The one Studio Ghibli I really wanna see that I haven't got around to watching yet. I've not seen a couple of others either, but this is at the top of my list, with 'My Neighbour Totoro'!

Yeah, I'd like to see Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro, Princess Mononoke & Ponyo. My Aunt owns all of the Studio Ghibli films so I will have to to borrow them soon!!

39. Kung Fu Panda

457pts | 2008 | USA | Dreamworks

Top 20's: Cody (#13), Iz (#14)

 

 

Kung Fu Panda is the first film in the Kung Fu Panda trilogy and it tells the story of Po, the panda, who aspires to be a kung fu master. He is then picked as the chosen one who is destined to defeat Tai Lung, an evil snow leopard who returns after escaping from prison.

 

It features the voices of famous stars including Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen and Dustin Hoffman. It was a big financial success making $631.7 million worldwide and it spawned two sequels. A potential 4th film is up-in-the-air as the 3rd film made over $130 less than the previous instalment (although I imagine it still made a good profit for the studio).

 

This is definitely my favourite Kung Fu Panda film but I think that's probably because I was only 8 years old and appreciated the juvenile humour more. In last year's Kung Fu Panda 3, I was rolling my eyes a bit at some of the jokes. The visual effects and fight scenes can be appreciated by anyone at any age though, some of the visuals are gorgeous *-*

38. Robin Hood

462pts | 1973 | USA | Disney

Top 20's: Harry (#11), Haus (#17), Jonjo (#19)

 

 

Another Disney animation classic drops out now at #38 and this time it is their version of the old tale of Robin Hood (but this time, using animals instead of people)! It tells the story of Robin Hood & the citizens of Nottingham who fight against unfair tax legislation whilst Robin also attempts to court Maid Marian.

 

Disney have announced a live-action remake of this called 'Nottingham & Hood' and is said to be a similar tone to the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. This was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song for the track 'Love'.

 

Personally, this isn't a Disney film that I return to often but I do enjoy it when it's on TV or something. I'm buzzed for a live-action Disney remake though if we do end up getting it. There's also an unrelated Robin Hood movie scheduled for 2018 starring Taron Egerton, Jamie Dornan, Jamie Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn!

Madagascar 3 & Wallace & Gromit are my favourites from the recent section :wub: Both childhood faves that I have watched multiple times on repeat, especially the latter!

The two Pixar ones are really good as well!

Still need to see Spirited Away properly, I saw bits when I was younger!

37. Ratatouille

465pts | 2007 | USA | Pixar

Top 20's: Seven (#3), BrightPlaces (#18), Taylor (#19)

 

 

At first I was expecting this to be a bit higher than just scraping the top 40 but I guess that it's not really often named as one of Pixar's absolute best films even though it is great. It should still be higher than some of the films left to come though, #judgingyou :smoke:

 

Anyway, it tells the story of a rat named Remy who aspires to be a chef and strikes up a friendship with a young man who works in a restaurant in Paris where their teamwork proves to be a great success.

 

It was a financial success earning just over $620 million worldwide making it Pixar's 8th highest grossing movie worldwide. It won the Oscar for Best Animated Film and was nominated for 4 more Oscars (Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Score & Original Screenplay)!

Spirited Away is excellent, one of the best movies I've ever seen! Very pleased it scraped in top 40 on this considering how many haven't seen it.

 

Kung Fu Panda and Ratatouille are fairly cool films from what I remember.

36. Coraline

485pts | 2009 | USA | Laika

Top 20's: Seven (#5), Klaus (#13), DalekTurret (#16), Severin (#18)

 

 

Coraline tells the story of a young girl who finds a secret door in her home that leads to a different world.

 

It made $124 million at the worldwide box office and was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Animated Film category where it lost to Pixar's Up.

 

I've not seen this film because the button eyes scare me and I would probably have nightmares to be honest :heehee:

35. Despicable Me 2

489pts | 2013 | USA | Illumination

Top 20's: Jahq (#17), Taylor (#17), Ultraviolence (#18)

 

 

Despicable Me 2 saw the return of Gru and the Minions, this time Gru teams up with the Anti-Villain League to discover the truth behind a stolen laboratory in the Arctic.

 

The film saw the return of Steve Carell, Russell Brand and Kristen Wiig (although she voiced a different role this time) and made $970 million at the worldwid box office, a massive success for the studio. It spawned the spin-off, Minions, which made over a $1 billion at the worldwide box office as well as the upcoming direct sequel, Despicable Me 3.

