Movie Listomania! Your top ten favorite... animated films!

Haven’t started one of these in a while. This is for feature films – we can do shorts and series later. :slight_smile:

Yellow Submarine (1968)
Fantasia (1940)
The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
Despicable Me (2010)
La Planète sauvage (1973)
Rock & Rule (1983)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999)

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Hmm…in no particular order:

South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999)
Despicable Me (2010)
Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
Chicken Run (2000)
The Lego Movie (2014)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
The Last Unicorn (1982)
The Road to El Dorado (2000)
Mulan (1998)

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Disney’s Aladdin
Isle of Dogs
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
Inside Out
Finding Nemo
The Sword in the Stone
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Transformers: The Movie

And there’s probably a bunch I’ll regret not putting in there.

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Not necessarily my absolute favorites, as that shifts around, but certainly ten worthwhile films. Some are here primarily for stylistic reasons, others for the story.

  1. Spirited Away
  2. Renaissance
  3. Watership Down
  4. The Last Unicorn
  5. They Were Eleven
  6. Yellow Submarine
  7. Vampire Hunter D
  8. Fantastic Mr. Fox
  9. Fire And Ice
  10. Tron
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Ah. See. I already regret not listing Spirited Away.

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In mostly no-specific order:

Akira (1988)
Macross PLUS (the 1995 movie cut)
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016)
Redline (2011)
Gunnm (1993)
Ninja Scroll (1993)
The entirety of the Spike & Mike’s Sick & Twisted festival films

Honorable mention to season one of Love Death + Robots which I don’t think qualifies for the list since it’s a bingewatch series rather than a film but one could just as easily decide to watch it all in one go.

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This very nearly made my list, but got bumped in the interest of variety. Other anime that was fighting to get on includes:

  • X/1999
  • Devilman
  • Grey
  • Dragon Half
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I thought I was the only one who remembered Dragon Half.

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:man_singer: :microphone: SAUUUUU-CERRRRR!!!

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Curse you for forcing this choice on me.

Back of the envelope:

  1. Inside Out
  2. Princess Mononoke
  3. Sleeping Beauty (Disney)
  4. Toy Story 3
  5. The Secret World of Arrietty
  6. Heavy Metal
  7. The Secret of NIMH
  8. Spirited Away
  9. The Iron Giant
  10. Anastasia
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Akira

And 10 animated films that aren’t Akira

Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Monsters Inc.
The Lion King
Spirited Away
Castle in the Sky
Spider-Man Into the Spider-verse
Perfect Blue

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In no particular order, and limited to one per director

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse (Rothman, Ramsey & Persichetti)
Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)
Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki)
Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore)
Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
The Little Mermaid (Ron Clements, John Musker)
Angel’s Egg (Mamoru Oshii)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird)
Old Czech Legends (Jiří Trnka)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger)

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I tend to be moved by the classics. No particular order…

David Hand’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske’s Pinocchio (1940)
Walt Disney’s Fantasia (1940)
Ben Sharpsteen’s Dumbo (1941)
David Hand’s Bambi (1942)
Wilford Jackson, Hamilton Luske, and Clyde Geronimi’s Cinderella (1950)
Ron Clements and John Musker’s The Little Mermaid (1989)
Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise’s Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff’s The Lion King (1994)
John Lasseter’s Toy Story (1995)

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In no particular order - and including those with partial animation:

TRON
Big Hero 6
Lilo & Stitch
The Last Unicorn
The Secret of NIMH
Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Shrek
Kubo & the Two Strings
The Nightmare Before Christmas

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In no particular order

Lupin III: Castle of Caligostro
Iron Giant
Atlantis
Treasure Planet
Castle in the Sky
The Incredibles
Howl’s Moving Castle
Heavy Metal
Rock and Rule
Metropolis

Bonus: Alice in Wonderland

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Akira
Ghost in the Shell
Spirited Away
Beauty and the Beast

Recent Movies I highly recommend
Belle
Demon Slayer
Spider-Man Into the Spider-verse

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Oh, wow… now THIS is a stumper!

Okay, so, this could change any given day, and this will be in no particular order:

  • The Illusionist
  • Spirited Away
  • ParaNorman
  • Up
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  • The Black Cauldron
  • The Secret of Kells
  • The Fox and the Hound
  • When Marnie Was There
  • Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Those are all feature-length theatrically released movies.

If we’re taking ALL of animation into account, regardless of length or venue, I’d have to throw some nods to A Charlie Brown Christmas and 1982’s The Snowman.

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I do, SO wanted to throw Bambi vs Godzilla in there, but that’s probably considered a short.

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I like that we’re going to be doing one of these for shorts and the like at some later point. Lots of good stuff to cover!

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In no particular order.

Sleeping Beauty
Robin Hood
Secret of NIMH
The Land before Time
Aladdin
The Emperor’s New Groove
The Little Mermaid (the first movie I remember seeing in the movie theater)
Fantasia (the original)
Tangled

Can I choose Looney Tunes? Or is that a short? But I can sing “Kill the Wabbit” and “Rabbit of Seville” from beginning to end.

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