Animated Creatures: ILX's top 100 animated films (results thread)

#99T: Only Yesterday
aka Omoide Poro Poro
dir. TAKAHATA Isao
1991, Japan
73 points, 2 votes
http://i.imgur.com/bDma7.jpg?1
trailer

#99T: Vinni-Pukh
dir. Fyodor Khitruk
1969, USSR
73 points, 2 votes
http://i.imgur.com/TDv4g.jpg?1
film

that'll do it till tomorrow

sneak peek

PUUMP UP THE JAM, let's pump up the jam over here

Z S will you follow me around and blast that out of a boom box whenever I say something in real life? Feel like it'd be a real morale-booster for everyone

definitely!
i would love to do that, for real!

pump it pump it pump it

i'm really looking forward to these results, even though i didn't vote in the poll. i don't know very much about animated film, and i'm excited to check out all the stuff i've never heard of. *pumps up the jam*

OH GOD ABORT just realized one ballot wasn't getting properly counted let's check if it makes a difference to uh those two

yep, folks, those would've been 99T if I had not just fixed something; now they're tied for 104th.

If this had been a real emergency, you would already be pumping up the jam.

lol I get the feeling that the ballot is mine. :(

BUT YAY EXCITED.

no dude it was someone else's who didn't use my clever ID number system and I forgot to fix up their ballot when I was doing that, so when I was running my clever vote-counting program it wasn't getting counted properly. But now it is.

Glad you made the mistake, because I never would've known checked the Russian Winnie Pooh otherwise, that one looks awesome!

Since we're not going to returning to Only Yesterday, then, the wikipedia page on it makes it sound like a great leap forward of, er, bringing indiecore to anime. This is something that I'm sort of aware of as a thing - I'm curious if this is down to Only Yesterday, or whether it was always there just under the surface.

for real this time

no dude it was someone else's who didn't use my clever ID number system

was this me? i didnt realize there was some system so i just sent you a list of movies

#100: Little Red Riding Rabbit
dir. Friz Freleng
1944, USA
77 points, 3 votes
http://i.imgur.com/xFpcR.jpg
film

xp Lamp don't worry you weren't the only one, it's ok wasn't that big a deal. All is well, now!

I think I'm most interested in seeing the distribution of shorts:features. I had both but definitely weighted toward the latter.

Same, though the WB shorts went a long way towards balancing out my ballot.

Masterfully obnoxious rendition of "Five O'Clock Whistle" in "Little Red Riding Rabbit."

i really had no idea how to rate shorts vs. features, just tossed it all in and hoped for the best.

#98T: When the Wind Blows
dir. Jimmy Murakami
1986, UK
78 points, 3 votes
http://i.imgur.com/MH7HX.png?1
film

My sister claims to still be traumatized by this film some 25 years later.

#98T: Gandahar
aka Light Years
dir René Laloux
1988, France
http://i.imgur.com/QH8sG.jpg?1
film

(78 points, 3 votes)

(as implied by the tie I guess)

I love Little Red Riding Hood doing splits over coals.

When I was a kid I really liked the bit of Riding Hood showing Bugs Bunny the rabbit in her basket.

I thought I watched a lot of cartoons, but I've not even heard of any of these! Not a complaint, btw.

Wow, really, When the Wind Blows that low? I thought for sure it'd be in the top 20.

Oh man, Gandahar looks awesome, got to check that one out.

i was one of the three votes for for 'gandahar', dope movie, rad concepts

I'm a little shocked by Where the Wind Blows' placing, I thought it would pick up some notice from the Threads discussion in the horror movies poll. On the other hand, I can see it being a niche character piece and it's not exactly in the canon - Grave of the Fireflies at 98 would amaze me as a comparison.

