EW's Top 20 Animated Films

I agree. Its much better than the South Park movie

Yeah its:
20. Ghost in a Shell
19. Waltz with Bashir
18. Pinnochio
17. Kiki's Delivery Service
16. South Park
15. Iron Giant
14. Akira
13. Chicken Run
12. The Triplets of Belleville
11. Dumbo
10. Coroline
9. Bambi
8. Toy Story
7. Increadibles
6. Beauty & the Beast
5. Persepolis
4. Lion King
3. Up
2. Spirted Away
1. WALL-E
 
Triplets of Belleville definitely doesn't belong on that list.

Ghost In The Shell, its a good movie, but Innocence should go on above GITS.
 
Yeah way too many recent movies on that list. Not that they are not great movies but plenty of classics seemed shafted.
 
I haven't seen some of those movies.

I agree, too many newer films. You'd think Fantasia would be standered issue for a list like this, and no Brave Little Toaster? I loved that movie as a kid, and I love it now. Though what they did pick from Disney and Pixar's library definitly deserve a spot.
 
I'm sorry but I just don't find Chicken Run to be Top 20 material. I also find Toy Story to be a better film than Toy Story 2. Up was great, but I don't know if I'd call it top five material. Some movies I haven't seen so I can't really comment on them, but others I agree deserve to be there while there are others that I'm not too sure of.

But really, making a top 20 animated films list is impossible. There are so many great animated films out there that you just can't please everyone with a list of only 20.
 
I think Sky Crawlers is more deserving than Ghost in the Shell, to be honest. At least I could understand what Sky Crawlers was going for. I could never understand GITS, whether it was a TV series or any of the movies.

Otherwise I have no real comment about the list, other than it is better-organized and more thoughtfully chosen than the usual animated movie lists. Which says a lot because EW doesn't always think things through.
 
While I don't feel that they're random, personally, I do thing GITS 2 is a quote fest (And CG fest). I like the first more, it felt more original and like an all around better film.
 
Hey dr.pepper thanks for getting the list on here for me to see it :anime:. Anyways...I'm not pleased on how the list is, I mean I'm glad that Waltz of Bashir is on the list. But why the heck are Disney movies are ALWAYS mentioned? Whenever there's a top animated film thing they ALWAYS mention about 5 or 7 Disney movies, where's the chance for other animated films? There is about 5 of them on there on this one.{if your not counting pixar}.

But not to go off topic...I am not surprised Wall-e is number 1 on the list.
 
I kinda like this list. Fantastic that they mentioned some Japanese films. (They usually don't get much recognition) It's horrid that the South Park film is above Kiki's. Wall-E shouldn't be number one either...
 
Yes it does :p



I do :p



It's a tricky one. On the one hand, you can't deny that Disney's made a lot of major contributions to animated features. On the other hand, it does kind of get annoying when one studio takes up about a quarter of a list like this.
 
Sky Crawlers has a great concept but a weak blend of animation styles and drags on too long. The original GITS has a great concept, great animation, and while it had pacing problems it had the decency not to last longer than 90 minutes.
 
It's not horrid. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut is frequently (mostly always) on Top 20 lists of the past 20 year of funniest movies. Kiki's is never included, so it must mean something. The musical numbers in South Park were incredible and hilarious to boot, the film was pretty much perfect.
 
20. Ghost in a Shell - never seen it
19. Waltz with Bashir - never seen it
18. Pinnochio - can't remember seeing it
17. Kiki's Delivery Service - never seen it
16. South Park - never seen it
15. Iron Giant - never seen it
14. Akira - never seen it
13. Chicken Run - allright, wouldn't be on my top 20 list
12. The Triplets of Belleville - never seen it
11. Dumbo - never seen it
10. Coraline - never seen it
9. Bambi - never seen it
8. Toy Story - never seen it (saw the second one on tv a while back tho, was allright i guess)
7. Incredibles - never seen it
6. Beauty & the Beast - saw that at school... was ok i guess
5. Persepolis - never seen it
4. Lion King - lame imo
3. Up - never seen it
2. Spirted Away - never seen it
1. WALL-E- never seen it
 
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