Favorite Animated Movie (all forms of animation can be used)

[LynneSin]

Without a doubt my favorite has to be Chicken Run



First, I love the Clay Animatronics of Nick Park (of Wallace & Gromit fan) but even moreso I just love the story of the Chickens trying to learn to fly so they can escape being made into Chicken Pot Pie. It was a true story of the little people sticking it to the big guys. Even the voices were well combined, Ginger (our heroine) had the sound of determination and hope and Rocky (voiced by Mel Gibson) truly came off as a schmoozing schmuck who in the end does good.

I could watch this move over and over I just love it so much and to be honest, I would love to see a Chicken Run II (and many times sequels scare me).

What is your favorite animated movie?

[ohiosmith]

1. Bambi Meets Godzilla.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3634309875781837645

[Wetzelbill]

2. The Fox and The Hound

:)

[The2ndWheel]

31. Thank you

I'm always amazed at how many people I know that don't know about it.

[Wetzelbill]

46. oh it is awesome

:)

[malta blue]

3. Finding Nemo

I just love that movie.

[southpaw]

4. A Bug's Life

[BlueIris]

5. Toss up between Fantasia, the Aristocats, and Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

The Disney animated version of "Hollow" from the '40s, that is. I love that, nasty cultural and ethnic stereotypes and all. It's veritably impossible to find on video anywhere, let alone DVD right now, and that kills me.

[BlueIris]

15. And perhaps I am wrong about unavilability...

I both love and hate telling about this, because some people (read: dorky, ankle-biting Hollywood Video clerks) don't know WTF I'm talking about, and some people get it and can "bond" with me. But I hate the know-nothings. They make me feel so old and alone.

"Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is an awesome, scary shortish animated feature put out by Disney in 1949. More on that--some trivia I just discovered--here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041094/trivia

They used to air "Legend" on TV all the time in the '80s, when I was but a wee child. In my area, it was mostly on PBS. I really adore that movie; it's one of the only legitimately scary animated features I can think of. I watched it again in 2001 and it scared the beejesus out of me (seriously). But I almost didn't get to watch it in 2001 (on Halloween night) because I couldn't FIND it anywhere. In my city, a suburb in Oregon, in the '80s, I used to rent it from a video store in one of our malls that rented out a VHS copy of a tape with four Halloween-themed Disney films on it. I would make my parents get that tape for me over and over again. It never occurred to them to buy it for me because, well, they were assholes. Anyway, I drove around and around in 2001 trying to find that tape, and instead, kept finding one which appeared to be a recombination of the "Legend" story and something related to the "Wind and the Willows." I kept insisting that this wasn't what I was looking for to half a dozen video store clerks, and they kept telling me it was all they had. Eventually, at one of the video places in the city I was living in at that time, a different video turned up that appeared to be what I wanted ("Legend" and some other Disney stuff, by themselves) and I took it home and watched it and it was! Phew. But that experienced left me convinced that it was impossible to rent anything that had "Legend" as a stand alone on it, either DVD, video, or both. Perhaps I was wrong.

(runs off to get dressed and go video-store hopping)

[datasuspect]

6. heavy metal

or the ralph bakshi cartoon about the kid who wanted to be a rock star (forgot what it was called).

[southpaw]

19. American Pop?

[datasuspect]

30. yes, awesome cartoon

thanks, now i will try to snag it from file sharing.

[Fountain79]

7. Monsters Inc...

It was funny and that little girl was just adorable...

[Divameow77]

10. She was absolutely adorable

if kids were really like that I might have more

[Fountain79]

14. I have cousins with kids like that....

as a childless bachelor it's definitely one of those moments when I go...awwww....until they need to be changed. Gotta love other people's kids!

[Divameow77]

21. I have 2 boys that

couldn't be any different then that precious little girl, but still love em.

[LanternWaste]

8. I'm going with Watership Down

I'm going with Watership Down. The film is almost as good as the novel. Really pastoral backscapes with vivid colors. Nicely done voiceovers. Beautiful animations. I'm gushing-- so sorry, but it *is* a movie I'd recommend to anyone.

[grannylib]

9. Tie between Yellow Submarine and Nightmare before Christmas.

[ceile]

11. The Jungle Book

I saw it as a kid and when my mom gave me the video for xmas when I was 16, I cried. I love it that much!!!

[Divameow77]

12. Spirited Away

and Beauty and the Beast will always have a special place in my heart.

