Favourite animated films of all time?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Sunday, April 23, 2006 08:30
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Okay, another huge animated geek here. 
So I'm just gonna make a nice long list of my faves.
Lilo & Stitch (funny, sweet, and sad)
Titan AE
Sinbad
Treasure Planet
Toy Story(s)
Shrek(s)
The Incredibles
All things Inuyasha
Castle in the Sky
Spirited Away
Kiki's Delivery Service
Princess Mononoke
Final Fantasy: Advent Children (can't stand Spirits Within cuz it's not Final Fantasy, despite being a good movie in its own right)
Escaflowne (can't believe no one mentioned this great anime)
Ice Age
Emperor's New Groove
Pokemon(s) (I know it's kinda childish, but give me a break)
Halloween Tree (one of my all time Halloween faves)
Lots of other Disney movies
That's all I can think of for now, but I definitely wanna see Fire and Ice and Ghost in the Shell.
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Originally posted by queenofthenorth:
Toy Story(s)
The Incredibles
Good day your magesty! *squidge* I cannot believe I left these out of my list. It was a terrible oversight. There was such laughing at Incredibles, a neighbor came to complain about the laughing noise(at 10 on a Saturday).
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I guess this must be a youngish crowd, at least from where I'm sitting.
I have to agree that Fantasia is a masterpiece of a movie, but my favourite for purely great animation has to be Disney's "Pinochio". Disney studios at their peak.
Also, anything by the Wallace and Gromit crowd, including "Chicken Run", but alot of that may be due to the homage paid to "The Great Escape"
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Originally posted by queenofthenorth:
Toy Story(s)
The Incredibles
Good day your magesty! *squidge* I cannot believe I left these out of my list. It was a terrible oversight. There was such laughing at Incredibles, a neighbor came to complain about the laughing noise(at 10 on a Saturday).
Shiny Trees! Yavanna made Shiny Trees!
Oh, I got squidged! I will forgive your oversight of leaving them off your list. I thought the Incredibles was not only funny, but a fantastic superhero movie. I still don't own it yet. *sigh* Too much stuff to buy.
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Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away (usually I love the Japanese titles, but this one's too long!)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
Basically everything by Miyazaki is genius.
Also... Titan AE has some Joss writing? Woah, I liked it before I knew who Joss was... I'll have to watch it again...
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I'm was about to enthuse wildly about Millennium Actress, but am pleased to see that shirlockc beat me to it. Oh, what the hell - I'll enthuse anyway.
Millennium Actress - I've thoroughly enjoyed everything Satoshi (Perfect Blue, Paranoia Agent) Kon has worked on, but Millennium Actress is easily my favorite. It's a love letter to Japanese cinema circa mid-30s to mid-60s, as told by an aging actress reflecting on her career to a couple of documentarians who are suprised to find themselves in the midst of both her past roles and memories. Simply, utterly wonderful. Speaking of Kon, with Christmas just around the corner it's a great time to break out Tokyo Godfathers, his retelling of Three Godfathers starring a trio of bums in Tokyo, with Christmas miracles and all.
That said, I've got more enthusing to do. Here are some favorite films that haven't already been mentioned above:
Toy Story 2 - All the Pixar flicks are tremendously entertaining (and, while it's hard to pick a favorite, I may have to go with The Incredibles), but Toy Story 2 is that rarity of films - a sequel that's better than the original - and thus deserves special mention. Well, okay, The Incredibles is freakin' awesome, so we'll give that special mention, too.
Allegro non Troppo - Brunno Bozzetto's crazed 1977 send-up of Fantasia is astonishing to behold. Like Fantasia, it's a series of animated segments set to classical music with live-action bits as a framing device, but from there things diverge wildly as the narrator - think an combination car salesman and con man (or is that redundant?) wearing a horrifically bad suit - holds forth on the originality of the film (while rejecting the supposed efforts of this Bisney character), before a small mob of old little Italian ladies tromp in to act as orchestra before a long suffering animator who is chained to his desk by a brutish conductor. But, inspired live-action gags aside, the real star here is the animation which alternates between whimsical, leering, caustic, madcap, and even poignet. Highlights include a complete history of evolution (sparked by an abandoned Coke bottle) set to "Bolero", a tear-jerker about a starving cat using "Valse Triste" to great effect, and the frantic finale. Highly recommended, especially for the Fantasia fan interested in seeing a good-natured parody of a holy cow. There's an excellent R1 DVD release courtesy of HVE that also includes a slew of Bozzetto's shorts; I'm particularly fond of "Self Service", about a bunch of hungry mosquitos.
Mind Game - Having just seen Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa, 2004) very recently, I may be a bit too dazzled to be truly objective, but what the hell - the only thing keeping Mind Game from being the best animated film of the past five years is Millennium Actress, and even then it's a close call. Mind Game is about a depressed young man who dies, but convinces God to give him another chance. Restored to life mere moments before the fatal incident, our hero is determined to go live life to it's fullest...but first he has to get away from the gangsters chasing after him. I realize that the phrase "mind blowing" gets tossed around a lot, but it's entirely justified here, between the exuberant story (no mean feat considering that a full third of the film takes place inside a whale) and dizzying array of animation styles. Portions of the film are literally jaw-dropping. I can't recommend it highly enough. But, hey, don't just take my word for it - check out the trailer:
http://www.mindgame.jp/trailer/
Castle of Cagliostro - As a raging anime enthusiast, I'm occasionally asked to name my favorite anime. It's a tough question, and the answer probably involves multiple top-five lists for film television, and OVAs, but if cornered I'll always answer Castle of Cagliostro. It's not my favorite Miyazaki flick - Porco Rosso gets that distinction - but Cagliostro is one of the most universally entertaining animated films I've ever seen. When the loveable rogue Lupin III meets a
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Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, and The Emperor's New Groove. There's loads of other movies, but those are the only ones I'd definately frequently watch.
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OK straight animation not computer generated I would have to say.... Sleeping Beauty, ever the romantic at heart I just thought it was so beautiful.
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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, great film and up until Batman Begins, the best Batman movie ever made.
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