100 Best-Reviewed Animated Films

Guess the 100 best-reviewed animated films of all time, as of February 2014.

According to rottentomatoes.com

Includes a few that are not feature length films.

Partially animated live-action films are not included.

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%	Year	Movie
100%	1999	Toy Story 2
100%	1995	Toy Story
100%	1940	Pinocchio
100%	2008	Sita Sings the Blues
100%	1993	Wallace and Gromit in the Wrong Trousers
100%	1989	Kiki's Delivery Service
100%	1965	How the Grinch Stole Christmas
99%	2010	Toy Story 3
99%	2003	Finding Nemo
98%	2009	Up
98%	2010	How to Train Your Dragon
98%	1937	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
97%	2004	The Incredibles
97%	2001	Spirited Away
97%	2000	Chicken Run
97%	1999	The Iron Giant
97%	1961	101 Dalmatians
97%	1941	Dumbo
97%	1988	Grave of the Fireflies
97%	1950	Cinderella
96%	2008	WALL-E
96%	2007	Ratatouille
96%	2001	Monsters, Inc.
96%	2007	Persepolis
96%	2008	Waltz with Bashir
96%	1940	Fantasia
96%	2012	Yellow Submarine
96%	1998	Kirikou and the Sorceress
95%	2005	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
95%	2014	The Lego Movie
95%	1998	Antz
95%	2009	Mary and Max
95%	1982	The Secret of NIMH
94%	2003	The Triplets of Belleville
94%	2012	The Secret World of Arrietty
94%	1993	The Nightmare Before Christmas
94%	1992	Aladdin
94%	1996	Ghost in the Shell
93%	2009	Fantastic Mr. Fox
93%	1991	Beauty and the Beast
93%	1999	Princess Mononoke
93%	2009	James and the Giant Peach
92%	2008	Ponyo
92%	1998	A Bug's Life
92%	1989	The Little Mermaid
92%	2001	Millennium Actress
92%	1988	My Neighbor Totoro
91%	2011	Arthur Christmas
91%	2009	The Secret of Kells
91%	1942	Bambi

%	Year	Movie
91%	1959	Sleeping Beauty
90%	2009	Coraline
90%	2007	The Simpsons Movie
90%	2011	Winnie the Pooh
90%	2010	The Illusionist
90%	1994	The Lion King
90%	2009	My Dog Tulip
89%	2004	Shrek 2
89%	2010	Tangled
89%	2013	Frozen
89%	2003	Tokyo Godfathers
89%	1955	Lady and the Tramp
88%	2011	Rango
88%	2001	Shrek
88%	2008	Bolt
88%	1999	Tarzan
88%	1973	Fantastic Planet
87%	2012	Frankenweenie
87%	2008	Kung Fu Panda
87%	2012	ParaNorman
87%	2004	Howl's Moving Castle
87%	2009	Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
87%	2001	Metropolis
87%	1988	Akira
86%	2012	Wreck-it Ralph
86%	2003	Lilo & Stitch
86%	2012	The Pirates! Band of Misfits
86%	1998	Mulan
86%	2012	Chico & Rita
86%	1997	Anastasia
86%	2003	The Animation Show
86%	1967	The Jungle Book
85%	2000	The Emperor's New Groove
85%	2011	A Monster in Paris
85%	2013	An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
84%	2011	Puss in Boots
84%	1997	Hercules
83%	2005	Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
83%	2009	The Princess and the Frog
83%	2006	Paprika
83%	2013	From Up On Poppy Hill
83%	1977	The Rescuers
82%	1999	Fantasia 2000
82%	2009	A Town Called Panic
81%	2010	Despicable Me
81%	2011	Kung Fu Panda 2
81%	1999	South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
81%	2012	A Cat in Paris
81%	2006	Azur & Amar: The Prince's Quest
81%	1978	Watership Down

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97 Comments

Level 81

Feb 5, 2014

An honor to be featured on the front page again, as always.

A note about some differences with the list at RT.com: several films at RT.com are tagged incorrectly as animation. I deleted those films. (The Wizard of Oz, Mask, Deep Sea 3D, The Warrior) Special thanks to the users who brought my attention to the errors. I had your names written down but can't find the paper now. I also removed Roger Rabbit and Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? to avoid confusion and nit-picking as these films are only partially animated. The list that remains should satisfy most. And on the bright side deleting these entries made room for South Park (the main reason I stretched this to 100 films originally) and fan favorite Watership Down.

