2010--best year for animated movies?

[Disneyphile]

Toy Story 3--$404M domestic (and still climbing)
Shrek Forever After--$237M
Despicable Me--$232M
How To Train Your Dragon--$217M

We'll have to wait and see how the remaining animated movies do, but so far this year could be the best ever.

Do you agree? If not, what year would you say is the best?

[Avaitor]

Last year was pretty good. Coraline, Up, The Princess and the Frog, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, and The Fantastic Mr. Fox were all good movies, while Monsters vs. Aliens and Ponyo also had good qualities in them.

So far this year I really liked How to Train Your Dragon and Toy Story 3, and I also have high hopes for Tangled. I also heard good things about Despicable Me, and I'll probably rent that when it comes out on DVD. That's all I can think of from this year, however.

[jpanimation]

Quality wise? No. It's not even close to being the best set of animated films release during a certain year.

As far as making money; could be. With all these damn 3D movies inflating the ticket prices to $15-20 a pop, it's kind of hard to judge the popularity of these films but they're certainly making money.

[pap64]

I think both AND financially wise this has been a pretty good year for animation. You have Toy Story 3 which closed the series on a high note, Shrek Forever After was surprisingly good, especially after the disaster that was Shrek the Third, Despicable Me was a very nice surprise and How to Train Your Dragon was enjoyable in a tad formulaic.

I'm keeping my expectations very, very low for both Tangled and Megamind. I know a lot of people are excited for Tangled, but the trailers have yet to impress me and I really want to avoid the hype so I can go into the movie with no expectations (a mistake many did with Princess and the Frog last year). And I hate to say this, but Megamind looks to be on the same vane as "Monsters vs. Aliens".

[mawnck]

Quality wise? No. It's not even close to being the best set of animated films release during a certain year.

As far as making money; could be. With all these damn 3D movies inflating the ticket prices to $15-20 a pop, it's kind of hard to judge the popularity of these films but they're certainly making money.

I vote for 2009 as being the all-time champ from a quality standpoint, since it included:

Coraline
Up*
Ponyo
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Mary and Max
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Secret of Kells
The Princess and the Frog
A Town Called Panic
Sita Sings the Blues**

Those aren't just good animated features, they are TERRIFIC animated features. If there are any on that list that you haven't seen, FIX IT. Anybody got another year that comes within a mile of this?

I haven't seen Metropia, it doesn't look like I'm going to, and I have no clue how good it is, but the only other 2010 releases I see that measure up to the above are:

How to Train Your Dragon
Shrek Forever After
Toy Story 3
Tangled
and probably The Illusionist (have not seen it, but I've heard good things)

I'm very skeptical of the other upcoming releases for this year, but then again, I'd be mighty skeptical of Tangled too if all I'd seen was that infernal trailer. Despicable Me is fun mindless entertainment, but I wouldn't consider it a great movie.

[/soapbox]




*I have charitably included Up, in deference to everyone in the world's opinion besides mine. I was only mildly impressed by it and wouldn't have put it on the list if it was just me. I actually thought Battle for Terra and Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs, also 2009 releases, were better than Up.

**Considered a 2009 release by a lot of the people who keep track of such things. 2009 was the first time Sita got a regular week's run in a proper US theater, although it did the festival circuit in 2008. The 2009 list still rocks even if you leave it off, but rocks a lot harder with it on there.

[Escapay]

I vote for 2009 as being the all-time champ from a quality standpoint, since it included:

Coraline
Up*
Ponyo
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Mary and Max
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Secret of Kells
The Princess and the Frog
A Town Called Panic
Sita Sings the Blues**

Those aren't just good animated features, they are TERRIFIC animated features. If there are any on that list that you haven't seen, FIX IT.

I've seen six of the ten listed (in bold), and overall enjoyed them. Of the four I haven't seen, the one I really really want to see is A Town Called Panic.

albert

[Disney's Divinity]

*I have charitably included Up, in deference to everyone in the world's opinion besides mine. I was only mildly impressed by it and wouldn't have put it on the list if it was just me. I actually thought Battle for Terra and Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs, also 2009 releases, were better than Up.

I agree. Up is easily the most overrated Pixar film to date.

Oh, wait. Finding Nemo. Damn.

But, seriously, the first 15 minutes are brilliant, but the rest of it is just a mess.

[PixarFan2006]

Financially, yes, it is a good year for animated films.

Quailty-wise, though, it pales in comparison to last year's films (Coraline, Up, Fantastic Mr Fox, Ponyo, etc)

[PixarFan2006]

I forgot to mention that Toy Story 3 is the only animated film I have seen this year.

[rexcrk]

Toy Story 3 alone makes this a great year for animated movies

Seriously, the only other one I liked was How To Train Your Dragon.

But I never saw Shrek 4, which I'm sure I would've liked lol.

[ajmrowland]

Quality wise? No. It's not even close to being the best set of animated films release during a certain year.

As far as making money; could be. With all these damn 3D movies inflating the ticket prices to $15-20 a pop, it's kind of hard to judge the popularity of these films but they're certainly making money.

I vote for 2009 as being the all-time champ from a quality standpoint, since it included:

Coraline
Up*
Ponyo
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Mary and Max
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Secret of Kells
The Princess and the Frog
A Town Called Panic
Sita Sings the Blues**

Those aren't just good animated features, they are TERRIFIC animated features. If there are any on that list that you haven't seen, FIX IT. Anybody got another year that comes within a mile of this?

how would you rate those?