I will nonetheless go completely ape if The Wrong Trousers, with all of those handicaps, places outside the top 10 :)

i'm expecting the unexpected, i think the canon has much less stranglehold here. i only voted for one WB short, for example.

i put The Wrong Trousers very high on my ballot but seriously dude you need to stop talking about it until it shows up

I intend to bring it up every time there's a film well-regarded in the UK and unknown in the US to compare it to. So, not until it shows up.

wallace and gromit are not unknown in the US

Gandahar is by the same dude as Planet Sauvage, yes? I had to cut that from my ballot as I've only seen clips and not the whole thing all the way through, but his animation style really is amazing.

Sad, I'm reminded that I didn't beg my pop hard enough to have him take me to see Gandahar when it played in theatres (as Light Years in the US).

#97: Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
aka Rupan Sansei: Kariosutoro no Shiro, ルパン三世 カリオストロの城
dir. MIYAZAKI Hayao
1979, Japan
80 points, 2 votes
http://i.imgur.com/OoD1K.jpg?1
trailer

Wow, really, When the Wind Blows that low? I thought for sure it'd be in the top 20.

have never been able to make it through a full minute of this, lrn 2 read u heathens my seven-year-old self thinks

Have seen Cagliostro twice and still don't remember much about it, except that despite being straightforwardly cartoonish and not at all yer typical Miyazaki film, it was hella fun.

lrn 2 read u heathens my seven-year-old self thinks

I'm not sure what you mean here? As in, we should read the book instead and thus the film is worthless? Does that mean you've never enjoyed any adaptation ever? No matter how skilfully directed/acted/edited?

Um... What's the projected time scale for this poll?

Faster than it has been; my life is unexpectedly ridiculous lately. Progress shall be made.

All good, I was just wondering if the pace was deliberate!

#95T: 8 Ball Bunny
dir. Chuck Jones
1950, USA
80 points, 3 votes
http://i.imgur.com/Lh26o.jpg
film

#95T: Bad Luck Blackie
dir. Tex Avery
1949, USA
80 points, 3 votes
http://i.imgur.com/n65uK.png?1
film

#92T: Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise
aka Ōritsu Uchūgun: Oneamisu no Tsubasa, 王立宇宙軍 オネアミスの翼
dir. YAMAGA Hiroyuki
1987, Japan
82 points, 2 votes
http://i.imgur.com/pvJDD.jpg
empire magazine's jeff yogel gave it four stars, saying 'animation equal to anything from uncle walt'

#92T: The Plague Dogs
dir. Martin Rosen
1982, UK
82 points, 2 votes
http://i.imgur.com/g86ia.jpg
trailer

#92T: Bimbo's Initiation
dir. Dave Fleischer
1981, USA
82 points, 2 votes
http://i.imgur.com/S6ct3.jpg
film

Not seen any of that lot. Heard of Plague Dogs due to the Watership Down connection, but never watched it.

Up making it into the top 30, let alone the top 10, is baffling.

Thanks to silby and Leee for the poll! Could we have a top 100 recap?

