# Top ten animated films? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 1, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889 "2003-11-01T21:13:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CyberPundit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@CyberPundit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyberPundit)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/1 "2003-11-01T21:13:50Z")
My top three are: Princess Mononoke Grave of the Fireflies Only Yesterday All of them are by Studio Ghibli with the first by Miyazaki and the other two by Takahata. Each of them extends the range of animation beyond the traditonal children’s story. The remaining seven in no particular order: Toy Story 2 Spirited Away Finding Nemo Millenium Actress Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade Snow White and the Seven Dwarves Metropolis I include Snow White mainly for its historical importance though it’s still a pretty good film. ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/2 "2003-11-01T21:32:02Z")
1. Nausicaa/ Princess Mononoke/ Spirited Away 2. Toy Story 2 3. Perfect Blue 4. Beauty and the Beast 5. The Last Unicorn (Would be higher if not for Mia Farrow’s singing) 6. The Emperor’s New Groove 7. Sleeping Beauty 8. South Park: B,L, & U ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/3 "2003-11-02T01:53:15Z")
I’m not sure I can decide on ten, but I’ll echo Snow White, South Park and Toy Story 2 and add Iron Giant… ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/4 "2003-11-02T03:31:21Z")
I can’t resist a best-of list thread: 1. Pompoko 2. Lilo & Stitch 3. Toy Story 2 4. Finding Nemo 5. Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind 6. Toy Story 7. The Iron Giant 8. My Neighbor Totoro 9. Mulan 10. Fantasia I feel like I’m forgetting something, but a quick check of my DVD collection didn’t turn up any new candidates. (Unless _Who Framed Roger Rabbit?_ counts as animated, in which case it’s on there.) For a while after I saw it, Disney’s _Tarzan_ was at the top of my list, but now I realize I don’t have any desire to see it again – for all the beautiful stuff that went into that movie, I just remember all the Disney formula stuff. **Orual** , I finally saw _Perfect Blue_ for the first time last night. I was very impressed; it was really well-done and had me guessing the whole way through, even after I thought I’d already figured it out. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/5 "2003-11-02T03:57:59Z")
1. Spirited Away (far and away the BEST) 2. Kiki’s Delivery Service 3. Princess Mononoke 4. Iron Giant 5. Lady and the Tramp 6. Mulan 7. Toy Story’s 1 & 2 8. Monsters Inc. 9. The Rescuers 10. Bug’s Life Honorable Mentions: 101 Dalmations Chicken Run ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/6 "2003-11-02T06:21:25Z")
The Nightmare Before Christmas (does stop-motion count?) Toy Story Monster’s Inc. Spirited Away Watership Down The Last Unicorn South Park Alladdin Fantasia The Jungle Book ---
**Author:** ![Monza305](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Monza305](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monza305)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/7 "2003-11-02T06:40:48Z")
Having a 4 year old, I’ve seen way too many animated movies, so I’m not going to make a list. But I will add one: Shrek. When that movie came out on video a couple of years ago, my daughter became totaly fascinated with it. I am not exagerating when I say I’ve seen that movie at least 75 times. I wouldn’t watch any movie that many darn times if it wasn’t good. I had to get up and walk away from Scooby Doo and the Boo Brothers after 40 minutes for cryin’ out loud! ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/8 "2003-11-02T06:40:59Z")
I think **A Bug’s Life** belongs on the list for sure. The creativity of its artificial world, the characters of the ants despite looking nothing like people, and just the beauty of the animation. Plus, it was a damned good story. ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/9 "2003-11-02T07:10:50Z")
1, Spirited Away 2, Iron Giant 3, Vampire Hunter D:Bloodlust 4, Grave of the Fireflies ummm I can’t think of any others that deserve to be on a list though I’ve seen tons. ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/10 "2003-11-02T07:25:08Z")
How can you all forget such classics as \* Legend of the Overfiend, La Blue Girl, or Twin Angels \*?? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/11 "2003-11-02T08:47:25Z")
How could I forget Fantasia?! See that’s why I can’t really compile a top ten list… 🙂 I really liked Chicken Run, but I’m not sure I would put it in the all-time top ten. I’d include the three Wallace and Gromit films but I guess they don’t count 'cause their shorts. So I’ll add the upcoming W&G feature, even though it’s still a few years away. I’ve very little doubt it’ll go on the list when it gets here. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/12 "2003-11-02T09:08:21Z")
Heavy Metal ---