 

It was nominated for two Oscars (Best Animated feature film which it lost to Frozen & Best Song for Pharrell's "Happy" which it also lost to Frozen for Idina Menzel's "Let It Go").

Ratatouille is vile. Shocked and glad it isn't higher though! :cheer:

 

Coraline/Despicable Me 2 are fantastic films though :wub: The first is a terrific animation and the latter was so much fun *.* (bar that beyond vile song, if that beat Let It Go at the Oscars....)

34. Lilo and Stitch

518pts | 2002 | USA | Disney

Top 20's: Cameron (#2), Regina (#3), Klaus (#4), Cody (#9), Chez (#18)

 

 

This film tells the story of Lilo, a young girl, and Stitch, an extraterrestrial creature created to cause chaos, and the unlikely friendship that forms between the two.

 

It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film where it lost to Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away. The film made $273 million at the worldwide box office.

 

I don't THINK I've seen this but it obviously must be quite good if it has this many lovers on here. I've seen the TV show when I was younger but I didn't think it was anything that special?

33. The Little Mermaid

526pts | 1989 | USA | Disney

Top 20's: Josh (#11), Jonjo (#14)

 

 

The Little Mermaid tells the story of a young mermaid named Ariel who wants nothing more than to be human and be able to live life above the sea. She gets involved with an evil sea witch in order to fulfil her dreams.

 

The Little Mermaid earned three Oscar nominations and it won two of them (making it the first Oscar nomination for a Disney Animation for 13 years for The Rescuers!). It won for Best Original Score and Best Song for "Under the Sea" where it beat out its other nomination for "Kiss the Girl".

 

I am SHOOK at this being so low, I was legitimately expecting it to be a top 10 contender. It easily in my top 3 Disney princess films. It's such a good story, has some brilliant characters including all of the fun side characters and some of Disney's best songs ! Gutted at it being this low :(

Can we all appreciate some of the best marketing for a movie ever?:

 

 

 

LOVE Lilo & Stitch soo much, Stitch is just adorable and I love the Hawaiian setting, as well as the music that goes along with it.

Despicable Me 2 above Spirited Away errrrrrr :/ I'm surprised how many people here haven't seen the latter, I remember watching it when I was at primary school :o (though I don't remember if it got a wide cinema release at the time in the UK). One of my all time favourites definitely though :heart: Great to see Coraline in the top 40 too, it's certainly creepy but it's really bold and tension filled for a mainstream animated film and beautifully shot.

 

I really thought The Jungle Book, Snow White and The Little Mermaid would've been top 20 certs, guessing Pixar really did dominate the upper half.

 

32. The Aristocats

541pts | 1970 | USA | Disney

Top 20's: Jacob (#9), Iz (#11) Haus (#14)

 

 

The Aristocats tells the story of a family of aristocratic cats are helped by an alley cat after they are kidnapped by a butler.

 

In 2005, Disney announced a sequel was in the works but it was eventually cancelled when John Lasseter was named Disney's new chief creative officer.

 

This is an other Disney classic that I really ought to revisit more often but I always forget to. I'm a bit shocked at how high up it has finished (would never have expected it to outpeak The Little Mermaid or The Jungle Book)!

 

31. One Hundred and One Dalmations

544pts | 1961 | USA | Disney

Top 20's: Chez (#7), Harry (#8) Haus (#9), Klaus (#16)

 

 

And another Disney animated classic drops out! This time it is 101 Dalmations which tells the story of a group of young puppies who are kidnapped by the evil Cruella De Vil who wants to use them to make into nice new coats...

 

It is one of Disney's most successful films financially due to its numerous re-releases. It is actually 12th on the list of highest grossing movies of all time when adjusted for inflation in the USA!

 

I always find this pretty under-rated for a Disney film as it is rather lovely but rarely gets brought up in conversations when discussing the absolute best Disney films. It's done very well here though and seems to have a lot of big fans!

 

30. Grave of the Fireflies

553pts | 1988 | Japan | Studio Ghibli

Top 20's: Jacob (#2), Iz & Severin (#4) Haus (#12), Jonjo (#15), Harry (#16)

 

 

Grave of the Fireflies is the story of two young siblings who struggle to survive in the Second World War.

 

It is ranked at #57 in IMDb's All-Time Top 250 list.

 

To be honest, I'd never even heard of this film before being sent the results for this countdown but I'm clearly missing out on something special.

