# Best non-Disney animated movies. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 10, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-non-disney-animated-movies/786317 "2017-05-10T21:39:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-non-disney-animated-movies/786317/41 "2017-05-12T14:21:40Z")
Has anyone mentioned _Kung Fu Panda_ yet? I loved the first two, though the third isn’t as good. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-non-disney-animated-movies/786317/42 "2017-05-12T15:11:23Z")
**A Monster In Paris** –so charming. I own a copy. **Gertie The Dinosaur**. Just because. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-non-disney-animated-movies/786317/43 "2017-05-15T08:52:20Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Love _Rango_, but didn’t realize that there was an alternate ending. Apparently, [this](https://paintedwolfjdb.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/rango-alternative-ending/) is it. Funny. There’s the short version of the ending which wraps up right after the main events with a closing summary by the Mariachi Owls, and then there’s a long version where we see all the townsfolk at a swimming hole and Rango rides off to save the day again with a rambling quasi-heroic speech and pose against the sunset. ETA: Has anyone seen the “stitchpunk” film [**9**?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_(2009_animated_film)) It’s an odd one, but artfully done. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-non-disney-animated-movies/786317/44 "2017-05-15T10:50:39Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > ETA: Has anyone seen the “stitchpunk” film [**9**?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_(2009_animated_film)) It’s an odd one, but artfully done. 'Saw it in the theater, have the DVD, and a couple of songs from the soundtrack on my iPod. 🆒 And, I can’t say if it qualifies under the pantheon of all-time greats, but…anyone else ever see _Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart_? A musical, too…although a bit less “Menken and Ashman” and more “[El Mariachi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x1R1Ti-v54).” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-non-disney-animated-movies/786317/45 "2017-05-15T12:29:59Z")
[American Pop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pop) ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-non-disney-animated-movies/786317/46 "2017-05-15T13:12:18Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Everything done by Laika and Aardman. I was gonna say Laika. Being stop-action, its output is small, but I’ve liked every one so far, and loved three. [ul] [li]Coraline[/li][li]ParaNorman (the weakest)[/li][li]The Boxtrolls[/li][li]Kubo and the Two Strings[/li][/ul] After the credits Pickles and Gristle, Snatch’s two minions, are shown in an oddly philosophical discussion about the world and their place in it. As they do, the camera slowly draws back to reveal the set and fleeting glimpses of the puppeteer. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-non-disney-animated-movies/786317/47 "2017-05-15T15:02:48Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > I was gonna say Laika. Being stop-action, its output is small, but I’ve liked every one so far, and loved three. > [ul] > [li]Coraline[/li][li]ParaNorman (the weakest)[/li][li]The Boxtrolls[/li][li]Kubo and the Two Strings[/li][/ul] Personally I found **Kubo** to be the weakest storywise, although the visuals are absolutely beautiful. **ParaNorman** has a lot going on and a lot of blink-and-miss-it jokes (and admittedly some dead-horse-beaten-to-glue ones). > [@](#): > > After the credits Pickles and Gristle, Snatch’s two minions, are shown in an oddly philosophical discussion about the world and their place in it. As they do, the camera slowly draws back to reveal the set and fleeting glimpses of the puppeteer. That was a very clever bit of film-making. Characters voiced by Tracy Morgan and Richard Ayoade, no less. ---
**Author:** ![Wednesday\_Evening](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Wednesday\_Evening](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wednesday_Evening)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-non-disney-animated-movies/786317/48 "2017-05-15T17:57:14Z")
I love animated movies and am currently trying to finish all of the movies on [Rotten Tomatoes’ List of 100 Best Animated Movies](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt/top_100_animation_movies/). There are a lot of great non-Disney movies in there. I have about 30 to go. Some of my personal non-Disney favorites are **Chicken Run** , **My Neighbor Totoro** , **Arthur Christmas,** and **Song of the Sea**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-non-disney-animated-movies/786317.md?page=2)