Animated popular kids movies are always the passion of not only many children but also adults. And the good news is that right in 2022, there are many hit movie theaters for us to experience. So what are those names? Which animated movie is most worth looking forward to?
1. Turning Red (Red Bear transforms)
Turning Red is a 2022 American animated fantasy comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It was directed by Domee Shi (in her feature directorial debut) and produced by Lindsey Collins, from a screenplay written by Shi and Julia Cho, and a story by Shi, Cho, and Sarah Streicher. The film marks the first Pixar feature film solely directed by a woman. It stars the voices of Rosalie Chiang, Sandra Oh, Ava Morse, Hyein Park, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Orion Lee, Wai Ching Ho, Tristan Allerick Chen, and James Hong. Set in Toronto, Ontario in 2002, the film follows Meilin "Mei" Lee (Chiang), a 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian student who transforms into a giant red panda when she experiences any strong emotion, due to a hereditary curse.
Turning Red was first shown in London at Everyman Borough Yards on February 21, 2022, as a special screening, in Toronto at TIFF Bell Lightbox on March 8, and at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on March 1. Originally planned for a worldwide theatrical release, plans were changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film was released on March 11, 2022, on the Disney streaming service and was released theatrically in most countries without Disney+, grossing over $20 million, and became a critical success. The film received a nomination for Best Animated Feature at the 95th Academy Awards, among numerous other accolades.
The cartoon in the theater is probably called Turning Red, the content of the film revolves around Meilin Lee living in Toronto. She is carefully taken care of by her mother and seems like life is very happy. Suddenly one day Mei has an awkward problem, which makes her unable to control her emotions and turn into a red panda.
From this incident Mei suddenly discovered her family's secret, that this incident was related to an animal that her family was worshiping. But this power caused a lot of trouble in her life. Turning Red brings a cozy story of family love, conveying a mature message to young adults.
2. The Bad Guys
The Bad Guys is a 2022 American animated heist comedy film loosely based on the children's book series of the same name by Aaron Blabey, produced by DreamWorks Animation Studios and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film was directed by Pierre Perifel (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Etan Cohen, and stars the voices of Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Awkwafina, Craig Robinson, Anthony Ramos, Richard Ayoade, Zazie Beetz, Alex Borstein, and Lilly Singh. It tells the story of a criminal group of anthropomorphic animals who, upon being caught, pretend to attempt to reform themselves as model citizens, only for their leader to find himself genuinely drawn to changing his ways for good as a new villain has his own plans.
The Bad Guys was released theatrically in several countries beginning March 16, 2022, and in the United States on April 22, in 2D and RealD 3D formats. It received positive reviews from critics for its animation, screenplay, humor, and voice acting. It was also a box office success, grossing $250 million worldwide.
The Bad Guys is a humorous animated film about a group of bad guys including: Evil Wolf, Miss Spider, Mr. Snake, Mr. Tiger and Mr. Shark. These five people are criminals in the past. However, they receive an unexpected task, which is to try to be a good person and become an exemplary citizen. Will they be able to do it?
The story also wants to convey the message that bad people can also become good people? Break the previous prejudice we have for these animals. Let's follow the group of bad people to practice being good people to see how!
3. Hotel Transylvania 4: Transformania (Mystic Hotel: Transformed Vampire)
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania is a 2022 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation and released by Amazon Studios. The fourth and final installment in the Hotel Transylvania franchise and the sequel to Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018), the film is directed by Derek Drymon and Jennifer Kluska (in their respective feature-length directorial debuts) from a screenplay by Amos Vernon, Nunzio Randazzo and Genndy Tartakovsky (who directed the prior three films).
It stars the voices of Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez (who also served as an executive producer alongside Tartakovsky and Michelle Murdocca), Kathryn Hahn, Jim Gaffigan, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, David Spade, Keegan-Michael Key, Brian Hull, Fran Drescher, Brad Abrell, Asher Blinkoff, Tyler "Ninja" Blevins and Zoe Berri. In the film, Dracula and Johnny (Hull and Samberg), who transformed into a human and monster, must find the way to South America to revert, before their transformations become permanent.
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania was released exclusively on Amazon Prime Video on January 14, 2022 and theatrically in China on April 3. The film received mixed reviews from critics with the Rotten Tomatoes critical consensus calls it "middling family viewing -- relatively painless, but overall rather uninspired".
Surely you are too familiar with the Mystic Hotel series, don't you, so don't miss the final part of this series. Hotel Transylvania 4 is about an incident that turns all monsters into humans, while Johnny turns into monsters.
From there, Dracula and his son-in-law Johnny have to set out to find a way to make themselves back to the same. On that arduous journey, the two gradually realized the other's good points and became closer to each other. The film brings many extremely interesting funny details, conveying a deep family message. This is definitely a theatrical cartoon worth watching.
4. The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild
The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild is a 2022 animated adventure comedy film directed by John C. Donkin, in his feature directorial debut, with a screenplay by Jim Hecht, Ray DeLaurentis, and William Schifrin. It is a spin-off film of the Ice Age franchise, and serves as the sixth overall installment in the franchise. The film stars the voices of Simon Pegg (the only previous cast member to return), Vincent Tong, Aaron Harris, Utkarsh Ambudkar, and Justina Machado also starring in the film. It follows the two opossum brothers Crash and Eddie and their adventure to becoming independent possums alongside the titular character Buck Wild.
In this part, brothers Crash and Eddie decide to move out on their own and accidentally get lost in the adventurous world of dinosaurs. Here they face many challenges but still try to overcome them. On this journey they accidentally meet Buck Wild ferret, revealing that this is a terrible time with the appearance of Orson, he is building a violent cannibal army to rule the world.
