Rotten Tomatoes Top 50 Animated Films

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Has anyone seen this list yet? It's pretty good... theres some stuff I'd argue about, but it's not as obviously ignorant as some of these lists are. The link: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/best_animated_films/

And the rankings:

50. South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut
49. Watership Down
48. The Rescuers
47. Paprika
46. Fantasia 2000
45. Sleeping Beauty
44. Corpse Bride
43. The Emperor?s New Groove
42. Lilo & Stitch
41. Howl?s Moving Castle
40. Cinderella
39. Mulan
38. Lady & the Tramp
37. Tarzan
36. The Jungle Book
35. Akira
34. The Little Mermaid
33. Bambi
32. Shrek 2
31. Kung Fu Panda
30. Shrek
29. A Bug?s Life
28. The Simpsons Movie
27. Aladdin
26. The Lion King
25. Princess Mononoke
24. Beauty & the Beast
23. The Triplets of Belleville
22. Yellow Submarine
21. Antz
20. Monsters INC.
19. James & the Giant Peach
18. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
17. Persepolis
16. Ratatouille
15. Dumbo
14. The Iron Giant
13. Spirited Away
12. 101 Dalmations
11. The Incredibles
10. The Nightmare Before Christmas
9. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
8. Chicken Run
7. Fantasia
6. Finding Nemo
5. Wall*E
4. Toy Story
3. Pinocchio
2. Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs
1. Toy Story 2
 
This was done about a year ago, and Coraline was only released this January. If this was done only recently, Coraline should be around the top 35 range.

Also saddened by a lack of Mask of the Phantasm, which got an 87% on the site and was actually released theatrically. Of course, since it only had a limited release for a few days, this shouldn't be THAT surprising.
 
You don't think Toy Story 2 is a decent movie?

And you realize that Rotten Tomatoes actually catalouges opinions from several other sites, so occusing it of being biased does'nt make much sense.

Anywho, my problems with the list:

Shrek 2 and The Simpsons movie should not be on here.

Lack of foreign films (no Animal Farm? No Fantastic Planet? No Allegro Non Troppo?). This is actually explainable, considering that RT mostly catalouges English-language reviews.

Not even one Don Bluth movie. C'mon, people...

Ratatouille's a little too high for my tastes, Lion King's a little too low.
 
It's nice to see "The Triplets of Belleville" and "Persepolis" on the list. Personally, I'd have "Triplets" in the top ten, but that's me.

Now for the negative things: Personally, I think that there's a certain lack of European animation on the list. Where's the aforementioned "Fantastic Planet"? Or "Kirikou and the Sorceress"? Both of those could easily replace "Shrek 2" and "The Simpsons Movie".

What more? I like "Toy Story 2", more than I liked the first movie actually, but I don't think it should be #1. Finally, is "Snow White" really that great? (it's been ages since I watched it, so I can't remember) or is it only #2 because of it's historical importance (being Disney's first animated feature and all that)?
 
No.

Anyway, it's decent, but it bugs me that certain films are lower than they should be, such as Cinderella and Kung Fu Panda (yes I liked it a lot...). The Simpsons Movie being there bugs me...
 
Bear in mind that the list is based on statistics (specifically, the amount of positive reviews on RT), so it's going to have a leaning towards recent, English-language and widely distributed films. To put things in context, South Park: BLU is rated at 81% across 93 reviews, while Kirikou has a higher rating - 96% - but only 20 reviews.
 
I don't think Toy Story 2 was bad, but it's not a decent film to me. The film was “Meh”, a good “Meh”. But it doesn't beat Toy Story 1.

A decent Animated film to me are like Mulan, Tarzan, or even Akria. A animated film that's Good enough to watch and enjoy the film. More likely a B- to a A - film.
 
Well, while some of Snow White's fame certainly comes from historical importance, I think it's a good film and is well worth being in the top ten. I'm aware that there are a lot of people who don't think it aged that well, though.

I've just realized there are no Ralph Bakshi films on here either.
 
It isn't as bad as other Top animated films lists I've seen. Though, I'm not sure if I would put Shrek there since I really didn't think it was that good. I also would have had The Lion King in the top fifteen or so and maybe Lady and the Tramp a bit lower on the list too.

While I do like Toy Story 2 and it is one of the best animated sequels I've seen, I don't think I would put it at number one either. Top ten or fifteen sounds a bit better to me, but I'm not sure what I would put in at number one.
 
The first Toy Story should be #1, it was way better than the sequel. :sweat: South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut deserves to be way higher. Lilo and Stitch was better than Shrek IMO. But it's still a pretty good list. :)
 
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