Best animated movies

Kimia

I just watched Tangled and it was fantastic, one of the most enjoyable movies I've seen in a long time. Before that I watched How to Train Your Dragon which again was fantastic!

What other animations are must see?

Chris Hansen

Kimia wrote: »

I just watched Tangled and it was fantastic, one of the most enjoyable movies I've seen in a long time. Before that I watched How to Train Your Dragon which again was fantastic!

What other animations are must see?

Toy Soldiers! Woody and Buzz came alive in the series, the third one was fairly sad

Birneybau

Chris Hansen wrote: »

Toy Soldiers! Woody and Buzz came alive in the series, the third one was fairly sad

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All Pixar movies maybe, with the exception of 'Cars' and 'Cars 2'.

'Wall'e' and 'The Incredibles' being faves of mine.

Antibac

Can't beat the early disney classics. Jungle book Robin hood dumbo fantasia etc.
Early shreks not bad either

the whole year inn

Chris Hansen wrote: »

Toy Soldiers! Woody and Buzz came alive in the series, the third one was fairly sad

Few too many there last night eh Chris?"Toy Story" I think you ment

I always thought "Aladin" and "Lion King" are good to watch

I second "Wall E" its a very good movie and you should check it out on blu-ray,for the life of me I dont see why people rave about HTTAD so much going to rewatch it again and see if there anything to it.

Going to get shot down for this but "Avatar" I seen this in the imax in 3d and I thought it was unreal,while nothing new in the story department I thought the effets where different league from what I seen before. I liked the story so for me I would say this is must watch in 3d!

emeraldstar

Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Monsters Inc., Tangled, The Princess and the Frog, Mulan, Tarzan, 101 Dalmations, Ratatouille, A Bug's Life, Toy Storys, maybe Pocahontas ...all the better Disneys and Disney/Pixars basically. And Shrek, the original.

Turtyturd

Street Fighter 2

bnt

Just about anything by Studio Ghibli is up there too e.g. I recently saw Kiki's Delivery Service again, and it was strangely engrossing because of the world in which it was set: a kind of fictional mid-20th-century Europe. Witches are still around, and quite normal, though people in the big towns have forgotten and don't know how to react when Kiki lands there. (At least they don't try to burn her at the stake or perform experiments on her.)

Studio Ghibli's magnum opus must by Spirited Away, though. Kid-friendly as long as you have kids that like to be scared silly on the way to a happy ending. It makes Disney's animations, the ones based on European fairy tales, look tame and childish. :cool:

Cantona's Collars

Any of the recent Marvel/DC animated movies are excellent,also agree with the previous post about Spirited Away,great movie.

krudler

The Iron Giant is brilliant, and of recent animated movies How To Train Your Dragon is fantastic

e_e

Studio Ghibli are the finest animation studio bar none. I have to strongly disagree that Spirited Away is their best though, it's accessible and the one that people trek to first but they've done better imo.

Watch Grave of the Fireflies and have your heart trampled on.

meoklmrk91

Up, one of the best films of the last 10 years hands down.

barbarians

Up!

It's a very uplifting film (pardon the pun ) and every adult and child can enjoy it. Some very funny and sad moments in it.

Would love to see it a second time.

Kimia

I have seen all mentioned except for Toy Story - I think I saw the first one and that was it. I think they're making excellent ones recently, I can't stop raving about Tangled - the humour was just spot on.

My personal favourites (of all time are)

• The Little Mermaid
• The Lion King
• Tangled (now)
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Aladdin
• An American Tail

Mickeroo

The Iron Giant is one of my favourite films of all time, it's the closest american animation has come to the best Studio Ghibli movies(along with Up and Toy Story 3) imho, truly a timeless classic.

For something home grown and a little different give The Secret of Kells a look, the animation is great, very similar to Genndy Tartakovsky's slyle(samurai jack), and there's a definite influence from Studio Ghibli there too (particularly Princess Mononoke, another film you really should watch OP). It's a great little film!

emeraldstar

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

Up, one of the best films of the last 10 years hands down.

barbarians wrote:

Up!

