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In praise of - animation.

IN PRAISING animation, I'm not asking you to get out of your seat and start dancing like the Tin Man.

I'm using the posh word for "cartoons". As Pixar – the maker of Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Cars – celebrates its 25th anniversary, we're reminded that cartoons are better than reality. What isn't?

From early attempts, such as Disney's Steamboat Willie in 1928, through the chiropody classic Happy Feet, to recent feline-good features such as Puss In Boots, animation has advanced by leaps and, arguably, bounds.