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[pauljeremiah]

Saw this interesting video this morning on YouTube

THE LIST

Spoiler

The Lion King (1994)
Impressive animals and beautiful settings all created by Disney’s second-stringers.

Wall-E (2008)
With very little dialog through most of the movie, superior 3-D animation helped make even the biggest trash pile magical.

The Boxtrolls (2014)
Laika went with an expressionistic style for their stop-motion animation in this unique coming of age story.

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
This animated classic tells it’s story using cut out silhouettes.

The Lego Movie (2014)
It’s almost like you’re watching actual legos in action because every frame of this film expresses joyful fun and excitement.

Waltz With Bashir (2008)
A beautifully piece made up of of hand drawn objects surprisingly animated using Flash.

Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013)
Studio Ghibli presents us with a film that feels almost like a traditional Japanese painting in motion.

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Wes Anderson’s foray into animation with a stylized stop-motion puppet show.

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (2010)
Though most people missed it in the theaters, this film is a masterpiece of CG animation.

Garden of Words (2013)
This stunning anime is the perfect expression of animation as art.

your thought GAF?

 

[TatteredHat]

I'm not seeing Redline in that list, I am disappointed.

 

[Finaika]

No Big Hero 6?

 

[Red Hood]

I think it's because I just woke up, but I'm not seeing Spirited Away.

 

[daviyoung]

No Big Hero 6?

 

[Jarmel]

No Big Hero 6?

lol no

There are dozens of films before that even sniffs a list like this.

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

I love the Lego Movie and Fantastic Mr. Fox to death, but they don't belong on this list for artistic beauty.

Especially if you're omitting stuff like Princess Mononoke.

 

[old manatee]

So 90% of the best animation occuered in the past 5 years.

 

[kruis]

No Pinocchio on that list? Instant fail. That movie is still astonishingly beautiful 75 years later. The amount of craft put into every frame is breathttaking.

 

[Hi-tekk]

I love the Lego Movie and Fantastic Mr. Fox to death, but they don't belong on this list for artistic beauty.

Especially if you're omitting stuff like Princess Mononoke.

Agreed.

 

[Jarmel]

Honestly if it was being fair, this list should be comprised almost entirely of Disney early/2nd Renaissance films, Ghibli, and other stuff like Akira.

 

[21st century cowboy]

Where on earth is Sleeping Beauty!? It should be number 1 on that list

 

[eso76]

Lion King huh.

And no Sleeping Beauty, HUH ?

 

[Dryk]

I love the Lego Movie and Fantastic Mr. Fox to death, but they don't belong on this list for artistic beauty.

I thought the ocean in The Lego Movie was a thing of beauty

 

[manueldelalas]

The non spoilered list:

The Lion King (1994)
Impressive animals and beautiful settings all created by Disney’s second-stringers.

Wall-E (2008)
With very little dialog through most of the movie, superior 3-D animation helped make even the biggest trash pile magical.

The Boxtrolls (2014)
Laika went with an expressionistic style for their stop-motion animation in this unique coming of age story.

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
This animated classic tells it’s story using cut out silhouettes.

The Lego Movie (2014)
It’s almost like you’re watching actual legos in action because every frame of this film expresses joyful fun and excitement.

Waltz With Bashir (2008)
A beautifully piece made up of of hand drawn objects surprisingly animated using Flash.

Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013)
Studio Ghibli presents us with a film that feels almost like a traditional Japanese painting in motion.

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Wes Anderson’s foray into animation with a stylized stop-motion puppet show.

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (2010)
Though most people missed it in the theaters, this film is a masterpiece of CG animation.

Garden of Words (2013)
This stunning anime is the perfect expression of animation as art.

Never seen half of the movies, shame on me.

 

[SpaceWolf]

No Paperman is a crime!

 

[Jill Sandwich]

This list is so weird.

 

[Alcotholic]

I think it's because I just woke up, but I'm not seeing Spirited Away.

I was feeling the same thing.

 

[Dennis]

So 90% of the best animation occuered in the past 5 years.

This.

Looks like a troll list.

 

[Chainsawkitten]

Seems more like "good-looking stuff from the past decade of animation" (two exceptions) than all-time to me. There's value in that sort of list, too, though.

Old Man and the Sea

 

[injurai]

Some glaring omissions.

Paprika
The Wind Rises
Persepolis
Kirikou and the Sorceress
Alice in Wonderland
Bambi
Sleeping Beauty
Pinocchio
Mind game
A Scanner Darkly
Fantastic Planet
REDLINE
The Thief and the Cobbler
The Book of Kels

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

List is absolute garbage.

No Sleeping Beauty is the most obviously glaring omission - I don't see how any list could ever not have it. Other disney golden age like Pinocchio, some of Miyazaki's stuff...And although it's not a very good movie, the night bike sequence in Akira is magnificent.

 

[Fugu]

There are better Makoto Shinkai films to put on this list, and the lack of Kon is... disturbing.

 

[Rogan]

Tangled?

 

[Shaanyboi]

Box Trolls over Paranorman? I simply cannot agree, sir.

 

[CharlieDigital]

I just saw Song of the Sea.

It was pretty amazing.

5 stars on Amazon with 600+ reviews.

 

[Tertullian]

The list doesn't have a single Disney golden-age or silver-age movie. It doesn't have a single Miyazaki movie. But it has the fucking Lego Movie. It is embarrassingly inept trash.


