| Bill Hader, Set in a small Pennsylvania town, this is a poetic, downbeat tale of three characters united by disappointment, alcohol and a haunted past. Charlize Theron,

Zachary Levi, Fun fact: The voice of the robot is a pre-fame Vin Diesel, so you can shock your kids by revealing that the Iron Giant and Groot are really the same person. Surreal social commentary in a Gallic animated sci-fi milestone. Joanna Cassidy, | — and, like the best of that genre, it gives a powerful tug on the heartstrings, so you might want to keep some tissues on hand. The cartoon Beatles rampage through a psychedelic Pop Art dreamscape. Best quote: “The gods are cruel! Defining moment: The harrowing apocalyptic vision of young Fiver, which sets the story—and decidedly mature tone—in motion. Chris Sanders Menu. Mike Johnson

$100.04M, PG The minuscule budget meant that entire sequences and characters were lifted wholesale from earlier Disney hits (just think of Little John as a brown Baloo), but somehow this only adds to the film’s unpretentious, shaggy-dog charm.—Tom Huddleston. 605,320 | Holly Hunter, | Best quote: “Three wishes, to be exact. John Goodman, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, The movie also has a fair amount of human casualty—again, a weird reason for celebration. The seminal anime series comes to a close with an apocalyptic bang. Whether you want something so straightforward from someone so adept at mining the edges of imagination, however, is another story. Director: A prophetic piece of Hollywood hybridization, Robert Zemeckis’s 1988 comedy fused animated gags to live-action shooting—and, more significantly, classic ’40s-era toons to a TV-weaned generation of younger viewers.

| Best known at the time for his work on The Simpsons, Bird moved the tale from Britain to 1950s Maine, lending it distinct Cold War flavor.

It is fully animated with a drawing pencil style, it is a dark comedy-drama film directed by Don Hertzfeldt, unfortunately, it is no longer available to stream on Netflix USA, but you can get it on some websites for free. 117 min |

This film, about a boy who befriends a giant robot from outer space, follows the classic kid-meets-misunderstood-outsider formula (think E.T.) Directors: Disney’s second feature—originally a box-office bomb—begins with a sweetly singing cricket, yet plunges into scenes from a nightmare: in front of a jeering audience on a carnival stage; into the belly of a monstrous whale; beyond all human recognition. Aside from becoming a global sensation (and outgrossing most Disney films up to that point), Ralph Bakshi’s libidinous Greenwich Village romp was a slap in the face to purists who hoped to keep cartoons safe for kids. In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by the Demigod Maui reaches Moana's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the Demigod to set things right. Joe Ranft 657,172 Seth MacFarlane, Defining moment: The attack at the ford by Rotoscoped Black Riders is truly unnerving. Frozen one is about Anna who lost her sister Elsa, her quest is to find her sister with the help of an iceman, Kristoff. Notoriously, the film received an X rating (and includes a fair amount of bare-assed rutting), but that pejorative label might have also been due to its director’s overall vision, inspired by Robert Crumb’s countercultural characters and filled with Vietnam War–era surliness. Hungarian folktales go psychedelic…and then some. It was subsequently a late-night favorite among the herbally assisted.—Trevor Johnston.

Selena Gomez, Votes: Defining moment: The opening song, gloriously and ghoulishly upbeat. Part art piece, part gross-out comedy, part apocalyptic epic, all indescribable. Flip books and zoetropes revealed the mesmerizing power of animation to humans before movies were even invented in the late 19th century. |

But if their intention was to make the story more appealing to youngsters, they were way off. Still, it took someone familiar with the game to break the rules so completely. Art maniacs, meanwhile, will tell you it’s a dazzling work of the imagination, harnessing every animation technique available at the time to create an eye-frazzling, insanely inventive trip. It’s an emotional reunion as Pixar gets the old gang back together. 241,431 Tim Burton Some filmmakers build their great artworks with blood, sweat and toil. Stars: RECOMMENDED: Our list of the 100 best movies of all time.

