What animated films have made you tear up a little?

[Rhythm]

Am i the only one that this happens to???
There have been parts of Finding Nemo, Lilo and Stitch, and even an episode of Pokemon (the one where Ash tries to release Pikachu into the wild) that i have had that reaction to...

This one's the one that kills me, though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0G9vDKcdLg

It's not the original version, but the song fits it so well that i prefer it to the creator's soundtrack.

[Forkboy]

1. If those made you cry don't even try to watch Grave of the Fireflies.

"Grave of the Fireflies" is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation. Since the earliest days, most animated films have been "cartoons" for children and families. Recent animated features such as "The Lion King," "Princess Mononoke" and "The Iron Giant" have touched on more serious themes, and the "Toy Story" movies and classics like "Bambi" have had moments that moved some audience members to tears. But these films exist within safe confines; they inspire tears, but not grief. "Grave of the Fireflies" is a powerful dramatic film that happens to be animated, and I know what the critic Ernest Rister means when he compares it to "Schindler's List" and says, "It is the most profoundly human animated film I've ever seen."

Roger Ebert

The movie is devastatingly sad. Just thinking about it is tough.

[Rhythm]

3. A lot of people have said that... (discussion going on at Fark)

I now have to add it to my Netflix queue...

Yeah... i'm a glutton for punishment.

[Forkboy]

6. It'll stick with you.

:(

[alphafemale]

8. Certainly not for kids. There's a Live Action version out there too.

I stumbled upon it on YouTube once. But I didn't dare watch.

[Forkboy]

23. I'll have to look for that.

I think in some ways seeing it in live action will be less painful. There was something almost subversive in using such beautiful animation to tell such a crushing human story.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

25. Not nearly as sad but also tear-provoking in spots is Tokyo Godfathers

and the animation is amazing.

[Forkboy]

37. Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to check it out.

[hellbound-liberal]

2. No, you're not the only one Think Blue. And thanks for posting that, I haven't seen that before

I think the music matches the animation very well. Here's one that gets me every time, I even got choked up standing in line at Disney World.It reminds me that the lives of all of the creatures on this planet are important and that we should live our lives in respect for the connections between us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX07j9SDFcc

The Circle of Life

From the day we arrive on the planet
And blinking, step into the sun
There's more to see than can ever be seen
More to do than can ever be done
There's far too much to take in here
More to find than can ever be found
But the sun rolling high
Through the sapphire sky
Keeps great and small on the endless round

It's the Circle of Life
And it moves us all
Through despair and hope
Through faith and love
Till we find our place
On the path unwinding
In the Circle
The Circle of Life

It's the Circle of Life
And it moves us all
Through despair and hope
Through faith and love
Till we find our place
On the path unwinding
In the Circle
The Circle of Life

[Rhythm]

5. Yeah... that's breathtaking, and chokes me up a little...

But not as much as Mufasa's death, or when Mufasa's spirit talks to Simba in the field.
That in particular reminds me of my own dad, whom i lost a couple of years before it was released, and just destroys me for a minute.

[alphafemale]

4. That thing with the cloned dog. Some posted a link of that once.

Not even completely sure of the program or context.

But it was wrenching and left not even a trace of hope whatsoever.

[Pale Blue Dot]

7. Damn you.

:cry:

[hellbound-liberal]

9. The first animated film that made me tear up, probably before your time, though it has been redone

It probably started me on the path to vegetarianism, too.

Charlotte's Web
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyjFnDsNOHc

[stuntcat]

27. omg

all it took was the 3-minute video :cry:

[Danmel]

10. The Iron Giant

When the Giant beeps at the end and starts coming back together, I wail buckets.

[kentauros]

20. For me with The Iron Giant it happens earlier, but still near the end.

"You stay. I go."

And his calling himself "Superman" as he rockets towards the missile...

[JTG of the PRB]

24. Same with me!

That's the exact same part! When he's flying up toward the missile and whispers "Superman..." and closes his eyes... Oh wow... :cry:

I love that movie. I love that movie so much.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

11. The Fox and The Hound

God that one kills me.
Most of them are tear-jerkers except for the princess ones.
Duckie

[fizzgig]

21. that one kills me, too

when i was little, i had a book and audio tape of the movie. my mom and i would listen/read together and by the end we would both just be bawling

[Blue_In_AK]

12. Bambi, of course. n/t

[DarkTirade]

13. Oh, thank the gods I wasn't the only one.

I can't stand Pokemon, but that one episode...

Honestly, I cry at movies waaaaaay too easily. There's even an episode of the Simpsons when I get misty-eyed. Hell, I can't heard the song 'Jazz Man' without thinking of that episode and getting misty-eyed now. :)

And if you don't bawl your eyes out at the end of An American Tail, you're not human.

[unsavedtrash]

14. When the Wind Blows

"Jim and Hilda are an elderly couple living a tranquil life in a small cottage out in the countryside – they embody just about the most benign and peaceful kind of civilian you could imagine. Yet they are doomed to suffer the most for something over which they have no voice. They place their trust in a line of government-issued pamphlets and, in spite of the obvious flaws and contradictions in their advice, manage to construct a shelter that will stand up to the bombing. And, miraculously, it works – but it leaves them totally unprepared for a threat even more horrifying, devastating and noxious than the blast itself; the nuclear winter, or 'fallout', that must follow."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090315/

[Orrex]

16. Crazy soundtrack

Not the most uplifting of cartoons, either...

[Forkboy]

38. Another great movie. Excellent choice.

I still have the video and the graphic novel. They did a great job adapting it. Very, very sad movie.

[Ava]

15. the fox and the hound always makes me cry

that scene when she has to leave todd out in the wild always makes me cry like a baby, and then feel humiliated for crying :rofl:

[Aristus]

17. The original animated "How The Grinch Stole Christmas."

That moment when his heart grows three sizes and he glows with new-found happiness, I just collapse.

My wife makes fun of me for it, but I don't care. I live for that moment...

BTW, I never have, and never plan to, see the live action Jim Carrey Grinch. It looks just awful from the trailers. And I wouldn't want to ruin the book and the animated version by viewing it.

[Orrex]

18. What do you mean "original?"

There is no other version than the Karloff version.


Period.

[Aristus]

22. Okay. Unnecessary use of words there. It could be either "original" or "animated."

Either would have sufficed.


Picky, picky, picky... :P

[AlCzervik]

19. The scene from Lilo and Stitch when Nani sings to Lilo on the hammock.

always makes me cry.

[stuntcat]

26. Watership Down

I love those bunnies :loveya: :cry:


(I won't even watch the Kiwi video again, btw :cry:)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

28. Beauty and the Beast, big time...

[annabanana]

29. most of them. . .I am a real sap. . .

I tear up at coffee commercials

[sakabatou]

30. Not really, but an have an AMV that makes people cry

http://youtube.com/watch?v=O0RIFKWyP0M

[oedura]

31. This...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Is_hpHzEMiE

...makes me cry like an idiot every time I watch it.

[mitchum]

32. Every one where Sylvester doesn't get to eat that annoying little fuck Tweety

it's just not fair

[margotb822]

33. Almost all of them

I always fast forward through the part in The Lion King where Mufasa gets trampled (what were they thinking?!?!). The beginning of Tarzan made me cry. Also, according to my mom, I became hysterical in The Land Before Time when the mom dinosaur was killed by a T-Rex. I can't help it...I'm a softie.

[ashling]

34. Not for me

I cry at the drop of a hat.

[suninvited]

35. An American Tale

I bawled.

[sarge43]

36. Watership Down, Beauty and the Beast, Fantasia 2000, The final episode.