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Jex · Apr 16, 2014

Time Out have graced the world with their list of the 100 best animated movies. In their own words:

How did we choose the 100 best animated movies of all time? We went straight to the experts and polled people who have created some of the greatest animated films ever made. People like Wes Anderson (Fantastic Mr. Fox), Pete Docter (Up, Monsters Inc.), Ed Catmull (Pixar co-founder), Nick Park and Peter Lord (Aardman) and Henry Selick (Coraline). We spoke to animators, directors, curators, academics and film critics. That amounts to over 100 experts each sharing their top ten animated movies. Then we used their choices to inform our own final countdown of the 100 best animated movies.

The full feature can be found on their website here but for those of you are just too greedy to click the whole thing here's the top 10:

10. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
9. The Nightmare Before Christmas
8. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
7. The Iron Giant
6. Dumbo
5. The Incredibles
4. Toy Story
3. My Neigbour Totoro
2. Spirited Away
1. Pinocchio

Personally, while the list does a good job of highlighting a number of lesser-known titles that are worthy of attention I'd argue that the ranking is completely insane and the amount of recency bias is staggering, especially later down the list.

If you want to find something slightly more useful you can check out the lists of each individual contributor e.g. Wes Anderson's favourite animated movies in this section.

Haly · Apr 16, 2014

Never before has an internet list filled me with so much rage.

Millenium Actress under Kung Fu Panda.

KUNG
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PANDA

Fuck everything.

psylah · Apr 16, 2014

Incoming Frozen rage

firehawk12 · Apr 16, 2014

Iron Giant

is in the top ten. I'm okay with that.

Haly said:
Never before has an internet list filled me with so much rage.

Millenium Actress under Kung Fu Panda.

KUNG
FU
PANDA

Fuck everything.

Jack Black is just that good, brah.

MisterHero · Apr 16, 2014

Peter Pan is #100.

#100 means it's the best one, right?

Grisby · Apr 16, 2014

4 of my top all time animated movies are on that list so, yeah, good deal.

Can't argue with Fantastic Mr Fox, Iron Giant, Nightmare Before Christmas, and Spirited Away.

Rastafarian42 · Apr 16, 2014

The Lion King at 72 huh..... :/ .

firehawk12 · Apr 16, 2014

A list spread out over 10-20 pages? Good luck with the clickbaiting. I don't do it with IGN lists, I'm not going to do it here.

massoluk · Apr 16, 2014

I really don't understand the love for Number 1. It's the one Disney cartoon I fell asleep watching. Boring as hell. I'll take Sleeping Beauty or Aladdin over it.

Heroman · Apr 16, 2014

The Lion King aka the greatest movie ever made is number 71, while Dumbo is number 6. Think about that.

Branduil · Apr 16, 2014

Is there a full text list? I'm not going through 100 pages to get outraged.

Cwarrior · Apr 16, 2014

10. The Fantastic Mr. Fox (I haven't seen, need to correct that)
9. The Nightmare Before Christmas(great)
8. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
7. The Iron Giant(love this)
6. Dumbo(love this)
5. The Incredibles(love this)
4. Toy Story(don't care about this movie everyone on planet earth seems to do)
3. My Neigbour Totoro(lololololol I wouldn't even rank it in my top ghilib movies let alone the top 100 animation movies although it is good)
2. Spirited Away( one the best anime movies but not top top 20 animated movies material....Pompoko better anyways)
1. Pinocchio(I'll be honest it's been well over 15 years the last time I saw this so I don't really remember it)

Finding nemo is better then anything in that top 10.

UncleSporky · Apr 16, 2014

Dumbo is so ridiculous. Incredibly short, dated, some racist caricatures, obviously put together on a shoestring budget, nothing much even happens in it. And there's a whole scene that is an animator in-joke about how much they hate their boss.

Yawnier · Apr 16, 2014

Wow at how high Spirited Away ranks

Deleted member 57681 · Apr 16, 2014

...more like Mononotop-ten-spot.

rexor0717 · Apr 16, 2014

Haly said:
Never before has an internet list filled me with so much rage.

Millenium Actress under Kung Fu Panda.

KUNG
FU
PANDA

Fuck everything.

I want to give $5 to whoever made that gif.

UncleSporky · Apr 16, 2014

Cwarrior said:
Finding nemo is better then anything in that top 10.

Not Iron Giant or Incredibles.

Jex · Apr 16, 2014

Branduil said:
Is there a full text list? I'm not going through 100 pages to get outraged.

Trust me, be outraged.

rasberryjam · Apr 16, 2014

Is it in theatrical releases? Because some of the animated films DC puts out are amazing.

Also, I don't think I saw An American Tail on there? What's up with that?

cajunator · Apr 16, 2014

Millennium Actress should be way higher. It just should.

Vulcano's assistant · Apr 16, 2014

Pinocchio is one of those things that are impossible to make today because all the people who knew how to are too old or dead.

Deleted member 231381 · Apr 16, 2014

The actual cited films are a good list, but the order is all out of whack.

plasmawave · Apr 16, 2014

massoluk said:
I really don't understand the love for Number 1. It's the one Disney cartoon I fell asleep watching. Boring as hell. I'll take Sleeping Beauty or Aladdin over it.

Because old Disney had BALLS!

Fidelis Hodie · Apr 16, 2014

Cwarrior said:
Bullshit

Finding nemo is better then anything in that top 10.

