TIME magazine's top 25 Animated films of ALL TIME.

[animefan77]

I really love Wall-E, but not #2. There are more movies from 11-20 rank that I like better than top 10. Seriously, the only animated film to be nominated for best picture is not listed?? I can go on and on about other things, but this is just personal opinion.

[jkonsol]

That list is asinine. Most of you have said some of this stuff but:

1) How can you not have Bambi and Fantasia on a top animated films list? It's criminal.

2) The Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Movie is not a movie and it's #3???

3) Not enough Miyazaki. My Neighbor Totoro? Princess Mononoke? Not represented? Wow.

But god-forbid a list like this would forgot to put the mediocre, terribly overrated, The Lion King. I'm baffled that Beauty and the Beast isn't on the list. It absolutely does not deserve to be, but it has that status (like The Lion King) where people think it the be-all, end-all of American animation.

The only good I would say is that Dumbo was deservedly high and Pinocchio at number one is a very worth choice.

[stanleykubrick]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

**** Beauty and the Beast, where is Fantasia?

**** Fantasia, where is Bambi?

AFI Top 10 Animated Movies of All Time:

1 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937
2 Pinocchio 1940
3 Bambi 1942
4 The Lion King 1994
5 Fantasia 1940
6 Toy Story 1995
7 Beauty and the Beast 1991
8 Shrek 2001
9 Cinderella 1950
10 Finding Nemo 2003

Now that is a proper list!

[stanleykubrick]

Snow White @ #13? FAIL

No Bambi? MAJOR FAIL

No Beauty and the Beast? FAIL

No Fantasia? FAIL

No Shrek? FAIL

[Valore]

Originally Posted by Porkchop Express

Pinocchio is the only one I have no problem with.

Agreed. While I'm not taking anything away from Pinocchio as I feel this is a Disney classic....highly disagree with its position on this list.

[bluearth]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

Wow, Corliss' list suddenly looks amazing.

I think Disney's Pinnochio is a toned down, happy go lucky adaptation of Carlo Collodi's book.

IMO this Italian animated adaptation of the book was far more faithful to the source material and superior to Disney's Pinnochio.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_bura...nome_Pinocchio

No list is perfect, but I think it will be easier to explain Beauty and the Beast, and The Lion King in the top 5 then the Short Circuit/Robot 5 ripoff that is Wall-E

Shameless and a disgrace at #2

[BDBooking]

Originally Posted by jkonsol

2) The Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Movie is not a movie and it's #3???

It was released in theaters, and thus it qualifies. As much as a I am a lover of Looney Tunes, it didn't deserve a place on the list. I guess TIME would have felt attacked if they didn't put one LT-related thing on there.

I'll also add that in many ways, that list will not stand the test of TIME.

[kpkelley]

Here's the list for those who don't want to go through the link.

1. Pinocchio
2. Wall-e
3. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
4. Dumbo
5. Spirited Away
6. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
7. Up
8. The Triplets of Belleville
9. Finding Nemo
10. The Little Mermaid
11. Toy Story 3
12. Toy Story
13. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
14. The Adventures of Prince Achmed
15. Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
16. Happy Feet
17. Akira
18. The Lion King
19. Tangled
20. Paprika
21. Kung Fu Panda
22. Dr. Suess' Horton Hears a Who!
23. Yellow Submarine
24. Fantastic Mr. Fox
25. Lady and the Tramp

[stanleykubrick]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast are sitcoms.

I guess I missed the jokes throughout - my sense of humor is lacking apparently.

[bluearth]

Originally Posted by BDBooking

I'll also add that in many ways, that list will not stand the test of TIME.

Which is why AFI's list is the best IMO. Their top 10 is full of established classics.


Happy Feet, Fantastic Mr. Fox, South Park (which was added to the list to please the young, immature male demographic), Kung Fu Panda and others on TIME's list will all be forgotten in 10 years.

[Mandalorian]

Bluearth, how do you know WALL•E was a rip-off of the Short Circuit robot and not an homage in ways (not completely, but maybe in small design details)? I think there's a thin line between the two, that people fail to acknowledge. I'm definitely not saying that everything is an homage, or even that WALL•E is, because it probably isn't. All I'm saying is to consider sometimes that maybe creators intentionally draw inspiration from another things without completely ripping them off.

[Mandalorian]

Originally Posted by stanleykubrick

I guess I missed the jokes throughout - my sense of humor is lacking apparently.

Seriously. Everyone pretty much loves those movies.

Oh yeah, Ernest is the Kung Fu Panda hater!

[yspkrk]

I would put "The Prince of Egypt" somewhere. I hope it comes on blu-ray soon.

[Foggy]

Ah, I hate when people disagree with my opinion, they should all share my opinion

Seriously guys, does it matter where they placed films?

[Tom Hiddleston]

Well that's the worst list I've ever read in my life. Where in the heck is Beauty and the Beast?!

[FruityOatyBar]

What a messed up list! A complete joke.

Where's Bambi?
Where's Fantasia?

Both revolutionary films that few animated films released afterwards have even tried to match in scope, daring and creativity. It's a joke that they are not on the list. I'm frankly surprised (but thankful) that 'Dumbo' made it in this messed up list.

'Horton Hears a Who?' Really??? This is clearly a list to generate clicks and traffic on their site. But should we really have expected anything more from a magazine that has nothing at all to do with art, animation or filmmaking? Notice their reasoning for picking the films they did had little to do with animation at all.

[jkonsol]

Originally Posted by Foggy

Ah, I hate when people disagree with my opinion, they should all share my opinion

Seriously guys, does it matter where they placed films?

Of course it doesn't "really" matter - but that's not the point. A list from a supposed "expert" from a reputable publication has been presented and the rational for the selections and the order those selections were provided in are clearly points and positions the author did not do a very good job of defending.

As a result, you have a lot of animation buffs and general movie fans reacting somewhat negatively to the list, calling the man out and presenting their own perspectives.

What's wrong with that?

In any event, I just realized another glaring omission -

GRAVE OF FIREFLIES!

[Tom Hiddleston]

We should all make our own top 25 all time lists. Screw this idjit.

[Moviefan2k4]

OK, I think the first mistake TIME did with this article was lumping the 2D and 3D films into the same pool. When I think of animation, the first images that come to mind are usually hand-drawn. There's a big difference between the two.

As for the list itself, the only ones I agree with even being on that list are "The Lion King", "Snow White", and "The Little Mermaid". Let's face it: without Walt Disney, animation as we know it would be very different today. He set the standard for what these stories could be and do. His legacy has lived on, in the hearts and minds of children, some 45 years after his death, and there's not many successful animated films that he or his company weren't involved with.

That list was just terrible, in so many respects. Another major screwup was leaving "Beauty and the Beast" in the dark. That movie was the first of its kind to get nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, and its ommission is an insult of many facets.

[toddly6666]

That is the most subjective movie list I've ever seen for a huge respectable magazine. Very bizarre. The following are awful choices. They are good films that I liked myself, but don't deserve to be in a top 25 list - maybe in a top 100 list, but not top 25. This is some shmuck who thinks he's being cool by mixing old animated films with new CGI-type films into the list.

Yellow Submarine
Horton Hears a Who (what an a-hole. Someone that actually puts this movie in a list is just an ahole)
Kung Fu Panda
Happy Feet
Wallace & Gromit
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (just because it's the earliest, doesn't make it the "best")
Finding Nemo
Up
South Park
Bugs Bunny/Road Runner