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Last film added: July 4, 2010. There are currently 937 films in the database (since 1997).


    Animated Films

    Search returned all movies with animation out of 937 total rated films.
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  1. Movie DetailsAmazing Screw-On Head, The (2006) 10  AnimationComedyHorrorObscureSuperheroTVDVD
    A TV pilot featuring Emperor Zombie and Lincoln. Any last words before I spark it?
  2. Movie DetailsCollected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer, The (2005) 10  AnimationHorrorObscureDVD
    An excellent retrospective of surreal, unsettling films from the Czech animator, dating 1965 to 1992.
  3. Movie DetailsEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 10  AnimationMind-blowingSci-FiDVD
    Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories.
  4. Movie DetailsFantastic Mr. Fox (2009) 10  AnimationComedy
    A brilliant adaptation by Wes Anderson of the classic Roald Dahl book. Fantastic stop-motion animation.
  5. Movie DetailsPersepolis (2007) 10  AnimationSuperheroTrue
    Autobiographical, cinematic graphic novel of a young outspoken girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.
  6. Movie DetailsScanner Darkly, A (2006) 10  AnimationMind-blowingSci-Fi
    Richard Linklater, Philip K. Dick, Keanu Reeves, Radiohead, and interpolated rotoscoping animation. Brilliant.
  7. Movie DetailsSouth Park - Imaginationland (2007) 10  AnimationComedyFantasyTV
    Epic three-part story arc from season 11 released as a standalone movie. The best ever.
  8. Movie DetailsSpirited Away (2001) 10  AnimationFantasyDVD
    Miyazaki animates an alternate nighttime universe of Japanese gods and spirits.
  9. Movie DetailsTriplets of Belleville, The (2003) 10  AnimationComedySport
    Visually unique animation about a Tour de France kidnapping and the bizarre rescue effort.
  10. Movie DetailsWaltz with Bashir (2008) 10  AnimationSexualTrue
    Stunning. Folman interviews Israeli veterans of the 1982 Lebanon invasion to reconstruct his own memories.

  11. EXCELLENT
  12. Movie DetailsAnimation Show, The (2003) 9  AnimationComedyFantasyObscureSci-FiDVD
    A collection of short films (mostly comedy) put together by Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt.
  13. Movie DetailsAnimation Show 2005, The (2005) 9  AnimationComedyFantasyObscureSci-FiDVD
    Don Hertzfeldt, Bill Plympton, and other animators return in this second collection of excellent shorts.
  14. Movie DetailsAnimation Show 2007, The (2007) 9  AnimationComedyFantasyObscureDVD
    The touring festival's third anthology of animated shorts collected by Don Hertzfeldt and Mike Judge.
  15. Movie DetailsAvatar (2009) 9  AnimationSci-Fi
    Cameron delivers a forbidden love story set in an extraordinary, photorealistic alien world. 3D wonderment.
  16. Movie DetailsChicken Run (2000) 9  AnimationComedy
    Aardman Animations presents a comedy escape drama on a sinister chicken farm in 1950s England.
  17. Movie DetailsCoraline (2009) 9  AnimationFantasy
    A secret door reveals a young girl's alternate, button-eyed life. Fantastic experience in RealD 3D.
  18. Movie DetailsFinding Nemo (2003) 9  AnimationComedy
    Pixar Animation presents a father-son underwater adventure featuring Nemo, an adventurous boy clownfish.
  19. Movie DetailsFrisky Dingo - Seasons 1 and 2 (2008) 9  AnimationComedySci-FiTV
    A supervillain named Killface plans to destroy humanity using the Annihilatrix. Clever and often hilarious.
  20. Movie DetailsIncredible Adventures of Wallace & Gromit, The (2001) 9  AnimationComedy
    Aardman Animations presents the first three Wallace & Gromit short films. Cracking toast, Gromit!
  21. Movie DetailsIncredibles, The (2004) 9  AnimationComedySci-FiSuperhero
    Pixar Animation presents a family of undercover superheroes forced into action to save the world.
  22. Movie DetailsLittle Otik (2001) 9  AnimationComedyFantasyHorrorObscure
    A fantastically disturbing Czech fairytale about parenthood. It's conventionally structured for a Svankmajer film.
  23. Movie DetailsMillennium Actress (2001) 9  AnimationComedyFantasyObscure
    This animated epic blurs the distinction between film, history, and memory. There are many truths.
  24. Movie DetailsPaprika (2007) 9  AnimationFantasyMind-blowingSci-FiSexual
    An insane anime that blurs the separation between reality, dreams, memory, cinema and the Internet.
  25. Movie DetailsPrincess Mononoke (1997) 9  AnimationFantasy
    Miyazaki presents a mythological tale of civilization encroaching on the beast gods of the forest.
  26. Movie DetailsRun Lola Run (1998) 9  AnimationDVD
    A kinetic race against the clock in which small decisions domino into riches, or death.
  27. Movie DetailsScience of Sleep, The (2006) 9  AnimationComedyFantasySexual
    A charming hyperactive blur of cellophane-animated fantasy and reality. Surreal and inventive, but not profound.
  28. Movie DetailsSouth Park - The Complete 11 Seasons (2007) 9  AnimationComedyFantasyTV
    The misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.
  29. Movie DetailsWaking Life (2001) 9  AnimationFantasyMind-blowing
    Richard Linklater presents a uniquely animated universe that explores dream life and real life.
  30. Movie DetailsWallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) 9  AnimationComedySci-Fi
    Aardman Animation's full-length feature of the claymation duo. Giant vegetables are protected by security systems.
  31. Movie DetailsWALL-E (2008) 9  AnimationComedySci-Fi
    Humans have left Earth, but a charming, curious robot is still cleaning up our mess.