A note about rankings: RT.com's tomatometer is binary. A review is either positive or negative. It's not like Metacritic. So a film with 30 pretty good reviews and 0 bad (100%) will be ranked above a film with 90 excellent reviews and 10 middling ones (90%).

Level 81

Feb 28, 2014

Rottentomatoes just completely changed the way they do their top films lists. There appear to be two major alterations that affect the lists in significant ways.

One, they are now using "adjusted scores" rather than the regular tomatometer score. I don't understand how this works, but somehow it puts The Lego Movie (96% fresh with 167 reviews) over Toy Story 2 (100% fresh with 163 reviews). No idea how that works.

Two, they doubled the threshold for the number of reviews needed to make the list from 20 to 40. This eliminates many older and more obscure films since you just can't find that many reviews for them.

It looks like they finally fixed the incorrect tagging of most of the films, though they still somehow overlooked The Warrior.

On the plus side Brave and The Prince of Egypt are now in the list. On the down side so are Happy Feet, Surf's Up, and some other turds; and some very deserving films with fewer than 40 reviews got kicked off.

Level 81

Feb 28, 2014

This will probably be the final iteration of this quiz. I don't think I'm going to update it to reflect RT's new and confusing methodology, I prefer the quiz the way it is now.

Level 91

Mar 3, 2014

Excellent quiz, Kalba. Every quiz is a snapshot in time and can't be continuously updated, but I think you picked a very good time to cut it off, with 2 new entries just making the list in the last few months.

Level 69

Mar 30, 2019

I'd be willing to take a stab at it, if only to see Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse on here :-) But seriously, animated films are just getting better and better; soon this will look less out of date and more like a history book!

Level 81

Mar 30, 2019

I may revisit this at some point. Though... if I do... I think I will try to find a different criteria than Rotten Tomatoes. I'm losing more and more faith in that site with each passing year.

Level 53

Aug 15, 2015

I don't know how RT tags it, but Interstella 5555 is *fully animated* and has a score of 86%. And it's awesome.

Level 81

Aug 16, 2015

The reason it doesn't show up is because there are only 7 counted reviews on RottenTomatoes. I forget the minimum threshold for showing up on this list but it was something like 20 or 30 reviews I think.

Level 21

Oct 19, 2018

The Lego Movie is partially animated. Should not count.

Level 81

Oct 19, 2018

The Lego Movie is a partially live action animated movie. Mary Poppins is a partially animated live action movie.

Level 89

Dec 6, 2018

Spongebob Squarepants was an animated movie with a live sponge and David Hasselhoff.

Level 44

Feb 8, 2014

Great Quiz! But can you please accept more answers for 'An Oversimplification of her beauty' as in allow things like AOSOHB

Level 81

Feb 8, 2014

I can't imagine too many people would try entering that as the answer but I guess I could add that... glad you enjoyed the quiz.

Level 81

Feb 15, 2014

And here's where I suggest a few quizzes I've done with a similar theme. Hope you like them.

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Level 76

Feb 15, 2014

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) is NOT an animated film. Also, perhaps you should mention that theatrical shorts as well as TV productions are included. I almost missed a few because I started out guessing only feature films.

Level 81

Feb 15, 2014

oh man... another one. :P Have to reset the scores again. Thanks for catching that. I thought I had eliminated all of the mis-tagged ones already (there were several)... 20,000 Leagues slipped under the radar because there actually are multiple animated versions of the story. However, you are right, the one that is 89% fresh is the live action Disney film made in 1954. Someone at RottenTomatoes probably saw "Disney" and just assumed it was animation without even looking twice. Oh well. On the plus side this makes space again for Watership Down.

I DID have a disclaimer that the quiz included some shorts. I must have deleted that when I updated the caveats to say that I had removed the partially animated ones. (It used to say that there were some partially animated movies included, too) I'll put the disclaimer back.

Level 19

Feb 15, 2014

41/100, it wasn't thaaaat bad.

Level 68

Nov 10, 2022

42. I was slightly disappointed. Interesting quiz, thanks.

Level 60

Feb 17, 2014

Can't believe I forgot anime. Ah well.

