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

Wings of Honneamise is great; there's such loving attention to detail in the construction of its alternate Earth, and it's amazing they managed to produce a big-budget sci-fi movie that's essentially a slow-tempo meditation on what drives humanity forward. It's kinda like a anime counterpart to 2001: Space Odyssey, except that it's not boring.

and the trailer posted above says ryuichi sakamoto did the soundtrack!

Oooooh Sakamoto. Cool!

(Also: ignoring Tuomas on 2001, nyah)

The soundtrack is awesome too.

Plague Dogs is great, one of my favorite movies. But totally heartbreaking, esp. if you like dogs.

Now I am wishing I had had the time to vote in this poll!

#91: Kung Fu Panda
dir. John Wayne Stevenson and Mark Osborne
2008, USA
82 points, 3 votes
http://i.imgur.com/Mz99n.jpg?1
trailer

too low for Bimbo's Initiation!

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?

I'm slightly less hardline about this as a principle than when I was 7. but in this specific case, Briggs is so warm and inviting at first, and (as in all his work) the audience is drawn in so much by how much of a hand-made, one-creator artifact each page and panel is, with the colour so splotched and unblended; and then the adaptation hurls all of that charm away with herky-jerky motions and smoothed-out character models with dead eyes and iirc a really stiff clash btwn flat-colour figures and immobile painted bgs.

UGH I just looked at the first minute or so on youtube to check my decades-old memory and opening with real news footage! having him read TV coverage in the newspaper? crossing back and forth btwn film and cartoon! COMPOSITING FILMED SKIES INTO CARTOON BGS! him on the bus where Jim is animated by one person or team, the teenage couple on the other side are obviously animated by an apprentice team, rocking that 30's bouncy motion, LOOPING one second's action even though they then move afterwards, and the couple up the back being non-animated part of the background UGH UGH UGH

The Snowman can fuck off too imo (actually I've never seen it. I did see the Irn-Bru ad that parodies it, on the internets, though.)

I'm p mad at D&Q just for making their G. Jim GN half-size too tbh, I dig my Briggs

too low for Bimbo's Initiation!

Anyway I voted for it.

wouldn't have voted it so high myself if I hadn't been reacquainted with it by Jim Woodring showing the whole thing during a lecture at Sydney Opera House last year tbf

is Kung Fu Panda actually good

No.

kung fu panda is the first one where i'm really kicking myself i didnt get my shit together enough to vote.

don't blame me, i voted for Kung Fu Panda 2

the way i feel about kung fu panda is that if fern gully had come out 4 years ago it might've appeared here too

for the Tone Loc rap

Kung Fu Panda is one where I spent some time reconsidering where to put it in the ballot - it's shiny and corporate and it has a terrible sequel, but on the other hand it's flawless for what it is, it's funny and fat-positive and a great Kung Fu film made by people who clearly love Kung Fu. That trailer, though, is terrible.

Found The Wings of Honnêamise pretty dull tbh, protagonist a tool.

is the sequel terrible? charlie kaufman's involvement gives me certain expectations

8 Ball Bunny -- didn't find a decent YT of this, but damn did I feel the surge of memories, I couldn't believe how much empathy it elicited from me (well, there *is* the cute as hell penguin).

#90: Illusionist, The
aka L'illusionniste
dir. Sylvain Chomet
2010, France
83 points, 3 votes
http://i.imgur.com/HoFCg.jpg?1
trailer

The Illusionist also made me cry like a maniac! I really loved it.

#89: Allegro non troppo
84 points, 3 votes
http://i.imgur.com/bAopx.jpg?1
'Bolero' segment

oh and that's
dir. Bruno Bozzetto
1976, Italy

Ir's so good! It also made me cry! And get high!

'allegro' is amazing!

Will watch Allegro but I guess I should watch Fantasia first. (Was going to before the poll but didn't manage to get round to it.)

yay allegro! i didn't vote and i figured it wouldn't get in without mine so gj. the valse triste segment still makes me sob just to think about it

It has some sad stuff, it has some trees made of boobs.

#88: Animal Farm
dir. John Halas & Joy Batchelor
1954, UK
85 points, 3 votes
http://i.imgur.com/fKn9N.jpg?1
film

the idea that any aardman animation thing belongs on a list of the best anything is so bizarre, to me

I've now got "Animal Farm! Animal Farm!" stuck in my head to the tune of Beethoven's 5th. This is going to take some shaking.

the idea that any aardman animation thing belongs on a list of the best anything is so bizarre, to me

― thomp, Friday, 20 July 2012 16:53 (6 hours ago) Bookmark

how come?

i've never seen the 'animal farm' film -- is it actually any good?

#85T: Jungle Book, The
dir. Wolfgang Reitherman
1967, USA
86 points, 4 votes
http://i.imgur.com/oUxLU.jpg?1
trailer

#85T: Birds Anonymous
dir. Friz Freleng
1957, USA
86 points, 4 votes
http://i.imgur.com/qJ7F7.gif?1
film

#85T: Rango
dir. Gore Verbinski
2011, USA
86 points, 4 votes
http://i.imgur.com/W5esh.jpg?1
trailer

Rango has a fantastic opening but becomes pretty generic afterwards.

Wha'happen?

Rango finds a western town populated with Antz rejects and oh wait

sry guys here comes some

#84: Gertie the Dinosaur
dir. Winsor McCay
1914, USA
87 points, 2 votes
http://i.imgur.com/bcWdv.jpg?1
film

#83: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
dir. Steve Box & Nick Park
2005, UK
87 points, 4 votes
http://i.imgur.com/JiyHN.jpg?1
trailer (the creators of chicken run are back!

^ A+ screencap!

#82: Storytime
dir. Terry Gilliam
1968, UK
88 points, 3 votes
http://i.imgur.com/iDBIh.jpg?1
film

#81: Jumping
dir. TEZUKA Osamu
1984, Japan
88 points, 4 votes
http://i.imgur.com/I6ZZg.jpg
film

I love that illustration/still - I should prob put Jumping on my list, then

wow that's great. shame about the shitty youtube quality though as the drawing looks top-notch.

if you're seriously lazy skip to 5:50 in the gilliam for the crucial section.

Ha, I'm sure I'd already seen that Gilliam somewhere back in the mists of time. Pretty great.