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

Persepolis is perfectly nice, but... huh?

That's all folks for now, how do y'all want the top 20 unveiling to go?

Xp agreed.

Really well! Good luck!

paranoia agent is awesome!!

I would like the top 20 to be done via a flipbook

I'm still alive, Leee but yr pour is appreciated

Persepolis is crap wtf people

is the animation crappy? or the acting? thought the books were pretty good!

I saw Persepolis, but I can't remember anything about it other than that the grandmother put flower petals next to her tits for effect.

Loved the Persepolis comic, never got around to the movie, just seemed like it'd be the filmed version of what I read, or does it do anything particular to surpass that? Kind of surprised it would rank above Snow White and all these other things.

Yellow Submarine is kind of a lumpy, awkwardly-flowing film but there is some great imagination in it and cool animation when it's not just the weird too-smooth rotoscoped human movements. And obviously, great music.

Fantastic Planet looks awesome! Will throw that on the to-do list.

kiki's "fly" = walter white's "run"

also persepolis is fatuous, pretty meh

it's no rabbi's cat

I wouldn't call Persepolis bad -- it's a good adaptation of the comic, though it does add a pretty large event from Satrapi's life that I believe she elides in the comic, apart from which, it's a good film.

'duck dodgers' was my no. 1. 'charlie brown xmas' was no. 3 i think -- still awkward, sad, and moving after all these years.

'persepolis' is just fine, it made my list pretty easily.

i saw 'fantastic planet' for the first time with abbottt and viceroy last year and it blew me away. pretty much every frame of it is gorgeous and kind of terrifying.

I'm so glad Mind Game was nominated! I didn't notice the threads in time to vote, but I would have placed it very high.

Not that I'm expecting to see it in the remaining list. Will you post the runner-up stats at the end?

I can probably do that yeah

if mind game doens't place I am going to burn this whole thred down

i saw fantastic planet on abbbbotttt's suggestion and it would have topped my ballot had i voted (i don't know enough about animation to vote). i also picked up an original LP of the soundtrack a few months ago. score!

Yeah, the soundtrack is amazing. I *still* haven't managed to see the whole thing, though.

i went to this show in philly once and they were projecting fantastic planet onto the wall of the warehouse it was p trippy

Haha, I went to a show in Nottingham where they were doing that too. Pretty much how I've seen most of the bits of it that I have.

#20: Coraline
dir. Henry Selick
2009, USA
258 points, 8 votes
http://i.imgur.com/NCWcg.jpg
trailer

#19: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
dir. Robert Zemeckis
1988, USA
260 points, 8 votes
http://i.imgur.com/xJaJS.jpg
film

#18: Fantasia
dir. James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen
1940, USA
262 points, 9 votes
http://i.imgur.com/gQDMe.jpg
le sacre du printemps

#17: Toy Story
dir. John Lasseter
1999, USA
265 points, 9 votes
http://i.imgur.com/3aGXB.jpg
trailer

#16: Nightmare Before Christmas, The
dir. Henry Selick
1993, USA
275 points, 12 votes
http://i.imgur.com/JlxDh.jpg
trailer

Feel like now is the time to mention that if I were voting all over again, ParaNorman would get lots of points.

Laika took their Coraline experience and made ParaNorman and it was just completely stellar technically. The art direction, stop-motion, VFX, and even the 3D were just world fucking class. And the plot was killer and surprisingly dark and the characters were all delightful.

Loved it, though the climax could have used less telling and more showing. Like I got what was happening a good three minutes before Norman had finished explaining it.

nightmare before christmas is so boss

Overrated. Coraline is better IMO.

I thought the plot of ParaNorman was pretty much the weakest part, the 'twist' was pretty clear from early on once you start treating it as the Tim Burton film it clearly is.

well I guess it wasn't the plotting per se that impressed me as the themes the plot touched on, especially the parallel drawn between Norman's issues and mental illness/LD.

also I went in sort of expecting the movie to be lots of wandering around talking to theme-park ghosts of various flavors (civil war, sad teen, amelia earhart) so that it had a much more interesting story to tell (not just a zany adventure w/ ghosts) was pleasing to me

Huh, haven't seen any of these Selick films.

I just want to say that the Toy Story screenshot is my favorite.

One more random note: Ghost in the Shell is probably the only anime in which I don't feel weird/slumming settling with the English dub (possibly because this is one of the first animes I ever watched).

Should probably watch Coraline and, apparently, ParaNorman. Roger Rabbit I'm guessing remains great fun. Toy Story the weakest of the franchise - Sid is an actively uncompelling villain - and most of its charm comes from the fact that it's your introduction to all of the frankly wonderful characters, not least the claw game aliens <3 <3 <3

Ghost in the Shell is probably the only anime in which I don't feel weird/slumming settling with the English dub

Anime is one thing I quite like watching dubbed, subtitles can distract from the pretty pictures a bit.

i'm the complete opposite, mainly due to how poor the dubs are though

Zappi otm.

#15: One Froggy Evening
dir. Chuck Jones
1955, USA
291 points, 8 votes
http://i.imgur.com/QoAkI.jpg
film

#14: Toy Story 2
dir. John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich
1999, USA
292 points, 10 votes
http://i.imgur.com/GIWhv.jpg
trailer

#13: Paprika
dir. Satoshi Kon
2006, Japan
299 points, 7 votes
http://i.imgur.com/ckw1X.png
trailer

#12: South Park
dir. Trey Parker
1999, USA
325 points, 11 votes
http://i.imgur.com/yykz2.jpg
trailer

#11: Wrong Trousers, The
dir. Nick Park
1993, UK
329 points, 8 votes
http://i.imgur.com/Acdyw.gif
trailer

Sorry, Andrew.