Making any sort of “Top 10″ list is always a tricky and dangerous thing. As I always say, all film is subjective, and that means no one on the planet will 100% agree with my list (and believe it or not, you’ll have a hard time finding people who 100% agree with your list too), and the real beauty of it is that neither of us is objectively wrong. That’s the best thing about film.
So why have these lists? Because they’re great for discussion and debate and give us as film fans yet another excuse just to think about, talk about and celebrate some of the greatest movies ever made. So why not?
Exactly 3 years ago today, I put up my first Top 10 Animated Films list, so I thought it would be an interesting exercise to do another list, and then see how it has changed from the original one I did. I’d also like to repeat something I said back in 2005:
“I should also mention that I’m NOT ranking these by technical merit. If I was, then Final Fantasy The Spirits Within would be #1. I’m ranking these by how well they performed as movies. Did they make me FEEL something, laugh, get choked up and most importantly get interested in the characters and their story.”
So with that said, I now present to you The Movie Blog’s Top 10 Best Animated Films of All Time:
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#10 – SPIRITED AWAY
Perhaps more than any other film on this list, Spirited Away has the magical ability to envelop you in the wonder of fantasy. I remarkably solid story, beautiful style and re-watchability. It just barely failed to make my list last time, but I seem to appreciate it more and more each year |
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#9 – CHARLOTTE’S WEB (1973)
That’s one fine Pig. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t mind the 2006 version at all… but it lacked the pure heart of the original. I also think it was the first movie that actually scared me as a kid. It took me a little while to eat pork again. Clearly I got over it. I LOVE this movie. |
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#8 – TOY STORY
I’m actually a bit surprised this movie comes in this low on my list. The first legitimate hit 3d animated film was far more than just novelty. It set the standard for Pixar to make movies, not cartoons. To tell tales with wonderful characters and meaningful stories rather than just the regular tripe you can get away with easily in the name of making “kids movies” |
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#7 – THE INCREDIBLES
Without exaggeration I think I’ve watched this movie from start to finish about 15 times… and I haven’t yet started to get bored with it. Funny and exciting, the film is also surprisingly deep in terms of dealing with issues like aging, family, priorities and marriage. Not just your average kids movie. |
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#6 – RATATOUILLE
The #1 critically rated movie (not just animated movie) of 2007, and yet was not nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars… pretty much delegitimizing the entire “animated feature” category they have at the annual awards. This was (in my opinion) one of the best films of the year and it didn’t get its due because of the medium it used. Pure rubbish if you ask me (funny how no one did). |
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#5 – IRON GIANT
One of those rare movies that I remember not even enjoying the very first time I saw it… but then I watched it again for some reason and liked it more. Then again and I liked it even more. 10 times in now and my enjoyment of it seems to continue to grow with each and every viewing. Funny how some random and heavily digitized tone talking is Vin Diesel’s best performance ever. |
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#4 – BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
This movie is nothing short of beautiful. In my opinion the best music of any animated film, and the only animated film in history to actually be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards (well deserved too). This movie is a masterpiece that makes me look forward to being a parent someday so I can share it with my kids. |
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#3 – TOY STORY 2
One of the greatest sequels of all time and one of the very rare ones that actually out does the original. As the story goes, Toy Story 2 was meant to be direct to video… but as development progressed the powers that be recognized they had something pretty special on their hands and decided to make it a wide theatrical release. Good thing they did. One of the only wide release films in history to hold a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. |
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#2 – WALL-E
I don’t know why I doubted Pixar… but for some reason going into Wall-E I had my doubts it was even going to be any good. My dear sweet heavens it was far beyond anything I could have hoped for or imagined. A magnificent story told with movement and drama communicated with setting. Breathtaking in its scope yet endearing in its simplicity. I’m going to blow a gasket if this movie doesn’t at least get nominated for Best Picture this year. |
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#1 – THE LION KING
No matter how many times I watch it, when the movie starts with the sun peaking over the African horizon and those voices start to sing the opening to “The Circle Of Life”, something in me stirs… and it doesn’t stop until the film ends. The first time I saw it 14 year ago I knew I had just seen a movie that would stay with me forever. Still today, in my opinion, the best animated movie ever made. |
HONORABLE MENTION (In no particular order)
– The Triplets of Belleville
– Cinderella
– Aladin
– Princess Mononoke
– Sleeping Beauty
– Fantasia
So there you go folks. Now I’m certain you have lots to say about this list, both yays and nays. So what do you think of the list in general? Which films do you feel I’ve unfairly snubbed? Which films would you remove? Have your say and start the discussion.
