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

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

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

Best Simpsons-related thing in what, 8 years?

#39: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
dir. Hayao Miyazaki
1984, Japan
170 points, 5 votes
http://i.imgur.com/nDplV.jpg
trailer (best ever, apparently)

Now we can resume are previous Nausicaa talk! (The boxset manga arrived this week, btw. It's hueg.)

Nausicaa that high? Remind me what other Miyazaki have placed, I'm sure there've been some superior ones.

97: Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
71: Laputa: Castle in the Sky
67: Princess Mononoke
65: Porco Rosso
39: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

seems pretty standard, with Spirited Away & Totoro (& maybe Kiki) still to place?

I like all those other films better than Nausicaa.

(mostly agree w/ chap)

#38: Ghost in the Shell
dir. Mamoru Oshii
1995, Japan
173 points, 6 votes
http://i.imgur.com/GOzcj.png
clip

http://24.media.tumblr.com/8487d998273a44ccb8b7a412f005f325/tumblr_mfph1ge0uv1qbypg1o1_500.gif

#37: Watership Down
dir. Martin Rosen
1978, UK
179 points, 5 votes
http://i.imgur.com/1WkGU.jpg
film

#36: Toy Story 3
dir. Lee Unkrich
2010, USA
188 points, 7 votes
http://i.imgur.com/Og2z8.jpg
trailer

Watership Down is way too low.

Is it the one where humans have all killed each other in war, leaving stewardship of the planet to a bunch of anthropomorphized critters?

Haha, not quite, no.

That's "Peace on Earth". http://youtu.be/d8stkqssLYc

#35: Ratatoullie
dir. Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava
2007, USA
188 points, 7 votes
http://i.imgur.com/NW00S.gif
trailer

#34: Finding Nemo
dir. Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
2003, USA
193 points, 7 votes
http://i.imgur.com/xKopY.jpg
trailer

That post-apocalyptic toon where the owl reads the Bible has been bugging me for years.

I need to rewatch gohst in the shell

Love Ghost in the Shell, though first time I watched it I hated it. Gets better with each rewatch. As far as "conventional" anime canon (i.e. action/SF), probably my favorite.

#33: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
dir. William Cottrell, David Hand, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, Ben Sharpsteen
1937, USA
199 points, 6 votes
http://i.imgur.com/4M0nf.jpg
trailer

#32: Creature Comforts
dir. Nick Park
UK, 1989
199 points, 7 votes
http://i.imgur.com/kkJCv.jpg
trailer

#31: Fantastic Mr. Fox
dir. Wes Anderson
2009, USA
205 points, 7 votes
http://i.imgur.com/c9HNt.jpg
trailer

Creature Comforts YES. Ratatouille NO. Ok maybe watching it in the back of a car sandwiched between two toddlers wasn't the best environment but the 'rat driving chef by pulling his hair' schtick didn't really work for me, 'restaurant owner sacrificing reputation for ready meal millions' plot was lame, 'main character turns out by quirk of fate to be heir to restaurant' made me rmde. Didn't even see the end of the film, didn't care. Ghost in the Shell I saw not so long ago but can't remember what I thought of it, which probably means I didn't think too much of it.

Creature Comforts is the best thing Nick Park ever did imo.

Is that not a tie for #33?

This reads a bit like a superposition of different polls (Classic Disney / Modern Disney / Pixar / "proper" films that are animated / Worker & Parasite), but even within that WTF is Ratatouille doing within 5 points of Finding Nemo?

Worker & Parasite

kudos.

Nausicaa is less cloyingly childish than Laputa but it's hard to care too much about the Ohmu. Little fox-squirrel is adorable though.

ledge = heartless restaurant reviewer (IE secret hero of the film) is served dish of modern nouvelle cuisine ratatouille which causes him to remember his time as a child in the countryside and this Proustian rush saves everything except there's some more bullshit then the end.

#30: Alice
dir. Jan Svankmajer
1988, Czechoslovakia
207 points, 7 votes
http://i.imgur.com/dBtts.jpg
film

Ratatouille rules, revisionist contrarians drool!

#29: Secret of NIMH, The
dir. Don Bluth
1982, USA
208 points, 6 votes
http://i.imgur.com/0UGsn.jpg
trailer

#28: Kiki's Delivery Service
dir. Hayao Miyazaki
1989, Japan
209 points, 7 votes
http://i.imgur.com/PBKIi.gif
trailer

#27: Robin Hood Daffy
dir. Chuck Jones
1958, USA
209 points, 7 votes
http://i.imgur.com/UFrpl.jpg
film

#26: Perfect Blue
dir. Satoshi Kon
1997, Japan
227 points, 6 votes
http://i.imgur.com/vgGN1.jpg
trailer

Ratatouille rules, revisionist contrarians drool!

Here, here.

Next 3 surprisingly Eurocentric, followed by 2 Yankee usual suspects (to be posted tomorrow).

perfect blue is so perfect

Lol pun.

Just found out that SPOILER Satoshi Kon died a few years back. ;_; RIP

Kon was a genius, died too soon

Ah, good to see some Svankmajer. Not a big fan of Kiki, but mainly because it is so much *for children* in comparison to other Miyazaki works - this doesn't mean it's a bad film, just not for me. Perfect Blue I voted for and loved when I saw it but it could benefit from a re-watch to bump my memory. Sad about Satoshi Kon, Paprika was also on my ballot.

yeah looks like paprika is going to place pretty highly? deservedly so imo

I'm not saying it's no good, I'm saying it's not within 5 points of Finding Nemo.

people who liked Kon films should really check out his TV series Paranoia Agent, amazing stuff.
i guess there are not going to be any Makoto Shinkai or Mamoru Hosoda films in the top 100, i would have voted for some if i had noticed this poll in time :(

So happy to see Perfect Blue here, and at a good position too. I voted it pretty high in my horror poll, and it got absolutely nowhere. It's probably my favourite Kon work, perhaps simply because the (psychological thriller) genre is most up my alley. Kon had so much more to do - his death still stings like crazy.

Secret of NIMH is an old fave, and Kiki's Delivery Service was the first Ghibli film I watched with my niece (needless to say, she insisted on seeing more over the next few weeks).

Paranoia Agent opening = classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-anabfAg06U

'Alice is a fantastic, in the literal sense, piece of work and deservedly placed high. The narration though nearly derails the work. I understand there's some fan-edits which excises a lot of the 'said thhe Mad Hatter', although I'd love to be some purist backing the director's vision I can't help but think that Svankmajer got that wrong.

I like the "said the Mad Hatter" stuff

Kiki's Delivery Service is my favorite Ghibli and one of my favorite films period. I really think it's just about perfect. Even the way the hairs on the brooms stick out is dead-on.

Haven't seen Nemo or Ratatouille, have heard good things about both, somewhat more interested in the latter as Nemo's stills seem to kinda all look the same - underwater, bright-colored fish. Yeah, dunno. Haven't seen NIMH since I was a kid, read the book once as an adult though and was really impressed with how much cool stuff was going on in there.

have never really understood the respect for 'nimh' -- it obv stands out in bluth's otherwise awful career but it's pretty weak compared to the book imo. we watched it in fifth grade right after reading the novel and the contrast was pretty strong even for kids.