Why top 11? Because I like to go one step further.

 11. I, Robot

Ok, I know this show ain’t completely animated, but it is for the most part. And Will Smith. Because any movie he’s in with aliens/robots/zombies has gotta be good. Oh and Shia Le Bouf’s in this too. Will plays as a detective that lives in a futuristic Chicago shared by humans and their AI’s, but after a tragic incident, Spooner (Smith) distrusts robots, especially when the inventor of the AI’s is reported dead, and the lead suspect is one of his prototype robots, named Sonny. This is one of the movies I can turn on and never get bored of it. The morals of this show relate to other robots-sharing-the-same-world-as-humans, such as Metropolis (the animated movie by Osama Tezuka was a beautiful piece of eye candy too.

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What really gets to me is what Sonny says to the doctor before she deactivates him, “I’d like to think it’d be better, not to die.” Also this movie’s got a lot of funny quotes too from Will Smith.

 10. How To Train Your Dragon

Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois directed another animated masterpiece (their other one, Lilo and Stitch, which we’ll get to later.) based from a childrens’ book about dragons, though in the books, it’s told through the eyes of Toothless, the Dragon. The story tells of a outcast Viking lad (named Hiccup, played by Jay Baruchel, hee <3) tries to fit in his village and win his Dad’s (played by Gerald Butler, THE PHAAAAAAAATOM OF THE OPERA) approval by training one of the rarest dragons in the world. You can see a lot of Stitch in Toothless, and that’s one of my favorite reasons behind his design. It’s really hard to find dragons designs that are adorable and badass at the same time. I have a feeling I may not enjoy the sequel in 2014 as much as I did the first one, but with the same writers, there may be hope.

 9. My Neighbor Totoro

I remember the first time I picked up the VHS cassette to this movie. My babysitter only let me get a G rated movie, and this was the only one in BlockBuster I wanted to watch. This was the second Miyazaki movie I’ve seen (Kiki’s Delivery Service being the first one) and one of my favorite ones, (second being Princess Mononoke, third being Howl’s Moving Castle.) Two young girls move into an old house near the forest, which are filled with magical creatures called Totoros that grow the trees, make the wind blow, and are only seen by children. This movie(along with Clifford the Big Red Dog and Where the Wild Things Are) only helped spark my fascination for large monsters that children imagine to help them out with everyday things, or go on amazing adventures with.

 8. Rock-A-Doodle

This has got to be one of my favorite Don Bluth’s movie (other than Land Before Time, because dinosaurs) This movie will always have a spot in my heart, because my grandfather taped this when it came on the Disney channel WAY back in the early 90’s and mailed the tape to me when I was about 4. The dog Patou talks just like him too. A rooster’s amazing singing is heavily relied on at the farm where he lives. But then a group of owls reveal that it was never his singing that brought up the sun and is shunned by his friends and forces him to move into the city. Meanwhile, a young boy is magically transformed into a cat and only the rooster can help change him back. I always remember Don Bluth’s animation because the facial movements are so fluent and even if they’re exaggerated, they’re beautiful to look at.

 7. Treasure Planet

This is one of those movies where if you muted it, it’d be beautiful just to watch. I swear. The bromance between John and Jimmy is fun to watch too. This is a spin off of Treasure Island, but in space. Yep. Marten Short’s in it, but he’s not as annoying as he was in Santa Clause 3. He’s a bit more tolerable. Some of the alien’s designs are cool too.

 6. Brother Bear

I honestly cannot get tired of this movie. I’m usually not a fan of transform-into-something-you-hate-to-see-life-from-a-different-perspective movies, but it’s bears and Phil Collins, and it was the second to last Disney 2D animated movie. So I honestly cannot hate this movie. A young Eskimo named Kenai lives with his 2 older brothers, Sitka and Denahi. On the day the shaman lady proclaims Kenai will live by his totem (“Bear of Love”, much to Kenai’s disgust, because his hatred of bears) is the same day Sitka sacrifices his life to save his younger brothers from an angry bear. When Kenai goes looking for the bear for revenge, Denahi chases after him to stop him. As soon as Kenai finishes the deed, Sikta’s spirit (Eagle of Leadership) transforms Kenai into a bear. To change himself back, he has to put his trust into an orphan bear cub, and while on the journey learns the meaning of brotherly love. And the animations of bears is fun to watch. They’re so fat and fluffy. Rick Moranis plays as a moose, they’re hilarious. I wasn’t that much ok with the sequel, cuz’ it kinda hinted a lot toward bestiality with Kenai (still as a bear) and his long time lost crush (who is a girl mostly the entire movie). The moose also get lady friends. /SIGH/

