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

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

Huh, haven't seen any of these Selick films.

I just want to say that the Toy Story screenshot is my favorite.

One more random note: Ghost in the Shell is probably the only anime in which I don't feel weird/slumming settling with the English dub (possibly because this is one of the first animes I ever watched).

Should probably watch Coraline and, apparently, ParaNorman. Roger Rabbit I'm guessing remains great fun. Toy Story the weakest of the franchise - Sid is an actively uncompelling villain - and most of its charm comes from the fact that it's your introduction to all of the frankly wonderful characters, not least the claw game aliens <3 <3 <3

Ghost in the Shell is probably the only anime in which I don't feel weird/slumming settling with the English dub

Anime is one thing I quite like watching dubbed, subtitles can distract from the pretty pictures a bit.

i'm the complete opposite, mainly due to how poor the dubs are though

Zappi otm.

#15: One Froggy Evening
dir. Chuck Jones
1955, USA
291 points, 8 votes
http://i.imgur.com/QoAkI.jpg
film

#14: Toy Story 2
dir. John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich
1999, USA
292 points, 10 votes
http://i.imgur.com/GIWhv.jpg
trailer

#13: Paprika
dir. Satoshi Kon
2006, Japan
299 points, 7 votes
http://i.imgur.com/ckw1X.png
trailer

#12: South Park
dir. Trey Parker
1999, USA
325 points, 11 votes
http://i.imgur.com/yykz2.jpg
trailer

#11: Wrong Trousers, The
dir. Nick Park
1993, UK
329 points, 8 votes
http://i.imgur.com/Acdyw.gif
trailer

Sorry, Andrew.

Thoughts on #15-11? Guesses at Top 10?

Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gaaaaaaaal

I might be the only one who likes W&G's feature length movie better than any of their shorts.

Top 10 in no particular order.

Bambi
Wall-E
Up
Incredibles
Wallace and Gromit in the Were-rabbit
Howl's Moving Castle
Team America
Corpse Bride
Beauty and the Beast
Somthing obvious I'm missing

haha uh team america really

Spirited Away probably #1

was that even nominated? were muppets movies fair game too? xp

Actually I'd expect Corpse Bride and Beauty and the Beast to place by now, probably something more leftfield like Antz or Cowboy Bebop. Would be surprised to see Team America in top 10, but more so not making top 100.

Those puppet things weren't nominated, were they? I certainly fucking hope not! (speaking as a lurking nonvoter)

snow white in top 10 too i'm sure

Aladdin has to have made it right?

Snow White was #33. Not sure if 'Team America' was nominated now. Just realised that #1 is going to be 'Iron Giant'. 'Triplets of Belleville' must have a shout at the top 10 too.

oops, missed snow white placing already

some unsurprising recency bias in these results, at least when looking at rank order.

The Wrong Trousers really is wonderful

Actually #14 #12 and #11 are all films I expected to see in the top 10!

I actually think Toy Story 2 might be the fourth-placed Pixar film, which is really fucked up.

Totoro, Spirited Away, Akira to come surely.

Aladdin & Beauty and the Beast are the remaining Disney princesses, I have no reading on the whole genre, so I don't know if it'd be more of a travesty to appear this much higher than the others, or not at all.

Iron Giant maybe, Belleville certainly not.

Aaand a few shorts? I will speculate What's Opera Doc? and Duck Amuck, because that's what I voted for.

Write in vote for Bully For Bugs at #1 :)

Good predictions. Also prolly Princess mononoke

Mononoke's already in at #67