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

[Tom Hiddleston]

Originally Posted by 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

I agree with Up. The rest I do not. Just imo. This guy's list is insane. I def. think that The Little Mermaid should stay on the list, but it needs an almost complete overhaul.

[Cowboy]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

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

Hell Peter Pan is even better than half that list. Toy Story 3? Really?

[Moviefan2k4]

Yeah, I wouldn't even define "South Park" as animation...more like "blasphemation".

[Tom Hiddleston]

Originally Posted by Moviefan2k4

Yeah, I wouldn't even define "South Park" as animation...more like "blasphemation".

I do not really think of South Park as an animated show, just a show that happens to be animated, if that makes any sense.

[Deviant Anomaly]

Some very bizarre choices there. So much for their mysterious complex system of measurements. Seems more like darts thrown at pictures on a peg board.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned How to Train Your Dragon's omission yet.

[bladerunner1]

Originally Posted by 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

Thanks. I was in a hurry to get out the door this morning and didn't have time to post the list. Also, I thought it was kinda 'funner' to read it as it is written.

Anyway, a few major oversights IMO
Bambi
Fantasia
The Incredible's
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Iron Giant
Heavy Metal
Waking Life
Princess Mononoke
Watership Down

[LordCrumb]

WTF. Akira should have been way higher.

[stanleykubrick]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

"You got the Lion's share...[cue laughter]. I'm afraid I'm at the shallow end of the gene pool. [cue laughter]"
"It's a Small World after all..." "No! Anything but that!" [cue laughter]
"And I got downhearted everytime that I f --" "Not in front of the kids!" [cue laughter]
"You talkin' to me?" [cue laughter] "They call me Mr. Pig!" [cue laughter]

versus

"Mother? Why did we all run?"
[silent pause, then, quietly]
"Man was in the forest."

I prefer Bambi to LK - you're preaching to the choir.

Just got my copy of Bambi on blu last month and watched it....pure bliss!!

I disagree that LK/B&TB are somehow unworthy of being on any "best" list because they are "sitcoms" (i.e., too funny and not serious/dramatic enough). I'm a bigger fan of B&TB and find it more dramatic than comedic. Even if an animation film is primarily comedic, why should that discard it from consideration?

[stanleykubrick]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

Hand drawn animation, click-and-drag animation, stop motion animation, oil on glass animation, flash animation, shadow animation...why not lump them all together?

agree. put them all together. no "sub-animation" genres. seems silly.

How in the world was Beauty and the Beast the first of it's kind?

I think he specified this: "to get nominated for Best Picture". I don't know, was it the first animated film to get nominated for Best Picture? If true, that would be a first of a kind feat.

[blufellas]

Snow White is my #1

[stanleykubrick]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

Funny, I tend to think of the eight-Oscar apology statue given to Walt in 1939 for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (the film was released in 1937, it only earned one nod for score, and it lost at the 1938 Oscars...the resulting outrage led the Academy to give Walt that famous eight-Oscar statue the next year in 1939...it was an apology) to be a one of a kind feat - surely more than a nomination - as well as the special Oscar given to Disney in 1941 for producing Fantasia (1940), and the special award given to Richard Williams in 1989 for directing Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). But yeah, Beauty and the Beast was released in a weak year, and intense lobbying by Eisner led to the film receiving a nomination, and animation fans have had to endure the resulting "it's the best animated feature ever" hooey ever since.


"We're really sorry, Walt!"

impressive Disney oscar history!

but please: go easy on the B&TB kool-aid drinking! (sarcasm)

[MarkJ801]

This isn't a very good list at all.

[bluearth]

Originally Posted by KaiGusto

WTF. Akira should have been way higher.

I always thought it was impossible to tell the story properly in 2 hours.

Also,

[Show spoiler]funny how an army cant scratch him with tanks, but his buddy can blow off his arm with a rifle.

But I think it deserves top 25 honors due to the influence it has had on anime

[xellos2099]

What kind of list is this??? It doesn't even have Laputa or Astroboy on it. To be frank, they listed WAY too many Disney stuff here..... most of them aren't even that good beside Lion King; and that's a ripoff from a 60-70 japan animation.