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

i don't get why all the animals work for the lions

Yeah, it's definitely Kimba + Hamlet except instead of tragic dithering, Hamlet's just kind of a sulky responsibility-shirking teen...who then suddenly isn't, and saves the day! Guilt trip angle from his childhood buddy turned sweetheart is okay as far as it goes but I still feel like there's a missing step on his journey. And yeah, the politics bug me.

the politics are fucked up on several levels

Glad to see Millennium Actress and hope it isn't the last Kon. Personally I found Paprika his weakest film, it felt too much like a "typical anime" despite the amazing visuals.

MA was good but perfect blue was better

Next five are all Anglophone and from five different directors.

Yeah, I watched Lion King on a plane last year and I don't think it's held up that well. The animation still looks great, and there's some good songs, but the basic plot is hackneyed and IMO a bit rushed in the key places - Simba's growing-up has to happen basically all at once. Plus I think all the blood-as-destiny "true king" type stuff is on the dicey side, and Timon and Pumbaa are sort of the harbingers of all Dreamworksian fart joke animation.

― Doctor Casino, Monday, December 31, 2012 4:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's lol that every other movie i'm like "i just watched this with my kid" but i did and you are otm, has aged pretty poorly. don't even really care for the animation that much tbh.

Don't think you'll be watching this next one with your kid any time soon:

#54: Beavis and Butthead Do America
dir. Mike Judge, Mike de Seve, Yvette Kaplan, Brian Mulroney
1996, USA
138 points, 5 votes
http://i.imgur.com/zzIaV.gif
clip

true. wtf is wrong w/ people who voted for this, movie is not a fraction as good as any episode of B&B, this isn't the South Park movie or somethin

#53: Rabbit of Seville, The
dir. Chuck Jones
1950, USA
139 points, 5 votes
http://i.imgur.com/uOOgN.png
film

#52: Close Shave, A (Wallace and Gromit)
dir. Nick Park
1995, UK
140 points, 5 votes
http://i.imgur.com/xV665.jpg
review

#51: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
dir. Bill Melendez
1966, USA
141 points, 4 votes
http://i.imgur.com/GVAFE.jpg
clip

#50: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
dir. Eric Radomski, Bruce W. Timm
1993, USA
142 points, 4 votes
http://i.imgur.com/b7b6X.jpg
clip

Okay, this is playing in NYC for free and looks abundantly weird: a korean take on finding nemo where all the fish are in concentration camps and eaten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIFy35o1Vwg
http://www.koreanculture.org/?document_srl=37770
http://www.koreanculture.org/files/attach/images/109/770/037/PADAK_s_1.jpg
"gesture of hope that sets you free"

Lion King placing higher than Pinocchio is straight up travesty.

― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Monday, December 31, 2012 9:27 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

i didn't vote but yeah, jesus christ. I consider Pinocchio to be the greatest Disney movie ever by a considerable distance though

Okay, goddamn: i'm probably gonna have to see Padak: Sushi Apocalypse.
This is the video to the movie's original theme, "Nightmare" by Kim Hyeon-Ji
http://www.hancinema.net/video.php?table=film&id=29240

Hmm, Rabbit of Seville was my #1... did my ballot not get counted? I'll still watch the countdown, but will have to do my own tallying where everything cool moves up, like, twenty points.

Can't speak for silby, but I reckon it was counted; he doesn't list the number of first place votes, if that's your concern.

Phantasm one of the best Timm offerings imo, action set pieces are awesome, unexpectedly good romance angle, best motion adaptation of origin that has added bonus of having nothing to do with Year One. Plus, typically great Joker involvement. Operatic. May be my favorite Batfilm, full stop.

#49: Waltz With Bashir
dir. Ari Folman
2008, Israel
144 points, 5 votes
http://i.imgur.com/dMHrV.jpg
trailer

i don't remember if i voted for waltz w/ bashir, but if i forgot it was a huge oversight. such an intense film.

i guess this is also a good place to mention that the rabbi's cat is really really good and would've been way up on my ballot if i had seen it before this poll

#48: Charlotte's Web
dir. Charles A. Nichols, Iwao Takamoto
1973, USA
144 points, 5 votes
http://i.imgur.com/NacC3.jpg
trailer

#47: Grand Day Out (Wallace and Gromit)
dir. Nick Park
1989, UK
145 points, 5 votes
http://i.imgur.com/v7mMF.jpg
trailer

#46: Your Face
dir. Bill Plympton
1987, USA
148 points, 4 votes
http://i.imgur.com/rnStV.jpg
film

quite interesting. i must check out his other works.

plympton is awesome, load up

#45: Wizard of Speed and Time, The
dir. Mike Jittlov
USA, 1979
151 points, 6 votes
http://i.imgur.com/v3D9P.jpg
film

#44: Dumbo
dir. Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Ben Sharpsteen, John Elliotte
1941, USA
156 points, 5 votes
http://i.imgur.com/5gUHY.jpg
pink elephants

#43: Scanner Darkly, A
dir. Richard Linklater
2006, USA
158 points, 6 votes
http://i.imgur.com/2dTKj.jpg
trailer

#42: Waking Life
dir. Richard Linklater
2001, USA
160 points, 5 votes
http://i.imgur.com/o0hFP.jpg
trailer

#41: Monsters, Inc.
dir. Pete Docter, David Silverman
2001, USA
162 points, 6 votes
http://i.imgur.com/VKDP3.jpg
trailer

High placing for WoS&T shows what a little repping in the pre-threads will do.

#44: Dumbo

http://www.wichitasedgwickcountycrimestoppers.com/CrimeTapeSmall.jpg

Eric OTM. My favorite classic Disney.

High placing for WoS&T shows what a little repping in the pre-threads will do.

― emil.y, Friday, January 4, 2013 11:35 AM (5 minutes ago)

*struts a bit, in my mind*

waking life really? *pukes all over the thread*

again, Dumbo above Pinocchio is insane. Came out a year after and feels like a b team effort

It's not as good as Pinocchio, but it's a perfectly formed little film.

i like dumbo a lot more than pinnochio.

*shrugs*

Dumbo is the single greatest Disney film ever, crows aside (or maybe not even aside; they seem to embody a certain running constant of -ism under Disney's surface).

I'd rather watch Dumbo. The only terrifying part is the drunk-sequence.

I can't believe those Linklater films placed that high. Crazy shit.

Waking Life was pretty cool to see as a college freshman or whatever, can't imagine it holding up at all. Some cool bits in the animation I guess? A Scanner Darkly was weeeeeak IMO, although I have to say I can't really remember anything about what happens in it, just left the theater thinking "meh."

Monsters, Inc., on the other hand, is just lovely.

wizard of speed is dope, never seen it

effects are amazing - running past the train wtf ftw - song is lame tho

bill plympton is so awesome -- did y'all see the simpsons couch gag he animated last year!?

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

sweet!

so happy Your Face is in this list!

#40: Porky in Wackyland
dir. Robert Clampett
1938, USA
166 points, 7 votes
http://i.imgur.com/QK5PO.jpg
film