Sci-Fi Comedies
Mars Attacks!
Galaxy Quest
Men In Black
Weird Science
Spaceballs
Hot Tub Time Machine
Paul
The World’s End
Guardians of the Galaxy
La Soupe au choux
(“Cabbage Soup”) - 1981 French screwball comedy, a personal favorite
Films with animation depicting real actors’ likenesses
Cool World (1992)
Both Kim Bassinger and Brad Pitt’s characters appear as animated and live-action versions of themselves.
Films with animation depicting real actors’ likenesses
Cool World (1992)
Polar Express (2004)
Tom Hanks as multiple characters.
Films with animation depicting real actors’ likenesses
Cool World (1992)
Polar Express (2004)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
They weren’t the best of likenesses, but one could tell who was supposed to be who of the Fab Four.
-“BB”-
Films with animation depicting real actors’ likenesses
Cool World (1992)
Polar Express (2004)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
Xanadu (1980)
Includes an animated sequence, set to ELO’s song “Don’t Walk Away,” in which Kira (Olivia Netwon-John) and Sonny (Michael Beck) are depicted as their human selves, as well as birds and fish.
Films with animation depicting real actors’ likenesses
Cool World (1992)
Polar Express (2004)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
Xanadu (1980)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
Frank Sinatra as the Singing Sword
There’s also a sequence with Benny the Cab where Bob Hoskins is completely animated.
Films with animation depicting real actors’ likenesses
Cool World (1992)
Polar Express (2004)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
Xanadu (1980)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
Wizards (1977)
Bakshi did a lot of rotoscoping in his day.
Films with animation depicting real actors’ likenesses
Cool World (1992)
Polar Express (2004)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
Xanadu (1980)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
Wizards (1977)
A Christmas Carol (2009)
Animated Jim Carrey.
Films with animation depicting real actors’ likenesses
Cool World (1992)
Polar Express (2004)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
Xanadu (1980)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
Wizards (1977)
A Christmas Carol (2009)
A Bug’s Life (1998)
David Hyde Pierce’s character, Slim, a stick bug, looked a lot like him.
Films with animation depicting real actors’ likenesses
Cool World (1992)
Polar Express (2004)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
Xanadu (1980)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
Wizards (1977)
A Christmas Carol (2009)
A Bug’s Life (1998)
Fire and Ice (1983)
Another Bakshi film featuring rotoscoping.
Films with animation depicting real actors’ likenesses
Cool World (1992)
Polar Express (2004)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
Xanadu (1980)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
Wizards (1977)
A Christmas Carol (2009)
A Bug’s Life (1998)
Fire and Ice (1983)
The Incredibles (2004)
Frank and Ollie (the two older guys at the end who remark,“no school like the old school”) are caricatures of Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, two of Walt Disney’s “Nine Old Men” team of animators from the early days of Disney animation.
The two men also provided the voices for the characters.
I’ll pass.
-“BB”-
Versions, pirates, pastiches, prequels, sequels, and so forth, of “Dracula”
Deafula , 1975, ASL vampire film
Versions, pirates, pastiches, prequels, sequels, and so forth, of “Dracula”
Deafula , 1975, ASL vampire film
Son of Dracula , 1974
A counter-culture version starring Harry Nilsson and Ringo Star. It gave us “Daybreak”, sung by Harry.
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Versions, pirates, pastiches, prequels, sequels, and so forth, of “Dracula”
Deafula , 1975, ASL vampire film
Son of Dracula , 1974
Nosferatu the Vampyre , 1979, Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinski
Versions, pirates, pastiches, prequels, sequels, and so forth, of “Dracula”
Deafula , 1975, ASL vampire film
Son of Dracula , 1974
Nosferatu the Vampyre , 1979, Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinski
Love at First Bite , 1979, George Hamilton with Arte Johnson, Richard Benjamin, and Susan St. James
-“BB”-
Versions, pirates, pastiches, prequels, sequels, and so forth, of “Dracula”
Deafula , 1975, ASL vampire film
Son of Dracula , 1974
Nosferatu the Vampyre , 1979, Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinski
Love at First Bite , 1979, George Hamilton with Arte Johnson, Richard Benjamin, and Susan St. James
Hotel Transylvania , 2012, animated film
“I do NOT go bleh-bleh-bleh!”
Spoons
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Versions, pirates, pastiches, prequels, sequels, and so forth, of “Dracula”
Deafula , 1975, ASL vampire film
Son of Dracula , 1974
Nosferatu the Vampyre , 1979, Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinski
Love at First Bite , 1979, George Hamilton with Arte Johnson, Richard Benjamin, and Susan St. James
Hotel Transylvania , 2012, animated film
Dracula: Dead and Loving It , 1995, with Leslie Nielsen
Versions, pirates, pastiches, prequels, sequels, and so forth, of “Dracula”
Deafula , 1975, ASL vampire film
Son of Dracula , 1974
Nosferatu the Vampyre , 1979, Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinski
Love at First Bite , 1979, George Hamilton with Arte Johnson, Richard Benjamin, and Susan St. James
Hotel Transylvania , 2012, animated film
Dracula: Dead and Loving It , 1995, with Leslie Nielsen
Blacula , 1972, blaxploitation horror film
Versions, pirates, pastiches, prequels, sequels, and so forth, of “Dracula”
Deafula , 1975, ASL vampire film
Son of Dracula , 1974
Nosferatu the Vampyre , 1979, Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinski
Love at First Bite , 1979, George Hamilton with Arte Johnson, Richard Benjamin, and Susan St. James
Hotel Transylvania , 2012, animated film
Dracula: Dead and Loving It , 1995, with Leslie Nielsen
Blacula , 1972, blaxploitation horror film
Van Helsing , 2004, Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale hunt Dracula