While the bride tries to get her legs working after a four year coma, the audience see an anime-style origin story recounting the early life of O-Ren Ishii through three important moments.
- DirectorTerry GilliamTerry JonesStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseEric IdleKing Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.In just one of a few animated scenes, "The Tale of Sir Launcelot" sees a man disrupted in his writing, after ascending the many stairs of his castle he sees the clouds and the sun jumping up and down on his front doorstep, he tells them to "Clear Off!" and proclaims "Bloody Weather!"
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsWoody HarrelsonJuliette LewisTom SizemoreTwo victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.The satire includes a short animated segment with buffed up Mickey & Mallory fighting some.. cats?
- DirectorAlan ParkerStarsBob GeldofChristine HargreavesJames LaurensonA confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.The animated clip is accompanied by the track "What Shall We Do Now?" It starts of with two flowers steadily growing and quickly evolves into a vast city, a parallel for overpopulation and industry.
- DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsDavid NivenPeter SellersRobert WagnerThe bumbling Inspector Clouseau travels to Rome to catch a notorious jewel thief known as "The Phantom" before he conducts his most daring heist yet: a princess' priceless diamond with one slight imperfection, known as "The Pink Panther".Although the film's title actually refers to a jewel, the credits are presented in a cartoon sequence featuring a pink panther who interacts with the lettering in various ways -- spinning letters around, unscrambling words, inserting extra credits for himself, and so on.
- DirectorScott StewartStarsPaul BettanyCam GigandetMaggie QA warrior priest disobeys church law to track down a pact of vampires who have kidnapped his niece.Used as a prologue to get the audience up to speed with the Vampire/Human war.
- DirectorAndy FickmanStarsKristen BellChristian CampbellNeve CampbellAn outrageous tongue-in-cheek musical comedy adaptation of the classic anti-marijuana propaganda film Reefer Madness (1936).A drug related animated sequence as Jimmy gets the munchies and hallucinates over the 'greatest brownie known to man' also featuring singing fish and man/brownie sex.
- DirectorTom TykwerStarsFranka PotenteMoritz BleibtreuHerbert KnaupAfter a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.The animated sequence shows Lola running through a series of tunnels and a never ending staircase, as time ticks by.
- DirectorPeter HyamsStarsJohn RitterPam DawberJeffrey JonesA husband and wife are sucked into a hellish television set and must survive the gauntlet of twisted versions of shows in which they find themselves.As the leading characters are sucked into their TV set, the pair find themselves in the bodies of two rodents.
- DirectorRachel TalalayStarsLori PettyIce-TNaomi WattsA girl is among the few survivors of a dystopian Earth. Riding a war tank, she fights against the tyranny of a mega-corporation that dominates the remaining potable water supply of the planet.When Naomi Watts' Jet Girl gets knocked out she dreams of her and Tank Girl travelling through a desert in a tank.
- DirectorDavid WainStarsPaul RuddJessica AlbaWinona Ryder10 stories, each inspired by one of the 10 Commandments.The film, a walk through of The Ten Commandments sees commandment 9 - “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour" as a rhino starts gossiping and spreading false rumours.
- DirectorJake KasdanStarsJohn C. ReillyJenna FischerDavid KrumholtzSinger Dewey Cox overcomes adversity to become a musical legend.This time an LSD related cartoon trip, sees Dewey Cox involved in a parody of The Beatles' - 'Yellow Submarine' however the unhappy thoughts get to him as he's cut in half by a machete!
- DirectorZack SnyderStarsJackie Earle HaleyPatrick WilsonCarla GuginoIn a version of 1985 where superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach on the trail of a conspiracy that will change the course of history.The ultimate cut of Watchmen, features a story-within-a-story called Tales of the Black Freighter (2009) it is 26 minutes long (split up throughout the movie) and tells the story of a mariner attacked by the pirates of The Black Freighter and his struggle to warn his homeland of their presence.
- DirectorRobert GreenwaldStarsOlivia Newton-JohnGene KellyMichael BeckA struggling artist living in Los Angeles meets a girl who may hold the key to his happiness.The couple's kiss scene turns to animation as they find themselves standing top a flower and able teleport and transform into fish and birds, while performing a love chase.