Hollywood’s history is littered with films featuring talking cartoon animals. Some are sweet, some are crass, some are funny, ...

Sure, the movies were magical and full of talking animals and catchy songs—but they were also weirdly dramatic, low-key terrifying, and absolutely loaded with meme material. These funny Disney ...

In “The Boy and the Beast,” the latest animated feature from Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda (“Wolf Children”), a street urchin is taken in and raised by anthropomorphic animals.

No singing, no dancing, no moral lessons — it’s just a cartoon, with fast-talking, wise-cracking animals ... gags aplenty (some of them are even funny), a surreal chase climax involving ...