Level 67

Apr 16, 2014

Same here. Obviously I am more North-America focussed than I realized. Shame on me.

Level 81

Feb 21, 2014

If anyone's wondering why A Grand Day Out and A Close Shave are not on here, it's because both have collected fewer than 20 reviews at RT.com.

Level 83

Oct 21, 2015

That's sad. I would give them both 100%.

Level 67

Apr 16, 2014

Excellent quiz, really streches your memory! I got only 39 but apparently that's rather good. I'm mostly happy with myself that I got pretty much all the ones I have seen, and even several I haven't. Can't believe I missed classics like Dumbo, Bambi and Fantasia though. I wish you would accept just Kirikou for Kirikou and the sorceress (because thats what I typed and I was surprised it wasn't there), but I just hecked on IMDB and learned several Kirikou movies have actually been made. Darn,

Level 54

May 16, 2014

Isn't the first part of James and the Giant Peach live action???

Level 81

May 17, 2014

Yes and this is true for a few other films on the list as well. It was a judgment call. If it felt like an animated film that included some bits of live action, like James and the Giant Peach or the LEGO movie, then I included it. If it felt like a live action movie that included some bits of animation, like Who Framed Roger Rabbit or Mary Poppins, then I did not include it. You may disagree on my methodology (which was relying on the quiz maker's personal opinion), but hope that clears that up.

Level 91

Jul 2, 2014

James and the Giant Peach came out in 1996, not 2009. Yellow Submarine came out in 1968, not (titter) 2012. You can add those to the list as well.

Level 81

Jul 3, 2014

not sure what titter means, but thanks. I will.

Level 35

Jul 16, 2014

I felt like I was playing Guess The Disney Movie :-)

Level 81

Jun 9, 2015

There are quite a few Disney movies that don't make the cut, including Hunchback, Atlantis, Treasure Planet, Robin Hood, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, The Rescuers Down Under, The Great Mouse Detective, Brother Bear, Home on the Range, Chicken Little, and Dinosaur, among others.

And quite a few non-Disney films on here as well, including pretty much everything Pixar has done, some from the Pixar copycats, a pretty decent representation of Japanese anime, a few Nick Park or Don Bluth or Tim Burton movies, and even quite a few odd niche foreign films like Sita Sings the Blues. This is a very diverse list!

Level 87

Dec 18, 2017

I suppose Sita would be foreign to you, but the creator is actually American. Got a lot of criticism for being cultural appropriation.

Level 81

Dec 19, 2017

Ah okay. Those critics sound like morons. But I didn't know that.

Level 37

Aug 3, 2014

Surprised to see Beauty and the Beast so far down the list. It was the best-reviewed movie of the year in 1991, beating out Silence of the Lambs and JFK as I recall. It was nominated for Best Picture and pretty much turned the world on its head regarding cartoons. And now it sits below Antz, which I liked, I thought it was cute, but... consider the source, I guess.

Level 22

Aug 4, 2014

I can't belive that there are some boring cartoons but neigher The Sword In the Stone nor Castle in the Sky, nor The Wind Rises, nor The Land Before Time, nor An American Tail... etc

However this is a good quiz that includes Grave of the Fireflies so it's ok ;) Thanks

Level 81

Aug 5, 2014

You liked The Land Before Time? I agree on the others.

Level 36

Aug 2, 2017

land before time is an absolute classic!

Level 66

Oct 31, 2017

The first Land Before Time was good. I'm not sure about the eighty bajillion sequels though.

Level 92

Sep 24, 2014

Nice one, especially on the type ins, to save my aching fingers.

Course, on a list of 100... there's bound to be a couple you could improve, like do we really need 'The' in 'The Emperor's New Groove?' And perhaps 'Cloudy with a chance' of not having to type the full name?

Level 83

Mar 15, 2015

Ditto, had "Emperors new groove" without the "the"

Level 74

Oct 31, 2014

where is pocahontas ?

Level 81

Oct 31, 2014

Currently sitting at 56% fresh on the Tomatometer. Disney's worst-reviewed movie since Oliver & Company. They wouldn't see a score that low again until Home on the Range. Personally I agree with this rating. Apart from a good soundtrack the movie wasn't good.

Level 70

Mar 14, 2015

James and the Giant Peach is from 1996, not from 2009.

