Poll: 20 Live Action Films with At Least One Animated Sequence

Results of 1,495 votes:

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   Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

    

   While the bride tries to get her legs working after a four year coma, the audience see an anime-style origin story recounting the early life of O-Ren Ishii through three important moments.
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   Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

    

   The Tale of the Three Brothers, read by Hermione revealing the 3 elements of the Deathly Hallows.
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   Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

    

   In just one of a few animated scenes, "The Tale of Sir Launcelot" sees a man disrupted in his writing, after ascending the many stairs of his castle he sees the clouds and the sun jumping up…
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   Watchmen (2009)

    

   The ultimate cut of Watchmen, features a story-within-a-story called Tales of the Black Freighter (2009) it is 26 minutes long (split up throughout the movie) and tells the story of a mariner attacked…
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   Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)

    

   The animated clip is accompanied by the track "What Shall We Do Now?" It starts of with two flowers steadily growing and quickly evolves into a vast city, a parallel for overpopulation and …
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   Annie Hall (1977)

    

   The scene involves an animated Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) arguing with a Snow White-inspired wicked queen, with the voice of Diane Keaton. She confesses that her and Singer never have fun any more beca…
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   Run Lola Run (1998)

    

   The animated sequence shows Lola running through a series of tunnels and a never ending staircase, as time ticks by.
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   Natural Born Killers (1994)

    

   The satire includes a short animated segment with buffed up Mickey & Mallory fighting some.. cats?
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   Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

    

   A prologue that fills in some Golden Army back story in the form of Hellboy being told a story by his father, involving a great war and a guilty king. Prince Nuada's character is revealed as he goes i…
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    Bowling for Columbine (2002)

     

    A doc about U.S Gun culture has a short animated scene about how the countries history was largely driven by conflict and racist feuds and that this has inspired a culture of fear, only eased by guns …
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    The Pink Panther (1963)

     

    Although the film's title actually refers to a jewel, the credits are presented in a cartoon sequence featuring a pink panther who interacts with the lettering in various ways -- spinning letters arou…
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    An Invisible Sign (2010)

     

    The film opens in an animated land in which the human inevitability of dying is eradicated. Naturally this leads to overpopulation, things take a turn for the grisly when a family decide to sacrifice …
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    Xanadu (1980)

     

    The couple's kiss scene turns to animation as they find themselves standing top a flower and able teleport and transform into fish and birds, while performing a love chase.
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    Priest (2011)

     

    Used as a prologue to get the audience up to speed with the Vampire/Human war.
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    Tank Girl (1995)

     

    When Naomi Watts' Jet Girl gets knocked out she dreams of her and Tank Girl travelling through a desert in a tank.
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    Stay Tuned (1992)

     

    As the leading characters are sucked into their TV set, the pair find themselves in the bodies of two rodents.
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    Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)

     

    This time an LSD related cartoon trip, sees Dewey Cox involved in a parody of The Beatles' - 'Yellow Submarine' however the unhappy thoughts get to him as he's cut in half by a machete!
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    Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2005)

     

    A drug related animated sequence as Jimmy gets the munchies and hallucinates over the 'greatest brownie known to man' also featuring singing fish and man/brownie sex.
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    The Five Obstructions (2003)

     

    Lars von Trier has Jørgen Leth remake his short The Perfect Human (1968) using only animation.
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    The Ten (2007)

     

    The film, a walk through of The Ten Commandments sees commandment 9 - “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour" as a rhino starts gossiping and spreading false rumours.