Best quote: “When everyone’s super…no one will be.”. The Princess and the Frog. The impressive opening sequence is also nearly silent, so even toddlers can grasp what's going on. Scooby and the gang face their most challenging mystery ever: a plot to unleash the ghost dog Cerberus upon the world. We know too much.”. 204,244 And if you really wanted to journey back in time, look to prehistoric cave art where animals drawn with excessive pairs of legs created the illusion of motion when illuminated by fire – it might be considered the first animation. The brothers Grimm’s “Rapunzel” must have presented modern Disney with a bit of a head-scratcher. Say all that five times fast. | Gross: Defining moment: Motorcycle gangs tear through the night destroying all in their wake—a scene that would give Mad Max chills. Jack crafts a plan to kidnap Father Christmas, or Sandy Claws, as he calls him.Directed by stop-motion maestro Henry Selick from Burton’s story, the movie took 15 animators almost three years to make. This is the best animated movie of all time, it got 375.5 million USD from the box office although it was released just late 2018. Animation, Adventure, Comedy.

Mr. Stokowski!”. That translates into mind-boggling detail, right down to the mayor’s spider tie. If you enjoyed this, then you should check the best hacking movies of all time. | Kodi Smit-McPhee, Stars: Animation, Adventure, Drama. In the hindsight given to us by Peter Jackson’s sterling live-action trilogy, it’s easy—though perhaps unfair—to say that this earlier attempt is a lesson in how not to adapt Tolkien’s trilogy for the silver screen. But first they must catch you.”. The year 1988 saw Studio Ghibli at the peak of its powers, releasing a pair of richly personal tributes to youthful resilience that proved the breadth and brilliance of their work. Claire Crosby, Meanwhile, Hiccup’s little dragon buddy Toothless is the cutest kitten-bat-lizard crossbreed you’re likely ever to see onscreen.—Cath Clarke, Buy, rent or watch How to Train Your Dragon. You'd be hard-pressed to find one. Lee Unkrich Animation, Adventure, Comedy. Directors: Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi, Best quote: “Shut up, you bitches! We looked at reviews, other “best of” lists, cultural impact, and applied some editorial discretion. Oscar Isaac,

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What starts out as a typical anime fantasy—robots, outrageously large-breasted heroines, sci-fi futurism—veers off the rails into anything-goes territory when the geeky male hero dies. $73.66M, PG Tom Hanks, Stars: Your kids will be entertained by the antics of all the toys on screen.

Johnny Depp, Animation, Adventure, Comedy.

Pinocchio will remain immortal as long as we draw, paint, tell tall tales and wish upon stars.—Joshua Rothkopf.

And unless we’re forgetting, Fantasia didn’t include live-action behind-the-scenes bickering, shot in black and white. Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Yet the endearingly handmade qualities of Park’s shorter works are still fully evident, especially in Gromit’s priceless silent reactions to his human master’s frequent obliviousness.—Keith Uhlich, Buy, rent or watch Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Best quote: “Someone sits on the shore and tells him how the waves have been there long before Bill existed, and that they’ll still be there long after he’s gone. Jim Varney, Votes: Director: 79 min

This unflinching war story proves that, in animation, anything is possible. Kon’s anime is a cross between Hello Kitty and Philip K. Dick, and yes, we mean that as a very good thing. | Isao Takahata’s quiet masterpiece is a key entry point into the serious side of Studio Ghibli—and Japanese anime as a whole, viewed at home as a perfectly legitimate forum for non-fantastical drama. Suddenly there was a real weight to billions of bits and bytes, and audiences were enraptured. Animation, Adventure, Comedy. | Tom Hanks, The only conceivable reason why this roundup of the best Warner Bros. shorts isn’t higher on this list is because so few are aware of its existence.

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Defining moment: Sita wonders, “Whooooooooo’s that knockin’ at my door?” in an energetic battle-scene-cum-musical-number. A misunderstood boy takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old curse. Stars: 873,017