1. Spirited Away
2. Wall-E
3. What's Opera, Doc?
4. Duck Amuck
5. Up
6. The Triplets of Belleville
7. Akira
8. The Iron Giant
9. My Neighbour Totoro
10. The Incredibles
11. The Wrong Trousers
12. South Park
13. Paprika
14. Toy Story 2
15. One Froggy Evening
16. The Nightmare Before Christmas
17. Toy Story
18. Fantasia
19. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
20. Coraline
21. Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
22. A Charlie Brown Christmas
23. Fantastic Planet
24. Persepolis
25. Yellow Submarine
26. Perfect Blue
27. Robin Hood Daffy
28. Kiki's Delivery Service
29. The Secret of NIMH
30. Alice
31. Fantastic Mr. Fox
32. Creature Comforts
33. Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs
34. Finding Nemo
35. Ratatouille
36. Toy Story 3
37. Watership Down
38. Ghost in the Shell
39. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
40. Porky in Wackyland
41. Monsters, Inc.
42. Waking Life
43. A Scanner Darkly
44. Dumbo
45. The Wizard of Speed and Time
46. Your Face
47. Grand Day Out
48. Charlotte's Web
49. Waltz With Bashir
50. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
51. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
52. A Close Shave
53. The Rabbit of Seville
54. Beavis and Butthead Do America
55. The Lion King
56. Grave of the Fireflies
57. Millennium Actress
58. Alice in Wonderland
59. Der Fuehrer's Face
60. Transformers: The Movie
61. Pinocchio
62. Lilo & Stitch
63. Beep, Beep!
64. Sledgehammer
65. Porco Rosso
66. Rabbit Fire
67. Princess Mononoke
68. Ninja Scroll
69. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
70. The Emperor's New Groove
71. Laputa: Castle in the Sky
72. I Love to Singa
73. Fievel: An American Tail
74. Bambi Meets Godzilla
75. The Brave Little Toaster
76. Red Hot Riding Hood
77. Feed the Kitty
78. Rejected
79. The Little Mermaid
80. The Secret of Kells
81. Jumping
82. Storytime
83. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
84. Gertie the Dinosaur
85 (TIE). Rango
85 (TIE). Birds Anonymous
85 (TIE). The Jungle Book
88. Animal Farm
89. Allegro Non Troppo
90. The Illusionist
91. Kung Fu Panda
92 (TIE). Bimbo's Initiation
92 (TIE). The Plague Dogs
92 (TIE). Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise
95 (TIE). Bad Luck Blackie
95 (TIE). 8 Ball Bunny
97. Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
98 (TIE). Gandahar
98 (TIE). When the Wind Blows
100. Little Red Riding Rabbit

I strongly advise all Americans to watch Watership Down and When the Wind Blows. Still gutted they came so low. Also: more art shorts.

Warning: When The Wind Blows will ruin your life.

Up making it into the top 30, let alone the top 10, is baffling.

it just sort of floated in there

Considered going overboard with gifs for Spirited Away, but the screen cap I ended up using, which comes from the most potent scene for me, encapsulates the quiet affect that makes the film so strong.

Up has strong characterisation, powerful themes, amazing visuals, a decent twist, and talking dogs / dogs in fighter planes - let alone the merciless first five minutes. Up is the Pixar film that doesn't have to explain its place in the top ten.

Warning: When The Wind Blows will ruin your life.

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Saturday, 19 January 2013 01:27 (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

up has the most moving first third of a move I've ever seen and then the most tedious longueur of a movie I've ever seen until the finish

Don't understand how anyone could find a single second of Up in the least bit tedious. Frontin'.

I strongly advise all Americans to watch Watership Down and When the Wind Blows. Still gutted they came so low.

I forgot to vote cos I'm a plank, but I would definitely have given these a whole bunch of points. Also Plague Dogs.

Also, it's sad not having 101 Dalmatians in here, I love that film.

ok well my ballot would have been, weighted, and possibly including stuff not nominated (my #3 especially)

1 Mind Game
2 Watership Down
3 5 Centimeters Per Second
4 Akira
5 Princess Mononoke
6 A Scanner Darkly
7 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
8 The Wrong Trousers
9 South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut
10 The Lion King

ten will do. really though, do as strongo says and watch Mind Game, it's the greatest, and also watch 5cm/second coz it's only an hour long but DAMN will it move you with its understated storyline of temps perdu and *astounding* visual aesthetic

every pixar movie ever scores 8/10 and lacks a tiny something (too controlled I think), haven't seen up or ratatouille yet mind

Thanks for the recap, emil.y!

It transpires that Myon too has not achieved her aspirations, as she was a swimming champion during high school, but gave up when her breasts became too big.

o_O

Aw Jesus I forgot Cloudy!

I don't know why I'm boggling at that, tbh. It's probably a very real thing in terms of slipstream and drag reduction. And also, it's a Japanese animation, that's probably one of the least weird things that happens.

i agree that this was one of the best polls ever.

Also the first of the last four film polls where the winner wasn't from the 80s.