  32. VERY GOOD
  33. Movie DetailsBug's Life, A (1998) 8  AnimationComedy
    A misfit ant, looking to save his colony from grasshoppers, recruits some inept circus bugs.
  34. Movie DetailsCars (2006) 8  AnimationComedySport
    Pixar presents hotshot rookie racecar Lightning McQueen, who crashes through Radiator Springs on Route 66.
  35. Movie DetailsCorpse Bride (2005) 8  AnimationComedyFantasyMusical
    Tim Burton presents a shy groom whisked into the underworld after inadvertently marrying the dead.
  36. Movie DetailsIron Giant, The (1999) 8  AnimationSci-Fi
    A boy makes friends with a giant alien robot that the government wants to destroy.
  37. Movie DetailsMonsters, Inc. (2001) 8  AnimationComedyFantasy
    Pixar presents a bunch of scary monsters who are afraid of being contaminated by children.
  38. Movie DetailsRobot Chicken - Seasons 1-3 (2007) 8  AnimationComedyFantasyTV
    Demented stop-motion animation using action figures and toys. These sketch-comedy vignettes skewer pop culture.
  39. Movie DetailsShrek (2001) 8  AnimationComedyFantasy
    No, not my buttons! Not my gumdrop buttons.
  40. Movie DetailsShrek 2 (2004) 8  AnimationComedyFantasy
    Well, folks, it looks like we're up chocolate creek without a Popsicle stick.
  41. Movie DetailsTeam America: World Police (2004) 8  AnimationComedyMusical
    Subversive political satire, with explicit puppet sex. You are worthress, Arec Barrwin. America! Fuck, yeah!
  42. Movie DetailsTokyo Godfathers (2003) 8  AnimationComedyObscure
    An animated Christmas story set in Tokyo featuring an unlikely trio of homeless friends.
  43. Movie DetailsToy Story 2 (1999) 8  AnimationComedyFantasy
    All right, nobody look till I get my cork back in.
  44. Movie DetailsVenture Bros. - Seasons One and Two, The (2006) 8  AnimationComedySci-FiTV
    The warped misadventures of a middle-aged mad scientist, his teenage sons, and their maniac bodyguard.

