Ernest and Celestine

This is probably one of the cutest animation films I've ever seen. Despite being French, this film makes Disney look bad. Of course it is the tell-tale story of a unlikely friendship, but this the best example of the story.

Ernest is a starving bear looking for spare change by being a street performer. Celestine is a creative mouse who wishes to pursue her career in art. The communities of both characters were taught that bears and mice are never meant to be together; mice fear bears and bears eat mice.

Celestine was working as an intern for the dentist industry when fate brings her and Ernest together and their teamwork turns their societies against them, forcing them to be shut in a cabin in the woods.

They argued for the first few days about their differences of him being a bear and her being a mouse. Celestine even volunteered to sleep in the cellar. But in the days that followed, they realize that they are not so different after all.

The police eventually catches up with them and they are put on trial for their lives in opposite courts. But one incident leads them to saving the people not of their kind, and the people realize everything they were taught was wrong.

Ernest and Celestine live together demonstrating the power of friendship, and showing that friends can be all shapes and sizes.