Level 74

Apr 22, 2015

Could you accept "la planete sauvage" for "fantastic planet" please? It's the original title

Level 81

Apr 22, 2015

Sure. Done.

Level 46

May 29, 2015

No "The Land Before Time"?! Hard to believe!

Level 33

Aug 3, 2015

Got 40, but basically just guessed everything Disney+Pixar+Dreamworks. Completely forgot about guessing Japanese anime... argh

Level 76

Sep 16, 2015

Several great movies. However, I can't believe no Madagascar made the cut. I tried it at least 10 times. Again forgot obvious ones, it's really hard to think about so many suddenly.

Level 81

Sep 16, 2015

The Madagascar films have followed the unusual pattern of each successive film being better reviewed than the previous one. I only saw part of the first one so maybe I shouldn't judge. But even Madagascar 3, the best reviewed of the lot, is only 79% fresh. Not good enough to make the cut here.

Level 73

Dec 8, 2015

I'm surprised that Ice Age, and more importantly the Hunchback of Notre Dame didn't make the cut. I consider the second one to be one of the best Disney movies at least in the 90's.

Level 81

Dec 8, 2015

I do, too! But reviews were mixed. Most of the negative ones focused on the uneveness of a film that, at times was very serious and dark dealing with themes of genocide, child abuse, racism and sexual coercion; and at other times was silly songs with talking gargoyles... and a few just said that it was inappropriate for children. Some simply didn't like it. But I thought the film was brilliant personally. (would have been better if they cut out the song "A Guy Like You"... it just didn't fit and was a prime example of aforementioned unevenness. But... the run up to the finale of the movie was so intense, Disney was obviously trying to introduce a little bit of levity.)

Level 22

Feb 20, 2016

Kept thinking 101 puppies, and couldn't spell ratatouille to save my life.

Level 64

Apr 12, 2016

Huge fan of Disney and Studio Ghibli, and animation in general... and I forgot soooooooooooo many on the list! And I was VERY surprised the second How to Train Your Dragon movie wasn't on the list. It wasn't quite as acclaimed as the first but still very highly rated.

Level 81

Apr 12, 2016

HtTYD2 came out 4 months after this quiz was last updated.

Level 58

Jul 5, 2016

Interesting... Even though Chicken Run is one of my favorite movies, I would've never guessed it was this well rated. I would've thought that more people would've guessed Kung fu-Panda though. Also, is it just me or are there 2 movies with 0 percent? Does that mean NOBODY guesssed those?

Level 81

Jul 6, 2016

I think it means that fewer than 1 in 150 or so people guessed those.

Level 67

Sep 5, 2016

How the Grinch stole Christmas isn't animated... is it?

Level 81

Sep 5, 2016

The 2000 Jim Carrey film wasn't, but the 1965 animated short definitely was.

Level 58

Dec 15, 2016

Congrats, Rotten Tomatoes...you've just rattled off 33 movies I've never heard of in my entire life. They must have been VERY popular.

Level 81

Dec 16, 2016

In my opinion most of these are worth checking out. Some are overrated.

Level 61

Dec 31, 2016

There should be a mention that there are stop-motion movies in here as well. I was thinking traditional hand-drawn or CGI animation only.

Level 39

Mar 8, 2017

It's weirder to think "animation" refers to only two specific animation technics than all of them.

Level 44

Mar 14, 2017

I was terrible! I only got the older ones such as Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty…the only newer one I got was The Simpsons Movie!

Level 51

Apr 17, 2017

I can't imagine why Finding Dory doesn't appear on this list.

Level 81

Apr 17, 2017

My best guess is that Finding Dory came out a year after this quiz did.

Level 72

Jul 27, 2019

They couldnt find her..

Level 57

Apr 21, 2017

rattatouile with 96 % !?

Level 68

Nov 10, 2022

I loved Ratatouille. Also The Fox and the Hound was one of my favourite movies as a child, but that one never seems to rate anywhere.

Level 81

Nov 10, 2022

I liked that movie as a kid, too. Among my earliest memories is being probably about 3 years old and turning pages in my Fox and the Hound read-a-long book with the record playing.

Level 22

May 23, 2017

forgot about hercules!!

Level 87

Jun 4, 2017

Could you accept Arrietty for the Secret World of Arrietty?

Level 77

Aug 6, 2018

Second that. And while you're at it, Arrietty came out in 2010. And Yellow Submarine's year still hasn't been changed in four years!

