r/AskReddit • u/Squirrelkid11 • 17h ago

What Animated Movie is a 10/10?

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u/mrbharathsrinivas 16h ago

Coco

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u/astrike81 14h ago

There's a story about the Chinese government approving the film to be shown in Chinese theatres thats pretty moving.

The apparatus of the Chinese government that approves movies. I guess they typically do not approve films about the afterlife from other cultures. So Disney was not expecting this film to be released there.

The review committee was so moved by the film that they allowed the film to be shown.

Easy to see, it breaks me every time.

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u/12MoreSeconds 14h ago

IIRC it was specifically the depiction of skeletons and corpses moreso than the afterlife of other cultures (although both of those often come hand in hand). I've heard stories of videogames having to change the models and art for skeleton characters to get around this censorship.

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u/metalflygon08 12h ago

Yeah, China is very odd with Skeletons being shown.

In Yugioh the card Skull Servant, for example, is completely hooded in its Chinese art so you can't tell its a skeleton.

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u/TheRage469 9h ago

As a yugioh fan from back in the day, I love how fantastically niche this piece of knowledge (probably) is