This week on Episode 603 of the InSession Film Podcast, we discussed our Top 10 animated films of the 21st Century thus far that is not from Disney, Pixar or Studio Ghibli. With Transformers One proving to be one of the best surprises of the year, and The Wild Robot competing for The People’s Choice Award at TIFF, it appears to be a great year for animation outside of the three big studios. Not to mention Flow and Memoir of a Snail coming out soon as well. So, with that as our inspiration, there are some astounding films to consider and narrowing it down to just ten was a very challenging task. That said, what would be your Top 10?
NOTE: We spend most of our time only discussing our Top 10 animated movies, however, as you’ll see below, we have listed a full Top 20 because there was just too many great films to consider.
JD
1) How to Train Your Dragon (1/2)
2) The Red Turtle
3) Fantastic Mr. Fox
4) The Spider-Verse (Into/Across)
5) Wolfwalkers
6) Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
7) Flee
8) Millennium Actress
9) Kubo and the Two Strings
10) Song of the Sea
11) Robot Dreams
12) A Scanner Darkly
13) I Lost My Body
14) Coraline
15) The Lego Movie
16) The Secret of Kells
17) Persepolis
18) Waltz with Bashir
19) Isle of Dogs
20) Tokyo Godfathers
Brendan
1) Mary and Max
2) My Life as a Zucchini
3) How to Train Your Dragon 2
4) The Triplets of Bellville
5) Wolfwalkers
6) Fantastic Mr. Fox
7) Across the Spider-Verse
8) Millennium Actress
9) Kubo and the Two Strings
10) Anomalisa
11) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
12) The Lego Movie
13) Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
14) The Red Turtle
15) How to Train Your Dragon
16) I Lost My Body
17) Coraline
18) Rango
19) Persepolis
20) Tokyo Godfathers
Hopefully you guys enjoyed our lists and if you agree or disagree with us, let us know in the comment section below. Clearly there are a lot of other animated movies that battled for our lists that just missed the cut. That being said, what would be your Top 10? Leave a comment in the comment section or email us at [email protected].
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