# Best European cartoons. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 8, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-european-cartoons/847622 "2020-02-08T12:49:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-european-cartoons/847622/41 "2020-02-11T21:30:08Z")
The English-translated version of [The Snow Queen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Queen_(1957_film)) stuck with me for years after catching it on TV as a young lad in the early '70s. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-european-cartoons/847622/42 "2020-04-04T02:32:20Z")
I recently found [this](https://imdb.com/list/ls027345371/) list. Not all European, but lots of them are. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-european-cartoons/847622/43 "2020-04-04T05:30:53Z")
[Persepolis](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808417/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0), while based on an Iranian woman’s graphic novel, was animated in France and was breathtaking. [Balance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTGg0Z46Af4) was pretty amazing. German, I thnk. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-european-cartoons/847622/44 "2020-04-04T05:44:46Z")
That list that Darren Garrison linked to is a list of animated films posted by Dr-Faustus on YouTube which come from 2000 to 2020. The following list was posted by Dr-Faustus on YouTube and consists of animated films from before 2000. Both lists have some European films but mostly aren’t European: > **[TOP ANIMATED MOVIES: PRE-2000 - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/list/ls024371623/)** > > TOP ANIMATED MOVIES: PRE-2000 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-european-cartoons/847622/45 "2020-04-04T13:09:47Z")
I just watched _I Lost my Body_ about a disembodied hand searching for its owner. It’s really a story of loneliness and making connections. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-european-cartoons/847622/46 "2020-04-04T20:09:08Z")
[Fantadroms](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoK9JvxAPbw), a series of TV cartoons from Latvia in the 80s.Sort of like Yellow Submarine as conceived by Hieromymus Bosch. Somewhat cruddy in execution, but so flat-out bizarre you can’t look away. Main characters are a shape-shifting space cat with a lopsided face who sneezes a lot, a purple lady cat with pseudopods for legs, a floating pink blob and - well, just lots of nutso stuff that defies explanation. I vote the UK is part of Europe, they just like to pretend they aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-european-cartoons/847622/47 "2020-04-04T20:16:23Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > [Balance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTGg0Z46Af4) was pretty amazing. German, I thnk. Great short, perhaps the best I ever saw on Liquid TV. Since we’re doing shorts, check out Fallen Art by Tomek Baginski. I don’t know how to link to the url on YouTube with my iPad. ---
**Author:** ![Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/59ef9b/32.png) [@Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorkshire_Pudding)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-european-cartoons/847622/48 "2020-04-04T20:50:30Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > I vote the UK is part of Europe, they just like to pretend they aren’t. There’s a lot of us who agree with you, who’ve never been daft enough to pretend 22 miles of sea means we’re nothing to do with the people on the other side. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-european-cartoons/847622/49 "2020-04-08T14:12:33Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > [[Balance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTGg0Z46Af4) was pretty amazing. German, I thnk. Ah, such a deliciously desolate ending. Bravo. Now is the time on Sprockets when we dance! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-european-cartoons/847622/50 "2020-04-08T15:58:45Z")
I love the Asterix books, but the earliest Asterix animated movies were pretty pitiful. Not so with the more recent ones. I saw **Asterix and the Vikings** (2006) and loved it. They’ve done two more Asterix cartoons that I haven’t yet seen ( **Asterix:The Mansions of the Gods** (2014) and **Asterix: The SEcret of the Magic Potion** (2018)), but they appear to be in the same style. Why aren’t these released over here? I’ve never seen them in the theaters, on cable, on streaming services, or on DVD (unless you really look for them). There are also the live-action versions (with Gerard Depardieu as Obelix(!)) that overlap with these recent animated versions in time. I’ve seen a couple of these. They’re OK, but you have to have a lot of “willing suspension of disbelief” for them to work. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-european-cartoons/847622/51 "2020-04-08T16:03:46Z")
I don’t know if it’s among the “best”, but an interestin early French cartoon from 1950 (in color) was **Jeannot l’Intrepide** (Marketed in the US as **Johnny the Giant Killer** ). It was made by a very small team, apparently. I saw it on TV as a kid, but I haven’t seen or heard of it since, until I went looking for it. You can find the whole film on YouTube > **[Johnny the Giant Killer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_the_Giant_Killer)** > > Johnny the Giant Killer aka Johnny vs the Giant (French: Jeannot l'intrépide) is a 1950 French fantasy animated film directed by Jean Image. The film was made in 1.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}1⁄2 y Th... [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjrrP2EmtnoAhWBhXIEHdAdCukQtwIwAHoECAUQLQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DRbj0dqtuCGU&usg=AOvVaw26XfKXmp-Nm3bM-\_14ry\_B](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjrrP2EmtnoAhWBhXIEHdAdCukQtwIwAHoECAUQLQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DRbj0dqtuCGU&usg=AOvVaw26XfKXmp-Nm3bM-_14ry_B) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gKHeCN7b5M4/hqdefault.jpg "Johnny the Giant Killer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKHeCN7b5M4) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-european-cartoons/847622/52 "2020-04-08T16:16:16Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Fantastic Planet. I think I saw it 3 times when it came out. I was 11 and I was amazed that animation was being used to tell a serious story. If you liked this, yopu should also have a look at the same director’s film **Gandahar** , released in the US as **Light Years**. The people involved i8n the American release make an impressive list – voices by Glenn Close, Christopher PLummer, Penn and Teller (Yes, Teller), Bridget Fonda. The posters give Isaac Asimov credit for the script for the English-language version, but the Wikipedia article says that he did a “revision” of the translation. > **[Gandahar (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandahar_(film))** > > Gandahar is a 1987 French animated science fantasy film written and directed by René Laloux, based on Jean-Pierre Andrevon's 1969 novel Les Hommes-machines contre Gandahar (The Machine-Men versus Gandahar). > The peaceful people of Gandahar are suddenly attacked by an army of automata known as the Men of Metal, that march through the villages and kidnap their victims by turning them to stone. The resulting statues are collected and then transferred to their base. At the capital city of Jasper, the... ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-european-cartoons/847622/53 "2020-04-09T17:02:32Z")
Ah, I’ve been trying to find out what that was since seeing it playing in a bar years ago. Thanks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-european-cartoons/847622.md?page=2)