It's a very uplifting film (pardon the pun ) and every adult and child can enjoy it. Some very funny and sad moments in it.

Would love to see it a second time.

One of Pixar's weaker ones, IMO. I think it's very, very overrated.

johnny_ultimate

There's a huge wealth of wonderful world animation out there. Studio Ghibli has been mentioned and is indeed a great starting point. If I was to pick three out of their quite vast catalogue to recommend to someone who hadn't seen any I'd start with My Neighbour Totoro (charming film about childhood imagination), Spirited Away (beautifully realised journey through Japanese culture and history) and Laputa: Castle in the Sky (a thrilling, old-fashioned fantasy adventure). There's much more varied stuff in their catalogue though if those float your boat.

There's a handful of other anime directors making fun, accessible animated films too. Director Mamoru Hosoda has made two wonderful films with Summer Wars and the Girl Who Leapt Through Time - they're both very funny, full of imagination and rather moving films. There are plenty of other excellent Japanese animated films out there (and some that are far more experimental and peculiar in their approach) but Hosodas films are a good intro to the scene before hitting up the 'artier' stuff.

Sylvian Chomet is another animator worth checking out. Belleville Rendez-Vous is his most well-known, and with good cause. It's a very French film, but one full of fantastic, unusual animation and offbeat humour. It's almost entirely dialogue free, so you don't need to worry about language difficulties.

There's darker, more complex animated films out there, too - stuff like Persepolis or Waking Life. The former is an affecting looking at a war-ravaged Iran and one girl's coming-of-age against that backdrop. The latter is a surreal film that follows a man walking through 'dreams' having conversations about life & philosophy with the characters he encounters. They're both brilliant, but not for everyone.

Laserface

yes!! some good classics mentioned here

The iron Giant, StreetFighter 2 & Tekken (manga), belleville rendez vouz, rover dangerfield, the original animated Transformers movie, Batman:The Mask Of Phntasm.

all of those are worth checking out

The Mad Hatter

Sixteen replies and not a mention of Akira?

Other favourites of mine include the aforementioned The Iron Giant, Wall-E and Up, as well as Ghost in the Shell and Titan A.E.

Da Shins Kelly

Wall-E - a very profound piece of animation, with some amazingly beautiful scenes and a great message for adults and children alike. It's the deepest I've ever seen Pixar dig, and completely raised the bar for animated movies. It's simply beautiful.
The Lion King - a classic that hardly needs to be argued for. Some very heavy themes for a children's movie, as it's loosely based on Hamlet, but a great story. Great voice actors and music too.
Beauty and the Beast - classic Disney once again (it's hard to beat old-school Disney!). Another great story, with great characters.
The Aristocats - my personal favourite from my childhood. In my opinion, it has the greatest soundtrack of any of Disney's movies (jazz FTW!) and has some brilliant minor characters, as well as main characters. Not very politically correct, but the innocence of it is endearing and it has a real old-fashioned feel that's very charming.

Da Shins Kelly

I meant to include this in my earlier post. It's a wonderful short by Rodrigo Blaas from Pixar. Very creepy, but beautifully animated.

johnny_ultimate

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

Sixteen replies and not a mention of Akira?

It's a big jump from Tangled and How to Train Your Dragon to Akira :P

But then again the shock of the new is the finest medicine. It is indeed one of animated cinema's great achievements.

Cookie33

how to train your dragon is definietly one of my favourite animations. Up is also a really good one.

watched Rango last week, it was ok but not spectacular

Nolanger

Three caballeros - the fastest movie I've seen.

Ridley

Not sure how I can answer without just listing...

The Nightmare Before Christmas stands out from those not mentioned yet. Would Who Framed Roger Rabbit? count in this? I'd say the South Park movie but I don't think it's what you're looking for. Same with Akira, Ghost in the Shell and the Futurama movies.