Looks like I left Ponyo off my ballot... or else we voted before it was released?

zomg: live action Toy Story

my ballot:

1. Duck Dodgers in the 24 ½th Century (Chuck Jones, 1953)
2. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
3. Charlie Brown Christmas, A (Bill Melendez, 1965)
4. Fantastic Planet (René Laloux, 1973)
5. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor (Dave Fleischer, 1936)
6. Little Red Riding Rabbit (Friz Freleng, 1944)
7. Der Fuehrer’s Face (Jack Kinney, 1942)
8. Chicken Little (Clyde Geronimi, 1943)
9. The Small Planets (Art Clokey, 1960)
10. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009)
11. Kiki’s Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki, 1989)
12. Allegro non troppo (Bruno Bozzetto, 1977)
13. Gertie the Dinosaur (Winsor McCay, 1914)
14. Alice (Jan Svankmajer, 1988)
15. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984)
16. Vinni Pukh (Fyodor Khitruk, 1970)
17. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Bill Melendez, 1966)
18. A Cat in Paris (Jean-Loup Felicioli & Alain Gagnol, 2010)
19. Birds Anonymous (Friz Freleng, 1957)
20. The Brave Little Tailor (Disney, 1938)
21. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (John Lounsbery & Wolfgang Reitherman, 1977)
22. The Secret World of Arietty (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2010)
23. The Three Little Bops (Friz Freleng, 1957)
24. Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi, 2007)
25. The Hole Idea (Robert McKimson, 1955)

someone was playing Alice from a projector in this empty room next door to a bar a few days before i saw it listed at #30 here. I had never heard of it before, but the 30 minutes I saw were trippy as hell.

i can't remember if this is underrated or not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGAt0GQ703U

did anyone else hang on to their ballot? was really looking forward to checking out everyone's lists.

^^^

Spirited Away
Alice
Incredibles, The
Rango
Whats Opera, Doc?
Akira
Up
Augusta Feeds Her Child
Your Face
Fantasia
Coraline
Bambi
Slap-Happy Lion, The
Wizard of Speed and Time, The
Toy Story 2
Triplets of Belleville, The
Persepolis
Wall-E
Heaven and Earth Magic
Brave Little Toaster, The
Chicken Run
Duck Amuck
Luncheon
Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Iron Giant, The
Jumping
Lion King, The
Mechanical Monsters, The
Nightmare Before Christmas, The
One Froggy Evening
Rabbit of Seville, The
Red Hot Riding Hood
Robin Hood Daffy
Scanner Darkly, A
Baby Snakes
Beep, Beep!

Not the most adventurous ballot, but it's all mine, baby. I'm happy that I was able to bring "The Wizard of Speed and Time" to ILX's hivemind attention.

i found mine! be kind.

1. Fievel: An American Tail
2. I Love to Singa
3. Ratatouille
4. Spirited Away
5. Waltz with Bashir
6. Secret World of Arietty
7. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
8. Wall-E
9. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
10. Secret of NIMH
11. Beauty and the Beast
12. Alice in Wonderland
13. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
14. Toy Story
15. Beavis and Butthead Do America
16. Charlotte's Web
17. Cinderella
18. The Incredibles
19. Kiki's Delivery Service
20. The Lion King
21. Monsters, Inc
22. Princess Mononoke
23. Akira
24. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
25. My Neighbor Totoro
26. Betty Boop and Grampy
27. A Scanner Darkly
28. Sleeping Beauty
29. South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
30. Dot and the Kangaroo
31. The Hobbit
32. Coraline
33. Up
34. What's Opera, Doc?
35. Nightmare Before Christmas
36. All Dogs Go to Heaven
37. Aladdin
38. Bambi Meets Godzilla
39. Bambi
40. The Cat Came Back
41. The Brave Little Tailor
42. Pinocchio
43. Lady and the Tramp
44. Mulan
45. Land Before Time
46. The Little Mermaid
47. Peter Pan
48. Toy Story 2
49. The Rescuers
50. The Princess and the Frog

