My Neighbour Totoro “We’re happy as can be!” chirps the theme song, but the wonder of Studio Ghibli’s enchanting 1988 animation is how it combines abundant joy with aching sadness in its tale of sisterhood, a beaming catbus and a humongous cuddly forest spirit. The brilliant stop-motion animation by former Tim Burton protege Henry Selick gussies the whole thing up, but includes enough of Dahl’s grit to keep it respectable. James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl’s yarn is possibly the most kiddy of his major books, meaning it translates beautifully to the screen for the smallest viewers. Photograph: Walt Disney/Kelvin Jones/Allstar Predictably brilliant, helped by game guest voice stars Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes. The film sees the duo working as humane pest controllers, summoned by Lady Tottington who finds her castle grounds overrun with bunnies on the eve of the village vegetable show. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit “Just a bit of harmless brain alteration, that’s all,” Wallace reassures his side-eyeing beagle in this Aardman foray into cackling horror. The childlike psychedelia lends itself to a simple plot even little ones can follow, and what’s to be lost by getting them to listen to the likes of Nowhere Man and All Together Now so early in life? Yellow Submarine The Beatles might not have anticipated that the animated movie inspired by their 1966 hit single would become a bewitching Technicolor vision for the ages, but that’s what happened. Songs such as The Bare Necessities and I Wan’na Be Like You are rightly hailed as classics there’s not a wasted second in the whole thing. The Jungle Book The ultimate toe-tapping, child-friendly cartoon musical, reworking Rudyard Kipling’s India-set stories into an irrepressible blast of fun.
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