For many families, watching cartoons is an indispensable feature of the New Year holidays. Fortunately, both Russian and foreign cinema can offer magnificent animated films that will make both adults and children laugh and cry in front of the TV. And most importantly, they give the feeling of a miracle that we have been waiting for a whole year. We present you the best New Year's cartoons according to Kinopoisk.ru.We recommend: best new year movies, Forbes rating.
20. Penguins from Madagascar on Christmas Adventures
The first in the New Year's top 20 are the merry adventures of cheerful and inventive penguins living in the Central Zoo.
Having discovered that the polar bear is sad on New Year's Eve, the young Private secretly gets out of the zoo and goes in search of gifts. However, he himself is mistaken for a toy and the Private falls into the hands of the granny and her evil poodle. Can the Skipper and the crew leave a fellow in trouble?
19. Snowman
A touching story about the friendship between a boy and a snowman he made. And while adults sleep in their beds, funny adventures await young friends, dancing to cheerful music, holiday firecrackers and even flying over the ground.
There are no dialogues in this cartoon, but they are not needed, they are replaced by the facial expressions of the characters and the music by Howard Blake.
18. A Christmas story
In the soul of old Ebenezer Scrooge there is no place for joy and love. The pleasant excitement of New Year's holidays is alien to him, all that Scrooge cares about is money. However, when the three spirits of Christmas (past, present and future) appear to the evil curmudgeon, he rethinks his whole life.
This animated movie with stunning effects and equally stunning music by Alan Silvestri gives viewers both sad and joyful feelings. It shows that even in the most callous heart, deeply, deeply, a boy lives, thirsting for a miracle and ready to do good.
17. Once Upon a Time in Tokyo
Life is not equally supportive to everyone. The three tramps - Jin, Hana and Miyuki - do not expect anything good from her. But once on Christmas Eve they find a newborn girl on the street and become for her a kind of "guardian angels without a fixed abode." Perhaps this child is their chance to find a normal life. Cheerful music, excellent animation, numerous references to Western religious plots and a heartbreaking plot distinguish this cartoon from a huge number of other New Year's animated films.
16. Mickey's Christmas Carol
All major Disney characters (with the exception of Pluto) are involved in this Christmas story.Even Mickey Mouse, who hasn't appeared on the screen for 30 years, got charged with the Christmas spirit and starred in the film adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous story called "A Christmas Carol".
15. Keepers of dreams
This serious and funny, romantic and eventful cartoon will be interesting not only for children, but also for an adult audience.
When frosty patterns appear on the windows - this is the work of Ice Jack. He, along with the Northerner (Santa Claus), the Easter Bunny, the Sandman and the Tooth Fairy, protect children's dreams and dreams. However, the gloomy Kromeshnik is very angry that people do not believe in him, and he is going to take revenge for this to all the children in the world.
14. Nutcracker
The animated embodiment of Hoffmann's fairy tale amazes not only with delightfully drawn characters, but also fabulously beautiful, truly New Year's music by PI Tchaikovsky.
In the center of the plot is a girl who accidentally found a Nutcracker figurine for nuts under the tree. Suddenly, the hero who came to life told the girl that in fact he was a prince, bewitched by the evil Queen Mouse.
Compassion, courage, kindness - these are the main values that young viewers of The Nutcracker will learn.
13. Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
In the village of Vikings, a holiday has come, known as "crimping", and very reminiscent of the New Year. However, the dragons suddenly leave their friends and fly away somewhere. And while Astrid is trying to save the holiday, Hiccup finds out where Toothless and the company went.
12. Living with Louis: A Christmas Surprise for Miss Stillman
The cartoon immerses us in the memories of Louis Anderson of his childhood and the events of Christmas 1961. Everyone around was filled with a festive spirit, except for the grumpy but kind father of the family. The Christmas tree and the gifts are expensive, and then the wife decided to surprise her old neighbor ...
According to viewers, this cartoon embodies what New Year and Christmas are loved all over the world for: benevolence, willingness to help others, home comfort and the opportunity to be with the whole family.
11. The night before Christmas
The first, but not the only cartoon in our collection with this name. At the same time, the plots of foreign and Russian cartoons are different. In this case, we are waiting for a screen version of one of Gogol's stories from the series “Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka”. Beautiful Ukraine with its carols and folk dances, devilry, love and repentance in pride - all this is in the delightful "Night before Christmas".