Level 65

Jul 27, 2017

Update your quiz. Inside Out got 98% and does not appear on your quiz. First thing I tried. Didn't bother with any more.

Level 81

Jul 27, 2017

Read the comments. I'm not going to update this.

Level 81

Jul 27, 2017

You could have also saved yourself some time if you just looked at the publish date.

Level 46

Aug 21, 2017

I find it crazy that Toy Story 2 is up there at the top.

It's the 3rd best Toy Story there is..

Choked that I think I somehow messed up spelling ParaNorman and Persepolis and moved on thinking they didn't make the cut.

Great quiz, though. Definitely could use an update because anything after 2014, roughly, isn't up there.

Level 81

Aug 21, 2017

Toy Story 2 is my favorite of the trilogy. But more importantly, it didn't get a single negative critical review of the hundreds collected. The original Toy Story also had no negative reviews, but there were fewer collected.

Level 81

Aug 21, 2017

But we're talking about the different between... 99%, 100%, and slightly more 100%.

Level 85

Jan 7, 2018

Took me a while to notice that anime counted. That quickly led me to Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Spirited Away, and Princess Mononoke (but, sadly, not Metropolis). Then I couldn't understand why it didn't have Royal Space Force - Wings of Honneamise (100%) and Ninja Scroll (92%). Had they not been reviewed when the quiz was made? Is there a rule that it has to have been in western theatres?

Level 81

Jan 7, 2018

They don't meet the minimum number of reviews requirement. Wings of HoneyMustardMayonnaise only had 9 reviews logged at RT. And Ninja Scroll? Wow can't believe that one scored so high. I remember seeing it in high school and thinking it was garbage. Wonder if I would think differently now.

Level 63

Jul 10, 2018

jesus f****** christ it's a tad anal to require capitalization of "Nimh" wouldn't you say???? smdh...

Level 81

Jul 10, 2018

No quiz on the site requires capitalization of anything.

Level 63

Aug 2, 2018

It says James and the Giant Peach came out in 2009 instead of 1996.

I think you meant to change it before but didn't get around to it.

Level 63

Aug 6, 2018

How is Cars not one here... One of the top 10 animated movies ever.

Level 81

Aug 6, 2018

:-/ are you trolling? Cars is probably the worst thing Pixar has ever done, aside from Cars 2, and maybe Cars 3 I didn't even see that one.

Level 87

Sep 28, 2018

It's called Cars 3 because it's the third worst Pixar movie.

Level 68

Nov 10, 2022

Cars - worst animated movies. Up is one of my favourites.

Level 64

Mar 14, 2019

This really needs an update. Was very surprised that Inside Out and Zootopia were absent from the list, just to read that this hasn't been updated since 2015.

Level 81

Apr 6, 2019

Personally I thought Zootopia was okay but overrated, but I loved Inside Out, I felt like it was the best thing Pixar had done since Up.

Level 85

Apr 12, 2019

Surprised to see The Secret of NIMH in there! I thought of it and didn't try it. Had no idea it was so highly rated.

Level 80

May 28, 2019

Any chance of an update? 2014 was a long time ago now.

Level 78

Feb 24, 2020

I think that there is mistake in spelling of one film, it is azur and asmar, according to wikipedia

Level 59

Apr 3, 2020

What about Moana, Toy Story 4, Cars (All three movies), Inside Out, Frozen 2, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and Wreck-it Ralph 2, to name a few?

Level 81

Apr 3, 2020

Most of those movies came out after this quiz was last updated. The Cars movies were not very well reviewed.

Level 93

May 18, 2021

I am absolutely gobsmacked that both Bolt and Puss in Boots are on here but The Prince of Egypt isn't. How is that even possible?!

Level 55

Jan 17, 2024

puss in boots is more popular than TPOE, hence the higher rating. I know few people that actually watched it. But yeah, what is Bolt doing there?

Level 76

Nov 16, 2021

Maybe its rottentomatoes score was bad back in 2014, but it surprised me that Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind didn't make it since it's usually considered one of the best animated films of all time

Level 81

Nov 17, 2021

It may have just been the case that there were not enough reviews collected for it on RT. That was the case with many international films.

Level 68

Mar 15, 2023

Yellow Submarine is from 1968, not 2012

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