  45. GOOD
  46. Movie Details9 (2009) 7  AnimationFantasySci-Fi
    A visually stunning, steampunk world inhabited by robot rag dolls. Ending is weak, plot underdeveloped.
  47. Movie DetailsAnimatrix, The (2003) 7  AnimationSci-Fi
    An anthology of nine short anime films detailing the backstory of the Matrix.
  48. Movie DetailsAntz (1998) 7  AnimationComedyFantasy
    Woody Allen is a neurotic ant who has become disenfranchised from his totalitarian colony.
  49. Movie DetailsBeavis and Butt-Head Do America (1997) 7  AnimationComedyTV
    Beavis and Butt-Head visit Vegas, the Grand Canyon, and the White House. I am Cornholio!
  50. Movie DetailsBerserk - The Complete Collection (2002) 7  AnimationFantasyHorrorObscureTV
    Anime about young warrior Guts and the mercenary company called the Band of the Hawk.
  51. Movie DetailsBest of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, The (2005) 7  AnimationFantasySci-FiTVDVD
    My childhood memories, now on DVD. A first-rate reMASTERing of this moralizing homoerotic 1980s toy-advert.
  52. Movie DetailsChronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury, The (2004) 7  AnimationObscureSci-Fi
    Peter Chung's animated short film bridges the Riddick story between Pitch Black and The Chronicles.
  53. Movie DetailsCollection of 2005 Academy Award Nominated Short Films, A (2006) 7  AnimationComedyObscureSci-FiSexual
    Death abounds. I enjoyed Six Shooter and Jasper Morello. Hated the Moon and the Son.
  54. Movie DetailsCowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001) 7  AnimationComedySci-FiTV
    On Mars in the year 2071, the Bebop crew tries to contain a deadly virus.
  55. Movie DetailsHercules (1997) 7  AnimationComedyMusical
    Disney movie about the son of Zeus who becomes a hero to reclaim his immortality.
  56. Movie DetailsIce Age (2002) 7  AnimationComedy
    An animated saber-toothed tiger, sloth, wooly mammoth, and saber-toothed squirrel discover a lost human infant.
  57. Movie DetailsLilo & Stitch (2002) 7  AnimationComedySci-Fi
    A Hawaiian girl adopts an unusual pet who is actually a notorious extraterrestrial fugitive.
  58. Movie DetailsMulan (1998) 7  AnimationComedyMusical
    A girl secretly joins the Chinese army disguised as a man and becomes a hero.
  59. Movie DetailsPiano Tuner of Earthquakes, The (2006) 7  AnimationHorrorMusicalObscureSexual
    The Brothers Quay present a dark fairytale about a diabolical doctor and beautiful opera singer.
  60. Movie DetailsSouth Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999) 7  AnimationComedyMusicalTV
    I'm sorry I can't help myself. That movie has warped my fragile little mind.
  61. Movie DetailsSteamboy (2005) 7  AnimationSci-Fi
    In 1860s Britain, a boy inventor becomes involved in a revolution of steam power technology.

  62. FAIR
  63. Movie DetailsBeowulf (2007) 6  AnimationFantasy
    I am Beowulf! My lips don't move right and my eyes are dead. Corny, unsatisfying.
  64. Movie DetailsBlood: The Last Vampire (2001) 6  AnimationHorrorObscure
    A vampire horror anime set in 1966 on a U.S. Air Force base in Japan.
  65. Movie DetailsBolt (2008) 6  AnimationComedyFantasy
    A lovable cartoon dog movie. Plus, Miley Cyrus sounds like she drinks whiskey every night.
  66. Movie DetailsDante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010) 6  AnimationHorrorObscureSexual
    Animatrix-style companion to EA's video game. Dante enters the nine circles of hell, battles demons.
  67. Movie DetailsFinal Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005) 6  AnimationFantasySci-Fi
    Beautifully rendered CGI could not hold my interest. For Final Fantasy video game fans only.
  68. Movie DetailsImagination (2007) 6  AnimationFantasyObscure
    Eric Leiser's surreal experiment with puppetry, stop-motion sketches, and claymation. And unconvincing actors.
  69. Movie DetailsRevolver (2007) 6  AnimationSexualSport
    This stylish Guy Ritchie art film about con-men feels jumbled, pretentious and psychoanalytical. But intriguing.
  70. Movie DetailsSmall Soldiers (1998) 6  AnimationComedyFantasySci-Fi
    When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys go to war.

  71. ADEQUATE
  72. Movie DetailsHalo Legends (2010) 5  AnimationObscureSci-Fi
    Collection of seven Halo stories. Starts out heavy-handedly and badly animated, but eventually gets better.
  73. Movie DetailsSaiyûki Vol. 1: The Journey Begins (2003) 5  AnimationFantasyObscureTV
    A Dragonball Z-like anime adventure of four heroes traveling West to confront a powerful demon.
  74. Movie DetailsSpeed Racer (2008) 5  AnimationSport
    A hyperfrenetic explosion of sound and color in the form of Car-Fu. It's marginally watchable.
  75. Movie DetailsTitan A.E. (2000) 5  AnimationSci-Fi
    In 3028, cartoon Earth prepares for an attack by the Drej, a vicious alien race.


  76. Statistical ratings distribution of these 70 films (7.5% of total rated films):
    With enough films included, it usually approximates a bell curve with a mean near 6.5...
    (especially when considering that CRAP is 0-4 combined).
    Average rating for these 70 films: 7.9.

    10:14.3%

    9:28.6%

    8:17.1%

    7:22.9%

    6:11.4%

    5:5.7%

    CRAP:0%



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