What is your favourite Animated Disney movie?

[Fallen Angel]

 

[DigificWriter]

My Top 3:
1) The Great Mouse Detective
2) The Rescuers Down Under
3) The Emperor's New Groove

 

[Spider-Aziz]

My Top 3:
1) The Great Mouse Detective
2) The Rescuers Down Under
3) The Emperor's New Groove

I forgot about that one.
Good choice.

 

[Breogan]

Favorite features:
Pinocchio

Robin Hood

Beauty & the Beast

Tarzan

Mulan

Zootopia

Favorite short:
Galloping Gaucho!
It's got a ñandú riding...

...cigerate smoking

...beer suiling

...smooth operating....tango dancing Mickey!

Plus a (shameless pant-free) epic sword fight!

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Lion King.

 

[James]

I also think Tangled is a wonderful film.

 

[psylockolussus]

Aladdin
Tangled
The Little Mermaid
Mulan
Tarzan
Cinderella
The Fox and the Hound

to name a few!

 

[Nemeres]

Beauty and the Beast. The narrated opening is my golden standard.

 

[childeroland]

Fantasia

Wonderful blend of experimental and character animation. Except for "Steamboat Willie," perhaps "Brave Little Tailor," and a few others, "Sorcerer's Apprentice," "Night on Bald Mountain," and "Pastoral Symphony" may be the best shorts Disney has ever produced.

 

[Warhammer]

CGI - The Incredibles

Classic animation -- Sword in the Stone / Sleeping Beauty


I don't like the three big ones -- Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and the Lion King.

Using Pixar is cheating.

 

[Jake Cassidy]

1. The Lion King
2. Aladdin
3. Tangled
4. Alice in Wonderland
5. 101 Dalmatians

 

[Broseph44]

Fantasia

Wonderful blend of experimental and character animation. Except for "Steamboat Willie," perhaps "Brave Little Tailor," and a few others, "Sorcerer's Apprentice," "Night on Bald Mountain," and "Pastoral Symphony" may be the best shorts Disney has ever produced.

Hell yes I listed Fantasia as one of mine as well

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Bambi and Fantasia are 1 and 1A. Both are absolutely stunning works of art.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Fantasia

Wonderful blend of experimental and character animation. Except for "Steamboat Willie," perhaps "Brave Little Tailor," and a few others, "Sorcerer's Apprentice," "Night on Bald Mountain," and "Pastoral Symphony" may be the best shorts Disney has ever produced.

The Arabian Dance and The Nutcracker Suite as a whole are my favorite pieces of animation ever.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Damn it got knocked completely off the list?! At least you have Aladdin and Wreck-It Ralph on there. I adore that movie.

It is not like I don't love the Lion King, I do. I have watched it at least 30 times, and if this was my brother list, it would definitely be on it. But of the big 4 from the Disney Renaissance, it is my least favorite, and I am a big fan of the newest Disney Animated Renaissance. The depth of character and storytelling has never been better imo. Frozen and Zootopia are BatB level imo.

 

[CGHulk]

I'm torn because of my upbringing. I was raised by a veteran animator that was in the business for 50 years. He raised me to notice and be critical from the the artistic side of things. So from an artistic point of view, Snow White, Pinocchio, Bambi and Sleeping Beauty are Walt's masterpieces. The Renaissance films were low budget films under Eisner, they were rushed productions. I love some of the animation in the Renaissance films, because they always opened their films with their best animation, then with a great sequence in the middle, and then another great one at the end. So in between, quality faltered. By being low budget they made up by being entertaining.

 

[Breogan]

Pinocchio

Sleeping Beauty

Fantasia

Robin Hood

Beauty & the Beast

Tarzan

Mulan

Zootopia

Atlantis

Fav short: Galloping Gaucho

Edit: zOops, sorry wrong thread, was looking to see if what I posted here still held up, then forgot to switch back to the new one.

 

[Breogan]

I'm torn because of my upbringing. I was raised by a veteran animator that was in the business for 50 years. He raised me to notice and be critical from the the artistic side of things. So from an artistic point of view, Snow White, Pinocchio, Bambi and Sleeping Beauty are Walt's masterpieces. The Renaissance films were low budget films under Eisner, they were rushed productions. I love some of the animation in the Renaissance films, because they always opened their films with their best animation, then with a great sequence in the middle, and then another great one at the end. So in between, quality faltered. By being low budget they made up by being entertaining.

Yeah artistically you aren't going to top the classic masterpieces.
Although Disney had already veered towards a more heavily stylized look with Cinderella.
So the renaissance took that and brought in modern story telling, characters, and music.

 

[Boom]

Sleeping Beauty

 

[Mandon Knight]

For 'classic' Disney - Pinocchio

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Yeah artistically you aren't going to top the classic masterpieces.
Although Disney had already veered towards a more heavily stylized look with Cinderella.
So the renaissance took that and brought in modern story telling, characters, and music.

I don't know if there has ever been another run like the Golden Age Disney films. Five films, all of them all-time classics. My least favorite of them is Dumbo, which is no sleight considering it is still one of the best animated films ever. The Renaissance was more hit and miss. There is some great stuff in there too, but then you have some mediocre films like Pocahontas and Hercules mixed in there as well.

Cinderella was the point where the films started focusing more on kids and families than adults. Attempts were made to chase an older audience after that, but they generally failed or were short-lived. Basically after Sleeping Beauty the old Disney of the 30s-40s was dead. The quality of animation in particular took a nosedive after the switch to xerography in the 60s.

 

[Mandon Knight]

I'll post this here too as it appears relevant and for those who haven't seen news about it yet....

Disney Classics Complete Blu-ray Box Set 1937-2018

 

[OutOfBoose]

Aladdin.

 

[a user]

Zootopia = my numero uno as far animated Disney features. I loved the live-action Jungle Book (also released in 2016) just as much.

 

[AResistor]

Aladdin.

Followed by:

Lion King
Jungle Book
Pinnochio
Peter Pan
101 Dalmations
Fox and the Hound
The Great Mouse Detective
The Rescuers Down Under
Robin Hood

The only cgi film I’d really include is: Toy Story.

The other cgi films are good, but they just don’t have that nostalgic factor for me that the films I listed have.