Hell no it's not.

I'm okay with movies in the top ten, though not exact placement.

Daft_Cat · Apr 16, 2014

I feel like it's more of a popularity list. That explains why some of the newer or more popular films are placed above ones that are obviously better. Some of the really great ones (particularly the non-America, non-Disney ones) are lower on the list by virtue of the fact that fewer voters have seen them (even if they pretentiously pretend they have).

Still doesn't explain random flukes like the Lion King being so low...but whatever. Lists gonna list.

Deleted member 231381 · Apr 16, 2014

Haly said:
Never before has an internet list filled me with so much rage.

Millenium Actress under Kung Fu Panda.

KUNG
FU
PANDA

Fuck everything.

I found Kung Fu Panda relatively amusing. I mean, I'm not saying it's amazing or anything, but I'd briefly place it under consideration somewhere. Possibly because I've not even watched 100 animated movies, but out of those I have watched, it's pretty mid-tier.

FelixOrion · Apr 16, 2014

No Hosoda or Shinkai? Boo.

kazebyaka · Apr 16, 2014

Frozen isn't in at least top 5 (deserves to be #1)? What a joke. And spirited away on 2nd? It's a good movie, but not that good.

UncleSporky · Apr 16, 2014

Also why is How To Train Your Dragon not in the top ten, I think it really is that good probably?

Cwarrior · Apr 16, 2014

UncleSporky said:
Not Iron Giant or Incredibles.

Huge fan of Iron giant and really like the incredibles but finding nemo is better then both movie.

nckillthegrimace · Apr 16, 2014

I don't agree with that top ten at all, especially since it says "best" and not "most important."

Deleted member 231381 · Apr 16, 2014

kazebyaka said:
Frozen isn't in at least top 5 (deserves to be #1)? What a joke. And spirited away on 2nd? It's a good movie, but not that good.

Frozen shouldn't even be on the list. Trite and boring.

brotherbean · Apr 16, 2014

Why even attempt a list like this? It's only going to piss off pretty much everyone.

Necrovex · Apr 16, 2014

Today, I discovered Wes Anderson directed "Fantastic Mr. Fox." I have to watch this now!

I would have placed Tokyo Godfathers on the top ten list, since that movie is one of my favorite animated films out there. I really should give Totoro another chance; I couldn't get into it when I was in my funk three years back. I would have liked to see Princess Mononoke on the top ten too, but I understand why it didn't make the cut.

My only issue with The Nightmare Before Christmas, I would have replaced that with another Ghibli film or a Kon film.

amnesiac · Apr 16, 2014

Cwarrior said:
Finding nemo is better then anything in that top 10.

Completely disagree

Vulcano's assistant · Apr 16, 2014

Cwarrior said:
Huge fan of Iron giant and really like the incredibles but finding nemo is a better movie.

Where do you rank Ratatouille in that?

The_Super_Inframan · Apr 16, 2014

I wouldn't care to much about the ranking and more about the movies itself.

Overall it's a great list with lots of amazing movies from all genres and styles that people should check out

Heroman · Apr 16, 2014

kazebyaka said:
Frozen isn't in at least top 5 (deserves to be #1)? What a joke. And spirited away on 2nd? It's a good movie, but not that good.

Frozen was not even the best animated movie released last year let alone of all time.

RangerX · Apr 16, 2014

Heroman said:
The Lion King aka the greatest movie ever made is number 71, while Dumbo is number 6. Think about that.

Give me Dumbo over the Lion King any day of the week. I really really disliked that film. Robin hood is the GOAT disney film. No joke.

Paper Fox · Apr 16, 2014

Lion King and Aladdin being in the bottom half of the list makes this "top 100" logically and factually wrong.

Cwarrior · Apr 16, 2014

Vulcano's assistant said:
Where do you rank Ratatouille in that?

Like second or third best pixar movie (above UP & toystory but draw with wall-e and incredibles)

PantherLotus · Apr 16, 2014

Aladdin, Lion King, Toy Story (and sequels), Frozen, Finding Nemo, Little Mermaid, Ratatouille, the first 10 minutes of Up, HTTYD, Beauty and the Beast.

Something like that.

Clydefrog · Apr 16, 2014

Where's Wall E?

Plinko · Apr 16, 2014

The Lion King not even in the top 50? Come on.

Edit: Rango is one spot ahead? LOL

Jarmel · Apr 16, 2014

Shit list.

Fucking Pinnochio? So much of this list is just bad taste.

I approve of The Nightmare Before Christmas though.

EmptySpace · Apr 16, 2014

kazebyaka said:
Frozen isn't in at least top 5 (deserves to be #1)? What a joke. And spirited away on 2nd? It's a good movie, but not that good.

frozen's a joke.

spirited away > frozen

at least spirited away does female protagonist best, not some princess who needs rescuing.

Vulcano's assistant · Apr 16, 2014

Cwarrior said:
Like second or third best pixar movie (above UP & toystory but draw with wall-e and incredibles)

I think we are pretty much the same page.

Jarmel · Apr 16, 2014

The Little Mermaid over the Lion King?

There aren't enough laughing gifs in the world.

I need a hit of that joint dawg.

Branduil · Apr 16, 2014

LOL they put Paprika on the list.

kess · Apr 16, 2014

They ranked the animated Lord of the Rings ahead of Peter Pan? This list is wack.

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