Animation is not exactly a genre but a medium, so my favorites list here contains movies of varying genres that happened to be made animated. Some are appropriate for all ages but others are not. Some are science fiction epics, others are only slice of life films that happened to be made animated.
Animation allows much greater freedom than live action since in animation anything is possible: you just have to imagine and drawn it. For this reason animation is the ideal medium for fantasy and science fiction and today the big budget hollywood genre movies are a mix between animation and live action (such as Pirates of the Caribbean, The Avengers, Captain Sky, The Star Wars Prequels and, specially, Avatar, which is properly called an animation movie with live action elements), though they call it "special effects".
After I first watched Spirited Away I had an epiphany and really began to watch animation in general and anime in particular. Anyway, here at the 50 best animated films (including three half an hour short films) that I have watched in order of approximate preference.
I have included Russian, French, Italian, Japanese, Canadian, American and British films in this list, I advise for all to try to watch these movies in their original language, even though they are all dubbed the original dubbing preserves the true intentions of the director when the film was made and hence watching it in the original language is always the best way.
Animation allows much greater freedom than live action since in animation anything is possible: you just have to imagine and drawn it. For this reason animation is the ideal medium for fantasy and science fiction and today the big budget hollywood genre movies are a mix between animation and live action (such as Pirates of the Caribbean, The Avengers, Captain Sky, The Star Wars Prequels and, specially, Avatar, which is properly called an animation movie with live action elements), though they call it "special effects".
After I first watched Spirited Away I had an epiphany and really began to watch animation in general and anime in particular. Anyway, here at the 50 best animated films (including three half an hour short films) that I have watched in order of approximate preference.
I have included Russian, French, Italian, Japanese, Canadian, American and British films in this list, I advise for all to try to watch these movies in their original language, even though they are all dubbed the original dubbing preserves the true intentions of the director when the film was made and hence watching it in the original language is always the best way.
Last edited by Guaporense; 03-10-13 at 07:45 PM.