Would quite probably be different if I did it again today, but my ballot:

1. Watership Down
2. When the Wind Blows
3. Spirited Away
4. Jabberwocky
5. One Froggy Evening
6. Motion Painting No. 1
7. Arabesque
8. Wolfman, The
9. Paprika
10. Darkness/Light/Darkness
11. Triplets of Belleville, The
12. Perfect Blue
13. Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics, The
14. Animal Farm
15. Wall-E
16. Komposition in Blau
17. Cat Came Back, The
18. What's Opera, Doc?
19. The Aristocats
20. Nightmare Before Christmas, The
21. My Neighbour Totoro
22. Persepolis
23. Robin Hood
25. Wizard of Speed and Time, The

'spirited away' is the one i most regret leaving off. i rewatched it a couple weeks ago and it's just as good as everyone else says it is.

i vaguely remember seeing 'dot and the kangaroo.' didn't they make a bunch of other 'dot' movies in the 80s?

http://www.ifccenter.com/films/academy-award-nominated-animated-short-films-2013/
just saw this. interesting crop but nothing that killed me.
Some excerpts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dr66BBEZAg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHZ7NnFYIvc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id-LypdWLOE
^maybe the best one

some full length:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMO6vjmkyI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEMrKxZLZWQ

Man, hope that's just the intro to _Tetsuo 3: Paperman_ and shit gets rolling in the next scene.

my ballot

1 gantz graf
2 spirited away
3 paprika
4 your face
5 Creature Comforts
6 luxo jr
7 duck amuk
8 up
9 my neighbor totoro
10 akira
11 mind game
12 grand day out
13 who framed roger rabbit
14 Alice
15 a scanner darkly
16 wall-e
17 toy story 3
18 the wrong trousers
19 castle of cagliostro
20 Storytime
21 Girl who Leapt Through Time, The
22 porco rosso
23 watership down
24 jungle book
25 the tune
26 sledgehammer
27 when the wind blows
28 waltz with bashir
29 Triplets of Belleville, The
30 fell in love with a girl
31 gandahar
32 fantastic planet
33 patlabor 2
34 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
35 shrek
36 Yellow Submarine, The

Wrong Trousers, The
Toy Story 2
Lilo & Stitch
What’s Opera, Doc?
Spirited Away
Robin Hood Daffy
Duck Amuck
Alice
Toy Story
Close Shave, A (Wallace and Gromit)
Up
Finding Nemo
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Yellow Submarine, The
South Park
Princess Mononoke
Akira
Scanner Darkly, A
Millennium Actress
Tin Toy
Grand Day Out (Wallace and Gromit)
To Beep or Not To Beep
Duck Dodgers in the 24 ½th Century
Kung Fu Panda
Dimensions of Dialogue
Hopalong Casualty
Curse of the Were-Rabbit, The
Lord of the Rings, The
Chicken Run
Feed The Kitty
Monsters, Inc.
Nightmare Before Christmas, The
Toy Story 3
My Neighbor Totoro
Kiss Me Cat
Red Hot Riding Hood
Wall-E
One Froggy Evening
Bully for Bugs <- Write-in vote, genuinely surprised it wasn't nominated.
Emperor’s New Groove, The
Matter of Loaf and Death, A (Wallace and Gromit)
Incredibles, The
Rango
Creature Comforts
Tangled
When the Wind Blows
Ratatoullie
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Antz
Kiki’s Delivery Service

http://goodfil.ms/films/by_genre/3-animation/most_popular

I like ours better.

Just watched Coraline, pretty disappointed. It seemed so sparse, full of dead air or cursorily written lines like it was just a draft script. The music was similarly thin and the set pieces were just odd - the mouse circus was boring, the old actresses' mermaid & venus double act frankly bizarre. And the story was cut and pasted from a bunch of traditional fairy tales with no spark of its own.

