Best non-Disney animated movies (NO ANIME)

[VG_Addict]

We all know that Disney is the king of animated movies. So, what are some good animated movies that weren't made by the House of Mouse?

[Booyakasha]

'The Last Unicorn' is good.

[ScottyMcGee]

Whoops. I put an anime.

Uhhhhhh

Funny, not too long ago a friend of mine asked me to name a seriously good Dreamworks film that wasn't Shrek. I sat there going "uhhhh" for a long time.

I've always wanted to see The Thief and the Cobbler, but I bet it's good.

[Booyakasha]

^Well, as far as Dreamworks goes, I liked 'The Croods' and 'Mr. Peabody and Sherman', but I was very, very drunk when I saw them, so...you know. Grain of salt.

Anyone here seen 'Triplets of Belleville' or 'The Illusionist'? That Sylvain Chomet knows how to make a weird, weird movie, man. Good stuff.

'Sita Sings the Blues' was super great. Odd film. Available to watch for free over at YouTube.

[DarkZero]

[QUOTE="ScottyMcGee, post: 1617803, member: 31048"]Funny, not too long ago a friend of mine asked me to name a seriously good Dreamworks film that wasn't Shrek. I sat there going "uhhhh" for a long time.[/QUOTE]
What about the How To Train Your Dragon movies?

[United Nations]

The Road to El Dorado
Iron Giant
Anastasia
The Land Before Time
Persepolis
Charlotte's Web

What's the name of that movie where the dinosaurs come back and there's a parade and a circus? "We're Back?"

If animated includes computer animated, there's a lot more.

[ScottyMcGee]

[QUOTE="HarkZero, post: 1617805, member: 34654"]What about the How To Train Your Dragon movies?[/QUOTE]

Oh duh. I forgot that was Dreamworks. It doesn't feel like a Dreamworks movie (because it's actually good - oooohhhh bada boom).

Mr. Peabody and Sherman was good too. I don't think it did too well though at the box office. I would have wanted to see a sequel.

And yeah! We're Back! That's the name of it. I watched that a million times when I was a kid.

[Booyakasha]

^^^Ooh, good one.

^^Don Bluth, man. There's just something about 'An American Tail' hits me right in the heart-guts.

I remember liking 'Prince of Egypt' lots. Like, it ain't no 'Ten Commandments', but then, that's a hell of an act to follow.

[ScottyMcGee]

The Prince of Egypt is like the only Biblical movie that actually acknowledges the fact that people in the desert aren't pasty white.

[Apollo the Just]

[QUOTE="ScottyMcGee, post: 1617803, member: 31048"]Whoops. I put an anime.

Uhhhhhh

Funny, not too long ago a friend of mine asked me to name a seriously good Dreamworks film that wasn't Shrek. I sat there going "uhhhh" for a long time.

I've always wanted to see The Thief and the Cobbler, but I bet it's good.[/QUOTE]

HOW DARE YOU FORGET HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON!!!!!! BLOCKED UNFRIENDED REPORTED

To answer the topic: How to Train Your Dragon 1&2, Kubo and the Two Strings, Rise of the Guardians, all of the Persona 3 movies (I'm not excluding anime bc these are some of my favorite animated movies of all time you can fight me), Millennium Actress (again, excluding "anime" is just excluding Japanese animated movies which seems arbitrary, and since this is another all time favorite I'm listing it), Coraline.....

I actually like every single film I've listed here better than any Disney movie I can think of. Not that they don't do some good work, but they're by no means ~objectively~ the best at what they do.

[Booyakasha]

^^Doesn't mean it's better than 'Ten Commandments', or 'Ben-Hur'. Or 'Jesus Christ Superstar', for that matter.

[ScottyMcGee]

I haven't seen Kubo and the Two Strings yet :(

Disney is one of those household name that kids scream all the time, along with Pixar, and I often forget other things exist.

[Apollo the Just]

Oh also the Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea. DEFINITELY Song of the Sea. <3 <3 <3

[Booyakasha]

...think Disney has some good biz.

Maybe not the newest stuff. I didn't really understand people going bananas over 'Frozen'. It was okay. There were sublime moments, and really trite parts, as well. I think that might be the recentest Disney flick I've seen (although like what's to say what counts as an according-to-Hoyle Disney flick, now they own Marvel and Lucasfilm and all).

Think my favourite Disney flick is 'Great Mouse Detective'. That thing was sharp as a razor. Didn't have no stupid bullcrap, no comic-relief characters. Basil is one of those intensely likeable unlikeable protagonists. Like House. Like, you'd probably hate him if he wasn't so great. Yeah.

[United Nations]

Looks like computer animated counts.

In that case, I also like Fantastic Mr. Fox, anything with Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, Coraline, Box Trolls, HTTYD, and Kubo.

[ScottyMcGee]

^^The Great Mouse Detective has the best Disney Villain Death IMO. Ratigan falling from Big Ben? Man, I went crazy over that climactic battle as a kid at the time. I thought that was the most epic thing I had ever seen. 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.

[Apollo the Just]

Boo, thank you for reminding me that I was wrong. Great Mouse Detective out-ranks a couple on my list. I **** love that movie.

BUT, more on non-Disney...... forgot Fantastic Mr. Fox (THANKS UN) and Paprika

[CaptHayfever]

Only counting stuff I've seen (& I'm certainly forgetting some):

The Secret of NIMH
An American Tail
All Dogs Go to Heaven
The Land Before Time (first one ONLY)
Anastasia
Bartok the Magnificent (the only sequel to any of Bluth's films that he was actually involved with)
The Small One
How to Train Your Dragon 1 & 2
Shrek 1 & 2 (but NOT any of the others)
The Lego Movie
Charlotte's Web
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Watership Down
Persepolis
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Rise of the Guardians
The Wind in the Willows
Snoopy Come Home
Robots
The Prince of Egypt
The Road to El Dorado
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Rango
The Rugrats Movie (but NOT any of its sequels)
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (but NOT its sequel)
Balto
The Phantom Tollbooth
TMNT
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
My Neighbor Totoro--wait, you said "no anime"

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

[Apollo the Just]

Bartok the Magnificent

you misspelled Bardock the Father of Goku

[Valigarmander]

Most of Don Bluth's earlier stuff. An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, The Secret of NIMH. I seem to be in the minority in that I don't think Anastasia was all that great.

I thought The Prince of Egypt and The Road to El Dorado were great. I don't think I've seen any CG films by Dreamworks that I've really liked though.

Anything by Laika. Coraline, ParaNorman, Kubo and the Two Strings. Haven't seen The Boxtrolls yet, but I've heard good things about it.

Other than that, I can think of Charlotte's Web, Persepolis, and Rango. There are probably a lot more I can't remember at the moment.