The 25 All-TIME Best Animated Films

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Here's a new list of all-time best animated films compiled by Time magazine film critic Richard Corliss.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2079149,00.html

Here's the list if you don't want to look at the article yet:

25. Lady and the Tramp
24. Fantastic Mr. Fox
23. Yellow Submarine
22. Horton Hears a Who
21. Kung-Fu Panda
20. Paprika
19. Tangled
18. The Lion King
17. Akira
16. Happy Feet
15. Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
14. The Adventures of Prince Achmed
13. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
12. Toy Story
11. Toy Story 3
10. The Little Mermaid
9. Finding Nemo
8. The Triplets of Belleville
7. Up
6. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
5. Spirited Away
4. Dumbo
3. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
2. Wall[SUB]*[/SUB]E
1. Pinocchio
Compared to a lot of past lists of animated films I've seen, this one is not bad. It's very varied and includes some films I rarely see get mentioned, Paprika, Akira, and The Adventures of Prince Achmed, to name a few. Still, some films don't really belong on it. Tangled (too new), Happy Feet (kinda lame), and The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (great cartoons, but not a film, per se) could easily be replaced by films like Fantasia, The Iron Giant, or Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, and/or Aladdin. Two foreign films on the list (The Triplets of Belleville and Wallace and Gromit) could be replaced IMO by The Secret of Kells, Dragon Hunters, or an older Miyazaki film like Nausicaa in the Valley of Wind, Laputa (Castle in the Sky), or even Castle of Cagliostro. Only one Toy Story film (probably the first one due to how groundbreaking it was) should be on it and The Prince of Egypt gets passed over again which is par for the course.
 
I sort of wish that "best" lists like this were just presented to you on one page with links to each entry you can click on. But I guess you get less views on each page or something. I really don't want to click through 26 entries just to check if my favourites are there.
 
Ok, so I guess we're just gonna leave every great action movie off the list: Batman:Mask Of The Phantasm, Transformers:The Movie, TMNT. However, every CGI family movie of the last 15 years made it on the list. Gee, this was a pretty objective list.
 
Yeah, not varied enough and even of the titles I agreed with, I didn't necessarily agree with the order. For example I wouldn't have put Toy Story 3 before the original. Some of those spots given to more recent movies like Happy Feet should have gone to more deserving classics like Bambi. And no Don Bluth films? I also agree with the lack of action ABrown pointed out. There were a few foreign films represented that I was glad to see if cliche ones for a list like this. OK if flawed list, I'll give it credit for not blowing the top spot (Pinocchio for those of you discouraged before reaching the end).
 
I don't think Transformers and TMNT would be on any objective list (and frankly, nobody could really make an objective list; these are all just opinion pieces), and Akira, a great action movie, made it.
 
Yeah, this wasn't much of a balanced list to me either. I felt like some of the movies were too recent for a best animated films of all-times list, especially Kung Fu Panda and Happy Feet. I liked Kung Fu Panda. It had some nice action scenes and some good humor as well, but it definitely wasn't that great. Happy Feet, while cute to look at, dragged on for me, although the constant commercial breaks on ABC Family probably helped with that as well, but I don't think it was that great either. I also would have put The Lion King at least a bit closer to the top ten. I don't think I would have put The Little Mermaid in the top ten. While I don't remember watching the entire movie when I was little, I was just liking the songs and didn't really gave a lot of attention to the characters. I liked Finding Nemo as well, but I don't think that it was better than either the original Toy Story or Toy Story 3. I was actually kind of surprised with their choice for number one. After seeing that Snow White was down at thirteen, I was preparing for another Shrek at number one. I saw Pinocchio and it is a fairly enjoyable movie, but I don't think it was that great either. It feels like this list was mainly focused on movies that have come out within the last fifteen or so years and the really classic movies, mostly from Disney, with not much of any movies in-between. With most of these choices, I either don't think that the movie was that great or that it should have been in a different spot on the list. The only exceptions are Lady and the Tramp since being on the 25th spot feels right to me and perhaps Spirited Away, although I might have put that a tad lower in the top ten.
 
No real bad films on the list (save Happy Feet) for me, but a lack of some real milestones, like Beauty and The Beast.

... and a bloody Looney Tunes compilation movie at #3??
 
South Park should've been lower and Lion King should've been a lot higher. I also question what Kung Fu Panda is doing there when there's no Beauty and the Beast.
 
But that's not objective: you're already fans of the show and thus biased in favor of a more emotional response, good or bad, to the movie. Not that ANY opinion is objective, but general consensus, especially among critics, does not place the Transformers movie as the greatest anything.

As for my thoughts on the list, no clue what Horton, Happy Feet, and Kung Fu Panda are doing there at all, and Tangled and the Bugs Bunny movie are real stretches. Replace those with The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Persepolis, Nightmare Before Xmas, and Grave of the Fireflies and then this list might look better (with some reordering, of course, and also why are Toy Story 1 and 3 there but not 2, the best in the series? I might put only 2 on the list as representative of the series and use the extra space for Nausicaa or Sita Sings the Blues).
 
The Transformers series is a favorite of mine and the movie is also one of my top favorites. G.I. Joe is one of my favorite tv series as well, but its movie is not. I think film critics go into a movie like that with some biases of their own. They probably think it is nothing more than a toy commercial and have already probably judged it before even watching it (if they even bothered to watch it).
 
Yeah, because you're Transformers fans.

What about people who aren't Transformers fans? Like, say, a Time.com editor who was making a list of the greatest animated films?
 
Don't really get what's wrong with having recent animated films on the list. We all have our opinions, but it is ALL time after all.

A lot of good movies are on that list. Pinocchio is probably my favorite of Disney, so it's cool that it's no. 1. I'm guessing they didn't want Disney to 'hog' too much space.

Also nice to see Fantastic Mr. Fox (soooo should've won best animated film instead of Up). I still don't quite understand what people think is so brilliant about Spirited Away though.
 
Am I a little biased towards Transformers? Yes, I'll admit it. But I am able to be objective about it though. Like when there are lists of the greatest animated series ever made, I don't think that the original Transformers cartoon should be anywhere near the top. Because even though I am a very big Transformers fan, I don't consider the original Transformers cartoon to be one of the greatest cartoons ever made. But when it comes to the original Transformers movie, that's a different story. I'm able to objectively look at that movie and say that it's one of the greatest animated movies ever created. As others have said though, lists like this are always going to come down to personal preferences, and unfortunately not everyone out there considers the original Transformers movie to be one of the greatest animated movies ever made
 
Personally, while I find lists like this to be fun to read, In the end its all opinion, so names like all time best kind of bug me, yes its TIME magazine & wordplay is fun, but I prefere titles like "our top 25 animated films of all time," makes it sound less snooty. But im just nitpicky like that. Overall though its a decent list, even if only agree with afew of the picks.


I mean C'mon what kind of top 25 list omits Fantasia?
 
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