TL;DR
– There are so many
great animated films and I struggled to limit them to just 10
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Last year I went through and made a list of my Top
10 Films of All Time, and it was only after I posted it that it
occurred to me that no animated films made it into my Top 10. This was an odd
revelation because I loved animated films and while a couple came close to
getting into that 10th position and I think today that my top animated film
would be on that list somewhere, I thought it was time to give animated films
the showing they deserved.
There are so many animated films released every year and a lot of the time
there are just awful, when you are aiming your films at 5-year-olds quality it
seems is not high on the list. However, every year creative geniuses throw that
stigma aside and create works of art that sit in my head and make me think of
them years later. So today we are going to look at my personal top ten animated
films of all time, but before we start a couple of quick notes. Firstly, these
are my favourites and they may be different from your favourite films, so let
me know what ones I missed in the comments below. As well as this, they are
current to when I am writing this list in 2019, it may change in the future,
and the top three are mostly interchangeable, but I had to put them in some
sort of order.
As with all our lists, there has to be some kind of criteria or else there is
just no way you can keep it to just 10 entries. So for this list, they are:
- Films that are examples of beautiful art
- Films that use the medium to tell interesting
stories
- Films that are always re-watchable
- Films that have added to my love of the art
of cinema
Now before we begin the list here is our list of ‘Highly Commended Animated Films That Almost Maybe Could Be On The List,
Oh No I Am Rethinking Everything’ are: An American Tail, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Big Hero 6,Cloudy with a Chance
of Meatballs, Cowboy Bebop: The
Movie, DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, Fern Gully, Finding
Nemo, Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder, Inside/Out,Ghost in the Shell, Kubo and the Two Strings,Kung Fu Panda, Monsters Inc, My Neighbor Totoro,Mulan, Pete’s
Dragon, Princess Mononoke, Robin Hood, Shrek, Space Jam, Spirited
Away, Tangled, The Incredibles, The Jungle Book, The Cat Returns, The Great
Mouse Detective,The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones,The Land Before Time,
The Lego Film, The
Lego Batman Film, The Nightmare Before Christmas,The Prince of Egypt,Titan A.E., Up,
Wallace and Gromit, WALL-E, Wreck it Ralph & Zootopia. Well before I re-question
all my list let’s dive in and explore my Top Ten Animated Film of All Time, and
no they are not all going to be Disney, and there may be some spoilers in there
for the films.
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