Against Orson, Buck's friends Zee, Manny, Sid, Diego,... began to gather again. Old friends start an extremely interesting but also very difficult journey to fight against that evil villainous army.
5. Lightyear (Space Police Lightyear)
Buzz Lightyear is a fictional main character in Disney–Pixar's Toy Story franchise, voiced by Tim Allen. He is a superhero toy action figure based on the in-universe media franchise consisting of a blockbuster feature film and animated series, Space Ranger.
In the Disney–Pixar Toy Story franchise, Buzz wears a green, purple, and white space suit. Buzz Lightyear is a recurring character in all of the Toy Story franchise's animated films, including spin-offs. Notably, Woody serves as the main protagonist throughout the four films in the series, while Buzz remains an important character. In Toy Story (1995), unlike most other toys, Buzz initially believes himself to be the "real" Buzz Lightyear and comes to terms with actually being just a toy; in Toy Story 2 (1999), Buzz encounters other Buzz Lightyear action figures from the toyline who similarly believe themselves to be "real" including one of the character's in-universe archenemy and father: Emperor Zurg; in Toy Story 3 (2010), set ten years later, Buzz explores a romance with cowgirl figure Jessie, while he uncovers his Spanish mode; while in Toy Story 4 (2019), Buzz finds his inner voice and bids farewell to Woody, who leaves to be with Bo Peep.
If you've seen the Toy Story series, you're probably too familiar with the character Buzz Lightyear, right? The upcoming Lightyear animated film will help us understand the origins of this space cop, who inspired the game character at Toy Story.
The film's content tells about Buzz's journey when testing time travel, but an incident has brought Buzz to the future 62 years later. Now Buzz must find a way to return home and fight the evil emperor Zurg.
6. Minions: The Rise of Gru (Minions: Rise of Gru)
Minions: The Rise of Gru is a 2022 American animated comedy film produced by Illumination and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is the sequel to Minions (2015), a prequel to Despicable Me (2010), and the fifth entry overall in the Despicable Me franchise. The film was directed by Kyle Balda, co-directed by Brad Ableson and Jonathan del Val (in Ableson's feature directorial debut), and produced by Chris Meledandri, Janet Healy and Chris Renaud, from a screenplay written by Matthew Fogel, and a story by Fogel and Brian Lynch. It features Steve Carell reprising his role as Gru and Pierre Coffin as the Minions. New cast members include Taraji P. Henson, Michelle Yeoh, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews and Alan Arkin. In the film, an eleven-year-old Gru plans to become a supervillain with the help of his Minions, which leads to a showdown with a malevolent team, the Vicious 6.
Surely many people have not forgotten the extremely cute Minions who say things that no one understands, right? Set in the 70s, the story about Gru is only a 12-year-old boy at this time.
He wishes to join the super villain group Vicious 6, Gru cherishes many cruel plans to join this group of villains. The film will also explain the encounter between Gru and the Minions for the first time! Promise this will be an extremely attractive animated film.
7. DC Super Pets
DC League of Super-Pets is a 2022 American animated superhero comedy film. Produced by Warner Animation Group, DC Entertainment, and Seven Bucks Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it was directed by Jared Stern and co-directed by Sam J. Levine, from a screenplay by the writing team of Stern and John Whittington. The film stars Dwayne Johnson as the voice of Krypto, alongside a supporting ensemble voice cast that includes Kevin Hart, Kate McKinnon, John Krasinski, Vanessa Bayer, Natasha Lyonne, Diego Luna, Marc Maron, Thomas Middleditch, Ben Schwartz, and Keanu Reeves. The film tells the story of Superman's pet dog Krypto and shelter dog Ace who work with other animals to save captured superheroes from Lex Luthor and Lulu.
DC League of Super-Pets had its premiere in Los Angeles on July 27, 2022, and was released in the United States on July 29. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed over $207 million worldwide on a $90 million budget. DC League of Super-Pets is the last film to be produced under the Warner Animation Group name before the animation studio label became Warner Bros. Pictures Animation on June 9, 2023.
In the TOP 10 most anticipated animated movies in 2022, DC Super Pet tells about the pets of DC superheroes such as: Superman's Krypto Dog, Wonder Woman's Jumpa, Batman's Ace, Supergirl's Streaky cat. These pets gather themselves into a team of super animals to do their own justice.
If you are familiar with DC superheroes specializing in killing violence, you probably can't ignore the justice process of these lovely pets. On this journey, what difficulties will the DC Super Pets team face? Let's see!
8. Doraemon: Nobita no Little Wars (Doraemon: Nobita and the Tiny Space War)
Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars is a 1985 Japanese animated epic space opera film. It is a feature-length Doraemon film which premiered in Japan on March 16, 1985. As the film's title suggests, it is a parody of George Lucas' original Star Wars trilogy, with a few elements from his 1983 film Return of the Jedi. The film is directed by Tsutomu Shibayama. The theme song of this film is performed by Tetsuya Takeda. It's the 6th Doraemon film. The remake of the film, Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021 has been released on 4 March 2022 after being postponed from its original 5 March 2021 release date due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Let's join the robot cat Doraemon and friends on a completely new adventure. As the latest animated film about the robot cat Doraemon, the story begins when Nobita accidentally sees a tiny alien named Papi and comes from the planet Pirika. Due to having to flee from the evil PCIA army, Papi must come to Earth to hide.
Unexpectedly, the PCIA army also caught up with Papi, they sent warships to attack him. Doraemon and his close friends Nobita, Shizuka, Suneo, and Jaian must gather and start the journey to rescue his friend Papi and are determined to fight to the end.
So Traveloka has finished revealing the most worth watching animated movies in 2022! Remember to take notes carefully and schedule to enjoy the above titles. Guaranteed you will have the most enjoyable experience for yourself!
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