With The Lion King remake becoming the highest grossing animated film of all time, I figured since I don't think the film deserves it, I'd like to turn the spotlight on more beloved animated films. Some of my favorite animated films are (in no particular order): Beauty and the Beast Fantasia The Lion King The Little Mermaid Aladdin Toy Story 1 and 3 Finding Nemo Inside Out Up Ratatouille The Secret of NIMH The Nightmare Before Christmas The Brave Little Toaster The Prince of Egypt How to Train Your Dragon What are your favorites?
I have a love of animated films, especially traditional 2D animation. Some of my own favourites are: Balto The Land Before Time (the original, not the sequels) Aladdin The Little Mermaid The Lion King An American Tail Brother Bear Anastasia Robin Hood Princess Mononoke Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron Titan AE The Prince of Egypt And, although not a movie, it was generation-defining for anyone growing up in the UK in the early 1990s: The Animals of Farthing Wood
I do like a good animated film, but unfortunately I've had to sit through some right crap in the past few years (*cough* Minions *cough*). I don't really have a preference between 2D and 3D but I do think the new generation of animated films (from 1989 onwards) have realised that they should really cater for adults as well. As for some of my personal favourites, here goes... Toy Story 1 to 4 Jungle Book 1967 Into The Spider-Verse (probably the best film on my list) Lion King 1994 Wreck-It Ralph Moana (my guilty pleasure) Aladdin Robin Hood 1973 Dumbo 1941 The Lego Movie The Lego Batman Movie Flushed Away (not sure if this counts as I'm pretty sure at least some parts were stop-motion)
Spirited Away Beauty and the Beast (saw it 6 times at the cinema!) Aladdin The Lion King Moana My Neighbour Totoro The Red Turtle Up Toy Story Brave The Iron Giant Monsters Inc Shrek (Edit to add: not the remakes of the Disney films, though they are not animated anyway, I don't think).
Zootopia (2016) Toy Story 1, 2, 3 (1995, 1999, 2010) Finding Nemo (2003) Up (2009) WALL-E (2008) Ratatouille (2007) The Incredibles (2004) Chicken Run (2000) 101 Dalmatians (1961) Monsters, Inc. (2001) The Iron Giant (1999) Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) Antz (1998) A Bug's Life (1998) Shrek 1, 2 (2001, 2004) Kung Fu Panda (2008) Tarzan (1999) Peter Pan (1953) Lady and the Tramp (1955) The sword in the Stone (1963) The Jungle Book (1967) Robin Hood (1973) The Rescuers (1977) The Fox and the Hound (1981) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) The Black Cauldron (1985) Oliver and Company (1988) Hercules (1997) Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) Treasure Planet (2002) Cars (2006) The Land Before Time (1988) The BFG (1989) Ice Age 1, 3 (2002, 2009) Madagascar 1, 2 (2005, 2008)
It would most certainly be The Lion King, closely followed by Dinosaur. Honestly, I love how the remake is #1.
You mean the 2000 Disney Dinosaur? A curious choice since a lot of people dismissed it as a Land Before Time ripoff.
Zootopia (2016) The Jungle Book (1967) Beauty and the Beast (1991) (My guilty pleasure film) The Lion King (1994) Brother Bear (2003) Mulan (1998) Tarzan (1999) The Prince of Egypt (1998) Over the Hedge (2006) Finding Nemo and Finding Dory (2003, 2016 respectfully) Kung Fu Panda Trilogy (2008, 2011, and 2016) Madagascar 1 and 2 (2005, 2008) How to Train Your Dragon 1 and 2 (Haven't seen the 3rd one yet) (2010, 2014) Dinosaur (2000) Ice Age 1 (2002) Rio (2011) The Incredibles (2005) Up (2009) Wall-E (2008) Coco (2017) Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)
The Lion King (1994) Toy Story (1995) Dinosaur (2000) * Brother Bear (2003) The Polar Express (2004) Madagascar (2005) Flushed Away (2006) Over the Hedge (2006) The Wild (2006) Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure (2007) Kung Fu Panda (2008) Madagascar 2 (2008) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) Up (2009) Despicable Me 2 (2013) Walking with Dinosaurs (2013) Inside Out (2005) The Angry Birds Movie (2016) Zootopia (2016) Coco (2017) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) * I know this movie isn't the greatest but it made the list because it changed my life. This is the movie that single-handily got seven-year old me interested in dinosaurs (a subject which I previously hadn't had much interest in). Now, as some of you may of noticed, dinosaurs are a tremendous part of my life. That is why I'll always defend dinosaur movies, even the bad ones, because there's a chance they will change a little kid's life like this one did one for me.
Great choice, an under rated gem of a movie. Not so great choice, did you actually watch the movie? Well said, even if some dino movies *cough* JP3 *cough* The Good Dinosaur *cough* are pretty indefensible in my opinion!
Madagascar 1-3 Toy Story 1-3 Finding Nemo Monsters Inc Monsters University Bambi Cinderella Lion King Chicken Run The Boxtrolls The Polar Express All the Rankin-Bass stop motion films Inside Out Mulan The Simpsons Movie Hercules Dumbo The Lego Movie Isle of Dogs Rio Despicable Me Horton Hears a Who The Spongebob Movie Snow White The Lego Batman Movie
I understand your stance on Dinosaur, but don't you think it's kinda hilarious how inaccurate it is (dinosaurs and lemurs living in the same time period)? Also, I think it's kinda interesting that The Lion King is the oldest film on your list. Does most 20th Century animation lack a certain spark for you?
I really like animation. Here are my tops: -South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) -The lion king (1994) -The end of Evangelion (1997, kinda out of place?) -Zootopia (2016) -Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) -The lego movie (2014) -Shrek 2 (2004) -Shrek (2001) -Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) -Coraline (2009) -Brother Bear (2003) -Ice age (2002, just the first one, not the biggest fan of how the franchise has expanded) -Disney's Robin Hood (1973) -Rango (2011) -Ratatouille (2007)
Indeed I did. Twice actually. I suppose I enjoyed the combination of adult and really childish humor. Plus you could technically argue it's a dinosaur movie. You should of responded "Huzzah! A man of quality!" Also I agree with you 100% about Minions being a terrible movie. I've become accustomed to Hollywood getting prehistoric life wrong. But the way I see, its the film industry's job to get people interested in dinosaurs, but then it's up to the paleontologists and paleo-nerds to accurately educate these people. Do I wish Hollywood was at least a little more accurate and made our jobs a little easier? Heck yes. But at the end of the day these are movies, not documentaries. Trust me if I wanted to I could pick apart that movie and show you hundreds of inaccuracies that go far beyond lemurs and dinosaurs coexisting. No, I still very much like 1900s animations. It's just I don't think many of them would qualify as one of my favorites. Also, when making my list I completely forgot about the Lego movies, in which case The Lego Movie and The Lego Batman Movie would make my list. Ninjago was meh and I haven't seen The Lego Movie 2. I also like the Spongebob movies.
Oh! I forgot to mention the whole Kung fu Panda trilogy. All three movies are great (the second being my favorite) and most of the characters are amazing.
In no particular order, here are some of my favorite animated movies: The Lion King (1994) Brother Bear (2003) Shrek (2001) Shrek 2 (2004) Ice Age (2002) Monsters Inc (2001) Finding Nemo (2003) Mulan (1998) Kung Fu Panda trilogy (2008-2016) Zootopia (2016) Coco (2017) The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (2004) Fantastic Mr Fox (2009)
Everything in those films except for the humans are animated - that's why I don't like it when people call it the "Live-action Lion King" when not one part of the movie was actually filmed.
