The 100 best animated movies: the best funny movies
World-famous animators pick the best animated movies ever, including Disney and Pixar movies, cult movies, kids movies, stop-motion, anime and more
We’ve applied 26 handy labels to the 100 great animations in our list. Here you’ll find all the films that are especially funny.
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Pinocchio (1940)
A wooden puppet yearns to be a real boy; he must prove himself worthy.
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Toy Story (1995)
Cowboy or spaceman – which is Andy’s favorite plaything? And how do these secretly alive toys feel about that?
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The Incredibles (2004)
A superheroic family tries to blend into their quiet suburban lifestyle, but realises that their skills are nothing to be ashamed of.
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Dumbo (1941)
It ain’t easy being gray in one of Disney’s most simple, cute and memorable tales.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Not the first animated feature, but the start of the Disney empire.
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The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
The film that made Christmas creepy.
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Fantastic Mr Fox (2009)
An idiosyncratic auteur gets animated with this stop-motion take on Roald Dahl’s children’s novel.
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It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
A one-man masterpiece.
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Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
An eccentric inventor and his loyal canine companion hunt a mutant bunny.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
A live-action gumshoe must prove that a cartoon rabbit has been wrongly accused of murder.
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Ratatouille (2007)
Pixar was at the height of its powers when it made this Paris-set tale of a rat with immense cooking talent.
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The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
An oldster saves her kidnapped grandson with the help of three peculiar singers.
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101 Dalmatians (1961)
Disney’s most stylish baddie concocts a devilish plan.
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Bambi (1942)
The film that makes little kids (and grown adults) cry.
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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
Freed from the constraints of network TV, prepubescent paper-cut terrors go on the rampage.
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The Jungle Book (1967)
Disney gets with the ’60s.
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Toy Story 2 (1999)
It’s an emotional reunion as Pixar gets the old gang back together.
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Finding Nemo (2003)
Pixar’s beloved shaggy-fish story hooked the box office.
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Toy Story 3 (2010)
Pixar scored a hat trick – in 3D – with the third film of its signature franchise.
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Chicken Run (2000)
Aardman’s first feature applied their signature style to a tale of farmed chickens trying to break free.
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How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
How the Vikings learned to stop warring and love dragons.
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Mary and Max (2009)
A wise, funny Claymation tale of lives lived on the edge of society.
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Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Pixar’s purple patch spawns another monster smash.
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Allegro Non Troppo (1976)
Animation meets classical music in an Italian-style Fantasia.
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The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
Miyazaki’s first feature is an affectionate, fun-filled take on ’60s spy capers.
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The Lego Movie (2014)
This politically charged family adventure effortlessly transcends its toy-exploiting roots.
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Fritz the Cat (1972)
Hard to be a collegian feline in the city? Not really, especially when there’s so much sex and pot to be had.
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Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
Three Japanese vagabonds attempt to find the parents of an abandoned baby during Christmastime.
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Mind Game (2004)
This anime film is a searingly intense mash-up of styles, genres and narrative techniques.
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Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
The thuggish villain of a classic arcade game gets tired of being bad and breaks out of his cage.
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The Illusionist (2010)
An unfilmed Jacques Tati script is realised with gentle wit and piercing melancholy.
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Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
An animation giant plunders classic kids’ lit for this tale of a resourceful young witch.
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Aladdin (1992)
Disney’s comeback was assured when this lively romp made millions.
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Rango (2011)
A talking chameleon, used to blending in, must take a bold stand as a Western town’s new sheriff.
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Coraline (2009)
‘Nightmare Before Christmas’ director Selick’s follow-up is altogether more unsettling.
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Kung Fu Panda (2008)
It may be mainstream, but this all-action chopsocky film has wit, charm and guts.
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Robin Hood (1973)
The easiest and breeziest of all the classic Disney cartoons.
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Coonskin (1975)
A controversial satire on race relations from ’70s animation outlaw Bakshi.
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The Tale of the Fox (1930)
The world’s first feature-length stop-motion animation... and one of the greatest.
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The Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Movie (1979)
This compilation of classic Looney Tunes cartoons deserves to be far better known.
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Ernest & Celestine (2012)
A French children’s publishing phenomenon is brought to handmade life in this story of friendship across species.
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ParaNorman (2012)
Fun for the whole family – with ghosts and booger-green zombies.
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Goodbye Mr Christie (2011)
Part art piece, part gross-out comedy, part apocalyptic epic, all indescribable.
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Gulliver’s Travels (1939)
Jonathan Swift is adapted in the first feature from Disney’s closest rivals.
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James and the Giant Peach (1996)
Roald Dahl’s beloved but trippy children’s book – about escape, adventure and the company of giant insects – meets its creative match.
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Fehérlófia (1981)
Hungarian folktales go psychedelic… and then some.
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