Like the world of animation itself, our list of the Best Animated Films is wonderfully diverse: we've got Disney classics (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), dreamlike anime (Spirited Away), gleefully surreal foreign entries (The Triplets of Belleville), blissful stop-motion (Chicken Run), and of course, CGI from the mighty Pixar Studios (Toy Story). In short, we've got something for everyone: kids, grownups, fanboys, and arthouse types.
Before you start raising hackles about the fact that, say, The Secret of NIMH isn't represented here, allow us a second to explain our parameters. Each of the films presented here has at least 20 reviews in order to maintain a measure of critical weight. We also omitted such classics as How the Grinch Stole Christmas that were made for television.
We hope you're drawn to our list of the Best Animated Films!
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Kung Fu Panda ahead of Bambi and Little Mermaid? For shame..
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How can Chicken Run be ahead of Spirited Away and Persepolis?
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Chicken Run ahead of Spirited Away??!! Thanks for the heads up. I won't even bother looking at this list.
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Chicken Run = 98 %
Spirited Away = 97 %
Thus Chicken Run > Spirited Away.
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bambi? good lord...
Wall-e? good lord...
Monster's Inc.? good lord...
NO SURF'S UP? good lord...
Terrible entry you guys, terrible.
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"bambi? good lord...
Wall-e? good lord...
Monster's Inc.? good lord...
NO SURF'S UP? good lord...
Terrible entry you guys, terrible."
Congratulations, you made me rage harder towards a movie-related comment than I can possibly remember. The wanting-Surf's-Up-on-the-list line alone is enough to make my eyes pop out from the intense blood pressure.
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Uh, surf's up sucked. I really agree with this list except for one thing... where the f*** is the Secret of NIMH? Are we gonna just ignore Don Bluth now? So he leaves Disney and gets animation good again and doesn't get a single entry for this list? I also think that next to Jaws, even though it was a good movie Toy Story two is the most over-rated movie of all time. In my opinion the first was better, but, hey, that's my opinion.
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Toy Story 2 in no way deserves to be at the top of the list. It is Pixar's worst movie (well...it's down there with Cars). Wall-E should have been #1 easily.
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This list is laughably HWD-one-eyed. Not to mention the lack of Chinese animation classics like The Monkey King, numerous Ghibli-studio masterpieces are missing completely. I'm no animation specialist, yet I can immediately think up Porco Rosso, Tonari no Totoro, Hotaru no Haka (Grave of the Fireflies) and Mimi wo Sumaseba (Whisper of the Heart) which all belong in the top 25, most top 10. Well, this is what you get when people who don't know film and are just crowd-pleasing make silly lists.
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Toy Story 2 has always been my favourite ever! you guys rock!
Great count down- but the simpsons movie needs to be higher!
And Wall E needs to be lower, it good not denying that but not that good. And the lion KING should be number 2!
Great job altogether!
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Definitely gotta agree with you about Toy Story2. Cars wasn't so bad. I haven't seen Walle, but I'm sure it was a really good movie. But I think the movie that deserves the number one slot should be a movie that has stood the test of time.
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How is Toy Story 2 pixars worst movie its way better than walle. Cars is pixars worst movie.
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AL_X, the problem is that there simply aren't enough reviews for things like Porco Rosso and Grave of the Fireflies to be included on the list. And in case you missed it, we're ranking these according to critics' consenses (with some adjustments for the amounts of reviews), and not our personal own personal tastes.
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"AL_X, the problem is that there simply aren't enough reviews for things like Porco Rosso and Grave of the Fireflies to be included on the list."
Eh? RT's entry on Grave of the Fireflies lists 21 reviews with a consensus of 90%...
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This has nothing to do with personal taste, RT-Matchity. RT-critics are still ignoring most animated movies... especially those which are not targeted at younger audiences, which is a shame, really. Grave of the Fireflies is one of the greatest achievements in animation, that is a matter of fact, not a question of personal taste.
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I think this is an admirable list. I'm thrilled to see two Nick Park films and The Iron Giant on the list. Sad that Yellow Submerine got on the list and Heavy Metal didn't. I really liked Road to El Dorado, but I know it did dismal box office and won't make two many lists. Sigh!
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Bambi was a sadistic film. . .Walt Disney, before he believed in Cryogenics, thought the tears of children would give him immortality.
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This probably explains why most disney movies have such gut wretching moments. No, Felix the car (or cat) did not make the list.
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Oh, I didn't get to look at the whole list. Can someone please tell me:
Is Felix the Car on there?
Heavy Metal?
or one that I really hope is on there: A Scanner Darkly?
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To Agniyo: "A scanner Darkly" is not even an animated movie!;)
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This is rediculous. Most of Miyazaki's movies didn't even make the cut. How is Shrek the 2nd better than Castle in the Sky, Nausicaa, Kiki, Porco Rosso and others. These movies are some of the best animated movies and some of the best movies of all time. How is Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies left off.
Any list that has Kung Fu Panda and Shrek 2 in it is not credible. Beauty and the Beast, Akira, Lion King, Aladdin, Miyazaki films, and others should be in the top ten.
This list is flawed to the core.
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Akira isn't top 10?
Damn. . . I am surprised.
Ireally liked Princess Mononoke, but I guess that isn't top 10 either. Sigh.
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Come on folks, give them a break. They did the best they could according to the critics. If they didn't use the critics as the measuring stick, they would just be picking their own favorites.
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Or they'd be making a list of, ya know, best animated films. ;-)
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Touché.
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Picking their own might have been better.
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Picking their own might have been better.
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Spirited Away is much better than Chicken Run. . .
LIes, Lies, and statistics.
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I know, right!? The mere suggestion, bizarro tomatometer aside, is just plain old garden variety ridiculous.
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Hahaha: "Chicken Run > Spirited Away."
Fantastic Planet?
Waking Life, and/or A Scanner Darkly?
Guess they don't have suitable tomatometers...
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How could they forget Peter pan? I mean seriously...
Also Titan A.E. , The Secret of Nym and what about An American Tail.
Meh :(
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i agree....i looove an american tail! and what about The Land Before Time? one rediculously beautiful movie...
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What a piss poor list.
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Boy, you nimrods just can't get what the theme of EVERY SINGLE RT list is: it just places movies based on their tomatometer score. So quit your stupid griping at RT and start griping at the critics, because THEY are the ones who made the lists the way they are, NOT RT.
And if you can't handle that, stop reading the lists! Pretty simple, huh?
GET A CLUE!!!
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If you hadn't noticed, some of the movies were not ordered by ranking: The Rescuers (83%) was ahead of Watership Down (85%), and Paprika (82%) and Fantasia (84%) were ahead of both those films.
Ratatouille beat Persepolis, although Persepolis was ahead by 1%. Oh well, the fact that it lost to Ratatouille in the Academy Awards Best Animated Film probably did that.
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Wall.E will always rank first on my list.
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i was impressed that they didn't just sit down and make a list of favorites thats the easy way out of it. they went by critical consent, so, no reason to complain really. granted shrek should have been higher on the list.
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i was impressed that they didn't just sit down and make a list of favorites thats the easy way out of it. they went by critical consent, so, no reason to complain really. granted shrek should have been higher on the list.
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i don't agree with the order but for the most part i agree with the picks the top 20 were all great films and the top 10 are all masterpieces in animation.
oh i love it when people refer to movies in their original name and then english translation i.e. Hotaru no Haka (Grave of the Fireflies). "i can't believe they left out hotaru no haka (grave of the fireflies for those that aren't as knowledgeable in film as i am)." wow your knowledge of film sure is impressive you know the original japanese name.
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