Best Animation Movies List

Ratatouille (2007)

Aggregate Rating: 252 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 96 | Earnings: $206.44M

Lead Role: Brad Garrett, Lou Romano, Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, | Director:

A rat who can cook makes an unusual alliance with a young kitchen worker at a famous restaurant.

Up (2009)

Aggregate Rating: 246 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 88 | Earnings: $292.98M

Lead Role: Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger, Christopher Plummer, | Director:

Seventy-eight year old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his home equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.

The Incredibles (2004)

Aggregate Rating: 241 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $261.44M

Lead Role: Craig T. Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee, | Director: Brad Bird,

A family of undercover superheroes, while trying to live the quiet suburban life, are forced into action to save the world.

Inside Out (2015)

Aggregate Rating: 240 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 94 | Earnings: $356.45M

Lead Role: Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, | Director:

After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.

Toy Story (1995)

Aggregate Rating: 239 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 95 | Earnings: $191.80M

Lead Role: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, | Director: John Lasseter,

A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room.

Finding Nemo (2003)

Aggregate Rating: 229 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $380.84M

Lead Role: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, | Director:

After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home.

WALL·E (2008)

Aggregate Rating: 222 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 95 | Earnings: $223.81M

Lead Role: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, | Director: Andrew Stanton,

In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.

Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)

Aggregate Rating: 217 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 96 | Earnings: $10.05M

Lead Role: Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Miyu Irino, Rumi Hiiragi, | Director: Hayao Miyazaki,

During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.

Toy Story 3 (2010)

Aggregate Rating: 212 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 92 | Earnings: $414.98M

Lead Role: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty, | Director: Lee Unkrich,

The toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right before Andy leaves for college, and it's up to Woody to convince the other toys that they weren't abandoned and to return home.

Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Aggregate Rating: 210 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 95 | Earnings: $218.97M

Lead Role: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Jesse Corti, Rex Everhart, | Director:

A young woman whose father has been imprisoned by a terrifying beast offers herself in his place, unaware that her captor is actually a prince, physically altered by a magic spell.

The Lion King (1994)

Aggregate Rating: 207 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 83 | Earnings: $422.78M

Lead Role: Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones, Whoopi Goldberg, | Director:

Lion cub and future king Simba searches for his identity. His eagerness to please others and penchant for testing his boundaries sometimes gets him into trouble.

Monsters, Inc. (2001)

Aggregate Rating: 207 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 78 | Earnings: $289.91M

Lead Role: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi, | Director:

In order to power the city, monsters have to scare children so that they scream. However, the children are toxic to the monsters, and after a child gets through, 2 monsters realize things may not be what they think.

Zootopia (2016)

Aggregate Rating: 205 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 78 | Earnings: $341.26M

Lead Role: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, Jenny Slate, | Director:

In a city of anthropomorphic animals, a rookie bunny cop and a cynical con artist fox must work together to uncover a conspiracy.

Frozen (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 201 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 74 | Earnings: $400.74M

Lead Role: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, | Director:

When the newly crowned Queen Elsa accidentally uses her power to turn things into ice to curse her home in infinite winter, her sister, Anna, teams up with a mountain man, his playful reindeer, and a snowman to change the weather condition.

Shrek (2001)

Aggregate Rating: 200 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 84 | Earnings: $267.65M

Lead Role: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow, | Director:

After his swamp is filled with magical creatures, Shrek agrees to rescue Princess Fiona for a villainous lord in order to get his land back.

Toy Story 2 (1999)

Aggregate Rating: 195 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 88 | Earnings: $245.82M

Lead Role: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, | Director:

When Woody is stolen by a toy collector, Buzz and his friends vow to rescue him, but Woody finds the idea of immortality in a museum tempting.

Hauru no ugoku shiro (2004)

Aggregate Rating: 195 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 80 | Earnings: $4.71M

Lead Role: Chieko Baishô, Takuya Kimura, Tatsuya Gashûin, Akihiro Miwa, | Director: Hayao Miyazaki,

When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.

The Simpsons Movie (2007)

Aggregate Rating: 194 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 80 | Earnings: $183.13M

Lead Role: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, | Director: David Silverman,

After Homer accidentally pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpson family are declared fugitives.

Shrek 2 (2004)

Aggregate Rating: 194 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 75 | Earnings: $436.47M

Lead Role: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Julie Andrews, | Director:

Princess Fiona's parents invite her and Shrek to dinner to celebrate her marriage. If only they knew the newlyweds were both ogres.

Mononoke-hime (1997)

Aggregate Rating: 189 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $2.30M

Lead Role: Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka, Billy Crudup, | Director: Hayao Miyazaki,

On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.