As for animated movies then for me the Lion King is ACE, all of the Toy Stories are fab and sadly, Wall-E was dull and lame.
I agree with a previous comment - although modern animations are epic in productional quality, sound, 3d'ness' and manage to attract a wealth of vocal talent its the pre 90's Disney ones that tick all the boxes. From The First Land Before time to Little Mermaid, Aladdin & Aritocrats - they just dont make them like they used too!.
geez, and what about the plague dogs, felidae and watership down ? four men with these masterpeaces in the list? really? know your history, peaple, disney not the only this you could watch in your free time.(sorry for bad english)
What am I a Thousand years Old? All I can say is Watership Down (1978) - A group of rabbits flee their doomed warren and face many dangers to find and protect their new home .
Wall-e would top my list. It takes a simple story arc and turns it upside down. I love it so much.
I think I agree with some of the movies on your list, But being a girl and based from the movies I have seen my top ten will look like this:
1. The Lion King
2. Toy Story
3. Pocahantas 1
4. Mulan 1
5. Ice age
6. Beauty and the Beast (and yes f*ck u guys this movies rocked)
7. Princess and the Frog
8. The Lion King 2
9. The jungle book 1
10. Tarzan
I like all that film...
Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol is much better than critics are making out to be.
There are moments that do question the needs of chase scenes, but I enjoyed them.
You'll start to mime some of the various hyms throughout. Joy to the World, Hark the Herald Angels Sing to name a few.
A Christmas Carol was amazing in IMAX 3D. Possibly the greatest motion capture feature ever made.
You could say that Robert Zemeckis is the Miyazaki of Motion Capture. Robert Zemeckis has made the only adaptation of A Christmas Carol that was realised in the way Dickins intended it to be.
OnePoll.com did a survey about the greatest animated features ever made and here were the results.
1. Toy Story
2. Shrek
3. The Simpsons Movie
4. Finding Nemo
5. Ice Age
6. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
7. Monsters Inc
8. The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
9. The Lion King
10. The Nightmare Before Christmas
11. The Iron Giant
12. WALL-E
13. Madagascar
14. Monsters vs. Aliens
15. Akira
16. Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were Rabbit
17. Bambi
18. The Jungle Book
19. Dumbo
20. Shark Tale
If this rumoured Family Guy movie does hit the big screen, how many of you hope that Family Guy the Movie overtakes Lion King in the hand drawn box office?
One of my best favorite is:
The Pebble Penguin
because the music are great, masterpieces by Barry Manilow.
Two of my favorite animated films are "The End of Evangelion" and "Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children Complete".
Animated movies of today are geneally 10 x better than those in Walt Disney's hey day for 1 big reason.
Walt let just about any old stray do the voices in his features. Now you have well known and well likes celebrities doing the voices.
The most sucessful animated movie of all time is Shrek 2. It has Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas and John Cleese in it. All celebrities. The most sucessful animated movie franchise of all time is the Shrek franchise. Celebrities now want in on animation because of Shrek.
Hell Yeah. Walt's idea of celebrity voice over was Mel Blanc of Looney Tunes fame, who voiced Figaro and Gideon in Pinocchio. To many, Mel Blanc's an unkown fart compared to the likes of Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz, who voices Donkey and Fiona respectively in Shrek.
In 2005 there was a poll called 100 greatest cartoons. 50% of which were animated features. Here was their top 10.
1. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
2. Toy Story franchise
3. Shrek franchise
4. The Nightmare Before Christmas
5. The Lion King
6. The Iron Giant
7. The Incredibles
8. Spirited Away
9. Finding Nemo
10. Akira
Obviously the likes of Tom and Jerry and The Flintstones were in the actual top 10 if you're including other cartoons as well.
OnePoll.com did a survey about kid's movies most loved by adults. 14 of the 20 movies were animated. Here they are in order.