[yellowdogintexas]

41. Spirited Away is just the best ever...Aladdin is prob my second

favorite:

also rans:

Fantasia I & II
Beauty & the Beast
Howl's Moving Castle
Porco Rosso

[MiniMandaRuth]

13. Iron Giant, Spirited Away, or Grave of the Fireflies...

[sakabatou]

16. I don't have a favorite

But one is Castle of Cagliostro (sp.)

[seemunkee]

17. Totoro or Fantasia

I love the gentleness and silliness of Totoro.
The Night on Bald Mountain segment of Fantasia is one of the greatest pieces of animation ever.

[begin_within]

18. The Land Before Time, Charlotte's Web (1973), Fritz The Cat, Fantasia, and

all the claymation films of Will Vinton ("Closed Mondays," etc.) combined into one feature film, would be equal to "Fantasia." Honorable mention: Yellow Submarine

[nosillies]

20. I totally agree with Watership Down

The book freaked me out as a kid, but the movie wasn't quite so scary.

I really vote for Pete's Dragon. Does it count, as it's only partial animation?

[NV Whino]

22. I can't remember the proper title of this little film, but

it was French and called the Bicyclist, maybe or the Bicycle Race--anybody set me straight on the title? Beautifully done contemporary animation with a great story.

[LynneSin]

23. It was nominated for an Oscar a few years ago didn't it

Triplets of Belliville I think it is

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286244/

[NV Whino]

26. Yes! That's the one

Loved it.

[nykiera]

24. Nausicaa

Of The Valley Of The Wind.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

25. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut

(Although When the Wind Blows is the greatest.)

[Sequoia]

27. Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer.

[koneko]

43. I second that

[rug]

28. You just like Mel Gibson.

[Arkham House]

29. Dark Crystal

Does Jim Henson count? Anyway--Dark Crystal is one of the most underrated movies ever made...really magical...

[Mutley]

39. Another of my favorites.

I have got to watch some of these movies again. :D

[qnr]

32. I don't have a favorite. Recently, I enjoyed Hoodwinked. n/t

[Guava Jelly]

33. Wizards 1977

Director/Screenplay/Producer - Ralph Bakshi, Music - Andrew Belling. Production Company - Bakshi Productions.
Voices:
Bob Holt (Avatar), Jesse Wells (Elinore), Richard Romanus (Weehawk), Stephen Gravers (Blackwolf), David Proval (Peace/Magnus 99), Mark Hamill (Sean), Peter Hobbs (The General), Susan Tyrrell (Narrator)
http://www.moria.co.nz/fantasy/wizards.htm
Plot: It is some two million years after the Earth has been devastated by a nuclear holocaust and the radiation has caused races of elves, dwarves and fairies to mutate. In the elvish kingdom of Morganthar, a queen gives birth to two sons who are psychic opposites of one another - the charming Avatar and the vile Blackwolf. Both become powerful wizards. Avatar becomes the ruler of Morganthar, but Blackwolf reviles his name and chooses self-exile in the kingdom of Scortch, a nuclear wasteland. There he rallies the mutants and demons of the underworld under him, however they lack the volition and unison to be an army. But after researching into history, Blackwolf discovers all about weapons of war and finds that he can bring together the troops around old film footage of Adolf Hitler.

[u4ic]

34. Chicken Run is my favourite, too

:bounce:

for animated shorts,
The Big Snit http://youtube.com/watch?v=lRugGTtG5Gw
and
The Cat Came Back http://youtube.com/watch?v=uZYp_pt_DSQ

[jobycom]

35. Mulan.

[mainegreen]

36. The last unicorn.

A child of the 80's? Yes!

[Mutley]

38. Man, I forgot about that movie.

That was one of my favorites when I was growing up.

[iamjoy]

44. I Remember That!

It was when unicorns were all the rage.
didn't the group America do the soundtrack for the movie?

[Mutley]

37. Secret of the NIMH.

[mac56]

40. "The Iron Giant".

[Broken_Hero]

42. currently

Transformers The Movie...its hard to beat...

[WCGreen]

45. American Pop.....

It was real and surreal at the same time, tracing the evolution of American popular music from the Jewish New York Ghetto's full circle back to the same Ghetto's in the 1980's...

It was marvelous....

[ghostsofgiants]

47. Waking Life

[Throd]

48. Heavy Metal