Best non-Disney animated movies (NO ANIME)

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

"No anime" kinda bars 100% of my list. Maybe Kung Fu Panda.

[Booyakasha]

[QUOTE="ScottyMcGee, post: 1617824, member: 31048"]I wonder though now that I think about it if it was in any way inspired by the Lupin the Third movie, The Castle of Cagliostro, which was released in '79. That movie has a strikingly similar climactic battle in a clock tower.[/QUOTE]
It's possible. 'Cagliostro' wasn't unknown in Hollywood even at the time of its release (Spielberg has frequently cited it as one of the best adventure movies he ever saw). Stands to reason someone at Disney might have cribbed off it a bit.

[Calamity Panfan]

In rough order of enjoyment:
The Iron Giant
How to Train Your Dragon 1 & 2
The Prince of Egypt
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Secret of NIMH
Kubo and the Strings
Coraline
The LEGO Movie
Chicken Run
Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
A Town Called Panic
The Simpsons Movie
Shaun the Sheep Movie
The Road to El Dorado
Kung-Fu Panda

[Booyakasha]

Huh. Kind of forgot about stop-motion. 'Fantastic Mr. Fox', 'Kubo and the Two Strings' and 'Coraline' are so rad. (EDIT------Good old 'Chicken Run'. Whole bunch of us went to see that up at camp one year. Great flick.)

How about 'The Adventures of Mark Twain', man. That thing was messed. Saw it on the big screen when I was five. Man, that was a weird, messed-up movie. Like, I feel like my ma was really on top, as far as vetting things for us kids went----------that was mayhap her one misstep, right, taking us to that. Not to say we turned out wrong as a result, but, like, save it until your kids are in their tweens. About the age you'd let them read Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn to start with, you know (Mark Twain didnt pussyfoot about in general, man).

Any of you guys see 'Fritz the Cat'? That was one odd flick, man. (Don't worry, ma didn't take us to that, I checked it out on my own.)

[Deepfake]

The Iron Giant is one of the best films I've ever seen. Blows Disney out of the water, IMO.

The rest of the big ones also mostly look like they've been covered. FWIW I'll add:

A Scanner, Darkly - probably the most remarkable rotoscoping ever done, all by hand. A huge amount of it was freehand animated, though. One of my favorite films of all time. Definitely not light-hearted and it may make you question your grip on reality a bit, and very close to the source by Phillip K. Dick.



Beowulf, 2007. At times it is convincingly live-action looking, but it's all CGI. Certainly not especially original, but it was very remarkable for the time, at least visually.




Monster House was very decent. Almost a by-the-numbers picture for Spielburg, but it carries a sense of suburban childhood and foreboding that we see repeated in other lasting works, like the recent Stranger Things or Stephen King's Stand by Me, AKA the Body.




Beavis & Butthead Do America. One of the best adult comedies in animation.




Corpse Bride. A little surprised no one has mentioned this, but I suppose it's very reminiscent of Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach which fall under Disney, and obviously flies under the banner of Burton who had a hand in Nightmare, so you'll be forgiven for confusing it for being one of theirs. It's good all around, very impressive stop-motion and striking visuals.

[VG_Addict]

[QUOTE="Booyakasha, post: 1617892, member: 17381"]
Any of you guys see 'Fritz the Cat'? That was one odd flick, man. (Don't worry, ma didn't take us to that, I checked it out on my own.)[/QUOTE]

*Raises hand* Yo.

[ScottyMcGee]

The background behind The Nightmare Before Christmas is very complicated.

Burton worked at Disney and originally had the idea for the film as a short movie. Disney didn't want want to release The Nightmare Before Christmas because they thought the film was too weird for kids. They fired Burton because they believed his work only appealed to a niche audience. Burton still wanted to do the film but Disney still owned the rights. He was still friends with Henry Selick, who still worked at Disney at the time. So Selick agreed to direct the film but it was still very much Burton's creation. Disney then didn't want to put their label on the movie since they were afraid it would flop for being too weird and scary for kids, but after its success, they were okay with associating themselves with it. So it's really confusing because like it's Disney owned but not really their own thing.

[Valigarmander]

Corpse Bride was pretty good, surprised I forgot that one.

Cats Don't Dance is a gem I rarely hear people talk about.

[ScottyMcGee]

Curious, what do people think of Titan A.E.? I recently watched it for the first time and thought it was just okay. But I have a friend who has always fawned over that movie. I liked the premise and the characters but there was something awkward and jarring about it.

[Deepfake]

[QUOTE="ScottyMcGee, post: 1617899, member: 31048"]Curious, what do people think of Titan A.E.? I recently watched it for the first time and thought it was just okay. But I have a friend who has always fawned over that movie. I liked the premise and the characters but there was something awkward and jarring about it.[/QUOTE]
Poor pacing, felt like the plot was too abrupt with no arc. You get that a lot in kids' movies and all.

[ScottyMcGee]

The early 2000's rock music didn't help either.

[Apollo the Just]

SHOOT I TOTALLY FORGOT CORPSE BRIDE SHAME ON ME.

Paranorman, too - I prefer Kubo and Coraline but I still adore that movie. (Haven't seen box trolls yet)

[Booyakasha]

Never saw 'Titan A E', myself. It came out in that weird space between me bein a kid and a grown-up. Like, I didn't never see that, nor 'Heat', nor 'Seven', neither. Just didn't happen.

[Valigarmander]

Man, how could I forget The Hobbit?

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[Booyakasha]

^'Hobbit' is really good. Still like that version of 'Far O'er the Misty Mountains' way, way better than the one in the live-action one.