Cartoons are the very creative environment in which there are no boundaries. It is in this genre that the most daring and creative ideas of animators, animators and other cinematographers are embodied.
Cartoons are different: there are those that you can watch only once and forget about it, and there are those that are called masterpieces of animation - whole generations grow up on them, they are loved and remembered even after decades. We bring to your attention the top 10 best cartoons of all time, ranked by KinoPoisk rating.
10. Aladdin
Movie Search Rating: 8.1
Aladdin is one of the most famous and successful animated films of the Walt Disney Studios. The year Aladdin (1992) was released was the peak of the so-called "Disney Renaissance": animation grossed nearly $ 505 million at the box office and won two Academy Awards.
Interesting fact: the plot is based on the famous tale of Aladdin from "1001 Nights", however, a lot has been changed. For example, Robin Williams, who voiced Genie, endowed his character with special charisma, complementing the monologues with jokes that were not originally in the script.
9. Princess Mononoke
Movie Search Rating: 8.1
Animated film by the famous Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki. This story is about a girl named San, raised by wolves and bravely and desperately defending her home - the forest, and about the young prince Asitaka, who fell victim to a terrible curse and was forced to leave his native village.
Interesting fact: Miyazaki found a very interesting and extravagant way to express his dissatisfaction with Disney for trying to shorten the American version of this animated film - he sent them a samurai sword with a note "Cut Nothing." And he was like that.
8. The grave of the fireflies
Movie Search Rating: 8.2
Probably, everyone with the word "cartoon" has an association with childhood. Childhood is where everything is good, bright, where good always wins in everything, where every story has a happy ending. So "The Grave of Fireflies" completely destroys all the notions that a cartoon is a beautiful story with a beautiful ending.
In this story, the childhood of the main characters is destroyed, and their fates are as unpredictable as the fates of the fireflies left in the bank. Both the anime and the novel of the same name, on which it was filmed, are considered the best of all such works of the Second World War.
7. Lady and the Tramp
Movie Search Rating: 8.2
The Lady and the Tramp is the 15th job at the Disney animation studio. The picture was released back in 1995, but its quality is undeniable: today it is no worse than many modern cartoons - every frame is colorful and realistic.
This story is about the love of two completely different dogs, from different social classes. It's no secret that in Disney cartoons, all animal characters personify a person. The Lady and the Tramp is no exception. All aspects of our difficult and unpredictable life are very accurately reflected here.
6. Fox and dog
Movie Search Rating: 8.2
Although the plot of the cartoon is based on the novel by Daniel Mannix, in fact, only the names of the main characters were taken from the book. The book is full of tragic events, and the friendship between Tod and Copper was not as such, while in the cartoon their friendship runs like a red thread throughout history.
The animation budget was $ 12 million. Paradoxically, the same number was the number of viewers who watched this film.
5. My neighbor Totoro
Rating Movie Search: 8.2
Perhaps this is the most unusual and iconic work in the entire creative biography of Hayao Miyazaki. The cartoon is a kind of ode to childhood - the most beautiful and carefree period of a person's life. But at the same time, the tape is permeated with longing.
A similar feeling occurs, for example, when watching "Winnie the Pooh" or "Dandelion Wine". Totoro himself has become a symbol of Japanese animation. No wonder it is he who flaunts on the emblem of Studio Ghibli, created by Miyazaki.
4. The Little Mermaid
Rating Movie Search: 8.2
Everyone knows the plot of this tale, so it is silly to retell it. But Walt Disney's studio retold it, and in its own way, and very successfully. True, critics did not appreciate this significant difference between the cartoon and the tale of Hans Christian Andersen, on which the plot was based.
Against all odds, Disney's The Little Mermaid has become a classic in world animation, having won many awards, including an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
3. Beauty and the Beast
Rating Movie Search: 8.3
Filmed in 1991, the animated film Beauty and the Beast became the standard for the adaptation of the fairy tale by Jeanne-Marie de Beaumont, which, as it turned out after the release of several modern low-standard remakes, was impossible to surpass. The incredible directorial work of Gary Truesdale and Kirk Wise made the story of a charming girl and a sad lonely monster extremely emotional, vivid and deep.
High-quality animation, brilliant soundtrack by Alan Mencken, together with elaborate charismatic characters, allowed Beauty and the Beast to become a world cartoon classic.
2. Spirited Away
Rating Movie Search: 8.4
The plot of another brilliant creation by Hayao Miyazaki tells about a 10-year-old girl who accidentally found herself with her parents in another world inhabited by monsters and ghosts. The girl has to go through difficult trials to save her parents and return with them to the human world. Spirited Away became the most successful animated film in Japanese history.
Interesting fact: at the box office, it even surpassed the Titanic, grossing 30.4 billion yen in total.
1. The Lion King
Rating Movie Search: 8.8
32 in a row, the animated film became the most legendary in the history of the Walt Disney studio. The Lion King is an example of animation. It is not childish problems that are raised here. This is a story about friendship and enmity, about love and hatred, about loyalty and betrayal, about honor.
Unlike the rest of the studio's work, this picture is endowed with deep philosophy. Therefore, a small child will not be able to grasp the whole meaning, he will only see a beautiful picture. This does not mean that the cartoon is intended exclusively for adults. It only means that it is worth watching with the child, helping him to understand difficult emotional moments.
A great many cartoons are made every year. Each of them is a big work of screenwriters, directors, animators, composers and a huge number of people. Therefore, all cartoons are good in their own way and they all find their audience. But only a few were able to leave their mark in the history of animation, and only a few films can be called real classics. It is with this classics that you just got acquainted.