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

"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!

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