1. Shrek
3. Finding Nemo
4. Toy Story
6. The Lion King
8. Monsters Inc.
9. Ice Age
10. Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were Rabbit
11. Madagascar
13. WALL-E
14. A Bug's Life
17. Ratatouille
18. The Incredibles
19. Bambi
2o. The Little Mermaid
Number 5 was taken by The Philosper's/ Sorcerer's Stone
Number 7 was taken by Mrs. Doubtfire
Number 15 was taken by Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (technically a live action hybrid)
Number 16 was taken by Princess Bride
If any of you are wondering where's the rest of the Disney Classics? Well numbers 2 and 12 were occupied by Disney's Pirates of the Carribean and Chronicles of Narnia franchises respectively.
have you heard of the new tim burton movie 'Caroline' should be interesting.
10. Spirited Away
9. Titan AE
8. Ghost in a shell
7. Grave of the fireflies
6. ScannerDarkly
5. Transformers
4. Alladin
3. Akira
2. Southpark-Bigger,Longer and uncut
1. Futurama-Benders Big Score (mindblowingly awsome)
Technically it's directed by someone called Henry Sellek, also known for directing The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach.
However Tim Burton is one of the art directors on Coraline.
Tim Burton made a goog choice about the style of Nightmare Before Christmas. He "wanted to do it in Stop Motion and not do it in cell animation or computer animation (CG) because stop motion felt right for that particular story".
How right! Nothing compares to the beauty and artistry of Stop Motion animation and making plasticene models to animate via Stop Motion animation.
As far as animation studios are concerned, Dreamworks will always be king, simply because Dreamworks is the studio releasing the most animated features at the moment.
For every Pixar animation there are 2 Dreamworks animations on a yearly basis.
my list
wall-e
finding nemo
the lion king
toy story2
shek
toy story
shek2
bolt
spireted away
akira
I never did like Beauty and The Beast.
What Disney did was basically mess about with one of the re-ocouring themes in Futurama, set it with music and made a fairytale out of it.
Gaston is Zapp Brannigan (cocky)
Le Fou is Kif (naive right hand man)
Belle is Leila (victimized)
Lumiere is Bender (latin charm)
Cogsworth is Zoidberg (a freak)
Belle's dad is Professor Farnsworth
Mrs Potts is Amy
The Beast is Phillip J. Fry
I looked at AFI's list of groundbreaking animated movies and I am starting to question their choices:
Snow White (First animated feature period)
Pinocchio (Why?)
Bambi (Why?)
The Lion King (That's basically Bambi with a baby lion not a baby deer)
Fantasia (Technically this shouldn't count)
Toy Story (First CGI animated movie)
Beauty and the Beast (Crap)
Shrek franchise (Highest grossing animated film series)
Cinderella (More Crap)
Finding Nemo (Highest grossing animated feature not to come from a film franchise)
The following movies should have been removed:
Pinocchio
Bambi
The Lion King
Fantasia
Cinderella
Beauty and the Beast.
I would have replace those with:
The Nightmare Before Christmas (First Stop Motion animated feature)
Fritz the Cat (First X-Rated animated feature)
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (First cut out style animated feature)
Beavis and Butthead Do America (Started the trend of animated sitcoms getting the big screen treatment)
The Simpsons Movie (That Bart skateboarding naked sequence is pretty much the most memorable single animated scene done in any movie, any place, any time and any where)
The Iron Giant (First animated cult classic)
I rate kungfu panda..on the top of the charts.
1.kungfu panda
2.monster house
3.wall E
4.shrek
5.ice age
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and the list goes on
As far as character's clothes are concerned here are probably the most famous clothes for an animated character in an animated movie:
1. AC/DC T-shirt (Butthead)
2. orange parker coat (Kenny)
3. white T-shirt/blue pants (Homer)
4. Metallica T-shirt (Beavis)
5. blue dress/white apron (Alice)
6. cowboy hat (Woody)
7. brown pants (Spongebob)
8. red T-shirt/blue shorts (Bart)
9. green hat/ orange coat (Kyle)
10. red dress (Lisa)
As far as music score is concerned here would be the greatest animated movies:
1. Chicken Run (John Powell/Harry Gregson-Williams)
2. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (Trey Parker/ Marc Shaiman)
3. The Simpsons Movie (Hans Zimmer)
4. Toy Story (Randy Newman)
5. Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were Rabbit (John Powell/Harry Gregson-Williams)
6. Beavis and Butthead do America (John Frizzel)
7. Monsters Inc. (Randy Newman)
8. A Bug's Life (Randy Newman)
9. WALL-E (Thomas Newman/Peter Gabriel)
10. Finding Nemo (Thomas Newman)
MONSTERS, INC!!!!
