The authoritative resource Rotten Tomatoes has identified the top 10 cartoons in the history of cinema. The selection, of course, turned out to be quite narrow - only American and Japanese animated films are on the list.
Although this rating really lacks some of the domestic animated films that can be deservedly called masterpieces of animation art, still this selection is worth your attention. Only it should be borne in mind that each of the above paintings has a different age limit.
10. Monster Corporation | 2001
A vile creature that lives in a drain tank; a furry beast that looks like a monster from the Scarlet Flower; the huge size of wood lice is not all night horror stories, but quite real characters.
Their main mission is to scare the children, because when the children scream with fear, these monsters get another batch of precious electricity ...
9. Walking castle | 2004
With the help of evil spells, the sorceress enclosed young Sophie in the body of an old woman. Now the girl wants only one thing - at all costs to find the one who will help her to become young again.
As the story progresses, Sophie gets acquainted with the wizard Howl and his demon Calzifer. The latter is “tied” to the wizard by a contract, the terms of which are a secret for all outsiders. An enchanted girl and a demon conspire to remove evil spells ...
8. Up | 2009
Karl Fredricksen, being very young, made friends with the neighbor girl Ellie, who after many years became his wife. All her life she dreamed of visiting Paradise Falls.
Once the couple decided that they needed a baby, but after an unsuccessful pregnancy, Ellie lost the opportunity to have children.
When both spouses had already become older people, Karl decided to fulfill his wife’s dream and still go to Paradise Falls, but, unfortunately, she went to another world shortly before the proposed trip.
Now all that the protagonist wants is to fulfill at all costs the last wish of his late wife ...
7. Dog Island | 2018
The animated film tells the story of the life of the Japanese teenager Atari, who is under the care of the unclean mayor Kobayashi.
When, on the orders of his guardian, all the dogs in the city are sent to a large-scale landfill, Atari uses his own homemade aircraft to go to this island, in search of his favorite nicknamed Spots.
There on the island, in the company of his new acquaintances, mongrels, he will make an interesting journey, as a result of which chairs under all dishonest officials will swing ...
6. Your name | 2016
The main character of this cartoon is Mitsuha, the daughter of the head of a small mountain settlement. She does not stand out among her peers, but sometimes the schoolgirl allows herself to make too bold statements about her father and his election campaign. The girl, like millions of provincials, dreams of leaving her hometown forever and leaving for the capital of Japan.
Taki lives in Tokyo. His dream is to become an architect or artist in the future. But lately something strange has happened to him - every night he sees a strange dream in which he is embodied in the body of a high school student in a small mountain village ...
5. How to train your dragon | 2010
On the island of Oluch live brave and invincible Vikings who honor their customs and keep the traditions of their ancestors. However, the life of the inhabitants of the villages located on the island is under constant threat, because periodically bloodthirsty dragons fly there, destroying all life that they encounter on their way. This continues for many years until a strange story happened with the son of the leader of the tribe.
It is difficult to call a teenager Icking a born warrior. He is not very strong in body, and does not have a great thirst for killing, even if these terrible reptiles. At the same time, the guy was absolutely sure that if he killed one of these malicious creatures, his life would change dramatically.
One night, the dragons attacked the village again. Hiccup could not miss such an opportunity to assert himself, therefore, contrary to the insistence of his father, he decides to take part in the defense of the settlement ...
4. Beauty and the Beast | 1991
In a fabulous country, an evil and narcissistic prince lives in his palace. Once, a passerby beggar asks to let her out for the night and says that for this service she can give the landlord only a rose.
The prince did not regret the unfortunate woman, but, on the contrary, laughed at her poverty and rudely drove him away. She, in response to the insult, tells the arrogant young man that real beauty cannot be discerned with eyes alone, it takes on the face of an all-powerful sorceress.
Now she wants to teach the arrogant prince a lesson and decides to disfigure him, turning him into a real monster. Only the sincere love that the enchanted prince will have to know before the last rose petal falls can remove the witch's curse.
3. Spirited Away | 2001
In the center of the plot is the Japanese girl Chihiro. She moves with her family. While moving to a new place of residence, they accidentally wander into a mysterious place where a rich feast awaits them.
Mom and dad girls with an inhuman appetite eat all the treats, after which they literally become like piglets, being captured by the evil witch Yubaba ...
2. WALL-E | 2008
In the 2100s, the mega-corporation Buy ‘n Large controls all types of economic services on Earth, which provides it with power throughout the planet. As a result of the accumulation of a huge amount of non-recyclable waste, the Earth becomes absolutely unsuitable for life.
Trying to save mankind, Buy ‘n Large organizes its migration to outer space on the largest intergalactic vessels Axiom. And at that time thousands of WALL-I robots were sent to clean the planet. But seven hundred years after the described events on Earth, only one cyber-garbage collector functions fully ...
1. The Lion King | 1994
The noble and brave lion king Mufasa has a son named Simba. Already at a very young age, a cute lion cub involuntarily falls into the maelstrom of a power struggle: his sneaky and hypocritical uncle named Scar wants to kill his father and take the royal throne for himself ...