Don Bluth's '80s films are worth a look in, as are Disney's movies before - being generous - 2000. Any Pixar or Studio Ghibli film, and of Dreamworks' catalogue: Shrek, How To Train Your Dragon, and Kung Fu Panda and its sequel.

Laserface

thumbs up Don Bluth's 80s films as the last poster mentioned..
The Secret of NIMH, the fox and the hound, pete's dragon, the land before time.
all those are excellent.
I had no idea Titan AE was by don bluth..always presumed it was manga. will definitely be watching that tonight.

I also loved Ferngully the last rainforest.. even if just for the smoke-baddie legend!

personally i can't stand pixar's "animated" efforts.. can't believe how many are mentioned here.

also as someone just mentioned... the aristocats is epic. nice juicy hand-drawn and juicy soundtrack as well.
"Heeeeere kitty kitty kitty kitty"

Laserface

Jack & The Beanstalk 1974 is a psychedelic masterpiece.. well worth watching

Necronomicon

I'm not one for the classic Disneys (I can't overcome my aversion to musicals, try as I might), but I found that The Princess and the Frog really turned back the clock and captured the spirit of the old hand-drawn films like no other has in over a decade. Among the litany of CGI animated films it was a refreshing change. It also has the ear-massaging Keith David among the voicing talent, which is reason enough to see anything.

From looking around it seems to have made a modest to decent-ish return; hopefully well enough for Disney to go back to basics again in the future.

Manchegan

Looking back, these days will be seen as a golden age of animation, with studios vying to outdo each other, repeatedly raising the bar.

A high point for me will have been Paprika, a film that demonstrates the dizzying potential of the medium. It puts to shame the "anthropomorphized animals/inanimate objects" school.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anu2IrsUlVs

Tipsy McSwagger

Coraline is a brilliant and beautiful animated film.

Frank Bullitt

Dont know about the best but my favorites are "All dogs go to heaven" or "Lady and the Tramp"

Renn

Three pages in and not one mention of Waltz with Bashir? Bah.

Laserface

ah yeah.. Waltz with Bashir is good..especially the theme music.. but i personally don't consider it a classic. its a bit too bleak.

watership down..in fairness we should all be flogged for not mentioning it.
a masterpiece.
the poster alone is epic:
http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/168917.1020.A.jpg

p.s. i watched Titan AE the other day after seeing it mentioned in this thread. really really good film.
Reminded me a lot of Starchaser: the legend of orin.. but Titan AE was more fun & original

Renn

Waltz not a classic because it's too bleak? Yikes //

GTR63

Always found Ratatouille to be very underrated. Remember watching it for the first time on dvd thinking,why haven't I heard much about it.
Is any of the Studio Ghibli stuff on any channel consistantly I know Film four show a film or two the odd time but I hate having to look through weeks worth of tv listings to find the films shown once.

madrab

Hunchback was always a favorite of mine, love the darker undertones - far from the usual disney fare & this is perhaps my favorite disney song ever!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyS3weMlxLA

Ole Rodrigo

Might not be to everyones taste but it's a great film

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(film)

barone

BOLT

ITS AWESOME

billiejosie

I was pleasantly surprised by how enjoyable How to Train Your Dragon was, much better than the ads led me to believe.

My all time favourite would probably be The Lion King, still makes me cry!

tim_holsters

I hadn't watched a Disney animation for ages until the other day when I watched Rapunzel.

I didn't expect to enjoy it so much.

Could change my mind later but at the minute Spirited Away would be my favourite animated flim.

LittleBook

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

There's a huge wealth of wonderful world animation out there. Studio Ghibli has been mentioned and is indeed a great starting point. If I was to pick three out of their quite vast catalogue to recommend to someone who hadn't seen any I'd start with My Neighbour Totoro (charming film about childhood imagination), Spirited Away (beautifully realised journey through Japanese culture and history) and Laputa: Castle in the Sky (a thrilling, old-fashioned fantasy adventure). There's much more varied stuff in their catalogue though if those float your boat.

