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

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

Paprika is a visual feast, but plotwise I think it's Kon's weakest movie by a good margin. The story and dialogue feel pedantic and under-developed, so it feels too much like a "typical" anime movie.

Everything since 20 has been great

Paprika is based on a novel - unfortunately it isn't all that good plot- and character-wise either

While taking care of my nephews, I've seen The Wrong Trousers 2,743 times. They really have good taste.

Unusual for ILX polls, I have seen 16 of the top 20, and all of the top 10.

Speaking of which, unveiling 2 a day, starting Monday unless I receive strenuous objections.

Dang it, realized I messed up the links to Paprika, which can be found in full on YouTube.

Paprika links I meant to include:
trailer
film (warning: English dub)

(not the real trailer unfortunately - someone recutting the film to the Inception trailer audio)

haha ugh

I agree that paprika's plot/characters are not as strong as other kon work, but the visuals

also my favorite susumu hirasawa soundtrack by a large margin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn7U1KIGeuQ

1080p trailer

That does look pretty cool!

I know I've seen Millenium Actress, but up until seeing it in the countdown here I had no memory of doing so, and it remains a very faint and hazy sense of deja vu. When did I see it? Why? What was it about? I have only the faintest notions. There's something kind of off-putting, to me, about Kon's (or Studio Madhouse's?) animation style... the character designs have this sort of wooden, distant quality. It's maybe an intentional effect, fitting the themes of the story, or maybe they're going for realism and my eyes, accustomed to very stylized anime, don't really process it as such?

#10: Incredibles, The
dir. Brad Bird
2004, USA
335 points, 10 votes
http://i.imgur.com/eLfHC.jpg
trailer

(They are apparently stunned at the placing.)