As far as songs in animated movies go here are probably the most famous:
1. Kyle's Mom (South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut)
2. Spider-pig (The Simpsons Movie)
3. You Got A Friend In Me (Toy Story)
4. Uncle Fucka (South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut)
5. If I Didn't Have You (Monsters Inc.)
6. Accidently In Love (Shrek 2)
7. Pink Elephants On Parade (Dumbo)
8. Blame Canada (South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut)
9. Bella Notte (Lady and the Tramp)
10. I Can Change (South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut)
If anyone else has any better ideas, feel free to either comment or reply.
Here is what I (and maybe some others) think are the most famous moments in animated movies:
1. Spider-Pig (The Simpsons Movie)
2. Kyle's Mom (South Park the Movie)
3. The Claw (Toy Story)
4. Bug City (A Bug's Life)
5. Bart skateboarding naked (The Simpsons Movie)
6. Buzz "flying" (Toy Story)
7. Uncle Fucka (South Park the Movie)
8. Roadie farting (Beavis and Butthead do America)
9. Building the Crate (Chicken Run)
10. Blame Canada (South Park the Movie)
honorable mentions
Bella Notte (Lady and the Tramp)
Pink Elephants (Dumbo)
Ok.... Alot of people are going to disagree with my top five movies.... I just know it. Here it is:
1: Lion King (YAY!)
2: Lady and the Tramp, Bambi II
3: Lion King 2: Simba's Pride
4: Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
5: Bambi
Hi,
I can relate with alot of movies in your top 10, and without question Lion King is number one imo, but why no prince of egypt in your top 10?
How about this ultimate 10:
1. Beavis and Butthead do America
2. The Simpsons Movie
3. Chicken Run
4. Toy Story
5. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
6. Monsters Inc
7. A Bug's Life
8. Toy Story 2
9. Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit
10. Alice in Wonderland
Yea. you can watch alot of your favoraite movies free here at Movie-247.net
its a forum. its free to watch any movie you want :D
almost 400 members :P
my fav r
1. harry potter
2.a night mare on elm street
3.the final destination 1,2,3
I totally agree except for a few considering there are some I haven't seen, but all in all, I think it is a great list and it really made me enjoy re-watching to see all the great things about all the movies. I agree with you that i didn't think Wall-E would be any good but when I watched it, I really liked it.
disney sux ass
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children should be number one. That movie has the best animation unlike the toy story and wall-e.
I see alot of comments down here but I see no one complimenting "THE SPRIT THE STALLION OF CIMARRON" !!!!!!! its GUd!!!! really gud!!!!! especially with Bryan Adams' songs in it!!!!
My favorite is another short movie "The ChubbChubbs ;)"
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You people seemed to miss a whole bunch of the greatest movies of all time.
Land Before Time
The Incredible Mr. Limpit
FernGully: The Last Rainforest
Rockadoodle
Peter Pan
All Dogs Go to Heaven
Alladin
101 Dalmatians
Alice in Wonderland
Peter Pan
How about these:
The Simpsons Movie
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Beavis and Butthead Do America
The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
Futurama: Bender's Big Score
Family Guy presents Blue Harvest
Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were Rabbit
Chicken Run
I forgot about Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (PG-13 version).
what about watership down, my first none disney movie...
ooooh and Nausicaa
I kick myself for not mentioning Tekkonkinkreet and Porco Rosso.
1:Galaxy Express 999
2:Appleseed(the new one)
3:The Iron Giant
4:Ghost In The Shell
5:The Incredibles
6:Akira
7:Tokyo Godfathers
8:Justice League:New Frontiers
9:Batman:Gotham Knight
10:Venus Wars
myself not bieng a big fan in animated films so my list is quite short
5 shrek
4 finding nemo
3 the incredibels
2 the lion king
1 the nightmare before christmas
Nice list but I definitely would like to have seen Persepolis and Akira in it. I'm probably an exception but I didn't really enjoy Rataouille.