What is your thoughts on the genre Animation?

Yes I normally make genres what I want locally and lock it. But I ask this because I got a DVD last night that is a movie consisting of all puppets. Think a movie like "The Dark Crystal" and one of the genres... actually the first main genre... is Animation. Personally when I think Animation I think cartoons.... so this seemed to be an odd choice to me.

So what are your thoughts? Are movies consisting of nothing but puppets Animation? And if so would you have it in the first genre spot?

I would never think of a movie like The Dark Crystal as animation, regardless of it being exclusively puppets. Even with stop-motion puppets, I think it's a stretch to call it animation, but there's more of an argument there.

Quoting Addicted2DVD:

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This is what I am talking about...

Going b y that is looks like the Muppets. If that's the case then I'd say no to animation.

Not animation.

It's something like The Muppets. There we never have animation.

Wow... lots of agreement in this thread. Genres is something I seldomly change for the online. But with all this agreement maybe I will this time.

The typical definition of Animation extends beyond cartoons to describe anything that is made to come alive, i.e. animated.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/animated
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation#Mechanical_animation

As to whether it should be included on a list of genres, is another discussion. You could make a case for another field for "type" of movie that includes Live Action, Cartoon, Puppets, etc.

dictionary.reference.com: genre