**Author:** ![Suzene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@Suzene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suzene)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/13 "2003-11-02T09:27:45Z")
1. Spirited Away, no question. Excellent story, excellent voice-acting, beautiful animation. 2. Watership Down. I appreciate it when “animated adaptation” of a novel does not equate to “dumbed down beyond all hope of redemption for the peace-of-mind of overprotective parents”. That and I still the voice-acting. Creation bless Rosen for this and his adaptation of “The Plague Dogs”, though it made me cry for days. 3. The Secret of Nimh. Ah, for the days before the name Don Bluth became synonymous with kiddie crap. This was not so much a faithful adaptation of the book it was based on as a beautiful re-imaging of it. And I still love the score. 4. Toy Story. Again, good story, good acting, and excellent use of a new sort of animation. I wonder if Disney knows that Pixar is everything that they haven’t been in well over a decade. 5. The Last Unicorn. Another case of ‘love the book, love the movie’. Thank you, Mr. Beagle! 6. Fantasia. The ORIGINAL Fantasia, not that sad-sack sequel crap. The first one was an equal mix of whimsy, raw emotion, and animators that were high as the sky. The new one was pretty enough, but wasn’t trying anything new; it just tried to ride the coat-tails of a true experiment. 7. The Nightmare Before Christmas. I am so Danny Elfman’s adoring fangirl. 8. South Park: Bigger. Longer. And Uncut. Bwahahahahaha… 9. The Escaflowne Movie. Bestest, prettiest AU fan-fiction ever. 10. \This place is reserved in honor of the one-day-to-be-made ‘Elfquest’ movie because it’s going to rock when it finally gets here, dammit!!!\ Honorable mentions: Cowboy Bebop: Knocking on Heaven’s Door - very nice, but doesn’t make much sense as a stand-alone movie. Princess Mononoke - So beautiful that it makes me ache, but the characters were such obvious metaphors that I couldn’t really care much about them as people. The Hobbit - Love the book, but I only like this movie, and that’s mostly for the nostolgia factor. I love the Gandalf and Gollum and Smaug in it. I don’t even mind the music. But God DAMN it, RB, What have you done to my Elves?! They look like they’ve been pickled in brine for 500 years! Suzene ---
**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:** [November 2, 2003, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/14 "2003-11-02T10:31:47Z")
In no particular order: Iron Giant Tarzan Spirited Away Lilo and Stitch Toy Story 2 Aladdin Lion King Nightmare Before Christmas Finding Nemo Ice Age Bubbling under are Chicken Run, Toy Story 1, Monsters Inc, and probably Princess Mononoke (which I haven’t seen yet). ---
**Author:** ![Saitou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Saitou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saitou)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/15 "2003-11-02T12:20:06Z")
In no particular order: Porco Rosso (and Nausicaa,Kiki,Mononoke,Totoro,Laputa,Sen) Grave of the Fireflies (and Pom Poko,Only Yesterday) Fantasia Ghost in the Shell Fantastic Planet Toy Story Nightmare Before Christmas Iron Giant Beauty and the Beast Akira Honorable Mentions: An American Tail Who Framed Roger Rabbit Heavy Metal Waking life Wallace and Gromit Watership down ---
**Author:** ![Short\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Short\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Short_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/16 "2003-11-02T16:16:27Z")
What, no **The emperor’s new groove**? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/17 "2003-11-02T16:18:32Z")
Do they have to be features, or can I nominate the pre-Code **Betty Boop** shorts? ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/18 "2003-11-02T17:29:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Short Guy \* > \*\*What, no **The emperor’s new groove**? \*\* I was just assuming that everyone knew it was the best movie ever and it didn’t even merit saying. Ah well, here’s mine. 1. ENG-“Ahhh! Llama face!” 2. Road to El Dorado–Kevin Kline AND Branagh=ham. 3. Titan AE 4. Iron Giant 5. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut 6. Monsters, Inc. 7. Nightmare Before Christmas 8. Beavis and Butt-head Do America! 9. Chicken Run 10. Finding Nemo ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/19 "2003-11-02T21:35:32Z")
Is it safe to assume that anybody contributing a list of the Best Animated Films that doesn’t even include Spirited Away, has never seen it? ---
**Author:** ![CyberPundit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@CyberPundit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyberPundit)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/20 "2003-11-02T21:48:48Z")
Not really. I know for a fact that **Sol Grundy** has seen the film and likes it but not enough to place it in his top ten. It’s a matter of taste and the films does have a few flaws. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889.md?page=2)