 5. Atlantis: The Lost Empire

This movie came out before Brother Bear, Treasure Planet, Lilo and Stitch, and kind of started the end of Disney animated movies. It was pretty movie. If they could, I would love to see this done in live action. Cree Summer should play as Kida in that live action movie too. I liked the implied romance between her and Micheal J. Fox, I mean Milo. He’s one of my favorite Disney characters. We need more Disney male eggheads. Milo is a New England scholar who is inspired by his grandfather’s studies of a hidden world called Atlantis that has sunk into the ocean. This also exposes this city to money hounds, who want to steal its treasures to make money in the new world. Lenard Neemoy is in this too. I loved how when the toys came out for this movie, everyone wanted to go to McDonald’s for the glowing crystal necklaces. The sequel was meant to be a TV series, but was turned down, so they just compiled the 3 episodes into a 90 minute film. Pretty lazy. Just like Tarzan’s sequel(s). /SIGH/

 4. You Are Umasou!

I only recently discovered this movie, but I have never gushed over, cried over, or cheered for dinosaurs as much as I have during this movie, I highly recommend this movie, unless you don’t want to watch a parkour t-rex. This film was based from a Japanese children’s book about a t-rex that was raised by a plant eater then raises a plant eater himself once he grows up. He names it Umasou (which translates into “tasty-looking”) and Umasou is, without a doubt, the cutest thing ever. At first glance, I thought it was about him, but it turned out to circle about the life of Heart, the t-rex raised by plant eaters. A truly touching movie, I couldn’t recommend it any more than I can with words.

 3. A Goofy Movie

This is my favorite road trip movie ever. (Other than Due Date, but we’re focusing around animation now.) My dad’s not a fan of this, because he was afraid of my teen years where I’d blow him off like Max did with his dad, Goofy. In this piece, Goofy tries to bond with his son with a road trip to Lake Destiny, Idaho. But Max sees this as a chance to drive to L.A. to star in a concert to impress the girl of his dreams. The modern jokes in this film is hilarious by 90’s standards. The songs are amazing, I can’t help but feel inspired after hearing “After Today”. When I introduced this to my 8 year old cousin, he said Goofy was his favorite Kingdom Hearts character, and after a good 30 minutes of face palming and holding back my urge to kick him out of my house, we watched it about 12 times a week. Then Disney released it on DVD, and he bought it. He loves it to death as much as I do. I was kind of okay with the sequel, An Extremely Goofy Movie. Not the greatest of sequels, but the soundtrack was awesome, and Goofy landing a hot chick was pretty hilarious.

 2. Lilo and Stitch

So remember Chris Sanders? He helped out with Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, and everything good? No? Look him up. This movie had a load of research to make. And it paid off to its fans. A lot of Elvis history, Hawaiian terms and traditions, and a bunch of cool alien designs. An alien abomination escapes space to Hawaii, while a native Hawaiian little girl struggles to make friends and keep living with her older sister, as their broken family is threatened by the social worker, who will take Lilo to live with a more suitable family. The alien is adopted by the girl and then they have crazy adventures together. Chris Sanders does the voice of Stitch, and boy is it neat. He tried to make Stitch into a movie back in 1985, but it was denied. Can you imagine?? Tigger and Piglet are alienized in the beginning of the film, if you look hard enough. The dude who voice acts Dr. Jumba Jukeba (also plays the villain in Pocahontas) does a wonderful job as being crazy giant alien professor. Stitch is also as baddass and adorable as Toothless, and I can relate to a 6 year old Hawaiian girl than I realize. Kinda sad, but what’s even sadder is I don’t have an alien pet/friend. Know what’s EVEN sadder? The 4-5 sequels that came after the first movie and the TV series. /SIGH/

1. The Iron Giant

The bomb of all my favorite animated movies (or movies of all time). A boy and his giant robot. This movie. Just. AUUGH <3. Set in the 50’s, the colors in this film are cold and rustic and it feels.. Right. It’s based from a book, that I should look into reading. A boy finds a giant robot in the woods and tries to teach it life lessons, such as finding your soul, the differences of right and wrong, etc. The government threatens to find it and destroy it, so the boy and a garbage man (named Dean also an artist) hides the 100ft tall robot at the dump. The ending of this movie makes me tear up. Warner Bros. expected this to be a huge hit, and it would have, but their biggest goof up was not advertising this film enough. I mean come on, it came out the same time as The Phantom Menace, The Matrix, The Boondock Saints, The Mummy. It was playing with the big boys of sci-fi. I’m quite glad it never got a sequel. I know everyone knows this, but for the few who don’t, Vin Diesel plays the giant. He claims he’s a huge sci-fi nerd, but you can hardly tell, by the looks of

Jennifer Aston plays a great Mom character. And I swear, I wanna marry Dean, he’s so funny, but so in touch with his art, it makes me wet. ALSO CHILDREN PLAYING WITH GIANT UNKNOWN FORCES/MONSTERS. MY FAVORITE GENRE.