
Best Animation Movies
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1.
Flushed Away
(2006)
The story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of London, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life. (85 mins.)
Director: David Bowers, Sam Fell
2.
Despicable Me
(2010)
When a criminal mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme, he finds their love is profoundly changing him for the better. (95 mins.)
Director: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
3.
Despicable Me 2
(2013)
Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a powerful new super criminal. (98 mins.)
Director: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
4.
Finding Nemo
(2003)
After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home. (100 mins.)
Director: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
5.
Monsters, Inc.
(2001)
Monsters generate their city's power by scaring children, but they are terribly afraid themselves of being contaminated by children, so when one enters Monstropolis, top scarer Sulley finds his world disrupted. (92 mins.)
Director: Pete Docter, David Silverman
6.
Sleeping Beauty
(1959)
A snubbed malevolent fairy casts a curse on a princess that only a prince can break, with the help of three good fairies. (75 mins.)
Director: Clyde Geronimi
7.
Peter Pan
(1953)
Wendy and her brothers are whisked away to the magical world of Neverland with the hero of their stories, Peter Pan. (77 mins.)
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson
8.
Ratatouille
(2007)
With dreams of becoming a chef, a culinary genius in the form of a rat, makes an unusual alliance with a young kitchen worker at a famed restaurant. (111 mins.)
Director: Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava
9.
The Little Mermaid
(1989)
A mermaid princess makes a faustian bargain with an unscrupulous seahag in order to meet a human prince on land. (83 mins.)
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
10.
Shrek
(2001)
An ogre, in order to regain his swamp, travels along with an annoying donkey in order to bring a princess to a scheming lord, wishing himself King. (90 mins.)
Director: Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson
11.
The Jungle Book
(1967)
Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization. (78 mins.)
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
12.
The Jungle Book 2
(2003)
Mowgli, missing the jungle and his old friends, runs away from the man village unaware of the danger he's in by going back to the wild. (72 mins.)
Director: Steve Trenbirth
13.
The Lion King
(1994)
Tricked into thinking he killed his father, a guilt ridden lion cub flees into exile and abandons his identity as the future King. (89 mins.)
Director: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
14.
The Incredibles
(2004)
A family of undercover superheroes, while trying to live the quiet suburban life, are forced into action to save the world. (115 mins.)
Director: Brad Bird
15.
Ice Age
(2002)
Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe. (81 mins.)
Director: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha
16.
Pinocchio
(1940)
A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy. (88 mins.)
Director: Norman Ferguson, T. Hee
17.
Madagascar
(2005)
Spoiled by their upbringing with no idea what wild life is really like, four animals from New York Central Zoo escape, unwittingly assisted by four absconding penguins, and find themselves in Madagascar, among a bunch of merry lemurs (86 mins.)
Director: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath
18.
Bolt
(2008)
The canine star of a fictional sci-fi/action show that believes his powers are real embarks on a cross country trek to save his co-star from a threat he believes is just as real. (96 mins.)
Director: Byron Howard, Chris Williams
19.
Brave
(2012)
Determined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her bravery and her archery skills to undo a beastly curse. (93 mins.)
Director: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman
20.
Horton Hears a Who!
(2008)
Horton the Elephant struggles to protect a microscopic community from his neighbors who refuse to believe it exists. (86 mins.)
Director: Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino
21.
Over the Hedge
(2006)
A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating...and learns a lesson about family himself. (83 mins.)
Director: Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick
22.
The Wild
(2006)
An adolescent lion is accidentally shipped from the New York Zoo to Africa. Now running free, his zoo pals must put aside their differences to help bring him back. (94 mins.)
Director: Steve 'Spaz' Williams
23.
Fantasia
(1940)
A collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music. (125 mins.)
24.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
(1937)
Snow White, pursued by a jealous queen, hides with the Dwarfs; the queen feeds her a poison apple, but Prince Charming awakens her with a kiss. (83 mins.)
Director: William Cottrell, David Hand
25.
101 Dalmatians
(1961)
When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement. (79 mins.)
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton S. Luske
26.
The Sword in the Stone
(1963)
Merlin the Magician teaches a young boy who is destined to be King Arthur. (79 mins.)
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
27.
Robin Hood
(1973)
The story of the legendary outlaw is portrayed with the characters as humanoid animals. (83 mins.)
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
28.
Aladdin
(1992)
Aladdin, a street urchin, accidentally meets Princess Jasmine, who is in the city undercover. They love each other, but she can only marry a prince. (90 mins.)
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
29.
Beauty and the Beast
(1991)
Belle, whose father is imprisoned by the Beast, offers herself instead and discovers her captor to be an enchanted prince. (84 mins.)
Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
30.
Cinderella
(1950)
When Cinderella's cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the Royal Ball, she gets some unexpected help from the lovable mice Gus and Jaq, and from her Fairy Godmother. (74 mins.)
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson
31.
Lady and the Tramp
(1955)
The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt. (76 mins.)
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson
32.
Mulan
(1998)
To save her father from death in the army, a Chinese maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroes in the process. (88 mins.)
Director: Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook
33.
Bambi
(1942)
Animated film about a young deer, Bambi, growing up in the wild after his mother is shot by hunters. (70 mins.)
Director: James Algar, Sam Armstrong
34.
Alice in Wonderland
(1951)
Alice stumbles into the world of Wonderland. Will she get home? Not if the Queen of Hearts has her way. (75 mins.)
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson
35.
The AristoCats
(1970)
With the help of a smooth talking tomcat, a family of Parisian felines set to inherit a fortune from their owner try to make it back home after a jealous butler kidnaps them and leaves them in the country. (78 mins.)
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
36.
The Rescuers
(1977)
Two mice of the Rescue Aid Society search for a little girl kidnapped by unscrupulous treasure hunters. (78 mins.)
Director: John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman
37.
Pocahontas
(1995)
The daughter of a Native American tribe chief and English soldier share a romance when English colonists invade 17th century Virginia. (81 mins.)
Director: Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg
38.
The Princess and the Frog
(2009)
A fairy tale set in Jazz Age-era New Orleans and centered on a young woman named Tiana and her fateful kiss with a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again. (97 mins.)
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
39.
Hotel Transylvania
(2012)
Dracula, who operates a high-end resort away from the human world, goes into overprotective mode when a boy discovers the resort and falls for the count's teen-aged daughter. (91 mins.)
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
40.
How to Train Your Dragon
(2010)
A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed. (98 mins.)
Director: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders




























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