Movies With Animated Openings

[Ash]

Animated openings in movies seems to strictly be an '80's trend.

You know what I'm talking about.
The opening credits are introduced with a cartoon.

Two that spring to mind are "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" & "Mannequin"

Can you think of any other films that begin with an animated opening?

(Please!  No laundry lists!  1 or 2 per response!)



Post Edited (12-12-03 04:15)

[Ash]

I remember another!

Didn't "Who's That Girl?" start with one?

[ad]

Doesn't flash gordon have animation...no, wait they are just clips from a comic.

[Eirik]

The movie Tom Cats (2001?2002?) opened up with a fairly amusing and well animated sequence as the credits rolled.  The tie-in is that the main character - played by the geek from Sliders - was a cartoonist and his cartoons in the movie resembled the cartoon at the beginning.  Overall, a bad and very unfunny movie, but damn if it didn't have one powerhouse lineup of actresses.

[ElectroSunDog]

NOT SO!!!!!!

There were lots of 70's and  60's films with animated opening titles as well. Baba Yaga and Blacula spring to mind, as well as Catalina Caper.

[Eirik]

Here's one: Watership Down - an animated movie - had an opening sequence that was a completely different KIND of animation (much more simplistic and stylistic compared to the "realist" type animation of the rest of the movie).

All the Pink Panther movies had animated openings too - which led to a Saturday morning cartoon.

[trekgeezer]

City Slickers!   All or most of the Pink Panther moviies!

[Gerry]

ElectroSunDog wrote:

> NOT SO!!!!!!
>
> There were lots of 70's and  60's films with animated opening
> titles as well.

Very true.  THE DUNWICH HORROR has a very bizarre and creative animated opening and that came out in 1970.

[Susan]

no but i can think of movies with animated scenes in them. Like "One crazy summer" or "better off dead". Even "Xanadu"..heh

[Darkautumn]

Don't forget the animated "pre-credits" sequence from the original US theatrical cut of "The Fearless Vampire Killers." Does that count?

[Darkautumn]

There was also an old Shaw Brothers kung fu flick called "Two Champions of Shaolin" (aka: Two Champions of Death) that had a neat little animated credit sequence, the only kung fu movie I can think of with such an opening.

Oh...and there's also "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians." It has a cartoon Santa frolicking amid the credits, while that "song" "Hooray for Santa Claus" plays over the proceedings. Believe it or not, I actually heard that tune being played over a KB toy store's sound system last week. It was a surreal experience, to say the least.

[Gerry]

Darkautumn wrote:

> Don't forget the animated "pre-credits" sequence from the
> original US theatrical cut of "The Fearless Vampire Killers."
> Does that count?

Definitely!  Funny stuff too.

[Gerry]

And who could forget the classic opening to IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD!

[Cricket21a]

Speaking of Mad, didn't Mad House have animation in the begining?

[Bernie]

Didn't Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (a great forgotten comedy from the halcyon 60s) have an animated opening?