29. Finding Dory

597pts | 2016 | USA | Pixar

Top 20's: Jonjo (#11), Harry (#12) Mack & Jahq & Ultraviolence (#14)

 

 

It took 13 years to get a sequel to Finding Nemo but it finally arrived in 2016! Finding Dory is about Dory's search for her long-lost parents which doesn't prove to be all that easy due to her frequent memory loss.

 

Finding Dory made a lot of money at the box office (over $1 billion worldwide actually) and is currently 25th on the list of highest grossing movies of all time worldwide and 4th on the same list when just including animated films (behind Frozen, Minions & Toy Story 3). It was shockingly snubbed at the Oscars in the Animated Film category.

 

I mainly agreed with critics who said it was a nice enough film but doesn't really hold a candle to Finding Nemo which is a shame. A lot of critics complained about how silly it was at times. To be fair, it does feature an octopus driving a truck.

28. Zootopia

606pts | 2016 | USA | Disney

Top 20's: DalekTurret & Jahq (#4), UV (#8), Taylor (#14), Jonjo (#20)

 

 

Zootopia (or Zootropolis depending on where you come from) is the story of Judy Hopps, a rabbit who aspires to be a police officer and her mission to discover why some animals are turning rogue and attacking others in the city of Zootopia. She gets some help from a sky fox named Nick Wilde along the way who she eventually befriends.

 

It was a slightly smaller financial success than Finding Dory as it stands at #28 on the all time highest grossing movies list but it was still a huge hit making over a billion dollars worldwide. It also won the Oscar for Best Animated Film that year so it seems Buzzjack agrees that it was a great film.

Really shocked at 'The Little Mermaid' finishing as low as that! :o I really thought it'd be a definite top 20! :(

 

Yay for 'Grave Of the Fireflies' finishing pretty decently and I'm happy enough with 'Finding Dory's position. :wub:

27. Big Hero 6

636pts | 2014 | USA | Disney

Top 20's: Jonjo (#3), BrightPlaces (#4), DalekTurret (#7), Josh (#9), Jahq (#12), Taylor (#20)

 

 

Big Hero 6 is the story of a young boy called Hiro who utilises his brother's creation, Baymax, and teams up with a group of friends in order to defeat a masked villain.

 

The film made $657 million at the worldwide box office and won the Oscar for Best Animated Film beating out the likes of The Boxtrolls and How to Train Your Dragon 2.

 

Personally, this is one of my favourite all-time Disney movies. The characters are all brilliant (how cute is Baymax *-*), the action is brilliant (how cool are the microbots?!?) and the story has some touching moments (obviously the fire at the technology institute and also removing the healthcare chip from Baymax :(). So glad this has done so well here :cheer:

 

26. Despicable Me

645pts | 2010 | USA | Illumination

Top 20's: Taylor (#9), BrightPlaces (#10), Ultraviolence (#17)

 

 

Despicable Me is the film that introduced us to Gru, an super villain who adopts three young girls from an orphanage and plans to steal and shrink the moon.

 

The film made $543 million at the worldwide box office and has so far already produced two more massively successful sequels with a third Despicable Me film on the horizon this year. It was nominated at the BAFTAs and Golden Globes in the Animated Film category but lost both to Toy Story 3.

 

I'm really shocked at how well this has done here as I didn't realise it was that loved! It's a cute film for sure but I'd put a lot of the films that have dropped out already above it (and I preferred Minions as a movie tbh, was so funny! :lol:)

 

25. Bambi

659pts | 1942 | USA | Disney

Top 20's: Chez (#3), Cameron (#11) Josh (#12), Haus (#16), Harry (#19), Seven (#20)

 

 

Bambi tells the story of a young deer growing up in the forest with his animal friends.

 

It was nominated for three Oscars in Best Sound Recording, Best Original Score for a Comedy or Dramatic Picture and best Original Song for "Love is a Song" but didn't win any. It actually lost the Best Song award to White Christmas by Bing Crosby.

 

This is one of my absolute favourite animated films, it is really special in my opinion so I'm pleased it's done quite well in terms of the Disney animated classics here. It features one of the greatest villains of all time (it makes mankind seem absolutely terrifying), some of the saddest scenes ever (Bambi's mother's death :cry:) and one of the best ever scores imo (the music instils so much dread and fear in my body in the scenes where mankind are about and the wildlife is in danger).