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

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.

woah woah woah bluth's otherwise awful career??? au contraire!

I've never read the book but I watched NIMH so many times as a kid

his best work was his video games imho

the book is absolutely superior to the movie

"I have lived in this tree, in this same hollow," the owl said, "for more years than anyone can remember. But now, when the wind blows hard in winter and rocks the forest, I sit here in the dark, and from deep down in the bole, down near the roots, I hear a new sound. It is the sound of strands of wood creaking in the cold and snapping one by one. The limbs are falling; the tree is old, and it is dying. Yet I cannot bring myself, after so many years, to leave, to find a new home and move into it, perhaps to fight for it. I, too, have grown old. One of these days, one of these years, the tree will fall, and when it does, if I am still alive, I will fall with it."

Pretty sure I have seen the NIMH movie, but remember nothing about it. The books were great, though.

injection of mysticism in the movie is kind of annoying/unnecessary

Yeah I wrote off ever watching it for that reason. Loved the decidedly unmystical book, sometimes wonder if I should retread it, but you can never go back.

it runs almost entirely counter to the main thrust of the narrative, which is WHOAH SCIENCE

Reread, I don't tread on books. Xp exactly!

Love discussion picking up, pouring 40 for silby.

Andrew, you're saying that Nemo is significantly better than Rat? If only for the Proustian rush at the end, Ratatouille ranks ahead of Nemo. Brought such a huge surge of emotion to me when I watched it, and I'm the exact opposite of a foodie.

Doctor Casino, I am stunned that you haven't seen the last two ranking Pixar films. :o

Will put Paranoia Agent onto my queue.

Realized I won't be able to post tomorrow...

#25: Yellow Submarine, The
dir. George Dunning
1968, UK
230 points, 7 votes
http://i.imgur.com/cxriC.jpg
trailer

#24: Persepolis
dir. Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
2007, France
236 points, 8 votes
http://i.imgur.com/xJpXO.jpg
trailer

#23: Fantastic Planet
dir. René Laloux
1973, France
239 points, 6 votes
http://i.imgur.com/asjqf.jpg
trailer

#22: Charlie Brown Christmas, A
dir. Bill Melendez
1965, USA
243 points, 8 votes
http://i.imgur.com/7H6Vw.jpg
meaning of Christmas

#21: Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
dir. Chuck Jones
1953, USA
248 points, 9 votes
http://i.imgur.com/uIzMo.jpg
film

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!