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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How the hell is Toy Story 2 in front of half those films?
Spirited Away, Watership Down, Persepolis, hell two dozen films on that list are better than Toy Story 2.
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No Nausica, or Heavy Metal, Scanner Darkly, Land Before Time, Secret of Nimh, or even ****ing GHOST IN THE SHELL... man that should have been top 5 not ignored completely.
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Even Metropolis (2001)
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Where is Alice In Wonderland? This list is missing many great animated films. The order is a cluster****.
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Beautiful animation in "Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron" and the original "Animal Farm". The Fleisher studios should get some credit for
"Gullivers Travels". "Treasure Planet" also by Disney should have a place on the list.
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Where should one start disagreeing with this list, well, too many recent films a fault of all poor lists. Too many Hollywood films, ditto. Too many popular films, ditto again.
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Wow. I agree with most everyone else. Looks like Disney stuffed the ballot box here. Even I noticed a distinct lack of HEAVY METAL and Ghost in The Shell, and Don Bluth everything (Titan AE and The Secret of NIMH specifically).
Hey guys, Toy Story 2 at #1 should be your first clue that someone's been screwing with the system.
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Wow. I agree with most everyone else. Looks like Disney stuffed the ballot box here. Even I noticed a distinct lack of HEAVY METAL and Ghost in The Shell, and Don Bluth everything (Titan AE and The Secret of NIMH specifically).
Hey guys, Toy Story 2 at #1 should be your first clue that someone's been screwing with the system.
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Hi there, moderators. Please kill my clone. Thanks!
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This was a good list until I noticed 'The Lion King' was not at the #1 position. Usually I can respect lists like these, but I have absolutely zero respect for anyone who can feel so indifferent towards the greatest animated film of all time.
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Terrible list. How can Chicken Run be ahead of The Lion King, Spirited Away and other more deserving movies? And Monster Inc was a much better Pixar movie than The Incredibles.
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Exactly almost everyone in the forum,I'm not even gonna mention the fact that some of the movies don't belong on the list AT ALL, (South', Simpsons)
or the fact that when you compare the true agonizing difficulty of making cg movies with the; devastating torment that went into making movies like THE SECRET OF NIMH, it may be better to separate the lists.
Seriously; 49 Watership Down? AKIRA not in top 20? some of the works that built the animation industry not even in the top 10? Lets not be silly here perhaps there is a generation gap (logic years)in the hosts of the post or maybe they are ignorant to the true relevance of the mediums and the history in which they derived; but I'm sure anyone can see that half the rubbish in the top 20 doesn't belong there, or is in the wrong order. The more current cg movies look like some ten year old playing with their puppet action figures, very badly; and Toy Story 2 better than Toy Story? STINKING TIM BURTON??!!!KUNG FU PANDA!???!!!!Was this a list on animation quality, story, or just popularity based on what other guys said to us when we were growing up? Come one, watch 'em again!
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Toy Story 2 is the top Daze????? why don't Wall-E is the top Wall-E is the best animation or best movie for me and around of people in the world and more than Toy Story 2.
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Toy Story 2 is the top Daze????? why don't Wall-E is the top Wall-E is the best animation or best movie for me and around of people in the world and more than Toy Story 2.
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Toy Story 2 is the top Daze????? why don't Wall-E is the top Wall-E is the best animation or best movie for me and around of people in the world and more than Toy Story 2.
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It not true Toy story 2 is the top . Wall-E must to Tops .
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Okay, yes, we understand this was a list constructed by critical consent. That doesn't mean critical consent was the best way to go about making a list of top animated movies.
Sorry, RT, but as they say, "you're doing it wrong." Try again.
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Not a bad list. I thought Snow White would be #1 just because of the time it came out in and what it meant for animation. If Show White had bombed would any of the other movies ever existed?
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Toy Story 2? C'mon. And Wall-E? Don't believe the hype about Wall-E. I don't know anyone who saw that movie that didn't either fall asleep or, at the very least nod off a few times. I gave up on the list about ten movies in and skipped to the top 10. Is Fritz the Cat listed?
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Where's the love for Don Bluth? I find it suprising that such an established director could be completely shut out. Such classics as American Tale, Secret of Nimh, and The Land Before Time couldn't push Tarzan off this list. The #1 movie on this list Toy Story 2??? Really? It was animated like a movie that was to go directly to DVD which I believe was the original plan for the film. I have trouble wrapping my head around the concept that throughout movie history the best animated movie is Toy Story 2. Finding Nemo would be my choice for #1.
PLEASE OMIT: Tarzan, Yellow Submarine, Antz
PLEASE ADD: The Secret of Nimh, The Hobbit (how the hell did they miss that one), Heavy Metal
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