I might go with:

10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
9. Akira
8. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
7. WALL-E
6. The Lion King
5. Beauty and the Beast
4. Spirited Away
3. Pinocchio
2. Fantasia
1. Sleeping Beauty

WALL-E is Pixar's nod because the first 45 minutes of that movie are still the most perfect thing they've ever animated. I wish I could've made room for a nod to Satoshi Kon, Cartoon Saloon, Brad Bird, and one or two others, but honestly, all five Disney golden-age movies are perfect divine masterpieces, and I already had to bump Dumbo off the list to make room for the bare essentials.

EDIT: Edited to kick out Bambi in favor of Akira. I'm on the fence about that one, but Akira probably deserves it.

 

[Volimar]

No The Last Unicorn?

 

[Garrett Hawke]

I was preparing to riot if Kaguya wasn't on that list. My poor heart tbh.

A Scanner Darkly

seriously? It's one of the ugliest movies I've ever seen. Like someone who had no experience with Photoshop thought that posterization was really cool and decided to do that to the entire movie.

 

[IAmRandom31]

yeah dumb list. no beauty and the beast?

watch that movie on blu-ray. quite spectacular for a hand drawn animated film

 

[Log4Girlz]

I can't pick any obvious cgi movies. I just can't.

 

[Suikoguy]

I just saw Song of the Sea.

It was pretty amazing.

5 stars on Amazon with 600+ reviews.

I too just saw it recently, amazing movie.
A step up from Secret of the Kells

 

[Scavenger]

There are some glaring omissions, but I don't disagree with the number one spot. Garden of Words is visually stunning.

 

[CharlieDigital]

I too just saw it recently, amazing movie.
A step up from Secret of the Kells

I would put this right up there as one of my favorite animated movies of all time from the story telling to the pacing to the visuals to the music. Absolutely flawless.

Cried at the end.

 

[Newtype-001]

I'm not seeing Redline in that list, I am disappointed.

Glad Garden of Words got on the list but Redline was the first thing i thought of when i read the title :/

 

[Coolio McAwesome]

That stretch between 1926 and 1994 must have been a dark time for animation.

 

[Branduil]

The Lego Movie, really?

Points for including Princess Kaguya, but that only means they're not completely blind. List is ridiculously slanted towards modern films. Where is Fantasia? Where is Sleeping Beauty? Where is Akira?

 

[Dabookerman]

Oh wow.. Not really too big on the list overall, but can't fault them for including a Makoto Shinkai film.
Every single one is stunning.

 

[Veritigo_X]

Boxtrolls? Come on.

I feel like CG and traditional animation shouldn't be in the same list anyway.

 

[JDSN]

Garden of words is there, so the list is valid to me.

 

[Drek]

I just saw Song of the Sea.


It was pretty amazing.

5 stars on Amazon with 600+ reviews.

I thought Tomm Moore's previous film, Secret of the Kells, was better aesthetically, but then when your subject is the Book of Kells it's kind of an unfair advantage.

Regardless, it's omission from this list is quite glaring in my opinion. One of the most intricately constructed animated movies in a very long time.

Sleeping Beauty is the Disney GOAT, suggesting anything else just tells me someone hasn't watched the blu-ray on a high quality home theater setup. The level of detail in that film was literally decades before it's time.

Wall-E is a great movie but Nemo is still the visual champ for Pixar. Wall-E does a lot with sound and presentation, but the entire second half eschews that for a more traditional format. Nemo never stops throwing visual wow pieces at you throughout the entire film.

Praising The Lego Movie feels like patting WB on the head for forgetting their best looking animated movie in studio history, The Iron Giant, which is a damn shame.

No Akira makes any top 10 animated ANYTHING list into a fucking joke. Akira defined Japanese animation at it's productive and global culture peak. It literally changed how animated movies are made and perceived for many, many people.

In short, reads like a list of recent personal favorites with a few obscure old films thrown in to represent some kind of credibility. Not picking the best choice from the major heavy hitters and including a bunch of recent films that aren't even close to the industry best.

 

[Ratrat]

The list is an abomination. I think only The Lion King deserves to be there.
Thief and the Cobler, Prince of Egypt, Akira, Spirited Away etc are much better choices.

 

[cm osi]

i like to think that 2d animated and CG movies should be considered as two separated things.

 

[jett]

I usually like Cinefix but I can't agree with this video at all.

 

[Skiptastic]

Glad to see the love for Sleeping Beauty here. It is truly gorgeous and my favorite animated movie of all time.

 

[Altairre]

To all the people saying "where's ___", the video goes through a list of honorable mentions for every placement and most of them are in there like the Miyazaki movies, Redline, Akira etc. Now you might disagree with them not being on the list but they didn't forget about them.

 

[maniac-kun]

A lot of stupid choices. And a flash movie? Realy?

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

To all the people saying "where's ___", the video goes through a list of honorable mentions for every placement and most of them are in there like the Miyazaki movies, Redline, Akira etc. Now you might disagree with them not being on the list but they didn't forget about them.

The idea of Sleeping Beauty getting an "honourable mention" is even worse then if they left it off entirely.

At least then I can pretend they never saw it

 

[Tertullian]

To all the people saying "where's ___", the video goes through a list of honorable mentions for every placement and most of them are in there like the Miyazaki movies, Redline, Akira etc. Now you might disagree with them not being on the list but they didn't forget about them.

Lord, that's even worse. They're aware of Sleeping Beauty and Spirited Away, and still decided that Legend of the Guardians and the fucking Lego Movie deserve to beat them. At least ignorance is kind of an excuse.

 

[nortonff]

Where the hell is Mononoke ?
What a stupid list.