Animated film mix

This did look like it was turning into a voice actor fest, but I managed to keep it down to 4 of the 10 questions. After discovering “Felix the Reaper” existed I found it on sale for around £2 on the PS Store, so no doubt I’ll be sinking more hours than are healthy into that at some point.

Questions

Known for being a sidekick to Conan O’Brien on various talk shows, Andy Richter voiced which mouse lemur in the “Madagascar” franchise, who despite his cuteness spends a lot of time vomiting?

MORT

A film that was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars, “Missing Link” saw which actor voice the character of Mr. Susan Link, a sasquatch who goes in search of his yeti relatives in the Himalayas?

ZACK GALIFIANAKIS

Its title referring to a human being, “Smallfoot” sees the young yeti Migo set out to prove that our species exists, with fortune seeing him encounter a filmmaker voiced by James Corden. Which actor provided the voice of Migo, with a character voiced by Zendaya being his love interest?

CHANNING TATUM

Based on the 1997 Cornelia Funke novel, who voiced the evil dragon Nettlebrand in the animated film “Dragon Rider”? His many voice roles extend to video games, including the macabre 2019 puzzler “Felix the Reaper”.

PATRICK STEWART

Also responsible for the cartoon “Thundercats”, Rankin-Bass produced which 1974 stop motion TV special based on a book by children’s author and poet Phyllis McGinley? Characters include Snow Miser and Heat Miser, who both got another run-out in 2009’s “A Miser Brothers’ Christmas”, a film that saw Mickey Rooney reprising his role voicing Santa Claus.

THE YEAR WITHOUT SANTA CLAUS

Following on from “Trolls” and “Trolls World Tour”, what is the 2023 third title in the film series that sees Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake once again voicing their respective pink and black pointy-haired avatars?

TROLLS BAND TOGETHER

Joining the voice cast of “Trolls World Tour” was which conductor as Wolfgang Amadeus Trollzart, the character taking the stage alongside his Classical Trolls?

GUSTAVO DUDAMEL

Played by a young Freddie Highmore, what is the surname of Arthur in Luc Besson’s “Arthur and the Invisibles”, a film that sees a boy journey through the world of the Minimoys?

MONTGOMERY

Produced among others by Antonio Banderas, which not particularly well received English-language animation had the working title “Goleor: The Scales and the Sword”? Freddie Highmore voiced the lead character, with Banderas hinself doing a turn as one of the antagonists, Sir Clorex.

JUSTIN AND THE KNIGHTS OF VALOUR

Also directing another Disney film with the 2019 version of “The Lion King”, which sometime actor directed the 2016 remake of “The Jungle Book”?

JON FAVREAU

Irish Animated Films

With a completely unrelated bonus question to start with, this is mainly inspired by my unfamiliarity with the Irish cat poem that has again temporarily slipped my mind…

Questions

The Dublin cultural quarter of Temple Bar is thought to be named for 17th-century Englishman Henry Temple, a logician associated with which division of scholasticism that was named for a French thinker who lost his life during the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre?

RAMISM (After Petrus Ramus)

Having one green iris and one blue iris, the white cat Pangur Bán is a character in which 2009 animated film, which was nominated for an Academy Award in the year when the Best Animated Feature was extended from three to five nominees?

THE SECRET OF KELLS

It is speculated that Sedulius Scotus could have written the poem “Pangur Bán” as its authorship is unknown and it resembles his style. In which ‘Primer’ has this poem about a white cat been preserved, being named for an abbey that makes up part of a European World Heritage Site?

REICHENAU

Both words rhyming with each other, what is the name of the animation studio based in Kilkenny that was founded by Tommy Moore, Nora Twomey and Paul Young, the former two being credited as directors of the Oscar nominated “The Secret of Kells”?

CARTOON SALOON

A poetry genre that developed in the 17th and 18th century, what name is given to a vision poem particularly associated with seeing a mysterious woman? It is honoured by “The Secret of Kells”, which uses it as the name for a fairy-like character in the film.

AISLING

The voice for Abbot Cellach in “The Secret of Kells” is provided by which well known actor, whose other work in this genre includes the Estonian stop motion animation “Captain Morten and the Spider Queen” and the more predictable “Riverdance: The Animated Adventure”?

BRENDAN GLEESON

Although it didn’t take home the top prize, “The Secret of Kells” took home the Audience Award at which International Animation Film Festival that was created in 1960 and is named for a city in France?

ANNECY

Another animation to feature the voicework of Brendan Gleeson was which second film from Tomm Moore’s “Irish Folklore Trilogy”, which features among its cast a mute selkie called Saoirse?

SONG OF THE SEA

The final film in Tomm Moore’s “Irish Folklore Trilogy” following “The Secret of Kells” and “Song of the Sea” is which 2020 animation, with Sean Bean offering his voice to proceedings as the father of Robyn Goodfellowe, a young female apprentice hunter?

THE WOLFWALKERS

Nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, which 2017 film directed by Nora Twomey is based on a novel by Canadian author Deborah Ellis that also goes by the name of “Parvana”, that alternative title coming from the 11-year old protagonist who lives in Kabul?

THE BREADWINNER

With Ian McShane voicing a gorilla and Chris O’Dowd a macaque, what type of creature is Boris in a 2022 animation directed by Nora Twomey, it being referenced in the title of the film? Not a member of the primate order, it is voiced by Gaten Matarazzo of “Stranger Things” fame.

DRAGON (The film is “My Father’s Dragon”)

A 2014 animated film by Tomm Moore called “The Prophet” is based on which Lebanese author’s work that was first published in 1923, going on to become one of the best-selling books of all time? Another novel by the author called “Broken Wings” inspired the namesake US Billboard no. 1 hit by Mr. Mister.

KAHLIL GIBRAN