The only thing I'd change here is I'd switch Laputa for Howl's Moving Castle. For some reason Laputa dragged a bit for me and I loved the steam-punkiness of Howl. Totoro is simple and magical and brilliant.

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

There's a handful of other anime directors making fun, accessible animated films too. Director Mamoru Hosoda has made two wonderful films with Summer Wars and the Girl Who Leapt Through Time - they're both very funny, full of imagination and rather moving films. There are plenty of other excellent Japanese animated films out there (and some that are far more experimental and peculiar in their approach) but Hosodas films are a good intro to the scene before hitting up the 'artier' stuff.

Yikes. We have The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, The Place Promised in Our Early Days and Millenium Actress and I'd totally forgotten about them, thanks for the reminder! :pac:

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Sylvian Chomet is another animator worth checking out. Belleville Rendez-Vous is his most well-known, and with good cause. It's a very French film, but one full of fantastic, unusual animation and offbeat humour. It's almost entirely dialogue free, so you don't need to worry about language difficulties.

I loved Belleville Rendez-Vous! Have you see The Illusionist yet? It's on our rental queue, I'm really looking forward to it.

Another French animation director I'd recommend is Michel Ocelot who's work isn't very "french" He uses a variety of techniques so every film feels a little different, some reminiscent of Lotte Reiniger of "The Adventures of Prince Achmed" fame.

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

There's darker, more complex animated films out there, too - stuff like Persepolis or Waking Life. The former is an affecting looking at a war-ravaged Iran and one girl's coming-of-age against that backdrop. The latter is a surreal film that follows a man walking through 'dreams' having conversations about life & philosophy with the characters he encounters. They're both brilliant, but not for everyone.

I haven't seen Waking Life but Persepolis was amazing both in story and animation, a "must see".

Great post JU.

prospect

For The Birds.

http://vimeo.com/8243280

johnny_ultimate

LittleBook wrote: »

The only thing I'd change here is I'd switch Laputa for Howl's Moving Castle. For some reason Laputa dragged a bit for me and I loved the steam-punkiness of Howl. Totoro is simple and magical and brilliant.

I initially wasn't won over by Howl's Moving Castle, but rewatched it recently and much preferred it. Still a big fan of Laputa though, think it has a terrific sense of adventure!

Yikes. We have The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, The Place Promised in Our Early Days and Millenium Actress and I'd totally forgotten about them, thanks for the reminder! :pac:

All great films. If you like TPPIOED, check out the director's other films Voices of a Distant Star (only 25 minutes long but Shinkai drew it all himself!) and 5cm Per Second. Millennium Actress is wonderful too, probably my favourite Satoshi Kon film.

Have you see The Illusionist yet? It's on our rental queue, I'm really looking forward to it.

Yeah enjoyed the Illusionist. I'm not familiar with the rest of Jacques Tati's stuff, have been meaning to check them out since!

emeraldstar

tim_holsters wrote: »

I hadn't watched a Disney animation for ages until the other day when I watched Rapunzel.

I didn't expect to enjoy it so much.

Do you mean Tangled? Great movie.

Laserface

i saw an excellent animated film today and it reminded me of this thread.

The Old Lady and the Pigeons [1998]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127710/
french animated short by the maker of Belleville Rendez Vous and the Illusionist

i highly recommend watching it NOW! its on youtube etc

Nolanger

Hoppity goes to town. - old '40s movie about insects.

two wheels good

Animated short: Logorama
Academy award winner a couple of years back. Every frame packed with detail - and humour.

http://theflickcast.com/2010/03/10/watch-the-academy-award-winning-animated-short-logorama-online/

IMDB

tim_holsters

emeraldstar wrote: »

Do you mean Tangled? Great movie.

Yes I do, silly me.