10 Animated Movies That The Next Generation Will Likely Miss

4. Charlotte€™s Web (1973)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2vwaiEHRY Like any original, Charlotte€™s Web was great for what it was; an excellent interpretation of a wonderful book aimed for children. I watched my copy of Charlotte€™s Web over and over again (mainly because my older sister is extremely arachnophobic), laughing at Templeton and spelling with Charlotte along the way. It was a great story about motivation, confidence, inevitable death, and, of course, sparing the life of an otherwise bright animal. However, all great things in the entertainment industry fall victim to the dreaded remake, which is a death wish when it comes to children€™s movies. It doesn€™t take much to keep a child interested. All a remake has to do is make the colors brighter and add more goofy noises to outshine its original. Having been remade in 2006, Charlotte€™s Web became a live-action movie over a straight animation, which made the story better relatable for young readers (unless they never read the book, in which case, that point is moot). The 1973 version of Charlotte€™s Web turned 40 just last month and, not that I was looking for it, I didn€™t see it broadcast on even public access channels for its anniversary.