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

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.

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.

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!