10. When the trees are lit
If you like cartoons about Santa Claus, then here he is, one of the best New Year cartoons with this hero. Together with his granddaughter Snegurochka, Santa Claus rushes to the Christmas tree to the kids, but the evil wolves build all sorts of intrigues for them. And cute toy bunny and bear, who accidentally fell out of the sleigh with gifts, are also in a hurry to their new owners, because they are so expected!
Despite numerous "touch-ups" and even re-sounding, this cartoon, filmed in 1950, is not one iota outdated. And the song "On New Year's Eve", written by Sergei Mikhalkov and played in a cartoon, is one of the most famous New Year's songs for children.
9. Santa Claus and summer
Having lived all his life at the North Pole, Santa Claus has never seen either green grass or bright-winged butterflies. It's good that there are kids who were able to show grandfather what summer is.
8. Girl with matches
This sad cartoon, created by the Disney studio based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, will make many cry. And, at the same time, to feel the joy of being together with a loving family to the chimes of New Year's chimes, and not like the heroine of a cartoon - a little, poor girl - wandering the streets of the city trying to sell matches to indifferent passers-by.
The cartoonists were not afraid to come into conflict with the bosses of Disney, who insisted on the traditional happy ending for American films and cartoons. However, after the creation of various "soft" versions of the ending, the management of "Disney" gave in, considering that it was not worth spoiling the whole cartoon.
7. Snowman-mailer
The snowman, molded by children to deliver a letter to Santa Claus, and the little dog Druzhok go to the forest full of dangers. They have to defeat the wolf and gather forest dwellers for the New Year's holiday.
6. Santa Claus and the Gray Wolf
Our Santa Claus is not a refined Santa Claus, he knows how to ski and is not afraid of wolves. And besides him in the cartoon there is a beautiful Snow Maiden, and rabbits, which the wolf decided to kidnap together with the insidious crow, and the brave Snowman, the personal driver of Santa Claus.
A kind, naive, but very touching cartoon that will surely charm small viewers, and make large viewers smile nostalgically, remembering childhood.
5. Umka is looking for a friend
Umka the polar bear does not know what New Year is. He is simply looking for his boyfriend, a boy, at the polar station, where Soviet (at the time of the cartoon's release) workers celebrate the New Year. And while Umka is looking for a friend, his excited mother is looking for her little bear.
4. The Nightmare Before Christmas
The monsters, horrible on the face, but funny on the inside, also want to feel the spirit of Christmas. And most of all, Jack Skellington is fascinated by Christmas. He finds himself in a city where people live, and sees with what joy both old and young are waiting for Santa Claus. A cunning plan matures in Jack's mind: to kidnap Santa Claus and play his role.
Perhaps one of the best New Year cartoons of all time, it can scare very young children. However, adolescents and adults alike are delighted with the wonderful songs, charismatic protagonists and excellent puppet animation.
3. The night before Christmas
A very old (1941 "year of birth") cartoon with still popular heroes - Tom and Jerry.
A beautiful Christmas melody, funny cat and mouse under a huge decorated Christmas tree, and Jerry's admiration for beautiful gifts give this short cartoon a wonderful New Year flavor.
2. Last year's snow fell
The protagonist of this "plasticine" cartoon is an unnamed man who went into the forest for a tree "at the behest of his wife who sent him." The greedy and cunning, for whom everything "will not be enough", finds himself in a real theater of the absurd, where he will have wonderful transformations, and he also needs to get a Christmas tree, because without it he can not return home. Memorable music and catchphrases have long made this cartoon one of the indispensable components of the New Year.
1. Winter in Prostokvashino
In the list of the best New Year cartoons, neither domestic nor foreign novelties managed to surpass the good old Soviet cartoon in terms of viewership. And he and other series "Prostokvashino" have long been pilfered into quotes that do not lose their relevance in our days.
The adventures of the cat Matroskin, the dog Sharik, their owner Uncle Fyodor and the harmful postman Pechkin continue even in the New Year. Small grievances of Matroskin and Sharik grow to catastrophic proportions, Uncle Fedor and his father are fixing the TV, and an unexpected guest is going to come to Prostokvashino for the New Year's holiday.