# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Nightime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nightime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightime)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/21 "2003-11-02T21:49:54Z")
I’m probably forgetting some, but: 1. Princess Mononoke 2. Nausicaa 3. Spirited Away 4. Nightmare Before Christmas 5. Grave of the Fireflies 6. Beauty and the Beast 7. Castle of Cagliostro 8. Fantasia 9. Castle in the Sky 10. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/22 "2003-11-02T22:32:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DreadCthulhu \* > \*\*How can you all forget such classics as \* Legend of the Overfiend, La Blue Girl, or Twin Angels \*?? 😕 \*\* You are not allowed to vote for flicks you starred in yourself, oh tentacled one. ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Star_to_the_Right)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/23 "2003-11-03T05:28:49Z")
In no particular order: Beauty and the Beast The Lion King Finding Nemo Anastasia The Prince of Egypt Shrek The Land Before Time(the original, not any of the crappy sequels) An American Tail Cinderella Sleeping Beauty ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Star_to_the_Right)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/24 "2003-11-03T05:35:17Z")
In no particular order: Beauty and the Beast The Lion King Finding Nemo Anastasia The Prince of Egypt Shrek The Land Before Time(the original, not any of the crappy sequels) An American Tail Cinderella Sleeping Beauty ---
**Author:** ![Mazikeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9a28c/32.png) [@Mazikeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mazikeen)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/25 "2003-11-03T13:01:41Z")
Here are my 10 favorites, in no particular order: Spirited Away Lilo and Stitch Monsters Inc. Beauty and the Beast Sleeping Beauty Princess Mononoke Kiki’s Delivery Service The Cowboy Bebop Movie: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door Shrek The Secret of NIMH ---
**Author:** ![LibrarySpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@LibrarySpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LibrarySpy)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/26 "2003-11-03T14:40:42Z")
> [@](#): > > 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? I haven’t, so its not on my list. 😛 I wonder if the same goes for Lilo and Stitch. ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/27 "2003-11-03T14:59:15Z")
again, no order. these are my favourites, and i’m probably forgetting some. spirited away ninja scroll princess mononoke laputa castle in the sky blood:the last vampire shrek ghost in the shell akira fist of the northstar secret of nimh - is this out on DVD? I loved that film when i was a kid ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/28 "2003-11-03T14:59:46Z")
Without ranking them: Iron Giant Small Soldiers Aladdin Snow White Fantasia Shrek Jungle Book (Not really great, but has special place in my heart as it was the first movie I ever saw in a theatre) Finding Nemo Beauty & the Beast (Honorable mention b/c Lumiere’s Busby Berkly number - Brilliant) Finding Nemo I think that Disney and Pixar had a great decade druing the 90’s. Sadly, the quality of Disney’s own work seems to be declining, whereas Pixar is getting better all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Stonebow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Stonebow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stonebow)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/29 "2003-11-03T15:02:27Z")
I’ve not seen Spririted away either, but my list reads as follows (there’s no real order to them…it’s hard to choose a favorite) Ninja Scroll Vampire Hunter D (first movie) Titan AE Mulan Lion King South Park Tarzan Transformers GI:Joe Sleeping Beauty I’ve not seen Finding Nemo, either, so this list may need to be revised after this weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/30 "2003-11-03T15:08:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DreadCthulhu \* > \*\*How can you all forget such classics as \* Legend of the Overfiend, La Blue Girl, or Twin Angels \*?? 😕 \*\* Actually, I’d seriously nominate the “Cool Devices” series as a top ten animated film because it’s so groundbreaking in terms of content. The Imma Youjo series is pretty damn good, too. Spirited Away, as someone else mentioned, is far and away the best I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/31 "2003-11-03T15:41:22Z")
Princess Mononoke Waking Life Spirited Away Jan Svankmajer’s Alice My Neighbor Totoro Jan Svankmajer’s Faust Metropolis Akira Ghost in the Shell ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/32 "2003-11-03T18:34:39Z")
I can’t belive no one has mentioned _Wings of Honneamise_ yet – one of the most detailed and fully realized fantasy worlds ever commited to film. But _Shrek_? Please. The animation is weak, the art style is all over the map, and despite its veneer of snarky hipness, at its heart it’s as cheaply sentimental and glurgy as Disney at its worst … . My ten: 1. Grave of the Fireflies 2. Spirited Away 3. Snow White 4. My Neighbor Totoro 5. Wings of Honneamise 6. FLCL (a bit of a stretch … its six 1/2 hour episodes are about the length of a feature film) 7. Mulan 8. Kiki’s Delivery Service 9. Fantasia 10. The Triplets of Belleville (From what I’ve seen of the trailers. We’ll find out in a few weeks.) ---
**Author:** ![DaToad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@DaToad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaToad)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/33 "2003-11-03T18:56:48Z")
Nine of my top ten have been named in the previous posts, but nobody has mentioned the 1941 movie, _Hoppity Goes to Town_, from Fleischer Studios. It didn’t do well, in fact it was a box-office disaster, because it was released on Dec. 7. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/34 "2003-11-03T19:34:42Z")
My top ten: 1. The Iron Giant 2. Toy Story 2 3. Finding Nemo 4. Toy Story 5. Monsters Inc. 6. Lilo and Stitch 7. The Emperor’s New Groove 8. Mulan 9. A Bug’s Life 10. Transformers: The Movie 😃 No, I haven’t seen **Spirited Away,** but I’d gladly rent it if the opportunity arises. And yes, I always _Look For The Pixar Label_™ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mazikeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9a28c/32.png) [@Mazikeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mazikeen)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/35 "2003-11-03T22:21:29Z")
> [@](#): > > secret of nimh - is this out on DVD? I loved that film when i was a kid Yes, it’s out on DVD. I saw the Secret of NIMH dvd on sale at Walgreens of all places. I would have bought it, too, but I was nearly broke. It’s a childhood favorite of mine as well. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/36 "2003-11-03T22:51:18Z")
I’d like to nominate “The Chipmunk Adventure,” for having really decent production values, if nothing else. ---
**Author:** ![Azargoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Azargoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azargoth)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/37 "2003-11-03T23:24:53Z")
I’ll bite, 1. Akira 2. Princess Mononoke 3. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust 4. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie 5. Ghost in the Shell 6. Animatrix 7. Ninja Scroll 8. Spirited Away 9. Berserk 10. Record of Lodross War ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/38 "2003-11-04T03:33:05Z")
I liked [American Pop](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0082009/) when I was a kid, but perhaps it was because it was the first animated movie I’d ever seen with nipples in it. I’ve definitely seen the synagogue scene at the beginning and one of the gangster hits copied in other (live action) films. ---
**Author:** ![Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/39 "2003-11-04T03:38:42Z")
I nominate two Disney classics: _Pinocchio_ and _Sleeping Beauty_. Beautiful design on both. And the scene of boys turning to donkeys in _Pinocchio_ still packs a punch. **DaToad** - I second _Hoppity Goes to Town_ (although I remember it as _Mr. Bug Goes to Town_). Good call! Maybe not in the top ten, but fondly remembered: _Mad Monster Party_ and _Yellow Submarine_. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-animated-films/210889/40 "2003-11-04T07:53:42Z")
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