Animation

James Gunn’s DCU kickoff Creature Commandos snuck a trailer into SDCC

Legend of Vox Machina’s first season 3 look at SDCC is good chaotic fun

New Transformers One trailer shows the humor and heartbreak of Optimus Prime and Megatron’s breakup

Inside Out 2 vs. Big Mouth: Who wore anxiety better?

The producer of Droids, Ewoks on why the early Star Wars cartoons flopped

In Kite Man: Hell Yeah! the best running gag in comics has been co-opted by the worst

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SpongeBob SquarePants is succeeding where The Simpsons has failed

SpongeBob’s still got it (even beyond the memes)

The darkest Batman story the DC Animated Universe ever told is on sale for Prime Day

There is an objectively correct amount of Minions, and this is not it

One of Inside Out 2’s subplots hits harder than the central story

Sausage Party’s sequel makes a strong case that Seth Rogen needs more boundaries

The best anime to watch on Netflix right now

Shrek 5 is actually happening for real

The older you are, the more important Inside Out 2 gets

Inside Out 2 has besmirched my favorite vegetable and I will not stand for it

Disney abandoned Princess Tiana — until it suddenly needed her help

Despicable Me 4 has an unusual flaw: too much plot potential

Tiana’s Bayou Adventure is way better than Splash Mountain probably deserved

Batman: Caped Crusader is all Gotham City throwbacks in first trailer

How Disney’s new Princess and the Frog ride connects to the upcoming Tiana TV series

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Inside Out 2’s Lance Slashblade was inspired by a real-life secret video game crush

The character’s creators explain the influences that shaped Lance: ‘like Cloud and Sephiroth had a child’

Where Inside Out 2 ranks in Pixar movie history

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Scavengers Reign still has so much more to say

Co-creator Joe Bennett talks through the origins of one of 2023’s best sci-fi series and what could lie on the horizon

Inside Out 2 ruins one of Inside Out’s best gags — and it’s no big deal

Netflix’s Ultraman: Rising triumphantly reinvents a tokusatsu legend for newbies

Inside Out 2 revives the old Pixar magic

Zack Snyder’s Netflix animated series is full of Viking action and sword fights

There will be an Adventure Time movie from Rebecca Sugar, Patrick McHale, and Adam Muto

Arcane to an end with season 2, and the trailer finds the cities in an all-out war

The first Donald Duck short in 60 years shouldn’t be the last

Arcane hitting 4K Blu-ray for people who never want it to leave Netflix

An Extremely Goofy Movie’s shippy TikToks are missing out on Beret Girl