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

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that would indeed be craqueurs

lol

will howl's moving castle place? i like it as much as spirited away.

Are you serious, dog? Even without knowing the results, it's pretty clearly lesser Miyazaki.

Anyway...

#4: Duck Amuck
dir. Chuck Jones
1953, USA
439 points, 11 votes
http://i.imgur.com/K12Jl.jpg
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#3: What's Opera, Doc?
dir. Chuck Jones
1957, USA
448 points, 14 votes
http://i.imgur.com/pHS7H.jpg
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higher res film (US-only?)

Triplets of Belleville is the first since #20 Coraline that I haven't seen and the first since #45 The Wizard of Speed and Time that I haven't even heard of. I guess I was living in some cultural black hole in 2003. And for every mention of it I should surely have come across since...

Triplets of Belleville is great but not top 10 material imo.
Duck Amuck & What's Opera, Doc? however i can get 100% behind. good job!

chuck jones did fantastically in this poll

It kind of disappeared (until the Illusionist came along), why is why some of us are a little surprised to see it that high.

v happy with the current two, really second guessing myself about the #2 slot (assuming Spirited Away takes #1)

All of Chuck Jones' (apart from 8-Ball Bunny) are written by Michael Maltese as well, though I confess I don't know the system well enough to know if he is a hyper-genius, or just the guy who got his name on the credits for the work of a team.

Still kicking myself for not pushing harder to get Svankmajer's Faust accepted as a nomination, tbh. It's my favourite of his, and easily as animated as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and by all rights should be making an appearance around now in a true and correct poll.

will howl's moving castle place? i like it as much as spirited away.

Are you serious, dog? Even without knowing the results, it's pretty clearly lesser Miyazaki.

Really? It's much much better than Kiki, which placed. And I'd say it's way better than Totoro in pacing and story, though Totoro has the edge in CATBUS level characters.

Rewatching "What's Opera, Doc?" right now for the first time in, I dunno, a decade. Discovering all the dialogue is tattooed on my soul.

I'm not a huge fan of Chuck Jones (heresy, I know), but both of those are classics, and I'm kind of pleased that old-school comic animation has placed so high. I am disappointed that not much of the early/experimental/arty stuff has placed throughout the poll, though.

I think Totoro's unconventional pacing (and the effect this has on the story) is one of the things that its fans really love about it!

I would like to have a view on Howl more nuanced than "Go cry, emo kid", but to be honest that pretty much covers it.

so Wall-E is going to be No. 1 then. Hmmmm

I think Totoro's unconventional pacing (and the effect this has on the story) is one of the things that its fans really love about it!

Haha, really? I guess I'm not that steeped in the critical discourse around this stuff. It is probably because I am horrendously mean and evil, but I find "kids with ailing parent find refuge in a magical world" to be a terribly clichéd and trite storyline, so the pacing of Totoro doesn't really do it any favours for me. Still... CATBUS.

A hi-quality Duck Amuck on Vimeo.

Kiki is a million times better than Howl!

cool, so mind game in the top 2, psyched!

I mean I get that Howl has its fans, but I really remember the latter as being kind of a mess, with inscrutable characterization, an incoherent conclusion, and too much striving for the "overflowing of magical wonders" that Spirited Away made look easy. I'm pretty sure I enjoyed it okay while I was watching it but I immediately had no desire to see it again. Whereas Kiki's just grows deeper with each viewing; it's a story comfortable in its smallness and unapologetic about how much the small things can matter to children (or to people generally). Yeah, it finally swings for a big action climax that comes out of nowhere, but the outcome of that sequence depends on stuff that's actually central to the movie and the main character's arc. I can think of very few kids' movies which are as finely executed.

I'm not sure about critical discourse, it's just a slow gentle film where nothing happens and (spoilers) it turns out that even less is happening that it appeared. Some people put up with that for the characters, some people luxuriate in it.

Basically, I liked Howl a lot and thought it worthy of a place. I don't really want to sound like I dislike the others, because I do like them. Even Kiki is a nice little piece, though it's not close to being one of my favourites.

(And on checking, Totoro made my ballot where Howl did not, so, hey, whatever.)

'howl' is the only miyazaki that hasn't done anything for me. there are non-miyazaki ghiblis -- like 'arrietty' -- that i like more.

'totoro' is definitely the best IMO -- there's probably never been a better portrayal of children in any movie, animated or otherwise.

I sorta can't stand much of Totoro. I think all of his post Mononoke movies are stronger.

i kinda quit taking that dork john k seriously when i found out how scornful he and his followers are of chuck jones.

In that interview posted upthread it sounded like John K's a huge admirer of Chuck Jones.

a true and correct poll.

(I.E. in a just world, GI Joe would have as well, oops, spoilers.)

aaaah I love GI Joe the movie

Loool, Leee.

heh, i just did a google search and found about a zillion blog posts where john k gushes about his favorite chuck jones cartoons. so i guess i stand corrected.

surprised Beauty and the Beast isn't going to place

#2 received the highest number of votes.

(This is your chance to post joke results!)

Hahaha imagine if it was Wall-E at #2, that'd be a pretty wild ride, huh?

If I were the type to post joke results I would've put "9" because that movie is awful.

Well imagine no more.

#2: Wall-E
dir. Andrew Stanton
2008, USA
556 points, 15 votes
http://i.imgur.com/UmcOu.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xDo2W.gif
http://i.imgur.com/fPQcG.gif
trailer

A probable contender for #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2zJGl5czk8

Jesus. Did it get many #1s?

I'll refer that question to silby.

I like Wall-E, so yay Wall-E.

Fern Gully #1

#1 Howl's Moving Castle

Hahaha.

#1: Spirited Away
dir. Hayao Miyazaki
2001, Japan
593 points, 14 votes
http://i.imgur.com/sUwFC.jpg
CHIHIIIIIIRRRROOOOOO (trailer)

I like Wall-E too, but 100 points over Duck Amuck is cray-cray.

yeah I will recover the #1 vote data this weekend or in like August or something

Spirited Away otm though, imo