On further reflection I think it just wasn't creepy or weird enough. Don't really know the age range of the book but this was firmly in young kids territory where it could have been closer to young adults; and having the entire film animated meant the other world never seemed other worldly; if the real world had been live action or even just done in a different style... would like an idea of what the book was like but bleugh.

and having the entire film animated meant the other world never seemed other worldly; if the real world had been live action or even just done in a different style...

the 3D handled this beautifully though - when she first looks out into the "other" backyard and the rear of the image just plummets away from you, and then the whole world stays so depth-enhanced for her whole adventure there

my ballot:

1. Fantasia
2. What’s Opera, Doc?
3. Wall-E
4. Wrong Trousers, The
5. Duck Amuck
6. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
7. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
8. Nightmare Before Christmas, The
9. Iron Giant, The
10. Ratatoullie
11. Robin Hood
12. Robin Hood Daffy
13. Hobbit, The
14. Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel)
15. Incredibles, The
16. Up
17. Rabbit of Seville, The
18. Porky in Wackyland
19. Rabbit Seasoning
20. Pinocchio
21. Charlie Brown Christmas, A
22. Monsters, Inc.
23. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
24. Little Red Riding Rabbit
25. Little Hiawatha
26. Emperor’s New Groove, The
27. Aristocats, The
28. Charlotte’s Web
29. Creature Comforts
30. Sword in the Stone, The
31. Finding Nemo
32. Rabbit Fire
33. South Park
34. Transformers: The Movie, The
35. Toy Story
36. Close Shave, A (Wallace and Gromit)
37. Duck Dodgers in the 24 ½th Century
38. Alice in Wonderland
39. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
40. Last Unicorn, The
41. Jungle Book, The
42. Fantastic Mr. Fox
43. Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, The
44. Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, The
45. Lilo & Stitch
46. Gulliver’s Travels
47. Grand Day Out (Wallace and Gromit)
48. One Hundred and One Dalmatians
49. Anastasia
50. Birds Anonymous

Think this was my ballot

1. Wall-E
2. Secret of Kells, The
3. Spirited Away
4. Iron Giant, the
5. Dumbo
6. Ratatoullie
7. Ghost in the Shell
8. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
9. Duck Amuck
10. Paprika
11. Incredibles, The
12. Toy Story 2
13. Monsters, Inc.
14. Finding Nemo
15. Brave
16. Duck Dodgers in the 24 ½th Century
17. G.I. Joe: The Movie
18. Feed the kitty
19. Scarlet Pumpernickel, The
20. 8 Ball Bunny
21. Great Piggy Bank Robbery, The
22. Operation: Rabbit
23. Robin Hood Daffy
24. kiss me cat
25. Bad Luck Blackie
26. Rabbit Fire
27. walky talky hawky
28. Beep, Beep!
29. Toy Story 3
30. Brave Little Toaster, The
31. Porky in Wackyland
32. What’s Opera, Doc?
33. I love to singa
34. Amazing Screw-On Head, The

Should've included Ponyo.

Also, Russian shorts like this that I just found:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUXNN9kk89o

Okay, so I'm in a fairly bad place at the moment anyway, but Film4 just showed Grave of the Fireflies and I basically just wept continuously for half an hour at the end. Really good film.

haha just the thing to cheer you up! i bought some of these the other day

http://i.imgur.com/o3zYFZf.jpg

Hiroyasu Ishida is a name to watch out for, he made the following two short films on his own while at university, the second one was his graduation film. both won nearly every award going.

Fumiko's Confession

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QqT1P4VO30

Rain Town

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLAfM1RXwRs

his first "proper" film is coming out soon, here's a key visual

http://i.imgur.com/50uQMA7.jpg

looks gorgeous.
however, suspect i will forget to record it with film4 show it at 2:45am in 2 years time.

poll of 100+ animation mavens

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/the-100-best-animated-movies

problem with the ILX poll (wait for it):

too much from the last 25 years

Finally, a list that includes Heavy Traffic!